YS Pre-Conference @ 2026 IAFFE Conference – Cali

Since 2019, YSI has played a crucial role in collaborating on the IAFFE Pre-Conference, a space traditionally led by young scholars that fosters community building, intergenerational exchange, and intellectual development within the association.

The 2026 Pre-Conference will take place on July 8 in the afternoon, preceding the IAFFE Annual Conference scheduled for July 9–11, 2026, in Cali, Colombia. The event will feature an inspiring initial panel, followed by a series of breakout rooms with workshop-based activities. Young scholars from the Gender & Economics Working Group community are invited to apply to participate in the pre-conference, engaging in the breakout sessions and attending the entire conference.

The main panel of the Pre-Conference, “Feminist Economics in Contested Times: Histories, Pathways, and Collective Futures” will be led by Gender & Economics WG member Lorena Valle Cuéllar and will feature inspiring senior scholars such as Sumangala Damodaran and Crystal Simeoni, alongside outstanding young scholars from the YSI network, Camila Orozco Espinel and Pato Laterra.

Following the panel, participants will have the opportunity to connect with senior scholars around key research topics and career development pathways in one of the following breakout sessions:

• Feminist economics from the Global South: epistemologies, methodologies, and solidarities
• Decolonial voices in feminist thought: territory, knowledge, and resistance
• Care work: research, measurement, and methodologies
• Activist and academic? Rethinking transformative praxis between activism and academia through amphibious becoming
• Meet the Editors: What really drives publication decisions
• Young Scholar Committee: Collective Youth Organizing and Why It Matters
• IAFFE Mentoring Group