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The Call for Papers for the 2025 12th European Feminist Research Conference is out!

Please submit your abstract, panel or workshop proposals here by 9th January, 2025 (extended deadline).

In an era marked by heightened oppressions, including ongoing genocides, (neo-)colonialism and imperialism, violent conflicts, and intersecting injustice and socio-political turbulence, the 12th European Feminist Research Conference invites scholars, activists, and practitioners to engage in critical dialogues around the theme “Contemporary Feminist Liberation Struggles: bodies, borders, and intersections”.

The conference will be in Barcelona between 9-12 July 2025.

To view the full call for papers, strands and submission guidelines, see here.

First keynote speakers of our 12th European Feminist Research Conference:

Layal Ftouni is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.  She is currently working on a book project on the 'reproduction of life' in conditions of proximity to death and debilitation, both human and environmental, in the settler colonial context of Palestine. In 2021, she received the Dutch Research Council VENI grant to support this project.  Before joining Utrecht University, she lectured at SOAS, University of London, and earned her PhD from the University of Westminster. Her writing is featured in a variety of publications, the most recent of which is: "They make death, and I am the labor of Life": Palestinian Prisoners Sperm Smuggling as an Affirmation of Life" published in Critical Times (2024).She is the co-editor of Arab Subcultures (2017) published by Bloomsbury Press and is on the Editorial Board of Lateral, a peer-review open-access journal of the Cultural Studies Association. As well as her educational and research work, Layal is also a founding member of Dutch Scholars for Palestine, a network of educational workers across Dutch Universities committed to the Palestinian struggle for liberation and self-determination.

Anna Younes is a German Palestinian scholar that has also curated the first transnational and transdisciplinary month-long Palestinian arts festival in Germany in 2016. Her focus rests on what she has coined the "War on Antisemitism" in her 2015 PhD dissertation, which dealt with Germany's stance toward "fighting Antisemitism". Since then she has developed her concept further and places it within trajectories of counterinsurgency wars in a new post-WWII world order, framed by tactics used in the War on Drugs and most prominently the War on Terror. Younes thinks transnationally and transhistorically. Currently, she researches the afterlives of settler colonialism in the Dutch Caribbean and works with the ELSC - the European Legal Support Center defending pro-Palestinian activists and scholars in Europe. Her work zooms in on settler colonial theories, psychoanalysis and race critical theories and can be found on academia.edu or her personalised website: www.annaestheryounes.net.

Dr. Gražina Bielousova (Duke University, 2022)  is an anthropologist of religion and politics working at the intersection of race, religion, and gender in east Europe. Her current project and forthcoming book (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026) focus on leftist feminists in east European countries that find themselves under the threat of Russia's military expansionist politics, with particular attention to Ukraine. Gražina's other academic interests include de- and post- colonial theory, global raciality, and socioeconomic inequality. She is currently a researcher at Vilnius University and a lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania).

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