Working Group 10 The European Material Feminisms The European Material Feminisms working group has been established at the 8th Feminist Research conference in Budapest. The  group aims to foster dialogue and collaboration amongst those working on and interested in the fields of new materialism, feminist materialism, and other emerging materialist projects as they are taking…

  Strand 11: Violence Revisited: Security, War and Peace Narrated For this strand we seek papers that address questions connected to different issues of wars, terrorism, extremism, security questions as well as peace studies. How are these issues narrated in the scholar literature? What are important historiographical narratives in the ways that the history of…

  Strand 10: Re-Imagining ‘Europe’: Imperialism, Post-State Socialism and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century In accordance with the general theme of the conference, the “politics of location,” the strand invites papers and/or panels that are concerned with the insights we may learn from a post state-socialist Europe for a feminist vision of social and cultural…

  Strand 3:  Teaching ‘Gender’ across the Borders of the Human, Social, Natural and Biomedical Sciences Strand 3 of the conference revisits the politics of location by exploring the ways in which ‘teaching and learning gender’ has transformed the disciplinary structure and curricula of the academe across Europe. Since the 1970s, European universities have witnessed…

  Strand 2:  Rooting and Shifting (in) Feminist Research: Assessing the ‘Turns’ in Feminist Theory For this strand we seek papers that address recent developments in feminist theory such as the affective and the material turn, and post-positivist realism. How are these developments rooted in feminist theories of the past and what kind of feminist…

Strand 6: Revisiting ‘Equality vs. Difference’: Feminism in the 21st Century For this strand we seek papers that address feminist struggles for justice at the crossroads of multiple locations within and across axes of signification and relations of power, and/or against the background of the inter-disciplinary debates around equality and difference in feminist scholarship and…

  CALL FOR PAPERS “Located at Crossroads of Race and Gender: Intersectional Analysis in Women’s and Gender Studies”   From May 17 until May 20, 2012 the 8th European Feminist Research Conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary. The conference is organized by the Central European University’s Department of Gender Studies, and ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation….

Strand 5: Shifting Sexualities, Masculinities and Femininities: LGBTQI This strand seeks contributions concerned with recent (and older) shifts in understanding the relationships between sexualities, genders, and their meanings for selves, practices, and politics. What new formations of social life are reshaping and are reshaped by them? What theoretical developments can help us rethink their intersections…

  Strand 1:  Women’s and Gender Studies between Neo-discipline and Interdisciplinarity] In the spirit of the general theme of the conference concerning the “politics of location,” this strand opens up a forum for critical engagement about women’s and gender studies as an institutional and intellectual location. In previous decades when research and programs were developing,…

  Working Group 9 Teaching Gender & Women’s Studies met on sunday morning 9.00-11.00 “reiger room” in the Mitland Hotel. 22 ATGENDER-members discussed the following: 1. Teaching with Gender Series :  at this moment two new volumes (postcoloniality group on “race” in Europe, on teaching gender in Southeastern Europe. During the spring conference proposals for…