Every three years, ATGENDER organises together with a partner institution the big European Feminist Research Conference (EFRC), which represents one of the major opportunities for feminist, queer and gender studies scholars, activists, artists and policy makers to gather and exchange experiences. Should you be interested in organising the EFRC in 2025 we would like you…

Welcome to the New AtGender Group-mentoring Initiative! “Time-pockets” – Feminist work-life questions Team-leaders: Aino-Maija Elonheimo & Berteke Waaldijk  As remote or hybrid work and distance-learning has become the new normal in our academic life, we are confronted with new challenges in balancing life, organizing daily routines, and finding a good rhythm for work and free time. Many…

Please read and consider signing this open letter by Danish gender research colleagues regarding attacks on gender and migration research in Denmark and academic freedom. Academic freedom in Denmark – Open Letter, 2 June 2021 On 1 June, the Danish Parliament adopted a position on ‘Excessive activism in certain research environments’. The position was adopted…

ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, stands in solidarity with the students and faculty of Boğaziçi University, who have been protesting the appointment of a new rector Melih Bulu by the government. The new rector is not a member of Boğaziçi University, and his appointment without elections violates the established practice….

ATGENDER Spring Conference 2020 recordings are now live! If you missed the Spring conference please check out the recordings. Due to Covid-19 the ATGENDER Spring Conference 2020, 13-15 May 2020 ‘Caring in Uncaring Times’, Middlesex University, London, had to be moved online. Despite the challenging circumstances, the conference was well attended by more than 300 people…

In Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning, editors Sara de Jong, Rosalba Icaza and Olivia U. Rutazibwa offer a volume that not only shows how calls to decolonise universities are strengthened when connected to feminist perspectives, but also challenges the individualistic and Eurocentric foundations of many forms of feminism. This is an important contribution to debates…

The Call for Chapters for the next edited volume of AtGender/Routledge, Teaching against Homo/Nationalism, is out. We invite chapter proposals that address, but are not limited to, one or more of the following themes from a pedagogical perspective: Theoretical contributions (e.g. intersection(s) of homonationalism with homocapitalism, femonationalism, ablenationalism, etc.) Different articulations of homonationalism and or femonationalism in different…

We are delighted to announce the publication of Early Career Researchers in European Gender and Women’s Studies: Professional Challenges and Ways forward. The report is based on a survey conducted by ATGENDER’s Early Career Scholars Working Group. Co-authored by board member Stefanie Boulila and former ATGENDER interns, Jessica Cheung and Orsolya Lehotai, the report discusses…