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…

We are happy to announce that the new volume of the Teaching with Gender book series, titled ‘Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised’ (Routledge 2022) is out! Edited by Angeliki Sifaki, Christine Quinan and Katarina Lončarević, this edited volume engages with a range of geographical, political and cultural contexts to intervene in ongoing scholarly…

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…

The Call for Papers for our next Spring Conference 2020: ”Caring in Uncaring Times” in London, UK, is now out. Abstract submission deadline 10th January 2020. The conference is organised by ATGENDER together with Middlesex University and will take place from the 13th to 15th May 2020. The conference will explore the possibilities for and…

The newest book in our Teaching with Gender book series looks at teaching non-hegemonic forms of masculinities and highlights their diversity. The collection foregrounds and discusses concepts which are described and gathered as positive, caring and inclusive masculinities, thus offering a timely and much-needed counterpoint to discussions of so-called toxic masculinities. The volume presents a…

Call for board members Dear ATGENDER members, At the General Assembly during this year’s Spring Conference “Feminist Teaching (Through) Emotions, Feelings and Affects” in Gijón, ES (May 10, 2019), there will be elections to renew the Board of ATGENDER. We are looking for 2 new enthusiastic Board members to join our team! Board members serve…