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- Deadline: Transnational Queer Histories is intended to platform and support scholarship from academics at all levels of their careers, and to give voice to researchers and topics that have until now been unrepresented or underrepresented in academic publishing circles. As such, it is our intention to open the doorways for innovative, new research, highlighting non-traditional approaches and subject matter. TQH's title is its programme; we seek work that is transnational and/or comparative in scope, not (strictly) limited to one geographic locality; queer in the broadest sense, encompassing not just homo- and cis-normative experiences but also a variety of gender and sexual identities, including (but not limited to) bisexuality, pansexuality, asexuality, transgender and intersex lives; and historical, with work drawing principally from modern and early-modern history, in whichever way the contributor defines these. In this way, we seek to encourage the creation of a body of new scholarship that moves away from the confines of (generally) white, male, homonormative, cisgender queer history that has tended to characterise the subdiscipline. While these narratives remain important to queer history, we encourage innovative approaches to them through new and hitherto-underutilised avenues of inquiry. Thus, we seek to foreground the broad and vibrant diversity of queer experiences throughout history. TQH accepts proposals for both monographs and edited collections; work may be submitted in English or German. As noted, we seek work from scholars at all career levels. If you are unsure whether the work you have in mind would be a good fit under the TQH banner, please do not hesitate to contact us with an informal inquiry. We will do our best to advise you whether we would welcome a more formal proposal from you, as above. Contact Series Editors: We very much look forward to receiving your proposal, and we are excited to read and platform new and innovative work in queer history. If you have any queries or a proposal to submit, please contact us here: Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier (she/her) sabrina.mittermeier@uni-kassel.de
- Deadline: 13 October 2024 The journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for papers for the special issue "Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives". Issue editors are Barbora Doležalová (FSV UK), anna řičář libánská (FF UK) and Isotta Rossoni (Leiden University). This issue aims to critically engage with the complexities of sex work through diverse perspectives, examining the intersections of gender; sexuality; class; disability; ethnicity; economical, cultural, and social capital; exploitation and agency within contemporary societies around the world. Sex work has been a subject of growing scholarly interest, but it remains a highly contested and under-researched area. This aspect is particularly relevant to Central and Eastern Europe, where publications examining sex work under state socialism have only recently begun to appear (Dobeš 2022; Dolinsek, Saryusz-Wolska 2023; Dušková 2023), but only some attempt a feminist interpretation (Havelková, Bellak-Hančilová 2014; Dudová 2015; Dobrowolska 2020). Analysis of post-1989 developments in CEE is notably absent and that is why we would like to dedicate this special issue also to texts dealing with the transformation of political regimes and contemporary history. Sex work has long been the subject of feminist debates, particulary in the United States, while in Central Europe, it has so far been the merit of criminological, medical or legal texts that centralize its socially pathological potential (Novotný, Zapletal 2001; Sochůrek 2001; Chmelík 2003; Kraus, Hroncová 2010). Since the 1990s, i.e. since the fall of state socialism and the abolition of the law on social parasitism, which sanctioned sex work, there has been a constant wait for newer legislation that would positively define sex work in the Czech and Slovak legal systems, but would also give it a working status. Here, however, feminist ideologies diverge – they do not recognize sex work as work. It is not because of anti-social effects of sex work, as framed, for example, in criminological literature (Novotný, Zapletal 2001), but on the contrary because of the violence perpetrated against sex workers, especially women in vulnerable positions. Proposals for legislation then also differ according to these feminist ideologies (Beran 2012; Havelková, Bellak-Hančilová 2014), as could be observed during the debates in the European Parliament on the report on the regulation of prostitution presented by Maria Noichl in 2023. The discourse on sex work and sex workers themselves have been affected by issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the platformization of labour, migration, gentrification, but also, for example, by the Paris Olympics, where preparations for the event included attempts of 'social cleansing' (Finkelstein 2024) involving ostracization of homeless people as well as sex workers. However, entities such as legislation, state borders, police and prisons can also be identified as long-standing and systematic factors on the sex work environment – these apparatuses are subversively explored, particularly in abolitionist texts (i.e. Vitale 2018; Cooke 2020; Weeks 2011), but have also received attention within radical and carceral feminism (Dworkin 1981; Lauri et al. 2023). This special issue aims to create a space for articles that explore the stereotypes around sex work and challenge the its sociopathological aspect while being critical of white feminism and the saviour complex. The intention of this issue is also to make visible the voices of sex workers, which are completely absent in the Central and Eastern European debate on sex work. We would like to invite researchers or non-profit organizations to prioritize research methods that are participatory, such as participatory action research (PAR), in-depth interviews, (auto)ethnography, photovoice, etc. We also welcome reviews, reports, and commentaries. We want to discuss together, for example, but not be strictly limited to, the following themes: Sex work, conceptualization, and feminist imaginaries Sex work and queerness Sex work in Central and Eastern Europe Sex work, body work, and labour of love Sex work and race Sex work and ageing Sex work and technologies Sex work and abolition of prisons, police, and borders Sex work, post-work, and anti-work Sex work, migration, and colonialism Sex work, tourism, and gentrification Sex work, advocacy, law, and activism Sex work and unionism Media and cultural representations of sex work(ers) Doing research on sex work, positionality, and ethics The target length for an article is 6,000—10,000 words, including footnotes and a reference list. Reviews should not exceed 3,000 words and reports and commentaries 1,500 words. Deadline for abstract submission: October 13, 2024. Abstract should be maximum 500 words excluding references, title and keywords. Abstracts selection/confirmation sent to the authors: beginning of November 2024 Articles submission: March 16, 2025 Issue publication: December 2025 Submit your abstract to the issue guest editors: barbora.dolezalova@fsv.cuni.cz, Anna.RicarLibanska@ff.cuni.cz and rossonii@vuw.leidenuniv.nl. Put journal editors genderteam@soc.cas.cz in the copy.
- Deadline: 14 October 2024 Panel for the 2025 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting (online, May 29 - June 1, 2025). This panel aims to discuss how literature engages with the topic of gender violence by adopting a transnational, dialogic, and relational approach. We are interested in exploring how literature responds to – and potentially creates connections between – different manifestations of gender violence: from the sexual slavery of the “comfort women”, to the murders of indigenous women in Canada (MMIWG), to the weaponization of rape during war and conflict (think about the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan), and to femi(ni)cide in Latin America and elsewhere. When it comes to these diverse histories and geographies of gender violence, literature can constitute a site of memory, repair, healing, and testimony. At the same time, however, scholars (Bronfen 1992, Close 2018) have shown that literature can also become complicit in gender violence by aestheticizing, sensationalizing, and even eroticizing it. Through the transnational and transhistorical scope of this seminar, we hope to illuminate the challenges, possibilities, tensions, and ethical conundrums that attend the literary representation of gender violence. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Memory Repair, Resistance, Resilience State power, Nation/Nationalism Folklores and Mythologies Postcolonial Studies Race/Ethnicity/Minority Studies Spectrality (how does the figure of the phantom/fantastic appear through instances of violence) Anthropocene Studies (how gender violence is entangled with environmental violence) The ethics of representation Aesthetic form The construction of the figures of victim and perpetrator Complicity/Implication Intersectionality Feminist solidarity
- Deadline: 15 October 2024 Appel à propositions d’articles pour la revue Agora débats/jeunesses L’enjeu de ce numéro est de contribuer au dynamisme des recherches récentes sur les sexualités et les identifications minoritaires (voir notamment Chantraine et Ricordeau, 2018 ; Rault et Trachman, 2023), en posant la question des liens entre l’ordre du genre et cette ouverture générationnelle des modèles et des possibles. Il convient, pour cela, de replacer cette ouverture dans un « espace social du genre » (Beaubatie, 2019) qui témoigne à la fois des régularités de l’ordre du genre et de ses mutations et mises en question. Comment dès lors y inscrire les pratiques et identifications minoritaires ? Ces dernières troublent-elles réellement l’ordre du genre ? Se déploient-elles en marge d’un ordre dominant, ou sont-elles susceptibles d’en bouleverser le coeur, voire d’en redessiner les contours ? Tou∙tes les jeunes, selon leur âge, leur appartenance de classe, leurs caractéristiques familiales, leurs religions et leurs assignations de genre ou de race, peuventils ou elles, sans distinction, troubler l’ordre du genre ? Comment celui-ci, en retour, se rappelle à celles et ceux qui en subvertissent les normes et les attentes ? Ce numéro spécial vise à réunir des articles qui posent de telles questions à partir de données empiriques clairement identifiées, qu’elles soient quantitatives et/ou qualitatives (données statistiques, observations,entretiens, archives, etc.), dans des espaces et des configurations sociales et institutionnelles variés. Les propositions que l’on examinera pourront s’inscrire dans des disciplines de sciences humaines et sociale variées (sociologie, démographie, histoire, anthropologie, sciences de l’éducation, géographie, etc.). Elles pourront porter sur la France comme sur d’autres pays, tant les questions posées ne se limitent pas au cas français. Elles pourront, plus spécifiquement, suivre un ou plusieurs des trois axes analytiques suivants. Pratiques et identifications minoritaires : de quoi et de qui parle-t-on ? Cultures juvéniles et expériences minoritaires Rapport aux institutions, violences et discriminations Les propositions d'article, attendues pour le 15 octobre 2024, doivent être envoyées aux coordinateur·ices : tania.lejbowicz@ined.fr ; aurelia.mardon@univlille.fr ; nicolas.sallee@umontreal.ca ; les articles finaux devront être remis le 10 janvier 2025.
- Deadline: 15 October 2024 Cet appel à articles pour le numéro 25 de la revue Politiques de communication explore le rôle des médias dans la médiatisation des « affaires de violences sexistes et sexuelles » prévues pour le printemps 2025. Il examine comment le format de l’affaire influence la médiatisation de ces violences, tout en analysant comment la « forme affaire » configure les cadres médiatiques. Les affaires de violences sexistes, comparables aux scandales de santé publique, offrent un prisme pour étudier la construction des problèmes publics par les médias. Le dossier vise à répondre à la question de comment la « forme affaire » et les cas de violences sexuelles médiatisées interagissent. Du fait divers à l’affaire : processus de sélection et de publicisation des violences fondées sur le genre par les médias Cadrages médiatiques des « affaires de violences sexistes et sexuelles » L’affaire de tous·tes : Circulation et réception des « affaires de violences sexistes et sexuelles » Modalité de soumission Les articles, qui ne doivent pas dépasser 60 000 signes, devront être envoyés à revuepolitiquesdecommunication@gmail.com et en copie à charlotte.buisson@yahoo.com sabrina.moro@otago.ac.nz sedel@unistra.fr au plus tard le 15 octobre 2024 Information pratique Pour plus d’informations sur les consignes aux auteurs pour les propositions d’articles, voir : https://revuepol2com.hypotheses.org/consignes-aux-auteurs/proposer-un-article Évaluation Tous les articles (dossiers et hors-dossiers) font l’objet d’évaluations scientifiques rigoureuses. Deux experts anonymes sont désignés pour expertiser l’article préalablement « anonymé ». Sur la base des avis recueillis, le comité de rédaction décide de la publication de l’article. En cas de doute ou de discordance dans les évaluations, une évaluation anonyme supplémentaire vient à l’appui. Le comité de rédaction s’engage à répondre aux auteurs ayant proposé leur article et aux porteurs de projet de dossier dans un délai de moins de deux mois d’une manière précise et rigoureuse. Les articles sont jugés : publiable en l’état, publiable sous réserves de corrections à apporter, non-publiable"
- Deadline: 22 October 2024 Fachtagung: Call for Participation Am 20. und 21. März 2025 veranstaltet das Metavorhaben „Innovative Frauen im Fokus“ (meta-IFiF) die Tagung „Innovativ – Exzellent – Sichtbar: Frauen in Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft“ in Berlin. Bis zum 15. Oktober 2024 können Beiträge zur Tagung eingereicht werden. Frauen forschen, entwickeln und schaffen Innovationen. Doch noch immer sind sie weniger sichtbar als ihre männlichen Kollegen. Das ändern wir jetzt! Für die Lösung von komplexen Herausforderungen in einer sich ständig weiterentwickelnden Welt, braucht es die Perspektiven aller Mitglieder der Gesellschaft. Darum ist es höchste Zeit, Frauen als wichtige Akteurinnen für den Innovationsstandort Deutschland anzuerkennen und sie als Rollenvorbilder und Impulsgeberinnen mit ihren Leistungen wahrzunehmen. Im März 2025 laden wir zu einer Fachtagung ein, bei der wir gemeinsam mit Ihnen Lösungen zur Erhöhung der Sichtbarkeit und Repräsentanz von innovativen Frauen erarbeiten. Ziel der Fachtagung ist es, Best Practices, Erkenntnisse und Handlungsempfehlungen aus Forschung und Praxis zusammenzubringen, die einen Beitrag zur Erhöhung der Sichtbarkeit und Repräsentanz von innovativen Frauen leisten. Der Schwerpunkt der Tagung liegt dabei auf den dafür notwendigen strukturellen Veränderungen in Organisationen der Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft sowie in den Medien. Das Programm der Tagung setzt sich aus einem kuratierten Rahmenprogramm und den ausgewählten Einreichungen zusammen. Dabei sind sowohl Beiträge aus der Wissenschaft gesucht, die Handlungsempfehlungen aus ihren Forschungsergebnissen ableiten, als auch Beiträge aus der Praxis, die ihre Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung von Repräsentanz und Sichtbarkeit innovativer Frauen vorstellen. Besonders erwünscht sind innovative Formate, die auf die Ziele der Fachtagung zugeschnitten sind. Die Tagung richtet sich an Personen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, die zur Sichtbarkeit und Repräsentanz von Frauen forschen oder diese in ihren Institutionen erhöhen möchten. Bitte reichen Sie Ihre Beiträge bis zum 15. Oktober 2024 über dieses Formular Download: per E-Mail an info@meta-ifif.de ein. Darin finden Sie auch noch einmal den gesamten Call for Participation. Bei Rückfragen steht Ihnen Katrin Rulle per Mail (rulle@meta-ifif.de) oder telefonisch (0521 106 700 99) gerne zur Verfügung.
- Deadline: 25 October 2024 International Conference, Abbaye de Royaumont (France), April 4-5, 2025 This international conference aims to explore the effects of transatlantic cultural circulations over the individual and collective experiences of women artists (18th-21st c.), in the various fields of creation (cinema, literature, visual arts, performing arts, music, architecture...). The contributions will examine how geographical trajectories open creative spaces and possibilities for emancipation, to consider the history of cultural circulation from the perspective of women. This approach invites us to look beyond the canonical history of the arts, towards other genres, alternative temporalities, expansive networks and actors. Addressing women’s artistic creation means bypassing the mythological stature of the most celebrated artists, and widening the focus to include cultural productions and genres sometimes considered “minor” but widely invested by women, such as children’s literature, textile arts, travel narratives or translation. The aim of this conference is both to re-read the history of key figures in the light of these transatlantic exchanges, and to (re)discover less visible personalities. The aim is to identify, retrace and analyze the transatlantic circulations of women in the worlds of art and culture, in order to question the effect of these journeys (temporary or permanent, voluntary or forced, individual or collective) on both their political emancipation and the legitimization of artistic practices. In the wake of the social sciences’ analysis of artistic production, which encompasses all the actors who contribute to the production of works, this conference focuses on the artists themselves as well as on the other actors involved in the circulation and legitimization of their production. Without being mutually exclusive categories, these two roles –artist and intermediary– are sometimes encompassed in the same person. All the more so since circulation itself turns artists into go-betweens between different countries, cities, circuits and artistic fields. On the one hand, presentations will focus on women artists (photographers, actors, dancers, painters, writers, musicians, but also weavers, craftswomen, ceramists, graffiti artists, draughtswomen, performers...), trying to cross the vernacular divisions between “fine” and “minor” arts, or between “art” and “crafts.” On the other hand, we will also explore women as go-betweens or cultural intermediaries, looking at translators, collectors, publishers, patrons, teachers, as well as women heading social circles (salons, bookshops, galleries) or activist networks (mobilizations for cultural rights, creation of cultural policies, among others). These women intermediaries are often overshadowed by the authors or artists whose work they highlight. And yet, by building bridges between cultural scenes, they play an essential role in the circulation of works and ideas. Contributions will focus on women’s journeys towards emancipation: those for whom the journey played a foundational role in their work, their creation or their political and feminist commitment, opening up horizons that had previously been closed; but also the figures or models traveling on both sides of the Atlantic to become referents broadening cultural imaginations, redefining in the process gender norms and notions of femininity to include gender-expansive artists. The conference will examine the characteristics of these migratory trajectories. Our hypothesis is that the history of women’s emancipation is shaped by these cultural exchanges, and in turn brings with it transformations and innovations that continue to irrigate our societies. Asking the question of women’s specific place and pathways thus offers a stimulating motor for renewing research themes and shedding light on forgotten, despised or obscured figures. The analysis of these trajectories may also enable us to identify other practices and strategies of cultural and artistic circulation, sometimes less “institutionalized,” sometimes less “public,” but which nonetheless show us the importance of informal socialization circles or networks of solidarity between women. Contributions to this conference will serve as a starting point for publications on the online cultural history platform Transatlantic Cultures. This platform analyzes how intellectual, literary and artistic works have circulated between Europe, Africa and the Americas, contributing to cultural diversitý but also to the broader process of globalization – in its economic, social and political dimensions. These contributions will take part in a new “Atlantic Women and Feminisms” collection on the platform, with possible additions to enrich the texts (metadata, media, dynamic mapping, etc.). Submission deadline: October 25, 2024 Please send one pdf entitled FemmesAtlantique_surname_firstname_2025 an abstract in French, English, Spanish or Portuguese (maximum 2000 characters) with a title and a biography (maximum 800 characters) to: colloquefemmesatlantique@gmail.com Acceptance will be notified by December 3, 2024.
- Deadline: 31 October 2024 Matraga Journal invites submissions for the next issues. Matraga, published by the Graduate Program in Letters at UERJ, is a senior publication, aiming at promoting a critical review on issues in the fields of Literature and Linguistics studies. Original papers and book reviews in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French are welcome. Papers are submitted to double-blind peer review and must strictly follow Matraga Journal guidelines for paper submission. Theme This dossier explores diverse theoretical and methodological approaches in Digital Humanities, integrating computational methods and large volumes of data for sociocultural analysis. It promotes interdisciplinary dialogue that spans various fields of knowledge, from language studies to science and technology studies. Characterized by its interdisciplinarity, transnationality, and multilingualism, the dossier delves into Digital Humanities from and for the Global South, addressing Data Feminism, intersectional and anti-racist digital studies. These studies challenge the supposed neutrality and universality of the subject in Digital Humanities and Data Science, highlighting how dominant epistemologies and technologies are perpetuated. Additionally, it promotes research that, through methodologies aware of power inequalities, reflects on inclusion and exclusion related to race, gender, language, colonialism, and geolocation, aiming to redesign the digital platforms and algorithms’ practices and structures. This dossier seeks contributions that explore the impact of artificial intelligence in various social spheres, particularly from and towards the Global South, focusing on both the development and critical evaluation of existing technologies. It primarily seeks to foster an ethical and critical view of artificial intelligence. To encourage a culturally enriched critical debate, the call for submissions covers a variety of disciplines that explore the intersection of technology, society, and culture from critical and transformative perspectives. Highlighted topics include digital discourse analysis and technodiscursive analysis, which propose a composite conception of discourse that erases any boundary between the discursive and the technical dimensions, as well as the linguistic and the extralinguistic. Proposals for works that study the ethical impact of artificial intelligence on sustainable development, and bias and equity in AI algorithms, questioning who benefits or is harmed by automated decisions, are also welcomed. An important theme for this dossier is the decolonization of artificial intelligence, proposing methodologies that question dominant technological narratives and practices. Works that critically evaluate AI projects to determine their strengths and limitations will also be considered. Additionally, contributions on decolonial feminist digital archives that reconsider the preservation of history and culture from feminist and anticolonial perspectives are invited. Submissions that explore intersectionality and digital media analyzing how multiple matrices of oppression affect online experiences and how digital platforms can foster autonomy and expression, are encouraged. Furthermore, the dossier seeks to integrate digital and gender studies with critical approaches to virtual teaching and learning, and proposals on feminist digital pedagogies. Submissions that investigate the influence of gender norms in computing through the study of programming languages and gender, and gender-based violence in digital spaces to address online security challenges, are also invited. Finally, the dossier will include works on digital history and art from feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist perspectives, highlighting how digital culture can be a space of resistance and critical reimagining. Editors: Alejandra Josiowicz (UERJ-FAPERJ) e Genoveva Vargas Solar (CNRS, LIRIS, França) Submission Date: Submission of papers and book reviews: October 31st, 2024 Issue Publication: May 2025
- Deadline: 31 October 2024 Celia Donert, Cambridge; Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Berkeley; Michal Kopeček, Prague, CB2 1TN Cambridge (United Kingdom) 08.05.2024 - 09.05.2025 Liberal internationalism, with its emphasis on individual rights and freedoms, civil society, democracy and good governance, open markets and the rule of law, has been criticised for the complex sexual politics which underpin these universalist principles. This workshop aims to start a conversation between historians and scholars from other disciplines about the sexual politics of liberal internationalism since the 1990s in a longer historical perspective. The Sexual Politics of Liberal Internationalism, 1990s to the Present That the ‘universal subject’ of political liberalism is implicitly gendered male is a feminist argument as old as liberalism itself; feminist scholars of international law have made similar arguments about liberal concepts of human rights or humanitarian law. Feminist theorists of twentieth-century international relations have suggested that sexual and international orders of masculinism and militarism are mutually constitutive, whether in the boardrooms of foreign policy establishments, on military bases, or in other local sites of intervention in the name of liberal internationalism. Postcolonial, gender and queer theorists continue to challenge the western, masculine and heteronormative bias of the latest iteration of liberal internationalism, which since the Cold War places greater emphasis on the universal rights of women and minorities, while limiting their application by resurrecting discourses of cultural relativism, humanitarian suffering and moral value. This workshop aims to start a conversation about the sexual politics of liberal internationalism after 1989 in Central Europe and beyond. Our focus on Central Europe is driven by a desire to explore the rise and fall of liberal internationalism in the late twentieth century outside the Anglo-American world. Central Europe became a laboratory for experiments in international economic or political order during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the collapse of multinational empires, the rise and fall of democratic, fascist and state-socialist regimes, until the political and economic transformation that followed the 1989 revolutions. The conjunction between liberal internationalism and neoliberalism adds another dimension to the question of sexual politics in post-Cold War Central Europe, opening up space for comparisons with other parts of the world. We invite proposals that explore the sexual politics of liberal internationalism since the 1990s in international, transnational or global perspective, as well as papers that place the post-1989 moment in a longer historical trajectory. We are interested in the ideas and institutions that inform liberal internationalism, as well as the practices, performance and reception of liberal internationalism by elites, experts, practitioners, or ordinary people. Topics for discussion might include, but are not limited to: the politics of abortion regulation; sexual violence in conflict and non-conflict situations; trafficking, slavery, prostitution; immigration and asylum; military intervention and peace-making; and the gendered effects of international programmes of economic reform, democratization and good governance. We expect to be able to cover participants’ travel and accommodation costs. Please send an abstract of 100 words and a brief CV to Celia Donert (chd31@cam.ac.uk) by 31 October 2024. This workshop is generously funded by the Cambridge DAAD Hub for German Studies and the KFG / Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ‘Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History’ at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.
- Deadline: 31 October 2024 Scientific literature and the Istanbul Convention attest the fact that gender-based violence (GBV) is a widespread structural phenomenon with deep roots in a shared culture. Therefore, as GBV is the result of an entrenched and stereotyped gendered culture, we consider it as a socio-cultural and structural problem (Manuh & Biney, 2021; Muluneh et al., 2020), rather than the mere result of a "personal or individual disorder" (Magaraggia, Cherubini 2013). Submissions from all disciplines that study GBV are welcome and may address, but are not limited to, the following topics: Theoretical reflection on masculinities, masculine stereotypes, and gender-based violence. Intersectional experiences of digital and online violence; postdigital feminist analysis of misogyny and its harmful manifestations online. Gender-based violence in politics and its relationship to masculinity. Connection between patriarchy and violence and the question of whether violence is an expression of patriarchy or its crisis. Geographical Disparities: Limited research is available on GBV intersections in specific regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and West Africa, where studies often focus on specific forms of violence like female genital mutilation or child marriage. More research is needed to understand regional variations and cultural influences on GBV. Data Collection Issues and Methodological Approaches: GBV is underreported, leading to challenges in obtaining accurate data for research and policy. Discrepancies between formal and informal reporting in developing countries suggest that existing prevalence data may vastly underestimate actual occurrences. Innovative approaches like machine learning for predicting GBV occurrences have been proposed, but their application is still in the early stages and requires further refinement for practical policy use. Specific Populations: Specific populations like transgender individuals face high rates of GBV, yet their experiences remain underexplored in most research, which typically focuses on cisgender women. Intervention Efficacy: long-term efficacy of interventions against GBV. Conflict Settings: Despite increased awareness, GBV research in conflict-affected regions is scarce. Understanding context-specific challenges remains critical to formulating effective interventions. Representations: Race, class, gender and sexualities in the representations of GBV Analysis of campaigns contrasting GBV Representation of gender based violences in different media discourses, like literary fiction, graphic novels, films, web series, television, social media, popular culture, music, ads, etc. Manospheres: The dynamics of the manosphere and the rise of "angry men" groups Right-wing populist political parties and their discourse/ rhetorics about GBV, gender and sexuality; their role in promoting anti-gender politics Links between GBV and various extremist ideologies, including the dissemination of violent extremist content Feminist and LGBT+ responses counteracting the anti-feminist and anti- equality discourses of right-wing populist parties Historical analyses of changes and evolutions in research, law, policy- making, and/or societal attitudes towards GBV Analysis of approaches to ‘solving’ gender-based violence, politically or otherwise Contributions should follow the “Guidelines for the authors”: https://riviste.unige.it/doc_about_gender/authors_guidelines_AG_dec19.pdf They should therefore be between 5000 and 8000 words (bibliography excluded), be written in one of the following three languages (Italian, English, Spanish) and be accompanied by: title in English, a short abstract in English (maximum length: 150 words), some keywords in English (from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 5). All texts should then be transmitted in a format compatible with Windows systems (.doc or .rtf), following the instructions provided by the Peer Review Process. In this regard, see the guidelines of the Journal: https://riviste.unige.it/index.php/aboutgender/about The timetable for the publication process: 8 June 2024 / 31 October 2024 - articles submission 1 November 2024 / 28 February 2025 - double blind peer-review March 2025 - revision of articles based on the opinions of the referees April 2025 -- final editing May 2025 – publication
- Deadline: 31 October 2024 European Journal of Women's Studies Guest Editors: Júlia Garraio and Hülya Adak Aesthetic interventions - including art, literature and film - have the potential to challenge, renegotiate and reconceptualise understandings of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. This Special Issue seeks to address the critical potential of aesthetics to (re)create the interconnections between gender, violence and sexuality, and to incite feminist activism and transformation (Altınay and Petö, 2022). The question of who speaks and under which conditions, what is said and how, and who listens, hears and actively engages remains as crucial as ever. The Special Issue will focus on how artists, playwrights, writers, poets and filmmakers have engaged with gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. It will also examine how audiences, activists and the public at large appropriate, interact with and respond to the aesthetics of works and narratives that deal with these forms of violence. The articles of the Special Issue can address one or more of the following questions: What are the ethical implications of aesthetically representing gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence? How is ethics relevant to reading and responding to aesthetic narratives and depictions of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence? How can aesthetic representations of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence be pivotal in instigating social change? How do works of art, film and literature operate together with emotions and shared imaginaries to generate interest about the topic? In what ways can the arts potentially render legal and academic language and tools accessible and legible to survivors, activists and the broader public? How can artistic productions be used to foster debate about the meaning of justice for survivors and their communities? How can the arts, literature, fiction and film be appropriated by different audiences and activists with their variegated agendas? How do artists, playwrights, writers, poets and filmmakers navigate the legacies of colonialism and imperialism? How do such artists resist and address entrenched inequalities and historical trauma? What are the strategies of resistance to pervasive nationalist and/or colonial legacies of othering that artists, playwrights, writers, poets and filmmakers have employed in their work on gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence? How have artists, playwrights, writers, poets and filmmakers memorialized gender-based violence and sexual violence and pursued ethics of remembrance committed to the victims and the survivors of violence of the past? How have artists, playwrights, writers, poets and filmmakers addressed gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence in processes of migration and racialized/ethnicity-based persecutions? How have the arts interacted with #metoo and other contemporary (online) feminist campaigns against gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence? To what extent has autobiographical storytelling changed the terms of the debate? How have the arts problematized the entanglements between violence and specific norms and notions of sexuality? How have the arts contributed to generating more complex debates about gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence and the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, class, LGBTQI+ identities, disabilities and notions of religious and national belonging? How do artistic ecofeminist interventions about the destruction of the environment and violence against animals contribute to rethinking the entanglements between gender, sexuality and violence? All articles will be subject to the Journal's customary review process. Articles should be prepared according to the guidelines for submission on the inside back cover of the print journal or at https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ejw Articles should be submitted online to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejw by 31 October 2024.
- Deadline: 31 October 2024 FRI Conference 6. – 7. February 2025 in Neuchâtel The overall topic of our FRI Conference 2025 in Neuchâtel is social justice and crises and how to achieve and overcome them. We are interested in queer-feminist theoretical thoughts on how law and other disciplines can and could contribute to these goals. Gender equality and non-discrimination are fundamental human rights principles. Although progress has been made, recent years have also witnessed global solid and local push- backs. With increasingly complex conflicts and global humanitarian and environmental crises, heterosexist violence, as well as poverty and injustice towards women and queer people, continue to increase. The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few reinforces existing (gender-specific) inequalities. While class politics often disregards other structures of inequality, such as gender and sexuality, so-called identity politics is accused of not taking capital and class relations into account. However, differences are overemphasized instead of foregrounding connection points for emancipatory queer-feminist and anti-capitalist politics. The conference is divided into four blocks, each featuring a keynote presentation, followed by a panel of presentations (CALL) and a discussion around the keynote topic. Keynote by Prof. Dr. Ulrika Dahl (Professor of Gender Studies, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University) In this first panel, “The future is queer-feminist,” we would like to invite you to develop prospective reflections on an emancipatory future and a strengthening of the feminist and queer struggle. In doing so, we want to explore whether law and justice can be relevant tools to achieve such a goal. Keynote by Prof. Dr. Bruno Perreau (Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/ Faculty Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University) In the second panel, we are interested in minority theories that analyze who is excluded and what we can do against it, with inter- and intersectional perspectives. Can the law be an emancipatory tool? Does the law, as a social construction, take minorities into account? Or are they not instead forced either to assimilate or to be marginalized? Keynote by Dr. Friederike Beier (Postdoc Gender and Diversity, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin) The third panel deals with materialist queer feminism as a theoretical and political perspective but also as a tool. Shouldn't materialist queer-feminist thinking be at the center of any emancipatory thinking? How can a society be deconstructed that was conceived and constructed by and for a hetero-centered and - in Europe, especially Switzerland - white majority? Keynote by Dr. Lisa Grans (Postdoctoral Researcher Institute for Human Rights Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland) The fourth panel is dedicated to social and climatic crises and their impact on gender inequalities regarding livelihoods, health and security. How can queer-feminist thinking be developed and unfolded in a global and internationalist perspective? The FRI cordially invites you to submit a contribution (approx. 500 words) for a presentation on one of the 4 blocks and a short description. Please send everything to the email fri.conference@genderlaw.ch by October 31, 2024. The conference languages will be German, French and English, you can choose between the languages. If you have any questions, please don’t hastate to contact us by e-mail.
- Deadline: 15 November 2024 Call for papers (AAC) for the international conference HLJPGenre ANR, from 1 to 3 April 2025 at the Faculty of Douai (Université d'Artois) For various reasons, the boundaries between legal studies, history, sociology of law and political science have long remained watertight, in France more than elsewhere, closing off interdisciplinary dialogue and thus blocking the acculturation of law to gender studies. Gender is understood here as a concept that allows us to name and think about the social differentiation of individuals according to binary, hierarchical gender categories. This social differentiation produces inequality and discrimination between individuals. However, law, whether in its formal dimension - legal texts - or in its practices, like all social phenomena, is permeated by gender. It ratifies, produces or neutralises gender. While some pioneering work has begun to analyse legal practices from a gender perspective, the 2000s marked a turning point in the emergence of this field of research in the social history of law. Ten years later, the REGINE project paved the way for gender studies in law, focusing in particular on the question of judicial practices. In 2022, the ANR HLJPGenre project will follow the same approach in the history of law. Gender studies research is therefore relatively recent in these different disciplines and still suffers from a historiographical gap on the question of the gendered treatment of litigants in the courts and, more broadly, in the legal system as a whole. The aim of this call for papers is therefore to bring together and promote research on the "gendered analysis of legal and judicial practices" in an international and interdisciplinary symposium to be held in Douai from 1 to 3 April. While gender studies is the main theme, the colloquium will take an intersectional perspective: the study of social relations between the sexes will be articulated or interwoven with the effects of their intertwining with, or competition with, other relations of power such as race, class, age or those induced by the validist order. This event follows on from the first colloquium of the ANR HLJPGenre entitled "Discours juridiques, genre et histoire" (Legal discourses, gender and history), which focused on legal texts as normative statements in order to identify the gendered dimension of dominant representations. In parallel, and integrating the contributions of the realist theory of law, which distinguishes between "book law" and "law in action", the aim is to examine the relationships between gender and law as expressed in and around the judicial arena. Contributions may cover the entire judicial chain, from the initiation of proceedings to the enforcement of judgments. Different types of disputes can be examined, whether they are gendered from the outset, such as sexual violence or the consequences of divorce, or whether they appear, at least superficially, to be 'neutral': theft, political crimes and offences, prison disputes relating to the enforcement of sentences.... The biases of gender, race, class... or the intersectionality of these power relations can be analysed in the practices of judicial actors, in the political and social orders given to them, or in the agentivity of litigants (i.e. their strategies in the face of gender biases). Papers on those who may be excluded from the judicial institution are also welcome, as is work on the gendered consequences of judicial decisions. The chronological scope of the call includes a diachronic perspective and the study of different periods (Antiquity, Ancien Régime, 19th century, contemporary). Our call for papers serves several purposes, including that of collecting and discussing contributions from colleagues whose research focuses on the gender of legal decisions and the treatment of litigants, through different disciplinary approaches (legal history, law, sociology, political science, etc.), investigative methods (archives, ethnography, interviews, etc.) and research fields. Contributions are invited from the fields of law - legal history, positive law, philosophy/theory of law, sociology of law, etc. -and the humanities and social sciences in general - history, political science, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, psychology, ethnology, anthropology, literature (non-exhaustive list). In addition, special interest will be given to papers that propose methodological and epistemological discussions in order to capture research on gender and the intersectionality of legal and judicial practices. The work of young researchers will be particularly valued. Paper proposals (between 1,500 and 3,000 characters) should be sent to the members of the organising committee by 15 November 2024: Prune Decoux (prune.decoux@univ-artois.fr); Hélène Duffuler-Vialle (helene.duffuler@univ-artois.fr) and Aymeric Mongy (aymericmongy@gmail.com) with a copy to the general ANR HLJPGenre address: hljpgenre@univ-artois.fr
- Deadline: 15 November 2024 Call for papers for the 19th conference of the Commission for Gender Studies and Queer Anthropology of the German Association for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW), which will be held under the title “Friction. Cultural anthropological and gender theoretical perspectives on tensions” from June 19-21, 2025 in Göttingen. We're looking forward to submissions (abstract and biographical note, max. 4000 characters) for presentations, panels, round tables or other creative and interactive formats in German or English by November 15, 2024 at frictions@uni-goettingen.de.
- Deadline: 24 November 2024 Science plays a crucial role in mastering global challenges and current crises. Transformative science, focusing on existing power relations as causes of global challenges, at the same time raises questions about what ‘sustainable’ means in relation to science as such (in view of its ecological, economic, political, social, cultural, aesthetic and epistemological aspects) and how sustainability in science can be achieved. We welcome contributions with a theoretical, empirical, methodological or conceptual approach that may be inter- or transdisciplinary. We cordially invite you to submit an abstract by 24 November 2024.
- Deadline: 30 November 2024 Soziale, oekonomische und rechtliche Perspektiven - Bingen am Rhein 08.04.2026 - 10.04.2026 Die geplante Tagung befasst sich mit den sozialen, ökonomischen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen von Frauen in spätmittelalterlichen Städten mit einem räumlichen Fokus auf der Mittel- und Oberrheinregion. „Frau in der Stadt“ erweckt als Titel Erinnerungen an deutschsprachige Studien, die in den 1980er-Jahren erschienen. Genannt seien hier nur die Veröffentlichungen von Erika Uitz und Edith Ennen oder die Quellensammlung von Peter Ketsch und Anette Kuhn. Oft verbanden diese Werke, denen man zahlreiche weitere zur Seite stellen könnte, Frauenforschung mit einer sozial- oder alltagsgeschichtlichen Fragestellung. Es ging um Lebensformen und Alltagswelten. Seitdem wich nicht nur die Historische Frauenforschung weitgehend der Geschlechterforschung. Methodisch ging auch die Geschichtswissenschaft zahlreiche neue Wege – zur Lokalisierung wurden Geoinformationssysteme genutzt, die Netzwerkanalyse half beim neuen Erschließen von Personenbeziehungen, die Kulturgeschichte fragte nach symbolischen Elementen und trieb den material turn voran, universalgeschichtliche Ansätze wurden entwickelt, diskursgeschichtliche Zugänge auch für die Vormoderne ausgetestet – um nur einige der dominierenden Zugänge in der Geschichtswissenschaft der letzten Jahrzehnte zu nennen. Die weiter blühende stadthistorische Forschung nahm immer auch Frauen in der Stadt mit in den Blick. Doch erfuhren die weltlichen Frauen weit weniger Beachtung als die geistlichen, die Bürgerinnen weniger als die Adeligen, verheiratete Frauen weniger als Witwen. Selbst wenn Frauen in der Stadt angesprochen wurden, wie bei der Tagung, die 2019 im Mainzer Landesmuseum stattfand und nach Rollenvorbildern von jüdischen und christlichen Frauen im Hochmittelalter fragte, blickte man vor allem auf Beginen und Nonnen. Der Komplex „Frau und Stadt“ blieb eher auf Arbeiten lokalen Zuschnitts beschränkt. Mit einem regionalen Schwerpunkt auf den Städten am Mittel- und Oberrhein im weiteren Sinn – von Basel bis Köln, von Frankfurt bis Trier – will die Tagung „Frauen in der spätmittelalterlichen Stadt an Mittel- und Oberrhein. Soziale, ökonomische und rechtliche Perspektiven“ weltliche Frauen wieder in den Vordergrund rücken und an die grundlegende Forschung der 1980er-Jahre anknüpfen. Dabei sollen Ehefrauen, unverheiratete Frauen und Witwen, Patrizierinnen, Handwerkerinnen oder Bettlerinnen gleichermaßen in den Blick genommen werden. Aspekte der Analyse könnten sein: Die Berufstätigkeit von Frauen Die Wohnsituation von Frauen Die Rechtsfähigkeit von Frauen und ihre Präsenz bei Gericht Die Sichtbarkeit von Frauen in der Stadt Die Benennungen von Frauen Beiträge könnten sich mit den oben genannten Aspekten beschäftigen, sind aber keineswegs darauf beschränkt. Für die Tagung sind Themenvorschläge aus der Geschichtswissenschaft ebenso willkommen wie aus benachbarten Wissenschaften (Kunstgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Germanistik, Musikwissenschaft usw.) sowie interdisziplinäre Zugänge. Die Tagung wird im Historischen Museum am Strom – Hildegard von Bingen in Bingen stattfinden. Reise- und Übernachtungskosten im üblichen Rahmen können übernommen werden. Bitte senden Sie bei Interesse ein Vortragsabstract von einer halben bis einer DIN A4-Seite bis zum 30. November 2024 an PD Dr. Regina Schäfer (rschaef@uni-mainz.de).
- Deadline: 10 December 2024 International conference celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Genre en séries Created in 2015, the Genre en séries journal has set itself the goal of exploring the way gender operates at the crossroads of media cultures. From the onset, its ambition was to participate in the late assimilation of these approaches and tools of analysis by film and media studies within the French academic context by collectively paying attention to issues of power dynamics, social structures and norms at work in media cultures. All talk proposals and suggestions for special contributions (roundtable, workshop, testimony, etc.) will be reviewed in a serious and watchful way by the science committee, formed by editors of the journal and specialists of gender studies applied to film and media. We nevertheless suggest four topics of discussion that seem especially relevant in order to understand the mechanisms and grey areas of the French #MeToo: History Media Transnational perspectives Institutions and audiences Proposals in English or French (a 500 word abstract and a short biography) should be sent before December 10 2024 to genreenseries@gmail.com, with the heads of the journal in cc (thomas.pillard@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr and gwenaelle.le-gras@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr). An answer will be sent on February 1st 2025 by the planning committee. The conference is expected to last two days and to take place in November 2025 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. It will lead to the publication of a special issue of the Genre en séries journal.
- Deadline: 12 December 2024 European Converence on Domestic Violence - Barcelona - 3-5 September 2025 While physical, emotional, and sexual forms of domestic violence and violence against women continue to be major social and health problems, new forms of domestic violence have emerged. In the last decade, legislation in different European states has started to incorporate forms of domestic violence and violence against women that had not been identified as such until now. For example, digital violence and abuse, coercive control, economic abuse, and isolating gender-based violence (which concerns violence or abuse against those who support victims, isolating them further). Children have also been identified as victims of domestic violence. Broadening definitions of domestic violence and violence against women have led us to establish new strategies and interventions to prevent and reduce their effects. The contributions to this sixth ECDV conference will enable us to share recent advances in knowledge about both established and new forms of domestic violence and violence against women across Europe, as well as the political and social impacts achieved and the differences that have been made to the lives of victims and survivors. Spain has been a pioneer in Europe in the development of legislation to combat gender violence. These developments have been underpinned by the co-creation of knowledge and the commitment to generating scientific evidence that is a key feature of the ECDV conferences. This Conference is a great opportunity to create spaces of exchange and discussion to continue the co-creation of scientific knowledge aimed at eradicating all forms of domestic violence and violence against women. The conference language will be English, and the conference is in-person only. There will be the option of presenting a proposal of Workshops in Spanish.
- Deadline: 31 December 2024 Special Issue Equity and Health in Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Online Journal We are pleased to announce a Call for papers on the theme of "Equity and Health" for a Special Issue of Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Online Journal. This edition aims to explore the intersection of equity and health, examining how disparities in access to healthcare, resources, and opportunities impact overall well-being, health outcomes and society at large. This Special Issue seeks to delve into various dimensions of equity in healthcare, including but not limited to socioeconomic disparities, geographical, age, ethnic inequalities, gender disparities and access to healthcare services. We invite submissions that address these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on fields such as public health, social sciences, healthcare management and policy studies. We welcome original research papers, case studies, theoretical perspectives and policy analyses that shed light on the challenges and opportunities in achieving health equity. Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following areas: Social and geographical determinants of health and equity Health disparities among marginalized communities Access to healthcare services and resources Policy implications for promoting health equity Intersectionality and its influence on health outcomes Innovative approaches to reducing disparities in health outcomes For more information, please refer to the submission Guidelines: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ethics-medicine-and-public-health/publish/guide-for- authors Submissions should be sent to philippe.charlier@uvsq.fr and to priscille.ahtoy@univ-tours.fr They should be rigorous, evidence-based, and contribute to advancing knowledge in this critical area. Submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review. They will be evaluated based on relevance, clarity, significance, originality, soundness and quality of presentation. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Special issue. We look forward to receiving your contributions and thank you for your interest and participation in advancing knowledge in this area. Submission deadline: December 31, 2024
- Deadline: 01 February 2025 Methodological Frontiers for Intersectional Theorizing: Advancing Qualitative Approaches for Research in Labour and Organizations in the Special Issue of the Journal "Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management" This Special Issue is interested in showcasing the innovative possibilities offered by feminist and intersectional research practices, with the aim of providing labour and organizational scholars with novel and useful epistemological and methodological approaches to help make sense of, theorize, and confront workplace inequalities. Following Kimberlé Crenshaw’s (1989) academic introduction of the concept of intersectionality in socio-legal research, much attention has been placed across disciplines in the social sciences on the interplay between multiple social identities and structural inequalities. Intersectional approaches have reshaped the examination of individual, social, material, and structural influences, effectively emphasizing agency while also acknowledging social structures (Phoenix, 2006; Prins, 2006). Despite recognition of the usefulness of qualitative approaches and methods to advance intersectionality scholarship (see Bowleg, 2008; Rodriguez, 2018; Trahan, 2011), more methodological understanding is needed in relation to how multiple social identities are implicated in unequal positioning within systems of domination, and how to capture these relationships. In this respect, there is much scope to advance methodological knowledge of the operational and epistemological intricacies that helps researchers empirically access and make sense of intersectional dynamics, and how individuals navigate the resulting positions of privilege and disadvantage in their situatedness and shifting nature (Misra et al., 2021; Rodriguez, 2018). In this Special Issue, we delve into two interconnected considerations. First, the understanding of the epistemological and methodological purposes of intersectionality in terms of what it offers us, and second, how to translate that understanding into our own concrete methodological praxis as researchers. Christoffersen and Emejulu (2023) suggest that the interpretation of what intersectionality signifies is intricately linked to its application, aligning with Collins (2019), who argues that methodological practices are “vehicles” for intersectional theorizing (p. 142). There remains ample room for exploration into the intricate connections between epistemology and methodology, specifically focusing on the diverse ways in which various research practices yield distinct forms of knowledge, and the ontological and epistemological consequences related to intersectionally-sensitive methodological choices (Colombo & Rebughini, 2022; Davis & Lutz, 2022; McCall, 2005; Rodriguez, 2018). This Special Issue is interested in addressing this gap, encouraging innovative methodological perspectives to enliven and embody intersectional theories and practice (see Collins, 2019; Davis, 2014; Rebughini, 2021). As calls continue to engage with the ontological imagination of intersectionality to achieve socially just and diverse futures (Rice et al., 2019; Watson-Singleton et al., 2023), we seek to leverage curiosity, novelty, and usefulness to explore new and creative qualitative methodological avenues in intersectional research to help us deliver on its transformational potential. We welcome submissions focused on intersectional approaches that unite the imaginative exploration of methodology to theory and contribute to advancing the methodological interrogation of intersectionality both as a way to analyse the (re)production of labour and workplace inequalities, as well as a way to interrogate those who produce knowledge about it (see Carstensen-Egwuom, 2014; Rodriguez & Ridgway, 2023). List of Topic Areas How does the relationship between intersectional theorising, epistemology, and researchers' methodological choices shape research on labour and workplace inequalities? What innovative methods can be employed for collecting and analysing intersectional data? What innovative methods can be employed for collecting and analysing data intersectionally? How could an intersectional approach enable the situated exploration of researcher and participant agency? How might researchers navigate ethical considerations when using intersectionally-sensitive methodologies? What does an intersectional ethics of care in qualitative research look like? How does intersectional reflexivity contribute to researcher accountability? How can researchers methodologically tackle the co-optation and whitewashing of intersectionality? How can intersectionality be adopted in posthuman methodological approaches to investigate how technologies, infrastructures, and material environments influence and intersect with situated and multiple social identities and experiences of oppression? How can intersectional research practices investigate the interconnections between human and nonhuman entities, including technology, environment, and various materialities? How can researchers capitalise on developments in big data technology and AI to advance intersectional methodologies? Submissions Information Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here. Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see here. Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to ““Please select the issue you are submitting to”. Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal. Key Deadlines Closing date for abstract submissions: 01/02/2025 The Guest Editors are planning to hold a paper development workshop in March 2025, inviting those authors who have submitted a 3000 word abstract before the Feb 1st deadline. This is optional and full paper submissions are still welcome from those who are unable to attend the PDW. Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/06/2025 Closing date for manuscripts submission: 30/06/2025
- Deadline: 31 July 2025 Colloque interdisciplinaire, du 20 au 21 mars 2025, au CNAM Paris Avec la «révolution numérique» (Cardon, 2019) amorcée dans les années 2000, la recherche en sociologie du travail s’efforce de rendre compte des effets induits par l’usage croissant des dispositifs numériques et des nouvelles technologies sur les structures de l’emploi, les organisations du travail, les conditions de travail, ainsi que sur son articulation avec la vie privée. Du côté de l’emploi, l’essor des plateformes numériques a fait émerger de nombreuses «zones grises de l’emploi» (Bernard & Abdelnour, 2018; Bureau et al., 2019; Azaïs et al., 2017) venant brouiller les frontières entre salariat et travail indépendant (Supiot 2000; Dupuy & Larré, 1998). Le développement des outils numériques de gestion et de communication est également venu transformer les modalités de contrôle et d’encadrement des travailleur·ses; et bouleverser – avec la progression du télétravail notamment (Schütz, 2021; Le Gagneur, 2023) – les frontières spatiales et temporelles du travail (Benedetto-Meyer & Boboc, 2021), amenant les travailleur·ses à repenser leurs modalités d’articulation des temps sociaux (Pizarro Erazo, Viera Giraldo & Landour, 2023). Ces éléments ont des répercussions sur le travail en lui-même, qui peut être amené à changer de nature, mais également sur les conditions de travail et la santé des travailleur·ses, qui peuvent se trouver améliorées (notamment par l’automatisation de certaines tâches dites «pénibles») mais aussi détériorées par l’intensification du travail. Ce colloque vise ainsi à faire le point sur les formes et les effets des transformations du travail, de l’emploi et des organisations à l’ère numérique. Comment le travail et l’emploi se transforment-ils, face à l’arrivée de nouveaux outils et modes de communication? Ces évolutions représentent-elles des gains, ou au contraire des pertes de droit, pour celles et ceux qui travaillent? Dans quelles mesure les évolutions numériques du travail et de l’emploi servent-elles les organisations? Comment ces mutations de l’univers professionnel viennent- elles modifier les organisations familiales et domestiques? Si le statut d’emploi influe sur le travail et ses conditions, comment cette équation se renouvelle-t-elle (ou non) face à l’accroissement des usages numériques? Et comment peut-on lire les usages, vécus et représentations sur ces transformations au prisme des rapports sociaux? Ce colloque se veut offrir un lieu de mise en discussion des interpénétrations multiples entre travail, emploi et numérique à travers une grille de lecture intersectionnelle. Nous encourageons pour cela les contributeur·ices à analyser la diversité des effets produits par le numérique en fonction des rapports de domination de classe, de genre, de race, d’âge ou de handicap qui traversent les organisations de travail et dans lesquels les individus sont pris. Ce colloque ambitionne également de favoriser le croisement entre différents regards disciplinaires, qui constituent une approche fructueuse pour mettre à l’épreuve la façon dont les usages des technologies numériques agissent sur le travail et l’emploi (Greenan et al., 2010 ; Bobiller Chaumon et al., 2022). Aussi, les communications de toutes les disciplines (sociologie, économique, gestion, psychologie, droit, histoire) sont les bienvenues et pourront s’inscrire dans un ou plusieurs des axes suivants: Axe 1 : Le numérique comme outil de rationalisation du travail Axe 2 : Les dispositifs numériques comme instruments de mise au travail Axe 3 : Les effets des technologies sur l’articulation des temps sociaux Axe 4 : Les travailleur·ses du numérique Axe 5 : Flexibilisation de l’emploi à l’heure du numérique Axe 6 : Conditions de travail et santé à l’épreuve du numérique Modalités pratiques du colloque Les personnes intéressées pour intervenir sont invitées à déposer une proposition de communication, de 3 500 à 4 000 signes (hors bibliographie) qui présentera le titre, l’objet, la problématique, la méthode utilisée et le ou les axes dans lesquels elles s’insèrent. Les propositions devront être déposées avant le 31 juillet 2024 sur la plateforme Sciencesconf en suivant la procédure suivante : Le dépôt de votre proposition nécessite au préalable la création d’un compte sur cette plateforme : https://portal.sciencesconf.org/user/createaccount Vous pourrez ensuite procéder au dépôt de votre proposition de communication en vous connectant au site du colloque : https://travnum2025.sciencesconf.org/, dans la rubrique Dépôts/Déposer un résumé et en recopiant votre texte rédigé dans le cadre prévu à cet effet. Pour tout renseignement, vous pouvez écrire à l’adresse suivante: travnum2025@sciencesconf.org Après notification d’acceptation (fin septembre 2024), les textes complets des communications retenues (30 000-35 000 signes tout compris) seront attendus pour le 1er février 2025. Ce colloque fera l’objet par la suite d’une valorisation sous forme d’un ouvrage collectif. Calendrier Dépôts de propositions de communication : le 31 juillet 2025 Réponse du comité : fin septembre Dépôts du texte final des communications : le 1er février 2025 Inscriptions gratuites en ligne : du 15 octobre 2024 au 1er mars 2025 Déroulement du colloque : les 20 et 21 mars 2025