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- Deadline: 24 April 2026 The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Academic Conference is presented by the Women’s Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student Center in conjunction with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program at the University of Central Oklahoma. Our conference this year explores the theme “Community at the Margins.” We invite papers considering ways in which individuals and groups who find themselves on the margins create sustaining networks of care, resilience, and meaning. Let us therefore examine marginality not as exclusion, but as a site where relationships and community are built.With your participation, we will take up many questions related to WGSS in multiple disciplines during our two-day conference at the University of Central Oklahoma on September 26 and 27, 2026, while sustaining a productive and positive space for students, scholars, activists, and community members alike. To encourage international participation, there will be a limited number of virtual presentations available only for those residing outside of the United States.All submissions are welcome. The selection committee interprets our theme broadly and encourages proposals that reflect on women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. The conference will include presentations that address issues of women, gender, and sexuality studies across various disciplines, including, but not limited to, the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, activism, and STEM fields. We invite students, faculty, staff, scholars, and activists to propose papers, panels, roundtable discussions, and workshop presentations. Please submit abstracts (max 200 words) through the link listed here: https://forms.office.com/r/k2wYjbsQVj
- Deadline: 26 April 2026 Over the past decade, digital technologies designed to monitor, predict, and manage reproductive health have proliferated at an unprecedented pace. It has become commonplace to use apps to track menstrual cycles, fertility status, pregnancy progress, or menopausal symptoms. In other words, apps and accompanying gadgets such as wristbands, thermometers, or insertables are part of our most intimate everyday life, mentally and physically. With their help, we track, we predict, we expect; we tell them about pain, lust or even loss. In return, platforms promise freedom from hormonal ‘chaos’ or pharmaceutical intervention, and the ability to take health and fertility into our own hands. Through proprietary algorithms and increasingly AI-driven features, they translate embodied rhythms into data streams, offering the seductive sense that what has historically been framed as unpredictable or uncontrollable can now be known and managed.Yet reproductive health technologies are never neutral tools. They operate within dense networks of gender norms, racialized histories of medical control, data concerns, and more. Reproductive health apps thus sit at a critical intersection of technological innovation, societal expectation, and political struggle. They constitute what might colloquially be termed a “can of worms”, demanding sustained, systematic, and intersectional feminist inquiry. Although important scholarship exists, research remains fragmented. What is needed is a dedicated volume that brings these strands together to interrogate both the promises and the power structures of digital reproductive health. We ask:How do these technologies make or break societal expectations of gender, sexuality, and reproduction?In what ways do they transform embodied experience, self-knowledge, and affective relations to the body?How do users make sense of the paradoxical situation of having body data available on their screens, while it is at the same time harvested by big tech companies and used in oblique waysHow do race, class, disability, sexuality, age, and geopolitical location intersect with these technologies?What would reproductive health apps look like in a sustainable, feminist, decolonial future—one that acknowledges the uncontrollable and centers embodied knowledge, collective care, and reproductive justice?How might feminist and critical design practices intervene in current infrastructures?We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume that critically examines reproductive health apps and related digital technologies from intersectional feminist perspectives including but not limited to HCI and interaction design. The collection seeks to foreground power, inequality, and resistance while exploring possibilities for more just and accountable technological futures. We welcome contributions that engage with, but are not limited to, the following themes: Social and Cultural DimensionsEmpowerment and Agency: How do reproductive health apps enable or constrain users in taking reproductive health into their own hands?Diversity, Gender, and Queer Perspectives: How do they address—or fail to address— diverse identities, non-binary experiences, and queer communities?Normativity and Inclusion: How do reproductive health apps reinforce or challenge traditional norms around gender, sexuality, and reproductive health?Intersectional Analyses: How do race, class, disability, and other axes of identity shape experiences with such digital technologies? Technical and Design PerspectivesUser and Design Studies: How are reproductive health apps designed, and how do users interact with them? What are the implications for usability, accessibility, and user experience?Algorithmic Intimacy and Automation: How do algorithms and automation shape users’ experiences of intimacy, bodily autonomy, and reproductive decision-making?Datafication and Patienthood: How do reproductive health apps contribute to the datafication of reproductive health, and how does this reshape concepts of patienthood and self-tracking?Speculative and Feminist Design Futures: What would non-extractive, collectively governed, or community-owned reproductive technologies look like?Privacy, Policy, and EthicsPrivacy and Data Concerns: What are the risks and ethical dilemmas surrounding data collection, storage, and sharing in reproductive health apps?Political and Policy Consequences: How do they intersect with reproductive rights, healthcare policies, and surveillance?Commodification of Intimacy: How are bodily rhythms, fertility intentions, and affective disclosures transformed into economic value?Sustainability and Material Infrastructures: What are the ecological footprints of wearable devices and data storage infrastructures tied to reproductive tracking?Comparative and Contextual StudiesCase Studies: How are reproductive health apps developed, regulated, and used in different countries or cultural contexts?Comparative Analyses: How do experiences with reproductive health apps vary across regions, legal frameworks, or healthcare systems?Submission GuidelinesAbstract Submission Deadline: 26th April, 2026. Abstracts (300–500 words) should outline the chapter’s focus, methodology, and contribution to the volume’s themes. Include a brief author bio (100 words) and contact informationNotification of acceptance: May 3rd, 2026Draft Chapter Deadline: September 15, 2026. Contributors submit full draft chapters (6,000–8,000 words).Feedback Sent to Contributors: November 1, 2026Final chapter deadline: January 15th, 2027Final Editorial Review: January 16–March 31, 2027The book will be published as Diamond Open Access volume via Uppsala University Library’s Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, ensuring global accessibility.Contact Please direct inquiries and submissions to helga.sadowski@im.uu.se
- Deadline: 27 April 2026 3rd Interna1onal Conference on (Cyber)bullying (CICY3)After a first edition held in Nancy (University of Lorraine) from December 5 to 7, 2022, followed by a second edition hosted on June 3 and 4, 2024 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), the International Conference on (Cyber)bullying (CICY) is preparing its third edition. The conference will take place at Galatasaray University (Istanbul, Turkey) on April 27 and 28, 2026. It continues the scholarly discussions initiated during the previous meetings, which created opportunities to exchange theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary forms of bullying, harassment, and cyberviolence. Entitled “(Cyber)bullying: Norms and Resistance in Mediterranean Societies and Beyond,” this edition aims to broaden its geographical scope by emphasizing the specific dynamics of the Mediterranean region, while maintaining its commitment to international and comparative dialogue.As in previous editions, the conference welcomes papers addressing the mechanisms and effects of bullying, harassment, cyberbullying, and online hate speech, as well as the tools used to combat them. Practical and collaborative workshops will also be included in the program in order to foster dialogue between researchers, practitioners, institutional stakeholders, and civil-society organizations involved in preventing digital violence. For the 2026 edition, four thematic areas are proposed, exploring different dimensions of cyberviolence: its forms and dynamics, vulnerabilities linked to life-course trajectories, issues related to terminology and social recognition, and the evaluation of prevention mechanisms and knowledge-transmission practices. Each theme invites critical and comparative analyses of individual, collective, and institutional responses to digital violence, as well as the tools used to understand and counter it.
- Deadline: 30 April 2026 The two-day workshop, organised by Marie Lunau (Roskilde University), Rieke Schröder (University of Münster), and Sophia Zisakou (Lund University), invites participants to reflect on affect as a methodological orientation in feminist, queer, trans, decolonial, migration, disability and related research fields. The workshop aims to create a space for collective exchange on emotions as ways of doing research and to explore affective approaches to archives, knowledge production, and political practice. The format will include short presentations, discussions, collaborative writing sessions, and collective work toward a special issue proposal. Keynote lectures will be given by Athena Athanasiou and B Camminga.We invite contributions that engage with questions such as:How can knowledge be imagined as a political and affective practice in times marked by anti-migratory, anti-queer, and anti-gender mobilisations?What can emotions do in research as relational forces shaping exclusion and resistance?How do we navigate the emotional terrain of working with archives and institutions that marginalise or defund critical methodologies?Researchers at all career stages and from all relevant fields are warmly invited to apply. We particularly welcome contributions that are methodologically reflexive, experimental, and/or collaborative.Submission detailsAbstract: max. 250 wordsDeadline: 30 April 2026Please send abstracts to: cigs@uni-muenster.deFundingEight fully funded participant places (covering travel and accommodation) are available. Additional self-funded participants are welcome. The workshop will include 10–15 participants in total. If you would like to be considered for a funded place, please indicate this in your submission.For questions, please contact Rieke Schröder (rieke.schroeder@uni-muenster.de).
- Deadline: 30 April 2026 We seek abstracts for the proposed collection, Transnational Queer and Feminist Archives. In our current moment, the rights and safety of LGBTQ2S+ people, women, and gender non-conforming people are undergoing radical political shifts across the globe. These shifts risk a profound loss of queer and feminist cultural memory. As academics, communities, and artists have worked to redress the suppressed queer and feminist cultural memory of the past, our current moment asks us to consider ways that queer and feminist activist archiving might develop transnational solidarities and new ways of preserving the future of cultural memory.This collection seeks to publish work from academic and non-academic communities that demonstrate transnational strategies for preserving queer and feminist activist archives. Possible topics include but are not limited to: What new or changing strategies can scholars and communities use to help preserve materials across international lines?What is the role of community archives in transnational solidarity for feminist and queer histories? How do the infrastructure, politics, culture, and population entailed in community archives shape local and global risks, commitments, and activism? What is the role of artists, activists and communities in the recirculation or “repertoire” of cultural heritage in light of these political changes? What distributed or non-institutional strategies do artists, activists and communities practice? What are the possibilities or limitations of international cultural heritage organizations like UNESCO in this work? What are the possibilities or limitations of digital surrogates and digital preservation in this work? How might minimal computing initiatives like GO:DH and the technological practices of the Global South provide models for preservation? How should ownership or stewardship agreements with archives adapt to these circumstances? How might a decolonising approach like the CARE principles for Indigenous data governance inform justice-oriented preservation across international lines? How might research data management guidelines produced by funding bodies like the Canadian Tri-Council or UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and Digital Curation Centre contribute to best practices for vulnerable digital and non-digital archives?This collection is occasioned by the increasing risks to queer cultural memory in local, national, and transnational contexts. From their own national contexts in Canada and Poland, the editors have witnessed far-right governments targeting reproductive and trans rights and the destabilization of protections around university research. The collection seeks to include accounts that think about how to collect or experiment with archives that trouble the borders of nation states, whose governance or communities undergo radical shifts within or against geopolitical trends.Submission format: Chapters (max 5000 words, inclusive of notes). Chapter submissions should advance a clear and compelling argument, supported by evidence and relevant academic research. While specific cases may provide a background or occasion for chapters, submissions that are strictly case studies will not be considered for this submission. Collaboratively authored submissions are welcome.Scholars and practitioners from across disciplines and regardless of rank, position or institutional affiliation are invited to submit abstracts of 300-500 words for Chapters. Features: 500-1000 words + feature image. Feature submissions are intended as a non-academic focus to showcase artists, community groups, or archives with a focus on the goals, challenges, and solutions that these groups have experienced in preserving and creating international queer and feminist materials, additional supporting material to be housed in a GitHub repository. Collaboratively authored submissions are welcome.Artists, practitioners, and community groups are invited to submit abstracts of 200 words + description of supplementary material for Features. Abstracts due: Thursday April 30, 17:00 PSTPlease send abstract and 100-word bio to transnationalqueerarchives@gmail.comPlease direct questions to transnationalqueerarchives@gmail.comEditors: Maria Alexopoulos (UBC Okanagan; QueerIT project), Barbara Dynda (U Warsaw; QueerIT project), and Emily Christina Murphy (UBC Okanagan)Press: Rutgers University Press has expressed interest in reviewing this proposed collection.
- Deadline: 30 April 2026 Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie „Zukünfte der Gesellschaft“ vom 28.09.-02.10.2026 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzEmotionen und Affekte prägen das Erleben von Reproduktion und Care – sei es die Überraschung über das Ergebnis eines Schwangerschaftstests, die Scham über einen sichtbaren Menstruationsblutfleck oder die Angst um pflegebedürftige Angehörige. Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Gefühlen hat dabei in der Analyse von Reproduktions- bzw. Generativitätsverhältnissen (Kontos 2018) eine lange Tradition – etwa als Kritik an der Zuschreibung von Emotionalität an „das Weibliche“ (Bock & Duden 1977). Für soziale Bewegungen hingegen waren und sind Gefühle wie beispielsweise Scham oder Wut – etwa im Kontext geschlechtsbasierter Erfahrungen der Ungleichheit und Unterdrückung – auch ein zentrales Moment der Vergemeinschaftung. In Anlehnung an solche Traditionen können gerade vermeintlich negative Gefühle als zutiefst verwoben mit Macht, Herrschaft und der Erfahrung von Vulnerabilität erachtet werden.Die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen erodierender Care-Verhältnisse, strukturelle Missstände und Gewalt in der Geburtshilfe oder Phänomene wie Regretting Motherhood (Donath 2016) haben mittlerweile zwar eine breitere Öffentlichkeit erreicht. Doch sind diese hässlichen Seiten der Reproduktion und insbesondere ihre affektiven Dimensionen in der Soziologie unterforscht. Trotz vielfach konstatierter affective und emotional turns in den Gesellschaftswissenschaften werden in der deutschsprachigen Soziologie gerade die „hässlichen Gefühle“ (Ngai 2007) wie Scham, Ekel, Neid oder Angst, aber auch Aggressionsaffekte wie Wut oder Hass bislang vernachlässigt. Dabei lassen sich hier soziologische Grundfragen nach dem Verhältnis von Individuum und Kollektiv, nach Macht und Herrschaft oder auch nach Vorstellungen von Zeitlichkeit näher analysieren.In der Ad-hoc-Gruppe möchten wir uns kritisch mit Gefühlen, Emotionen und Affekten auseinandersetzen, die dem Ideal affirmativer, liebevoller oder generativer Reproduktionspraktiken entgegenlaufen. Dies öffnet den Blick für die Relevanz nicht-erwünschter Gefühle in den gegenwärtigen Reproduktionsverhältnissen und für Praktiken der Nicht-Reproduktion innerhalb normativer Kräfte von „Politiken der Reproduktion“ (Fröhlich et al. 2022).Wir laden zu theoretisch-konzeptionellen und empirischen Beiträgen im Themenfeld ein, die folgende Fragen adressieren können, aber nicht auf diese beschränkt sind:Welches analytische und epistemologische Potenzial beinhalten hässliche Gefühle? Welche methodisch-methodologischen Herausforderungen stellen sich in der soziologischen Erforschung?Wie kann eine Soziologie der hässlichen Gefühle gegenwärtige Debatten um Reproduktionsverhältnisse bereichern und produktiv verkomplizieren?Inwiefern unterlaufen oder reproduzieren hässliche Gefühle dominante Gesellschafts- und Geschlechterordnungen der Gegenwart?Geplant sind 15-minütige Impuls-Vorträge und eine gemeinsame Diskussion mit dem Ziel, sich aktuelle Fragestellungen, Erkenntnisse und Desiderate zur Rolle hässlicher oder unerwünschter Gefühle in gegenwärtigen Reproduktionsverhältnissen zu erschließen.Wir bitten um die Einreichung von Abstracts (maximal eine Seite) bis zum 30.04.2026 an: post@sophie-bauer.de, lilian.huemmler@soz.uni-frankfurt.de und m.reich@em.uni-frankfurt.de.
- Deadline: 30 April 2026 In a global context marked by the rise of reactionary discourses, anti-gender offensives, the proliferation of multiple forms of structural violence, and ongoing attempts to depoliticize education, Feminist Weaves in Education brings together researchers, educators, students, activists, and socio-educational practitioners to collectively reflect on education as a key terrain of feminist struggle, resistance, and transformation. This conference is held as the 3rd International Conference of the Education and Gender Research Group (GEG), which continues to offer and foster a space for research, debate, and action committed to gender justice in education.The metaphor of weaving structures the conference’s approach, evoking both the material practice of interlacing threads and the work of weaving/tramar relations, plots and stories across differences. It reflects a commitment to bringing diverse knowledges, practices and experiences into relation in order to challenge the androcentric, adult-centric, colonial and neoliberal epistemologies that have historically shaped educational systems. In this sense, weaving also names the feminist labour of devising and re-plotting (idear y volver a tramar) educational worlds otherwise.From this perspective, Feminist Weaves in Education places at the centre the relationships between knowledge, power, and collective action, recognizing the epistemic agencies of children, young people, and education professionals, as well as embodied feminist pedagogies, together with bodies, affects, everyday experiences, public policies, and community practices as key sites for the production of knowledge, resistance, and educational transformation.Feminist Weaves in Education is grounded in feminist, queer, intersectional, anti-racist, and decolonial traditions that understand knowledge as situated, plural, and contested. The conference is conceived as a space for encounter and dialogue to share research, experiences, and practices that, in formal and informal educational settings, contribute to building emancipatory knowledge ecologies, strengthening alliances, and imagining livable, inclusive, and radically democratic educational futures.
- Deadline: 01 May 2026 Il y a longtemps que la revue Recherches féministes n’avait proposé un numéro dédié à des articles qui se situent en dehors d’un thème spécifique. Le premier a été publié en 1989, sous le titre « Convergences », et le dernier, en 2008, s’intitulait « Le féminisme : une question de valeur(s) ». Un appel de textes pour un numéro hors thème comporte toujours une belle part d’inconnu. Ce numéro est ouvert à l’ensemble des études qui concernent des rapports sociaux de genre; il rendra compte à la fois de la complexité et du dynamisme des recherches féministes. Quelles ont été selon vous, autrices et auteurs, les avancées scientifiques les plus significatives des dernières années? Quels défis les plus importants se présentent maintenant à nous? Quels sont les thèmes et approches à privilégier dans l’avenir, les nouvelles préoccupations? Quelles nouvelles pistes de développement des connaissances et quels interventions féministes faut-il offrir de toute urgence? Des convergences sauront se dessiner.Les propositions (300 mots maximum) doivent parvenir à la revue avant le 1er mai 2026. Elles doivent être envoyées au secrétariat de la revue (revuerecherchesfeministes@ccb.ulaval.ca). Après acceptation de la proposition, les manuscrits complets (6 500 mots maximum) devront être soumis au plus tard le 1er janvier 2027 par l’entremise de la plateforme Open Journal System (OJS) de la revue (revues.ulaval.ca/ojs/index.php/recherches-feministes) et respecter le protocole de publication (www.recherchesfeministes.ulaval.ca).
- Deadline: 04 May 2026 Sitzung der Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie „Zukünfte der Gesellschaft“ vom 28.09.- 02.10.2026 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzVaterschaft als Konzept und als soziale Praxis unterliegt gesellschaftlichen, familialen und individuellen Veränderungsdynamiken. Sie ist stets an gesellschaftliche Idealvorstellungen von Geschlechterverhältnissen geknüpft, die derzeit einen starken Backlash erleben. Während es so beispielsweise in den 1960er Jahren weder als väterliche Praxis noch vor dem Hintergrund gängiger Männlichkeitsideale für Väter denkbar war, die Geburt ihres Kindes mitzuerleben, ist es heute für die meisten werdenden Väter unvorstellbar, dieses Ereignis zu verpassen. Allein daran zeigt sich: Was gesellschaftlich unter ‚guter‘ Vaterschaft und männlichen Idealvorstellungen verstanden wird, hat sich im Laufe der letzten 100 Jahre stark verändert (Lengersdorf/Meuser 2022; Martin-Garcia et al. 2023). Früher galt als ‚guter‘ Vater, wer die Familie finanziell versorgte und deren Geschicke autoritär lenkte. Inzwischen hat sich diese Norm einer Alleinverdiener-Vaterschaft zu einem Geschlechterverhältnis entwickelt, das den Vater als gleichberechtigten und aktiven Elternteil versteht. Dennoch bleibt er gleichzeitig hauptsächlich für das Familieneinkommen zuständig, und es gibt aktuelle Trends, Vaterschaft und Mutterschaft wieder als getrennte Sphären zu verstehen (aktuelles Stichwort: Tradwives). Studien weisen darüber hinaus eine zunehmende Ausdifferenzierung von Vaterschafts- und Männlichkeitsidealen nach (Väterreport 2023).In dieser Ad-hoc-Gruppe sollen daher verschiedene Generationen von Vätern betrachtet werden. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass Väter im Laufe der Zeit immer aktiver geworden sind und sich Vaterschafts- und Männlichkeitsideale von autoritärer Vaterschaft zu Caring Fatherhood zu entwickeln scheinen, möchten wir diskutieren, wie dieser Prozess weitergehen könnte. Handelt es sich bisher wirklich um eine lineare Entwicklung hin zu zunehmender Involviertheit und mehr Engagement? Oder gilt das nur für einzelne Gruppen von Vätern und es finden parallele, möglicherweise sogar gegensätzliche Entwicklungen statt? Wir blicken dafür auf die historische, gegenwärtige und zukünftige Entwicklung von Vaterschaft und Männlichkeit. Dabei möchten wir sowohl veränderte rechtliche Möglichkeiten und sozialpolitische Maßnahmen, als auch den familiären und biographischen Kontext als Aushandlungsfelder väterlicher Normen und Praktiken in den Blick nehmen.Ziel der Ad-hoc-Gruppe ist es, Wissenschaftler*innen zusammenzubringen, die zu Vaterschaft forschen, um einen familien- und geschlechtersoziologischen Austausch zu Wandel und Zukunft von Vaterschaft und Männlichkeit zu ermöglichen.Während einige Vorträge bereits fest eingeplant sind (zur Vergangenheit: Till van Rahden, zur Gegenwart: Jelena Büchner und zur Zukunft: Sarah Speck), suchen wir weitere Vortragsangebote, die sich in diese Dreiteilung (möglichst) eingliedern lassen. Wir würden uns sehr über (sowohl empirische als auch eher theoretische) Einreichungen zu folgenden Themen freuen:Beiträge, die die historische Entwicklung von Vaterschaft und Männlichkeit über einen längeren Zeitraum in den Blick nehmenForschung zu aktuellen Vätergenerationen und Care bzw. zur Ausdifferenzierung von Vaterschaftskonzepten, auch vor dem Hintergrund aktueller sozialpolitischer EntwicklungenÜberlegungen zur Verknüpfung von Vaterschaft und MännlichkeitBeiträge, die möglichst perspektivisch in die Zukunft blicken und z.B. ausgehend von Forschung zu jungen (noch kinderlosen) Männern oder Jugendlichen untersuchen, welche Veränderungen von Vaterschaft sich möglicherweise erwarten lassen.Selbstverständlich sind auch querliegende Themen oder Überschneidungen denkbar.Wir freuen uns über Beitragsvorschläge von Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen ebenso wie von solchen, die schon länger zu Vaterschaft forschen.Wir bitten um die Einreichung von Abstracts (maximal eine Seite) bis zum 4. Mai 2026 an: buschmeyer@dji.de und vaterschaft@dji.de Organisation: Dr. Anna Buschmeyer, Dr. Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer, Dr. Leonhard Birnbacher, Klara Lüring M.A. (alle Deutsches Jugendinstitut München)
- Deadline: 15 May 2026 Since 2017, media coverage of the MeToo movement has prompted a resurgence of research on sexual consent in the humanities and social sciences. Whether by tracing the history of consent as a norm (Théry 2022), examining its application in the judicial arena (Pérona 2022; Mornington et al. eds. 2023; Le Meur 2025), or analyzing its place in everyday sexuality (Boucherie 2019; Lévy-Guillain 2024), researchers have tackled the question from multiple angles. However, little attention has been paid to a long-standing subject of debate in feminist theory: sexual transactions. In the 1980s, the question sex workers’ consent – specifically, female sex workers – was hotly debated during the North American sex wars (Rubin 1984; Dworkin 1993; Möser 2022). Since then, prostitution has remained a central topic in feminist political theory, particularly in relation to consent (Fraisse 2007; Serra 2024). However, the modalities and specificity of (non)consent in transactional practices, on a micro-analytical scale, remain largely unexplored.This conference aims to revisit this topic by examining the role of consent in sexual transactions beyond the sole case of prostitution. Shifting the focus away from theoretical debates on this issue, the purpose of this conference is to describe, document, and analyze the way consent and transactions intersect through historically situated sexual practices. Organized by the ANR ConSent team, it aims to contribute to a study “from below” of the norm of consent from the 18th century to the present day. The call is open to researchers from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences working in France, Europe, and beyond. Presentations (20 minutes), in French or English, should situate their subject in its specific historical context, regardless of the period and materials used (archives, publications, images, narratives, cinematographic works, testimonies, interviews, observations, etc.). A publication project in the form of a journal issue will be proposed to participants.Application procedureProposals (500 words max.) should be sent by email by May 15, 2026, to the following addresses: romain.jaouen@sciencespo.fr and caroline.muller@univ-rennes2.fr. Authors should indicate their research framework, subject, and methodology. They are invited to specify their approach to the concepts of “transaction” and “consent,” whichever they adopt. An indicative bibliography is requested (max. 10 references). In addition to the proposal, a brief presentation of the authors is expected, limited to 100 words.Decisions on acceptance will be made before June 15, 2026.Partial funding for accommodation and transportation will be provided for participants.
- Deadline: 29 May 2026 Interrogating Gender-Based Violence: Global Dialogues on Gender Power Relations, Men, and Masculinities28-30 October 2026University of South Africa (UNISA),Kgorong Building, Muckleneuk Campus, Pretoria, South Africa, 2026(Hybrid Event: In-person and Virtual Participation)The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA), invites researchers, practitioners, policymakers, activists, and community leaders to submit abstracts for this international conference. This gathering seeks to address the complex relationship between masculinities, identities, and gender-based violence (GBV). We aim to explore how constructions of masculinities contribute to the prevalence of GBV worldwide and to foster transformative dialogues for positive change.Conference Context and ObjectivesWe are at a time when critical knowledge and intersectional politics are contested by various actors, ranging from social movements to political parties and institutions. Many of the political signifiers that critical scholars deploy, such as ‘gender’, colonialism’, or ‘safety’, have been co-opted into exclusionary and oppressive discourses for ideological purposes.The conference aims to explore the complex representations, constructions and performances of masculinities in our historical juncture, when "being a man" is linked both to gender-based oppression and to supremacist posturing. Implicit in this concern is the link between masculinity and gender-based violence, which will also be unpacked and complicated at the conference. We believe it is important to stress that "masculinity” is not monolithic but is always inflected by other aspects of subjective positioning, such as geopolitical location, race, ethnicity, class, religion, age, disability, and so on. It is also increasingly acknowledged that men and masculinities are implicated in current global crises, including escalating military conflicts, right-wing swings, and environmental challenges such as climate crisis.The conference will trace these discursive developments globally, while considering the specificity and complexity of this type of politics across geopolitical contexts. This conference seeks to analyse processes of (re-)appropriation, resignification, and hijacking of critical knowledge to better understand the current historical juncture and to conceive political strategies for resistance and change.Possible ThemesContributors are invited to reflect on questions related to the conference topic, including but not limited to:What is Violence? What is Gender-Based Violence? How do the categories of violence and gender-based violence interact with other concepts of violence, such as Rob Nixon's 'slow violence' and Johann Galtung's 'structural violence'.The resurgence of Hypermasculinities: Analysing the rise of extreme masculine archetypes in current political and social landscapes and how such dynamics overlap with and intersect with right-wing turns and populism.Homophobic and Transphobic Violence: Exploring the relationship between constructions of masculinity and violence targeting LGBTQIA+ individuals and indigenous minorities, particularly as these groups are increasingly cast as "threats" in nationalist and anti-gender discourses.The intersections of Men, Masculinities and Gender-Based Violence: Exploring how multiple axes of power and identity influence the manifestation and representation of violence.Hegemonic, Pluralised, Resistant and Alternative Masculinities: Investigating dominant forms of manhood and the emergence of "hybrid" identities that may incorporate or obscure traditional power dynamics.Patriarchal Structures: Analysis of the socialisation processes shaping masculine identities and the "crisis" of masculinity in changing gender roles and relations.Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQIA+ Contexts: Intersectionality, Power, and the Performance of Identity. Interrogating how queer partners navigate violence within relationships where identity, power, and performance intersect. It considers how social structures (race, class, gender identity) and culturally mediated masculinities shape both the manifestation of abuse and the willingness or ability to seek support.Digital and Creative Cultures: Masculinities in digital/social media platforms, including the violences of online spaces such as the Manosphere and digital activism and artistic resistance, as well as creative restorative practices for survivor-centred justice.Engagement and Policy: Innovations in male engagement against GBV and strategies for involving men and boys in prevention.Academic Freedom and Institutions: How institutional policies affect the status of critical gender research and academic freedom, and how this affects ways in which gender-based violence in academia is addressed.Environmental Violence, Violence to other species/more-than-humans, and to the Planet, “slow” violence: How do these kinds of violence intersect with masculinity and masculinities?Epistemic and Colonialist ViolenceWar, Armed Conflict, Militarism, and PeaceViolence in sports: When violence is framed as justified, “part of the game”; violence as a fandom practice, and links to nationalismWomen’s Relations to ViolenceConnections between Forms of Violence, for example, between war and armed conflict, interpersonal violence, and sexual violence Permutations of Relations of Violence, including men-women, men-men, women-womenDigital and Online ViolenceChildren, Young People and ViolenceViolence, Representation, Visuality, Text and the ArtsPresentation FormatsAside from 20-minute paper presentations, we encourage various other formats to promote transnational collaboration: such as roundtable discussions, conversations, and interviews.Visuals, multimedia, and performance.Posters and lecture-demonstrations.PracticalitiesSubmission GuidelinesAbstracts: Maximum of 350 words.Details: Include title, author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), and contact details.Format: Indicate at the end of the abstract whether you plan to attend in person or virtually.Submission: Submit by 29 May 2026 via email to Prof I.D. Mothoagae (mothodi@unisa.ac.za), copying Ms. Mapula Mogashoa (mogasmn@unisa.ac.za). Use the subject line: "RINGS abstract".Important DatesNotification of Acceptance: 30 June 2026.Registration Opens: 17 August 2026.Registration and Solidarity FundRegistration Fee:200,00 EUR for individuals who are fully funded by a university, organisation, or project;100,00 EUR for individuals who are able to pay a fee but cannot afford the full amount;25,00 EUR for individuals who are not funded;No motivation letter is requiredSolidarity Fund: The registration fee supports the RINGS Solidarity Fund. Funding assistance may be available for participants from lower-income countries or the Global South; contact Prof. Mothoagae for details.For inquiries, please contact:Prof I.D. MothoagaeEmail: mothodi@unisa.ac.za
- Deadline: 08 June 2026 27 - 29 January 2027, University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandWe invite contributions to the workshop “On (Not) Building and Raising a Queer Family,” which examines queer families, kinship, reproduction, and non-parenthood in Europe through an intersectional lens. In the context of uneven legal, political, and cultural conditions, the workshop asks how queer people navigate pathways to parenthood, how cis-heteronormative norms shape family-making, and how power, inequality, and structural violence affect access to reproduction and parenting as well as experiences of choosing not to have children. We welcome empirically grounded and conceptually rich papers, especially on underexplored contexts and perspectives, including Eastern Europe, bisexual, asexual, nonbinary, intersex, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, and racialised queer people. The workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary exchange and will contribute to a planned special issue; junior scholars are especially encouraged to apply.You can find more information in the document attached. Please send your abstract (max. 300 words), including a title, your name, position, institutional affiliation, and a short biographical note (max. 150 words), to the organisers by 8 June 2026.OrganisersCarole Ammann (she/her; carole.ammann@unilu.ch), University of LucerneLeo Valentin Theissing (they/them; leo.theissing@unilu.ch) University of LucerneCaroline Chautems (she/her; caroline.chautems@unil.ch), University of Lausanne
- Deadline: 10 June 2026 The academic journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for abstracts for its special issue on Ecofeminisms and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the EnvironmentEditors: Ivy Helman, M.A., Ph.D. and Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, Ph.D.Environmental crises, climate disruption, and extractivist petromodernity have come to existence not only as products of the global capitalist system, but equally significantly as products of cisheteropatriarchal structures. This mono-thematic issue of Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research titled Ecofeminisms and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment takes this position as a departure for investigation of political, academic, social, cultural, spiritual, and epistemic responses to life on a planet, whose capacity to sustain lifeworlds and ecosystems as we currently know them, has been and is continually being compromised by human actions.As the world tips closer and closer to the 1.5 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures and 2024 and 2025 were yet more years with the highest temperatures recorded, with the current year possibly following suit, the very existence of a healthy, thriving planet is at risk not only for human societies, but also for our non-human relatives. Attempts to solve the global climate disruption and the current state resulting from industrial devastation include, in international and larger governmental circles, lessening our dependence on fossil fuels, switching to sustainable energy sources, lowering carbon emissions, eliminating the environmental impact of and/or ending animal agriculture, addressing overpopulation, and preventing species extinction. Policies that respond to such topics are articulated in diverse green movements, deep ecologies, and ecological conservation efforts, as well as environmental resistances, indigenous decolonial projects and local activisms. Yet, due to democratic backsliding, many existing solutions are not necessarily as beneficial to the planet as they could be, offering bandaids to larger issues, such as technological fixes as mitigations to climate change, and even serve the needs of late-stage capitalist patriarchy without those in political and economic charge having to change much if any of their wasteful habits. In other words, many dominant political, economic and technological proposals and discussions almost completely ignore what will bring about actual sustainable environmental change as detailed within ecological, environmentalist, and ecofeminist circles already since the late 1960s and early 1970s; that is system-wide change, criticism of anthropocentrism, the end of patriarchy and of colonialist and capitalist exploitation of environmental resources and physical bodies, both human and non-human (Salleh, 1992; Vance 1997; Mellor, 1997; Mies and Shiva, 2014).Ecofeminism is a feminist perspective, as Mary Mellor (1997: 2) defines it, ‘that sees a connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural world and the subordination and oppression of women.’ Ecofeminists trace this connection to Western patriarchy and, minimally, its epistemological system of hierarchical dualism. Kathy Rudy (2012: 31) exemplifies this hierarchical thinking in a striking example when she offers her body to feed lions at an animal sanctuary where she volunteers. The sanctuary director is taken aback by the idea and responds that laws prevent such a use of human remains. Rudy argues that patriarchal values do not see humans neither as animals nor as possible food for animals and that is coded into our society and its laws. Her point is to show how ecofeminism challenges human separation from the natural environment. In addition, ecofeminism - or rather ecofeminisms - have been the branch of feminism that is consistently intersectional, concerned with the intricacies and effects of mutli-layered oppressive structures, including anthropocentrism as an exploitative system of identification (A.E. Kings, 2017). Likewise, ecofeminisms have consistently contained a focus on diverse cosmologies, spirituality and the spiritual life compared to other iterations of feminism (McGuire and McGuire, 1998: 199). Finally, ecofeminisms have their own epistemologies where knowledge comes from experiences interacting with nature in a given environmental location (Mellor, 1997: 103-126). That means those who have more intimate experiences of a given environment should be trusted to understand its active processes when solving local environmental crises (Mellor, 1997: 124).Hierarchical dualisms show the philosophical and epistemological link between values and action in Western patriarchy, such as racism, classism, (neo-)colonialism, globalization, settler colonialism, (neo)imperialism, capitalism, etc. (Mellor, 1997: 5; Jaggar, 1983: 124). As already mentioned, ecofeminisms argue that societies will be unable to solve current environmental crises without upending patriarchal structures, their hierarchical dualisms, and capitalist and colonialist anthropocentric instrumentalization of the world we inhabit and share with our non-human and other-than-human relatives. Thus, among the multiple goals of ecofeminisms is to revalue both theoretically and materially the less-valued side of the dualism. Working to reclaim and revalue at the bare minimum nature, bodies, and embodiment (the connection between mind and body), A. E. Kings (2017) argues that ecofeminisms must operate out of an intersectional lens. Finally, feminist and ecofeminist research suggests that a shift in the gender(ed) division of labor, in consumer gender(ed) behavior, and even in conceptions of gender identities is indispensable to alleviating humans’ destructive impact on planetary health.In alignment with ecofeminist thought, recent interdisciplinary perspectives investigated within energy and/or blue humanities accentuate the petromodernist character of societies predicated on access to and burning of fossil fuels. While pressures on phasing out of fossil fuels mount, contemporary social and cultural formations continue to be organized around the extraction of finite subterranean resources, but also of marginalized bodies, communities and places positioned farther from fossil fuel(ed) hegemonies of power. As Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel have argued (2021), extraction is not merely an economic or technological process but a structuring logic that permeates social relations, cultural production, political imaginaries, and existing epistemologies. The waning of extractive regimes must therefore be understood not only as a material and infrastructural crisis but also as an epistemic, social, representational, and affective one. Additionally, fossil fuels-reliant, petromodernist social structures are inherently (and intersectionally) gendered, classed, racialized and hierarchically structured making specific social and cultural strata and epistemologies vulnerable to extractivist regimes.This mono-thematic issue seeks papers that contribute to ongoing interdisciplinary debates in ecofeminist thought situated in specific contexts of various regions of the world, in energy and blue humanities, environmental studies and ecology, cultural and literary studies as well as postcolonial/decolonial and queer theories, arts, anthropology, sociology, theology and philosophy and any other fields by theorizing extractivism, exhaustion, survivance, and future-oriented imaginations and epistemologies. By integrating analyses portraying material infrastructures, aesthetic forms, environmental responses and representations of, among others, environmental and gender-based violence and/or symbolic violence, this issue aims to illuminate how ecofeminisms, environmental movements, social mobilizations as well as cultural texts register the limits of capitalist cisheteropatriarchal society and fossil modernity and participate in the imaginative labor of articulating sustainable futures.If you are interested in publishing your research in this special issue, please submit an abstract of your paper (max. 250 words) with 5 keywords and an a short bio (approx. 100 words) by June 10, 2026 to the editor’s office (genderteam@soc.cas.cz) and to the editors Ivy Helman (ivy.helman@fhs.cuni.cz) and Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová (tereza.jiroutovakynclova@fhs.cuni.cz). Please include “Ecofeminisms” in the subject line of your email. Articles will be accepted in English and should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words in length, including footnotes and references. Further guidelines for publishing articles in English are available at:https://genderonline.cz/artkey/inf-990000-1200_Submission-Guidelines.php.Notifications of acceptance to publish in the thematic issue will be sent out before June 30, 2026. Final versions of articles are to be submitted by December 31, 2026. The editors also welcome book reviews and reports relevant to the topic of the forthcoming issue. This special issue will be released in late fall of 2027.
- Deadline: 30 June 2026 13. bis 15. November 2026 Chemnitz, DeutschlandDie aus dem Netzwerk Kritische Sexarbeitsforschung gegründete Gesellschaft für Sexarbeits- und Prostitutionsforschung vernetzt Forschende verschiedener Disziplinen miteinander. Sie fördert eine interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Thematisierung und Auseinandersetzung mit Prostitution und Sexarbeit sowie die Entwicklung neuer Forschungsperspektiven auf das Themenfeld. Auch der diesjährige Workshop bietet Studierenden und Wissenschaftler:innen in der Qualifikationsphase einen kollektiven Raum, um die eigenen aktuellen Arbeiten zum Thema abseits von etablierten, stigmatisierenden und kriminalisierenden Diskursen und Debatten diskutieren zu können. Die thematische Rahmung ist hierbei bewusst offen gehalten und orientiert sich am Input der Beteiligten.Der Workshop richtet sich in erster Linie an Studierende mit Work in Progress Arbeiten, Promovierende sowie an Post-Docs aller Fachrichtungen, die sich mit dem Themengebiet Prostitution oder Sexarbeit aus verschiedenen theoretischen und methodischen Perspektiven befassen und die ihre Forschungsarbeiten diskutieren möchten. Ebenso sind Sexarbeiter:innen, Vertreter:innen von Selbstorganisationen, Aktivist:innen, Sozialarbeiter:innen und (wissenschaftliche) Projektmitarbeitende herzlich eingeladen. Die Förderung des interdisziplinären Austauschs und Dialogs sowie die Diskussion von method(olog)ischen Herausforderungen soll zu einer intersektionalen Perspektivierung im Kontext der Prostitutions- und Sexarbeitsforschung beitragen.Die Referierenden stellen eigene aktuelle Forschungsprojekte vor oder bringen Datenmaterial zur gemeinsamen Diskussion ein. Dabei kann sich der Fokus sowohl auf konzeptionelle und methodische Fragen als auch auf individuelle und disziplinspezifische Herangehensweisen richten. Der Beitrag der Referierenden kann dabei je nach geeignetem Format als Vortrag (20 Minuten Vortrag, 25 Minuten Diskussion) oder in Form einer Arbeitsgruppe (90 Minuten inkl. Diskussion) erfolgen, in denen zum Beispiel Diskussion von Quellen, Datenmaterial, Forschungstagebucheinträge, Textentwürfe oder theoretische Zugänge bearbeitet werden können.Der Beitragsvorschlag mit maximal 2oo Wörtern kann bis zum 30. Juni 2026 als PDF-Datei per E-Mail an veranstaltung@gspf.info eingereicht werden. Dabei sollte das Beitragsformat (Vortrag oder Arbeitsgruppe), der Titel, die Kontaktdaten, eine biographische Kurznotiz mit der disziplinären Verortung sowie der Stand der eigenen Forschung angegeben werden. Eine Rückmeldung zum Beitragsvorschlag erfolgt etwa vier Wochen nach Ende der Einreichungsfrist.We also welcome contributions in English. However, participants should have a good command of German in order to be able to follow the entire workshop.
- Deadline: 31 August 2026 Die „No-Kings-Proteste“ und andere öffentliche Demonstrationen gegen die Trump-Regierung in den USA, die Proteste in Belarus, der Türkei, Serbien und – gegenwärtig eskalierend – im Iran, wo Frauen in den letzten Jahren immer wieder auch gegen eine ihnen vom Mullah-Regime auferlegte Kopftuchpflicht aufgetreten sind, oder die seit 2012 aktive „One Billion Rising“-Bewegung gegen Gewalt an Frauen und Mädchen, die landesweiten Frauenstreiks in der Schweiz 2019 und 2023 … das sind nur einige Beispiele der jüngsten Zeit, die zeigen, wie aktuell das Thema Protest ist. In einer Welt, in der autoritäre Regime und rechtspopulistische oder rechtsextreme Bewegungen sowie kriegerische Gewalteskalation zur Durchsetzung politischer und nationaler Interessen vielerorts die Oberhand gewinnen, wehren sich gleichzeitig immer mehr Menschen gegen diese Entwicklungen. Sie treten millionenfach gegen Entdemokratisierung und die Ausgrenzung und Verfolgung von Minderheiten, das Zurückschrauben erkämpfter Rechte, liberaler oder geschlechteregalitärer Positionen auf – oft unter Einsatz ihres Lebens.Die gewählten Protestformen sind dabei vielfältig und facettenreich. Sie knüpfen einerseits an tradierte Formen des Protests gegen Obrigkeiten, Unterdrückung und soziale Missstände an und gestalten sich andererseits erfinderisch, kreativ, treten lautstark an die Öffentlichkeit oder werden im Geheimen, im Untergrund praktiziert … was je nach divergierenden nationalen, politischen, sozialen, ethnischen, altersspezifischen, religiösen Kontexten unterschiedlich ausgestaltet wird und dabei immer auch ‚vergeschlechtlicht‘ verläuft – ganz abgesehen davon, dass Frauen oder Mitglieder der LGBTQIA+-Community nicht nur an vielen Protestbewegungen partizipieren, sondern auch ihre eigenen Formen des Protests entwickeln.Vor diesem aktuellen Hintergrund wird sich die Ausgabe von L’Homme. Z.F.G. 1/2028 dem Thema Protest widmen. Einzureichende Vorschläge dafür könnten an ältere, vor allem in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren veröffentlichte frauen- und geschlechtergeschichtliche Arbeiten zu historischen Protestformen seit dem Mittelalter anknüpfen und diese – methodisch-theoretisch neu fundiert – weiterentwickeln (z.B. in Bezug auf Bauernkriege, Ketzerbewegungen, „Weiberkriege“ und „Hungerkrawalle“, städtische Aufstände und Unruhen, Revolutionen, Streiks und ArbeiterInnenbewegungen, StudentInnenbewegungen, Proteste in den diversen Frauenbewegungen, in der Antikriegsbewegung, der Umweltbewegung, antikoloniale Protestformen …). Dabei sollen auch Verschiebungen oder Veränderungen der Perspektiven, Ansätze und Themen der feministischen Protestgeschichte deutlich werden – sei es in Hinblick auf Akteur:innen oder die Anbindung an politische/soziale Bewegungen, oder sei es hinsichtlich der Konstruktion historischer Leitfiguren für erfolgreichen, aber auch niedergeschlagenen Protest. Das gilt ebenso für die untersuchten Formen und Motive, deren Bandbreite durch globale Dimensionen von Protest zusätzlich erweitert wird. Von Interesse sind außerdem nicht nur bewegungsorientierte, sondern auch individuell praktizierte Protestformen.Wir bitten um Proposals (in Deutsch oder Englisch) im Umfang von etwa einer Seite sowie einen kurzen CV bis spätestens Ende August 2026, an die L’Homme-Redaktion sowie an Christa Hämmerle und Ingrid Bauer. Die Abgabe der Beiträge (im Umfang von jeweils ca. 50.000 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen), die dann einem Peer-Review-Verfahren unterliegen, ist für Ende März 2027 geplant.lhomme.geschichte@univie.ac.atchrista.haemmerle@univie.ac.atingrid.Bauer@plus.ac.at
- Deadline: 01 September 2026 In cooperation with NADIA BRÜGGER (StopFemizid)129 femi(ni)cides. That is the number of patriarchal murders recorded by the research project Stop-Femizid in Switzerland since 2020 (as of 25 February 2026). There is still no official body in Switzerland to record and analyse femi(ni)cides. The widespread everyday violence to which women and queer persons are exposed has once again become a major focus in recent years, thanks to groundwork laid by the feminist movement. The terms “femicide” and “feminicide” are used within activist and academic circles to accurately describe patriarchal killings of women, particularly in the context of violence within heterosexual relationships, and to highlight their political dimension. Femi(ni)cides are, however, merely the “tip of the iceberg” of gender-based violence. The murdering of women occurs within a social atmosphere that enables and promotes patriarchal violence. According to the binary gender system, which defines and devalues femininity, male violence against women is not a flaw in the system, but one of the central pillars of capitalist patriarchy.The feminist movement Ni Una Menos (English: “Not One Less”) fights against femi(ni)cide whilst simultaneously articulating a vision of a non-violent world for all human beings. This requires a fundamental transformation of our economic systems, ways of life and relationships, as well as a feminist response to how we treat bodies, capital and land. We wish to stimulate the following and further research questions: What (queer-)feminist and intersectional analyses are needed today to understand femi(ni)cides in their full implications for society? What methods and approaches do explicitly anti-racist, abolitionist and transfeminist analyses offer that we can draw upon? Which concepts are particularly suited to the precise analysis of femi(ni)cides? Which strategies should be adopted to resolutely and collectively oppose the “war on women” (Verónica Gago), especially in times of anti-feminist backlash and fascist tendencies?Ideas/abstracts (ca. 1,500 characters) by September 1, 2026Articles (ca. 8,000 characters) by December 15, 2026Contact: Nina Seiler, redaktion@femwiss.ch
- Deadline: 28 September 2026 Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à contribuer à un ouvrage collectif intitulé « Les violences sexuelles de genre dans le milieu sportif. Une perspective féministe ». Cet ouvrage vise à croiser les regards disciplinaires (histoire, sociologie, droit, anthropologie, sciences de l’information et de la communication, études littéraires et cinématographiques) afin d’envisagerla multiplicité des logiques sociales qui créent, maintiennent et légitiment les violences sexuelles fondées sur le genre dans le milieu du sport mais aussi les résistances qui s’y déploient.Nous encourageons les contributions émanant de tout·es les chercheur·euses et les professionnel·les du sport ayant une mission de recherche. Une attention particulière sera portée aux contributions de doctorant ·es ou jeunes docteur·es.Cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans le projet RéViS – « La réception/appropriation des thèses féministes dans les films portant sur les violences sexuelles dans le sport », porté par le CRESCO (UR 7419) de l’université de Toulouse et financé par la Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Toulouse (MSHS-T).La publication est prévue pour décembre 2026 aux Presses Universitaires de Limoges.Modalités de soumission et d’expertise1. Les propositions d’articles, en langue française, sont à envoyer avant le 31 mars 2026 à Siyao Lin (siyao.lin819@gmail.com) et à Mélie Fraysse (melie.fraysse@utoulouse.fr).La proposition devrait inclure :l’axe ou les axes choisis ; le titre de l’article de 100mots maximum (un sous-titre est possible) ; un résumé détaillé de 500 mots maximum – 4000 signes- présentant la problématique, la méthodologie et les résultats principaux ; 4-6 mots-clés ; un court CV de 150 mots maximum incluant le statut, l’affiliation institutionnelle et les coordonnées de l’auteur·ice ou des auteur·ices.2. Les résultats de la pré-sélection seront communiqués fin avril 2026. Les articles complets sont à envoyer avant le 28 septembre 2026. Tous les articles feront l’objet d’une expertise scientifique en double aveugle. La publication de l’ouvrage est prévue pour décembre 2026.
- Deadline: 09 April 2027 Across the globe, nationalist projects are being renewed and intensified, mobilizing “gender” as a central site of social and political struggle. From anti-gender movements and border regimes to racialized citizenship policies and digital surveillance, contemporary nationalisms draw on gender and related intersectional structures to organize political belonging, govern populations, and delineate whose lives are recognized as part of “the nation.” These developments lend a particular urgency to examining thephilosophical stakes of the relationship between “gender” and “nation” today.This special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy invites philosophicalengagements of the topic of “Gender and Nation.” We seek contributions that interrogate how nations are imagined, experienced, constituted, and governed through genderedlogics that shape various forms of exclusion, political subjectivity, citizenship, and national belonging. While broadly soliciting contributions that (re)consider “the nation” alongside “gender,” we also wish to mark the 30th anniversary of Nira Yuval-Davis’ influential book, Gender and Nation. Yuval-Davis’ work has been foundational for studies on gender and nationalisms, and has inspired countless feminist analyses of the idea and lived experience of “the nation.” In the 30 years since the book’s publication, the world has changed in unimaginable ways, with the last decade, in particular, witnessing a resurgence in nationalist fervour that forms part of a global shift to the right. An assessment of and reengagement with “gender and nation” is therefore not only apt, but arguably more pressing than ever, given that such nationalist resurgence has deployed gendered dynamics that are deeply troubling from a feminist perspective. Questioning whether the idea and attendant realisation of “the nation” can ever be straightforwardly adopted by feminists, this special issue also provides an opportunity to highlight past and present feminist resistance to misogyny and sexist policymaking underlying patriarchal nation-building projects. Indeed, there are numerous examples of feminist activism and scholarship challenging nationalism, but also reconfiguring and claiming “the nation” and “nationalism” in progressive terms. Building on the by now large and influential feminist literature on nationalisms, of which Gender and Nation is a stalwart, we invite contributors to take stock of work on “the nation”, and to present new and promising ways of thinking about the theme of gender and nation. To this end, articles might address, without being limited to, the following questions:How are nationalisms and ideas of “the nation” gendered, classed, and racialized (among others)? What mechanisms and structures underlie the intersectional injustices attendant in patriarchal nationalist projects? What types of nationalisms are particularly harmful to marginalized groups?What has been the impact and the enduring legacy of Yuval-Davis’ book Genderand Nation? How does her work align or compare with other feminists doing work on ‘gender and the nation’? How has feminist work on gender and nationalisms developed or shifted in the last 30 years? Are certain philosophical frameworks more suitable for theorising the gendered construction of ‘the nation’ than others? How have or might recent developments in feminist thought (e.g. in affect theory, new materialism, and disability studies, including work by Sara Ahmed and Jasbir Puar) come to bear upon feminist theorisations of the nation? How can and do feminists oppose patriarchal nation-building (across diverse social, geographical, and political contexts)? How have feminists engaged with nationalist movements that resist colonial occupation and/or oppressive state policies? How do diasporas, exiles, and stateless communities reconfigure the idea of nationhood?Can there be a feminist nationalism? What would this look like?What role do the institutions of family, religion, and state play in nationalisms and how are these often understood and imagined in gendered ways? What particular harms and injustices are attributable to patriarchal conceptualisations of the nation and its realisation via gendered policymaking – e.g. what is the relationship between the gendered nation and sexual violence, the denial of reproductive rights, forced institutionalisation, illicit adoption, andcriminalization of marginalized gender/sexual identity (among others)? How have feminists sought to redress such harms?How do contemporary “anti-gender” movements mobilize nationalism, and how have feminists and queer/trans activists resisted these formations?How are nation-building projects reshaped through digital infrastructures—e.g., social media, algorithmic classification, digital citizenship—and how are theseinflected by gender?How have white nationalist movements co-opted feminist language of “women’s liberation” and “progress” to mark racially marginalized groups, particularly Muslim minority communities, as outsiders to the nation? How has such rhetoric been challenged in feminist scholarship?Contributors working in and across various relevant disciplines (e.g. philosophy, gender studies, sociology, literature, politics, and disability studies) are invited to address thesequestions philosophically, and to do so drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks (such as critical race theory, crip theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory). Wewelcome contributions from diverse social, cultural, and geographical contexts, including those approaching “gender and nation” through decolonial, Indigenous, queer of colour,trans, and Black feminist frameworks.Submissions must be written in English and prepared for anonymous review. We will accept both traditional article submissions (up to 10,000 words long, excluding footnotes and references) and musings (4,000 words including footnotes, but not references). Musings are not merely short research articles; they are often more personal and/or more concerned with current issues than full-fledged academic articles, and they are typically less rooted in particular bodies of literature. However they are approached, Musings should seek to catalyse philosophical reflection on important issues in feminist philosophy. (For examples, please see the recently published Musings on our FirstView pages.) We encourage submissions to be written in a style accessible across relevant disciplines, and with an eye to understanding concrete social and political phenomena. Deadline for submission: 9th April 2027Please submit your original manuscript electronically through the Cambridge University Press online submission and review system ScholarOne. Manuscripts need to be prepared for anonymous review. More information may be found in the Manuscript Preparations Guidelines.For any questions on this special issue, contact the guest editors: Clara Fischer (C.Fischer@qub.ac.uk) and Fulden İbrahimhakkıoğlu (fulden@metu.edu.tr).