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- Deadline: 17 May 2026 Queer_feminist politicsEditors: Susanne Kink-Hampersberger, Lisa Scheer & Aleksandra WierzbickaAs the Queer STS Working Group, we outline our understanding of queer Science, Technology, and Society Studies in our manifesto. Central to us is not only a reflective stance as researchers but also a critical examination of social reality, in which not all people have the same rights, opportunities, and possibilities for participation, as well as access to resources. We are motivated to shed light on hidden norms and values, power structures, and mechanisms of exclusion, and to mitigate their impact. We aim to ensure that everyone has barrier-free access to shaping science and technology. The Queer STS Forum is one of our tools to achieve these goals. It enables us to make individuals and collectives visible – both those who take political stances and those who are politically active – beyond science and technology. This is evidentin several issues from the past decade, such as those on queer-feminist solidarity, queer-feminist inclusion, and queer interventions.This makes it clear that both we as a working group and our Forum are part of queer-feminist politics. Feminist politics is often understood as policy, yet it also encompasses activism, education, and research (Drüeke & Klaus, 2025; Wroblewski & Schmidt, 2024; Hofbauer & Wroblewski, 2021). To address all these levels or spheres of politics, we deliberately use the plural form.In Queer STS Forum 11/2026, together with guest editor Aleksandra Wierzbicka, we set out to explore the facets of queer-feminist politics and ask: What successes in feminist politics can we celebrate, and what challenges still lie ahead? How can (queer) feminist political education be structured in schools and universities? What barriers and challenges must be overcome? How political are students and how political do they see themselves in the mid-2020s? Where do students perceive opportunities in and constraints on being politically active?We invite all kinds of contributions from research papers to creative formats using audio, video, images, poetry, memes, drawings,fictional text etc. for a multi-media open access publication opportunity in our Queer-Feminist Science and Technology Studies Forum #11/2026.Please send abstracts describing your idea in 1000 to 2500 signs (blanks included) until May 17th to forum@queersts.com.Time schedule for issue #11 in 2026:Call for contributions: April 30st to May 17th 2026Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 17thFeedback on your abstracts: May 27thSubmission of first full version of contributions: July 15thReview feedback: August 31stSubmission final version of contribution: October 1stPlanned date of publication: December 2026
- 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: 15 June 2026 In 2027, Femina Politica celebrates its 30th anniversary. As the only German-language journal for feminist political science, it provides in-depth analyses and commentaries on political science and contemporary political issues from a gender perspective. Marking this anniversary, we reflect in multiple ways on what constitutes feminist political science and highlight the histories, insights, and future visions of feminist political science as an emancipatory and critical scholarly discipline. This seems even more urgent given we are currently witnessing a global increase in the defamation of feminist research, the questioning of human and gender rights, and far-reaching attacks on feminist, queer, and trans politics and lifestyles.Feminist political science has set out to transform society, politics, and academia. From the very beginning, feminist scholars navigated a complex and contested landscape. On the one hand, feminist political science critically examines and delineates itself from a broader perspective, critiquing science in general and political science in particular, aiming to transform the discipline. On the other hand, it pursues integrating feminist perspectives into the “main-/malestream” and establishing the discipline institutionally within universities. Furthermore, feminist political science faces the challenge of comprehensively grasping its subject matter, thereby repeatedly exploring the boundaries between theory and practice. Controversial questions include, for instance, the latitude institutions and institutionalization offer and to what extent they constrain feminist claims, the relationship between the state as the central political authority and other forms of politics, and the role of civil society, culture, and participation therein.We invite contributions that engage with the history of feminist political science, its current challenges, and its future. We also conceptualize the planned issue as an intervention against current authoritarian efforts seeking to repress archives of resistant knowledge, solidarity-based knowledge production, and emancipatory narratives.We welcome empirical, methodological, and theoretical scholarly contributions covering a broad range of topics and geographical areas. Given that feminist political science also aims to critique power dynamics of hegemonic dichotomies, we particularly encourage contributions from Black Feminism, Queer Studies, Trans Studies, and post- and decolonial studies. Furthermore, and with the aim of producing an anniversary issue that opens up space for reflection, we also welcome submissions in other formats such as essays, interviews, comics, images, poems, and similar contributions.Abstracts and ContactThe peer-reviewed Special Issue section will be overseen by all Femina Politica editors. Abstracts of one or two pages should be sent to redaktion@femina-politica.de by 15 June 2026. Femina Politica perceives itself as an intersectional feminist journal. We promote scholarly work by women and other gender-marginalized people (such as trans*, inter*, non-binary or gender-nonconforming people) both within and outside of academia and invites the submission of high-quality abstracts.Submission Deadline for ContributionsThe Femina Politica editors will select contributions from the abstracts and invite authors to submit full papers until 6 July 2026. The deadline for manuscripts between 35,000 and 40,000 characters (including spaces, notes, and bibliography), prepared for anonymous double-blind review, is 30 September 2026. Information concerning the author should only be given on the title page. All manuscripts are reviewed by external reviewers (double blind) and editors. The reviews will be returned by 15 November 2026. The final selection will be based on the full-length paper. The deadline for the final version is 15 January 2027. All other contributions such as essays, interviews, comics, images, and poems are exempt from peer review. For these, the usual editorial deadline of 15 January 2027 applies.
- Deadline: 28 June 2026 Since the 1990s, the “Women in STEM” (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) agenda has been a central part of gender equality strategies in science, education, and business. While the focus in the 1980s was primarily on the low proportion of women in certain technical fields, the scope has since expanded considerably. In addition to issues of recruitment and choice of study, the focus is now on organizational structures, implicit bias, reconciliation of work and family life, processes of subjectification, and experiences of belonging and exclusion.The agenda aims to increase the visibility, representation, and participation of women* in technical disciplines. At the same time, femininity and difference are often functionalized, for example through attributions such as “female leadership” or “soft skills,” whereas the “STEM woman” is framed as a high-performing exception. Critical reflections on equality strategies in STEM subjects have increased over time, with recent contributions coming from intersectional, queer-feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives.This issue analyzes “Women in STEM” as a political, epistemic, and affective project. It focuses on the question of which normalizations, exclusions, and ambivalences – which discomfort – are produced by dominant narratives of equality, and what scope for transformative practices is apparent in the fields of social and technical sciences. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions that critically examine existing neoliberal logics of excellence, funding and utilization, and discuss institutional and knowledge policy alternatives.Possible questions/research topics in detailGenealogies and equality discourse: Developments in the “Women in STEM” agenda, narratives of excellence, expertise and meritocracy in technology and science.Institutions and equality in practice: Interventions in teaching, research and organization, as well as institutional obstacles and ambivalence.Alternatives and transformations: Acts of solidarity, diverse forms of knowledge, alternative understandings of technology, and critical masculinities.Subjectification and body politics: Belonging, exclusion and affective experiences, performance and body norms from intersectional and post-/decolonial perspectives.Gender politics and representations: Critique of binary and affirmative funding logics, neoliberal patterns of representation, and the “STEM woman” stereotype; ambivalences of feminist visibility.Procedure and timetablePlease submit a one- to two-page abstract by 28 June 2026. Non-German speakers are welcome to submit their articles in English.Please send your proposal as well as your manuscript as Word file to: manuskripte@gender-zeitschrift.de (subject: Special issue „Women in STEM”).Once your abstract has been assessed and judged suitable for this issue, you will receive an invitation to submit. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 13 July 2026. The deadline for submission of the final manuscript is 13 December 2026.Manuscripts must not exceed 50,000 characters (including space characters). A style sheet for authors is available at www.gender-zeitschrift.de/en/manuscripts.All submissions will be reviewed in our double-blind peer review process based on which the final selection of contributions to be published will be made. The editors may give instructions to revise the contribution, which is the rule rather than the exception. In case of a high number of positively peer-reviewed contributions, the Editorial Department reserves the right to make a final selection of articles and to publish some contributions in a later issue.
- 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: 30 June 2026 Call for Posters (CfP)The Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium 2026 brings together researchers, clinicians, decision makers, educators and students in gender medicine as well as representatives from business, research-oriented foundations and politics. The symposium thus offers the opportunity to share your work with a broad audience.The Scientific Program Committee invites researchers to contribute posters to the Symposium.SubjectsPosters should showcase research on the influence of sex and/or gender in medicine, namely on the following subjects:Basic ScienceClinical SciencePublic Health/Global HealthThis call is open for researchers at all levels, and all studies.Presentation at the SymposiumThe Poster will be presented at the Swiss Gender Medicine Symposium in specific poster sessions. During the moderated poster walks you will have the possibility to present your research in a 2 to 3- minutes-presentation. We suggest adding a recording of your presentation to the poster with a QR-code, so it can be viewed upon request. Presenters should be available at the poster for questions during their poster walk. Authors, title and a short abstract will be published on the program section of the Symposium website.Poster PrizesThere will be a poster prize (CHF 1’000.-) awarded for each subject group mentioned above and a publication of the winners trough the channels of the Symposium.Requirements for AbstractsAbstracts should includeTitle (please use a short and specific title)BackgroundObjectivesMethodsResults / expected resultsConclusions & impactThe abstract should be written in English with a maximum of 250 words.Submission deadline: 30.06.2026 on the platform of Oxford abstracts (see the following link, you can register via a free account): https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82056/submitter Corresponding authors will be notified of their acceptance by 31 July 2026.
- Deadline: 15 July 2026 Workshop, Universität Fribourg, 2. Oktober 2026Frédéric Mader (CHUV-UniL), Matthias Ruoss (UNIFR)Trans Geschichte hat sich in den letzten Jahren als innovatives Forschungsfeld etabliert, das historiografische Narrative herausfordert. Trotz des Booms liegen für die Schweiz bislang nur wenige Studien vor. Ziel unseres Workshops ist es, Forschungsarbeiten zur trans Geschlechtlichkeit zu bündeln und zugleich methodische Voraussetzungen historischer trans Forschung zu diskutieren.Der Call richtet sich an Historiker:innen, die trans als historisch spezifische Form der Subjektivierung begreifen und die damit verbundenen Ambivalenzen verstehen wollen, statt klare universelle Kategorisierungen anzustreben. Wir interessieren uns für Prozesse, in denen trans geschlechtliche Selbstverhältnisse hervorgebracht, stabilisiert, reguliert oder infrage gestellt wurden – in sozialen Milieus (Familie, Subkulturen, Bewegungen), institutionellen Settings (Kliniken, Verwaltung, Militär, Kirchen, Fürsorge, Polizei, Gerichten) oder epistemischen Regimen (Medizin, Psychiatrie, Sexualwissenschaften).Willkommen sind quellenbasierte Beiträge aus allen Epochen, von der Vormoderne bis in die Gegenwart, die Prozesse der Subjektbildung historisch-kritisch analysieren. Erwünscht sind sowohl Fallstudien als auch konzeptionelle und methodische Beiträge, die zur Weiterentwicklung einer historisch informierten trans Forschung beitragen. Von besonderem Interesse sind Arbeiten, welche die Bedingungen der Quellenproduktion, Archivzugänge und methodische Herausforderungen historischer trans Forschung reflektieren.Mögliche Themenfelder umfassen:Biografien und AlltagsgeschichtenKörpergeschichtenSubkulturen und trans AktivismusGenealogie und transnationale Zirkulation von Begriffen, Diagnosen und KlassifikationenTransphobieRegime der Sichtbarkeit und UnsichtbarkeitPolitiken der Anerkennung, Pathologisierung oder KriminalisierungDigitale Räume und MedienöffentlichkeitenDer Workshop versteht sich als Ort des Austauschs und der offenen Diskussion – auch und gerade über laufende Projekte, unfertige Thesen oder methodische Probleme. Studierende sind herzlich willkommen. Abstracts im Umfang von ca. einer Seite sowie eine kurze biografische Notiz sind bis zum 15. Juli 2026 an frederic.mader@unil.ch und matthias.ruoss@unifr.ch zu senden. Die Arbeitssprachen sind Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch.
- Deadline: 15 July 2026 Volume 1 of the book series “Studien zu Sexarbeit und Prostitution | Studies on Sex Work and Prostitution”Sex work is a socio-political field marked by polarisation. Public debates, academic discourses and political regulations are often shaped by emotive ascriptions, moral judgements and simplified claims to representation that obscure the diverse lived and working realities of sex workers — whether through feminist controversies, media scandalisation or aesthetic stylisation. Such representations manifest themselves in social orders and moral imaginaries, regulations and laws, as well as in discourses, narratives, visual figurations and associations in the media, politics, academia and artistic production. They are accompanied by latent curiosity, strong emotions and forms of moral politics. The resulting stigmatisation, criminalisation, discrimination and stereotypical homogenisation — both visual and discursive — continue to shape the lived realities of many sex workers today. These relations of oppression — particularly along the lines of class, race, gender, sexuality or the body (Martini 2025; Künkel 2007; Probst 2022; Thiemann 2020) — are produced and reproduced in and through politics, academia, the media and everyday life, including by sex workers themselves.Against this background, this interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary edited volume invites contributions that examine the representation of sex workers and sex work from historical, contemporary, and utopian perspectives. Possible contributions may be developed in relation to the following questions, which are explicitly not intended to be exhaustive:Who speaks, how, and with what consequences, for themselves or for sex workers? How, and by whom, are acts of representation by sex workers made visible or invisible?Whose voices are heard, whose are excluded — and why?Who has been able, or is able, to intervene in the existing regime of representation, how, and with what consequences?How can the different perspectives of actors in the field of sex work, as well as media, artistic, political or institutional engagements with the field, be combined, bridged or mutually translated into one another?How have institutional perspectives on and representations of sex work developed? How did, and how do, they change?How can empirical research address normative questions and the positionality of researchers?What possibilities exist for participatory and collaborative research with sex workers? What does “participatory” and “collaborative” research mean in this field?How can approaches informed by critiques of representation and knowledge, as well as non-Eurocentric and decolonial theoretical and methodological frameworks, be productively used in sex work research?What might innovative forms of knowledge production and representation look like, for instance beyond text or beyond a single language?In view of the highly polarised representations of sex work, how can public processes of evaluation and decision-making be organised in such a way that well-considered regulations can be developed?How do regulations, spatial location, media representations, research and technological or digital developments, among other factors, change the possibilities for self-representation and/or political agency? What alternatives to dominant representations, and to the consequences associated with them for sex workers, already exist, and how might they be further developed or rewoven?We welcome academic analyses, methodological reflections, as well as activist, essayistic, artistic, art-based, and multimodal (beyond-text) formats. Contributions by sex workers, activists and researchers occupying multiple roles are especially welcome.Interested contributors are invited to submit proposals in the form of an abstract of 300 to 500 words, together with a short biographical note, by 15 July 2026 via email to Arne Dreßler (arne.dressler@uni-hamburg.de), Marlen Löffler (marlen-simone.loeffler@iu.org), Sabrina Stranzl (stranzl@if k.ac.at) or Lisa Waegerle (Lisa.Waegerle@hs-bochum.de).Responses will be sent by the end of August 2026. In the event of a positive response, the deadline for completed contributions of 20,000–35,000 characters including spaces will be the end of February 2027. The edited volume will be published by Springer Verlag in the series “Studien zu Sexarbeit und Prostitution | Studies on Sex Work and Prostitution”. Academic contributions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Arts-based research, artistic, essayistic, activist and multimodal contributions will undergo a separate, format-sensitive review process conducted by the editors, drawing on expertise from artistic and practice-based fields.
- Deadline: 31 July 2026 „Vielfalt verbindet“Vielfältige Stimmen und Perspektiven sind ein bedeutsamer Faktor für wissenschaftliche Exzellenz und chancengerechte Teilhabe am Wissenschaftssystem. Sie ermöglichen es, wissenschaftliche Fragestellungen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln zu betrachten und somit umfassendere Forschungserkenntnisse zu erzielen.Um Vielfaltsperspektiven im Wissenschaftssystem zu stärken, Barrieren abzubauen und Partizipation zu fördern, hat das Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technik und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) die Richtlinie zur Förderung von Projekten zur Vernetzung von Interessensvertretungen, Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen („Vielfalt verbindet“) auf den Weg gebracht. Sie soll dazu beitragen, ein wissenschaftliches Umfeld zu schaffen, in dem Perspektivenvielfalt gefördert wird und alle Ideen Gehör finden, um so die Herausforderungen der Zukunft besser bewältigen zu können. Damit soll auch ein verstärktes Ausscheiden von ohnehin schon unterrepräsentierten Personengruppen aus dem Wissenschaftssystem sowie eine Verengung des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses verhindert werden.Ziel von „Vielfalt verbindet“ ist es, die Vernetzung zwischen Interessensvertretungen, Hochschulen, Forschungseinrichtungen und weiteren Akteuren des Wissenschaftssystems zu stärken. Gefördert werden Projekte, die die Vernetzung und den damit verbundenen Austausch von Ideen zur strukturellen Stärkung von Vielfalt in der Wissenschaft vorantreiben. Dies umfasst die Entwicklung von Konferenzen, Plattformen, Veranstaltungen oder ähnlichen Maßnahmen, die das Bewusstsein für den Mehrwert von Perspektivenvielfalt schärfen, die Partizipation im Wissenschaftssystem erleichtern, den Abbau von Barrieren vorantreiben, die Sichtbarkeit unterrepräsentierter Gruppen erhöhen und die Antidiskriminierungsarbeit im Wissenschaftssystem professionalisieren. Dabei sind Interessensvertretungen aktiv einzubinden und Gesichtspunkte der Intersektionalität zu berücksichtigen. Die Förderung richtet sich an Hochschulen, außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen, studentische und zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und Vereine, Stiftungen und Träger von Bildungseinrichtungen, die über ausgewiesene Diversitätskompetenz verfügen.Das BMFTR unterstützt Projekte mit bis zu 50.000 € bei einer Laufzeit von maximal 18 Monaten. Die erste Frist für die Einreichung einer Projektskizze ist der 31.10.2025; weitere Calls folgen am 31.07.2026 und 30.04.2027. Für die Erstellung der Projektskizze wird eine verbindliche Vorlage zur Verfügung gestellt.Information und BeratungAlle Details zur Förderrichtlinie „Vielfalt verbindet“, ihren Zielen und Inhalten sowie zur konkreten Skizzeneinreichung finden Förderinteressierte im Text der Bekanntmachung.Für alle Förderinteressierten bieten wir ein individuelles Informations- und Beratungsangebot über unsere Hotline an, über die wir Ihnen montags bis donnerstags zwischen 10:00 und 14:00 Uhr für Ihre Fragen und Anliegen zur Verfügung stehen. Auch per E-Mail können Sie uns gerne kontaktieren.Zudem bieten wir für die drei Calls jeweils eine Informationsveranstaltung an. Die nächste findet am 20. Mai 2026, 10:00-12:00 Uhr statt. Informationen zur Anmeldung und Termine werden Ihnen an dieser Stelle bekannt gegeben.Anmeldung zur Informationsveranstaltung: BMFTR - Förderrichtlinie „Vielfalt verbindet“KontaktDr. Karen SchierhornWissenschaftliche ReferentinDr. Evelyn HaynWissenschaftliche ReferentinE-Mail: vielfalt@dlr.deHotline: +49 228 3821 1890 (Mo-Do, 10-14 Uhr)
- 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).