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- Scadenza: 28 settembre 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.
- Scadenza: 30 settembre 2026 Über die Gender Law KonferenzAlle zwei Jahre bringt das Schweizerische Institut für feministische Rechtswissenschaft und Gender Law (FRI) Forscher*innen, Praktiker*innen und Aktivist*innen an einer internationalen Konferenz zusammen, um Fragen an der Schnittstelle von Feminismus und Recht zu diskutieren.Unsere bevorstehende Gender Law Konferenz 2027 ist ein interdisziplinärer Raum für alle, die sich mit queer-feministischen Perspektiven auf Recht und Gesellschaft auseinandersetzen. Dieses Mal bringen wir Kunst und Recht in einen Dialog. Wir fragen: Was wird sichtbar, wenn Ungerechtigkeit nicht nur in Rechtsparagraphen, sondern auch in Bildern, Performances oder literarischen Texten thematisiert wird? Was können künstlerische Formen zu einer queer-feministischen Kritik am Recht beitragen? Jurist*innen, Künstler*innen, Kulturschaffende, Theoretiker*innen und Aktivist*innen werden gemeinsam darüber nachdenken, wie Recht und Kunst sich gegenseitig herausfordern und bereichern.Die Tagung ist mehrsprachig (DE / FR / EN) und lebt vom Austausch zwischen Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Hintergründen, Disziplinen und Perspektiven.Call for PapersWir laden zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für Podiumsdiskussionen sowie künstlerischen Beiträgen an der Schnittstelle von Kunst und Recht aus queer-feministischen Perspektiven ein. Wir sind besonders an Beiträgen interessiert, die disziplinäre, geografische und berufliche Grenzen überschreiten.Beiträge sind in Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch willkommen. Wir laden zu Beiträgen ein, die sich mit einem oder mehreren der folgenden vier Panels befassen:Panel 1: Kunst als Erweiterung des juristischen Denkens und der juristischen PraxisPanel 2: Wie das Recht den Zugang zur Kunst prägtPanel 3: Kunst im Zeitalter der künstlichen IntelligenzPanel 4: Kulturerbe und Krieg: Rechtliche PerspektivenRichtlinien für die EinreichungWir bitten Sie, Ihren Beitrag dieses Mal über ein kurzes Online-Formular statt per E-Mail einzureichen. Bitte erstellen Sie eine kurze Biografie (max. 150 Wörter), ein Abstract (max. 500 Wörter) und geben Sie an, an welchem Panel Sie teilnehmen möchten. Falls Sie Schwierigkeiten beim Zugriff auf das Formular haben oder einen anderen Weg bevorzugen, kontaktieren Sie uns bitte direkt.Kontakt: conference@genderlaw.ch
- Scadenza: 15 ottobre 2026 The current debate concerning climate change brings us face to face with issues such as vulnerability and the interrelations between destruction, resilience, and regeneration affecting human beings and nature alike. The situation asks us to call into question the relationship between the human and nature, and to consider a repositioning and decentering of the human. Within this discourse, scholars, musicians, and artists have begun to ask how artistic processes can contribute to these lines of thought and action, as well as how a rethinking of the position of the human can affect our understanding of music and art, as well as the relationship of these to nature.Ecomusicology has especially begun to address these questions. It can be defined from various angles, but can at a basic level be understood as “the study of music, culture, and nature in all the complexities of those terms…that considers musical and sonic issues, both textual and performative related to ecology and the natural environment (Aaron S. Allen, 2014). Concerns in intersectional “ecofeminism” suggest a productive overlap with this field of study, especially in the sense that ecofeminism takes the “position that there are important connections between how one treats women, people of color, and the underclass on the one hand and how one treats the nonhuman natural environment on the other” (Karen J. Warren, 2000).This conference seeks to broaden both areas of study while bringing them together. What relationships between music, aesthetic reflection, and artistic practice emerge from thinking about ecomusicology and gender studies together? More specific questions could be, but are not limited to:In what ways do gender, music, sound and nature relate to one another?How might we look anew at historical concept of natures in music and art—such as nature as a place longed after, a place for living, and a threatening force—given new perspectives in ecomusicology and ecofeminism?How might space-specific compositions and sound art incorporate gender aspects in relationship to nature? What new methods, techniques, and forms of expression emerge from these practices? How do diverse perspectives on nature, corporeality, and gender play a role here? How does nature’s own agency affect our understanding of creativity, authorship, and compositional practices in these cases?The question of a repositioning or decentering of the human can initiate major changes in ontological thinking. To what extent is musical thinking affected by these debates, and what artistic results and challenges open up through these changes?What connections are there between posthuman feminism, ecofeminism, and ecomusicology? To what extent do current approaches in women’s and gender studies consider ecomusicological perspectives?Please send your paper title, abstract (max. 300 words) and short biography (max. 150 words) until October 15, 2026 to the following email address: christa.bruestle@kug.ac.at We will inform candidates of our selection decision by end of November 2026. The languages of the conference are German and English. Talks will be limited to 25 min and 10 min for discussion. We plan a publication of the papers.
- Scadenza: 25 ottobre 2026 As part of the swissuniversities project "Transforming Educational Spaces: Addressing Racism, Anchoring Intersectionality," the accompanying publication Missing Chapters will appear in March 2027. The volume brings together diverse perspectives on higher education institutions as racialized spaces, aiming to make visible a range of voices, forms of knowledge, and modes of expression. For selected chapters, we therefore invite public submissions of contributions.So far, the following thematic structure has emerged:Preface – Why This Book?The editors situate the publication within its context of emergence and its aims.Remembering – On What Basis Is This Book Built?Historical and societal contexts of the publication: Swiss postcoloniality, politics of memory, and continuities of colonial entanglements.Arriving – Who (Does Not) Belong?Questions of inclusion and exclusion: who is (in)visible within higher education, and under what conditions?Learning – Who Produces Knowledge?Racism in higher education in its institutional, structural, and violent dimensions. The focus lies on questions of language, power, responsibility, and solidary knowledge production.Enduring – What Do We Carry?Emotional, social, and material burdens within the higher education context, particularly for racialized individuals: mental load, precarity, multiple burdens, classism, and the ambivalences of visibility and emotion.Empowering – Where Does Agency Lie?Forms of resistance, community-building, solidarity, and allyship, as well as practices of agency among those affected.Envisioning – What Has Yet to Be Written?Future perspectives: utopias, visions of belonging, and concrete transformations, as well as new forms of (artificial) knowledge production.Conclusion – (Still) Missing ChaptersThe project team's reflection on perspectives, voices, and gaps that remain missing from the publication.We welcome contributions to all thematic chapters (excluding the preface and conclusion) — in poetic, artistic, literary, and experimental formats. Equally welcome are visual, documentary, and hybrid works, including photography, illustration, comics, collage, visual essays, archival and conversational formats, mapping and data visualizations, as well as performative or audiovisual contributions, provided they can be appropriately documented or prepared for the book publication. The aim is to bring diverse forms of knowledge into an open, transdisciplinary dialogue. The editorial team reserves the right to decide on the publication of contributions.RequirementsSubmission deadline: October 25, 2026, 11:59 PMSubmissions to be sent by email to: anina.mathivannan@unibe.ch
- Scadenza: 01 novembre 2026 Currently, we are witnessing a dramatic shift to the far-/alt-right and neo-conservatism, and an increasing popularity for illiberalism across diverse policy contexts across the globe. As a consequence of this development, the academic study of gender has been banned in some countries, such as Hungary, and in others – notably the US and the UK – state agencies and courts have taken the decision to define gender as an immutable male-female binary determined by sex assigned at birth. Yet, the implications of these developments are broader and more far-reaching. Anti-gender discourses have gained increasing prominence across multiple global contexts and are increasingly recognized as entry points to far-right political ideologies. Embedded in policy proposals, these discourses also target women’s and gender studies as an academic field including feminist, queer, trans, antiracist and post-colonial scholars. Against this backdrop, this special issue of the European Journal of Women’s Studies opens a space for critical reflection on the alarming contemporary conditions of women’s and gender studies and the political imaginaries informing academic cultures. We seek to explore how recent and ongoing transformations in scientific and governmental policy have affected scholarly practice, academic cultures and learning and teaching experiences, as well as how these changes have shaped the position and status of women’s/gender studies in academia. As guest co-editors, we followed a long trajectory in taking these questions seriously. Ten years ago, in 2016, we published a special issue on women’s and gender studies and changes in academic cultures, in light of the far-reaching transformations taking place in higher education and scientific policy as a result of new public management. For us, it was important to critically explore how neoliberal transformations affected both academic feminism and feminist academics. While analysing the new power dynamics in the neoliberal universities, those discussions also pointed out that women’s and gender studies as a field had sometimes benefited from the neoliberalisation of higher education in complex and ambiguous ways. Since that analysis, however, anti-gender discourses have gained increasing attention and have in diverse ways come to shape the conditions under which women’s/gender studies are conducted. We invite women’s and gender studies scholars to bring feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist and decolonial studies perspectives to bear on a pressing question: how can we understand the contemporary neoliberal condition in its novel guises, as it has become more or less closely interwoven with populist authoritarianism in diverse locations across the globe? Women’s and gender studies scholars in many locations can still take strategic advantage of neoliberalism to gain visibility, funding and recognition – for example through international collaborations and forms of societal engagement. However, a new mode of neoliberal efficiency is increasingly being used to legitimise cuts and closures of gender studies departments. This shift both affects the conditions in which we produce knowledge and the questions that we can ask from critical feminist perspectives. In grappling with this complex shift, we ask: What differences and commonalities characterize the current conditions of women’s and gender studies across diverse contexts? What epistemological, political and ethical questions are raised by these ongoing transformations? How does the global rise of the far-right shape academic governance, and how does it intersect with the neoliberal paradigm of productivity? To what extent do these developments shed new light on longstanding debates within women’s and gender studies – for example concerning the relationship between knowledge and politics, or the possibilities and challenges generated by the institutionalisation of feminism? Today, women’s and gender studies increasingly find themselves at the centre of broader anti-gender and authoritarian political projects in many parts of the world. These developments are transnational in scope but interact with local configurations of institutions, practices and actors in complex ways, posing significant analytical and political challenges. Yet, there remains a lack of research that explores the changing conditions of women’s and gender studies scholarship across local, regional and transnational contexts. We know even less about the variations, overlaps and tensions that characterise these dynamics in diverse international settings. In light of these transformations, we invite scholars to revisit discussions of the “neoliberal academy” in relation to contemporary anti-gender politics and explore the following, as well as other, themes:Transformation of academic labour and knowledge production under conditions of rising far-/alt-right influence and governanceNegotiations, strategies and complicities of feminist scholars under increasing anti-genderismConceptualisation of the contemporary forms of anti-gender politics under women’s and gender studies especially through concepts such as illiberalism, authoritarianism, authoritarian neoliberalism, fascism, and neo-fascismEpistemic, political, and ethical issues raised by the rise of anti-feminism and anti-genderism and its relationship to neoliberal emphasis on productivity, impact, and income generation; including of the university governance’s emphasis on: neoliberal “buzzwords” such as excellence, interdisciplinarity, flexibility, competition, and internationalisation mechanisms of ranking and rating, structures of auditing and quality control, and logics of individualisation and metricisation, the recognition of expertise and academic authority Illiberalism in higher education and governmental policy on the institutionalisation of women’s and gender studies We invite abstracts of 150-200 words. Abstracts should be sent to all three special issue editors: demet.gulcicek.1@warwick.ac.uk; sabine.grenz@univie.ac.at; mia.liinason@genus.lu.se Deadline for abstracts: 1 Nov, 2026 Deadline for articles: 31 March, 2027 Expected publication date: May/June 2028 All articles will be subject to the regular review process organized by the journal. Article length must be between 6,000 and 7,000 inclusive of bibliography, notes etc. and should not have been published previously.Contact details for special issue editors:Assist. Prof. Demet Gülçiçek, Honorary Researcher, Department of Gender Studies, University of Warwick, UK & Department of Sociology, Munzur University, Turkey, demet.gulcicek.1@warwick.ac.ukAssoc.Prof. Sabine Grenz, Research unit for interdisciplinary Gender Studies/Department of Education, University of Vienna, Austria, sabine.grenz@univie.ac.atProfessor Mia Liinason, Division of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden, mia.liinason@genus.lu.se
- Scadenza: 09 aprile 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).