The conference is a triennial event organized by the Gender Studies Programme (Utrecht University), AOIFE and ATHENA. Previous European Feminist Research Conferences were held at the universities of: Aalborg (1991), Graz (1994), Coimbra (1997), Bologna (2000), Lund (2003) and Lódz (2006).
The 7th European Feminist Research Conference focuses on a wide but well-defined range of themes:
Imagination: Art & Politics
Feminism in Post-Secular Europe
Global Connections: Migration, Consumption & Politics
Sexuality: Public, Private and Beyond
War & Violence
Imagination: Art & Politics
Feminism in Post-Secular Europe
Global Connections: Migration, Consumption & Politics
Sexuality: Public, Private and Beyond
War & Violence
Media and Technology: The Politics of Representation [or: The Politics of Knowledge and Imagination?]
Multi-Ethnic Europe: Identities, Boundaries & Communities
Stories to Tell: Fiction, History & Memory
Women’s Movements of Past, Present & Future: Generations in Feminism
Cultures of Knowledge: the Sciences, Humanities & Gender
Social Economic Europe
Multi-Ethnic Europe: Identities, Boundaries & Communities
Stories to Tell: Fiction, History & Memory
Women’s Movements of Past, Present & Future: Generations in Feminism
Cultures of Knowledge: the Sciences, Humanities & Gender
Social Economic Europe
Aims: The conference will be a forum for gender researchers to facilitate networking between them; and to integrate doctoral students and young researchers into the field
Participants: The conference invites experts, established scholars and young researchers, policy makers from all member states of the EU, candidate countries, associate countries and third countries.
Networking: The conference schedule provides time for planned and spontaneous networking. Time will be available for Women’s/Gender Studies network meetings, scientific journal meetings, research group meetings, roundtable discussions and other meetings. Additionally, policy experts in equality, education and research policy will be invited to the conference and will meet with participants from various networks as part of an effort to strengthen ties between policy makers and researchers in the field.