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The question of the limits to economic growth, the search for alternative concepts of production and consumption, as well as the question of the organization of social life have long been discussed within feminist debates. In light of multiple crises of capitalism and since the recent financial and banking crisis of 2008, criticism of capitalist dynamics of growth and a demand for alternative modes of consumption and production within the Global North are becoming increasingly discernible. ‘Degrowth’ provides a new…

Call for papers The Dutch Journal for Gender Studies (Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies) Special Issue: “‘Now What?’ New Feminist Materialisms (NFM)? Contemporary and Future Directions” Special issue editors: Dieuwke Boersma (independent artist & researcher, d.h.boersma@gmail.com), Émilie Dionne (University of Ottawa, edionne@uottawa.ca), Evelien Geerts (UC Santa Cruz, egeerts@ucsc.edu), Beatriz Revelles-Benavente (University of Barcelona, bearev25@gmail.com) Contemporary Western societies are changing at full speed and with full force, while being confronted with unique, localised – but ever so globalised, transnational and entangled – socio-political,…

Feminist Utopias: Transforming the Present of Philosophy Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Symposium in Reykjavik and Skálholt, Iceland 30th of March to 2nd of April, 2017 Co-hosted by Feminist Philosophy Transforming Philosophy at The University of Iceland and NSU Study Circle Feminist Philosophy: Time, History and the Transformation of Thought Keynote speakers: Alison Jaggar University of Colorado, Boulder Kristie Dotson Michigan State University Nancy Bauer Tufts University Willow Verkerk Kingston University Feminist Utopias: Transforming the Present of Philosophy Some of the…

The InterLitteras Research Centre kindly invites submissions in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish for issues no 7 and 8 of the academic journal „Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies” (http://condisdiscon.blogspot.ro/2015/02/aims-and-scope.html) on topics related to inter- and transdisciplinarity, the guiding concepts of our major focus: Arts Trek. Cross-Artistic Approaches. Interviews and reviews of books/plays/films/musical performances/art exhibitions are also accepted, which need not relate to the topic at issue.For the past six…

Capitalism is stuck in a structural crisis and losing legitimacy worldwide despite the claim that no alternatives ― exist. At the same time right-wing and reactionary movements offer themselves as alternatives. But there are other ways than the seemingly only alternatives. In Rojava/North Syria it was possible not only to not take sides but to establish an own, “third way”. The building of a non-patriarchal system and a democratic economic order seems within reach and has the chance to establish…

MARCH 8 (International Women’s Day) 2017CALL FOR PAPERS : EXTENDED DEADLINE As part of the celebrations for Hull as UK City of Culture 2017 the University of Hull is hosting an interdisciplinary celebration of the life, work and legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft, (who spent her formative years in the nearby town of Beverley). Papers are welcome on any aspect of Wollstonecraft’s life, work and legacy from Gender Studies, Philosophy, Politics, History, Literature, Education or any other relevant discipline. A prize…

The 11th Postgraduate Course “Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective”:Love and Terror (Extremis Malis Extrema Remedia)Dubrovnik, IUC, May 22-26, 2017Call for ApplicationsFaced with the current moral collapse in dealing with migrations prompted by terror, with the supposed“importation of terror” by (im)migrants, with actual terrorist attacks and their various performativemodes (cfr. Bharucha, 2014), as well as with the justification for anti-terrorist measures that thrive onmore subtle and less visible forms of terrorizing, we propose a radical response of love. From minimalgestures of…