Marzo 2015
Feminist Futures: Critical Engagements with the Fourth Wave
A Symposium at Queen Mary, University of London, 27 June 2015 As the year 2014 drew to a close, the media’s annual summations were awash with celebratory claims regarding the achievements of feminist individuals and organisations across the world, from the work of grassroots activism to new energy generated by prominent political, cultural and popular talking heads. While The Guardian boldly claimed 2014 to be a watershed year, with women’s voices apparently attaining ‘an unprecedented power’, Time magazine went so…
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Can interventions on a single room in the house have impacts on the entire city and on the mentality of space related to the gender? This Session aims at recognizing the studies about the relationship between space (from room to city) and women, with a particular focus on woman emancipation through the increased housework facilities. The aim of the Session is to draw the evolution on the comfort in the kitchen space, starting from pioneers like Catherine Beecher, Christine Frederick,…
Per saperne di più »Contemporary Issues and Perspectives on Gender Research in Adult Education. History, Philosophy, Methodology and Practice
Deadline: 31/03/2015 European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Network on Gender and Adult Learning invites to conference on "Contemporary Issues and Perspectives on Gender Research in Adult Education. History, Philosophy, Methodology and Practice" Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 08th October – 10th October 2015 Dominant paradigms in academic research, theory and history of adult education are not explored enough in the current European academic discourse. Postmodern orientated researchers have questioned heteronormative tradition of…
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Perspectives on Gender in a Global World – Interdisciplinary Approaches
Deadline: 14/04/2015 Lumina ) The University of South-East Europe organises thiss conference on the 14th-16th of May 2015 in Bucharest, Romania. We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits with the following topics: Women, Gender and Politics: A National and International Overview Gender and Society: Current and Alternative Responses to Gender Gap and Gender Barriers Gender Approaches from Mass Communication, Religion, Ethics, Law, Economy and Cultural Studies Gender and Education: Past, Current and Future Visions Gender Equality and…
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Appel à contributions Revue Sextant* Françoise Collin : Le fabuleux héritage Françoise Collin nous a quitté-e-s à l’automne 2012, laissant la scène féministe belge orpheline de l’une de ses figures les plus engagées et les plus influentes sur le plan international, comme l’illustrent les ouvrages les plus récents qui lui ont été consacrés : Françoise Collin. Anthologie québécoise 1977 – 2000 (Textes rassemblés et présentés par Marie-Blanche Tahon, Éditions du remue-ménage, 2014), Femmes, genre, féminismes en Méditerranée. Le vent de…
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