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The 10th European Feminist Research Conference (EFRC) now invites abstract submissions for papers and posters. The overall theme of the conference is "Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions", which refers to a topic central to Gender Studies: the social construction of difference and inequality on the one hand, and the recognition of marginalised experiences and subject positions on the other. In the face of growing right-wing populist movements, anti-feminist and anti-queer backlash, forced migration, austerity and climate change, these…

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Hannah Arendt: Challenges of Plurality Paderborn University, 13th – 15th December 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS In her writings, Hannah Arendt strongly affirms the plurality of the common world. From the very first moment, when she introduces the notion in The Human Condition, it becomes clear that plurality is the cornerstone of condition humaine. For Arendt, plurality means that “men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world”. This seemingly banal assumption affects her entire political theory considerably. Plurality entails two…

2nd CFP: Sexuality, Capitalism, and Africa Special Issue Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Guest Editors: Rafael Winkler (UJ) and Abraham Olivier (UFH) Theme: Friedrich Engels was one of the first authors to relate the critique of capitalism to a sexual politics when he showed, in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, that the Western model of the nuclear family performs a central ideological function in the reproduction of capital and class and gender inequality.…

FEMMSS 7 Navigating Habitats: Feminist Explorations of Disability, Climates, Ecosystems, and Technologies Oregon State University, Corvallis, August 1st through 5th 2018 Call for proposals - papers, panels, posters, workshops FEMMSS is a multidisciplinary organization. We welcome papers, posters, panels, and workshops from any academic discipline and from outside the academy. We especially encourage work that crosses traditional boundaries—disciplinary and academic/nonacademic, among others—to expose how issues of disability, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and other areas of difference shape our understandings of…

A two-day interdisciplinary conference, University of York  Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 May 2018 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, a year that has gone down in history, certainly in the Western context, as synonymous with revolution and protest. It also marks seven years since the Arab uprisings which revealed an image of Arabs, contrary to Orientalist stereotypes, as progressive, politically informed and independently minded. Amid these contexts, the Centre for Women’s Studies, the Department of English and Related Literature…