Call for Papers in Italia e all’estero

We are calling for submissions for a special collection publishing in Global Social Challenges Journal: What Future for Gender Equality?

Guest edited by Professor Sue Scott, University of Newcastle and University of Helsinki and Dr Prerna Banati, Scientist, World Health Organization, Geneva. Abstract submission deadline: 1 April.

See the call for submissions: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/journals/gscj/gscj-overview.xml?tab_body=call-for-papers

This special collection invites research-based articles, as well as shorter interventions to provoke, debate or outline policy and practice, exploring the contemporary challenges besetting global progress towards a more equal world for everyone - whatever their gendered definition of themselves. We seek well-constructed critique, but also, and importantly, agenda-setting new ideas that engage with the interrelations between gender and other global social challenges at all levels. We are particularly keen to encourage genuinely inter and trans-disciplinary collaborations.

Some questions to provoke interest:

• In what ways can scholarship fundamentally challenge us to revisit the pathway to gender equality in the contemporary moment?

• How do we tackle a multiplicity of claims around gender itself and its intersections with sexuality, age, disability, identity, race, caste and class and claims about gender itself?

• How can progress be made on transforming the harmful beliefs and practices facing the current generation of young people in relation to, for example, gender-based violence, early and forced marriage, unpaid care work, lack of reproductive rights and female genital mutilation?

If you would like to be included in this special collection, please email a title, abstract (150-300 words) and details of the proposed authors to Sarah Bird, Managing Editor, at info@globalsocialchallenges.com by 1 April 2024.

Please see our for authors page for guidance on preparing your abstract: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/page/global-social-challenges-journal-for-authors

Why publish in Global Social Challenges Journal?

Global Social Challenges Journal’s framing allows for diverse perspectives and approaches, theoretical, conceptual, empirical and methodological. We are especially interested in holistic and systemic approaches that address global challenges. Comparative contributions and both single and multi-authored submissions, including by inter- or transdisciplinary teams of co-authors from academia and other communities of practice are welcome.

Read the call for submissions for more information: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/journals/gscj/gscj-overview.xml?tab_body=call-for-papers

The 32nd IAFFE Annual Conference will be hosted by Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, 3-5 July 2024.

The Conference theme aspires to provoke critical reflection on feminist economics responses to two of the defining features of the current economic and political landscape: The technological breakthroughs of a digital economy on the one hand, a crisis of democracy, political polarization, and backlash on the other. Beyond responses to the present, the Conference also invites reflections on feminist economics imaginations for the future, inspired and provoked by utopian and dystopian visions of the economy from film and literature.

SUBMISSIONS: The submission portal will open 20 October 2023. Abstracts (400 words max.) must be submitted online. Submissions can be made for individual papers, posters, organised sessions of papers, or panels/roundtables. Submissions can be made in English, Italian or Spanish. We expect to have simultaneous interpretation provided for conference plenaries and selected sessions:

Submission Deadline: 22 November 2023 (no extensions will be given)

All submission-related information will be available on IAFFE's website from 2 October 2023.

International Conference “Gender, Disability, and Social Change”

24-25 November 2023, Sofia, Bulgaria

Partial grants for Early Stage Researchers available

Call for Participation:

We welcome researchers, activists, artists, policymakers, and all interested parties to submit proposals for individual presentations. Share your insights, research findings, success stories, and creative expressions that contribute to the ongoing conversation surrounding gender, disability, and social change.

Candidates are asked to send an abstract (max 250 words) indicating the title, the main research question(s), the methodology and the results (if the study has been completed).

The conference welcomes different types and formats of research approaches, therefore your proposal may be a standard presentation of research results, a presentation of a research concept, a work in progress or a theoretical reflection.

The conference welcomes non-standard formats of presentations focusing on creativity and artistic expression, e.g. performances, short films or videos. You may also bring your works of art to be exhibited at the conference venue for the entire duration of the event.

Proposal Submission Deadline: 11 October 2023

More information (practical info, important dates, application form) at this link:

https://milieu-h2020.eu/event/5504/?fbclid=IwAR0CEXDIEIpcMWSqHeTm65Ms917OXvWVg_KKOUbqiATvPcI2UEEnRbBy7x0

Thinking Through Motherhood:
Images, Experiences and Narratives Across Time

MotherNet Final Conference

Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, 23-25 January 2024

We are interested in hearing from scholars who would like to present on historical definitions and experiences of mothers, those who are working on contemporary representations of motherhood and, finally, academics whose research focuses on future possibilities for and configurations of motherhood. Through our panels, we would like to trace what we might term ‘a temporality of motherhood’ that takes account of the fluctuating and also pluralistic nature of mothering experiences, in stark contrast to more rigid definitions that tend to essentialise motherhood and posit it as homogenous, static and innate. The scope of the conference is interdisciplinary and we invite colleagues from all disciplines to consider how their work interconnects with narratives of motherhood. Specific disciplines that we would like to see represented at the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Literature; Screen Studies; Media Studies; Gender Studies; Psychology; History; Sociology; Anthropology; Medicine; Health Care; Sociolinguistics; Law; Cultural Studies; Business Studies.

The conference will include a two-part Postgraduate Symposium. The first part, open to the postgraduate students attending the conference, will consist of a workshop on interdisciplinary publishing and collaboration. The second part will be the panel ‘Motherhood as Experience and Institution’, delivered by the MotherNet Early Stage Researchers.

Below is a list of themes that we would encourage you to reflect on when preparing the abstract/panel.

Submission guidelines

Participants should submit a 250-word abstract plus a 50-word biography in English by 1 October 2023. All papers will be delivered in English. Participants can choose to send an individual abstract or to propose a closed panel of 3-4 speakers. Most sessions/panels will be 90-120 minutes in length.

Closed panels: these are pre-arranged panels and are not open for paper proposals during the Call for papers. Interdisciplinary panels are particularly welcome.

Roles: Each individual may convene a closed panel once OR be a discussant in the panel once. However, an individual may present up to two papers at the conference.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Pragya Agarwal (Loughborough University, United Kingdom), Lucy Jones (writer, journalist, United Kingdom), Professor Valerie Heffernan (Maynooth University, Ireland), Associate Professor Eglė Kačkutė (Vilnius University, Lithuania).

Topics

• Theories of Motherhood
• Transgressive Motherhood
• Motherhood and Marginality
• Oppressive Motherhood
• Maternal Utopias and Dystopias
• Maternal Regret
• Choosing to be Childfree
• Motherhood and Language
• Motherhood and Mental Health
• Mothers in the Workplace
• Motherhood and Disability
• Motherhood and Time
• Motherhood and Creativity
• Motherhood and the Health Sciences
• Future Motherhood(s)
• Motherhood and Media
• Motherhood in Literature
• Motherhood on Screen
• Generational Mothering
• Maternal Bereavement

All submissions should be uploaded online via Conftool abstracts management tool.
Please note that abstracts submitted via email, post, or fax will not be considered.

Convegno internazionale – Università degli Studi di Salerno

14 -15 Novembre 2023

Il Comitato scientifico incoraggia la presentazione di abstract volti a considerare (ma non solo) i seguenti temi:

- Discriminazioni, violenze e salute nel corso di vita
- Cambiamenti ambientali e violenza contro le donne
- Violenze durante la pandemia da Covid19
- Violenze simboliche, sistemiche
- Violenze economiche, psicologiche, fisiche, sessuali
- Ambienti digitali e nuove violenze
- Rappresentazioni di sé, linguaggi, violenze
- Bambine e violenze
- Generazioni, violenze, culture
- Pornografia e violenza
- Territori e violenze

Gli abstract (non più di 250 parole) devono essere inviate in un file word, in lingua italiana e inglese, e includere:

Nome(i) e dettagli di contatto (affiliazione, paese, e-mail) della/del proponente; sessione cui si intende partecipare; titolo del paper; 5 parole chiave.

La proposta dovrà essere inviata via e-mail all’organizzazione della Conferenza (violenceagainstwomen@unisa.it) entro e non oltre il 15 Ottobre 2023.

Tutte/i riceveranno entro il 25 Ottobre 2023 una comunicazione via e-mail degli abstract accettati.

I paper, di lunghezza non superiore a 30 mila caratteri, bibliografia (APA) e note incluse, dovranno pervenire entro il 15 Novembre 2023 per essere inclusi nella pubblicazione in lingua inglese, pena esclusione dal volume finale. Il tempo a disposizione per l’illustrazione del proprio intervento è di 15 minuti.

Per ulteriori informazioni:

https://www.violenceagainstwomenandgirls.org/

CONFERENCE: “Implementing the Istanbul Convention. The role of the educational and academic system”

University of Milano-Bicocca – Milan (Italy)
27th and 28th October 2023

OCEAN and UNIRE invite you to attend the first pan-European conference dedicated to the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, starting from the educational and university system

Focusing on the Istanbul Convention, we invite academics and researchers to submit papers on the following topics:

• Implementation and obstacles: Strengths and weaknesses in the application of the Istanbul Convention in different national contexts.
• Legislation: monitoring legislation and developments.
• Prevention and awareness campaigns: Examples of public, educational and academic initiatives, and courses to prevent gender-based violence and the resurgence of discriminatory prejudices.
• Anti-violence practices: Information on drop-in centres, trusted advisors, special offices, codes at universities.

Summaries of 400 words and a short biographical note (up to 100 words) of the presenter should be sent to: unire-academicnetwork@unimib.it

Submission deadline for abstracts: 20th September 2023
Notification of paper’s acceptance: 30th September 2023
There is no charge for attending the conference, but a registration for the participation is needed at the following link
Publication of the conference programme: 1th October 2023
Live streaming on the official website of UNIRE will be available.
Information on the conference will be published on the web: https://unire.unimib.it/

There is no charge for attending the conference, but a registration for the participation is needed at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EEK4EzA2UAKEeuv_QB2QOhC55EZ9H56pC8RB9ATbmI0/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true

Women & Education 2/2023

“Dalla maternità oblativa alla maternità consapevole.
Modelli, immagini, rappresentazioni, processi educativi”

https://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/women_education/announcement/view/51

Piste di ricerca di possibili interventi:

Essere madri nel tempo, tra vita e morte; la gravidanza e il parto; il rifiuto della maternità: forme e modalità; bambini illegittimi, bambini abbandonati. Ragazze madri; il fascismo e il numero dei figli come potere; il corpo delle donne come contenitore di vite; la libertà di scegliere di essere madri; donne e liberazione sessuale; contraccezione e aborto; donne tra allevamento dei figli e occupazione lavorativa: le difficili opzioni; dagli asili d’infanzia alla realizzazione dei nidi; antichi e nuovi modelli pedagogici; madri recluse, i “figli” del carcere; bambini/e e famiglie arcobaleno; essere madri lavoratrici e vivere consapevolmente la “doppia presenza”; le mamme 2.0. Nuovi modelli sociali del materno.

Scadenze:

Presentazione dell’abstract (in italiano e in inglese) agli indirizzi email w&e@pensamultimedia.it; simonetta.ulivieri@unifi.it entro il 30/06/2023

Risposta agli Autori/Autrici per accettazione contributi: 15/07/2023

Caricamento da parte degli Autori/Autrici del saggio completo sulla piattaforma OJS della rivista nell’area riviste della Pensa Multimedia a cui seguirà il referaggio doppio cieco: 30/09/2023

Lingue accettate: francese, inglese, italiano, spagnolo, tedesco

Pubblicazione entro il 31/12/2023

Per quanto attiene la stesura dei saggi si rimanda alle norme editoriali presenti sul sito W&E all’indirizzo:

https://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/women_education/information/authors

Per qualsiasi chiarimento potete scrivere al seguente indirizzo email w&e@pensamultimedia.it

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics

Feminism has a long history of wrestling with technologies: not only with the inequalities and blind spots inherent in research, production, and marketing, but also with the effects of different technological forms and arrangements on social relationships, ways of life, and on the body. Technologically permeated societies are a global reality, and feminist, queer, critical race, decolonial, and crip theories are pivotal in offering critical analyses and ways of imagining, producing, and using technologies differently. This issue of Feminist Encounters sets out to re-inspect the entanglements between technology and imagination from a range of feminist perspectives in disciplines like STS, philosophy and critical theory, media history and media archaeology, cultural history, and cultural and comparative literature studies.

This special issue of Feminist Encounters on Feminist Techno-imaginaries offers an opportunity to articulate in novel ways how, through diverse social imaginaries of technological innovation, technology and feminism impact one another in modern societies. Abstracts may be submitted on any topic related to this theme. These topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Techno-imaginaries in philosophy and ethics of technology, critical theory, STS, from feminist perspectives
• Historical techno-imaginaries from feminist perspectives
• Futurisms from different feminist perspectives (Afrofuturism, counterfuturism, Sinofuturism…)
• Memories of technological change and nostalgia for obsolete technologies, from feminist perspectives
• Technology, feminism, and decoloniality
• Gender politics, feminism, and techno-imaginaries in Eastern Europe and the global South
• Feminist techno-imaginaries of climate change and environmental policies
• Feminist imaginaries of sexuality and AI
• Feminist perspectives on imaginations of reproductive technologies
• Feminist perspectives on techno-imaginaries in mainstream media
• Techno-imaginaries in feminist media

Feminist Encounters invites submissions of articles of 8000-9,000 words on any aspect of the topic outlined above. We welcome diverse and divergent feminist perspectives on techno-imaginaries and their theoretical, practical, and poetic impact. Contributions may range from highly theoretical to more empirically based.

Abstracts of 400 words and a short biographical note (not more than 100 words) should be sent to the guest editors directly at:

Jasmina.sepetavc@fdv.uni-lj.si

Katja.cicigoj@uni-paderborn.de

Natalija.majsova@fdv.uni-lj.si

Submission deadline for abstracts: December 1st 2022.

https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/feminist-encounters

Between a rock and a hard place – the NGO-ization of feminism and resistance to anti-gender politics

Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies

Edited by Alexandra Ana, Université Libre de Bruxelles

https://www.analize-journal.ro/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-18/

This special issue aims to understand the challenges posed by these recent transformations to feminist politics and to explore the possibilities of broader solidarities and coalitions – within, across and beyond gender and sexuality movements, as well as the tensions that hinder them. Welcomed contributions might address:

• The repoliticization of gender and sexuality struggles and the remobilization of feminist movements at mass scale in different parts of the world and at various levels; how do they challenge previous understandings of feminist movements as being NGO-ized?
• Feminist resistance to both neoliberal techniques of governance – enhanced by NGO-ization and to anti-gender politics – as part of wider processes of democratic backsliding, and the relationship between the two challenges and tensions that permeate coalition-making around gender and sexuality – beyond “natural” alliances, and potential ways to overcome them. How can feminisms be reconfigured to respond to previous processes of exclusion and marginalization of certain groups such as racialized people, trans and non-binary persons, poor people, among others?
• The relationship between feminisms and states, in this process of reconfiguration of civil society through the selective closure of civic space (Krizsán and Roggeband 2020); how can we understand the relationship between state feminism and the emerging state anti-feminism, as conservative and authoritarian populisms (Scheiring 2020) made their way into institutional politics?
• The temporal and spatial relationships and intricacies between neoliberal governance and illiberal conservatism, in relation to feminist politics; how are they further related to authoritarian populism and how it affects feminist politics?
• Is the NGO-ization paradigm still helpful to understand recent transformations of feminist movements and how?

Format and guidelines for authors:

https://www.analize-journal.ro/instructions-for-authors/

Key dates for authors:

November 15, 2022: Submission deadline for abstracts

December 8, 2022: Notification of manuscript invitation

February 28, 2023: Submission deadline of invited manuscripts

Submission to both: contact@analize-journal.ro; alexandra.ana@ulb.be

Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Conference 2022

Gender R-Evolutions: Imagining the Inevitable, Subverting the Impossible

Trento (Italy), 25- 26 November 2022

We invite the interested audience to submit proposals for presentations on topics related to the following panels, encompassing theoretical, practical, cultural, artistic, sociological, philosophical, juridical, economic, political science, psychological, and educational perspectives.

Theorical and empirical contributions, as well as case and comparative studies and different research methodologies and practices are welcome.

Panel 1) Im/Possible Dialogues: gender studies and more...

Panel 2) Necessary Changes and Radical Resistance: actors and institutions

Panel 3) Narrating Change and Imagining the Unimaginable: the arts, culture and counter-narratives

Panel 4) Embodying Change: health, well-being, and self-determination

Panel 5) Learning and Teaching to Transgress: education, gender and society

Deadlines
• submission of abstracts: 30 September 2022.
• announcement of acceptance: 15 October 2022.
• author/s’ registration deadline: 30 October 2022.
• submission of presentation summary: 13 November 2022.

Please, send a 500-word abstract of the proposed presentation in Word/Open Office format (.doc, .docx, .odt) at convegno.csg.srs@unitn.it, no later than 30 September 2022, indicating
- name and surname of author/s;
- email address/es;
- qualification and institution/s (if applicable) of author/s;
- title of the presentation;
- panel number;
- conference topic/s.

The scientific committee will announce via email the selected submissions no later than 15 October 2022.
Those applicants who have been selected for participation should register no later than 30 October 2022.
Those applicants who have been selected for participation and registered should send a summary of their presentation (max. 1000 words, including bibliography) at
convegno.csg.srs@unitn.it, no later than 13 November 2022.

Languages
Italian and English.

BOYHOOD STUDIES An Interdisciplinary Journal

EDITORS: Jürgen Budde & Thomas Viola Rieske

During the 1990s and 2000s, many countries witnessed a new discourse on boys and education both within research and the wider popular discourse. First, boys’ encountering, incorporating and/or resisting cultural ideas of masculinity were being looked at with a strong focus on gender hierarchies and gender norms. Second, boys’ situation in educational institutions– were discussed controversially with regard to disadvantages and/or privileges of boys in education. Third, the situations of particular groups of boys were explored, acknowledging the diversity of boys and the intersectionality of masculinity and gender with other social categories and hierarchies. Since then, the discourse on boys, masculinity and education has become more diverse and nuanced, yet central issues remain either under debate or overlooked. Therefore, we invite authors to revisit issues on boys, masculinity and education – amongst them:

• Cultural diagnosis: How can the current situation of boys in educational practices and institutions be described properly? How do masculinities inform educational discourse and practice? And how does education inform masculinities? Does hegemonic masculinity (still) dominate in education or is there a shift towards inclusive masculinity?

• Research design: How can the relation of boys, masculinity and education be researched empirically? Which methods and which methodologies are in use and in what ways do they create and transform knowledge on boyhoods?

• Broader contexts: How is the relation between boys, masculinity and education shaped by economic, political, cultural and ecological change? In what ways, for example, do authoritarian regimes (and diversity alliances), the ongoing destructive exploitation of our planet (and the rise of sustainable development), the ongoing dominance of the Global North (and discourses in the global south) shape the education of boys and men?

• Analytical tools: Which theoretical concepts are fruitful in exploring the relation between boys, masculinity and education? Are there concepts that should be given a more prominent place, and are there prevailing concepts that should be given less prominence? How can institutional or cultural contexts be reflected analytically?

• We are interested in contributions regarding schools as well as other educational institutions such as elementary education, youth work, vocational education or education in informal settings (peer groups, media, leisure activities, …). Also, we very much welcome contributions looking at non-English speaking contexts or that take a global or international comparative perspective.

Submissions should be original works that are not previously published or currently under consideration for another journal or edited collection. Please submit an abstract (max 350 words) of your theoretical or empirical paper to one of the guest editors by 16th October 2022.

Decisions will be made on which submissions to invite for the special issue by the end of October 2022. Full submissions (6.000 – 8.000 words) will be due in May 2023 and the special issue will be published by the end of 2023.

Contact the editors at juergen.budde@uni-flensburg.de and rieske@evh-bochum.de.

More information, including the style guide, can be found at:

www.berghahnjournals.com/boyhood-studies

La sezione AIS (Associazione Italiana di Sociologia) ‘Studi di Genere’ sta organizzando per il 17 e 18 marzo 2023 presso l'Università di Torino il convegno di metà mandato "Genere, differenze e cambiamento sociale. Educazione, formazione e comunicazione nella società digitale"

https://www.ais-sociologia.it/evento/genere-differenze-e-cambiamento-sociale-educazione-formazione-e-comunicazione-nella-societa-digitale/

ISTRUZIONI PER LE PROPOSTE

Relazione: L’abstract da inviare, in italiano o in inglese, dovrà contenere approssimativamente un testo di 400 parole e non più di 5 parole chiave, oltre a nome e cognome, afferenza e indirizzo email del* proponente e dovrà specificare obiettivi, metodologia (se applicabile) e risultati. L’abstract dovrà essere inviato in formato .pdf all’indirizzo e-mail della Sezione di Studi di genere: genere@ais-sociologia.it

Poster: La proposta dovrà essere presentata attraverso un abstract di non più di 400 caratteri e con non più di 5 parole chiave che contenga, ove possibile, indicazioni su Metodo e Risultati di ricerca. I poster (stampati in formato verticale 70×100) verranno esposti e discussi su appositi pannelli nell’area dedicata durante i coffee break nelle sessioni indicate, come da programma finale. Tutti i poster devono essere preparati seguendo la consueta organizzazione di un lavoro scientifico (Introduzione, Metodo, Risultati, Discussione/Conclusioni). L’abstract dovrà essere inviato in formato .pdf all’indirizzo e-mail della Sezione di Studi di Genere: genere@ais-sociologia.it

Video: I contributi, proposti sotto forma di video registrati (orientamento del dispositivo in orizzontale/estensione mp4), della durata di 5 minuti ciascuno, verranno selezionati e pubblicati sul sito dell’Associazione Italiana di Sociologia www.ais-sociologia.it. I file video dovranno essere inviati all’indirizzo mail: genere@ais-sociologia.it tramite www.wetransfer.com.

Apertura dei termini per invio proposte: 10 luglio 2022

Chiusura dei termini per invio proposte: 15 ottobre 2022

Comunicazione accettazione proposta: 15 novembre 2022

Invio della relazione/poster/video da presentare: 1 marzo 2023

You are invited  to submit your abstract to the 6^th International Conference on Future of Women 2023 which is scheduled to be held from 23^rd – 24^th February 2023 in Colombo, Sri Lanka under the theme : “Empowering Women, Powering the Future.”

This two-day conference will offer incredible opportunities for professional development, personal growth, and networking. The 2023 gathering will aim to bring together researchers and students in various fields to discuss the pressing issues facing our world today. The conference will feature keynotes, breakout sessions, Storytelling, panels, and workshops.

Virtual participation is possible:

https://futurewomenconference.com/

Conference Tracks

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Women and health, Maternity and Paternity leave, Constraints for single mothers

Diversity in political representation, Women in power, politics, and decision-making

Under-representation/misrepresentation of women in the media, movies, and literature

Women and workplace, Gender Pay Gap, Glass ceiling and sticky floors

Gender-based Violence, Women in armed conflict and crisis

Gender-based Cyber-Violence, and Misogynistic Online-Movements

Human rights of women, Gender Equality and empowerment

Masculinities , Engaging Men and Boys for Gender Equality

Institutional mechanism for the advancement of women, Education and training of women. Closing the Technology Gender Gap

Sustainable development, natural resource management and the conservation of the environment

Combating discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and Human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI)

About the Conference

Future of Women 2023 aims to bring together current research on women, inequality and social exclusion and to discuss policies and other measures of women empowerment with an international perspective and provides you the opportunity to share your thoughts, exchange ideas, listen to renowned keynote speakers, extend your network and jointly explore current and future research directions. We welcome your original papers. All accepted abstracts will be printed in the conference proceeding abstract book. Submitted papers will be evaluated through double peer-reviewing process and possible publishing in reputed journals.

Your participation in Future of Women’23 may be under Oral, Poster & Virtual categories:

https://futurewomenconference.com/registration-benefits/

Abstract Submission and Deadlines

Please follow the abstract guidelines and send the Abstract to abstract@futurewomenconference.com before the 20^th October 2022.

If you wish to be a presenter at the 6^th International Conference on Future of Women’23, register now.

https://futurewomenconference.com/abstract-submission-guidelines/

Special Issue: Pleasures, practices, troubles and debates on young people’s sexualities and gender identities in the 21st century

Special Issue Editors: Ann-Karina Henriksen, Päivi Honkatukia, Hannah King and Marja Peltola

Sexualities are among the most intimate and private spheres of life, yet the 21st century has witnessed an unprecedented politization of intimate and sexual relations.

During recent years, the globally viral #MeToo movement, for instance, has intensified the discussion on the pervasive nature of gendered sexual harassment and abuse, highlighting the claims for sexual and bodily integrity as a basic human right. Over decades, legislative reforms, international treaties, awareness campaigns and prevention programmes have been implemented to advance equality, well-being and secure sexual and bodily integrity for all, including the young.

While positive steps may be recognised, the development is far from self-evident and straightforward; instead, sexual health (e.g. right to abortion), sex education, trans rights and the position of sexual minorities, among other issues, remain fields of ongoing struggle in most if not all parts of the world.

Sexualities have always been a matter of public concern and social control, and continue to be a source of heated public debates. Shifting and emotionally laden debates on sexualities concern young generations in multiple ways. Issues concerning sexual identities are lived in young people’s everyday lives, and young people are often active agents e.g. in promoting rights of sexual and gender minorities. Digital technology and social media platforms have become major sites of sexual expression, claims making as well as of forming and maintaining sexual relations among young people. Sexual intimacies can also be seen as increasingly commodified, which has multifaceted impact on how sexuality is expressed and experienced by young people. In public debates, young people’s agency and their varied everyday experiences and struggles over legitimate sexualities are not always recognised or taken into account – rather, discussion and the related moral panics position them in rather homogenising ways as objects of concern, control and intervention. Their gender, ‘race’, age and class often define whether they are represented as innocent victims or deviant perpetrators.

For this special issue, we invite papers analysing various dimensions of youthful sexuality. How do contemporary youth ‘do’ sexual intimacies in the contemporary contested landscape? How are their bodies, identities, emotions, relationships, interactions and communities involved in this? What kind of identities, forms of intimate citizenship, pleasures, troubles and other affective elements emerge in young people’s sexual engagements and relations? How are these experiences socially and societally embedded? In what ways do inequalities related e.g. to gender/gender identity, social class, ‘race’, age, sexual orientation or dis/ability shape young people’s sexual engagements and their meanings?

By exploring these questions this special issue challenges adult-centrism in how sexuality is understood in public discussion and research and acknowledges the multifaceted ways through which young people actively make sense of sexuality and are agents in this field, albeit their agency is defined and constrained by their social environments.

Explorations of sexualities in young people’s lives in the 21st century can be related, but is not limited to the following themes:

• Intersectional dimensions of sexualities related e.g. to gender, ethnicity/race, abilities, age, class

• Place, space and belonging

• Mediatized and digitalized environments, including social media and online communities

• Biography and identity

• Health and well-being

• Sexuality as a part of social relationships, friendships, family and intergenerational support and challenges

• Agency, citizenship, activism

• Rights and positions of sexual minorities

• Inequality and discrimination

• Sexual harassment and violence

• Sugar dating and other forms of transactional sex

• Risk, worry, moral panic, labelling and social control

• Governance, legislation and official control of youthful sexualities

• Methodologies

We welcome both theoretical and empirical articles with a word limit of 5000-8000 words (including bibliography).

Authors must follow YOUNG’s submission guideline: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/YOU

Deadline: 1st of September 2022.

No papers will be considered for the Special Issue after the closing date, but papers with a similar theme can always be submitted for YOUNG’s general submission process. For the special issue, papers must be submitted through ScholarOne and marked SEXUALITIES.

The link to submission is https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/young

All papers are subject to anonymous review and will be published early online

The 2nd International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality on 29 – 31 July 2022 in Dublin.

This conference is considered a prestigious event organized with the motivation to provide an excellent international platform for academics, researchers, managers, industrial participants, and students to share their research findings with global experts. All full paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research depth, accuracy, and relevance with the theme of the conference.

CONFERENCE THEMES and TOPICS

The conference is seeking submissions related to the following conference topics: Gender Studies and Sexuality.

Other related tracks and topics will also be considered.

Please submit your papers via ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM.

Important Dates are

Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July 2022
Early Registration Deadline: 31 March 2022
Late Registration Deadline: 22 July 2022
Conference Dates: 29-31 July 2022

For more information about the conference:

shorturl.at/owOZ9

23-24 June 2022 / University of Verona

New challenges, changes and trajectories in gender equality policies

The workshop invites contributions that address the following questions and related ones:

Which challenges, changes, and trajectories in gender and LGBTI+ equality policies can be identified at the different levels of analysis (local, national, European and international)?
Are there some specific effects of the policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic?
How is the framing of gender and LGBTI+ equality policies changing? Which (new) forms of political participation of different or new actors, organizations, or movements are emerging? Are there new or renewed equality policy communities?
Is it possible to identify new policy-making paradigms compared to first-generation gender equality policies?
How do such transformations and new policy trajectories affect electoral competition and party politics?

The deadline for paper proposals is 8 April 2022.

Please send a short abstract (max. 400 words) together with a short bio to the co-chairs of the SISP Standing Group on Gender and Politics: pamela.pansardi@unipv.it and massimo.prearo@univr.it

There is no registration fee, but accommodation and travel costs are to be covered by the participants.

For Early Career Researchers (PhD students and post-doc researchers) the Standing Group is pleased to offer two scholarships covering travel and accommodation costs, in collaboration with the Italian Political Science Association. Please, send your motivated request to generepolitica@gmail.com.

More information at: https://standinggroups.sisp.it/genereepolitica

You are invited to submit your abstract to the 8th World Conference on Women’s Studies (WCWS 2022) under the theme “Feminist Futures in Precarious Times: Decoloniality, Borderlands, and Transformative Visions.”

How can feminisms and Women’s Studies help scholars, policymakers, students, and practitioners navigate the complex precarity of the world today? Climate emergencies are producing climate refugees. Billionaires, horde the world’s resources while others starve from inequitable policies exacerbated by human exponential population explosion, loss of biodiversity in a 6th mass extinction, and global pandemic. These are precarious times indeed, especially for the most vulnerable among us, women and children, particularly those of marginalized, minoritized social statuses—caste, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, disability and the like. Even among those of us who are more privileged, mental health crises are rising through the daily stresses of inflation, poor air and water quality, difficulties accessing health care and other services, long working hours, battling stereotypes and micro-aggressions, combined with the existential awareness of overarching planetary problems. Most ironic, is that many of the ideas for how to transform current realities exist. The problem is in the intractability of human sociocultural, political, and economic systems, slow to move, stifled by those in power.

Feminists have galvanized change in societies worldwide for over a century and a half and must continue to do so, in spite of pushback. In fact, pushback is the inevitable response when the status quo is threatened by those who think they have the most to lose and who measure their loss in material wealth and the capacity to make decisions over others. Thus, humanity is always in need of transformative visions—visions for how to enact change, visions about the nature of change. Feminist decolonial curricula and scholarship, meaningful across borders, are increasingly shedding light on global histories of multiple colonizations, power abuses, and imperialisms. Their truths and pathways for decolonizing minds and bodies can uplift our spirits in hope of a different imaginary. Coalitions built across borderlands, galvanized by optics that are egalitarian, equitable, humane, ecological, queer/non-binary, must be taught in new pedagogies, inspiring the young, creating new social structures in the home, among peers and colleagues, in the workplace, in governing bodies. They must be translated into languages that all understand to bring about the great changes that we need.

The WCWS sets us on this course, motivates us to build partnerships and friendships across but not in denial of our differences. We come together seeking new knowledge, strategies, support, mentorship, relationship-building, creative artistries, to energize us, to offer healing, so that we may return to our localities to do the work that must be done

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND DEADLINES

Call for Papers

NEW CHALLENGES TO FEMINISM AND GENDER RESEARCH

MID-TERM CONFERENCE - ESA RESEARCH NETWORK 33

Milan, Italy
June 13th-14th 2022

Chair: Elisabetta Ruspini
Co-Chair: Ana Vidu

Feminists and gender researchers are increasingly working to provide perspectives
capable of analyzing and understanding changing gender relations, to inspire innovative
theories and practices in new and established feminisms and to encourage reexivity.
e pandemic has increased this need due to the ambivalent eects of COVID-19,
which has magnied socio-economic inequalities and, at the same time, has fostered
new socio-economic and cultural practices that are aecting women and men
dierently. is Conference encourages participants to both approach contemporary
social, economic, political, cultural and climate-related challenges from a
gender-sensitive perspective, and to reect upon the future of feminism and gender
research in times of global crises. e Organizers look forward to seeing proposals for
conference papers that reect upon feminist responses to current world problems and
contribute to the establishment of a dialogue between feminism and future studies.
Submissions are open for contributed papers focusing on the following and related
elds:
Feminism, Sustainability and Climate Change;
Nature/culture Issues in Feminist and Gender Research;
Social Reproduction and New Technologies;
Gender, Care and Mobility;
Gender and Migration;
Gender, Health and Wellbeing;
Gender-based Violence and Harassment;
Gender, Sexuality and Social Control;
Gender, Poverty and Social Exclusion;
Gender, Intersectionality and Multiple Vulnerabilities;
Women and New Forms of Discrimination;
Gender (In)Equality in Academia;
Gender, Politics and Social Media;
Gender and Generations;

Gender Mainstreaming and Social Policies;
Global Trends in LGBTQ+ Rights and Issues;
Gender Perspectives on Post pandemic Futures.
Paper proposals including a transnational and/or comparative perspective are
particularly welcome.

Please submit your abstract to the ESA RN33 Coordinators
(Elisabetta Ruspini: elisabetta.ruspini@unimib.it &
Ana Vidu: ana.vidu@deusto.es) by February 15, 2022.

Co-organised by ATGENDER and the University of Milano-Bicocca,
the 11th European Feminist Research Conference will take place in Milan,
15-18 June 2022

Social Change in a Feminist Perspective:
Situating Gender Research in Times of Political Contention

First Keynote Speakers: Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University, USA and Carmen Leccardi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

The contribution of feminist, transfeminist and lgbtqia+ reflections − thanks to their intersectional perspective − is capable to enrich and invest the central themes of social transformations, offering spaces for new alliances in cultural and political struggles. Additionally, social change is a complex enterprise that can be approached only through a multidisciplinary and intersectional prism, and feminisms teach us precisely how to combine different approaches, methodologies and practices to understand such complexity and to produce change.
In the current highly mediated context who / from where / through which languages participate in the production of knowledge that contributes to shaping livable spaces? What does it mean to imagine, to enact and to analyse “social change” from a feminist perspective?
Which role does the legacy of past radicality play in the contemporary transfeminist movements, their practices and analyses?
A wide range of research topics and methodologies can be addressed under the broad theme of a critical approach to social change. We invite contributions from any discipline and are open to a diverse array of feminist, intersectional, gender, queer and postcolonial approaches.

There are 10 thematic strands:

1. Migrations and Mobilities from a Feminist, Queer and Intersectional Perspective

2. Feminist and lgbtqia+ struggles: legacies and strategies, memories and visions

3. Critiques and strategies of mediation, representation, and digital technologies

4. Feminist Art, Technological Practices, Literature, New Materialism, Posthumanities

5. Affect, Emotion, Feeling, Mood

6. Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies

7. Toward New Forms of Feminist Pedagogy? Trends, Interpretations and Available Resources

8. Intersectional Perspectives on Health, Care, Vulnerabilities and Violence

9. Life Courses and Generations in a Feminist and Intersectional Perspective

10. Citizenship, Nationalism(s) and Racism(s)

Il termine per gli abstract, per proporre panel o tavole rotonde è il 5 dicembre.

Qui il sito con tutte le informazioni:
https://11efrc.unimib.it/

CONVEGNO AIS STUDI DI GENERE – FINE MANDATO 2018-21

Napoli, 6-7 dicembre 2021

INTERSECTIONALITY AND SOCIOLOGY:

THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES APPLIED TO GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES

Segnaliamo la Call for paper per il Convegno di fine mandato sul tema "Intersezionalità e sociologia: teorie e metodologie applicate agli studi di genere e della sessualità", che si terrà il 6 e 7 dicembre 2021 presso l'Università di Napoli Federico II.

Chiusura dei termini per invio proposte: 11 ottobre 2021 ESTESO al 22 ottobre 2021
Comunicazione accettazione proposta: 18 ottobre 2021 POSTICIPATO AL 29 OTTOBRE 2021

La proposta da inviare, in italiano o in inglese, dovrà contenere approssimativamente un testo di 400 parole e non più di 5 parole chiave, oltre a nome e cognome, afferenza e indirizzo email del* proponente.

Il paper dovrà essere inviato in formato .pdf all’indirizzo email della Sezione di Studi di genere:
genere@ais-sociologia.it

Per maggiori informazioni si veda il link:

https://www.ais-sociologia.it/evento/intersezionalita-e-sociologia-teorie-e-metodologie-applicate-agli-studi-di-genere-e-della-sessualita-2/

Valutare l’inclusività e l’eguaglianza di genere nell’università

XIII Congresso Nazionale Associazione Italiana di Valutazione “La valutazione per la resilienza. Attori, pratiche e contesti”

Congresso online  - 22, 23 e 24 settembre 2021.

Le proposte di contributo, da inviare in formato word, dovranno contenere:

- cognome nome, recapiti e-mail e telefonici, afferenza del/i proponente/i;

- indicazione del panel di riferimento

- titolo del contributo;

- abstract di massimo 500 parole, compresi i riferimenti bibliografici;

- 4 o 5 parole chiave.

La scadenza per la presentazione degli abstract è il 9 luglio 2021.

La comunicazione sull’accettazione / non accettazione delle proposte sarà inviata entro il 16 luglio 2021.

Call for proposal XXIII Congresso AIV

In occasione del Convegno Nazionale 2021 della Conferenza Nazionale degli Organismi di Parità delle Università italiane : “Gender Equality Plans e smart working: quali cambiamenti per il benessere organizzativo nelle università?”

11 e 12 Novembre 2021.

In collaborazione con il Comitato Unico di Garanzia dell’Università del Salento.

La scadenza per la presentazione degli abstract è il 19 luglio 2021.

L’accettazione del contributo sarà comunicata entro il 27 settembre 2021. Entro il 4 Ottobre 2021 si richiede conferma di partecipazione al convegno unitamente a short bio di autrici e autori dei contributi accolti.

Per ulteriori informazioni si rimanda al seguente link:

http://www.cpouniversita.it/?page_id=364

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF PADUA

22-24 SEPTEMBER 2021

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INTERDEPENDENCE: WOMEN IN THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY.

We welcome proposals (maximum length: 500 words) for 20-mins papers addressing the following main topics, where GENDER is used in the most inclusive sense of the term and in an intersectional analytical frame:

• Gender and the production of knowledge
• Gender and innovation
• Gender and sustainability
• Gender and violence in universities
• Gender and social justice
• Gender, academic communities and interdependence
• Gender equality, leadership and the future of the university

All proposals for twenty-minute papers and for 10-mins statements, accompanied by a short bio, should be sent in English to centro.elenacornaro@unipd.it by 15 July 2021 (deadline).

Acceptance of proposals will be communicated by 20 August 2021.

Call for Book Chapters

Timeline:
July 2, 2021: Book chapter proposals due
August 2, 2021: Notification of proposal acceptance
January 10, 2022: Book chapter submission due

This publication is anticipated to be released in 2022.

Book Description and Scope:
In the contemporary moment, COVID-19 has exacerbated an already increasing need for immediately implementable strategies for effective online teaching and learning.

Instructors across the higher education landscape require now, more than ever, inspiring and practical resources for creating, adapting to, and enhancing, online teaching and learning spaces. Faculty need to build collaborative, equitable, and trusting feminist online learning communities. Our book will encourage a new movement in online teaching and learning, using feminist pedagogy to enhance and empower educators and students who engage in online educational efforts.

This book will fill a gap in existing literature in online pedagogy as well as feminist pedagogy, providing theory, method, and tools for bringing feminist principles to distance learning.

Book Chapter Proposals:
The editors invite submissions for proposed chapters that include a digital supplement that support feminist pedagogy tenants. Submissions should include:
- Chapter title
- 500-word proposal
- Curriculum Vitae of all authors
- 100-word bio

Final Book Chapters:
Final chapters should range from 3,500 to 4,000 words and include a digital component such as, but not limited to, an annotated assignment description or a vlog-like video that details the assignment or concept in action and how it relates to feminist pedagogical tenets.

Recommended Topics:
The following is a non-exhaustive list of possible topics.

Feminist Pedagogical Tenets
- Connecting to the personal and to communities outside of academia
Promoting reflexivity
- Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive)
- Treating students as agentic co-educators
- Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support
- Promoting cooperative learning
- Presenting knowledge as constructed
- Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information
- Uncovering the causes of inequality and leveraging resources toward undoing power structures
- Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
- Considering alternative histories and narratives
- Examining the “why” in addition to the “what”
- Cultivating self-care and boundaries

Feminist Pedagogy in the Online Environment
- Humanizing online teaching/learning
- Creating cultures of care in online classrooms
- Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning
- Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning
- Feminist Pedagogy in the Era of Big Tech

For further information:

https://airtable.com/shrcir8baciAeEmGT

Call for abstracts/papers

The Second International Conference of the journal “Scuola Democratica” hosts more than 100 panels which are clustered in 10 Streams covering a very wide range of themes and disciplines concerning education today.

The Conference will be held entirely online.

Call for abstracts: from February 7, 2021 to April 4, 2021
Notification of abstract acceptance: April 19, 2021
Registration | Early bird: from April 20, 2021 to April 30, 2021
Registration | Basic: from May 1, 2021 to May 20, 2021

REINVENTING EDUCATION - 3-4-5 JUNE 2021, virtual mode

I. Reinventing Gender Issues in/of Education

I.1. Beyond school and family. Gender education at play in the street
Caterina Satta (University of Cagliari), Roberta Bosisio (University of Turin)

I.2. Preventing And Tackling Forms Of Gender-Based And Intersectional Hate Speech Through Formal And Non-Formal Education
Barbara Giovanna Bello (University of Milan), Laura Scudieri (University of Genova)

I.3. The Impact Of The Anti-Gender Movement On Educational Contexts: Resistance, Resilience And Redefinition
Giulia Selmi (University of Verona), Massimo Prearo (University of Verona)

I.4. Gender imaginaries in textbooks and children’s publishing: between sexist representations and new narratives
Irene Biemmi (University of Florence), Barbara Mapelli (Free Women’s University)

I.5. Masculinities In The Classroom: Gender Imbalances And New Models
Irene Biemmi (University of Florence), Silvia Leonelli (University of Bologna), Rossella Ghigi (University of Bologna)

I.6. Mentoring in STEM: Innovative Educational Approaches to Support Women Pursuing a STEM Career
Nadia Malaspina (University of Milan-Bicocca), Silvia Penati (University of Milan-Bicocca)

I.7. Shame on you! Sexist and anti-LGBTQI+ violence, on and off line, among teenagers
Emanuela Abbatecola (University of Genoa), Luca Trappolin (University of Padua), Mariella Popolla (University of Genoa)

I.8. The academic work in neoliberal times: Exploring gender, precarity and emerging forms of solidarity
Camilla Gaiaschi (University of Milan), Annalisa Murgia (University of Milan)

I.9. Educating for Gender Equality 10 Years after the Instanbul Convention: Towards an Overcoming of Stereotypes and Prejudices in the Social Representation of Gender Relations
Flaminia Saccà (University of Tuscia), Arianna Montanari (“Sapienza” University of Rome)

I.10. Researching the relationship between gender and education: innovative methodologies and open questions in times of the COVID-19 pandemic
Gabriella Seveso (University Milan-Bicocca), Lisa Brambilla (University Milan-Bicocca), Brunella Fiore (University Milan-Bicocca)

I.11. Why do women still underachieve in math? Causes and solutions of the gender gap in STEM
Tania Cerni (University of Trento), Raffaella I. Rumiati (SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati)

I.12. Beyond Education, Toward Discrimination. Gender Asimmetries In Access To Labour Market
Valentina Cardinali (INAPP), Sergio Scicchitano (INAPP)

I.13. Feminist Knowledge and Methodologies in Education. Opportunities and Challenges
Elisabetta Ruspini (University of Milan-Bicocca), Rassa Ghaffari (University of Milan-Bicocca)

I.14. Gender Asymmetries in Academia
Barbara Poggio (University of Trento), Manuela Naldini (University of Turin)

I.15. Gendering, learning, and scientific practices: reinventing education from the margins
Letizia Zampino (“Sapienza” University of Rome), Assunta Viteritti (“Sapienza” University of Rome), Mariacristina Sciannamblo (“Sapienza” University of Rome)

For further details:

Second International Conference of the journal “Scuola Democratica”

Call for Panels

The second edition of the International Conference of the journal “Scuola Democratica” (the most important Italian journal about education) is devoted to the needs and prospects of Reinventing Education.

The challenges posed by the contemporary world have long required a rethinking of educational concepts, policies and practices. The question about education ‘for what’ as well as ‘how’ and ‘for whom’ has become unavoidable and yet it largely remained elusive due to a tenacious attachment to the ideas and routines of the past which are now far off the radical transformations required of educational systems.

Scenarios, reflections and practices fostering the possibility of change towards the reinvention of the educational field as a driver of more general and global changes are centerstage topics at the Conference and will have a multidisciplinary approach from experts from different disciplinary communities, including: sociology, pedagogy, psychology, economics, architecture, political science, etc. We hope with this opportunity to confirm the participation obtained at the first edition of the conference.

The Conference will be held entirely online.

Call for panels: from 7 December 7 2020 to 24 January 2021
Call for abstracts: from 25 January  2021 to 4 April 2021
Notification of abstract acceptance: 19 April  2021
Registration deadline: 30 April 2021
Conference dates: 3-4-5 June 2021

For further details:

https://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net

The Stream: REINVENTING GENDER ISSUES IN/OF EDUCATION

Stream convenors: Emanuela Abbatecola, Irene Biemmi, Annalisa Murgia, Barbara Poggio, Elisabetta Ruspini, Giulia Selmi, Assunta Viteritti

(corresponding convenor, assunta.viteritti@uniroma1.it)

Keywords: gender, education, differences, stereotypes, educational relationships

The trajectories and outcomes of education are currently the subjects of scientific research and public debate. Educational contexts are marked by a significant gender gap with regard to both the staff and the school experiences of children and teenagers. These differences reflect and often reproduce gender stereotypes and asymmetries in societies.

How are gender issues addressed in classrooms? Where are they encountered in training settings? What models do teachers convey, and what are the emotional responses from students of diverse gender? How do educational institutions practice and reproduce gender stereotypes and asymmetries? Can school and university provide contexts in which to acquire gender awareness and tackle gender issues? What are the responsibilities of educational contexts in the representation of gender in society? What experiences and good practices have been activated to promote greater gender equity? What cultural resistances?

Several questions could be asked, and many are the answers to be sought. Numerous forms of educational segregation persist, yet today a growing presence of women – which are in some cases becoming a majority – is found even in fields that have historically been the domain of men; this is the case, for example, of medicine and biology in higher education. International and national data show that many things have changed in recent decades, and gender equity is rising in all spheres of education and training. At the same time, many initiatives have been launched to promote greater awareness of gender stereotypes and prevent phenomena such as discrimination and gender-based violence. However, much remains to be done – not least to prevent the emergence of new inequalities alongside established ones. This is the case, for example, of the asymmetries in accessing fields of knowledge that may become relevant for the future of work (e.g. digital skills), or the development of new practices of discrimination related to the use of new technologies (e.g., hate speech or revenge porn).

In light of the issues and suggestions provided, some proposals on the topics on which to collect panel proposals can be found below:

• sexist education: how gender stereotypes are reproduced at school;
• what males and what females do: beyond gender stereotypes;
• gender education and pedagogies;
• the sexualised body as a cultural construction and the questioning of the obligatory sex/gender/desire order;
• how families handle gender issues inside and outside the school;
• disciplinary contexts and reproduction of gender asymmetries in education and guidance at school and university, particularly in the STEM fields;
• how gender stereotypes are inscribed in textbooks and how gender equality and gender differences are proposed in the new school publishing industry;
• gender and educational relations in the representation of teachers, educators and parents;
• gender education and intercultural models;
• media, advertising and gender stereotypes in public communication;
• gender issues within school and university policies;
• gender rights at school: the institutionalisation of gender equality;
• gender asymmetries between training outcomes and access to the world of work;
• new perspectives and research methods to study gender inside and outside school;
• sexual identity and sex education at school;
• bodies, identity and performance: how gender language is reconfigured in school practice;
• the role of intersectionality in educational transformations;
• homolesbotransphobia inside and outside the school;
• transgender students between exclusion and inclusion practices in education;
• gender, precariousness and care in schools and universities;
• methodological issues/gender-sensitive research;
• teacher training on gender and sexual orientation issues for the fight against all forms of gender-based violence;
• the anti-gender battle in schools;
• gender-sensitive education: challenges and changes generated by the pandemic;
• gender differences and health emergency management COVID-19 in the neoliberal education system.

For further details:

https://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-panels/

Call for abstracts

To honor the memory of Dr Michael Rush, the Journal of Family Studies is soliciting articles for a Special Issue to be published in 2022.

Dr Michael Rush who passed away in March 2019 at the age of 62 is survived by his wife Liz and two sons Tadhg and Lorcan.

Better known as Mick to all who knew him, his untimely passing has left a big vacuum in several academic and community settings.

For a distinctive contribution to research, but also for his warm personality and friendship he is deeply missed by his family and colleagues in Ireland and internationally.

Dr Michael’s Rush’s legacy was built on his scientific excellence, leadership in teaching and pioneering ideas. He was one of the leading scholars in comparative studies on social policy, gender and fatherhood, a passionate researcher of gender relations within family and society, but also the truest supporter of human rights, equality and feminist activism in many different parts of the world.

Dr Rush was an Editor in Chief of Journal of Family Studies, Assistant Professor in Social Policy at the School of Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice, University College Dublin, Dean of Studies at UCD College of Social Science and Law, representing UCD and Ireland in multiple international networks and research teams, including International Sociological Association RC 06 Committee on Family Research and International Network on Leave Policies and Research.  He was pioneering in innovative and student-centered approaches to teaching and learning, especially among first-year students.

In order to commemorate and celebrate Michael Rush’s research and legacy, the Journal of Family Studies is seeking manuscripts for a special issue of the journal to be published in 2022 in the area where Dr Rush contributed most: the politics of fatherhood in comparative perspective.

In particular, we welcome papers on the following topics:

• Politics of fatherhood: applications and critical appraisals of Michael Rush’s concept of varieties of worlds of fatherhood policies;
• Historical shifts in roles for fathers and men’s involvement in care;
• Gender and social policy reforms around fatherhood in Europe and beyond;
• Feminisms and social policy: state feminism, welfare models in comparative perspective, feminist theory and the role for men in family and society.

The proposal should include:

1. a tentative title and list of authors with institutional affiliation and contact details of at least one author,
2. an outline of the proposed submission with the topic, research question, methodology, expected results (whenever empirical analysis is planned), and the main argument, altogether around 300-500 words.
3. All abstracts should indicate the link to and inspiration of Michael’s Rush work.

Papers using various types of methodologies and research approaches are welcome although comparative studies are preferred.

We invite proposals for Original Articles as well as Review Articles.

Interested authors can submit a paper proposal by e-mail to Dorota Szelewa: dorota.szelewa@ucd.ie, by 15 February 2021.

CO-EDITORS: Guðný Björk Eydal, Rudy Ray Seward (Honorary Co-Editor), and Dorota Szelewa

Decisions whether or not to submit a full article will be made by the Special Issue editors and communicated to all authors by 15 March 2021 and all authors will be contacted.

Selected papers will undergo full peer review, but prior to this, we will ask for sending us the papers for internal submission by 15 June 2021.

Papers to be discussed then by authors in a seminar (either online or in person to take place at University College Dublin) at the end of June 2021.

Submissions and timeline:

15 February 2021 - Deadline for submission of paper proposals.
15 March 2021 - Authors are informed about the selection outcomes
15 June 2021 - Deadline for internal paper submission
30 June 2021 - Joint seminar and paper presentations
15 September 2021 - Deadline for final paper submissions (to the Journal)
September-December 2021 - External review, revisions and final paper submissions
January-February 2022 - Online first issue publication
Later 2022 - Special Issue publication

Call for papers

About this Research Topic

Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls in the world is one of the Sustainable Development Goals, as part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. In this regard, despite substantial progress attained in the last three decades, many challenges still remain, in terms of difficulties in entering University and advanced educational programs, accessing health care, gender pay gap, underrepresentation at the political level, and gender-based violence. These problems and inequalities are particularly evident for women living in developing countries and for migrant women, and may be exacerbated by the effects of the current COVID-19 crisis.

Empowering women is a goal as well as a promoter of development. It can lead women to participate in social and political life; it can promote their effective involvement and lead to equal opportunities in the labor market. This can have a noteworthy impact on health, ensuring better care, social protection and promotion, universal access to sexual and reproductive health, as well as the reduction of harmful practices such as forced marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting. It can also lead to reduce all forms of violence against women and girls in the private and public sphere, thus decreasing the impact of violence. Empowerment can be important for the most vulnerable women, and especially for migrant women, who are particularly exposed to the effects of violence, discrimination, and underrepresentation.

We welcome submissions related to all themes concerning women's empowerment and its consequences on health, mental health, physical and psychological wellbeing, and social welfare. Contributions may focus on women’s conditions in both developed and developing countries. We especially encourage research papers related to the condition of migrant women, their empowerment and wellbeing. Papers may include (but not limited to) women’s empowerment, the health and welfare state of migrant women in developed as well in developing countries, sexual and reproductive health, female genital mutilation/cutting, violence against women and its relation to mental health. Examples of papers that would be welcome include contributions documenting progress on women’s situation and the current condition in specific countries and/or in comparative contexts; papers reporting new research on determinants and correlates of empowerment; articles describing new findings on the consequences of empowerment.

Submission Deadlines
17 December 2020: Abstract
18 April 2021: Manuscript

Topic Editors:
Patrizia Farina, Enrico Ripamonti, Livia Elisa Ortensi

For further details:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16507/womens-empowerment-migration-and-health

Call for panel

L’VIII Congresso della Società Italiana delle Storiche si svolgerà a Verona dal 10 al 12 giugno 2021, presso l’Ateneo scaligero (nel caso le disposizioni per l’emergenza Covid-19 di quel momento non permettessero lo svolgimento del Congresso in presenza, il Congresso si terrà on-line).

Come nelle precedenti edizioni, la SIS si propone di rendere il congresso un’occasione di confronto e discussione sulle ricerche, sui temi e sulle categorie interpretative proprie della storia delle donne e di genere con particolare attenzione ai nuovi orientamenti storiografici in un’ottica pluridisciplinare.

La SIS rivolge perciò a studiose e studiosi, italiani e stranieri, l'invito a presentare proposte di panel che potranno essere iscritte in un ampio arco cronologico – dall’antichità alla contemporaneità – e riferirsi ai più diversi contesti geo-politici e culturali. Il congresso si propone sia di offrire un bilancio della storia delle donne e di genere sia di dare spazio alle emergenti prospettive di indagine degli studi di genere.

In particolare saranno apprezzate le proposte che adottano una prospettiva diacronica e affrontano differenti contesti storici e aree geografiche con approcci storiografici che mettano a confronto realtà locali, nazionali, transnazionali e/o globali. In questa cornice si privilegeranno i seguenti argomenti:

- l’agire collettivo delle donne: le molteplici radici e i diversi orientamenti dei femminismi;

- la costruzione del corpo sessuato e le scienze della vita;

- la critica e/o la decostruzione del binarismo con particolare attenzione alle questioni poste

dagli studi LGBTQ+;

- genere, riproduzione, parentela e relazionalità;

- l’impatto delle politiche ambientali e delle nuove tecnologie sul genere;

- le interazioni fra il genere e il sacro;

- i linguaggi e le rappresentazioni mediatiche del genere;

- le politiche del desiderio e le politiche dei diritti;

- produzione, circolazione e consumo in una prospettiva di genere.

La SIS rivolge un invito particolarmente caloroso alla partecipazione di giovani ricercatrici e ricercatori.

Chi desidera partecipare dovrà sottoporre al Comitato scientifico una proposta di panel, con le modalità specificate di seguito. È possibile partecipare anche a due panel, ma solo se in uno si è  discussant e nell’altro relatrice/relatore. Le coordinatrici e i coordinatori di panel possono presentare un paper nel loro panel.

I criteri di selezione del comitato scientifico sono i seguenti: chiarezza propositiva e coerenza tematica interna, rispondenza alle indicazioni tematiche presenti in questa call, partecipazione di giovani ricercatrici e ricercatori.

Non sono previsti rimborsi spese, ma saranno assegnate alcune borse di studio alle/ai partecipanti non strutturate/i.

La deadline per la sottomissione dei contributi scientifici è stata posticipata al 30 novembre 2020.

Le proposte dovranno essere compilate utilizzando il modulo (vedasi sito della SIS) e pervenire alla segreteria del congresso, entro e non oltre il 30 novembre 2020, all’indirizzo: segreteriacongressosis2021@gmail.com

Entro il 15 gennaio 2021 i panel selezionati saranno resi pubblici sul sito della SIS.

Per informazionidi carattere scientifico indirizzare una mail a: marina.garbellotti@univr.it

Per informazioni di carattere organizzativo: segreteriacongressosis2021@gmail.com

Per ulteriori dettagli si rimanda al link:

http://www.societadellestoriche.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=285&Itemid=405

September 13th to 15th, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The conference will be held in congress centre Cankarjev dom, situated in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana: http://ecdv-ljubljana.org/.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, academics, students, professionals,
practitioners and policy-makers from Europe and further afield to share and build knowledge
and experience on a wide range of issues concerning domestic violence.

The ECDV views domestic violence as encompassing a range of different types of violence and abuse, for details please see conference themes:

http://www.ecdv-ljubljana.org/programme.html.

The Conference is rooted in an ecological understanding of domestic violence while recognising the
primary role of gender as a significant factor both causing and sustaining abuse and violence.
The official language of the Conference is English.

We invite participants to send us abstracts/proposals for presentations, see more:

http://www.ecdv-ljubljana.org/call.html.

Deadline for abstract submission is December 10th 2020.

Notice of acceptance will be sent by March 15th 2021.

Prof. Milica Antić Gaber and Prof. John Devaney on behalf Scientific Committee

Prof. Vesna Leskošek on behalf of the Organising Committee.

Final conference: 11 & 12 March 2021 in Utrecht, the Netherlands

Disputes about the status and position of religions are increasing throughout the world. Conflicts about morals, national citizenship and public space are often interwoven with questions about religion and the secular, and many times interlinked with questions of gender, sexuality and race/ethnicity. This becomes apparent in, for example, recent discussions about women’s covering on French beaches; debates regarding the niqab in various European contexts; the recently signed ‘Nashville’ agreement in the Netherlands in which Evangelical and Calvinist pastors took an explicitly anti-homosexuality and anti-transgender standpoint; and the rise of ‘anti-gender’ movements across Europe. In these discussions and developments, understandings of belonging are often framed in terms of questions about religion gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity. In this secular/religion binary, ‘secular’ tends to refer to modernity and progress, while ‘religion’ is – in its public image – often perceived as conservative and resisting change.

This conference questions the assumption of the unchangeability of religion, by focusing on religious change and transformation instead. In this conference, we focus on the transformative and transforming aspects of religion in all its facets – as a way of life, in public perception or representations, in the social or legal sphere, as a theological-historical phenomenon, and at the level of individual subjectivity. In contemporary secularized societies, some religious transformations are, however, much more at the center of attention than others, and are also more contested than others. Religions are often transforming – changing – due to being located in, and sometimes contested by, secular modernity. At the same time, religions have transformative impact on individual and collective subjectivity formation, especially when individuals or groups experience a significant change in religious or spiritual life. Such transformative experiences include, but are not limited to, phenomena such as conversion or moving away from religion, or processes of religious intensification, revivalism, or decline.

This conference is particularly interested in how these two sides of ‘transforming’ religion (as adjective: religion as a phenomenon that changes the lives of individuals, communities and societies, or infinitive: religion as itself subject to transitions), relate to bodies, gender, and sexuality.

This conference marks the closing of the five-year research project, funded by the Dutch Research Council, titled ‘“Beyond ‘Religion versus Emancipation’”. In this project contemporary conversions – and transformation more broadly – have been studied in relation to religion, (post)secularity, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality. In line with recent academic debates on secularism and sexuality (Göle 2015; Scott 2017, 2019), we take into account that questions of religion and secularism are embodied and gendered. Recently, the connection of sexuality, queerness and religion have been studied as well (Peumans & Stallaert 2012; Wilcox 2018). Moreover, the links between racism, gender, and religion have been increasingly explored (El-Tayeb 2012; Puar 2007).

The aims of this conference are thus twofold. First, we aim to further the study of the manifestations of transforming religions in relation to gender and sexuality in politics, public controversies, daily lives, and media and cultural productions. Second, we aim to reflect on, and enrich, the theoretical framework of religion, secularism, sex, and gender as fluid and intersecting categories in relation to contemporary theoretical discussions about race/ethnicity, postcoloniality, decoloniality and indigeneity.

This conference therefore invites contributions that focus on these issues and/or theoretical intersections via the theme of ‘Religious Transformation’. In this conference, we will especially focus on the various ways in which religious groups or institutions are transformed; the ways in which people are transformed by, or are themselves actively transforming, religion in their daily life; how public perceptions and representations of religion and the secular are changing; and theoretical reconsiderations of concepts as ‘change’ and ‘conversion’. We invite (junior and senior) scholars from religious studies, gender studies or related fields (such as cultural anthropology, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, etc.).

You can apply with a panel session, or with an individual paper.

Please submit your paper or panel proposal including title(s) and abstract(s) via religionandemancipation@gmail.com

Submission deadline: 15 October 2020

Find more information

https://conversion.sites.uu.nl/religious-transformation-and-gender/conference_description/

Special Issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research

Guest editors: Ladan Rahbari (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands); Evelien Geerts (University of Birmingham, UK); Sara De Vuyst (Ghent University, Belgium)

This special issue of JDSR has two goals. First, it aims to bring together innovative and newly developed theoretical, empirical, analytical, and critical approaches in the study of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in digital spheres. Second, by connecting intersectionality and digitality, we aim to adopt an integrated approach that reflects the intricacy and interconnectedness of social markers and categories of difference, privilege, performance, and discrimination. As such, we specifically encourage submissions that adopt an intersectional approach and address gender, sexuality, and embodiment as integrated with other social factors, such as — but not limited to — age, race, (dis)ability, religion, color, and nationality.

The guest editors invite academic articles using diverse research methods and theoretical frameworks, and that belong to any disciplinary background. The papers may draw on the following, or other, research lines:

· Social, feminist, and critical theories on intersectionality, gender, sexuality, and embodiment in digital spheres

· Critical empirical analysis of the relationships between digital spheres and gender(ed) and sexual(ized) performativity, unruliness, resistance, and defiance

· Gendered and sexual(ized) digital/online representations of embodied diversity and difference

· Historical and intersectional analyses of the role of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in the establishment of contemporary digital orders

· LGBTQIA+ issues/rights/identities and digital spheres

· Studies on gendered and sexualized bodies in relation to age, race, color, migration, (dis)ability, etc. in digital spheres

· Exploring post humanist, affect and new materialist approaches to the study of digitality

· Harmful discourses, and different forms of gender- and sexuality-based harassment and violence in digital spaces

· Digitally spread creations, e.g., avatars, gifs, and memes in relation to gender- and sexuality-focused topics

· The use of digital media for feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-ageist, anti-ableist activism

· Expressions of unruly intimacies and sexualities in and through digital spaces that challenge normative assumptions about (older) age, sexuality, and gender.

Feel free and encouraged to suggest alternative subjects!

Abstract submission deadline: October 1, 2020

Find more information

https://www.jdsr.io/call-for-papers

Please indicate your interest by sending an abstract of 250 words before

15 January 2021 indicating a preliminary research question, methodology and (theoretical and/or empirical) contribution. For special issue enquiries and to indicate your interest, please contact Elli Scambor (elli.scambor@gmx.net ) and Marc Gärtner (marc.dissens@gmx.net).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 January 2021

Deadline for submission of full papers: 30 June 2021

Find more information

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14680432/homepage/si-call-for-papers

GWO_SI_CfP - Caring Masculinities at Work

For the first time ever, the European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG) will be held in South-Eastern Europe at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. As Europe’s biggest gathering of politics and gender scholars, the ECPG is the platform for lively discussion, exchange of ideas and the best thing in the discipline. The conference aims to cover the full range of topics in the field of politics and gender broadly conceived to include any gender, sexuality and intersectional perspectives in political science, international relations, political theory and philosophy, research methods, public policy and public administration, and social movements. It aims to attract scholars from throughout the world and at all stages of their careers.

The conference website is now online: https://ecpr.eu/Events/157

And that we have opened the Call for Section Proposals!

Indeed, ECPG 2021 will not work with predefined Sections but will work instead with an open call for Section proposals.

• The call for Section proposals is now launched. Scholars interested in proposing a Section proposal can do so from 24 June – 2 September 2020 (midnight UK time).
• A second call for full Panel and individual Paper proposals will be launched in early Fall 2020. This second call is fully open. Scholars who have not submitted a Section proposal can still submit a Panel or Paper proposal to one of the selected Sections.

What constitutes a Section?

In line with the Conference’s aims, Sections can cover a full range of topics across the field of gender and politics broadly conceived to include any gender, sexuality and intersectionality perspectives in political science, international relations, political theory and philosophy, research methods, public policy and public administration, social movements and many more. The Conference is keen to engage as well with research on race and intersectionality, on sexuality, on men and the masculine and those who identify as non-binary, genderqueer or intersex.

A section can accommodate 3-8 panels on a specific topic. Section chairs can signal their estimated optimal number of panels to allow for a balance between sections. However, the final number of panels allocated will depend on the number of paper proposals for the section.

Section proposals should include a title and abstract of no more than 750 words summarizing the key objectives and themes, and ideally including ideas for some panel and paper topics. Section proposals can include a number of predefined panels (maximum 50% of all requested panels) but should also ensure the opportunity for non-predefined panel and paper proposals to be submitted in a later stage. Please note: proposing predefined panels is not a precondition and does not influence the selection chances!

We are also very much open to new and innovative ways, others than the usual panel format, of organizing (some of) the sections.

Who can submit a Section Proposal?

The call is open to everyone and by no means limited to members of the ECPR Standing Group nor will it give automatic preference to proposals from ECPR member institutions.

Each Section should be headed by two to three Section Chairs from different countries and institutions and at different stages of their careers. We stimulate cross (sub)disciplinary sections and we encourage people from different regions in Europe to propose a section together in order to secure a broad representation of north, south, east and west Europe. We particularly welcome the participation of early-career scholars and those who are underrepresented in the profession.

How to submit a Section proposal?

All proposals to organise Sections must be in English, and must be submitted online using the online form on the Conference website. In order to submit a section, an ECPR account is needed. The account is very easily created and free of charge: https://ecpr.eu/Login.aspx.

What is the deadline for submitting a Section Proposal?

The deadline for Section proposals is 2 September 2020 (midnight UK time). The ECPG organizing team will accept or decline proposed Sections by 30 September 2020 and proposers will be notified accordingly.

The ECPG organizing team

For the ECPR SG on Gender and Politics: Petra Ahrens, Rossella Ciccia, Robin Devroe, Silvia Erzeel, Conny Roggeband, Rosa Roig & Anna van der Vleuten

For the Local Organizing Team: Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrcela & Roman Kuhar

4th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
September 13th-5th 2021 - LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
http://ecdv-ljubljana.org/

The Call for abstracts for the fourth European Conference on Domestic Violence is now open until 10.12.2020
http://ecdv-ljubljana.org/call.html

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, academics, students, professionals, practitioners and policy-makers from Europe and further afield to share and build knowledge and experience on a wide range of issues concerning domestic violence. The ECDV views domestic violence as encompassing a range of different types of gender-based violence and abuse, among others including intimate partner violence, stalking, honour-based violence and elderly abuse. The Conference is rooted in an ecological understanding of domestic violence while recognising the primary role of gender as a significant factor both causing and sustaining abuse and violence.
We invite participants to send us abstracts/proposals for the different activities that we plan to include in the Conference Programme.

Oral presentations – up-to 20 minute opportunity for a presentation of research findings or a new practice development or a discussion of an issue. There will be two templates for oral papers, to differentiate between submissions from academics and researchers, and those from practitioners and policy makers. Oral presentations will be grouped together around a common theme within the parallel sessions.

Workshops – these are longer opportunities (60 - 90 min) for an interactive session – such as skills building or discussion. Given that one workshop takes up so much time in the programme, we aim to have fewer, and facilitators should be focused on ensuring that the workshop is interactive, rather than just an extended talk.

Symposium/Panel – (60-90 min) a collection of presentations on the same theme/topic, whereby the presenters have asked to present together. We have in the past specified that there should be at least three different presenters.

Round tables – discussions (60 - 90 min) on a burning politically and societally important issue that has evolved recently and in which there is an interest to discuss it from different perspectives (political, legal, practical, etc.)

Posters – visual presentation of a chosen topic (issue) that is not yet developed to be presented as an oral presentation and is an opportunity for presenters who either don’t feel confident about speaking about their work to a larger audience or to the presenters that would like to exchange views on the chosen practical issue.
Each participant can only submit, as first author, two abstracts per presentation format.

The official language of the Conference is English.

Deadline for abstract submission is December 10th 2020.
Notice of acceptance will be sent by March 15th 2021.

Prof. Milica Antić Gaber and Prof. John Devaney on behalf Scientific Committee and Prof. Vesna Leskošek on behalf of the Organising Committee

in collaboration with Research Network 33 ‘Women and Gender Studies’ European Sociological Association

Coordinators: Lise Widding Isaksen, Norway and Elisabetta Ruspini, Italy

https://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn33-women%E2%80%99s-and-gender-studies

Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali Cambio - OpenLab on Covid-19

https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/openlab

Cambio (OpenLab on Covid-19) and ESA RN33 “Women’s and Gender Studies” welcome contributions (articles, blogs, reflections, commentary pieces) specifically focused on “Gender and the Coronavirus Crisis”.

We welcome contributions focusing on the following and related fields: care-and housework, informal/formal child care and elder care, gender identities and roles, social distancing, self-isolation at home, emotions and feelings, work, economic aspects, technology, digitalization of social relations, mortality rates, medical and welfare institutions, women’s resilience and agency.

Women and men are affected in different ways by the Coronavirus pandemic. More men die of Covid-19 than women but the fact that women are disproportionally represented in the health and social services sectors substantially increases their risk of exposure to the disease. Moreover, gender inequalities can be exacerbated in the context of health emergencies: it is likely that women (and particularly some groups of women) will carry a much higher economic cost than men. Different sources underline the fact that: women are more likely to lose their jobs than men because women’s participation in the labour market is often in the form of temporary employment; the pandemic is increasing women’s burden of unpaid care work; the pandemic can make it more difficult for women and girls to receive treatment and health care; women and girls are at greater risk of experiencing racialized and gender-based violence and abuse due to the fact that mobility is restricted, people are confined and protection systems weakened.

Women are also crucial actors in tackling the coronavirus crisis, because they comprise most of the frontline healthcare workers globally and because they do the majority of unpaid care work in households.

The multiple challenges posed by the pandemic highlight the need to address its gendered impacts and to develop a gender-responsive approach to avoid reproducing or accentuating existing gender inequalities. There is also a need to address the unique needs of women and girls during COVID-19 and to include both women and women’s organizations at the heart of the COVID-19 global response (UN, 2020). Some further issues emerged as needing additional research are, for instance: if and how the gendered divisions of houseand care-work have been affected by the policy response to the pandemic (curfew, quarantine, self-isolation, closure of schools and care systems, mobility restrictions, social distancing shopping limits…); the impact on men’s identities; the changes in parent-child relationships; the situation of migrant domestic workers; how technology can support women, men, families.

Key Dates:

• Deadline for abstracts (300 words+ up to 5 key words + authors’ bio): 10 December 2019
• Notification of decision by editors: 30 January 2020
• Deadline for full papers (6000 - 8000 words): 15 May 2020
• Publication: 2021

In this special issue, we aim to explore and critique the multiple intersections between gender and sexuality, on the one hand, and tourism and hospitality, on the other. We expect contributions to advance theoretical and methodological knowledge of the topic while revealing and challenging oppressive practices and/or providing practical insights to policy or practice within tourism and hospitality.

We welcome contributions that engage with gender and sexuality in tourism and hospitality, addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Gendered performances, experiences and motivations in tourism and hospitality
• Expressions of femininities in tourism and hospitality
• Expressions of (hegemonic and subordinated) masculinities in tourism and hospitality
• Expressions of gender in service encounter in tourism and hospitality
• Gender inequality and sexual harassment in the tourism and hospitality industries and academia
• Gendered representations in tourism and hospitality marketing and branding
• LBGTIQ+ leisure spaces and tourism destinations
• Tourism experiences of bisexuals, trans and non-binary people
• Sexual behaviour and experiences on holiday
• Interdisciplinarity and intersectionality in studies on gender and sexuality in tourism and hospitality
• Innovative methodological approaches to research on gender and sexuality in tourism and hospitality.

Submission: Please send your abstract to Rodrigo Lucena (R.LucenaDeMello2@brighton.ac.uk) by 10 December 2019.

All full paper submissions will be subject to the peer review processes and should follow the guidelines of the Tourism and Hospitality Research. For more information, please see: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/thr

The Violence and Society Centre at City, University of London, is offering a full-time, three-year doctoral studentship for 2020/21 entry.  Applications are invited from UK, EU, and graduates wishing to pursue research in the field of ‘Violence and Society’ in the social sciences.

The Centre is interdisciplinary and international and the major themes are:

• Theory and concepts: What is violence: developing the concepts and theories to explain the increase, decrease and variation in violence.
• Measurement: Current measurement practices hide some forms of violence, especially against women: developing a new measurement framework and methods to remedy this.
• Types of violence: The Centre focusses on all of violence and coercion, including trafficking in human beings, violent crime, domestic violence and rape. Gender is mainstreamed rather than treated in isolation.
• Policy and interventions: The Centre analyses what is effective in reducing violence through policy fields including: criminal justice; civil justice; security; health and gender equality and operates on an international basis with the European Union, Council of Europe and UN, as well as the UK.
• Change: What is the future of violence, including macro-socio-historical trends; the impact of the economic crisis and situational crime analysis. What might it mean to move towards ‘zero violence’?

Please view our projects page to get an idea of the activities we engage in https://www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/interdisciplinary-city/violence-and-society#unit=projects

Applicants are recommended to also apply, at the same time, for one of the other PhD studentships that are offered by the ESRC-funded South-east Network for Social Science (SeNSS) doctoral training partnership (to be held in the Violence and Society Centre and Department of Sociology). For further information on SeNSS studentships please see: http://senss-dtp.ac.uk/about-senss.

Information about all the doctoral studentships at City in the social sciences can be found at https://www.city.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/scholarships-and-bursaries/sass-studentships

How to Apply

There is a two-stage application.  First, please send to violenceandsociety@city.ac.uk

• CV.  Include undergraduate/postgraduate grades and contact details (postal address, email, mobile number)
• An example of your written work (an article, dissertation or long essay) (in English)
• A project proposal (c. 1,000 words), including: title, abstract, research question, literature review, research design and methodology, proposed academic and practical impact, references.

There are two dates on which these applications will be reviewed; on 10th December 2019 and on 3rd January 2020.

Second, successful applicants will then be invited to apply to the School of Arts and Social Sciences Doctoral Studentships, which has a deadline of 19th January 2020

https://www.city.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/scholarships-and-bursaries/sass-studentships

For any enquiries, please contact:  violenceandsociety@city.ac.uk

The Open Access Journal “Frontiers in Sociology” is accepting papers on the topic "The intersections of Economic Insecurity, Non-Standard Employment and Gender in Southern Europe”. This call aims at collecting contributions that explore the relation between non-standard work and economic insecurity using an intersectional framework. We are interested in contributions that explore Southern Europe in a comparative or single country perspective. We welcome all approaches - theoretical and empirical, substantive and methodological, micro and macro, qualitative and quantitative, as well as geographically specific research.

We welcome expression of interest at lara.maestripieri@gmail.com.

The abstract submission closes February 15th 2020.

Frontiers in Sociology is a newly-born project of the open access journal Frontiers, indexed in DOAJ and soon in Scopus.

Go to the website