Categoria: Gender

Today, International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2019, the peer-reviewed International Journal AG About Gender, International Journal of Gender Studies launches a call for articles directly related to disability and its intersections with gender. CALL FOR ARTICLES Re-gendering or de-gendering disability? Living with disabilities in contemporary societies. Edited by: Rita Bencivenga (Trinity Centre for Gender Equality…

The Consortium of “PLOTINA – Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation and training” is organising the project Final Conference “Regendering Science. For an inclusive research environment”. PLOTINA is a project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework and it aims at enabling the development, implementation and assessment of self-tailored Gender Equality Plans…

Donna J. Haraway – Marta Segarra: El món que necessitem / The World We Need, Barcelona, CCCB, 2019: http://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/publications/96-el-mon-que-necessitem-the-world-we-need/231592 ALso, Marta Segarra, research director at the Laboratoire d’Études de Genre et de Sexualité of the CNRS (Paris), talked with the biologist and philosopher of science Donna Haraway on the occasion of the latter’s most recent…

In the wake of the #MeToo movement and a much wider public discourse on gender issues, there has never been a better time to study Gender Studies (MA). Equality and diversity are seen as vital to organisational success, and public feminism has a renewed prominence in culture – yet tackling gender inequalities remains a challenge.…

Home, Housing and Communities: Foundations for Inclusive Society Edited by Isobel Anderson, Vikki McCall and Joe Finnerty Deadline for Abstracts: 15 September 2019 | Deadline for Articles: 15 January 2019 Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) and Scopus (2019 Temporary CiteScore: 1.02), is preparing an issue on…

Ouverture des inscriptions à la troisième édition de l’Université d’été pluridisciplinaire et internationale sur le Travail et les Migrations internationales qui se tiendra du 1 au 5 juillet 2019, à Bordeaux https://utravail2019.sciencesconf.org/ Le programme est composé d’activités scientifiques en journée et d’activités culturelles, organisées par des doctorants en soirée. La langue de travail sera le…

What do we know of people over50 attending MOOCs? For example, that they may use MOOCs as part of a constellation of cultural experiences If you are interested in knowing more about adults attending MOOCs, you will discover that there is still little research on this specific group, representing a minority of the users. New…

Gender Equality in Academia: Comparative Perspectives From Feminist Institutionalism Abstract: New Institutionalism (NI) explores how institutional rules, norms, and cultures constrain the choices and actions of individuals when they are part of an institution. Feminist Institutionalism (FI) applies NI through a gendered lens, starting from the premise that institutions are highly gendered, and considers how…

Questions for 2nd panel discussion for EDGE Women’s Leadership development programme Trinity College Dublin, 13th March 2019 Q: How would you describe women’s leadership? Rita Bencivenga: Leadership is a very simple concept. It’s the action of leading a group of people or an organisation to obtain well-defined and measurable results. And the results are the most…

Panel discussion on Women’s Leadership and Industry organised by EDGE Marie Curie Co-fund Women’s Leadership Development Programme 2019 Wednesday 13th March 2019 LCR O’Reilly Building Trinity College Dublin

Call  for Abstracts Gender-based Violence in Higher Education International Workshop to Connect Ongoing Research May 8-9, 2019 at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany The workshop provides a platform for scientific exchange on various aspects relating to the study of gender-based violence (GBV) in universities and research institutions in Europe, including sexualized violence…

A call for abstracts for a co-edited special issue, ‘Interrogating education: critical thinking in the time of populist politics’, of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ). In recent times there has been a steady rise in populist politics globally, a phenomenon The Guardian has called ‘the new populism’. The full proposal and call for papers…

CAMPAGNES ANTI-GENRE EN EUROPE. Des mobilisations contre l’égalité sous la direction de Roman Kuhar & David Paternotte 2018 ISBN : 978-2-7297-0942-6 collection « Sexualités » (Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe. Mobilizing against Equality. Edited by Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte. Publication Date: Aug 2017) Après plusieurs décennies de progrès constant, l’Europe fait face à une nouvelle…

Social Inclusion has just released its newest issue: “Gender Equality and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Neoliberalism, Anti-Gender Movements, “European” Values, and Normative Reiterations in the Nordic Model” The issue is fully open access: all articles are free for you and others to read, download, and share. Gender Equality and Beyond: At the Crossroads of…

Un percorso formativo per migliorare le competenze utili ad accrescere l’accesso delle donne ai ruoli di responsabilità e nei Consigli di Amministrazione in Società pubbliche e private. È l’obiettivo della terza edizione del ciclo di incontri “Più donne nei CDA e nelle posizioni apicali”, proposta dal tavolo di lavoro “Più donne nei Consigli di Amministrazione…

Geneviève Fraisse, Philosophe et historienne de la pensée féministe, Directrice de recherche émérite au CNRS (section 35 philosophie), interviendra  le 28 septembre à 9h30 en salle 31.2.85 au CNAM. Le titre de son intervention: “Colporteuse, ou l’épreuve de l’histoire; une épistémologie féministe” Le séminaire est ouvert aux personnes extérieures au CNAM. Merci en revanche de…

An interesting post by a woman researcher: “Whereas previously, I had felt silenced, understanding the mechanics of the university (for example, reading policy documents), I was able to translate my personal grievances into political action. By understanding ‘the system’, I could voice my anger and object to practices that perpetuate gender violence. I also found…

A special issue of Hypatia on ‘Gender and the Politics of Shame’ is  currently available with full access online. Just follow the link here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15272001/2018/33/3 The issue has been edited by Dr. Clara Fischer, MSCA Fellow at the University College Dublin (UCD) Centre for Gender, Feminisms, and Sexualities, School of Social Policy, Social Work, and…

Dublin will host the 10th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Trinity College, 20th – 22nd August 2018. This is the first occasion that this major biennial conference will be held in Ireland. These European conferences have since 1998 brought together hundreds of gender equality practitioners, researchers and administrators from Europe and beyond.…