Expert Meeting on Gender Equality in the enlarged European Union
20 – 21 April 2007
Institute for East-European History, University of Vienna
Deadline 15 March 2007
Focus area
The aim of the Expert Meeting is to examine the possibilities, chances and obstacles for the future gender equality policy on the European Union level. The discussion in this interdisciplinary and transnational forum will focus on the implementation of the EU’s gender equality regulations, on independent national policies, on the history and role of the women’s (rights) movement and the current situation of women, especially in the new member countries Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria, but also in the “old” member states like Germany and France and also Austria.

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AFTER EMPIRE: GENDER BOUNDARIES AS THE BORDERS OF NATIONS
June 28-30, 2007
Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University Vilnius, Lithuania
This conference aims to explore the critical link between the ideas and practices of gender, on the one hand, and “nationbuilding” on the other, in Eastern/Central Europe and Eurasia. We tend to focus on the dynamics of this relationship during two separate, but related periods. One is the time of the “awakening of nations”, which was finalized in the nation-states on the edges of the three Eurasian Empires after WWI, or “national” administrative units in the USSR. The second period, which started after 1989 (or 1991), also implies rethinking of the “national” and new nationbuilding in the post-communist space. Continue reading →

Suzanne Keys und Veronika Prüller-Jagenteufel fungieren als Gast-Herausgeberinnen für eine Sondernummer der Zeitschrift für Personzentrierte und Experienzielle Psychotherapie der World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling. (Für Informationen zur Association und zur Zeitschrift siehe: www.pce-world.org) Continue reading →