Pre-conference workshop on Gender and Technology Curricula
Place: Umeå University, Sweden
Time: March 8th -10th 2011
Deadline: 01.10.2010
Information Technology is everywhere, shaping the way we experience our lives, the world and each other. Some digital transformations reveal new possibilities for improving social conditions, while others suggest that social inequality may be increasing. In a changing society, understandings of digitalization and politics become important. Also, the performative and co-constructive nature of gender-technology-work relations points to the importance of paying attention to many kinds of actors (elements) in understanding ICT. As such one of the pressing questions to contemporary gender and feminist research is: How does gender and feminist research intervene in and contribute to new directions and sustainable futures of ICT-based practices?
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Centre for Parliamentary Studies, Brussels (Web)
Time: 15th July 2010
Place: Brussels
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As part of longer-term strategies around migration and integration policy within the EU, tackling multiple discrimination is a complex process. It is imperative to address all dimensions in a comprehensive and constructive manner in order to trigger effective dialogue at all levels of governance in Europe. Historically, discrimination based on gender, religion and race has posed challenges for many years. However, with the latest financial crises and a greater fluidity in the migration landscape in Europe, this phenomenon appears to be even more challenging in terms of discrimination against migrants – discrimination that manifests itself on many levels and seriously undermines efforts to promote equality and diversity.
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Symposium, IDee, Organisers: Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak; Coordinator and Contact: Michaela Messer
Time: 1-3 July 2010
Venue: University of Vienna
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Misson: Nowadays in Europe, migration has acquired different meanings and has been reacted to in various ways. Reactions depend on the country of origin (migrants from Germany or the USA are treated differently than migrants from Turkey), and on the symbolic capital (how educated are they? Which professions do they have?); moreover reactions depend on language proficiency (how well do migrants speak the language of the host country?), and lastly, on gender (Turkish women are treated differently than Turkish men; Nigerian women are treated differently than Nigerian men, related to stereotypes and prejudices as well as to values and norms of the respective women and their cultures of origin).
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Date: 10.-11.07.2010
Location: Huddersfield/UK
Closing date for registration: 30.06.2010
This conference aims to explore the significance of ideas of identity and identification in the contemporary study of masculinities. Plenary speakers:

• Dr. Paul Baker, Lancaster University
• Dr. Dawn Hadley, University of Sheffield
• Professor Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan

The development of masculinities as a distinctive area of research coincided with the prominence of identity politics in the 1990s and the growth of the fields of gender studies and queer theory, which spread across a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. These developments not only have complicated our understanding of masculine norms but also raise questions about how these norms have been sustained and/or transformed by various discourses, practices and texts, ranging from spectacular public interventions to everyday domestic performances.
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Präsentation der Diplomarbeit von Vera Schwarz, die als Band 18 der Reihe „Politik und Demokratie“ des Wiener Instituts für Politikwissenschaft (Hg.Innen Helmut Kramer/Eva Kreisky) im Peter Lang Verlag erschienen ist.
Zeit: Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010, 19 Uhr
Ort: Republikanischer Club, Rockhgasse 1, 1011 Wien

• Einleitende Worte: Eva Kreisky
• Lesung: Vera Schwarz und Susanna C. Schwarz-Aschner (1. WrLT)
• anschließend Diskussion
• Moderation: Karin Kuchler

Das Thema der Untersuchung ist politische Aktivität von Frauen, die die Kommunistische Partei Österreichs (KPÖ) als Folge der Niederschlagung des Prager Frühlings verlassen haben. Basierend auf einem ausführlichen Hintergrundkapitel und fünf Interviews werden zwei Modelle politischen Engagements nach der KPÖ herausgearbeitet: „Basisaktivistinnen“ und „Interessenvertreterinnen“.
Die Interviewpartnerinnen Ilse M. Aschner, Hannah Fischer, Lisa Markstein, Maria Verber und Maria Zottl haben teilweise ihre Anwesenheit bei der Buchpräsentation angekündigt. Vera Schwarz ist Enkelin von Ilse M. Aschner.
Aus: femail@liab.at

10. Familienforum der Eidgenössischen Koordinationskommission für Familienfragen
Zeit: 22.06.2010
Ort: Kursaal, Bern
Die heile Familie? Sacrée famille? Seit den 1970er Jahren haben sich die Rollen und das Verständnis von Familien grundlegend verändert. Heute gibt es eine Vielfalt an Familienformen und die Arbeits- und Rollenteilung zwischen Frau und Mann hat sich in Richtung einer größeren Gleichberechtigung entwickelt. In den letzten Jahren lässt sich aber auch eine Gegenbewegung beobachten. In der familienpolitischen Diskussion ist der Ruf nach einer stärkeren Berücksichtigung der traditionellen Familie lauter geworden.
Das 10. Familienforum der Eidgenössischen Koordinationskommission für Familienfragen macht dieses Spannungsfeld der Familien zwischen Tradition und Moderne zum Thema.
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aus: http://www.gendercampus.ch