The North University Centre, Baia Mare, Transylvania, Romania, Department of Philology and Cultural Studies

The 5th International Anniversary Conference: Celebrating Women’s Stories: 50 Years since the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, and 30 Years since the publication of Alice Walker’s Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose

Venue: The North University Centre, Baia Mare, Transylvania
Time: 10-13 October 2013
Deadline: 15 March 2013

The 2013 Baia Mare international anniversary conference will be dedicated to two major books (and their authors, of course), in the idea of encouraging multi-disciplinary scholars to come and ‚tell their stories‘, under an un-conventional, non-dogmatic, relaxed and future-oriented academic umbrella. Our idea is to look back at some important moments in the development of anything that could be labeled as Women studies, Gender studies, Feminism(s), Womanism, to Continue reading →

2013 Stockholm Conference on Global Gender Equality Politics

Venue: Stockholm University
Time: 10-11th September 2013
Deadline: 01.03.2013

The theme of the conference addresses ongoing gender equality politics as well as legislation against gender discrimination as part of transnational transformations. The concepts of human rights, gender equality and anti-discrimination legislation have gradually become more and more accepted on a comprehensive global level and have been given a prominent position in the official rhetoric. In most Western states, gender equality politics and “state feminism” have become a self-evident part of political development, including legislation, gender equality reforms, measures and institutions such as gender equality ombudsmen. However, the criticisms of the concepts of human rights, gender equality and anti-discrimination as colonial, racial and Western concepts expose Continue reading →