Gender Research Office, University of Vienna, the Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague and with support of the Czech Academy of Science and the Department for Development Studies, University of Vienna.

Time: 19.-21.09.2013
Venue: Prague
Deadline: 15.06.2013

The organizers of the conference wish to provide space for critical dialogue between disability studies and studies of Central and Eastern Europe, postcolonial studies, global and development studies. This year’s interdisciplinary meeting focuses on mapping out the ways in which development policies and strategies as well as the very concept itself allow for or contribute to upholding global inequalities. Read more … and source

Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Dorothea Hoehtker, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland; Susan Zimmerman, Professor of History, Department of Gender Studies – Department of History, Central European University

With the passage of “Decent Work for Domestic Workers,” Convention No. 189 in June 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) re-emerged as a venue for wage earning women to demand economic justice. The planned collaborative volume Women’s ILO: Transnational Networks, Working Conditions, and Gender Equality, to become part of the ILO Century Series published by Palgrave, gives a history to the involvement of women in the ILO and the ways that gender entered into the construction of global labor standards. We ask, what role have women’s networks played inside and outside the ILO to improve working conditions for women and gender equality? How … read more and source (Web)

Nordic conference on research on men and masculinities, Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities (NFMM)

Time: 04.-06.06.2014
Venue: University of Iceland, Reykjavík
Deadline: 15.05.2013

First call for papers and suggestions for workshop themes.

Suggested workshops are, for example: Economy/financial crisis, the affective turn and masculinity studies, relations between queer theory and masculinity studies, global masculinities, family work balance, antifeminism and xenophobia, men and feminism „up North“, confronting sexual violence, theory and practice in working with men, masculinity and media, fatherhood and parental leave, trafficking in the North

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