ATGENDER

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BEYOND EUROPEAN GENDER STUDIES – TRANSVERSAL CONNECTIONS,

 

Brussels, 18th and19th of February, 2010.

What is the State of the Art of Gender Studies in your country, region, Europe or

beyond Europe? How do we vision future connections for European Gender Studies?

What do we mean with transversal? Which kind of connections will be important for

Gender Studies to uphold and develop geographically, thematically and with actors

outside academia? How do we foresee intensified links to information and

documentation centres as well as to the providers of dissemination of educational and

research results to be elaborated? ATGENDER calls for papers on any of these issues

for the conference ‘Beyond European Gender Studies – Transversal Connections’.

Please, send an abstract of 150 words to info@atgender.eu before December 15th,

2009.

Self-paying participants with or without a paper, as well as ATHENA working

groups, are kindly invited to register at the same address, as soon as possible, however

at the latest on January 15th, 2010.

Apart from several panel sessions taking place in the afternoon, ATGENDER will

arrange a plenary morning session with key note speakers and responses. The themes

of the key note addresses will be the transversal connections between European and

Asian Gender Studies, and between European Gender Studies, feminist activism, and

society at large.

Confirmed key note speakers are:

Professor Chang Pil Wha the President of Asian Association of Women's Studies, and

as the first professor of women's studies in Korea and Asia.

Dr Malin Rönnblom is lecturer at Umeå University Sweden. She is also in charge of

internalisation and marketing of Gender Studies programmes and head of research in

the European research project called QUING, dealing with Quality in Gender and

Equality Policies. In addition she is editor of NORA, Nordic Journal of Feminist and

Gender Research and chair of the Swedish Federation of Gender Scholars. Her talk

will be about the transversal connections between European and Asian Gender

Studies, and between European Gender Studies, feminist activism, and society at

large.

Open call for suggestions for the Board

 

Apart from Tuning, the conference and our GA, we warmly invite suggestions for projects that could be undertaken by ATGENDER as an umbrella for activities in the area of Gender Research, Education and Documentation. When you read the statutes, you will see that we envision to keep up the good practice of working in smaller working groups on concrete projects, both practical regarding research, educational and documentation policies and theoretical regarding the content of our field. ATGENDER is also the perfect tool for applying for (E.U.-) funding for these projects. Not only is it a network through which partners can be found (part of the website will be designed for this purpose), but also can we provide the legal and institutional framework for applying for money. The Board is open to suggestions pertaining to this, and we welcome suggestions at info@atgender.eu. We are happy that some of you have already found your way to the Board – we appreciate your comments and ideas very much.

 

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