The question which relationships qualify as ‘family’ in migration policy is key to defining who gets to legally migrate to and reside in Europe. It is central to family migration politics obviously, but plays a crucial role in other aspects of migration regime as well, including the governance of forced migration, labour migration, detention, and […]
With the theme “Tracks of Change: Exploring the future of LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion” our 2023 International Conference will take a deep dive into the many directions that our movement can go in the coming years. In the very fitting setting of the Netherlands Railway Museum, more than 300 of our stakeholders will come together in […]
Gender & History is an international journal for research and writing on the history of gender and gender relations, including (but not limited to) masculinity and femininity. This Special Issue will examine segregation, broadly understood, exploring how segregation has reflected and constructed gender across time and space. This Special Issue welcomes submissions from scholars studying any […]
Feminist studies and related fields, including queer, postcolonial and critical race studies, are under persistent fire. Such fire has, for example, led to an attempted, but failed, ban on gender studies in Romania in 2020, elected parliamentarians discrediting the research of named (often female and precariously employed) scholars as ‘pseudo-science’ in 2021 in Denmark, and […]
The European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA) organizes its annual conference. Rephrasing John Donne’s famous poem, “No man or woman is an island entire of itself”, the conference will investigate women’s interrelations within the art world and their impact on art objects and art collections.
This annually-held conference addresses the role of women in consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies, theatre and economic history, and aims to relate the debates of the period to modern-day issues about the […]
The sixth edition of the conference will foreground the history of the distribution, marketing and promotion of women’s work and how this shapes its visibility, significance and impact on audiences and on the work of other women directors and producers. Our title references both the technologies of broadcast and digital distribution as well as evoking […]
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the tenth annual conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCEE), to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
This two-day workshop invites doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers to reflect on the impact that the modernization of states and societies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had on the construction of sexual and gender identities and experiences, as well as the notion of sexual deviance. While the 20th century was marked by increasingly modern (secular, […]
During this programme, participants build on their longstanding knowledge of sexuality as it intertwines with issues of ethnicity, nationality, class, and religion, deepening their familiarity with how sexuality is conceptualized. Participants will build on their previous coursework or professional experience in sexuality studies to investigate sexual health programming, and advocacy across a range of venues.