February 2010


Women & Politics: Shifting Agendas
19 February 2010
Manchester, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/events/shiftingagendas/
Contact name: Angelia R. Wilson

This conference will showcase gender research from across the discipline of Politics. Focusing on the need to work across identity boundaries incorporating conceptions of intersectionality, sexuality & politics and 'conserving feminism'.

We are especially interested in submissions that address gender and identity, gender and psychology, gender in the arts (including the presentation of gendered performances, films, etc., as well as academic papers) and in popular culture. 

Organized by: Idaho State University, Janet C. Anderson Gender Resource Center'
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 19 October 2009



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March 2010

Contextualizing Geographical Approaches to Studying Gender in Asia
3 to 5 March 2010
Delhi, India

Website: http://events.du.ac.in/event.2009-09-15.3990152528/
Contact name: Dr Anindita Datta and Dr Kuntala Lahiri Dutt

Can geographical approaches introduce new angles to gender studies in Asia? How do gender and space implicate each other? What could be the alternative methodologies to capture the gender - space nexus especially in Asian context?

Website: http://www.dcu.ie/salis/conferencesexualitystudies2010/index.shtml
Contact name: Mel Duffy and Jean-Philippe Imbert

The aim of this inter-disciplinary and cross- disciplinary conference is to provide an academic platform on which to initiate an open dialogue between academics, professionals and practitioners in the field of human sexuality.

Get RADICAL Women's Conference
27 March 2010
Chantilly, VA, United States

Website: http://www.getradicalconference.com
Contact name: Doreen Rainey

Join Jillian Michaels, Rhonda Britten and other speakers as they provide bold solutions to the challenges women face – in their finances, career, and life balance. This day is designed to educate, inform and motivate.

Organized by: Empowering Moments, LLC
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



18th Men and Masculinities Conference
25 to 28 March 2010
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Website: http://www.mensstudies.org
Contact name: Don Levy

Annual meeting of scholars and practitioners investigating the field of men's studies. Open to academics, practitioners, and students interested in the critical study of men and masculinities.

Organized by: American Men's Studies Association
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 December 2009



Minding the Gap: Overcoming Gender Inequalities in the European Labour Market
30 March 2010
Brussels, Belgium

 Website: http://publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/events/AC30-PPE.php
Contact name: Tsvetomir Svilenov The conference will bring together practitioners and decision makers in Brussels in order to exchange good practices and identify needs for further actions at EU level. A long term platform on equality should be consequently established.

Organized by: Centre for Parliamentary Studies
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



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April 2010



Conference on Male Studies at Wagner College
7 April 2010
Staten Island, New York, United States

Website: http://www.malestudies.org/
Contact name: Ed Stephens, MD, PhD

A panel of scholars and teleconference participants from anthropology, education, law, medicine, psychology and sociology will discuss the mission and structure of the first university program for male studies in the United States.

Organized by: On Step Institute for Mental Health Studies
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



Sex, Love and Eating Disorders: The Hunger for Connection
10 April 2010
Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Website: http://www.edct.net/ContentPage.aspx?WebPageId=15575&GroupId=-1
Contact name: Brittany MacNealy

EDCT's Annual Forum was recognized as the 2006 Salute to Excellence award winner and honored for outstanding nonprofit achievement by the Center for Nonprofit Management. This Forum is attended by professionals who treat disorder eating.

Organized by: Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 December 2009



West Hollywood’s Women’s Leadership Conference: Unlimited Opportunities – Fierce & Fabulous
10 April 2010
West Hollywood, California, United States

Website: http://www.weho.org/wlc
Contact name: For more information please call 323-848-6840

An day-long event geared towards women who live, work and play in West Hollywood, featuring valuable speakers, workshops, resources, and trainings, breakfast and keynote luncheon. $25 Advanced Registration Required, $15 Senior Rate.

Organized by: City of West Hollywood
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



The 5th Summer Training on Gender Fair Education
12 to 16 April 2010
Quezon City, Philippines

Website: http://www.mc.edu.ph/centers/wgi/activities.html
Contact name: Ellen Guanzon

An intensive one-week course that will provide development workers specially in the field of formal and non-formal education on how teaching- learning sitautions fill the gaps of gender equality and education for all tragets.

Organized by: Women and Gender Institute, Miriam College
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



GENDER AND CLASS IN BYZANTINE SOCIETY
16 to 18 April 2010
Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~byzaus/
Contact name: Associate Professor Lynda Garland

Contributors are invited to interpret the conference theme broadly and we welcome submissions from all fields. Both scholars with academic affiliation and working independently, as well as postgraduate students, are encouraged to apply.

23 to 24 April 2010
St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/Gender%202010.html
Contact name: Jamie Page

Third Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference, now accepting proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspects of the themes of gender and transgression in the mediaeval period. See website for details. Plenary address by RI Moore.

Organized by: St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 14 February 2010




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May 2010



2nd Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine
3 to 5 May 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-femin ine/call-for-papers/
Contact name: Dr Rob Fisher, ewf2@inter-disciplinary.net

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/



Women in Leadership Forum India
6 to 7 May 2010
New Delhi, India

Website: http://www.wilforumindia.com
Contact name: Teena Tolani

Organized by: naseba
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



Ethnicity and Power: National and Regional Dimension of the New Security Architecture in Europe
Date: May 17 – 22, 2010, Yalta,

Webseite: http://nce.ua.iatp.net/devyatyj-mezhdunarodnyj-seminar-etnichnost-i-vlast
Contact name: Dr. Tatiana Senyushkina, P.O.Box 65, Sevastopol, 99043, Ukraine, tsenyushkina@yandex.ruUkraine

Organised by: Norway Humanist Association and Taurida National University named after V. I. Vernadsky (Ukraine), Network of Cultural Exchange and Interethnic Trust (Ukraine).
Deadline: April 15, 2010



The 4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies – Gender, Nature and Culture
20 to 22 May 2010
Helsinki, Finland

Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/kristiina-instituutti/conference
Contact name: Nina Jarvio

The 4th Christina conference explores the complex connections among gender, nature and culture.The conference asks how this mutual intertwining of nature, culture and gender has been theorized, represented and experienced.

Organized by: University of Helsinki, Gender Studies
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 December 2009

GENDER & DIFFERENCE
20 to 23 May 2010
Cardiff, United Kingdom

Website: http://n/a
Contact name: Professor Chris Weedon

This conference will bring together scholars working in the broad area of gender and difference, across a wide range of social and cultural texts and practices.

Organized by: Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University and the Englisches Seminar at the University of Cologne.
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 January 2010



5th IWG World Conference on Women and Sport, Sydney 2010
20 to 23 May 2010
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Website: http://www.iwg-gti.org
Contact name: Sally Ryan

The conference is a landmark event which will raise the profile of women and sport issues, demonstrate commitment to effecting positive change and highlight the host community’s contribution to success in this area.

Organized by: International Working Group on Women and Sport
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



The Public Intellectual: Feminism, Power, Celebrity
25 May 2010
London, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/womens-media-studies-network/upcoming-events/
Contact name: Dr Carrie Hamilton

This one-day symposium brings together an inter- disciplinary group of scholars to examine gender politics and the figure of the female public intellectual in Britain today. Topics of discussion include: feminism and the public intellectual.

Organized by: Roehampton University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



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June 2010


Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society
3 to 5 June 2010
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website: http://www.veiledconstellations.com
Contact name: Melissa Finn or Arshavez Mozafari

This conference offers a forum to problematize the prevailing discourses surrounding the veil while exploring the veil’s subversive potential.

Organized by:
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 October 2009

Dissident Citizenship: Queer Postcolonial Belonging
10 to 11 June 2010
Brighton, UK, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/1-1.php?id=2282
Contact name: Dr Shamira A. Meghani

We will explore the divergent turns post-colonial nations have taken in their relationship to sexual dissidence and citizenship, both legally and socially, via queer and postcolonial theory, activism and creative work.

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 January 2010



The First International Conference on Queer Diaspora
June 10-12, 2010
Taipei, Taiwan

Website:
Contact name: wrp_at_ntu.edu.tw

The conference aims to provide an opportunity for scholars from different disciplines to contribute to current discussions regarding the challenge of Queer/ Gender/Cultural Studies, their impact on the living world, values and attitudes as well as research methodology, knowledge production and social practices.

Organized by: National Taiwan University,
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 September 2009

Queer Crossings. Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality
18 to 19 June 2010
Palermo, Italy

Website: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172750&keyword=sociology
Contact name: Silvia Antosa

The aim of the conference is to map contemporary perspectives on sexualities at an interdisciplinary level. We welcome papers from scholars from academic fields such as education, comparative studies, media and communications, geography, art.

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 28 February




Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging
30 June 2010 to 2 July 2010
London, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/beyondcitizenship/
Contact name: BISR, University of London

We particularly welcome papers which explore the interface between the feminist academy and feminist activism, and which are interdisciplinary and innovative. Individual paper proposals (max. 200 words) or proposals by 1st December 2009.

Organized by: FEMCIT, in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (UL); Rokkansenteret (Univ of Bergen). Sponsered by Norwegian Research Council
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 December 2009



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July 2010



Gender, sexuality and adult friendship seminar
2 July 2010
Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/gws/event/3197
Contact name: Kate Mitchell

During this seminar we seek to bring together researchers who examine contemporary, empirical material on adult friendship, who view friendship as a social, temporal and cultural relationship with a specific focus on gender and sexuality.

Organized by: Centre for Gender & Women's, Lancaster University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 March 2010



Contemporary Women's Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies
7 to 9 July 2010
San Diego, California, United States

Website: http://cwwn.sdsu.edu
Contact name: Dr. Edith Frampton

Panels and papers in English are sought on all genres of literary and popular writing by women, since the 1970s, including fiction, poetry, plays, autobiography, travel writing, graphic novels, blogging, etc., in any language.

Organized by: Contemporary Women's Writing Network and San Diego State University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 August 2009



Psychology of Womens Conference
14 to 16 July 2010
Windsor, Surrey, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.bps.org.uk/pows2010
Contact name: Kerry Wood

The POWs annual three-day conference covers a wide range of issues around the psychology of women. This includes: gender, femininity/masculinity,qual/quant, culture, disability, racism and more

Organized by: British Psychological Society
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 March 2010



Muslim Women and Modernity: Qur’an and Sunnah Perspective
21 to 22 July 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Website: http://www.iiu.edu.my/irkhs/womenity
Contact name: Dr. Mohd Shah Jani

The conference aims to provide an appropriate forum to discuss the interpretations and misinterpretations of woman related provisions as available in the Qur'an and Sunnah.

Organized by: Department of Quran and Sunnah Studies, International Islamic University Malaysia
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 21 November 2009



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August 2010

Women's Memory-Work: Gendered Dilemmas of Social Transformation 24-26 August 2010
24 to 26 August 2010
Limerick, Munster, Ireland

Website: http://www.ul.ie/isks/news.html
Contact name: Emma Leahy

The 3-day international conference seeks to explore women-centered expressions of historical experience as fertile ground for cultural agency and social transformation in national and transnational socioeconomic and political arenas.

Organized by: University of Limerick
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 16 April 2010




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September 2010

Representations of prostitution, sex work and sex trafficking between the 19th and 21st centuries
9 September 2010
London, UK, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/languages/content/view/325/3/
Contact name: Dr Kate E Taylor

This conference aims to bring together studies of the representation of prostitution, sex work and sex trafficking from a range of cultures, including Europe, North Africa,USA, Latin America, China, Japan, Korea, and India.

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



Biblical Women: Reading and Writing Women in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
10 to 11 September 2010
Belfast, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/NewsandEvents/
Contact name: Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher

This conference seeks to explore 'biblical women' in a dual sense: the appropriation of women from Scripture by both male and female authors, as well as the ways in which Scripture is deployed, more generally, in the period's female writing

Organized by: Queen's University, Belfast
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 May 2010



Writings of Intimacy in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
10 to 12 September 2010
Loughborough, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/events/Writings%20of%20Intimacy.html
Contact name: Jennifer Cooke

Writings of Intimacy will explore the representation of intimacy in the literature, theories, and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Organized by: Loughborough University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 March 2010



Queer Again? Power, Politics and Ethics
Date: September 23-25, 2010
Berlin, Germany

How can queer theory be situated in current academic and activist spheres? What does the focus on interdependent relationships (of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, (dis)ability etc.) mean for the formation of a queer ethics? How can we rethink concepts of temporality and generation or community? And what does queer mean in different geographical and temporal contexts? The panels will be organized along two thematic strands. The first, Affect, Space and Temporality, is concerned with the ethical and political potential of queer and the different political conceptions of queer that arise as a result. The second strand, Limits and Boundary Crossings, takes up current theoretical debates with regard to boundaries and crossings of these boundaries.

Website: http://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/confslecs/queeragain
Contact: E-mail: queer.conference@hu-berlin.de

Organised by: The Department of English and American Studies and the Research Training Group “Gender as a Category of Knowledge”, Humboldt University of Berlin
Deadline: June 30, 2010

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October 2010



7th Black Midwives and Healers Conference: Weaving the Cultural Traditions of Midwifery
7 to 10 October 2010
Redondo Beach, California, Other

Website: http://www.ictcmidwives.org
Contact name: Asatu Musunama Hall-Allah,MA,CPM

The 7th Annual International Black Midwives and Healers Conference draws midwives and women's health specialist from around the world including the USA,Haiti, Africa,Columbia and the Carribean.

Organized by: International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC)
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 January



Sirens
7 to 10 October 2010
Vail, Colorado, United States

Website: http://www.sirensconference.org
Contact name: Hallie Tibbetts

Sirens is a conference dedicated to women in fantasy literature and will be held at the Vail Cascade Resort and Spa. In 2010, faeries of all kinds will be featured. Guests for 2010 are Holly Black, Marie Brennan, and Terri Windling.

Organized by: Narrate Conferences, Inc.
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 7 May 2010



Transacted Intimacy: Political Economy of International Marriage in Asia
14 to 15 October 2010
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Website: http:// www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=973
Contact name: Valerie Yeo

This conference attempts to bring the economic back into discussions of the political, cultural and social processes that shape the contours of international marriage as a phenomenon.

Organized by: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 10 March 2010



Beyond the leaky pipeline. Challenges for research on gender and science
19 to 20 October 2010
Brussels, Belgium

Website: http://www.genderandscience.org
Contact name: Clara Creixams

The main objective of the conference is to present the conclusions of the study ‘Meta-analysis of gender and science research’ and to discuss with experts and policy-makers the possibilities and challenges for European and national research

Organized by: Foundation CIREM, DULBEA
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 May 2010



Women in Leadership Middle East
25 to 26 October 2010
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Website: http://www.wilforum.com
Contact name: Teena Tolani

Organized by: naseba
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



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November 2010

ХVI International Conference "Kharkiv Sociological Readings": Sociology in a Changing World
November 4-5, 2010
Kharkiv, Ukraine

Website: http://www.sociology.kharkov.ua/news/eng/335/inf_13_05_10e.pdf
Contact: Prof. Valeriy Nikolaevskiy, Prof. Ludmila Sokuryanskaya, Ludmila Procenko; School of Sociology, Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University, pl.Svobody, 4, Kharkiv, Ukraine Tel.: +38 57 707-53-68, 707-54-90, 707-53-89 E-mail: nick@univer.kharkov.ua; sokur@univer.kharkov.ua; procenko@sociology.kharkov.ua

Sociological Theory in Search of Explanations of the Contemporary World;  Social Inequalities undergoing Transformation Processes;  Social Policy and Social Security; Identification Processes in Contemporary Ukraine; Youth in the Globalizing World;  Socio-Cultural Dimension of Contemporary Society;  Contemporary Education: Mass Availability or Quality?

Organised by: School of Sociology, Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University
Deadline: June 30, 2010



MESA 2010 Annual Meeting- Special Session Emerging female frontiers and entrenched socio-political boundaries int he Gulf States
18 to 21 November 2010
San Diego, CA, United States

Website: http://www.annemarieprofanter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97&Itemid=97
Contact name: Annemarie Profanter and Stephanie Ryan Cate

This session investigates rapidly shifting commercial and social policies relating to development, education and cultural identity in the Arabian Gulf that have contributed to the emerging “café society there.

Organized by: University of Alabama Huntsville and Free University of Bolzano
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 July 2010



Connecting Women, Respecting Differences
19 to 21 November 2010
Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

Website: http://www.wsanz.org.nz/conference-2010.htm
Contact name: Dr Carolyn Michelle

Connecting Women: Respecting Differences will explore themes of difference, diversity and intersectionality and examine viable strategies for connecting diverse groups of women in New Zealand today.

Organized by: Women's Studies Association of New Zealand
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 September 2010

Innovations in Gender, Sex, and Health Research
22 to 23 November 2010
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website: http://www.f2fe.com/IGH/2010/Conference/
Contact name: Sally Clelford

Innovations in Gender, Sex, and Health Research will showcase excellence and innovations across all domains of gender, sex, and health research, and will highlight how accounting for gender and sex leads to improvements in health.

Organized by: Institute of Gender and Health
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 17 June 2010



EQUALITY, GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY – DO THEY MIX?
25 to 26 November 2010
Linkцping, Sweden

Website: http://www.liu.se/genusforum/Konferens?l=en
Contact name: Stina Backman

This conference is a forum for examining if and how questions of equality, growth and sustainability can be reconciled in organisations and implemented in general practice.

Organized by: Forum for Gender Studies and Equality
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 May 2010



II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE THE TEXTS OF THE BODY : GENERATING BODIES: DISCURSIVE SE
30 November 2010 to 3 December 2010
Barcelona (Campus Universitat Autтnoma), Barcelona, Spain

Website: http://cositextualitat.uab.cat/en/novetats.php?_reg=10
Contact name: Dr. Meri Torras

The conference will focus on the generation of bodies(and their regeneration and degeneration), understanding that these attributes --sex, gender and sexuality-- are inseparable from the materialization of bodies.

Organized by: Body and Textuality Research Group
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 June 2010


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December 2010

Challenging Differences and Inequalities in Contemporary Societies
December 1-3, 2010
Antwerp, Belgium

Internet: http://www.equalisnotenough.org
Contact: Joz Motmans Tel.: +32 (0)3 265 59 64 Fax: +32 (0)3 265 59 26 E-mail: equalisnotenough@ua.ac.be

The second 'Equal is not enough' Conference seeks to contribute to the understanding of the causes, consequences and underlying dynamics of inequalities, as well as to the understanding of contemporary policies to combat them. In challenging differences and inequalities in contemporary societies, the conference addresses different grounds of inequality, such as gender, ethnicity, sexual preference, disability, class and age, and also focuses on the comparison and intersection that can be drawn between them. It does so in four different streams, paying particular attention to law, public policies, organisations and the life course as such.

Organised by: The Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities (PRCEO)
Deadline: ongoing



Gendered Ways of Knowing? Gender, Natural Sciences and  Humanities Interdisciplinary Congress 
1 to 4 December 2010
Trento, Trento, Italy

Website: http://gender2010.fbk.eu

The Conference discusses the social/scientific contructions of gender and the genderization of knowledge in Natural Sciences and Humanities.

Organized by: FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 April



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January 2009


Celebrating Intersectionality. Debates on a multi-faceted Concept in Gender Studies
International conference at the Goethe University
22 to 23 January 2009
Frankfurt, Germany

Website: www.cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/intersectionality
Contact name: Prof. Helma Lutz, intersectionality@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

The concept of 'intersectionality' has attracted much attention in international feminist debates. Twenty years after the concept was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, it seems appropriate to bring together protagonists as well as critics and discuss the 'state of the art' with those that have been influential in this debate.

Organised by: Women and Gender Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and the Cornelia Goethe Center für Women's and Gender Studies
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.


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February 2009


International Conference on Feminist Constitutionalism
28 February 2009 to 1 March 2009
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Website: http://law.queensu.ca/events/lectureshipsVisitorships/internationalConferenceOnFeministConstitutionalism.html
Contact name: Tsvi Kahana

Disucssing the intersection between constitutional law, constitutionalism, and feminist theory, domestically, internationally and comparatively. Keynote speakers: Catherinke MacKinnon, Reva Siegel, Jennifer Nedelsky.

Organized by: Faculty of Law, Queen's University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 September 2008


Feminist Research Methods - An international conference
4 to 6 February 2009
Stockholm, Sweden

Website: http://www.kvinfo.su.se/femmet09/
Contact name: Gunilla Bjerén

The Centre for Gender Studies at Stockholm University welcomes feminist researchers to an international conference on research methods and methodological issues and dilemmas.

Organized by: The Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 September 2008



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March 2009


Anything But Safe: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
6 to 8 March 2009
Tampa, FL, United States

Website: http://english.usf.edu/anythingbutsafe
Contact name: Taylor Joy Mitchell

The theme of this national, interdisciplinary, grdauate conference is sex, sexuality, and gender. We would like paper or panel proposals to address how cultural constructs of sex, sexuality and gender are 'anything but safe'.

Organized by: English Graduate Student Association
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 5 January 2009


Women Writing Space: Representations of Gender and Space in post-1850 British Women's Writing
7 March 2009
Warwick, United Kingdom

Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/wws/
Contact name: Sue Dibben, HRC Secretary

This one-day conference will address the issue of “how British women writers represent space” from a range of disciplinary perspectives, reflecting the scope of contemporary feminist interest in spatial configurations.

Organized by: Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 October 2008


Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe
13 March 2009
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars_events/conferences/gender.html
Contact name: Linda Jauch, Anna Becker

The conference addresses postgraduates from different disciplines working on the interplay between politics and gender in early modern Europe. Send abstracts (250words)/questions to genderandpolitics2009@hotmail.co.uk

Organized by:
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 January 2009
Check the event website for latest details.


Gender and Education Association International Conference
25 to 27 March 2009
London, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/fps/genderconference09
Contact name:

The conference theme, Gender: Regulation and Resistance in Education, invites engagement with gender and feminism at every level of educational practice.

Organized by: Gender and Education Association
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.
Check the event website for latest details.


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April 2009


Gender Futures: Law, Critique and the Struggle for Something More
3 to 4 April 2009
London, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/clgs/news-and-events/LawCritiqueandStruggleforSomethingMore.htm
Contact name: Anisa de Jong

A conference with six plenary speakers and several breakout panels including themes such as feminism; materialism; equality; ideologies; social movements; citizenship; bodies; belonging; race; postcolonialism; empire; homonormativity etc.

Organized by: AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 December 2008
Check the event website for latest details.


American Men's Studies Association
3 to 5 April 2009
Montreal, Canada

Website: http://www.mensstudies.org
Contact name: Dr. Don Levy

Beyond Borders: Masculinities and Margins. The 2009 AMSA Conference invites papers, panels, undergraduate and general roundtable discussions that reflect on the critical and interdisciplinary study of men, boys and masculinities.

Organized by: American Men's Studies Association
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 21 November 2008
Check the event website for latest details.


Women in Higher Education: Is Equity Still an Issue?
8 April 2009
webinar, Other

Website: http://innovativeeducators.org
Contact name: Pamela Ranallo

This panel will address the challenges that face women administrators and discuss how to erase the gender labeling that unfortunately still occurs in many institutions across the country.

Organized by: Innovative Educators
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.


Gender and class in byzantine society
16 to 18 April 2010
Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~byzaus/
Contact name: Associate Professor Lynda Garland

Contributors are invited to interpret the conference theme broadly and we welcome submissions from all fields. Both scholars with academic affiliation and working independently, as well as postgraduate students, are encouraged to apply.

Organized by: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WOMEN'S STUDIES “Gender at the Crossroads: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
20 to 22 April 2009
Famagusta, Cyprus

Website: http://cws.emu.edu.tr/GCR2009
Contact name: Nurten Kara
Center for Women’s Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University invites paper, panel and event proposals addressing various themes on women/gender studies.

Organized by: Center for Women's Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 27 June 2008

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May 2009


1st Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine
1 to 3 May 2009
Budapest, Hungary

Website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/ewf/ewf1/cfp.html
Contact name: Dr Rob Fisher

E-mail: ewf@inter-disciplinary.net

This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine issues surrounding the conjunction between evil and the feminine.

Organized by: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/ewf/ewf.html
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 10th April 2009.

Women Conference - Empowering Women in the Corporate World
4 to 5 May 2009
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Website: http://beautybeyondbeautiful.blogspot.com/
Contact name: Joyce Loh

The Women's Conference is the region's premier forum for women and its mission is to empower corporate women to be the Architects of Change in their homes, their workplaces, their communities and the world around them

Organized by: Adroit Global Network Sdn Bhd
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 April 2009


1st Global Conference: Good Sex, Bad Sex - Sex Law, Crime and Ethics
4 to 6 May 2009
Budapest, Hungary

Website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/transformations/gsbs/gsbs1/cfp.html
Contact name: Dr Rob Fisher,  E-mail: gsbs@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference welcomes presentations from all disciplines, professions and vocations who have an interest in sex law and sex crime and the development of a more ethical sexuality and ethical regulation of sexuality.

For further details about the project : http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/transformations/gsbs/gsbs.html
Organised by: Centre for Research Ethics and Ethical Deliberation, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, L39 4QP, United Kingdom


Building a Community for Change: Fifth Anniversary Spelman College Leadership and Women of Color Conference
13 to 14 May 2009
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Website: http://www.spelmanwomenofcolorconf.com
Contact name: Naima Barton

Organized to explore how gender and culture influence service leadership, this conference will demonstrate best practices for building strong communities through civic engagement.

Organized by: Spelman College
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.


Management and Leadership Development for Women in Leadership in Business and Government
25 to 28 May 2009
Sun City, Rusternburg, South Africa

Website: http://www.aii.co.za/mld.html
Contact name: Lisa Phillips

A conference aimed at equiping women with tools required to enhance leadership skills and management style

Organized by:
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.


M(o)ther Trouble
30 to 31 May 2009
London, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk
Contact name: Reina van der Weil

M(o)ther Trouble is a two-day international conference on the maternal, psychoanalysis and feminism. It is linked to an exhibition of artworks by Bracha Ettinger at the Freud Museum. Keynote speakers: Bracha Ettinger and Adriana Cavarero.

Organized by: Birkbeck School of Psychosocial Studies, MaMSIE and CentreCATH, University of Leeds
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 24 April 2009



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June 2009


Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Third Annual Meeting
4 to 6 June 2009
Toronto, ON, Canada

Website: http://www.ossdweb.org
Contact name: Viviana Simon

The Organization for the Study of Sex Differences is convening its third annual scientific meeting. The program includes Jeanne T. Lee, M.D., Ph.D. as the Keynote Lecturer and Virginia M. Miller,Ph.D. as the Capstone Lecturer.

Organized by: Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD)
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 16 March 2009


7th European Feminist Research Conference
4 to 7 June 2009
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Website: http://www.7thfeministconference.org
Contact name: Barbara van Balen

Gendered Cultures at the crossroads of imagination, knowledge and politics focuses on European perspectives combining the Humanities with (inter)disciplinary research from other scientific traditions.

Organized by: Graduate Gender Programme Utrecht University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 September 2008


Woolf and the City: The 19th Annual Int'l Conference on Virginia Woolf
4 to 7 June 2009
New York, NY, United States

Website: http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/english/news__events/2009_woolf_and_the_c_29890.asp
Contact name: Anne Fernald

For this Conference, we embark on new critical and theoretical ground: Woolf & the City. Our theme encompasses the familiar and the new, the material an the imaginative. Theoretical, critical, pedagogical, & creative proposals welcome.

The conference provides all attendees with a full and varied programme as well as fastastic networking opportunities. The deliberations will examine international, regional and national ‘best practices’ on the following themes: 1. M

Papers are invited for the 18th Annual Conference of the Women’s History Network. Within recent feminist scholarship considerable attention has been paid to the role of gender in constructing social space.

Organized by: Women's History Network
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 6 March 2009


Gender & Politics Roundatable & A World Without Politics? Conference

16 to 20 September 2009
Leuven, Belgium

Website: http://www.worldwithoutpolitics.be/
Contact name: Dr. Anya Topolski

As a result of globalization, international political structures are rapidly changing. The emerging world order is characterized by a growingand complex network of regional and transnationalinstitutions which shape an increasingly inter

Organized by: Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosohy, KULeuven
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.

Female Sexuality: Current Approaches to the Management of Female Sexuality Issues
25 September 2009
Beachwood, OH, United States

Website: http://www.ccfcme.org/FemaleSexuality09
Contact name: Kellie O'Neal

The goal of this activity is to improve the knowledge of primary care providers and, thus improve the quality of care for women with sexual dysfunction.

Organized by: Cleveland Clinic
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.


'Ann Veronica': HG Wells, the Flaneuse and Feminism
26 September 2009
london, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.hgwellsusa.50megs.com/
Contact name: Emelyne Godfrey

Marking the 100th anniversary of H.G. Wells's "feminist" novel, Ann Veronica, we welcome papers on eg: Amber Reeves, Wells's thoughts on and relationship with women, the suffrage movement and the work of Wells's female contemporaries.

Organized by: HG Wells Society
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 May 2009




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October 2009


Women in Society sessions in the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology
11to 17 July 2010 
Gothenburg, Sweden

Website: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc32.htm
Contact name:Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University, USA, mabraham2010wc@hofstra.edu
Esther Ngan-ling Chow, American University, USA, echow@american.edu

Organized by: World Congress of Sociology
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 October2009


The Veil, Psychoanalysis, and Politics
2 October 2009
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website: http://battleofthegiants.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/the-veil-psychoanalysis-and-politics/
Contact name: Arshavez Mozafari

Why Gender?
 9 to 10 October 2009
Jyvaskyla, Finland

Website: http://research.jyu.fi/strategicpractices/indexeng.html
Contact name: Laura Stark

The continued importance of gender as a social category in the postmodern world raises the oft- forgotten question: why? The aim of this multidisciplinary conference is to discuss what future directions gender research and theory could take.

Organized by: Academy of Finland & University of Jyvaskyla
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 April 2009


Gender, media and the public sphere
22 to 23 October 2009
Coimbra, Portugal

Website: http://mediagender.wordpress.com/
Contact name: Maria Silveirinha

The Conference will address the social, political, economic and cultural contexts of gender issues in media and communication.

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 June 2009


Going Public: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on presenting women’s history
22 to 24 October 2009
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Website: http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/
Contact name: Lucie Heins

The symposium considers the complex ways in which women’s history is presented in public contexts. Sessions include discussions of ‘lost women’ and the historical narrative, artist presentations and issues of research and interpretation.

Organized by: Canadian Association for Women’s Public History 2009 Symposium
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.

Feminine Identities in a Plural World
22 to 24 October 2009
Almerнa, Almerнa, Spain

Website: http://www.ual.es/congresos/MUJERES
Contact name: MЄ Elena Jaime de Pablos

Women's studies have become a key aspect in contemporary societies. The multidisciplinary VI AUDEM Conference 'Feminine Identities in a Plural World' aims at promoting women's studies to achieve a more democratic, plural and fairer society.

Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges. International Conference on Gender and Diversity in Science, Technology and Business.
29 to 30 October 2009
Aachen, Germany

Website: http://www.idealeague.org/tandemplus/conference
Contact name: Elke Breuer, Nathalie Callies

The conference will take place at RWTH Aachen University and deal with the different aspects of gender and diversity (e.g. instruments of a gender and diversity-oriented human resources development) in technology, science and business.

Organized by: The technical universities of the IDEA League
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 28 February 2009

My Brilliant Career? Women in the Academy
30 October 2009
London, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/womens-media-studies-network/upcoming-events/
Contact name: Dr Anita Biressi

The Women’s Media Studies Network supported by MeCCSA is pleased to announce a one day event addressing the experiences, aspirations and concerns of women working in higher education in media, cultural studies and the humanities.

Website:
Contact name: nordic.trans.conference_at_gmail.com

Papers are invited for an international conference on transgender studies and theories in a Nordic context. This conference aims to collect and share transgender knowledge,  develop interdisciplinary perspectives on transgender questions, create networks and establish contacts between researchers, discuss collaborative work between different interested groups.

Organized by: Department of Gender Studies
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 September 2009

Gender in European Academia: Difference and Discrimination in Communication Research
25 November 2009
S. Mamede Infesta - Porto, Portugal

Website: http://www.iscap.ipp.pt/~cei/ AND www.ecrea.eu/events/about/id/32
Contact name: Clara Sarmento

This workshop intends to analyse the actual situation of gender discrimination and to evaluate academic quality within European universities and polytechnics.

Organized by: ECREA Women's Network and Centre for Intercultural Studies (CEI)
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.



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December 2009


Transnational Feminisms
4 to 5 December 2009
Manchester, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/sage/transnationalfeminisms
Contact name: Humaira Saeed / Clare Tebbutt

Drawing on the impact of postcolonial feminism and its enactments,this conference will examine how women are affected by political systems,how feminism translates and moves across borders,and how feminism can be utilised as a methodology.

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 28 August 2009

Greater Atlanta Women's Expo & Empowerment Conference
5 December 2009
Atlanta, GA, Other

Website: http://www.gawomensexpo.com
Contact name: Vivian R. Scott

Join us in Atlanta for a weekend of Rest, Rejuvenation & Empowerment. Learn how to improve business and personal relationships, dust of deferred dreams and start new businesses. Win educational scholarships and door prizes.

Organized by: Eternal Vision Enterprises
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.

The Political Economy of Social Division: Race, Gender, Class, and Caste as Fetishized/Fetishizing Borders

14 to 17 December 2009
Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Website: http://www.fctworld.org/12th%20international%20conference.htm
Contact name: Prafulla C. Kar

A major strand in contemporary thinking about race, gender, class, and caste tends to view them as socially constructed modes of social and political division.

Organized by: Forum on Contemporary Theory
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 August 2009

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September 2008

Women in Technology Workshop
23 September 2008
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website: http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/08/workshop.aspx
Contact name: Amy Lammers

The annual Women in Technology Workshop is a half-day event created to foster awareness of and communication about critical issues facing women in the technical fields. The workshop features dynamic keynotes and interactive breakout session.

Organized by: MIT's Technology Review
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.


The Point of Feminism
12 September 2008
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/research/ftt-pointoffeminism.asp
Contact name: Elke Weissmann

The central aim of the conference is to generate a cross-generational debate which not only re- connects current work with existing feminisms, but which re-examines how feminist theory and research can inform media and cultural studies.

Organized by: University of Reading
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.


7th Athens Congress on Women´s Health and Disease
11 to 13 September 2008
Athens, Greece

Website: http://www.erasmus.gr/web/pages.asp?lang=2&page=4277
Contact name: Mrs. Penelope Mitroyianni

Organized by: University of Athens, Medical School, 2nd Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology / Hellenic Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 June 2008


ж і н к а в н а у ц і т а о с в і т і:
7-8 листопада 2008 р.
Київ,Україна

Website:
Contact name: тел. 380-44- 524-47-71, gender2008@i.ua

Organised by: Громадська організація «Жінки в науці» та Міжнародна організація “Жіноча громада”/
Теми: Гендерні проблеми в науці та освіті; Перспективи реформування науки та освіти: Європейський науковий простір, Історичні портрети українських жінок-вчених; Наукові досягнення та життєві історії наших сучасниць.
Темы: Гендерные проблемы в науке и образовании; Перспективы реформирования науки и образования: Европейское научное пространство, Исторические портреты женщин-ученых; Научные достижения и жизненные истории наших современниц.
Deadline for abstacts/proposals: 15.08.08




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October 2008


The Third International Congress on Islamic Feminism
24th-27th October 2008
Barcelona, Spain

Website: http://www.wunrn.com, http://www.feminismeislamic.org/eng/
Contact name: info@feminismeislamic.org

Organised by: Junta Islàmica Catalana (Catalonian Islamic Board)
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available


Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War, and Social Justice
23 October 2008
Toronto, Canada

Website: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/armmembership.html

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available


The Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance: Focus on Gender and Climate Change
19 to 22 October 2008
Manila, Philippines

Website: http://www.capwip.org
Contact name: Sylvia Ordonez

The current imperative is for women to understand the phenomenon of climate change and its impacts and implications at individual, household, community and national levels.
Organized by: Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available


Women Doctors in the Asia Pacific - Bridging Barriers
17 to 19 October 2008
Melbourne, Australia

Website: http://www.tourhosts.com.au/afmw2008/
Contact name: Medical Women Congress Managers

Visit the conference website for more information!
Organized by: Australian Federation of Medical Women
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available


OSCLG Narratives: Our Lives, Our Worlds
16 to 19 October 2008
Nashville, Tennesee, Other

Website: http://www.osclg.org/
Contact name: Jay Baglia

OSCLG provides a forum for discussion, presentation of research, and demonstration of creative projects in the areas of communication, language, and gender.

Organized by: Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 June 2008



Canadian Women Artists History Initiative: Inaugural Conference
2 to 4 October 2008
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Website: http://cwahi.concordia.ca
Contact name: Kristina Huneault

The Canadian Women Artists History Project is envisioned as a way to bring resources and researchers together to enhance scholarship on historical Canadian women artists across a wide range of visual media, including painting, photography.
Organized by: Concordia University
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 April 2008


ІІ. Internationale Konferenz "Gender. Ökologie. Gesundheit"
Oktober 2008
Charkow, Ukraine

Website:
Contact name: Katharina Karpenko, ekar@iatp.org.ua


Medien, Krieg und Geschlecht - Das erste Opfer des Krieges ist die Emanzipation
2 to 4. Oktober 2008
Universität Salzburg, Österreich
Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg, Fachbereich Kommunikationswissenschaft

Website: http://www.univie.ac.at/women/home/aktuelles/fileadmin/user_upload/Medien_Krieg_Geschlecht.pdf
Contact name: thomas@uni-lueneburg.de , martina.thiele@sbg.ac.at



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November 2008


Literary Transactions in a Globalized Context: Multi-Ethnicity, Gender, and the Marketplace
28 to 30 November 2008
Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India, West Bengal, India

Website: http://melusmelow.org
Contact name: Manju Jaidka

Ideas that have gained currency during the present times: gender issues, financial issues – particularly those governing literature, and issues of political correctness that influence literary events, works of literature, art and culture.

Organized by: MELUS-India and MELOW
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 25 November 2007


6th. International Conference on Gender Studies (SAMA6)
29 to 30 November 2008
Penang, Penang, Malaysia

Website: http://www.geocities.com/sama_ukm
Contact name: Geraldine Chan Kim Ling

Conference theme-Thinking Gender: Issues of Diversity,Interconnectivity and Empowerment.To further gender equality- how do we negotiate diversity,manage interconnectivity and encourage empowerment?

Organized by: South East Asian Association for Gender Studies, Malaysia Branch (SAMA)
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 August 2008


Sex/ualities In and Out of Time
28 to 29 November 2008
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.sexualitiesconference.co.uk
Contact name: Ben Davies and Jana Funke

This conference aims to explore present and past narratives of sexuality, the links between heterogeneous temporalities and dissident sex/ualities and to ask what is at stake in the recent turn to time in gender studies and queer theory.

Organized by: University of Edinburgh / University of St Andrews / AHRC
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 August 2008


The politics of knowing: research, institutions and gender in the making
27 to 28 November 2008
Prague, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.knowing.soc.cas.cz
Contact name: Marcela Linkova

Conference themes are excellence and (public) accountability; epistemic communities and disciplinary dis/semblances; growing into/growing out; material practices of knowledge production, and sciences studies of social sciences.
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 April 2008


Міжнародна наукова конференція «Духовна сфера в умовах глобальних цивілізаційних трансформацій»
27 – 28 листопада 2008року
Дніпропетровськ,Україна

Website:  www.diit.edu.ua
Contact name: Мямлін С.В., Власова Т.І.

Organised by: Дніпропетровськийнаціональнийуніверситетзалізничноготранспорту
Програма конференції передбачає роботу за напрямом Ґендерна проблематика в структурі духовного життяінноваційних суспільств. Теоретичні питання з тендерних досліджень та їх практичне застосування заплановано в рамкахкруглого столу з тендерних проблем.

Deadline for abstracts / proposals:  7 листопада 2008року