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10th European Feminist Research Conference, 12 – 15 September 2018, Göttingen

1.08.2018

This international conference takes place every three years since 1991 and it is one of the major opportunities for feminist, queer and gender studies scholars, activists, artists and policy makers from all over Europe and across disciplinary boundaries to gather and exchange experiences.2018 it will take place in Germany for the first time. The title "Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions" addresses a fundamental issue of gender and diversity studies: social inequality, difference and equal opportunities. The subtitle "confronting" includes the appeal to reflect social exclusion and discrimination and to find an affirmative way of dealing with diversity. These questions will be discussed in their European and global dimensions. Right-wing populist movements, national isolationism, wars, climate change and movements of migration are important topics. Click here for more information

3rd Annual Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe A One-Day Symposium | Berlin | 29th September 2018

1.08.2018

A recurring theme of our events in Edinburgh in 2016 and Amsterdam in 2017 is Black feminist/Afrofeminist/Womanist history and memory. By bringing together a wide range of cis and trans* women of colour and non-binary folks from across Europe, how do we ensure that we honour and remember trailblazing struggles of those who came before us? By building this Black feminist space, who is tacitly included and excluded? How do we learn from our past in order to take effective action in the present and future? How do we build and sustain meaningful intergenerational debates about Black feminism? To that end, the theme of this year’s event is about making visible the long history of Black feminist/Afrofeminist/Womanist activism in Europe. Having this symposium in Berlin is fortuitous because the city served as a backdrop for the pioneering transnational, inter-generational solidarity work of Audre Lorde, May Ayim, Ika Hügel-Marschall, Katharina Oguntoye and a network of Afro-German feminists in the 1980s and 1990s. Click here for more information