ATGENDER Conference and General Assembly

On the 19th of February 2010 a ATGENDER conference ‘Beyond European Gender Studies – Transversal Connections’ is held in Brussels. Tilly Vriend, project manager at Aletta, will present a paper on the Fragen project.

Call for papers

ATGENDER calls for papers on any of the following issues. 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? Please send your papers to the following adress.
info@atgender.eu

The Conference

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 Dr Malin Rönnblom, lecturer at Umeå University Sweden. Participants are kindly invited to register at the same address before January 11th, 2010.
info@atgender.eu
www.atgender.eu

About ATGENDER

ATHENA3, an initiative of the Athena Network, will not receive funding from the EU. However, Athena will be able to continue the network of gender/women's/feminist studies within the institutional context of ATGENDER.
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The Fragen project

At the ATGENDER conference, Tilly Vriend, project manager at Aletta, will present a paper on the Fragen project. European women’s libraries and scholars from all over Europe are working together on the Fragen project, which aims to collect the most important texts from the feminist movements of the second part of the 20th Century.
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