Upcoming & Recent Events
Feminist and Queer Spatialities: Care, Connection and Change
21st - 22nd August 2024
University College Dublin, School of Geography, Dublin, Ireland
Visit the Conference webpage for details.
2024 International Geographical Union Thematic Conference
"Connecting Geographies from the Global South"
15th - 17th May 2024
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador
The conference aims to facilitate intellectual exchange and promote academic debate among scholars of emerging geographical epistemic communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and elsewhere interested in addressing geographical issues in these regions. The main emphasis of the Thematic Conference is on promoting knowledge production and geographic thought that emerge from the Global South
Click here for link to Conference Website
III Jornada Geografías Feministas 2022
10th -11th November 2022
University of Valladolid - Campus María Zambrano, Pl. de la Universidad, 1, Segovia, Spain
Feminist geography is “the one that examines the ways in which socioeconomic, political and environmental processes create, reproduce and transform not only the places where we live but also the social relations between those who live there and, also, in turn, how the relations of gender have an impact on these processes and their manifestations in space and the environment.” (JoLittle, 1988: 2)
Plenary Speakers:
Dr. Mireia Baylina Ferré (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
Dr. Anindita Datta (University of Delhi)
There will be workshops on:
-
The feminist house of Valladolid -Nomadic activism. The example of the feminist house in Valladolid by Laura Asensio
-
8 Women on Bikes - The bicycle as a feminist and empowering tool based on its use and enjoyment in the city by Eve Blanco
-
Different examples of the use of spaces from LGTBIQ+ activism by Dialogasex-Yeni Martin
-
Methodology of action from the performing arts for the vindication of women's rights from public spaces by Yasna Pradena
An exhibition of experimental photography on feminist geographies by La plumbing creates will be organized from 9th - 18th November in the Library Exhibition Hall
Click here to register for the Conference.
Link to the Conference Website
Contact: castillayleon@geografos.org
V Latin American Seminar on Geography, Gender and Sexualities
6th -9th September 2022
University of Chile
The V Latin American Seminar on Geography, Gender and Sexualities maintains the continuity of those developed in the years 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2019. They were held in Brazil twice, one in Mexico and its last edition in Argentina. For the year 2022, Chile has been designated as the venue. It is extremely important to continue holding this Seminar to strengthen the debate on the gender perspective in Latin America, whose importance is supported by the endorsement of the International Geographical Union (UGI), through its Commission on Gender and Geography.
The seminar seeks to promote the knowledge and knowledge of the scientific world with the realities of corporalities, generating instances that relate the gender approach with geography, thus linking various actors within today's society, from a interdisciplinary work, made up of academics, professionals, students and activists, through an experimental approach; maintaining a community, intersectional and non-profit perspective. With the sole intention of generating an instance of collective critical reflection; through the encounter, conversations that encompass the geographical area, gender, spatiality and body scale; which can be mixed in an interdisciplinary way with other sciences/disciplines and the situated experience of civil society.
Thus, the V Latin American Seminar on Geography, Gender and Sexualities in September 2022, will have as its objective, to be able to share tools and territorial experiences of gender issues of activists, researchers and members of dissident communities from all over Latin America.
For more details visit the Conference Website here.
Email : congress.geoygenero@gmail.com
International Conference on Crisis, Recovery and Gender: Feminist Spatial Perspectives
July 14th - 15th 2022
Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
The aim of this pre-Conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of different knowledgies, ideas, and experiences in a variety of international contexts. We are interested in proposals that explore feminist and spatial perspectives of capitalist crises. Another relevant issue is what kind of feminist responses contributes to the recovery from these crises.
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Dina Vaiou (National Technical University of Athens)
Dr. Ann Oberhauser (Iowa State University)
Dr. Martina Caretta (Lund University)
Special Tricenary Session: Round table on the History of the Gender and Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union.
Chair: Dr. Anindita Datta (University of Delhi)
The Conference is designed to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and networking between geographers and other researchers interested in Gender and Geography. With this in mind, the key theme is designed as a starting point to stimulate debate and discussion from feminist, intersectional and critical geographical research perspectives
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not restricted to, the following:
-
Geopolitical crisis and gendered perspectives on crisis and recovery.
-
Environmental crisis, climate justice and feminist political ecology.
-
Postpandemic economic crisis, employment, and restructuring.
-
Austerity, inequality, and pandemics i n public health systems.
-
Gender, housing crisis, mobilities and right to the city.
-
Welfare, reproduction, and social care.
-
Education inequalities in crisis and recovery.
-
Migration and refugee justice.
-
Reading landscapes of austerity and crisis.
-
Implications of social and physical distance for livelihoods and care.
-
Social movements and feminist resistances.
-
Gendered aspects of access and use of communication technologies and social med ia platforms.
-
Feminist solidarities, intergenerational relations, and knowledge exchanges.
Registration form
https://gruporic.servicioapps.com/w/feministgeographies/112183/feminist-geographies
Registration Fees (lunch is not included)
Regular registration: 1st May - 15th June:
standard: 150 euros
student: 75 euros
Late registration: 15th June to 30th June:
standard: 225 euros
student: 125 euros
Tentative schedule
Thursday 14th July 2022
9:00-9:30 Arrival and registration
9:30-10:00 Conference Welcome
10:00-11:10 Keynote 1 : Martina Caretta (Lund University)
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Session 1: Education inequalities in crisis and recovery
12:45-13:45 Session 2: Welfare, reproduction, and social care
13:45-14:45 Lunch time
14:45-16:00 Special Tricenary Session: Round table on the History of the Gender and Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union. Chair: Anindita Datta (University of Delhi)
16:15-17:15 Session 3: Migration and refugee justice
17:30-18:30 Session 4: Austerity , inequality, and pandemics in public health systems
18:45-19:45 Session 5: Environmental crisis and feminist political ecology
Friday 15th July 2022
9:15-10:15 Session 6: Postpandemic economic crisis
10:30-11:30 Session 7: Gendered aspects of access of communication technologies and social media platforms
11:30-11:50 Coffee break
11:50-13:00 Keynote 2: Ann Oberhauser (Iowa State University)
13:00-14:00 Lunch time
14:00-15:00 Session 8: Social movements, feminist resistances and solidarities
15:15-16:15 Session 9: Gender, housing crisis, mobilities and right to the city
16:30-17:30 Key note 3: Dina Vaiou (National Technical University of Athens)
Organized by: Geography and Gender Research Group, Department of Geography. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
Contact: gendergeo2022@gmail.com
2022 Feminist Geography Conference
We warmly invite you to participate in the fourth international Feminist Geography Conference "Pushing Boundaries” to be held virtually and in-person at the University of Colorado at Boulder, June 15-17, 2022. Our main goals are to gather as feminist geographers, to share our work (however “in progress” it may be), and to discuss in community.
Pushing Boundaries acknowledges the ways physical, geopolitical, theoretical, imagined, emotional, biological and disciplinary boundaries inform and are informed by our research and feminist praxis. In some cases, these boundaries are prohibitive and reproduce exclusions. In others, feminist geography pushes against, critiques and traverses such boundaries, leading to greater insight driven by the imperative for social justice and inclusion at all scales.
The format of the conference also pushes against and extends geographical boundaries of time and space. The conference will be hosted both in-person at University of Colorado Boulder, USA, with time zone-friendly programming for India, the UK, Canada, and at multiple sites including Uganda and Ecuador.
The conference (in-person and online) supports multiple formats and modes of engagement including flipped paper sessions, roundtable discussions, professional development workshops, mentoring and networking opportunities, ‘in person’ self-organized events, virtual coffee time and keynote panels. All sessions will be recorded and available live and for 30 days following the conference for registered participants to view.
Virtual attendance is free. IGU-Gender is sponsoring early career and underrepresented scholars to participate in India-based events. Please contact Professor Anindita Datta for more details.
Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures
September 26 - 28th
York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
The research project, Urbanisation, gender and the global south: A transformative knowledge network (GenUrb) is pleased to issue the first call for papers for the Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures International Conference.
The purpose of this conference is to advance feminist thinking on urban research across the global south.
With social reproduction in crisis and people increasingly making a living outside the wage, the urban is being reshaped in ways that are no longer captured in twentieth century conceptualizations of urbanisation. In those countries labelled the ‘global south’ urbanization, driven both by natural increase and rural to urban migration, is where over 90 per cent of urban growth (between 2000 – 2050) is expected to occur. Our aim in this conference is to explore how feminist scholars, activists and policy makers understand the gendered nature of urbanization, and women’s place-making strategies, and to rethink the urban from the perspective of “the global south,” not least comparatively and relationally.
Through a series of roundtable, panels, workshop, and research paper sessions the Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures conference will create a global dialogue on the following themes: comparative feminist research, critical policy dialogues on gender and the urban, feminist activism and the city, and social reproduction and women’s place-making in cities. The conference will bring together leading feminist urban scholars, shapers of urban policy, activists working on gender and the urban at various scales, as well as new and emerging scholars working on feminist approaches to the urban.
This call for papers invites researchers, students, policy makers, artists, and practitioners to submit proposals for research papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following themes:
· Social reproduction/production/financialization
· Everyday life: housing and habitus
· Mobility, migration, debt, networks
· Infrastructure
· Violence
· Grassroots mobilisation and advocacy
· Global urban policy frameworks and local contexts.
Submission process: Abstracts of no more than 250 words are due to be submitted to https://bit.ly/2IFV578 by 1 May 2019. Applicants will be notified of our decision by May 15, 2019.
IV Latin American Seminar on Geography, Gender and Sexualities
November 13-15th
Buenos Aires Center University, Tandil - Argentina
7th Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Conference
In 2019 we are pleased to support the IV Latin American Seminar on Geography, Gender and Sexualities! All enquiries to Diana Lan (dlan@fch.unicen.edu.ar)
October 18-21st, 2018
Bangkok, Thailand
From catch to consumer: Empowering ,counting and hearing women in fisheries
Experts to gather at 7th Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Conference 11 October | Bangkok, Thailand: Women make up half the global labor force in fisheries and aquaculture, supporting a dynamic global economic sector that is also crucial to food security and nutrition. Yet, the gender dimension receives scarce attention. How does this lack of awareness of women’s contributions affect the sector’s performance? How can women’s roles and rights be secured for better outcomes for all? Over 120 experts, researchers and practitioners from more than 25 countries will discuss strategies to enhance gender inclusiveness and equality in the sector at the 7th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangkok on 18–21 October 2018.
Celebrating IGU Lauréat d’honneur awardee Professor Robyn Longhurst!
Award presented in Quebec at the IGU meetings, Ausgust 2018
The prestigious Lauréat d’honneur recognises individuals who have achieved particular distinction or outstanding service in the work of the Union or in international geography and environmental research.
The Union’s citation for Professor Longhurst states:
She is a leading scholar in gender, social and cultural geography. Her sustained intellectual and institutional contributions – nationally and internationally – continue to profoundly reshape the discipline. She served the Union’s Gender and Geography Commission for three terms, one of which as Chair, and is a global collaborator with numerous groups and institutions. Robyn's theoretically and empirically rich research focuses on the challenges and complexities of people, inequalities and injustices. Her research on gendered spaces - particularly pregnancy, mothering and social media - is ground-breaking. A committed educator, she has many awards for her geography teaching and research supervision and is a richly deserving recipient of the Lauréat d’honneur.
Professor Longhurst notes: "Although this award has been conferred upon me, and for this I’m deeply grateful, it actually reflects positively on the incredible work carried out by the Gender and Geography Commission,” she says. “It has been a privilege working with members of this highly successful Commission on issues of inequality over many years, and I see this award as being for all of those who contributed to this success. The award also reflects positively on the discipline of Geography in New Zealand.”
(adapted from http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-events/media/2018/international-recognition-for-university-of-waikato-academic-leader)
Congrats Robyn!
IGU/YES! Symposium: Gendered Geographies of Care and Mentoring (Pre-NZGS/IAG)
July 10-11, 2018
University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Co-sponsored by:
The IGU Gender and Geography Commission, and Young or Emerging Scholars (YES)!
The Women and Gender Geographies Research Network (WGGRN)
The New Zealand Geographical Society (NZGS) Women and Gender Geographies Study Group
Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (GPC)
The International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Gender and Geography, the Young or Emerging Scholars (YES!), the Women and Gender Geographies Study Group of the NZGS, and the Aotearoa New Zealand Women and Gender Geographies Research Network (WGGRN) are pleased to announce a feminist geography symposium to be held in and around Auckland University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Symposium will start on the evening of the 10th of July, followed by a day of activities on the 11th of July. Participants are then able to join the NZGS and Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) Joint Conference at Auckland University, beginning at 4pm on the 11th of July, and concluding on the 14th of July.
The purpose of the Symposium is to provide a space for gender and feminist geography scholars, researchers, and activists to gather and foster discussion around the GPC 25th anniversary themes of care ethics and mentoring. We invite attendees to examine connections and collaborations among feminist and other fields of critical geography such as queer and anti-racist geographies, Māori geographies, Indigenous geographies, health geographies, political ecologies, and more-than-human geographies. The Symposium format may include a combination of mini-paper sessions, panels, and workshops.
Papers, Panels and Workshop Submission
We are seeking submissions for sessions, panels, or workshops that engage with the GPC 25th anniversary themes of care ethics and / or mentoring. Submissions may consider:
o Intersections of a feminist ethics of care and our role as ‘critic and conscience’
o Building and bridging feminist activist-academic commitments to social change
o Intersectionality politics in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond
o Sexual politics in the university
o Managing careers, caring relations, and service
In your submission, please include an abstract of no more than 250 words and send to either Annie Bartos (a.bartos@auckland.ac.nz); Lynda Johnston (lynda.johnston@waikato.ac.nz); or Yvonne Underhill-Sem (y.underhill-sem@auckland.ac.nz).
Registration
Details about registration (and a modest sliding scale registration fee) will be announced shortly.
Registration and evening welcoming event and guest speaker– Tuesday, 10th July, 2018, to be held at the Women’s Bookshop, 105 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, https://www.womensbookshop.co.nz/
Paper, panel sessions and workshops – Wednesday, 11th July, 2018
Hosts
IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, YES!, WGGRN, Women and Gender Geographies Study Group.
NZGS/ IAG Conference CFP: Gender, Sex, Space and Place: Precarious Geographies?
August 11-14, 2018
University of Aukland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Session Title: Gender, Sex, Space and Place: Precarious Geographies?
Convenors: Lynda Johnston (lynda.johnston@waikato.ac.nz) and Andrew Gorman-Murray (a.gorman-murray@westernsydney.edu.au)
In a time currently characterised as precarious, anxious and insecure, feminist and queer geographers are well placed to examine vulnerable geographies - including their own - of bodies, lives and labours. This paper session calls for scholars to consider (non)precarious geographies of genders and sexualities at a range of intersecting scales. We are interested in papers that explore the particularities and intersections between precarity with gender, sex, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age, disability, culture, space, and place. In other words, presenters are encouraged to explore the many axes of feminist and / or queer research, methodologies, and collaborations. A recurring theme throughout feminist and queer precarious geographical literature is the importance of foregrounding relationality, the multiscalar, and marginalised bodies. Ultimately, what it means to feel ‘secure’ shifts and changes across places, genders and sexualities. We welcome papers that are theoretical, methodological, and / or empirical in nature. We also welcome papers that engage in the construction of precarious geographical knowledges.
Keywords: genders, sexualities, bodies, health, (in)securities, vulnerabilities, employment, migrants, refugees, disasters, geographical knowledges
Please send an abstract (150-200 words) with a title, your name, affiliation, and contact information to the session convenors at Lynda Johnstonlynda.johnston@waikato.ac.nz) and Andrew Gorman-Murray (a.gorman-murray@westernsydney.edu.au) by 9th of April 2018.
The paper session is co-sponsored by:
The IGU Gender and Geography Commission, and Young or Emerging Scholars (YES)!
The New Zealand Geographical Society (NZGS) Women and Gender Geographies Study Group
The Women and Gender Geographies Research Network (WGGRN)
Feminist Geography Conference (pre-IGU & CAG)
August 4-6, 2018
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Canadian Women and Geography (CWAG) specialty group of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Gender and Geography are pleased to announce a two-day feminist geography conference to be held at the University of Montréal in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Taking place before the IGU Regional Conference and the Annual Meeting of the CAG in Québec City, the pre-conference will promote intergenerational and intersectional dialogues among feminist scholars, researchers and activists around the theme of practicing feminist geography in times that are troubled by recent ecological and societal changes such as the rise of white supremacy and homophobia, neoliberal politics, authoritarianism and climate change. We seek to create a space to examine solidarities and connections among feminist and other fields of critical geography such as queer and anti-racist geographies, political ecology, and non-human geographies. The pre-conference also aims to encourage discussion across linguistic differences by creating space for feminist geographers working in non-Anglo-American contexts. This is a fun, supportive and intellectually invigorating opportunity to connect with feminist geographers from around the world. Join us!
We are currently soliciting proposals for sessions. Proposals may be submitted in Spanish, French, and English however, presentations will be in French or English.
Possible Themes
How do feminist geographers understand and address troubled times at all scales from the body to the globe and in contexts such as the home, workplace, and public spaces? How do we address various and messy tensions and contradictions of feminist geographies in and during troubled times? How are tensions contested? What does it mean for various bodies to move through spaces of contradiction and tension? What kinds of tools do we have to dismantle these tensions for opening up spaces for marginalized subjectivities? How can we learn to listen to each other and move forward during these troubled times? What kinds of actions that we can take collectively? We invite proposals to address these tensions and contradictions to open up spaces for conversation and dialogue that includes but not limited to:
● Place and space for/by feminist and other critical geographers in/during troubled times
● Knowledges, methodologies and tools in/during troubled times
● Talking across and through diverse feminist geography traditions and generations
● Connecting feminist geographies and geographers in/during troubled times
● Feminist next steps for better times (what action and praxis?)
● Art(istic) and performative responses to troubled times
Sessions, Panels, and Paper Submission
In the submission, include the name of the session, panel or paper, the names and contact information for all participants and an abstract of no more than 250 words.
Abstracts and presentations can be in either English or French.
Sessions & Panels: October 31, 2017
Papers: November 30, 2017
Address for submission : femgeogconference@gmail.com
Registration
Details about registration will be announced shortly.
A modest registration fee that will be reduced for graduate students will be charged
Tentative Schedule
Registration and Welcoming Event – Saturday, August 4, 2018
Paper sessions and keynote – Sunday, August 5, 2018
Paper sessions and panels – Monday, August 6, 2018 (morning)
Depart for IGU in Quebec City – Monday, August 6, 2018 (afternoon)
Hosts
IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, Canadian Women and Geography (CWAG), and Département de géografie, Université de Montréal.
Organizing Team
Marianne Blidon (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), Caroline Desbiens (Université Laval), Patricia Martin (Université de Montréal), Tiffany Muller-Myrdahl (Simon Fraser University), Julie Podmore (John Abbott College), Valerie Preston (York University), Laura Shillington (John Abbott college), Laurence Simard-Gagnon (Queen's University) and Ebru Ustundag (Brock University)
International Seminar on Gender and Space and Latin-American Seminar on Geography, Gender and Sexualities
May 16-19, 2017
Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico, Campus Iztapalapa, Azcapotzalco, Cuajimalpa and Xochimilco Mexico City
Before March 15, 2017 $ 100.00 USD From March 1 to May 16, 2017: $125.00 USD
Undergraduate or graduate students inscribed at a University will pay 50% of the accorded fee.
Topics for Discussion
Organized by the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico, Campus Iztapalapa, Azcapotzalco, Cuajimalpa and Xochimilco, in collaboration with University’s Gender Studies Program, the Geography Institute, the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and the University’s City Studies Program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ponta Grossa Estadual University, Rondonia Federal University, Federal of Santa María University and Federal of Rio Grande University of Brasil and the Commission on Gender and Geography of the International Geographical Union.
This second meeting is intended to promote discussion on the main theoretical and methodological problems regarding the study of the relationship between gender, sexuality and space. Both seminars aim to establish a permanent Seminar in which new ideas can be discussed, exchanged and produced in an interdisciplinary environment. Specialists and scholars from the fields of social sciences and the humanities are cordially invited to submit unpublished papers and documentary materials on the subject. II International Seminar on Gender and Space and III Latin-American Seminar on Geography, Gender and Sexualities members will subsequently be expected to meet periodically in Mexico City or elsewhere to report their own research progress and engage in theoretical and methodological discussions, as well as share their research experiences.
Of particular interest to the Seminar is the organization of a gender and space research network. Seminars Proceedings will be published in digital format on the Internet, and a printed volume will be prepared with the most noteworthy papers.