RC 19 will hold a business meeting on Tuesday, July 18 at 12:45 PM (ARG) (UTC-3). The meeting will be in person, and we are hoping to provide a link for remote attedance soon. Be on the lookout for link in the RC 19 Listserv (signup form below). 

Meeting Location: San José (1st Floor), Room 105.

In advance of the business meeting, we ask our members to please observe the following:

• If you have items to add to the agenda, please send them to the RC email (ipsa.rc19@gmail.com).
• If you want to nominate for the executive board, also please send your name to Jennifer. Also, previous members of the Board are welcome to submit their names if they are interested in continuing in the Board. The final election of the Board will take place in the meeting.

RC 07 and RC19 will have a combined business meeting  on Monday 25th July 15.30-17.15;

Place: PCC -15/1.1 (Poznań Congress Center, Pavilion 15 (PCC-15))

In advance of the business meeting, we ask our members to please observe the following:

- if you have items to add to the agenda, please send them to Jennifer Curtin as incoming Chair,  j.curtin@auckland.ac.nz .

- if you want to nominate for the executive board, also please send your name to Jennifer. Also, previous members of the Board are welcome to submit their names if they are interested in continuing in the Board. The final election of the Board will take place in the meeting.
 

Our e-mail call for persons willing to serve as Deputy Chair for the next two years resulted in Dr. Lenita Freidenvall (University of Stockholm, Sweden)  taking up the challenge, with no additional candidates making themselves known, hence no on-line election took place.

You will find out more about Lenita in the short biographical note to follow. Lenita will ascend to Chair in 2018 after Jennifer Curtin (University of Ackland, New Zealand) who will step in  after Anne Maria Holli (University of Helsinki, Finland) in Poznan.

RC19 (Gender Politics and Policy)

Pre-Congress Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming: Theory and Practice ‒ Research and Teaching

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

WELCOME - send an e-mail to anne.holli@helsinki.fi for registration

Description

Since the mid-1990s and the UN Conference in Beijing, gender mainstreaming has been hailed as the feminist strategy for bringing gender perspectives into the study and practice of public policy and politics in general, at both the domestic and international level. Scholarship has offered some success stories, at least in comparative terms, with gender mainstreaming being realized in a transformative manner and with gender issues being considered in a ‘politics as usual’, self-evident, and systematic fashion. However, problems and failures in the gender mainstreaming effort appear to be a much more common story.

So is gender mainstreaming still a valid goal and strategy for feminist politics? How can we assess its advantages and disadvantages after twenty years of practicing gender mainstreaming? Are there possibilities for ameliorating the methods and application of this strategy to offset the disadvantages, or is there still a desire to do so? If not, what can we replace it with? And what opportunities and challenges has the concept of intersectionality – and the related strategy of diversity mainstreaming – brought to GM?

IPSA RC 19 (Gender, Politics and Policy), in conjunction with FIIN (Feminism and Institutionalism International Network) are seeking to sponsor a panel on 'Feminist Institutionalism and Gender Equality Policy' at the Second International Conference on Public Policy, to be held at the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, in Milan, 1st-3rd July, 2015.

Jill Vickers and Sarah Maddison are convening a workshop to coincide with the Montreal Congress. Most of the workshop sessions will be held on Saturday 19 July, with an additional panel to be scheduled during the congress itself (date and time yet to be announced.

Workshop to be held 18 July, 2014 (prior to the Montreal Congress)__

Joint Call by RCs 7, 19, 52

Call for Papers (cfp) for the journal Political Studies (NZ Sage) which is producing a special issue on Women and Politics to be forthcoming in June 2013. The deadline for manuscripts is 1 December 2012. For more information please contact

Kate.mcmillan@vuw.ac.nz or David.capie@vuw.ac.nz

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to http://pnz.sagepub.com/

2011

• August 18 Deadline to submit RC panels

• October 7 Deadline to submit abstract/paper proposals

• November 18 Deadline to submit travel grant applications

• December 2 Submitters are notified of final results

2012

• January 13 Travel grant applicants are notified of final results

• March 11 Registration Deadline for paper givers, discussants and chairs who wish their names to appear in the printed program. All panel chairs must register by this deadline.

• June 1 Deadline for paper presenters to upload papers

If there is any confusion, please go to www.ipsa.org