Dear Members of Research Committee 19 - Gender Politics and Policy,

We are excited to announce that the International Political Science Association (IPSA) will hold its 28th World Congress in Seoul, South Korea, from 12-16 July 2025. The conference theme is “Resisting Autocratization in Polarized Societies.”

Call for Panels Now Open!

The Call for Panels for the 2025 IPSA World Congress of Political Science is now open! We welcome panel proposals (both open and closed) on any subject connected to gender politics and policy.

Important Details:

• Event Dates: 12-16 July 2025

• Location: Seoul, South Korea

• Theme: Resisting Autocratization in Polarized Societies

• Call for Papers Opens: 10 September 2024

Panel Submissions:

• Deadline for Open Panel Proposals: 28 August 2024

• Deadline for Closed Panel Proposals: 5 November 2024

To submit a proposal, you will need an IPSA online account (free). While IPSA membership is not required for submission, it is mandatory for participation and registration for the World Congress. For more information, please visit the IPSA Individual Membership page.

Submission Guidelines:

• Panel proposals may be submitted in up to two (2) tracks (see tracks here).

• For closed panel proposals, please ensure you have recruited four to six paper presenters.

For detailed submission guidelines and rules for participation, please visit the World Congress website.

We look forward to your valuable contributions and thank you in advance for your participation in making the 2025 IPSA World Congress a success.

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