IPSA RC 19 - Gender Politics and Policy

Call for Papers and Panels: IPSA 2025 World Congres

IPSA RC 19 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:37:00 -0400

The Call for Papers for the 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, to be held in Seoul, South Korea from 12-16 July 2025, is now open! The #IPSA2025 World Congress will have a diverse program under the theme Autocratization in Polarized Societies. Paper and closed panel proposals on any political science-related subject are welcome.

Dear RC 19 members,

The Call for Papers for the 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, to be held in Seoul, South Korea from 12-16 July 2025, is now open! The #IPSA2025 World Congress will have a diverse program under the theme Autocratization in Polarized Societies. Paper and closed panel proposals on any political science-related subject are welcome.

Paper Submissions

Anyone can submit a proposal. An IPSA online account (free) is required to submit a proposal. While IPSA membership is not required for submission, it is mandatory for participation and registration for the IPSA World Congress. For more information, please visit the IPSA Individual membership page.

RC 19 Submissions:

Please consider submitting a paper or closed panel proposal related to Gender Politics and Policy. You can also submit a paper to one of our open panels available. We will share more details on each open panel in the coming weeks. Below is a list of open panel titles:

Doing ‘Politics’, Becoming Political: Women and Contemporary Indian Politics
Gender and Democracy: The Political Value, Participation, and Representation of Women
Gender Dynamics in Polarized Societies
Gender Politics in the Global South
Inclusive Decision-Making in Disaster Management: Enhancing Diversity and Women's Leadership
Political violence and women leaders in Latin America
Women as Leaders — From the Local to National Level

We are looking forward to seeing your contribution to the IPSA 2025 conference!

Call for Panel Proposals - IPSA World Congress 2025

IPSA RC 19 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:51:00 -0400

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.

2023 IPSA Conference Minutes

IPSA RC 19 — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:22:00 -0400

Please see below link of the minutes for the 2023 IPSA RC 19 (Women Gender and Policy) Business Meeting held in Buenos Aires.

Link to PDF document

If you are not in our Listserv yet, please suscribe below:

2023 IPSA RC 19 Business Meeting

IPSA RC 19 — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:52:00 -0400

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.

2023 IPSA Pre-Conference Saturday, July 15

IPSA RC 19 — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:32:00 -0400

Global South Gender Claims and Disputes: Trajectories, Threats and Achievements

Buenos Aires, Saturday July 15th, 2.30pm - 07:00 pm (ARG) (UTC-3)

Universidad del Salvador Auditorium- Tucumán 1845 (y Av. Callao)

The Global South has seen tremendous progress towards women’s rights in the last years. In contrast, in the Global North we have seen backsliding for women’s rights from the overturn of Roe vs. Wade in the United States to the rise of far-right populist parties in Europe waging a war against gender studies, intersectionality, and transgender rights. How can we explain those different trajectories? What can we learn from the progress in the Global South that might be applicable to Global North countries? Scholars from across the Global South will discuss the advancement or backsliding from a country, regional, or comparative perspective that help us illuminate the different regional trends.

IPSA Pre Conference

Business meeting in Poznan Monday 25th July 15.30-17.15

Anne Maria Holli — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:34:00 -0400

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.

Revised programme of Pre-Congress Workshop in Poznan 23rd July

Anne Maria Holli — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:29:00 -0400

RC19 (Gender Politics and Policy)

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

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

Programme

Location: Classroom 120, AMU Morasko Campus, University of Adam Mickiewicz

See: https://wc2016.ipsa.org/events/congress/wc2016/venue

9.00-9.15 Welcome (by Anne Maria Holli, Chair of RC19)

9.15-10.00 Olena Hankivsky (Simon Fraser University): Is it time for a post-gender mainstreaming conversation?

10.00-10.45 Kristy Kelly (Columbia University and Drexel University).: ‘We weren’t unhappy until this workshop!’ Engendering the State, Democratizing Development

10.45-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.45 Amanda Gouws (University of Stellenbosch): Thinking about gender mainstreaming from a Southern perspective

11.45-12.30 Kimete Canaj (University of Vienna): Gender mainstreaming in Kosova

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-14.15 Kirsty McLaren (Australian National University and University of Liberia): The challenges of ‘doing’ intersectionality: early pregnancy and girls’ education in Liberia

14.15-15.00 Petra Ahrens (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Teaching the invisible – gender mainstreaming in Germany

15.00 -15. 15 Coffee break

15.15 -16.00 Judit Fabian (University of Ottawa): Finding feminist political ‘science' at the global level: ‘Gender mainstreaming’ and the representation of women and women’s interests

16.00-17.00 General discussion and wrap-up of the seminar

Dr. Lenita Freidenvall elected to new Deputy Chair for 2016-18

Anne Maria Holli — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:20:00 -0400

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.

Lenita Freidenvall is Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Co-Director of the Women in Politics Research Network. Her research publications cover the fields of gender politics and public policy in comparative perspective, specialising in political representation, candidate selection and gender quotas. As representative of Stockholm University, Lenita is responsible for the electoral gender quota project (www.quotaproject.org) together with International IDEA and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). In 2014 she was commissioned by the Swedish government to investigate Swedish gender equality politics 2004-2014. She attended her first IPSA Congress in Durban, South Africa in 2003, and has been involved in the RC 19 since then. She believes IPSA is a central arena for the representation and presentation of work by women political scientists across the world and a key forum for addressing and promoting feminist research.

RC19 calls for candidacies for Vice-Chair for 2016-18

Anne Maria Holli — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 07:39:00 -0400

Today there was sent a mail to our members calling for nominations for Vice-Chair for 2016-18.

The deadline for informing the current chair (anne.holli@helsinki.fi) for one's willingness to assume this responsibility is Saturday 18th June. After that, the cvs and mission statements of the candidates will be made public for the membership. Election day will be Monday 27th June. Instructions for procedures will be sent to members by mail.

Pre-Congress Workshop 23rd July, Poznan

Anne Maria Holli — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:28:00 -0400

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?

More recently, gender mainstreaming has come to be regarded a crucial strategy for transforming research and teaching in the academic field of political ‘science’. How do we ourselves as academics “do” gender mainstreaming in our research activities, how do we work to ensure gendered research is claimed as core knowledge in the discipline, and how do we mediate knowledge in the class-room in order to achieve this goal? What are the experiences, good practices and insights, and actual barriers to doing this? Have we been successful in bringing feminist scholarship into the “mainstream”? And what lessons from our experience of GM in research and teaching resonate with the insights gained in studying GM as a strategy in politics and policy work?

This Pre-Congress Workshop organized by RC 19 brings together gender scholars to exchange information, ideas and viewpoints on the state of gender mainstreaming in the study of politics and public policy, as well as in the fields of research and teaching. The presentations will include theoretical and empirical, case-specific and comparative analyses, as well as contributions from the floor. All those interested are welcome to participate, however, pre-registration is required (anne.holli@helsinki.fi).

Programme

9.00-9.15 Welcome (by Anne Maria Holli, Chair of RC19)

9.15-10.00 Olena Hankivsky (Simon Fraser University): Is it time for a post-gender mainstreaming conversation?

10.00-10.45 Kristy Kelly (Columbia University and Drexel University).: ‘We weren’t unhappy until this workshop!’ Engendering the State, Democratizing Development

10.45-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.45 Amanda Gouws (University of Stellenbosch): Thinking about gender mainstreaming from a Southern perspective

11.45-12.30 Kimete Canaj (University of Vienna): Gender mainstreaming in Kosova

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-14. 15 Kirsty McLaren (Australian National University and University of Liberia): The challenges of ‘doing’ intersectionality: early pregnancy and girls’ education in Liberia

14. 15-15.00 Tania Verge, Mariona Ferrer-Fons and M. José González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Resistance to mainstreaming gender into the higher education curriculum

15.00 -15. 15 Coffee break

15.15 -16.00 Judit Fabian (University of Ottawa): Finding feminist political ‘science' at the global level: ‘Gender mainstreaming’ and the representation of women and women’s interests

16.00-17.00 General discussion and wrap-up of the seminar

RC19 Panels in World Congress 2016

Anne Maria Holli — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 06:53:00 -0400

...click on the link on the right side of page to find the current overview of our panels.

Moreover, there are additional gender panels in RC07 and in several other RCs, as well as congress sections. Hopefully, I will get a total overview here sooner or later.

Yours, Anne Maria

RC-19 was represented at the 10th Anniversary Event of the Implementation of the IPSA Secretariat in Montréal

Anne Maria Holli — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:09:00 -0400

Dear RC-19 Members,

I hope this finds you all well. I thought that it might be of interest to the wider RC-19 community that our Research Committee was represented at the 10th Anniversary Event of the Implementation of the IPSA Secretariat in Montréal, Canada, on March 30.

Please find a picture attached with Aiji Tanaka, IPSA President, and myself in mid-conversation. From left to right, the following people are included in the picture: Joseph Tarabulsy (attendee), Yannick Saint-Germain (IPSA Event Project Manager), Aiji Tanaka (IPSA President), and myself, Judit Fabian (Member of IPSA RC-19 Executive Board). We were having a very nice conversation when the official photographer of the event asked for the picture to be taken.

Very best wishes to all members of RC-19 and good luck to all with preparing for the next IPSA Congress in Poznan.

See you in July,

Judit

Dr. Judit Fabian
BSc, BA, MA, PhD
Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholar (2015-16)

Member of IPSA RC-19 Executive Board (Gender Politics and Policy)
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
University of Ottawa
120 University Private, Ottawa, ON
K1N 6N5, Canada
jfabian@uottawa.ca

RC 19 sponsors a panel at European Conference of Politics and Gender in Uppsala, 13th June 2015

Anne Maria Holli — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 10:59:00 -0400

For those of the members attending the European Conference on Politics and Gender in Uppsala , please mark the following event (Saturday 9 a.m) organised by RC19 on your conference calendar. We are looking forward to discussing discuss the state and future of feminist political science with you!

Roundtable: Where is feminist political science going? By RC19 (Gender politics and policy)

Section: Research Methods for Gender and Politics
Time: 13/06/2015 09:00
Location: Building: Skytteanum Floor: Ground Room: Gyllenhielmska biblioteket
Chair: Anne Maria Holli (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Co.chair: Jennifer Curtin (University of Auckland, NZ)

Roundtable participants

Does Feminism need Political Science? - Joni Lovenduski (Bircbeck College, UK)

Feminist Political Science: Does Professional Recognition Come at the Expense of Feminist Politics? - Marian Sawer (Australian National University, Australia)

Feminists take to the Streets: Political Strategy and Political Science in an Era of Conservative Resurgence _ Laurel S. Weldon (Purdue College, U.S.)

Discussant: Judit Fabian (Carleton University, Canada)

Roundtable abstract

Feminist political science emerged in the 1970s from feminist movements in the academia and the society as a critique towards the gender bias evident in male mainstream science and its embedded assumptions concerning the nature of politics, the public-private divide and a neglect of considering women as political actors. During the last forty years, feminist political science has proved not only its worth in revigorating the field theoretically and empirically, but also in its institutional growth e.g. in establishing professional fora, conferences and publications, not to mention influence on academic curricula around the world. This roundtable gathers scholars to reflect and discuss the past, present and future state of the art. How have come to the current stage; what are the benefits, problems, challenges and gaps in today’s research? To what extent are there regional variations in the development of the subfield? Where are we going to and how do we vision the development of the field further? Participants: Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck College, UK) Marian Sawer (Australia) Laurel S. Weldon (Purdue College, USA)

Call for papers for ICPP conference 1-3 July 2015

Anne Maria Holli — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:34:00 -0500

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.

We welcome papers from around the globe that explore how feminist engagement with institutionalism (and its varieties, including feminist institutionalism) facilitate new theoretical and empirical understandings of how policy processes and outcomes are gendered in their practices and effects.

If interested, please send a paper title and short abstract (150 words) to Jennifer Curtin (j.curtin@auckland.ac.nz) and Melissa Haussman (melissahaussman@connect.carleton.ca) by 7 October 2014.

Feel free to distribute this call to others you think might be interested.

best
Jennifer

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Associate Professor Jennifer Curtin
Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences
Coordinator, Master of Public Policy Programme
Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau / University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142
Aotearoa/New Zealand

Tel: + 64 9 373 7599 extn. 87437; Fax: 64 9 373 7449
Room 543, 5th floor, HSB 10 Symonds Street
Email: j.curtin@auckland.ac.nz;
@jennifer_curtin

After Montreal World Conference News

Anne Maria Holli — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:46:00 -0500

On the heels of a very successful showing at the IPSA World Congress in Montreal in July, RC19 is busily preparing for several activities.

Since our last newsletter update, the new executive – Anne Maria Holli (University of Helsinki, Finland) as chair and Jennifer Curtin, University of Auckland, New Zealand) as vice-chair have been working on several projects in order to advance RC business, with the active assistance of the new board consisting of Parvathy Appaiah (India), Judit Fabian and Joan Grace (both from Canada), Sarah Maddison (Australia), Petra Meier (Belgium) , Birgit Sauer (Austria), Lea Sgier (Hungary) and Patricia Lee Sykes (United States).

For starters, we are among the co-sponsors of the Second International Conference on Public Policy at Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan, 1st-3rd July, 2015. The first time this event was organized in 2012, it attracted over 1000 participants. We are hoping that also RC19 people increasingly find this new conference which is a new joint co-operative effort by several IPSA RCs. Melissa Haussman, former chair of RC19, is our representative in the organizing committee of the conference. The new vice –chair Jennifer Curtin is also, as we speak, in conjunction with FIIN (Feminism and Institutionalism International Network) busily organizing a special panel on 'Feminist Institutionalism and Gender Equality Policy'. In addition to this panel, the general call for paper proposals opens on 15 November and closes on January 15th. We sincerely hope that scholars specializing in gender and public policy will make a strong appearance within all the strands and themes targeted by the conference!

For Europeans at least, and maybe even most of the other RC19 members around the world, the highlight of 2015 is the 4^th European Conference on Gender and Politics, arranged by ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics, June 11-13 at Uppsala University, Sweden. Continuing the initiative taken for 3^rd ECPG conference, RC19 will again be sponsoring a specific Roundtable on the State of the Art of Gender and Politics in Uppsala. The proposed Roundtable is titled “Where is feminist political science going to?” and it promises to gather some of the most prominent scholars worldwide to share their thoughts on the topic.

Montreal Pre-Congress Workshop on Gender and Nationalism

Sarah Maddison — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:55:00 -0400

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.

The preliminary program is as follows:

Panel 1: New Approaches To Studies Of Gender and Nationalisms NOTE: This panel will be held during the IPSA sessions on Tuesday, July 22nd - 3.00-4:45 Palais des congrès 512e

Chair: Carol Johnson, Adelaide University, Australia.

Comparing Gender Aspects of Nations, Nation-State Building and Nationalisms

Professor Jill Vickers, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa,

The Changing Signification of the Nation

Professor Diane Lamoureux, Department of Political Science, Université Laval, Quebec

Women and Nationalism in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict

Dr. Melanie Hoewer, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin

The ‘Golden Triangle’ of Nationalism, Gender and the Economic

Judit Fabian, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa

Discussant: Sarah Maddison, University of New South Wales

Panel Two: 19 July, 2014 9:00-10:00 Masculinities and Nationalisms

Chair: Professor Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

Ordinary Masculinities and Refugees: Belonging to the Jordanian Nation

Luigi Achilli, Research Associate, Ifpol

Gender and Muscular Nationalism in India

Sikata Bannerjee, University of Victoria

Tea/Coffee 10-10:30

Panel 3 10:30—11:30 Gender and Nationalism in Ireland

Chair: Dr. Melanie Hoewer, School of Politics and International Relations

Time, Gender and Irish State Legitimacy, 1912-1923

Aidan Beatty , History, University of Chicago

No Idle Sightseers:The Ulster Women’s Unionist Council & the Ulster Crisis, 1912-14

Pamela McKrane, York University, Canada

LUNCH 11:30- 1

Panel Four 1-3:30 Minority Women’s National Identities

Chair: Micheline de Sève, University of Quebec at Montreal

Strengthening National Identity Among India’s Muslim Women

Sarah Bibler and Vasu Mohan, International Foundation for Electoral Systems

Sexist Proverbs, Gender and Uyghur Nationalism in Xinjianj

Elena Caprioni, University of Toronto

Intersectionality and Nation-Building Among Rural Women in Timor-Leste

Sarah Maddison, UNSW and Deborah Cummings, RMIT

Women’s Citizenship and Ethno-National Minority Territorial Autonomy Arrangements: Catalonia,Corsica, Hong Kong and Tibet

Susan Henders, York University, Centre for Asian Research

Women are Nurses and Men are Cadets: Gender and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party

Margaret Power , Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

TEA/COFFEE 3:30-4

Panel 5 4-5:30 Gendering Extreme Nationalisms

Chair: Jill Vickers, Political Science, Carleton University jill.vickers@sympatico.ca

Gender and Nationalism: Reflections on Contemporary Japanese Nationalism Discourse

Donna Weeks, University of the Sunshine Coast

Women’s Support for the Radical Right: The Role of Gender Issues- the UK

Jon Mulholland, Middlesex University, Nicola Montyna, Middlesex University and Erin Saunders-McDonagh, Middlesex University

Women’s Support for the Radical Right: The Role of Gender Issues-Germany

Dr Renate Bitzan , Nuremberg Institute of Technology

5:30-6pm Discussion of Networking Arrangements & Publishing Possibilities

RC 19 Inter-Congress Meeting

Sarah Maddison — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:25:00 -0400

RC 19 will organize an inter-Congress meeting on “The potentials and limits of Nordic equality politics in times of globalisation and change”

Helsinki, Finland, 12-14 December 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

The meeting is part of a joint conference “Perspectives on political science and gender”, organized by International Political Science Association (IPSA), IPSA research committees 19 (Gender Politics and Policy) and 33 (the Study of Political Science as a Discipline), Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA) and Finnish Political Science Association (FPSA). The Conference is organized in conjunction with the IPSA Executive Committee Meeting in Helsinki. The Nordic Political Science Association and the Finnish Political Science Association will also organize events during the Conference.

Theme: The Nordic Countries have for a long time been considered as model countries when it comes to gender equality, a high representation of women in politics and ‘women-friendly’ policies enabling a dual bread-winner/career model for both sexes. The aim of this meeting is to provide a forum for a critical analysis of the situation and future prospects in the Nordic contexts today, in the framework of global economies, increasing migration and multi-culturalism in Nordic societies as well as the rise of support for populist, often anti-immigration and anti-equality parties. Invited speakers and participants include top feminist scholars in this field. The organisers welcome paper proposals to all the planned workshop sessions on this theme.

Deadline for for paper proposals is 15.9.2013. Abstracts should be sent to Anne Maria Holli (anne.holli@helsinki.fi)

For more information: see the conference website: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/fpsaconference2013/

__Programme

Roundtable: What can (Nordic) feminist studies contribute to political science?__

Chair: Anne Maria Holli (University of Helsinki) Terrell Carver (University of Bristol): ‘Gender is not a synonym for women’ Linda Cardinal (University of Ottawa): ‘Political science, feminist studies, minorities and intersectionality’ Birte Siim (University of Aalborg): ‘The challenge to reframe citizenship and gender equality - a Nordic (feminist) perspective’ Lenita Freidenvall (University of Stockholm): ‘Gender equality policy: actors, institutions and processes’

Workshops:

1. Critical feminist policy analysis. Theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges

Chair: Malin Rönnblom (University of Umeå)

2. Gender equality, nationalism and welfare: intersectional contestations and the politics of belonging

Chair: Pauline Stoltz (University of Aalborg)

3. Open workshop

Chair: Lenita Freidenvall (University of Stockholm)

4. The politics of gender and equality in times of globalisation and change – comparative perspectives

Chair: Christina Bergqvist (University of Uppsala)

IPSA Call for Papers for a pre-Congress Workshop on Gender, Nationalisms and Nation-Building

Sarah Maddison — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:59:00 -0400

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

Joint Call by RCs 7, 19, 52

Gender is now understood as key to processes of nationalism, nation-building, and the formation of national communities. Studies show that ‘the nation’ is not gender-neutral, but constructs and mobilises specific gender regimes and dominant conceptions of masculinity and femininity. Considerable research exists about how women, women’s movements and feminisms relate to nationalisms, nation-state formation and nation-building. In various disciplines, the resulting literature displays great diversity in its findings. However, mainstream theories of nationalism and of national processes virtually always ignore this literature. Disrupting mainstream assumptions calls for systematic comparisons of gender/ national relations that eventually can inform general theories.

Discourse also has an important role to play in these analyses. Within nationalist discourses, women are often presented as reproducers of the nation and its boundaries, as signifiers of the national identity, and transmitters of culture. Although the construction of masculinity is less often explored, studies show that nationalist discourses often reify a hegemonic notion of masculinity associated with conquest, control and the consolidation of power. Such studies suggest that nationalist discourses often help to institutionalise dominant forms of masculinity and femininity, ignoring in-between positions.

The workshop will build on these analyses. From historic cases and processes of post-colonialism, war or intra-state armed conflicts, to peaceful processes of nation-building, notably in post-industrial societies, and at the supranational level, (e.g. the EU, UN) the workshop hopes to examine how gender regimes are constructed and mobilized; and how dominant versions of masculinity and femininity are politically exploited in contexts associated with ‘nations' 'nationalism' and 'nation-building’. The workshop also will explore intersectional aspects of gender/ nation interactions, notably their effects on sexual, ethnic, linguistic and race minorities. The workshop organizers especially welcome papers comparing cases and panel proposals viewing cases from different perspectives.

Those proposing papers might consider these questions:

Why do women’s and men’s experiences with nationalisms so often differ?
Why do women’s experiences with nationalisms differ across time and place?
Why do women who are part of majority or minority cultures relate differently to nationalisms and nation-building?
Why do organized women participate in some national projects, but are alienated from other projects?
In what contexts does participation in nationalist movements benefit women?
What conditions are associated with negative gender/nation relations?
How does women’s presence or absence affect the nature, rise and intensity of nationalisms?
How do the gender scripts in nationalist discourses vary and what role do such scripts play in nationalist and/or gender politics?

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to Jill Vickers (jill.vickers@sympatico.ca) and Sarah Maddison (sarah.maddison@unsw.edu.au) by December 15, 2014. Participants will be notified by February 1.

IPSA Gender Monitoring Report

Sarah Maddison — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:59:00 -0400

For all women (and men) in the discipline: http://www.ipsa.org/news/news/ipsa-presents-gender-monitoring-report-2011

CFP: Special issue of Political Studies

Sarah Maddison — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:57:00 -0400

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/

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2023 IPSA Pre-Conference Saturday, July 15

Global South Gender Claims and Disputes: Trajectories, Threats and Achievements

Buenos Aires, Saturday July 15th, 2.30pm - 07:00 pm (ARG) (UTC-3)

Universidad del Salvador Auditorium- Tucumán 1845 (y Av. Callao)

Business meeting in Poznan Monday 25th July 15.30-17.15

Revised programme of Pre-Congress Workshop in Poznan 23rd July

Dr. Lenita Freidenvall elected to new Deputy Chair for 2016-18

RC19 calls for candidacies for Vice-Chair for 2016-18

Today there was sent a mail to our members calling for nominations for Vice-Chair for 2016-18.

Pre-Congress Workshop 23rd July, 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

Programme

9.00-9.15 Welcome (by Anne Maria Holli, Chair of RC19)

9.15-10.00 Olena Hankivsky (Simon Fraser University): Is it time for a post-gender mainstreaming conversation?

10.00-10.45 Kristy Kelly (Columbia University and Drexel University).: ‘We weren’t unhappy until this workshop!’ Engendering the State, Democratizing Development

10.45-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.45 Amanda Gouws (University of Stellenbosch): Thinking about gender mainstreaming from a Southern perspective

11.45-12.30 Kimete Canaj (University of Vienna): Gender mainstreaming in Kosova

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-14. 15 Kirsty McLaren (Australian National University and University of Liberia): The challenges of ‘doing’ intersectionality: early pregnancy and girls’ education in Liberia

14. 15-15.00 Tania Verge, Mariona Ferrer-Fons and M. José González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Resistance to mainstreaming gender into the higher education curriculum

15.00 -15. 15 Coffee break

15.15 -16.00 Judit Fabian (University of Ottawa): Finding feminist political ‘science' at the global level: ‘Gender mainstreaming’ and the representation of women and women’s interests

16.00-17.00 General discussion and wrap-up of the seminar

RC19 Panels in World Congress 2016

...click on the link on the right side of page to find the current overview of our panels.

RC-19 was represented at the 10th Anniversary Event of the Implementation of the IPSA Secretariat in Montréal

RC 19 sponsors a panel at European Conference of Politics and Gender in Uppsala, 13th June 2015

Roundtable: Where is feminist political science going? By RC19 (Gender politics and policy)

Roundtable participants

Roundtable abstract

Call for papers for ICPP conference 1-3 July 2015

After Montreal World Conference News

Montreal Pre-Congress Workshop on Gender and Nationalism

RC 19 Inter-Congress Meeting

IPSA Call for Papers for a pre-Congress Workshop on Gender, Nationalisms and Nation-Building

IPSA Gender Monitoring Report

CFP: Special issue of Political Studies