Global Media Monitoring Project 2025: A Global Gender Analysis in the Media

The 2025 edition of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)—the world's largest and longest-running longitudinal study on gender equality in the media—took place this Tuesday. Coordinated every five years by WACC Global, the initiative involved thousands of volunteers across more than 120

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Workshop "Imagining the Futures of Pride Events between Activism and Academia"

On 13 June, from 2 to 6 PM (GMT – London time), London Metropolitan University will host a hybrid event (in-person and online) on the future of Pride, featuring two roundtable discussions with academics and activists. This hybrid workshop explores Pride events from a dual perspective—academic and

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Diversity at a Crossroads: What is Happening to DEI in Academia in 2025?

On Thursday 5 June, from 09:30 to 16:30 (CEST), the doctoral researcher communities of the Leibniz PhD Network, the Max Planck PhD Network, and the Helmholtz Juniors will host a joint event dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in academia.This initiative stems from a shared belief

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Event "Gender Lunch Talks"

The Margherita von Brentano Center at Freie Universität Berlin is hosting three summer events dedicated to sharing ongoing research projects and new publications in the field of gender studies. Each session will provide a space for discussion on current work and recent scholarly contributions,

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Call for Abstracts – International Symposium on Matrescence

Abstract submissions are now open for individual papers and/or panel proposals to be presented at a one-day international symposium on the theme of matrescence, to be held on Thursday 17 July 2025, in hybrid format (online and in person at the University of Queensland’s Brisbane City campus,

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Calls for Papers: Annual Conference Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century

The Annual Conference, in collaboration with the Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre, examines the global backlash against gender equality and the resistance movements countering it. It will be held on June 17-18,2025 at the University of Southampton.Key Topics:- Feminist and anti-feminist

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Call for Papers: "Beyond Avatars: Exploring LGBTIQ+ Narratives, Representation, and Communities in Video Games"

We invite contributions exploring LGBTIQ+ identities, representation, and communities in video games. This special issue seeks interdisciplinary perspectives on how video games reflect and shape gender and sexual diversity, and how queer communities engage in cultural activism through this medium

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The 11th International Congress of the International Society for Gender Medicine

The 11th International Congress of the International Society for Gender Medicine (ISGM), organized by the German Society for Gender-Specific Medicine (DGesGM), will take place on September 18–19, 2025, in Magdeburg, Germany. Following the success of the 10th Congress held in Padua, Italy, this event

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Call for papers: Thinking Agriculture from the Margins: Intersectional Perspectives

This call for papers invites scholars and practitioners to rethink agriculture from the margins, exploring how marginalized perspectives reshape agricultural practices, sustainability, and social justice. Traditional farming has often been portrayed as male-dominated, but the growing visibility of

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About Gender - Unforeseen future: gender, sexuality, politics. Historical perspectives and critical views on the present

A new online issue of the AG About Gender, International Journal of Gender Studies entitled ‘Unforeseen future: gender, sexuality, politics is available. Historical perspectives and critical views on the present’ by Prof. Mariella Poppa and Prof. Michela Mariotto. The editorial reflects on the

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The Discursive Construction of Contemporary Family Types

A new online issue of degenere - Journal of Literary, Postcolonial and Gender Studies entitled "The discurisive Construction of Contemporary Family Types" by Prof. Giuseppe Balirano, Jai Mackenzie and Angela Zottola is available. The tenth issue focuses on exploring the social norms, structures and

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Fierce Campaign

Fierce aims to revitalise the alliances between the feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers. They envision to rekindle the movement-institution relationship by means of a multidimensional, bottom-up and impact-oriented approach.The FIERCE Charter was co-written with feminist

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Feminist Economics Courses & Syllabus: Guide and Knowledge Base

IAFFE views universities and educational institutions as sites where economics is learned, economists are produced, and economic thought is reproduced. Only a few universities and departments of economics provide training in feminist economics. People interested in studying feminist approaches to

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Breaking the binary mold: Understanding social representations of nonbinary gender identities among the LGBTQIA+ Italian population.

Rosati, F., Lorusso, M. M., Albanesi, C., Baiocco, R., Pistella, J., & Compare, C. (2024) To comprehend nonbinary identity, it is necessary to incorporate new and more inclusive social representations (SRs). Transnormativity, cisnormativity, and genderism may characterize lesbian, gay, bisexual,

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Enculturating Men, Cultivating Masculinity

by Sam de BoisePages 57-62 | Published online: 16 Apr 2024Very few terms are as fiercely fought over and so readily used but so causally underdeveloped as that of ‘culture’. The concept has a range of different interpretations but can be broadly divided between aesthetic and anthropological uses.

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