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Call for Papers | Stories in Transit. Online Study Day about Italian Transnational Trans* Studies

The Queer Caucus of the AAIS is organizing an interdisciplinary study day in November 2023 devoted to the critical analysis of trans* issues within the Italian socio-cultural and political context. The first session will explore the history of Italian trans* communities. The second part of the study

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Call for papers | Implementing the Istanbul Convention: the role of the educational and academic system

The Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN) and the UNIRE Academic Network (UNiversità In REte contro la violenza di genere) are organizing the first Pan-European Conference dedicated to the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, which will be held at the University of Milano-Bicocca

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Masculinities and Gender-based violence

Sage Journals has recently published three articles about gender violence and different kind of masculinities.The first article, Men Have Gender and Women Are People: A Structural Approach to Gender and Violence, analises the relationship between violence and patriarchal gender system and aimes to

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VIDEO - Women, knowledge and academic institutions: a Paduan debate three-hundred years later

Taking inspiration from the three-hundredth anniversary of a seminal conference that took place at the Accademia dei Ricovrati in Padua in 1723, in which the debated topic was whether women ought to be allowed to cultivate the sciences and the arts and whether they should be given access to

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European Prize for Women Innovators

For the 2023 – 2024 edition, the European Innovation Council and the European Institute for Innovation & Technology have teamed up to create a bigger and bolder European Prize for Women Innovators. The European Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind Europe's most

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