FINSA (Feminist International Network on State Architecture) is holding a workshop immediately following the Annual Meeting of APSA in Washington DC. The one-day workshop, involving leading gender and federalism scholars, takes place on Sunday September 5. It will examine new approaches to the comparative politics of gender and federalism. It is organised by FINSA co-directors Louise Chappell (UNSW) and JIll Vickers(Carleton).

The new FIIN collection Gender, Politics, and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism which is published by Palgrave Macmillan in December is already attracting positive responses from scholars in the field of gender and politics and institutionalist analysis.

The new agenda setting collection from FIIN Gender, Politics, and Institutions:Towards a Feminist Institutionalism is published by Palgrave Macmillan in December. Co-edited by Mona Lena Krook (Washington University in St Louis) and Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh), this groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis in a new approach: feminist institutionalism, in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.

The Second European Conference on Politics and Gender will be held in Budapest, 11-13 January 2011. Please click HERE for the call for papers.

FIIN is meeting in Sydney for a workshop entitled Rethinking the dynamics of political institutions: integrating gender and neo-institutionalist perspectives (March 23-25, 2010). The workshop brings together political and social scientists from North America, UK, Europe and Australia to discuss the prospects for synthesising feminist political science and institutionalist approaches in order to understand the 'big questions' of institutional creation, continuity and change.