The call for papers is open for an exciting international conference - hosted by the University of Manchester -which will set out the agenda for the next 10 years of feminist institutionalism!
It is more than a decade since gender scholars created the international network FIIN to develop feminist institutionalism as a distinctive new approach. Combining insights from gendered analysis and institutionalist theory, FI seeks to understand and explain the dynamics of gendered power inequalities in public and political life; and to analyse the promise and limits of institutional change for gender equality, equal participation, and women’s human rights.
A great deal has happened since then:
- More than 50 panels, workshops, round tables and short courses have been organised (including in venues in UK, Australia, US, Canada, Hungary, Italy, France, Sweden, and Germany)
- Publications including agenda-setting collections such as Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism edited by Mona Lena Krook and Fiona Mackay (2011, paperback 2015), and Towards Gendering Institutionalism: Equality in Europe, edited by Heather MacRae and Elaine Weinar (2017 forthcoming); research monographs such as Meryl Kenny’s 2013 Gender and Political Recruitment: Theorizing Institutional Change , Elin Bjarnegard’s Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment: Explaining Male Dominance in Parliamentary Representation (2013) and Louise Chappell’s The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court: Legacies and Legitimacy (2015) ; and Special Issues of journals including Politics & Gender and Government and Opposition.
- Research projects including the 5-year European Research Council funded programme: Understanding Institutional Change: A Gender Perspective, directed by Georgina Waylen at the University of Manchester.
This International Conference will be held 3-4 April 2017 as the capstone event for the UIC Programme and offers opportunities to take stock of where we are; bring together the latest research – empirical and theoretical - that is both using and developing gendered institutional analyses; and to discuss future research agendas for the gendered analysis of institutions, institutional change and feminist institutionalism.
Confirmed speakers include: Elin Bjarnegård, Louise Chappell, Sarah Childs, Susan Franceschet, Meryl Kenny, Mona Lena Krook, Vivien Lowndes, Fiona Mackay, Sven Steinmo, Mieke Verloo, Georgina Waylen and Laurel Weldon.
The conference is open to all those interested in gendered institutional analysis. Early career scholars are particularly welcome. Panel proposals and paper abstracts (no more than 250 words) should be submitted to: uicgenderconference@gmail.com by September 1 2016.
If you have any questions or would like more information about the conference please contact the organisers at uicgenderconference@gmail.com