We are pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming conference titled "Gender, Nature, and Ecology: Articulating the Political-Intellectual Traditions of French and German Ecofeminism in a Global Perspective." The conference will take place on October 7-8, 2024, at the University Paris 8.

The conference is divided into three interrelated thematic streams:

1) Articulations of the concept of nature: What are the theoretical challenges and reformulations of the concept of nature and how do they uphold the complex task of avoiding both the naturalization of social structures while accounting for and adequate understanding of the materiality of the non-human world?

2) Inter-/transnational trajectories: In which ways and via which trajectories have the local forms of ecofeminism been construed? How is the global and colonial dimension of the ecological disaster reflected in various ecofeminist traditions and what are remaining open questions and blind spots?

3) Practices and strategies of translation: What resistance do translation attempts of texts encounter? How does the shape of academic fields such as gender studies, philosophy or political sciences structure the circulation or non-circulation of concepts and theories?

 

Keynote Speakers:

- Anna Saave (Humboldt University Berlin)

- Diana Ojeda (Universidad de los Andes/Indiana University)

 

Submission Guidelines:

- Abstract: Please submit a 500-word abstract by July 17, 2024.

- Languages: Abstracts can be written in English, French, or German. Please indicate the language in which you will present.

- Keywords: Include 5 keywords that highlight the main topics of your paper.

- Travel Funding: Partial travel expense coverage is available. Please indicate if you require funding assistance.

- Submission Email Addresses: cornelia.Moser@cnrs.fr and susanne.Lettow@fu-berlin.de

 

Notification of acceptance will be sent by August 1, 2024.

 

For further information, please contact the organizers: Cornelia Möser (Cresppa-GTM, CNRS Paris) and Susanne Lettow (Margherita-von-Brentano Center for Gender Studies, Free University Berlin).

 

We look forward to your submissions and hope to see you at the conference!