CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We welcome proposals on all topics related to gender justice, building resistances, and working toward liberation, including (but not limited to): 

• Resisting border regimes
• Occupation, displacement and resistance
• Indigenous resistances and solidarities
• ‘Anti-gender’ movements and the rise of the right
• Intergenerationality
• Gender justice in representation and cultural production
• Literature, film, TV, new media – modes of oppression, resistance and liberation
• Economic, Environmental and Climate Justice
• Histories and Cultures of resilience, resistance and revolution
• Gender-based violence
• Social media as a site for gender violence and gender justice
• Decolonising knowledge/praxis/movements
• Algorithmic injustices
• Disinformation
• Coloniality, decoloniality and anti-colonialism in feminist/queer/trans politics and thought
• Critical and emancipatory epistemologies and methodologies
• Queer politics and queer studies in local and global contexts
• Activisms online
• Histories of gender, feminisms and sexualities
• The ethics and politics of care

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

We welcome proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, performances, viewings/screenings and we are open to alternative and creative formats.

We welcome proposals from researchers, teachers, students, organisers, artists, activists, community workers and all with a commitment to building knowledge, analysis, creative practice, solidarities, coalitions and resistances for transformative change and justice.  

Submissions: Proposals should include the proposer’s name, email, affiliation where applicable, as well as the following:

• Proposals for individual papers:
  Please include an abstract describing your presentation (no more than 250 words) and  a short bio (no more than 150 words). 
• Proposals for panels, roundtables, workshops, screenings/performances or other collaborative formats:
  If you are submitting a panel, roundtable, workshop or other collaborative proposal, please send a panel abstract of no more than 300 words plus details of participants (name, brief bio, affiliation if any) and (if appropriate/available) presentation titles.

Proposal deadline:  27th February 2026

Acceptances for proposals submitted by 27th February will be sent out by 9th March.
Registration will open 9th March. There will be a registration fee to cover basic conference expenses. Please see the Registration page for more information.
Please note that there will be an option for online participation and attendance. Details to follow.