[Commlist] ECREA Women’s Network - Call for panel papers ECC 2020

ECREA Women’s Network - Call for panel papers ECC 2020

Dear colleagues,

We are seeking contributions to a panel on Gender and Knowledge 
Production in Contemporary Academia, organized by ECREA Women’s Network 
at the ECC 2020 conference in Braga, Portugal (2-5 October 2020).

The Women’s Network aims to address gender inequalities in research and 
higher education and to amplify the voice offemale and LGBTQ+ scholars. 
The initial objective is to create a platform for scholars to speak up 
about the problems they encounter within academia such as gender bias, 
and to stimulate the exchange of research, experiences, insights and 
practices around gender inequality. By identifying differences, 
strengths and weaknesses in Europe, the network aims to contribute to 
equality in all dimensions.

This panel will build on a roundtable organized by the Women’s Network 
in collaboration with the ECREA Gender and Communication Section at the 
University of Padua in November 2019. In this roundtable, precarization 
of academic work was debated in relation to gender and knowledge 
production processes. Besides the role that gender plays in terms of job 
security or lack thereof, some of the significant issues raised during 
the roundtable were the unrealistic expectations placed on academics, 
the negative effects of precarization at individual levels, the role of 
intersectionality, the difficulties of researching sensitive topics, 
and, finally, the importance of building networks to disseminate 
examples of good practice. In order to follow up on the topics of the 
roundtable discussion, the Women's Network invitescontributions to our 
panel held at the ECREA ECC 2020 conference.

This panel is particularly interested in exploring challenges and 
opportunities to reduce (gender) inequality in academia by considering 
both structural and cultural dimensions. We welcome presentations on 
(though not exclusively) the following topics:

  * Neoliberalization and precarization of academic work
  * Historical perspective on the transformation of gender knowledge
  * Attack on gender studies
  * Gender imbalance in academia
  * Gender violence and academia
  * Surveillance and censorship
  * Intersectionality between gender and other power dimensions in academia
  * Good practices both at institutional and informal level
  * Networks and solidarity movements
  * Organizational policies and equality plans
  * Everyday working life conditions in precarious academic positions
  * Local, informal experiences of early career researchers
  * Informal strategies of resistance to neoliberal academia

We especially encourage submission from early career researchers and 
from diverse geographical contexts. Proposals (300-500 words) can be 
submitted to the Women’s Network through the ECREA 2020 submission 
platform *until 15 January 2020*. For more information please visit the 
conference website www.ecrea2020braga.eu.


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