8th European Feminist Research Conference-Strand 6, Revisiting 'Equality vs. Difference': Feminism in the 21st Century, Budapest, May 17-20 2012‏

The 8th European Feminist Research Conference will take place in Budpest,
Hungary, May 17-20 2012. The conference is organized by the Department of
Gender Studies, at the Central European University and ATGENDER, the
European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation. The
over-all theme for the conference is “The Politics of Location Revisited:
Gender@2012”. One strand for presenting papers is “Revisiting 'Equality vs.
Difference': Feminism in the 21st Century".

For this strand, we seek papers that address feminist struggles for justice
at the crossroads of multiple locations within and across axes of
signification and relations of power, and/or against the background of the
inter-disciplinary debates around equality and difference in feminist
scholarship and activism.

How have these debates transformed feminist thinking and what challenges and
promises do they raise for feminism’s potential to bring about emancipation
and social change? How do feminist scholars and activists engage with the
complexities that arise in the field in-between struggles for equality and
politics of difference? What does equality mean at the beginning of the 21st
century?

How can feminists think and use solidarity and new strategic alliances with
other progressive movements, when locations are shifting, complex and
paradoxical? And what is the role of identity politics and representation?
We are also interested in careful and contextualized reflections on the
implications of power and privilege within feminist scholarship.

The theme of this strand raises questions of immediate importance for
feminist scholarship, especially in relation to the current European
political, social and cultural climate, where structures of inequality and
forms of discrimination are persisting, if not increasing.

The strand is co-ordinated by Jelisaveta Blagojević, Mia Liinason and Eike
Marten. You are welcome to contact us with questions or ideas on e-mail *
strand6efrc2012@gmail.com*. The deadline for submissions is July 31. Please
visit the conference webpage for more information: *
http://www.8thfeministconference.org*

Internship at the European Roma Rights Centre Location: Budapest - Hungary DL: 1 July 2011

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) invites applications for its full-time internship programme. The ERRC offers interns a dynamic, fast-paced, international human rights environment, based in Budapest, Hungary. Romani and non-Romani interns are chosen for this programme through a competitive bi-annual selection process. In line with its Equal Opportunity Policy, ERRC offers a limited number of stipends for full-time internships to Romani individuals. The ERRC is currently accepting applications from persons wishing to intern at the ERRC for 3-6 months between September 2011 and February 2012.
Task description
All interns will receive professional guidance and be directly supervised by the Human Rights Trainer. Interns will also work together with the other ERRC programmes, including research and advocacy, legal, media and communications, as well as finance, operations and executive management. Activities and tasks of interns shall include both theoretical learning and practical skills development components, including but not limited to:

• Researching Roma rights related topics;
• Monitoring of stakeholders, policy-makers, think tanks, etc.;
• Drafting reports on human rights abuse or legal documents;
• Detailed monitoring of news and information on Roma rights;
• Conducting legal research and assisting in preparing cases for strategic litigation in domestic courts and international tribunals; 
• Attending meetings and events related to the mission of ERRC and producing briefing documents;
• Engaging in advocacy efforts and supporting human rights training courses;
• Assisting in ERRC activities and projects, including logistically/administratively;
• Updating and developing materials for the ERRC website;
• Helping maintain ERRC information databases;
• Editing and translating texts;
• Other tasks to be determined together with the Human Rights Trainer and the project-related supervisor.

Applicant profile
Applicants should have:

• Extensive experience living and working in Romani communities;
• Good command of English, both written and spoken, is essential. Preference will be give to applicants who are able to work in the following languages: Romani, Romanian, Slovak, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian;
• At minimum, completed secondary education; university level studies preferred; 
• The ability to working a diverse, multicultural environment in a proper, timely fashion with supervision;
• Good organisational and communication skills, commitment and enthusiasm;
• Flexibility and the ability to work independently as well as in a team;
• A proven track of activism in the Romani movement or human rights movement;
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office; and 
• Be a minimum of 20 years of age.

The ERRC encourages applications representing all segments of society (women, LGBT, disabled people, etc).
Romani individuals are strongly encouraged to apply for an internship stipend. For stipend recipients, the programme includes an in-country follow-up component. The ERRC and selected interns will work together to implement jointly community-based human rights initiatives (small research, advocacy or other related projects) in a Romani community as follow up to the time spent at the ERRC office. This component is optional but applicants expressing interest in the follow-up will be given priority in the programme.
The ERRC can provide relevant letters of support for prospective interns seeking to secure outside funding for the internship. Students may be able to arrange academic credit for their internship and should check with their academic institutions for requirements.
All interns are responsible for their own travel, subsistence and insurance arrangements; the ERRC can provide advice as necessary.
How to Apply
Interested persons should submit all of the following materials to be considered for placement:

1. A fully completed application form, available at: View it (Word format)!
2. A brief, unedited writing sample, preferably human rights’ focused (maximum 2 A4 pages).

Only complete application packages will be considered; please submit both documents together. No telephone or email inquiries. Completed application packages should be submitted to Ms Dora Eke:
Subject heading: ERRC Intern Search
Email: dora.eke@errc.org
Fax: + 36.1.413.2201
The deadline for applications is 1 July at midnight CET time Applications received after this date will not be considered. Only short-listed applicants will be notified. If you have not been contacted within five weeks of the deadline, consider that your application was not successful in this round. A new call for internships will be issued in October 2011; please check our website regularly.
The ERRC is an equal opportunity organisation and does not discriminate on any ground. Romani candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.

Sumer Workshop: The Re-birth of civil society? Theory and practice of the new civicmovements in Eastern Europe, Budapest, 29 August - 3 September 2011‏

The Re-birth of civil society? Theory and practice of the new civic movements in Eastern Europe.It will be held in Budapest from August 29 to Septemeber 3,2011.

The workshop, with participation of scholars and practioners from Western and Eastern Europe will focus on three fields: environmentalism, migration and cultural heritage, and will have, this year, a country focus on Hungary. The Workshop is structured in three parts: lectures, case studies and practice sessions whith attention for the development of multidisciplinary discussion. In the case studies each of the field will be introduced by local experts, practitioners and leaders of civic organizations transmitting their first-hand experiences, problems and strategies.

The Summer Workshop is addressed to graduate and postgraduate students in the social sciences, academic staff, practitioners in the third sector, policy makers and others.

Contact and applications: summerworkshop@docuart.hu The workshop website: http://www.isw.docuart.hu/

8th European Feminist Research Conference, CEU Budapest, May 17-20 2012‏

Women and men in Europe in the first decades of the 21st century are
confronted with acute social, political, cultural, economic and
environmental concerns, including increasingly racist politics and
nationalist discourses across Europe, huge cutbacks in social services
and education, strengthening conservative gender discourses, and an
overall climate unfavorable if not hostile to feminist, queer, and other
progressive movements. In striving to address these concerns on
regional, national and international levels, feminist scholars are
re-assessing their theoretical and political toolbox. The ‘politics of
location’, coined by Adrienne Rich in 1976, continues to play a crucial
role in these debates. Women’s and gender studies cannot do without
reflecting on the politics of their locations, but how to use this tool
now that locations are constantly shifting? When the locations we
inhabit are perceived to be multiple, paradoxical and (in)comparable?
The 8th European Feminist Research Conference invites scholars,
students, activists and policy makers to re-visit their politics of
location in the light of current crises in Europe and beyond, and to
reflect upon the ways in which feminist scholarly tools can be used for
understanding and for changing the world.
Reflecting the diversity of women’s and gender studies European Feminist
Research Conferences represent cutting-edge scholarship. The 8th
European Feminist Research Conference is organized by the Central
European University, Department of Gender Studies and AtGender, the
European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation.
The European Feminist Research Conferences usually have more than 500
participants from both inside and outside Europe. The Conferences have a
track record of presenting innovative feminist scholarly work with
critical perspectives on contemporary Europe and its histories. The
previous European Feminist Research Conferences were held at the
universities of Ålborg (1991), Graz (1994), Coimbra (1997), Bologna
(2000), Lund (2003), Łódź (2006) and Utrecht (2009).
This one will be held in Budapest, Hungary, May 17 - 20, 2012.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Hana Havelkova (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech
Republic)

Clare Hemmings (Gender Institute, The London School of Economics and
Political Science, United Kingdom)

Andrea Pető (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

Fatima Sadiqi (International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fez,
Morocco)

Call for Papers
The 8th European Feminist Research Conference welcomes papers that keep
in focus the connections among a number of relevant axes that frame
current researches in the field. We have in mind connections between
disciplines and interdisciplinarity; the past, the present and the
future; gender and intersectionality; activism and power; local and
global; margin and center. The strands listed below indicate the main
lines of inquiry around which the Conference will be structured.
Participants must indicate the strand their paper addresses; it is also
possible to indicate a second strand that will be addressed in their
contribution. Based on these indications the Conference Board will
create intersecting panels across different strands.

Conference strands
Women’s and Gender Studies between Neo-discipline and
InterdisciplinarityRooting and Shifting (in) Feminist Research:
Assessing the ‘Turns’ in Feminist TheoryTeaching ‘Gender’ across the
Borders of the Human, Social, Natural and Biomedical SciencesLocated at
Crossroads of Race and Gender: Intersectional Analysis in Women’s and
Gender StudiesShifting Sexualities, Masculinities and Femininities:
LGBTQIRevisiting ‘Equality vs. Difference’: Feminism in the 21st
CenturyTriple Helix of Social Inclusion: Connecting Activism,
Policy-making and Gender ResearchFeminist Legacies, Feminist Futures:
Generating FeminismsThe Politics of Migration: Transnational
Feminisms?Re-Imagining ‘Europe’: Imperialism, Post-State Socialism and
Multiculturalism in the 21st CenturyViolence Revisited: Security,
War and Peace NarratedReligion Revisited: Spirituality, Gender and the
Post-SecularCreativity Reconsidered: Rethinking Feminist Art, Media
and Technological Practices
Abstracts should have not more than 300 words and can only be uploaded
at http://www.8thfeministconference.org.
Abstracts must be submitted before July 31, 2011.
The conference organizers also welcome proposals for whole panels as
well as presentations by women’s centers, libraries, documentation
centers, networks or publishers.
The conference fees and other relevant information are posted on the
conference website http://www.8thfeministconference.org.