Theorizing Violence and Gender - Public Talk, Essen, 15.04.2024, 16:30-18:00

Trafficking Chains. Modern Slavery in Society by Sylvia Walby and Karen Shire - Book Launch, Duisburg, 17.04.2024, 16:30-18:00

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Centering around theoretical debates on the role of violence in varieties of gender regimes, the Essener Kolleg für Geschlechterforschung (EKfG) and the Koordinations- und Forschungsstelle des Netzwerks Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW are organizing and hosting a Master Class on “Violence in varieties of gender regimes – theoretical and empirical approaches” with Anneliese Maier Research Awardee Prof. Sylvia Walby OBE on April 16^th, 2024.

The Fall Webinar Series 2023 "Shaping provisioning systems for social-ecological transformation" starts on October 13th by bringing together the Netzwerk Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften and the Foundational Economy. EKfG Managing Director Dr. Maren A. Jochimsen will be among the discussants about the relevance of care in addressing the ecological crisis. The aim is to stir a discussion on how (unpaid) care work builds the invisible basis of our current societies and how an engagement with feminist research on care can strengthen foundational economy approaches towards a social-ecological transformation.

The future of gender regimes edited by Heidi Gottfried, Sylvia Walby and Karen Shire – special issue of Women’s Studies International Forum explores gender inequalities from a macro-perspective through cross-national analyses, discussing how to conceptualize gendered macro-level ideas and track changing gender relations. It introduces new gender regime varieties in regions including North Africa, Turkey, Japan, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Germany, fostering interdisciplinary discussions and highlighting the complexities of evolving gender inequalities. The webinar launching the special issue took place on 15 September 2023. The recording of the event is now online!

Following the workshop Gender Regimes 2 supported by the Anneliese Maier Research Award to Prof. Sylvia Walby OBE in Berlin in April 2022, a special issue on the future of gender regimes, published in the Women's Studies International Forum, is in progress. An impression of the special issue's content is given by pre-published articles, including  "Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes." by Prof. Dr. Karen Shire, former EKfG director and the article "The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime? " by EKfG board member Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer.

Professor Sylvia Walby, Department of Criminology and Law in Royal Holloway, University of London, holds the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Research Award (2018-2025) with the Essen College of Gender Research and the Institute of Sociology of the University of Duisburg-Essen as host institutions. Read more about her career, publications, research projects and activities now via the EKfG research website!

The International Sociological Association TG11 Violence and Society, co-coordinated by Prof. Sylvia Walby, Anneliese Maier Research Awardee at EKfG, is holding a virtual Violence and Society Symposium on November 15, 2022 (14.00-15.30 London GMT). The speakers are the current and recent ISA Presidents who have each addressed violence and society in their research: Sari Hanafi, Margaret Abraham, and Michel Wievorka. The symposium will bring together their expertise in response to interest across sociologists globally to hear each present their research on this topic and discuss the issues involved. This event will continue to generate international dialogue on violence and society.

The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies has welcomed to its Fellowship a record number of female academics in recognition of their achievements in the humanities and social sciences.

Among the 52 Fellows elected from 24 universities is Anneliese Maier Research Awardee Prof. Sylvia Walby OBE. The renowned sociologist is one of 29 (56%) women elected in 2022 - the highest proportion of women ever elected. EKfG congratulates Sylvia Walby warmly and looks forward to upcoming cooperations.

Centering around the theoretical approach of Anneliese‐Maier‐Research Awardee Prof. Sylvia Walby OBE, the EKfG and the Koordinations‐ und Forschungsstelle des Netzwerks Frauen‐ und Geschlechterforschung NRW organized a Master Class on „Feminist and Social Theory in Times of Crisis“ in Essen on April 19th, 2022. Twelve PhD students and postdocs had the opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary exchange with the sociologist on current approaches to social and feminist theory. Details of the Master Class can be found in the conference report in the jubilee issue no. 50 of the journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW.