"Gender, Climate, Movement: Feminist research and activism meet climate change and mobility"

18th - 20th October 2023 

Anthropogenic climate change and its environmental, social and economic impacts are one of the great challenges of our time. It is also deeply gendered – with the concept of gender here understood as a social construct mediated by various axes of power, including race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, age and further dimensions such as space, locality, and time. Current global and local crises go hand in hand with, among other things, gender-related inequalities. This is also true for the respective framings as crisis and the approaches to dealing with it. Contemporary feminist research, as well as activism in different parts of the world, revolve around the effects of climate change on environment, communities, and social (power) relations.

The conference includes international contributions that address intersectional gender perspectives, climate and mobility in science and activism, not only symbolically and metaphorically, but also with a commitment to material, structural changes in the world. They address the urgent need for fundamental socio-ecological transformations, questioning traditional ways of doing things and highlighting opportunities for reorientation.

The local organising team consists of

Center of Gender Studies (ZG), Paderborn University, Prof. Dr. Antje Langer, Dr. Claudia Mahs, Annalisa Mattei, Lisa Hirdes und Lena Sauer

Essen College of Gender Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Dr. Maren A. Jochimsen

Chair of Sociology/Social Inequality and Gender, Ruhr University Bochum, Prof. Dr. Heike Kahlert

Gender Research Office, University of Vienna, Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz

The event is supported by the Presidential Board of the Paderborn University.

Here you can find general information about the Annual Conference RINGS. 

Further information about the programme of the annual conference can be found here.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Annalisa Mattei annalisa.mattei[at]uni-paderborn[dot]de or Dr.ⁱⁿ Claudia Mahs cmahs[at]mail[dot]upb [dot]de

For all participants unless otherwise agreed with the committee, a conference fee per day of €50 or for the whole conference of €100 is required.

We kindly ask, at your earliest convenience, to transfer the above amount to the following account, with the following reference (project) number:

Bank: Landsbankinn hf 
Address: Hagatorg, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland 
Iban no: IS94 0137 3871 0001 6001 6920 39 
Swift code: NBIIISRE

Project number: RINGS 1383-138423
Account holder: University of Iceland 
Address: Saemundargata 2, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland.

Click here to register.