The world-leading conference on politics and gender

European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG)

The flagship conference of our Standing Group on Gender and Politics offers a global platform for exchange around how understanding gender is key to understanding politics, and where diversity and plurality in analytical perspectives and methodologies are enhanced.

Following the pre-conference event held in July 2021, ECPG 2022 was held in Southeast Europe for the very first time, at the University of Ljubljana.

In a nutshell

Organised biennially since 2009, the ECPG has established itself as a prestigious gathering that:

  • Helps advance the study of gender and sexuality in politics
  • Strengthens ties within the global community of scholars in the field, at all stages of their career
  • Engages with the research on race and intersectionality, sexuality, on men and the masculine and those who identify as non-binary, genderqueer or intersex
 

Previous Conferences

  • 7th European Conference on Politics and Gender – Ljubljana, 2022

    • Conveners: Ivana Dobrotic & Conny Roggeband
    • Keynote speakers: Slavenka Draculic, Zorana Bakovic, Tea Jarc
    • Keynote address: Gender equality in time of democratic backsliding

  • 6th European Conference on Politics and Gender – Amsterdam, 2019 

    • Convener: Isabelle Engeli
    • Keynote speaker: Akwugo Emejulu (University of Warwick)
    • Keynote address: “Notes from a Catastrophe”

  • 5th European Conference on Politics and Gender – Lausanne, 2017 

    • Co-conveners: Isabelli Engeli, Elizabeth Evans & Liza Mügge
    • Keynote speaker: Shirin M. Rai (University of Warwick)
    • Keynote address: “The Good Life and the Bad: Changing Landscapes of Gender Inequality”

  • 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender – Uppsala, 2015 

    • Co-conveners: Isabelli Engeli, Elizabeth Evans & Liza Mügge
    • Keynote speaker: Joni Lovenduski (Birbeck College, University of London)
    • Keynote address: “Feminism and Political Science”

  • 3rd European Conference on Politics and Gender – Barcelona, 2013 

    • Co-conveners: Karen Celis & Isabelle Engeli
    • Keynote speaker: Drude Dahlerup (Stockholm University)
    • Keynote address: “Conceptualizing the Breaking of Male Dominance in Politics”

  • 2nd European Conference on Politics and Gender – Budapest, 2011 

    • Co-conveners: Faith Armitage & Karen Celis
    • Keynote speaker: Mieke Verloo (Radbout University Nijmegen)
    • Keynote address: “Gender Equality Policies as Interventions in a Changing World”

  • 1st European Conference on Politics and Gender – Belfast, 2009 

    • Co-conveners: Karen Celis & Johanna Kantola
    • Keynote speaker: Judity Squires (University of Bristol)
    • Keynote address: “Gender Equality: Institutional and Theoretical Challenges”