News JANUARI 2010
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR GENDER RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND DOCUMENTATION
In this newsletter: ATGENDER conference Brussels: practical info about: •
Conference programme
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General assembly
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INTERGENDER
Dear ATGENDER supporters,
Let us first wish you all a happy, healthy and productive 2010!
This newsletter contains important extra information with regards to the Brussels conference on February 18-19 this year. We have re-attached the previous practical newsletter for your convenience, and below we provide more detailed information on the hotel.
travel grants •
WeAVE student grants
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Committees under ATGENDER
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Hotel
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Membership fees
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Bank details
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Other announcements
First, we are happy to present you with a more detailed preliminary conference programme, which you can find below. It provides information on all the panels and key notes, in addition to the planned events related to ATHENA3 dissemination, and ATHENA4 and ATGENDER committees. Also, the agenda of the first ATGENDER General Assembly (GA) has been finalized; see also below. The other important GA documents (Statutes and Standing Orders) can be downloaded from our website, where we will also upload regularly updated versions of the conference programme.
In addition to papers, we warmly welcome poster presentations. A poster room and book table will be available throughout the duration of the conference. When you are planning on presenting a poster, please e-mail info@atgender.eu. Also, we provide the possibility to promote or sell books, and to share other information. For the latter we will arrange an information table. So, please remember to bring your flyers, publications and presentations for all the participants to discover and share.
Secondly, as you know, no registration fee for this ATGENDER-conference is required. However, we expect participants to pay their membership fees before or during the conference. With regards to the GA, it is important to note that voting can only be done when membership fees have been paid. Membership fees can be paid (in cash or bank transfer) before or during the conference. A reminder of the membership fee costs has been pasted below in this newsletter and can be found on the website. The bank details of ATGENDER have been pasted below.
If you are thinking of applying for a fee reduction or exemption, please consider what our Standing Orders say about this:
ATGENDER Central Coordination P.O. box 164 3500 AD Utrecht The Netherlands The Netherlands tel: +31-30-253 6013/6322 fax: +31-30-253 6695
“2.6 Fee reductions and exemptions Members’ requests for fee reduction or exemption are evaluated by the Board, which decides whether fee reduction or exemption is warranted for a particular case. The request must be made in an official letter from the individual member or from the head of the institution with an explanation of the inability to pay the regular membership fee. Those members granted fee exemptions are awarded one year’s membership in ATGENDER. These members have the same rights as paying members; corresponding to the type of member they are (individual or institutional). Members that have been granted exemption in one year should reapply for this in the next year in case of remaining inability to pay the membership fee.”
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Thirdly, we are happy to announce that the Research School for Interdisciplinary Gender studies, INTERGENDER, has offered to sponsor this conference with a number of travel grants for participants who are connected to one of the universities united in INTERGENDER. If you are affiliated to an INTERGENDER-university please contact the INTERGENDER director (ninly@tema.liu.se or secretary Berit Starkman: berst@tema.liu.se) to find out whether you are eligible. A limited number of 10 WeAVE student travel grants have also been awarded. Those who were selected will have been notified about this. Please do not forget to register when you will receive a grant: the grants are only intended for official participants of this conference.
Fourthly, as you can see in the ATGENDER Statutes and Standing Orders, we foresee the opportunity for installing committees under the umbrella of ATGENDER. On Thursday February 18 from 15:30-17 we have arranged a time slot especially for discussing such initiatives. Newly arranged committees will be asked to present themselves during the GA on Friday. If you are interested in starting up an ATGENDER committee, you are welcome to pre-announce your ideas via the ATGENDER website. Announcements should be sent to info@atgender.org. During the mentioned time slot, initiatives for ATHENA4 can be discussed as well.
We are looking forward to an interesting and productive conference!
On behalf of the ATGENDER Board, Harriet Silius and Iris van der Tuin
Preliminary Conference Programme
ATGENDER EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR GENDER RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND DOCUMENTATION
ATGENDER Conference, 18th – 19th February 20101 “Beyond European Gender Studies – Transversal Connections”
Amazone, 10 rue du Méridien (Middaglijnstraat), 1210 Brussels
Registration on-line: http://www.atgender.eu before January 15th 20102
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 18th February
10.00 – 17.00: Launch of the “Tuning” validation committee (closed meeting)
13.00: Opening session of the ATGENDER conference
Harriet Silius & Iris van der Tuin, ATGENDER co-chairs E.U. officials and Gender specialists (to be confirmed)
13.30 – 15.00: ATGENDER builds on ATHENA, AOIFE & WISE: Results from some of the ATHENA3 working groups, AOIFE sponsored projects, WISE activities and projects for ATHENA4 Parallel sessions & Posters3
15.00 – 15.30: Coffee break
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Event sponsored by ATGENDER, AOIFE, ATHENA3, WISE and the Inter-Gender Nordic Research Institute. No registration fee is required for the conference, but ATGENDER membership fees must be paid before or during the conference in order to vote at the ATGENDER General Assembly on Friday afternoon. 3 Please inform the conference office in advance if you want to reserve a poster space for this session : info@atgender.eu
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15.30 – 17.00: Informal “mix and mingle” to discuss possible working groups for ATHENA4 and “brainstorm” around other initiatives under the umbrella of ATGENDER, including projects for committees, conferences, joint projects, publications and events.
17.00 – 17h30: Tuning delegation preliminary report back to the conference
19.30: Dinner (please remember to register in advance)
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Friday 19th February 9.30: Opening session
Harriet Silius & Iris van der Tuin, ATGENDER co-chairs E.U. officials and Gender specialists (to be confirmed)
10.00 – 12.30: Key-note speakers
Professor Chang Pil Wha (President of the Asian Association of Women’s Studies) Dr. Malin Rönnblom (Scientific coordinator of QUING & Editor of Nora)
Discussion & Question time
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch break
13.30 – 15.30: Parallel panel & Poster sessions
Panel 1: (Inter)national collaborations in Women’s & Gender Studies
Sophia – “Language issues when working with bilingual partners” Teresa Toldy (APEM & Fernando Pessoa University) – “Gender Studies in Portuguese – Main Challenges” Carmen Leccardi & Sveva Magaraggia (Milan-Bicocca University) – “Gender and Women’s Studies in Italy: Future European Connexions” Panel 2: Travelling concepts on interdisciplinarity, Resisters on interculturality: Collaborative learning
Selves
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Angeliki Alvanoudi, Sabine Grenz, Mia Liinason – “Practising interdisciplinarity in European gender studies” Biljana Kasic, Linda Lund Pedersen, Melita Richter, Eva Skaerbaek – “Travelling Selves – Writing through the Body and Over/Cross the Borders” Maria Calloni, Giovanna Covi, Sara Goodman, Lisa Marchi – “Interculturality and Gender”
Panel 3: International Networking in Gender studies. Issues and practices Aino-Maija Hiltunen - « Networking – what next ? » Esther Sanchez-Pardo - « Networking at an (inter)national experience of women’s studies conferences in Madrid, Spain
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Sara de Jong & Tilly Vriend - « The Fragen project: Core feminist texts in Europe selected and digitized »
15.30 – 16.00: Coffee break & Registration for voting at the ATGENDER GA
16.00 – 17.00: Round-table strategies for ATGENDER
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communication
resources
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The round-table participants (to be confirmed) will briefly describe the potential contribution of their accumulated experience to ATGENDER and present the priorities they see for ATGENDER in the immediate future.
17.00 – 18.00: General Assembly ATGENDER (see below)
18.00: Closing reception & book presentations from ATHENA3
NB. A poster room and book table will be available throughout the duration of the conference. Remember to bring your flyers, publications and presentations for all the participants to discover and share.
Agenda First ATGENDER General Assembly 1) A brief ATGENDER Herstory 2) Presentation of the voters (subject to payment of ATGENDER membership fees) & voting procedures 3) Approval of the Standing orders 4) Election of the Board (block vote)
5) Preliminary proposals for potential ATGENDER committees, events and activities (brainstorming) 6) The 8th European Feminist Research Conference
Hotel In the last ATGENDER newsletter we announced that Amazone made a deal with the Hilton Brussels City Hotel, which is a 10 minutes walk from Amazone. A room for 1 person costs 90,00 EUR per night. If you share a room with a colleague, it’s 100,00 EUR per night. The prices include breakfast.
If you want to stay in a room for 2 persons, but you don’t have a roommate yet, you are kindly asked to arrange this on your own in advance. The registration can be made by one person (of the two persons) only. If you really don’t find a roommate you can send an e-mail to Inge Van der Stighelen, i.vanderstighelen@amazone.be before 18 January. She will put the names together alphabetically and send out an e-mail to confirm roommates. Registration and payment has to be done by yourself! Amazone isn’t interfering neither with financial transactions or reimbursements later on.
You can register from now on and by preference before the 18th of January via this link: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/BRUPMHI_GAMAA/index.jhtml.
It brings you to a personalized website indicating the name of the Conference and the logos of ATGENDER, Sophia and Amazone. Registration is simple. However in a separate file you’ll find some practical explication if needed, us kindly offered by the Hilton Brussels City Hotel. A credit card shall be required in order to guarantee the bookings in case of no-show, late cancellation or non-payment, but you will only have to settle your invoice upon departure. We'd like you to remember that, if you are between 18 and 35 and your budget doesn’t allow you to stay in the Hilton Hotel, it could be practical to stay in the youth hostel Centre Vincent Van Gogh (CHAB). It’s just around the corner of Amazone. The rate for a single room is 33,00 EUR and for a double room 26,00 EUR per night/per person. This includes breakfast and bed sheets, you have to bring your own towels or rent one for 0,80 EUR. You can find more information on the site of CHAB (http://www.chab.be/) and you can make a reservation here (http://www.chab.be/ReserveUK.html).
Membership fee costs Institutional full
€ 500
Institutional reduced
€ 250
Individual full
€ 75
Individual reduced
€ 45
Students
â‚Ź 25
Bank details of ATGENDER Bank name Address BIC IBAN
ING P.O. Box 1800 1000 BV Amsterdam INGBNL2A NL 76INGB0005824181
Account holder Account number
ATGENDER 5824181
Other announcements For any other questions, responses, ideas, membership issues etc. you can check the ATGENDER website: www.atgender.org or can be send to: info@atgender.eu