Dates: 21 to 23 January 2009
Call for Papers Deadline: 1 June 2008
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/ecpg_home.aspx

The ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics invites panel and paper proposals for the First European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG). The conference aims to bring together scholars engaged in cutting-edge research on a wide range of topics related to gender and politics. Scholars from member and non-member institutions of the ECPR are welcome to apply.

The program will include a keynote address given by Judith Squires from the University of Bristol, as well as a roundtable on current European Union-funded gender and politics projects.

The conference will be organized around ten sections, convened by the following scholars:

• Social Movements – Lee Ann Banaszak
• Political Parties and Representation – Joni Lovenduski
• Sexuality and the Body – Joyce Outshoorn
• Methods and Methodologies – Jacqui True
• Violence, War, and Security – Lene Hansen
• Development and Democracy – Shirin Rai
• States and Public Policies – Amy Mazur
• Identity and Multiculturalism – Sawitri Saharso
• Citizenship – Birte Siim
• Feminism and the International – Christine Sylvester