News

JANUARI 2010 EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR GENDER RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND

DOCUMENTATION

In this newsletter:

ATGENDER

conference

Brussels: practical

info about:

• Conference

programme

• General

assembly

• INTERGENDER

travel grants

• WeAVE student

grants

• Committees

under

ATGENDER

• Hotel

• Membership

fees

• Bank details

• Other

announcements

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.

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.

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

E-mail info@atgender.eu

Visit our website!

www.atgender.org

If you are thinking of applying for a fee reduction or exemption, please consider what our

Standing Orders say about this:

“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.”

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

1 Event sponsored by ATGENDER, AOIFE, ATHENA3, WISE and the Inter-Gender Nordic Research Institute.

2 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

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)

***

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, Selves and

Resisters on interculturality: Collaborative learning

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 level: The

experience of women’s studies conferences in Madrid, Spain

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 on communication resources and

strategies for ATGENDER

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 € 25

Bank details of ATGENDER

Bank name ING

Address P.O. Box 1800

1000 BV Amsterdam

BIC INGBNL2A

IBAN NL 76INGB0005824181

Account holder ATGENDER

Account number 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