*CFP* “GENDER AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIA”, PANEL, ECREA WOMEN’S NETWORK

ECC 2020 Conference 

Panel on Gender and Knowledge Production in Contemporary Academia

2-5 de Octubre de 2020

Braga, Portugal

The Women’s Network aims to address gender inequalities in research and higher education and to amplify the voice offemale and LGBTQ+ scholars.

The initial objective is to create a platform for scholars to speak up about the problems they encounter within academia such as gender bias, and to stimulate the exchange of research, experiences, insights and practices around gender inequality. By identifying differences, strengths and weaknesses in Europe, the network aims to contribute to equality in all dimensions.

This panel will build on a roundtable organized by the Women’s Network in collaboration with the ECREA Gender and Communication Section at the University of Padua in November 2019. In this roundtable, precarization of academic work was debated in relation to gender and knowledge production processes. Besides the role that gender plays in terms of job security or lack thereof, some of the significant issues raised during the roundtable were the unrealistic expectations placed on academics, the negative effects of precarization at individual levels, the role of intersectionality, the difficulties of researching sensitive topics, and, finally, the importance of building networks to disseminate examples of good practice. In order to follow up on the topics of the roundtable discussion, the Women's Network invitescontributions to our panel held at the ECREA ECC 2020 conference.

This panel is particularly interested in exploring challenges and opportunities to reduce (gender) inequality in academia by considering both structural and cultural dimensions. We welcome presentations on (though not exclusively) the following topics:

• Neoliberalization and precarization of academic work
• Historical perspective on the transformation of gender knowledge
• Attack on gender studies
• Gender imbalance in academia
• Gender violence and academia
• Surveillance and censorship
• Intersectionality between gender and other power dimensions in academia
• Good practices both at institutional and informal level
• Networks and solidarity movements
• Organizational policies and equality plans
• Everyday working life conditions in precarious academic positions
• Local, informal experiences of early career researchers
• Informal strategies of resistance to neoliberal academia

We especially encourage submission from early career researchers and from diverse geographical contexts. Proposals (300-500 words) can be submitted to the Women’s Network through the ECREA 2020 submission platform until 15 January 2020. For more information please visit the conference website.