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Francesca Feo
@francescafeo.bsky.social
Political scientist interested in gender & LGBTI+ policies, parliaments, populism, Italian politics. I work as a postdoctoral fellow at UiB, for @gendersuccess.bsky.social.
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📣SAVE THE DATE 📣

📆 29-30 gennaio 2026

📍Dipartimento di Scienze Umane - Università di Verona

Deadline: 31 ottobre 2025

La CfP è aperta al mondo dell’accademia, dell’attivismo e delle istituzioni, con l’obiettivo di stimolare un dialogo intersettoriale.

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October 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🌈 Hi everyone!

😯 We want to star this new academic year by announcing our lineup for the coming months.

👉 On October 2, we will start our programme with @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social!
👉 On November 6, we will have @frammaturo.bsky.social!
👉 And on December 4 with @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt!
September 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🚨Excited to begin my research stay at the Institute of Sociology, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, hosted by Prof. @bcastanho.bsky.social.
Grateful for the opportunity and looking forward to advancing my work in this inspiring environment!

Happy to catch up on research & (academic) life, just DM!
October 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
✨ The Italian Standing Group on Gender and Politics has a new newsletter out! ✨

We’re really proud of this format and want to keep improving it — so if you have something you’d like to advertise in the next edition, ping me, @alavizzari.bsky.social or the @genere-politica.bsky.social account!
✨ New Release!

Check out the new Gender&Politics Newsletter 👉
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What’s inside?
• Call for conferences and papers
• Job offers
• Awards
• New publications
And much more!

Join us in shaping the conversation ➡️ read, share, and let us know your thoughts!

#polisky #gendersky
SISP SG Gender & Politics newsletter - October 2025
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October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Already looking forward to the best conference ever next June in Newcastle! 🥹✨

Check out the proposed sections - starting with this one below! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

#ECPG2026
💫📣 #ECPG2026 Call for Papers and Panels is open!! Join our LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies, Policies and Politics Section 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸: mobilizations, trans/intersex politics, anti-gender movements, links to racism/colonialism, migration, geopolitics & affect/resistance.
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LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies, Policies and Politics
European Consortium for Political Research
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October 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Looking forward to our #SISP2025 roundtable “Gender Rights Between Global Crises and New Resistances.”

30 yrs after Beijing & 25 yrs after UNSC 1325, we reflect on progress and challenges in the struggle for gender justice with a ⭐stellar⭐ panel of scholars & practitioners.

#GenderSky
📢 SISP 2025 Roundtable: Gender Rights Between Global Crises and New Resistances
📅 Sept 4, 15:15–17:00
📍 Chiesa di San Marcellino e Festo, Naples

30 years after Beijing: gender rights between attacks and resistances

🎙️ Serena Fiorletta, @kstoeckl.bsky.social, Loredana Teodorescu, Clara della Valle
September 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📢 CfP Alert – Section "Gender, sexuality and intersectionality in Politics" @ SISP 2025

Check our section's programme, we have a stellar line-up of panels 😎😎

Send your abstract & join us in Naples in September!
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P.S. caring is sharing 🙏🙏
📢 CfP Alert – Gender & Politics @ SISP 2025

Two weeks left to submit your proposal to the Gender & Politics section at the 2025 SISP Conference!

📍 Naples, Sept 4–6
🗓️ Deadline: May 25
🔗 www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...

@alavizzari.bsky.social @francescafeo.bsky.social

#polisky #gendersky #academicsky
Call for papers 2025 – SISP
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May 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Hey GenderSky & PoliSky!

Join us in Naples for the SISP Annual Conference!

Our section “Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality in Politics” features 8 fantastic panels — they’re waiting for your paper proposals!

Plus… we’ve got a few surprises in the works for the #BeijingPlatform anniversary 😉
📢 SISP 2025 Conference in Naples (Sept. 04-06)

👉 Submit your paper to the Gender & Politics section by May 25!

Let’s talk feminism, politics, intersectionality & resistance —across disciplines & borders.

📝 CFP open now: www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...

#SISP2025 #GenderPolitics #FeministResearch
Call for papers 2025 – SISP
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April 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Such an important call by @katalincseh.bsky.social to respond to Orban’s hideous Pride ban👇

Please share it widely & write your representatives. Also: no one from the @ec.europa.eu has offered more than deep concerns so far

#SeeYouAtBudapestPride 🏳️‍🌈

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April 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Not long now until registration for our conference closes - you have until tomorrow! All participants must register to attend the conference. We will be in the glorious city of Barcelona. Please join us! 🦉
April 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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If you want to learn more about the Vatican‘s central role in this, you should read Ayoub and Stoeckl‘s new book on the global fight against LGBTI rights

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The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights
Winner, 2025 ISA LGBTQA Caucus Book PrizeAn in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights—and how the LGBTI movement responds to itIn the pa...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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The Vatican under Pope Francis was a driving force behind the movement against “gender ideology”. It has not only massively empowered anti-LGBTQ+ hostility but provided an essential building block for current gloabl far-right authoritarianism. It‘s infuriating to see the undifferentiated praise.
April 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉
summerschoolwpm.org

Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social

📆01/05
April 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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I cannot recommend this summer school enough!
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org
April 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Hey GenderSky and PoliSky!

The ERC project @gendersuccess.bsky.social is hiring!

Interested in gender & representation and skilled in survey methods?

Join us for a 2-year research position — great conditions, exciting project, fantastic team of colleagues!!

Feel free to DM me for more info 🚀
April 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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There's an upcoming SAGE webinar that may interest our followers: How to Do Research and Get Published—Research By and About Women ⚠️ Sign up here: sagepub.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #gendersky #polisky
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to Do Research and Get Published - Research By and About Women. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Are you looking to enhance your research skills and navigate the path to publication? This webinar is designed for researchers, scholars, and writers interested in conducting and publishing research, ...
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March 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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To all female scholars, working in the broad field of political economy: Apply for the Max Planck Summer School for women in political economy! Two years ago we had a blast!
www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025....
Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy
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March 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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New paper out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! With Ian McAllister, we examine how party competition and party positions condition the presence and size of an age gap in voting for the left. A short 🧵 below!

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Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting - Ruth Dassonneville, Ian McAllister, 2025
Why do age differences matter for voting in some countries and not in others? Despite the prevailing narrative that a ‘youthquake’ in voting is occurring across...
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March 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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In Memoriam

Mala Htun (1969-2025)

Mala Htun made a major impact on the study of women, gender, and politics as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and advocate. To honor her contributions, we have ungated access to her articles until the end of February 2025.

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In Memoriam
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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January 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Very excited to have presented joint work with @rmuriaas.bsky.social from @gendersuccess.bsky.social project at today's DIGGSCORE tuesday seminar!

We looked at whether and how politicians discriminate against their peers based on gender & parental status.
Thanks for the great feedback!
GenderSky
March 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Join us tomorrow! ⏰ 3-5PM | 📍 100/7013 on Southampton Highfield Campus 💬 Challenges of Studying Gender & Inequalities—a roundtable for all, esp. PhDs! Reception & refreshments from 4pm! #gendersky #polisky
🚨 Exciting News! 🚨The Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre is live at Southampton! 🎉 Join our interdisciplinary community. 📢 Launch Event: 📅 Tues 18 March | ⏰ 3-5PM | 📍 100/7013 💬 Challenges of Studying Gender & Inequalities—a roundtable for all, esp. PhDs! Reception & refreshments from 4pm!
March 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Next week Tuesday: join us for the @ecprsgeu.bsky.social online seminar : Career Orientation and Legislative Behaviour in the European Parliament: How Institutional and Political Transformations Re-Shape MEPs’ Behaviour (1979-2024) with Jeremy Dodeigne, @frechelena.bsky.social
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Standing Group on European Union (SGEU) Seminar Series
European Consortium for Political Research
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March 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Come and join us in the great city of Naples for 2025 Italian Political Science Association conference!

Our section on "Gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics" is looking for panels and papers

Don't miss this occasion to showcase you research (while having some REAL pizza 🍕)!
Polisky
📣Call for panel alert 📣

Our section on "gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics" is seeking panels!! Join us in Naples for the @sisp annual conference, 04-06 September 2025 🤩

info 👉 www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...

@alavizzari.bsky.social @francescafeo.bsky.social #gendersky
Conference 2025 – SISP
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March 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Hello! ⭐🌈
We are the account of the Gender&Politics Standing Group of Italian Political Science Association. We post about research & events related to gender, sexuality, intersectionality (etc) & politics.
Help us re-create the network we had on "the other side"! 🙏

Gendersky Polisky
February 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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We #standupforscience2025 at the University of Bergen! Look how many people showed up just at a couple hours notice. To our colleagues in the USA: we support you and we hope you have courage to show up for today's demonstrations for science all over the USA and the world: standupforscience2025.org
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM