The FWSA hosts conferences around the UK and Ireland. The next conference will occur in 2009, and every two years thereafter.

FWSA 2009 Conference:

Feminist Transitions
22nd Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Conference
Hosted by Edge Hill University at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
June 19-21, 2009

Recent years have seen an unprecedented broadening of feminist issues and practices. Feminist perspectives have moved across and beyond a number of established boundaries – including geographical, national, economic, ethnic, political, theoretical, cultural, popular, sexual and gender – to expand the scope of the movement. Now more than ever, there is a need for an inclusive feminism that sees diversity as strength and engages productively with the complexities and contradictions of the twenty-first century.

Keynote Speakers
Professor Judith Halberstam (University of Southern California)
Professor Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths, University of London)

The aim of this conference is two-fold:
- to reflect on a wide range of social, cultural, theoretical and global transitions that have affected and/or modified feminism’s identity, representation, activism and politics
- to debate the state of twenty-first-century feminisms

Full CFP
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Recent conferences have included:

Feminism and Popular Culture
Newcastle University (2007)

Identities, Sexualities, Diversities,
Bradford University (2006)

Gender and Violence,
University of Aberdeen (2005)

Feminism Contesting Globalisation,
University College Dublin (2004)

Crossing Boundaries,
Birkbeck College, London (2003)

Beyond Sex and Gender: The Future of Women's Studies?,
Queen’s University Belfast (2002)