UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms & Sexualities - 2nd CGFS Conference  Call for Papers: 'Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation' University College Dublin, Ireland, 17-19 June 2026  Proposal Deadline: 27 February 2026. Notifications: 9 March 2026Registration opens 6 MarchProposal Submission form: https://forms.gle/4qkYr9riQ1yWgnwR7

During this time of authoritarian surge, genocide, and war – including the war on migrants, women and on gender and sexual minorities – how do we build resistances and foster movements toward liberation? Indigenous peoples and people of the Global South have long been at the front line of building resistances against racial capitalism, border regimes and the struggle for environmental justice. Women have been at the forefront of uprisings, revolutions and resistance across the globe. How does or how can our work as researchers, activists, and artists contribute to local and global strategies to build resistance, coalition and solidarity? How do anti-colonial and decolonial knowledge and praxis transform practices in our movements as well as academic practice? What does true solidarity look like and what must we do to work toward it? What is the role of culture, media and the arts in building feminist, trans and queer resistances and the ongoing work of transformative justice? The aim of this conference is to reflect on these and related questions from a range of disciplinary fields and perspectives that share an active commitment to building resistance and working toward justice and transformative change in Ireland and globally.

This Conference is the Second International Conference of the Centre for Gender, Feminism and Sexualities (CGFS), University College Dublin which brings together academics, activists, and artists, and draws on transdisciplinary perspectives and coalitional community-building in feminist, queer, race-critical, decolonial, and anti-capitalist research and activism.

We welcome proposals on all topics related to gender justice, building resistances, and working toward liberation including (but not limited to):

• Resisting border regimes
• Occupation, displacement and resistance
• Indigenous resistances and solidarities
• ‘Anti-gender’ movements and the rise of the right
• Intergenerationality
• Gender justice in representation and cultural production
• Literature, film, TV, new media – modes of oppression, resistance and liberation
• Economic, Environmental and Climate Justice
• Histories and Cultures of resilience, resistance and revolution
• Histories of gender, feminisms, and sexualities
• Gender-based violence
• Ethics and politics of care
• Social media as a site for gender violence and gender justice
• Decolonising knowledge/praxis/movements
• Algorithmic injustices
• Disinformation
• Coloniality, decoloniality and anti-colonialism in feminist/queer/trans politics and thought
• Critical epistemologies and methodologies
• Queer politics and queer studies in a global context
• Activisms online

We welcome proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtable discussions, workshops, performances/viewings and we are open to alternative formats for sessions. We welcome proposals from researchers, teachers, organisers, activists, artists, community workers and all with a commitment to building knowledge, analysis, solidarities, coalitions and resistances for transformative change and justice.

Confirmed plenary sessions include:

Keynote: Sophie Lewis (author of Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen and Girl Bosses Against Liberation and Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against the Family) 

Plenary Roundtable: Queer Lives in Motion: LGBTIQ+ Activism, Exile, and Solidarity Across Borders

Plenary Screening: TITE (Trans Image/Trans Experience) Film Festival contemporary trans and non-binary short film programme & discussion

Further plenary sessions and speakers will be announced over the coming weeks.

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Proposal deadline: 27th February 2026

Proposal Submission form can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/4qkYr9riQ1yWgnwR7

Notifications for proposals submitted by 27th February will be sent out by 9th March. 

For more information, see our website: https://thinkinggenderjustice2026.wordpress.com/

OR email the organisers, Dr Anne Mulhall (anne.mulhall@ucd.ie) and Dr Aideen Quilty (aideen.quilty@ucd.ie)