UN Women has recently set up a new Research and Data section and is looking for brilliant, dynamic, feminist researchers to staff the unit.

There are currently two posts advertised – the Chief (P5) and a Research and Data Specialist (P4). Soon another post will be posted for a second Research and Data Specialist (P4), but with more of a statistics focus.

Gender Studies of the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN) invitates to the first edition of the Warsaw Summer School in Gender, to be held under the theme Backlash in the US and East
and Central Europe.
The program is dedicated to students with Bachelor's degrees,
postgraduate students, MA and PhD students.

Časopis Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum připravuje tematické číslo navazující na 2. konferenci českých a slovenských feministických studií: Feministická studia na hranici. Účastnice a účastníky konference vyzývá k posílání abstraktů svých příspěvků. V časopise je rovněž prostor pro recenze a zprávy, vítány jsou především recenze a zprávy relevantní k uvedenému tématu.

The workshop aims to reopen debate on the area of family policies and gender equality in Central and Eastern Europe, a research field which has seen little exploration to date from the comparative perspective. The workshop will be followed by the publication of the papers.

genSET Partner, The Science Shop Vienna, is organising web conferences (webinars) on gender-fair recruitment and retention with renowned experts, taking place in January and February 2012. The target group of the events are research institutions in Europe. Targeted participants are persons responsible for implementing gender equality policies.

The University of Bergen welcomes researchers, university teachers, administrators, gender equality practitioners and student union representatives to the 7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education. The conference will focus on gender equality in a changing academic world against the backdrop of the current financial crisis in Europe and beyond.

The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a new twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research.

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main invites for the conference Transforming Gender Orders. Intersections of Care, Family and Migration. This conference takes up the controversies about the transformation of gender relations in the course of globalization processes and strives for a discussion from new perspectives. The conference is organized in four panels covering three main areas: care, family, and migration. These provide the background against which we pose the question of whether gender relations and orders are shifting, how they are shifting and in what direction.

Dr. Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, University of Nottingham, UK and Dr. Sarah-Jane Page, Durham University, UK invite for the conference Youth, Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Debates. This conference aims to bring together scholars in the social sciences and humanities who are doing cutting-edge theoretical and/or empirical research on young people‟s lived experiences in relation to gender and/or sexuality in contemporary society.
This deliberately small-scale conference, involving no more than 15 participants, will provide a platform for in-depth and productive dialogue. The organisers intend to publish selected contributions as an edited volume or a special issue for a journal.