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🌍 RE:PRO: International Interdisciplinary Conference on Reproduction | Resituating Reproduction Across the Semi-Periphery and Global South📣 CALL FOR PHD STUDENTS
Are you a PhD student or early-career researcher working on gender, reproduction, social reproduction, care, labour, inequality, activism, or related questions?
Join RE:PRO – an international interdisciplinary conference bringing together emerging scholars and established researchers from Poland and abroad to exchange ideas, discuss work in progress, and develop new international research collaborations.
📅 18 November 2026 — online preparatory & networking meet-up
📍 26–28 November 2026 — Warsaw, Poland
🏛️ Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN)
đź“ť Submit your application by 26 October 2026. đź“Ł
đź“© Applicants will be notified by 3 November 2026.
đź’ˇ Participation and funding
Participation is free of charge.
Travel and accommodation support will be available to selected participants, subject to the available funding.
Project co-financed by the Polish Academy of Sciences under the 'MOST PAN' grant scheme
👉 Apply here: https://forms.gle/8BbW71jQotY4gDzG8
👉 More information (full call): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UjtZSj1q2H2n0PGkoNhMF-RoOo99oX4TDKGVnlAjl8c/edit?usp=sharing
đź’ˇWhat will we discuss?
The conference approaches reproduction broadly, including its individual, social, economic, and political dimensions. We welcome research addressing, among other topics:
- reproductive labour and the organisation of social reproduction;
- reproductive agency and reproductive rights;
- care and care work;
- gender, family, and intimate life;
- reproductive justice and inequalities;
- activism and social movements;
- economic and political dimensions of reproduction;
- migration and transnational reproduction;
- demographic change and population politics;
- knowledge production around reproduction.
Particular attention will be given to perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, other semi-peripheral contexts, and the Global South, and to how these perspectives challenge, complicate, or extend dominant approaches developed in Western contexts.
🎓 Call for PhD students
Selected PhD students will present their research in 15-minute paper presentations, followed by discussion and feedback from invited senior scholars and other participants.
We welcome:
• ongoing PhD research
• preliminary or work-in-progress findings
• completed empirical research
• theoretical and conceptual work
• methodological reflections
• emerging research ideas and projects
Your research does not need to be fully completed: RE:PRO is designed as a constructive space for discussion, feedback and developing ideas.
🤝 More than a conference
Alongside paper panels, the programme will include workshops on:
🎨 Social reproduction and feminist art
⚙️ Reproduction, economy and contemporary anti-gender mobilisations — in collaboration with COST Action CA23149
🔎 Epistemological and ethical challenges of interdisciplinary and transnational research
The programme will also include dedicated networking activities, creating opportunities to connect PhD students, early-career researchers and established scholars and to explore future collaborations.
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Project co-financed by the Polish Academy of Sciences under the 'MOST PAN' grant scheme
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ul. Nowy Ĺšwiat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland, ulica Nowy Ĺšwiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Polska, Warsaw, Poland
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