Name: International Conference on Anti-Gender Campaigns and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Start: 2025-12-11T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-12T19:00:00+01:00
Location: ul. Dobra 55, 00-312 Warsaw, Poland

International Conference on Anti-Gender Campaigns and the Politics of Knowledge Production

📣 The American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw warmly invites you to the international conference: “Anti-gender campaigns and the politics of knowledge production”.

🗓 11–12 December 2025
📍 Warsaw, Poland
For the participation in keynote lectures and panel sessions you will get 3 OZN each. We're also looking for volunteers for the registration/information desk - for a 4-5 hour slot you can get 4 OZN.

🔗 Full program & registration details:
https://www.asc.uw.edu.pl/event/call-for-papers-international-conference-on-anti-gender-campaigns-and-the-politics-of-knowledge-production-11-12-december/

About the Conference
Contemporary right-wing actors appear to have learned the lesson that “politics is downstream from culture.” Attacks on “gender,” “gender ideology” – and more broadly, on “woke academia” – have had an impact reaching far beyond the world of scholarship, feeding social and political polarization (Ayoub and Stoeckl 2024; Dietze and Roth 2020; Korolczuk, Graff and Kantola 2025; Kuhar and Paternotte 2017; Verloo 2018). While anti-intellectualism is not a new phenomenon, today’s struggles around education, universities, as well as the very definition of what constitutes scientific truth, are an important aspect of the current political crisis. The broadly defined sphere of knowledge production (academia, education, media, cultural production) has become a key site of struggle for political power, with “gender” as one of the main targets of the contemporary right (Ergas et al 2022; Eslen-Ziya and Giorgi 2022; Korolczuk 2020; Paternotte 2019; Paternotte and Verloo 2021). While anti-gender movements have been under scrutiny for over a decade, resulting in an internally diverse field of scholarship emerging from this phenomenon, the impact of anti-genderism on knowledge production needs to be investigated further. This conference strives to do so.