Open access online training: Encountering gender-based violence in schools
Tampere university researchers of the international EraseGBV project offer a compiled 12-hour research-based training.

Vuoden 2022 Pride-tapahtumat
Pride-tapahtumia järjestävät Suomessa Setan jäsenjärjestöt, yritykset, muut organisaatiot, opiskelijaryhmät ja vapaaehtoiset. Pride-tapahtumat ovat sukupuoli- ja/tai seksuaalivähemmistöjen ihmisoikeus- ja kulttuuritapahtumia, jotka voivat kestää yhdestä päivästä reiluun viikkoon. Pride-tapahtumia edelsivät Suomessa Setan Vapautuspäivät.

Call for papers: Research conference on sport and gender

CfP: Queer Tentacles – Theory, Arts, Activism – Jyväskylä DL 30.6.2022
The Society for Queer Studies in Finland (SQS) invites research contributions to a seminar on queer tentacles, onsite in Jyväskylä (Finland). We welcome suggestions for sessions/workshops AND individual papers. Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2022.

The figure of a tentacle suggests three interrelated ideas. First, we think of the lengthy and sustained reach of queer concepts, ideas and works over cultural, national and temporal borders, including the exchanges between arts, theory and activism. Second, we want to focus on the affective complexity of “feeling” these connections and their grasp. These include different, potentially new forms of embodiment or intimacy – as suggested not only by queer, trans, feminist, posthumanist and critical race theories but also by, for instance, speculative fictions, poetry and experimental artworks in different media. Third, we cherish the resilience, relentlessness and elasticity of queerness and queer themes and subjects: as a squid manages to grow a fresh tentacle to take the place of a severed one, queer is always returning in new forms. While queer theory has often focused on loss, grief and death, we would also like to reflect on the possibilities of (re)imagining new forms of queer lives and queer survival.

Keynote speakers:

JERICHO BROWN is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown's third poetry collection The Tradition (2019) was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.

SAM MCBEAN is Senior Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary Culture at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Feminism’s Queer Temporalities (Routledge, 2016) and has published on feminist theory, queer theory, and contemporary literature and visual culture in journals including Feminist Review, Feminist Theory, Contemporary Literature, and new formations.

We are looking for papers that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
•The queerness or the queering of tradition, transmission and/or transformation
•Relevance of queer theory and queer studies for contemporary artistic practices
•(Re)imagining queer subjectivity and corporeality in the arts (e.g. comics, literature, film and television, theatre, music, performance, dance, mixed genres)
•Trans theory, trans poetics and their relations to queer
•Queer intimacies
•Queer (and) decolonization
•Queering feminisms, then and now: queer work in “shadow feminisms”
•How queer as a verb or an adjective relates to LGBTQIA+ activism
•Emerging and growing areas of queer research: queer narrative studies, queer death studies, queer life studies, queer animal studies, queer posthumanities, etc.
•Rethinking queer methods and methodologies

If you are proposing an individual paper:
Please provide the title and a 200-word abstract for the proposed presentation. Include your name, affiliation and email address. We hope you will add a short bio (100 words) with information about your publications, projects and research interests.

If you are proposing a session / workshop:
Please provide a description of 300–400 words, including the suggested title of the workshop. Include names, affiliations and email addresses of the participants. We hope you will add short bios (100 words/person) containing information about your publications, projects and research interests.

The new deadline for proposals is June 30th, 30.6.2022.

We ask you to submit your proposal by email to: sqstentacles22@gmail.com

Use the same address for any questions about the event and arrangements.

Please note: The seminar will have a participation fee of 50 euros.
We will also accept abstracts ands session proposals in Finnish.

Helsinki Pride 2022
Suomen suurin ihmisoikeustapahtuma tulee jälleen! Pride-viikko järjestetään 27.6.–3.7.2022 ja vuoden 2022 teema on Kohtaamisia. Pride-viikko huipentuu kulkueeseen ja puistopiknikiin 2.7.2022.

SuomiAreena 11.-15.7.2022
Festivaalin teemat puhuttavat yhteiskunnassa juuri nyt

Kesän 2022 teemoja viikonpäivittäin ovat

-tulevaisuus: ilmasto, ympäristö ja luonto (ti), kestävä kehitys (ke)
-huoltovarmuus: energia (ma), ruoka (to), turvallisuus (pe), kansainvälisyys (ke)
-terveys ja hyvinvointi (ke)
-työ, yrittäjyys (to) ja talous (pe)

Mikä uhkaa tasa-arvoa Suomessa? SuomiAreena
SuomiAreenassa keskustellaan sukupuolten tasa-arvon tulevaisuudesta 15.7.2022

CfP: 2nd International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality
The conference is seeking submissions related to the following conference topics: Gender Studies and Sexuality. Other related tracks and topics will also be considered.

9th International Conference on Gender & Women's Studies 2022
The conference theme is "Achieving Gender Equality and Womnen's Empowerment in Post-Pandemic Situation"

2nd International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality
ICGSS 2022 will dive into the topics that impact the social fabric of communities around the world. It will uncover trends, discuss urgent needs, and use the power of the network to brainstorm innovative ideas.