Fourth European Conference on Politics and Gender - 2015 Uppsala, Sweden

The University of Uppsala hosted the 2015 European Conference on Politics and Gender 11-13 June 2015.  
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Co-conveners: Isabelle Engeli, Elizabeth Evans and Lizza Mügge
Keynote Speaker:  Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Keynote Address: "Feminism and Political Science." 
The Uppsala program can be accessed here

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Local Organizers

Elin Bjarnegård is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Government at Uppsala University. Dr. Bjarnegård’s research and teaching interests span the field of comparative politics with a particular focus on gender; including the impact of parties, electoral, and networks on political recruitment, the role of informal institutions in politics, the explicit gendering of men and masculinities, the adoption of gender equality policies, and the attitudes to and dynamics of violence during conflict. She is presently involved in three different research projects using different types of methods and with empirical foci ranging from large and medium-n analyses to case studies of Thailand, Sweden, and Tanzania. She has published in journals such as Representation, International Interactions and Journal of Gender Studies. Her book Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment was published with Palgrave in 2013.

Christina Bergqvist is Professor of political science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. Her major areas of research are in the fields of gender and political representation, comparative feminist policy, gender equality and welfare state policies. She was editor-in-chief of  Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries (Scandinavian University Press, 1999). Recent publications include “Convergent care regimes? Childcare arrangements in Australia, Canada, Finland and Sweden”, in Journal of European Social Policy. 2012. No 4. Vol 22. (With Rianne Mahon, Anneli Anttonen, Deborah Brennan & Barbara Hobson) and ”The Promise and Pitfalls of Gender Mainstreaming: The Swedish Case”, in International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2009. No 2, vol 11. (With Diane Sainsbury).

​Pär Zetterberg is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Government at Uppsala University.  His research focuses mainly on political recruitment and political representation in a comparative perspective (mostly on, but not restricted to, Latin American countries). Particular attention is paid to the examination of the long-term possibilities for electoral gender quotas to break gender inequalities in politics. Theoretically, he draws on various bodies of literature in political science, e.g. political representation, political party/candidate selection literature, legislative behavior, and political participation. He is also interested in research on the adoption of gender equality policies more broadly as well as on how young people develop political beliefs, attitudes and behavior, respectively. In particular, I pay attention to the role of educational institutions, and school environment characteristics, in developing political citizenship.