Activating Gender Justice: From Research to Collective Praxis for Social Change, 13 - 14 November 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
Join us for a transformative one-and-a-half-day event in Universidade de Lisboa's Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, that brings together early-career and senior researchers, practitioners, and activists working on gender justice issues in the Global South. This event will focus on advancing intersectional and transformative understandings of gender within Development Studies but at the same time, we want to build a strong and proactive community of researchers for future spaces such as the EADI Annual Conference in July, 2026, in Antwerp, Belgium.
Centered on the belief that gender justice is not just a theoretical concept but a call to action, the workshop will feature a mix of interactive keynote sessions, hands-on co-creation labs, and collaborative dialogues. Participants will address critical issues such as gender-based violence, women’s roles in care work, political and economic decision-making, entrepreneurship, intersectionality, decolonial feminist methodologies, and the impact of stakeholder initiatives on gendered development outcomes. It is intended to be an event tailored on participants' needs and interests.
Moving beyond traditional conference formats, this event will serve as a research-activism lab, offering innovative knowledge-sharing activities like podcast development, visual storytelling, and mentorship clinics. These activities will produce valuable outputs for both academic and activist communities, while fostering networking and skill-sharing across generations of scholars and practitioners.
The Gender Lab is a key step towards creating feminist spaces for reflection and action, decolonizing gender knowledge, and building long-term partnerships for collective transformation. As the Gender Justice Working Group we are eager to have the most engaged and passionate thinkers that want to share their knowledge and are open to creating an active community. We have limited spots and will be providing partial reimbursement for accommodation and travel expenses to all participants*. It is a joint effort between EADI's Innovation Fund, ISEG Research and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT.
*Reimbursement is fixed for Portugal-based participants, as well as a fixed reimbursement for non-Portugal-based participants.
*Support: Research Groups Economic Sociology, Organisations, and Work (ISEG Research/SOCIUS) & Development Studies and Sustainable Transitions (ISEG Research/CEsA - Centre for African and Development Studies).
This work is supported by FCT, I.P., the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology, under the pluriannual program UID06522.
Venue: ISEG, Rua do Quelhas 6, 1200-781 Lisboa, Portugal
