Gender and Peacebuilding -Advanced International Training Programme

A Five-Days International Training Programme for Practitioners, Policy Makers, International and National Agency Staff and NGOs working in peacebuilding, conflict transformation and post-war recovery

www.transcend.org

Organised by TRANSCEND and the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR)

April 10-14, 2006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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CfP: Queer Theory Conference, Warsaw, 29-30.8.2006

Warsaw University
Gender Studies Center and American Studies Center

Seeking Queer Alliances: Resisting Dominant Discourses and Institutions
7th international queer studies conference

29-30.08.2006

As the political climate in many parts of the world turns increasingly conservative, we are asking whether a concept such as global homophobia may be a useful analytical and/or political tool, and—as a correlate question— whether queer concepts travel well across political borders and geo-cultural spaces. Continue reading