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Women's Worlds: International, Interdisciplinary Congress on Women
10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women
Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds 2008
- at UCM, Madrid, Spain
Women´s Worlds is the most important congress on academic research on gender and women and feminist social movements. It is a major international event with a main goal: to continue the fight against social injustice and gender inequalities. Feminist researchers, specialists, activists and internationally known public figures will use this opportunity to reflect on important contemporary issues that affect women in specific ways. The University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) was elected in Seoul (WW05) to be the home for the 2008 congress edition. Thus, Madrid, the UCM, will welcome thousands of people from around the Globe and from more than a hundred countries for the 10th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. July 3-9, 2008 is the date for the celebration of the first entirely bilingual edition (Spanish / English) of this congress: Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds 2008.
www.mmww08.org
Women's Worlds ’99 in Tromsø, Norway: A meeting-place for women's interests of all kinds
KVINNFORSK at the University of Tromsø organised Women’s Worlds Congress: The 7th International, Interdisciplinary Congress on Women - Women’s Worlds ’99 – i 1999. This was an enormous arrangement for our relatively new centre.
These congresses take place every 3rd year. Although feminist research and interdisciplinary scholarship remain their basis, they are also intended to be meeting-places for grassroots activists and affirmative action officers, for young and old, for students as well as for established academics. In short, the ambition has been to bring women ? and men! ? of all persuasions and backgrounds, and from every corner of the world, together for lectures, papers and workshops, panel debates and informal discussions, "important" meetings as well as impromptu get-togethers?and, last but not least, a wide range of cultural and social events.
After Women’s Worlds 99 in Tromsø, Norway, followed Women’s Worlds 02 in Kampala, Uganda, Women’s Worlds 05 in Seoul, Korea – and next: Women’s Worlds 08 in Madrid, Spain.
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