The project Free Choices - Estereótipos não fazem o meu género: escolhas vocacionais e profissionais livres de preconceitos is promoted by UMAR – União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta and funded by the Work-life Balance and Gender Equality Programme of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism – EEAGrants 2014-2021. CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa, ATEC – Associação de Formação para a Indústria, Associação Nós – Instituição Particular de Solidariedade Social, the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), and the Icelandic Women´s Rights Association (Iceland) are the project’s partners along with various high schools and schools.
The main project’s goals are the deconstruction of gender stereotypes which legitimise and contribute for the reproduction of a sexual segregation of academic and professional choices of youth, fomenting youth’s participation and critical analysis on the prevention of gender stereotypes and the promotion of gender equality. It also aims to develop collaborative work, involving the different agents who have an important role in the transformation of this paradigm of segregation. And to implement a prevention of stereotypes and promotion of equality programme, in the school context, aimed at vocational orientation, with students from the 7th to the 9th grades.
Manuela Tavares (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa | UMAR) is the project’s coordinator and Maria João Cunha (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa) the scientific consultant.
You can follow all the project’s activities through the projects Instagram, TikTok and website.
On May 8th, with the celebration of CIEG's anniversary, took place the conference on “Student decolonial activism: Impacts on South African scholarship and gender studies in South Africa” , given by Professor Tamara Shefer (University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. Her scholarship has focused on gender and sexual justice, with particular emphasis on young people, including parenting at school, young masculinities and femininities and sexualities education. She is also engaged in reconceptualising higher education and working with feminist and decolonial pedagogies and research praxis. Most recent books include: Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities: A Transnational Feminist Engagement (co-authoured with J. Hearn, 2022, Routledge) and Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies (co-edited with L. Gottzén & U. Mellström, 2020). She currently has a book in press entitled A feminist critique of sexuality education for gender justice in South African contexts (co-authored with S. Ngabaza).
FCT announced the opening of the 6th edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus. Applications can be submitted from April 4th until May 3rd 2023.
CIEG will be accepting applications as the host institution from researchers with PhD whose projects are aligned with CIEG's goals and research lines. More information on the Centre's research lines, here.
Interested candidates must submit the request to have CIEG as hosting institution by April 17th 2023 with the documents and information below:
All contact made regarding the application must be made through this e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., with subject “CEEC 6ª edição – Manifestação de Interesse”.
Additional information on the Notice of the Call, the Regulation, and also on FCT's website.
IMPORTANT: The application to CIEG as the hosting institution does not substitute the application to FCT, here.
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa) opens a call for granting 1 (one) PhD Research Studentship, in the area of Gender Studies, under the FCT Regulation for Studentships and Fellowships (RBI) and the Research Fellowship Holder Statute (EBI).
The grant will be funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the terms of the Collaboration Protocol for Funding of the Pluriannual Research Grant Plan for PhD Students, signed between the FCT and the R&D Unit CIEG, Nº 4304.
The call is open between March 27th 2023 and the 17.00h April 17th 2023.
The portuguese version is available here.
The english version is available here
Opening Session
Anália Torres (CIEG's Coordinator) and Alice Trindade (Vice-President of ISCSP-ULisboa)
Conceptualising Gender: History, Politics and Practice - Sue Scott, President of ESA, CWS/Univ. de York
The theorical-political legacy of Gender Studies and feminist agendas in contemporary Brazil - Karla Bessa, PAGU/UNICAMP's Coordinator
Revisiting consent, communicative acts and gender violence - Marta Soler, CREA-UB's Director
Rights, politic and resistances
Speakers: Irma Erlingsdóttir (UNU-GEST, EDDA/Univ. Iceland),Pedro Vasconcelos (CIES-IUL/ISCTE-IUL), Helena Pereira de Melo (CEDIS/FD-UNL, CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa)
Moderator: Anália Torres (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa)
Discussant: Paula Campos Pinto (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa)
Masculinities
Speakers: Vasco Prazeres (MS/DGS/NGES), Lígia Amâncio (CIS-IUL/ISCTE-IUL), António Manuel Marques (ESSP/IPS)
Moderator: Dália Costa (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa)
Discussant: Cristina Pereira Vieira (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa, CEMRI/Uab)
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