Gender Equality Conflicts in Europe - Agendis project

Conference Program

"Anti-Gender Politics and the Erosion of Democracy: Continuities, Shifts and Feminist Critiques"

DAY 1: 16 April 2026 | 14.30 – 19.00 (Room: TAL007)

14.30                  Arrival with refreshments

14.45 – 14.55    Welcome/Opening remarks

15.00 – 16.00    Panel 1: Europeanisation and Transnational Gender Politics

Chair: tbd

Pauline Ahlhaus / Monika Eigmüller

Discursive Europeanisation in gender and abortion policy: The perception and attributed significance of transnational influences on national gender equality debates by national actors in Germany, Spain, and Poland

Kavyanjali Kaushik

Competing Europes: Anti-Gender Mobilisation and EU Identity Narratives in the Digital Public Sphere

Break: 15 minutes

16.15 – 17.45    Panel 2: Polarisation and Contestation of Gender Issues in Europe

Chair: tbd

Heleen Matton

Gendering Democratic Backsliding. How Europe’s rising illiberal forces frame gender equality conflicts as the decisive test of democratic legitimacy

Stefan Wallaschek / Melanie Dietz / Renée Krug / Pauline Ahlhaus

Positional Polarization of established and emerging gender equality issues among German political parties

Bogdan Voicu / Edurne Bartolomé Peral

Ideological polarization on gender roles in Europe

Break: 15 minutes

18.00 – 19.00    Keynote lecture

Mia Liinason

Anti-Gender Politics and the Erosion of Democracy: Continuities, Shifts and Feminist Critiques

Conference dinner for all conference presenters: 20.00

Restaurant venue: Hotel Alte Post

DAY 2: 17 April 2026 | 09.00 – 12.30 (Room: TAL007)

09.00 – 10.30    Panel 3: Social and Ideational Change in European Societies

Chair: tbd

Ines Schäfer

Rising Educational Gap in Gender and Immigration Attitudes in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2024?

Melanie Dietz

Polarized by Gender Issues. Explaining the Youth Gender Gap in Ideological Self-Placement

Renée Krug / Monika Eigmüller

Gender Equality through Quotas? Discursive Constructions of Gender Justice in Germany and Spain in a European Comparison

Break: 15 minutes

10.45 – 12.15    Panel 4: Everyday Practices and Experiences of Gender Relations

Chair: tbd

Andrea Salánki

Experiencing and negotiating symbolic boundaries among Hungarian SGM in Austria in the context of anti-gender politics

Olga Tyszkiewicz

Infrastructures of Care: Informal Abortion Networks and Reproductive Justice in Poland

María Herrera Cárdenas

Gendered Medical Violence in Contemporary Spanish Literature: Literary Counterpublics vs. Lived Trauma in Spain–Germany (2020–2025)

12.15 – 12.25    Brown Bag Lunch & Final remarks