Gender Equality Conflicts in Europe - Agendis project

Conference Program

DAY 1: 16 April 2026 | 14.30 – 19.30 (Room: TAL007)

14.30 Arrival with refreshments
14.45 – 14.55 Welcome/Opening remarks
15.00 – 16.30 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
Dominika Tronina
Anti-Feminist Mobilization and the Judiciary: The Brosius-Gersdorf Case in Transnational Perspective

Break: 15 minutes

16.45 – 18.15 Panel 2: Polarisation and Contestation of Gender Issues in Europa, 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

18.30 – 19.30, Keynote lecture
Mia Liinason Tba

Conference dinner for all conference presenters: 20.00 Restaurant venue: tba 

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 Final remarks/Goodbye
From 12.15 Brown Bag Lunch