The EUGENDERING debates are organized in collaboration with Gender5+
Public debates
Next events
Reimagining EU Policy-Making through Intersectional Activisms: Decolonial Insights from Romani Feminisms
16 May 2025 – 5 pm to 7 pm
Co-organized with the University of Antwerp (Politics & Public Governance Research Group), Romnja Feminist Library, and the Feminist Collective of Romani Gender Experts
With Serena D’Agoostino (University of Antwerp), Carmen Gheorghe (E-Romnja, Romania), Aldessa Georgiana Lincan (Romnja Feminist Library), Alba Hernández Sánchez (Feminist Collective of Romani Gender Experts), Sophie Jacquot (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles), Jelena Jovanovic (European Parliament Intergroup ARDI), Vanessa Kabuta, European Commission, DG JUST, Unit D2 Non-discrimination: Anti-racism and Roma Coordination
This event serves as a transformative space to foreground Roma intersectional feminism as a critical site for reimagining EU policy-making. It aims to center the voices, experiences and expertise of Romani women feminists and activists, positioning them as key contributors to knowledge production and policy discourse. By fostering dialogue across academic, activist and (EU) institutional actors, the event seeks to challenge Eurocentric and exclusionary practices within policy-making processes, while amplifying decolonial and feminist approaches.
Through collective engagement, this event works towards building bridges between grassroots activism and institutional policy development. This initiative also includes the launch of the Romnja Magazine Issue No.1 (IEK) – Decolonizing Gadje Narratives, a publication that highlights Romani women’s perspectives in knowledge production through a feminist and decolonial lens, offering a powerful counter-narrative to dominant representations.
Militantes féministes, eurocrates et lobbyistes en lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes. De la Belgique à l’ONU, en passant par l’Europe
Mardi 13 mai 2025, 17h-20h
Soirée-débat en partenariat avec l’Université des femmes.
Avec :
– Peter Hallama, historien du genre, de la violence et des relations internationales (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / SIRICE), coorganisateur d’une journée d’étude sur l’histoire des femmes dans les relations internationales, en partenariat avec la Chaire Jean Monnet EUGENDERING (19 juin 2025 à Paris)
– Alexia Fafara, spécialiste des campagnes contre l’exploitation sexuelle au Lobby Européen des femmes et contributrice du mouvement #MeTooEP
– Juliette Biesmans doctorante en science politique à l’UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, ancienne assistante parlementaire, et autrice du mémoire “Politiques publiques et violences de genre : la Belgique, modèle de l’Union européenne ?”
Informations pratiques
Maison Amazone, rue du Méridien 10 – 1210 Bruxelles – Salle 017
Gratuit, inscription obligatoire : inscriptions@universitedesfemmes.be
Past events
Queer in the Trenches : LGBTQ+ Rights, Gender, and European Values in Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
27 February 2025 – 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Co-organized with IRSEM Europe
With Maryna Shevtsova (KULeuven) and Florian Opillard (IRSEM)
The ongoing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has not only reshaped geopolitical alliances but also catalyzed profound societal transformations, particularly in the domains of gender, sexuality, and human rights. This event explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals serving in the Ukrainian military, a historically masculinized institution undergoing significant change amidst the full-scale invasion by Russia. It examines the interplay between the Europeanization of human rights in Ukraine, the legalization of same-sex partnerships, and the broader “war of values” framing the conflict. It addresses the challenges and opportunities for advancing LGBTQ+ rights within the context of war, including transnational cooperation, alliances with EU partners, and the role of civil society in fostering inclusion. This conversation aims to bring together activists, policymakers, and scholars to reflect on the need for inclusive debate and strategic collaboration, situating Ukraine’s struggle for LGBTQ+ rights within the larger framework of European integration and human dignity.
The effects of Covid on domiciliaries care policies and jobs on Europe : comparative perspectives
20 juin 2024 – 09:00-17:00
Co-organized with Clémence Ledoux (Université de Nantes)
The policies developed to answer the pandemic in Europe have varied from country to country, but in the field of home care for elderly people, the emergence of Covid-19 has raised the same health and socio-economic questions. How to ensure the protection of home care workers and the people they were caring for, knowing that certain tasks require close proximity? How to ensure, especially in a context of lack of equipment or unclear instructions, that care workers were not exposed to the virus? How to reward home care workers? How has the pandemic led to a longer-term reconfiguration of the regulation of the home care sectors?
The objective of the conference It aims to understand how the institutional contexts and the existing systems of organized actors in five very different countries (France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and the United Kingdom) have determined the responses to the problems faced by the elderly and the professional home care workers working with them, both at the time of the arrival of the virus and afterwards.
To know more
European Parliament 2024: Achievements and Prospects for a Feminist Europe
February 22, 2024 – 12:00-14:00 – European Parliament
Gender issues surrounding the 2024 European Parliament elections (Gender Five Plus and the Jean Monnet Chair EUGendering). Hosted by MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield – Introduced by Agnès Hubert – Chaired by Sophie Jacquot
Intervention by Katarzyna Szkuta for the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU
Panellists: Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Member of the European Parliament), Jéromine Andolfatto (European Women Lobby), Petra Ahrens (Tampere University), Victoire Olczak (Gender Five Plus).
Presentation of Gender Five Plus policy paper available here
Intersectionality in EU policies: a step forward ?
In collaboration with the EUNMUTE Centre of Excellence
November 30, 2023 – 18:00-20:00
With Oriane Calligaro (UCLille), Serena D’Agostino (VUB), Sophie Jacquot (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) & Gender5+
Abstract: The development of an intersectional approach to EU policy-making is fairly recent at the EU level. However, for a few years, intersectionality has been increasingly present in the EU equality agenda, to the point of becoming one of the pillars of the « Union of Equality » strategies of the current Commission. This public debate aims at (…) Read more
Chroniques de l’Europe: genre et sans-voix dans l’histoire longue de l’Europe
En collaboration avec le Centre d’Excellence EUNMUTE
13 octobre 2023 – 12:00-13:30
Avec Fabrice Virgili (CNRS) et Anne-Laure Briatte (Sorbonne Université)
Résumé: Retracer six siècles d’histoire de l’Europe, en quelque 120 dates et plusieurs documents, à rebrousse-poil de l’historiographie traditionnelle : tel est le défi que relèvent les Chroniques de l’Europe. Les historiennes et historiens – des techniques, du politique, de l’environnement, des idées, du genre, des arts, de l’économie – réunis dans cet ouvrage, se sont prêtés à un exercice original : choisir un événement qui fait sens à l’échelle de l’Europe, puis (…) En savoir plus
L’avortement en Europe aujourd’hui: du droit aux pratiques
Cet évènement s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une série de conférences Eliane Vogel-Polsky (Gender5+), en collaboration également avec le Centre d’Excellence EUNMUTE et le SIEJ
12 mai 2023 – 13:00-14:30
Présentation : Sophie Jacquot (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) & Agnès Hubert (Gender5+). Table-ronde modérée par Mona Gérardin-Laverge (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles). Intervenantes : Lola Clavreul (Fédération des Centres Pluralistes de Planning Familial), Alexia Fafara (Lobby Européen des Femmes), Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec (Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne), Bérengère Marques-Pereira (ULB)
Résumé : L’avortement, et plus largement les droits reproductifs, sont l’objet de controverses et de conflits particulièrement virulents dans l’espace européen, caractérisé par une forte disparité en matière de décriminalisation de l’avortement (qui est encore interdit à Malte, au Vatican et en Andorre), de délais légaux (de 10 semaines au Portugal à 24 au Royaume-Uni) et d’évolutions (alors que des pays comme la France progressent en matière de dépénalisation, d’autres comme la Pologne restreignent de plus en plus drastiquement l’accès à l’avortement). Lire plus
WEBINAR: The Conference on the Future of Europe and Gender: What’s Next?
January 25, 2023 – 17:30-19:00 CET, via Teams
From the Conference on the Future of Europe to a Feminist Europe.
Starting with the presentation of the new Gender Five Plus report on Gender Equality and the Future of Europe, this webinar is an opportunity to discuss the results of the Conference on the Future of Europe from a gender perspective, but also the policy recommendations needed to move towards a feminist Europe.
Organization and presentation: Sophie Jacquot (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) & Victoire Olczak (Sciences Po, Gender Five Plus)
Panellists: Jéromine Andolfatto (European Women’s Lobby), Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (MEP, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Victoire Olczak (Sciences Po, Gender Five Plus), Alvaro Oleart (ULB), Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul (European Commission, DG Communication, responsible for Citizens’ Dialogue)