Gender politics in local and global contexts are clearly shifting and subject to multiple and fluid reconfigurations. Gender politics have clear geopolitical dimensions. The recent revival of nationalist, populist right-wing politics poses a challenge to human rights, multicultural agendas, and the functioning of democratic systems. The electoral successes of populist parties and politicians owe much to their radical nationalist and anti-immigration stance, in particular, and political discontent, in general. Their varying degrees of xenophobia, misogyny, Islamophobia, and anti-establishment positions have not only set them apart from other rivals on the political Left and Right but also entered into the mainstream. This political condition raises questions about feminist resistance to new forms of political, cultural, social, and economic exclusion. Yet, feminist resistances of multiple sorts and across local and global contexts continue to oppose and disrupt.

Goals of the 2017 conference:

1) To share feminist research and criticism of the rise of nationalism and populism from transnational perspectives;

2) To share research within RINGS through the framework of thinking about the gender dimensions of new political, social and cultural trends;

3) To critically assess the limitations to scholarly collaboration due to geopolitical location and related inequalities.

Suggested conference topics include, but are not limited to:

• Feminism, Nationalism, and Populism
• The Return to Nationalism, Nativism and Traditionalism: (Re-)Framing Feminist Resistance Strategies
• The Gendered Dimensions of the Populist Resurgence: Global Perspectives
• Mobilizations against Social Exclusion: Transnational and
• Transcultural Connections
• History and Memory: Colonial, Fascist, and Populist Discourses
• Border Regimes and Human Rights: Globalized Migration and the Challenge of Nationalism
• Regimes of Discrimination and Social Inequalities
• Gender and Violence: Neo-Patriarchy and the Attack on Women‘s Rights
• Political, Social and Economic Crises and the Radical Right
• Populism, Post-Truths, and Academic Freedoms
• Popular, Activist, Performative and Artistic Feminist Resistances