Women´s Worlds 2008 - 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Madrid

Women´s Worlds is the most important congress on academic research on gender and women and feminist social movements. It is a major international event with a main goal: to continue the fight against social injustice and gender inequalities. Feminist researchers, specialists, activists and internationally known public figures will use this opportunity to reflect on important contemporary issues that affect women in specific ways.<br> <br> The University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) was elected in Seoul (WW05) to be the home for the 2008 congress edition. Thus, Madrid, the UCM, will welcome thousands of people from around the Globe and from more than a hundred countries for the 10th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. July 3-9, 2008 is the date for the celebration of the first entirely bilingual edition (Spanish / English) of this congress: Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds 2008.<br> <br> <b>Motto</b>: Equality: No Utopia<br> <br> <b>Theme</b>: New Frontiers: Dares and Advancements<br> <br> Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds 2008 is open to proposals in ALL fields and themes related to women and gender in contemporary societies as well as historically. However, we have established some thematic guidelines to facilitate classification of proposals for the congress final program. We are placing a special emphasis on two central themes: violence and migrations but these themes are by no means the only ones to be addressed. MMWW08 organizers will like to receive a wide variety of proposals in ALL fields of knowledge and working areas.<br> <br> The experience of dislocation whether physical or conceptual / symbolic affects women in specific ways. We have chosen three concepts to encompass the general theme of the congress: frontiers, dares and advancements, in order to address a wide range of themes, issues and disciplines that ought to be taken into account for a better understanding of the present World. On the one hand, the congress theme refers to physical dislocations as having to do with migration, illegal traffic of women for sexual exploitation and slavery, cheap labour, racism, xenophobia and all forms of physical violence against women and those who are `in transit`. On the other hand, it refers to imaginary and conceptual forms of dislocations and frontiers as having to do with survival mechanisms that women in extreme situations develop, many forms of conceptual dislocation and imaginary borders, `other worlds`, the Internet and scientific revolutions that we are experiencing in the 21st century, new venues and ties among people who are fighting for gender equality and social justice around the World, new time/space frames, new feminist theoretical proposals, etc.<br> <br> MMWW08 will be the ground for a deep and constructive analysis and an optimistic outlook at all the issues that affect women and feminist enterprises today.<br>