CFP: "On Trial". Claiming Feminist Justice in Dark Times - Between Law, Testimony, and Politics

The conference, organized by the Arendt Center as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project “Rewriting Rights” –  explores the double sense in which feminist justice is “on trial” today — in courtrooms, where the performance and performativity of legal proceedings expose the structural limits of institutional justice, and in culture, where dominant narratives continue to normalize gendered violence. The conference aims to brings feminist philosophy and critical theory into dialogue with socio-legal perspectives to ask what more transformative forms of justice might look like.

Keynote speakers:

• Leigh Gilmore (The Ohio State University)
• Anália Torres (University of Lisbon)

The conference will also include a workshop on Women’s Courts and Tribunals on Crimes against Women.

We invite submissions from researchers working in feminist philosophy, critical theory, political theory, socio-legal theory, gender studies, or related fields.

We particularly welcome contributions from early-career researchers and scholars from diverse geographical contexts. 

For further details, including submission guidelines and thematic areas, please consult the full call for abstracts at the link below. 

Submission deadline: 15 July 2026

E-mail for submission and inquiry: [email protected]