Call for papers – I International Feminist Marxism Conference
April 22-26, 2024 – University of São Paulo

Let nothing define us. Let nothing hold us.
Let freedom be our own substance.
Simone de Beauvoir

The I International Feminist Marxism Conference invites everyone to discuss the possible – and necessary – relations between Marxism and Feminism, considering some questions and themes. How can works that advance the feminist debate contribute to Marxism? What are the continuities, discontinuities, and determinations among gender, race, and class? What are the relations between gender and capitalist accumulation at different historical moments? And in the dynamics of contemporary capitalist exploitation? How does the separation between capital production and social reproduction create gender inequalities? And to what extent do theories that separate these spheres reproduce such inequalities? To what extent does combining Marxism and Feminism open up our possibilities for the future? How can Feminism contribute to re-reading the Marxist debate on art, the artistic canon, and rediscovering a new aesthetic? Questions like these are the driving force behind the Conference.

This conference aims to contribute to deepening the process of “feminization” and “queerization” of Marxism, carried out by different generations of theorists and activists, given how central the issue of gender, linked to issues of class, race, and sexuality, are both to understanding capitalism and to our political and academic practices. Unfortunately, we see that, despite having made fundamental progress, there are still inequalities in these debates within our tradition. We believe that it is high time that Marxism and Marxists rose to the challenges of the 21st century, and this necessarily involves moving forward and following the legacy opened up by Marxists and feminists over the last few years.

To bring together and put into dialogue works and reflections that have been carried out by those who research, the organizing committee of the I International Feminist Marxism Conference, to be held between April 22 and 26, 2024, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/USP), invites everyone to send their abstracts to the Working Groups according to the specifications that follow. In addition to presenting the selected papers, the Conference will feature panel discussions with professors from Brazilian universities and international institutions.

1. Applications will be accepted for individual papers and panel discussions on the following themes:
1) Feminist re-readings of the work of Marx and Engels;
2) Socialist Feminism;
3) Gender, race, class, sexuality and other intersections;
4) Marxist Feminism in Brazil;
5) Feminist Critical Theory;
6) Feminist critiques of contemporary capitalism;
7) History of Marxist Feminism;
8) Feminist art and political culture;
9) Theory of social reproduction;
10) Contemporary capitalist exploitation: care work, family, affection;
11) Queer theory and feminist Marxism.

NOTE: We will accept submissions for panels with up to 4 papers. The proposal must contain the individual abstracts and a general panel summary with complete information.

2. Submitting proposals for individual papers
The organizing committee will prioritize the selection of papers whose object of analysis and critique falls within the thematic axes listed in item 1 and whose theoretical framework is Marxism in its breadth and diversity of strands.
2.1. Abstracts must have a maximum of 300 words.
2.2 The following documents are required for submission: Full name, Minibiography containing institutional affiliation and professional/academic activity, Link to the Lattes curriculum (only for Brazilians), Title of the paper, and Abstract of the paper.
2.3 Abstracts must be submitted exclusively via Google Forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPz4qZi2bGu6mXkSnwZLpJ2DqFJ3TuHnseOniOSjnKL8cTUA/viewform

We accept abstracts in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

3. Submitting proposals for panels
The organizing committee will prioritize the selection of papers whose object of analysis and critique falls within the thematic axes listed in item 1 and whose theoretical reference is Marxism in its breadth and diversity of strands.
3.1. Proposals must be up to 1500 words in length.
3.2 Proposals must contain full details of each participant: Full name, Minibiography containing institutional affiliation and professional/academic activity, Link to the Lattes curriculum (only for Brazilians), Title of the paper, and Abstract of the paper.
3.3 Abstracts must be submitted exclusively via Google Forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6vIF2EbeYpUymgDz_S3MH3NAc266uohgpq6UXbrNeILqFWQ/viewform

We accept proposals in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

NOTE: For those who have their proposal approved, we ask for a contribution of R$15 to help with the event’s costs.

4. Panel moderation and submission of full papers
The Organizing Committee will appoint the moderators of all the communication panels. To deepen the discussions in the WGs (Working Groups), we encourage the submission of accepted papers to be shared with the moderators.
Approved full papers (in panel proposals or individual entries) must be between 10 and 20 pages long (including title, authorship, institutional affiliation, contact address, abstract of no more than 200 words and five keywords, notes, and bibliographical references) in Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 spacing, doc, docx, rtf or odt format, according to the template provided, and must be submitted via Google Forms which will be sent after approval.

5. Deadlines
Submission via Google Forms: February 23, 2024
Announcement of approved abstracts: March 18, 2024
Submission of full paper (optional): April 15, 2024

6. Selection
The organizing committee is sovereign in the selection of accepted abstracts. The criteria will be suitability for the thematic axes and originality.

Organizing Committee:
Beatriz Rodrigues Sanchez (Political Science-USP/CEBRAP)
Bruna Della Torre (Sociology/UNICAMP)
Carolina de Paula Peters (Literary Theory and Comparative Literature/USP)
Carolina Soares Nunes Pereira (Sociology/UNICAMP)
Daniela Costanzo (CEBRAP)
Isabella Meucci (Political Science/UNICAMP)
Larissa Vannucci (Department of Modern Languages/USP)
Mariana Celano de Souza Amaral (Sociology/USP)

Support and funding:
Graduate Program in Sociology at the University of São Paulo (PPGS/USP)
Department of Modern Languages (DLM/USP)
Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (CENEDIC)
Boitempo Publishing House

Contact:
E-mail: feminismomarxistausp@masafilosofia
Website: https://marxismofeminista.com/
Instagram: @marxismofeminista

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An entire old world still needs overthrowing, and an entirely new one needs constructing.
Rosa Luxemburg