Dissemination - Announcements
GeStuRe aims to enhance the impact of gender studies in Greece by developing new research perspectives on gender violence scholarship and activism, that will address both the academic community and the wider public, and will be sustainable and available for researchers to use after the completion of the project. Οutputs include, in addition to academic publications, a Digital Repository and a Counter-Archive, as well as Podcasts based on fieldwork material, all of which will be openly accessible on the project website.
For the presentation of project results, GeStuRe will also organize, in partnership with the collaborating institutions, two Final Day-Conferences with the participation of the scientific community and key stakeholders. Final Day-Conferences will be take place in Rethymno and in Athens.
Crete Conference
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the Conference of the GeStuRe research project on the topic:
Gender-based Violence and Gender Studies: Intersections of Academic and Activist Geographies and Knowledge Communities
Rethymno, 17 October 2025 (10:00–19:00)
Department of Sociology, University of Crete
Gallos Campus (Room D3-7A)
Your presence will give us great joy and will be an honour to us.
The GeStuRe research team
Athens Conference
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the conference of the GeStuRe research project on the topic:
Feminist & Queer Archives: Methodologies, Practices and Politics of Knowledge
Athens, 26 September 2025 (10:00–19:00)
Historical Archive of the University of Athens (45 Skoufa Street, Athens)
Your presence will give us great joy and will be an honour to us.
The GeStuRe research team
12th European ATGENDER Feminist Research Conference: “Contemporary feminist liberation struggles: Bodies, borders and intersections.”
Eleftheria Papastefanaki and Irini Ampoumogli presented a part of the results of the research conducted in WP5 and WP4 at the 12th European Conference organized by the AtGender Institute at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, 9–12 July 2025. The title of Eleftheria Papastefanaki’s presentation was: “Local Feminisms: Balancing between violence, power, and democratic legacies,” and that of Irini Ampoumogli was: “Situating metropolitan feminisms, unsettling gender politics.”
6th Panhellenic Conference on the Sociology of Education “Education as a Common Good in a Vicious World: Democracy, Activism and Society”
Eleftheria Papastefanaki presented the results of archival and bibliographic research she conducted on feminist magazines of the Metapolitefsi at the 6th Panhellenic Conference on the Sociology of Education “Education as a Common Good in a Vicious World: Democracy, Activism and Society,” which took place in Volos, 23–25/05/2025. The title of her presentation was: “‘And at night I have a hammer in my pocket’: Representations of gender-based violence in feminist magazines of the Metapolitefsi (1974–1990).”
11th International Scientific Conference I.A.K.E. “Communities of Creation: Participation and Initiative in Institutional Collectivities: Society, Education, Political Consultation”
Pavlos Liaropoulos presented the results of research he conducted using semi-structured interviews in the regional units of Heraklion, Rethymno and Chania of Crete at the 11th International Scientific Conference I.A.K.E. “Communities of Creation: Participation and Initiative in Institutional Collectivities: Society, Education, Political Consultation,” which took place in Heraklion, 8–11/05/2025. The title of his presentation was: “Gender-Based Violence in Schools of Crete: Views, Experiences and Interventions of Secondary Education Teachers.”
9th Regular Conference of the Greek Sociological Society “1974-2004. Society and Sociology in Greece fifty years after the restoration of Democracy”
Alexandra Zavvou and Pavlos Hatzopoulos presented research findings and results concerning archival research they undertook, at the 9th Regular Conference of the Greek Sociological Society “1974-2004. Society and Sociology in Greece fifty years after the restoration of Democracy”, which took place in Athens, 30/10-1/11/2024. The title of their presentation was: “Reflections on the ‘archive’: Intersections between academic and grassroots feminisms on gender related violence”.