From January 28-30, 2026, the annual meeting of the CA23149 project took place in Amiens (France) under the title ‘Annual Meeting of the COST Action CA23149 - After 1 Year: Current state and challenges of research on anti-gender movements’. You can find the programme here.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS for the Conference: Gender, Law, Backlash What? Conference Where? University of Haifa (Israel) When? June 7-8, 2026 Deadline for Abstracts: February 16, 2026 Responses: March 19, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mapping Actors and Transnational Networks in Anti-Gender Mobilizations What? Workshop Where? University of Helsinki When? May 28-29,, 2026 Deadline for Abstracts: January 15, 2026

What? Hybrid event: "Women’s Rights in Liberal States and the Challenge of Right-Wing Populism" When? December 3, 2025, 14:15-15:45 (IST/GMT+2) Where? The University of Haifa and on Zoom

Digital Book Launch of "Challenging Norms. Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. When: October 15, 2025, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Where: online via Zoom

From October 2025 to March 2026, leading scholars will share fresh insights into family, parenthood, and societal change across the region. Join us for the opening talk on October 23 with Ivett Szalma & Judit Takács on Political demography and parenting rights in Europe.

On September 23 and 24, 2025, the COST Action Workshop “Challenging Patriarchy, Facing Backlash: Transnational Health Feminism and Antifeminist (Re)Actions, 1970s through 2000s” organised by working group 1 took place in Bielefeld, Germany.

On September 15 and 16, 2025, the COST Action Workshop “Anti-Gender Politics in the SWANA Region” took place in Barcelona, Spain.

On January 23 and 24, 2025, the kickoff meeting for the COST Action project CA23149 “Democratization at Stake? Comparing Anti-Gender Politics” took place at the Martin Opitz Library in Herne, Germany.