Fakultet Političkih Nauka Univerzitet u Sarajevu MCMXLIX

Keynote speaker: Karen Celis, Research Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Moderator: Merima Ejubović, Programme Manager,
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bosnia and Herzegovina

In this lecture, Karen Celis returns to some of her earlier writings on the politics & gender discipline, and more specifically to the introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics and the editors’ introduction to the first issue of the European Journal of Politics and Gender. What still stands? Where do we stand now? Turning to the issue of feminism and/in political science she asks what that actually means, and what feminist political science might mean for the political science discipline as a whole. She argues that the ‘feminist imperative’ to not only study the world as is but also change it for the better is crucial for future political science scholarship. Politics, intersectionality and gender scholars have much to offer to a political science discipline that remains and remains relevant in our current times that demand a joint response to the intertwined anti-equality and anti-democratic project.

Karen Celis is full professor affiliated to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Political Sciences, where she chairs the VUB Centre for Democratic Futures (DFUTURE). She conducts theoretical and empirical research on the democratic quality of political representation from an intersectional perspective; her most recent interests include feminist democratic design and emotions in politics. She is in charge of political science and interdisciplinary research programmes and projects about gender, diversity and intersectionality, and about political representation, resentment and polarization.

* Lecture in English, with Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian interpretation *