Call for Sections and Section Chairs

Don't miss a valuable opportunity to shape the conference and network with scholars in your field! 

Good to know

You may register interest as a team of two or more.

We will prioritise proposals that meet the following criteria:

1. Highly original and show potential to attract the interest of a wide and diverse audience.
2. Proposed by a diverse team with different levels of seniority and based in different countries and regions. Chairs should not be based the same country.
3. Promote research and scholarship at the intersections of politics and gender, sexuality, race and intersectionality.

The Steering Committee may invite teams to collaborate if this would benefit the wider ECPG community, or if the proposals overlap.

Role of Section Chairs

• Develop a description of the Section within the topics listed below, or propose a new one.
• Issue a call for Papers, Panels and contributions to their Section.
• Invite and decide on the format of Section activities (Panels, open discussions, book roundtables, etc.).
• Select (accept/reject) Panel and Paper proposals.
• Allocate participants including Chairs and Discussants to Panels and other section activities.

The evaluation of Paper proposals will take place between 8 November and 18 December 2025.

Section themes

We seek volunteers to chair the Sections listed below, or to propose new ones. 

If proposing a new Section, please note that the number of Sections that can be accepted is limited.

The following list reflects the feedback from the 2023 member survey and the 2025 ECPG evaluation survey.

• Politics of gender and race, racism, whiteness
• Gender politics in the Global South
• European politics
• Governance and public policy
• International relations
• LGBTIQ+, sexuality, queer and trans studies, policies and politics
• Political participation and public opinion
• Political theory
• Power and representation
• Research methods for gender and politics
• Social movements and civil society
• Gender politics, democracy and violence
• Disability and gender politics
• Gender and political economy

How to submit

Please email your proposal to Massimo Prearo and Anna Elomäki of the Steering Committee by Friday 1 August 2025.

Your proposal should include the following:

• Information about the team members
• Whether or not the Section pertains to one of the listed sections above
• 500-word description of the proposed section

Please feel free to get in touch with any questions or ideas in the meantime.