ENGENDERING HABITAT III Facing the Global Challenges in Cities, Climate Change and Transport

he conference “Engendering Habitat III: Facing the Global Challenges in Cities, Climate Change and Transport” will continue to build knowledge, experience, and networks, on the topics of gender and women in cities, planning, transportation, climate change, and structural change of institutions to promote gender equality in technological fields, with a focus on architecture and planning.

In addition to furthering the EU’s policies on gender in research, the Engendering Habitat III Conference will contribute to three concurrent important international agendas: the wide participatory processes set up by Habitat III, the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the climate change policies emerging from the Paris COP agreements in December 2015, by creating a wide international academic forum specifically focusing on their gender dimensions.

We started the series of Engendering Conferences with our 1st Conference on Empowering Women and Advancing Gender in Research and Innovation, held in Crete in 2014 under the auspices of the Greek Presidency of the EU. The 2nd Conference Engendering Cities, Designing Inclusive and Sustainable Cities for All was held in Rome under the auspices of UNESCO and the Italian Presidency of the EU in September of 2014. In March 2015 took place the 3rd Conference entitled Engendering STEM disciplines: Structural Change in Academia: Recruitment, Retention, Promotion and Leadership of Women in Lisbon. Finally, in November 2015 we held the 4th Conference under the title Engendering the Sustainable Development Agenda in Istanbul.  

The two plenary sessions will feature keynote speeches by leading international experts on gender and urban environments. The conference will have eight tracks on a number of areas ranging from Urban Design and Architecture to Security and Safety, Accessibility, Migration, Environmental Challenges, Urban Planning and Gendered Research Methodologies, Gender Equality within Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Structural Changes in Technological Fields. Please see the description of tracks here

I am pleased to invite academics, policy makers, professionals, Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and PhD students to submit their abstracts on the conference webpage. The official language of the conference is English but papers in Spanish will also be accepted. In fact, we encourage participation from Spanish and Latin American participants.

Please take time to explore the website for more information on the conference themes as well as the submission procedures and the key dates (more information can be found on the conference website http://engenderinghabitat3.genderste.eu). I would also like to ask you to distribute this call to your mail lists and professional circles. There will be opportunities for the publication of papers in peer reviewed journals and books after the conference. Therefore, I would like to encourage participants from different fields of research and practice to join us to run a stimulating and enjoyable conference and disseminate its outcomes to the wider community.