A conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26–28, 2025

Nearly 5 years have passed since the #MeToo movement‘s worldwide impact. In the meantime, many serious issues have surfaced, with considerable global backlash in response to claims concerning gender equality. How did the #MeToo movement change the world, especially in terms of its responses to sexual violence? How does it relate to various other social movements? How has it affected feminist scholarship or state policies?

Keynote speakers:

• Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Graceland University
• Kate Manne, Cornell University

The conference is organized by the research project Ethics in Motion: Feminist Ethics and #MeToo (EMFEM), a multidisciplinary international working group of feminist scholars hosted by the Centre for Ethics at the University of Iceland. The project is funded by the Icelandic Research Fund from 2023 to 2026 and examines the impact of #MeToo and related movements on moral thought and moral values appearing in recent debates in and around the #MeToo movement.

Conference organizing team:

• Eyja M. J. Brynjarsdóttir, University of Iceland
• Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir, University of Iceland
• Anna Gotlib, CUNY, Brooklyn College

For inquiries and information, write to emfem2025@gmail.com.

Call for abstracts

We welcome abstracts (250 words) on any aspects of feminist ethics and value theory, feminist critical analysis, feminist political theory, feminist epistemology, feminist metaphysics or feminist activism with relevance to #MeToo or other related movements or issues. Submissions from all academic disciplines are welcome, provided they implicate feminist analysis in their work and have sufficient relevant to the topics. Submissions from scholars at all career levels are welcomed.

Possible topics/themes include (but are not limited to):

• #MeToo in an intersectional context
• Gender identity and #MeToo
• #MeToo at a local level
• #MeToo as an international phenomenon
• #MeToo and solidarity
• #MeToo and activism
• #MeToo in the law
• #MeToo as a social movement
• Gendered policies after #MeToo
• (Mis)interpretations of #MeToo
• Apologies and forgiveness
• Changes in social and moral norms
• Love, sex, and relationships
• Feminist revolutions
• Theory and activism
• Feminist ethics as an independent subject and/or as a part of feminist philosophy
• The history of feminist ethics
• Influence of feminist activism on moral norms
• Individual vs. collective responsibility

Deadline for abstracts: 20 November, 2024

Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2025

Abstracts should be submitted through a submission portal that will open on this page before the deadline.