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

Several 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 emfemconference@gmail.com.

Practical information

Registration:

Every speaker and attendee needs to register before 15th of March.

We will have a sliding scale cost of registration:

• 15.000 ISK for graduate students/low income countries. Click here to pay.
• 20.000 ISK for early career researchers/adjuncts. Click here to pay.
• 25.000 for senior faculty. Click here to pay.

 We ask people to try to use that option but if it does not work, please contact nannahlin@hi.is.

Staff at the University of Iceland using research accounts also need to contact nannahlin@hi.is.

The registration fee can be partly refunded (ca 80%) until the 10th of May.

Sessions:

We will have parallel session (3 at the same time) with 3 or 4 speakers in each sessions. Each paper is twenty minutes + 10 minutes for discussions. 

Travel and accommodation

TRANSPORTATION:  As you most likely know, you need to fly to Iceland, and there are limited airline options. Here are the airlines that fly to Iceland:

• Lufthansa
• SWISS
• easyJet
• Eurowings
• Icelandair
• Japan Airlines
• Norwegian
• United
• Vueling
• airBaltic
• Austrian Airlines
• Finnair
• KLM
• Play
• Wizz Air

You will land in Keflavik where the best option is to take a flybus to Reykjavik (approx 45 minutes). You should purchase Flybus tickets before you leave.  Click here for Flybus.  

Accommodations:

As you may have heard generally Iceland is not a cheap country but it seems like accommodation cost is similar to the capital cities in neighbouring countries.

Here are some discount codes at the following hotels and hostels:

• Loft Hostel. 10%off with a code – emfem2025 -if you book via hostel.is
• Iceland Hotels. 10 % off with the following code: CON4Y8Z10. To be used at their website.
• Kea Hotels. 10 % off with the code – emfem2025 – if you book via their website keahotels.is
  
  

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 December, 2024

Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2025

Abstracts should be submitted through a submission portal.