6th International Marxist Feminist Conference – Decolonising Bodies, Territories and Practices

The Conference is finally approaching.
Find the updated version of the programme here.

Join us during these three days to meet our keynote speakers and many more.

The book of abstracts is now available.

The timetable/calendar of the Conference is already available:

Friday, 21st November
13.00 – 14.00	Registration
14.00 – 16.00	Opening Plenary From Marx towards a decolonial Marxist Feminism	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)
	Workshop: Building feminist, queer, and anti-racist networks of resistance, based on dialogues and echoes on KORA(Claudia Varejão, 2024)	Library (ENG_PT)
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break
16.30 – 18.00	Parallel sessions 1
	1a Reshaping the world working class	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)
	1d Marxism Feminism as tool for transformation	Library (ENG)
18.30 – 20.00	Public Session Decolonise bodies, territories and practices	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)

Saturday, 22nd November
09.00 – 11.00	Plenary Session Decolonialism is not a metaphor	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)
	Workshop: Feminist and political self-defense	Library (ENG or PT or SP)
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00	Parallel sessions 2
	2a Appropriation of women’s bodies in war and peace	Room S.1.5 (ENG_PT)
	2b Social Reproduction Theory and feminist economy	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)
	2c Intersectionality between feminism and class subjectivation under a decolonial lens	Room S.1.3 (ENG)
	2d Invisible cities	Room 📖 (ENG)
	2e Confronting greenwashing through labour	Room S.0.3 (ENG)
	Conversation circle: Strengths and challenges of collective feminist practice in Porto	Library (PT)
13.00 – 14.30	Lunch break
14.30 – 16.00	Parallel session 3
	3a Criative resistance and artivism e o artivismo as tools of emancipation	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)
	3b Queer Marxism and the importance of queer social criticism	Room S.0.3 (ENG)
	3d Reclaiming care work as essential work	Room S.1.5 (ENG)
	3e Reproductive policies and state control	Room S.1.3 (ENG)
	Workshop: The Struggle of Palestinian Women Under Occupation: Collective Resilience and Resistance	Library (ENG)
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break
16.30 – 18.30	Plenary Session Bodies and Labour	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)
	Book presentations with debate	Library (ENG/PT)

Sunday, 23rd November
09.30 – 11.00	Parallel sessions 4
	4a Land against capital	Room S.1.5 (ENG)
	4b Feminism as an anti-militarist praxis for a just peace	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)
	4c Care and contradictions: exploitation and resistance	Room S.0.3 (ENG_PT)
	4d Artistic practices and feminist resistance	Room 📖 (ENG)
	4e A materialistic critique on difference and practice of othering	Room S.1.3 (ENG_PT)
	Workshop: Care spaces: oppression and practices of resistance	Library (ENG)
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00	Parallel sessions 5
	5a Challenging social roles through art	Room 📖 (ENG)
	5b Our bodies, our rules	Room S.1.5 (ENG)
	5c Destabilising theory to widen horizons	Room S.1.3 (ENG)
	5d Facing the liberal feminism traps	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)
	5e. Our lives are not battlefields	Room S.0.3 (ENG)
	Workshop: Feminist fanzine as a combative press, militant material and political education tool	Library (SP)
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch break
14.30 – 16.00	Closing session	Auditorium (ENG_PT_SP)

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

CONFERENCE VENUE:

Cooperativa dos Pedreiros/Escola Profissional de Economia Social
Rua D. João IIV, 1000, 4000-300 Porto

This year’s of the International Marxist Feminist Conference will take place under the motto “Decolonise bodies, territories and practices” and will count with the participation of many prominent feminists, amongst which Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dima Mohammed are already confirmed.

The idea of an international marxist-feminist conference was originally brought into being, and was since then continuously organized, by the feminist section of the Berliner Institut of Critical Theory (InkriT) around the German sociologist and philosopher Frigga Haug. It was held in Berlin (Germany) for the first time in 2015, followed by an increasingly international second congress in Vienna in 2016, and the third one in Lund (Sweden) in 2018, the fourth one was held online (from Basque country) in 2021 and the last one was held in Warsaw in 2023

The 6th International Marxist Feminist Conference will be held in Porto (Portugal), on 21 – 23 November 2025. This Conference will be organized and funded by: 
transform! europe EUPF https://www.transform-network.net,
along with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation https://www.rosalux.de/en/ ,
Foundation Iratzar https://iratzar.eus/es/erreportajeak/como-pensamos-lo-que-seremos
and the Fundacja Naprzód http://fundacja-naprzod.pl/

Description of the Conference 2025

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Heidi Ambrosch (transform!europe, Vienna, Austria)
Samara Azevedo (Coletivo Andorinha, Lisbon, Portugal)
Elena Beloki (Iratzar Foundation-Awakening Foundation, Basque Country)
Sandra Cunha (Feminist in Movement/Feministas em Movimento – FEM, Portugal)
Nadia De Mond (Casa delle Donne di Milano/Non Una Di Meno, Italy)
Lígia Ferro (Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto/ISUP, Porto, Portugal)
Ana Cristina Pereira (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)
Tainara Machado (Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto, A Coletiva, Lisbon, Portugal)
Catarina Isabel Martins (Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra/CES-UC, Coimbra, Portugal)
Gabriele Michalitsch (Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Tatiana Moutinho (transform! europe, Porto, Portugal)
Andrea Peniche (A Coletiva, Porto, Portugal)
Catarina Ramalho (A Coletiva, Lisbon, Portugal)
Nora Räthzel (Berliner Institut für Kritische Theorie, Inkrit, Umeå University, Sewden)
Beatriz Realinho (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences – Nova Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal)
Liliana Rodrigues (União Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta/UMAR, Centre for Psychology of the University of Porto/CPUP, Porto, Portugal)
Maria Manuel Rola (Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism – Porto School of Architecture/CEAU-FAUP, Porto, Portugal)
Sílvia Roque (University of Évora, Évora, Portugal)