Other Conferences
If something else happens, you can find out at this point.
De/colonizing Theologies: Glocal Histories, Contemporary Challenges. INSeCT Twin Conference in cooperation with ESWTR, KU Leuven / Ateneo de Manila University, 27 – 30 March 2023. For more information click on the title, click here to register.
International conference Inspirations for Peace. Between Theory and Practice. Poznan, 14-15 December 2022
ESWTR and ESWTR Poland in cooperation withAdam Mickiewicz University/Pozna?, AMU Institute of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Educational Studies, Ogrody Campus Library.
Ecofeminist Theologies In the Age of Climate Crisis, Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology (BISFT) Summer School 2020, Tuesday 16th June to Thursday 18th June 2020, at University of Wales, Trinity St David, Lampeter, SA48 7ED, United Kingdom. For more information click on the title.
"Call for Resistance? – Conflicts of Identity and Sexes in the Context of Right-Wing Populism and Christian Fundamentalism in Today’s Europe", 25th to 27th of March 2020, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. Click on the title for more information.
Uskonto ja yhteiskunnan haasteet / Religion and contemporary challenges in the society, teologian ja uskonnontutkimuksen paivat / Research Conference in Theology and Religion, 19th to 20th of March 2020, House of Science and Letters, Helsinki, Finnland
„Gender (Studies) in der Theologie – Warum und wozu?“ (Gender [Studies] in Theology - Why and what for?), 28th till 29th of Novemver 2019, Arbeitsstelle für Theologische Genderforschung an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der WWU Münster, Germany
Family Values and Medical Technologies in Russia: A Bioethical Discourse, 14th of November 2019, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, auditorium 228, Russia
Die Rolle des Geschlechts in den drei Monotheistischen Religionen, study week, 22nd to 25th of July 2019, Schloss Seggau bei Leibnitz, Austria
The Feminist Imagination: Enfleshing the Unconscious, Symposium: 20th of June; exhibition: 20th of June to 20th of July 2019, University of Winchester, UK
És compatible el feminisme i les religions, La Nau de la Igualtat, June 5th 2019, Centre Cultural de la Universitat de València, Spain
Frauen als Täterinnen sexueller Gewalt - auch in Einrichtungen der katholischen Kirche, KATHARINAfeier 2019, Theologische Fakultät der Universität Salzburg, 28th May 2019, Salzburg, Austria
The Faith Lives of Women and Girls: Identities, Experiences, Practices, and Beliefs, 26-27th March 2019, Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, UK
National Conferences
Here you find the regular meetings of the individual country sections of the ESWTR
Scandinavian Countries
Past Conferences in Central & Eastern Europe
2020/2021 |
Women´s Voices and Actions: Inter-Religious Dialogue, Migrations and Ecological Justice See the published conference papers: Nadja Furlan Štante/Maja Bjelica/Jadranka Rebeka Anic (Hg.), Women’s Religious Voices: Migration, Culture and (Eco)Peacebuilding, Philosophy in Dialogue/Philosophie im Dialog 7, LIT Verlag, Wien/Zürich 2021. |
Faculty of Theology, Ljubljana/Slovenia September 2020/March 2021 canceld due to pandemic |
2018 |
Empowering Women in Conflict: Ecumenical Engagement for Peace and Justice See the invitation and registration papers you may find here, the conference program here. Have a look at pictures from the conference, at the report and at the video. For more information please contactThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv/Ukraine August 28th - 31st 2018 |
2016 |
"Interplay of tradition and innovation in a postmodern context" For information please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Riga/Latvia, University of Latvia, Faculty of Theology |
2014 - 9th |
Friendship With The Other. Religions – Relationships – Attitudes |
Gniezno/Poland, Collegium Europaeum UAM August, 24-27 |
2012 - 8th | "And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes” (Is 25:8 and Rev. 21:4). A theological approach to the suffering and hopes of women Conference invitation, conference program and timetable | Monastery Trstenik/Croatia September, 2-5 |
2010 - 7th |
Dignity of the Woman as Dignity of the Human Being: Relationships of Theology and Antropology out of Central and East-European View Conference report |
Budapest/Hungary August, 26-28 |
2008 - 6th |
Contribution of Women in Shaping the Spiritual Features of a Unified Europe - Past Experiences That Shape the Present and the Future; Programme; Conference report (german) The conference contributions are published in: Màrta Bodó (ed.), Women and Religion, Cluj: Verbum, 2009. Màrta Bodó (ed.), Frauen und Religion, Cluj: Verbum, 2010.
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Cluj/Romania September, 5-7 |
2006 - 5th |
Women Commemorating Women: Spiritual Leaders in Central and Eastern Europe |
Prague/ Czech Republic August, 10-13 |
2004 - 4th |
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2002 - 3rd |
The Identity of Women in the Churches of Post Socialist Countries; Conference report | Riga/Latvia August, 22-25 |
2000 - 2nd |
Motherhood as locus theologicus | Lublin/Poland August, 24-27 |
1998 - 1st |
Women and Theology in Times of Transitions | Prague/ Czech Republic September, 17-20 |
Next Central and Eastern European conference
No conference is currently being planned.
The conference in Ljubljana/Slovenia 2020/2021 had to be cancelled due to the pandemic, the conference papers have been published:
Nadja Furlan Štante/Maja Bjelica/Jadranka Rebeka Anic (Hg.), Women’s Religious Voices: Migration, Culture and (Eco)Peacebuilding, Philosophy in Dialogue/Philosophie im Dialog 7, LIT Verlag, Wien/Zürich 2021.
The ESWTR has organized the following conferences to date:
- 2023 Imperial Powers and Women: Trauma, Resistance, and Resilience, August 31st to September 2nd, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine); further information can be found here.
- 2022 Confronting Gender Polarity and Nationalism. Interdisciplinary conference on Feminist Theologies, Religion and Sustainable Democracy in the Nordic countries and Europe. Oslo/Regensburg Conference website
- 2019 (De)Constructing Regimes of In/visibility, Louvain, Belgium, 12th to 15th of September 2019
- 2017 Translation - Transgression - Transformation, Vienna, Austria, 23rd to 26th of August 2017 Conference website
- 2015 Sharing the Word of Hope with the World, 17th to 21st of August, Crete. Conference website
- 2013 New Horizons of Resistance and Visions (Dresden, Germany)
- 2011 Feminist Theology: Listening, Understanding and Giving answer in a secular and plural world. (Salamanca, Spain)
- 2009 Wrestling with God (Winchester, United Kingdom)
- 2007 Becoming "Living Communities” - Within the Family, the Society, the Churches (Neapel, Italy)
- 2006 Anniversary - International congress marking the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of the ESWTR: Theology by Women for Women? Opportunities and Problems in Linking Feminist Theology and Practice (Graz, Austria)
- 2005 Building Bridges in a Multifaceted Europe: Religious Origins, Traditions, Contexts and Identities (Budapest, Hungary)
- 2003 Holy Texts: Authority and Language (Soesterberg, Netherlands)
- 2001 At the End of Liberation? Liberation at the End! Feminist Theory, Feminist Theology and the Political Implications (Salzburg, Austria)
- 1999 Time - Utopia - Eschatology (Hofgeismar, Germany)
- 1997 Sources of Feminist Theology (Kolympari, Greece)
- 1995 One Household of Life (Höör, Sweden)
- 1993 Voicing Identity: Women and Religious Traditions in Europe (Leuven, Belgium)
- 1991 Liberating Women (Bristol, United Kingdom)
- 1989 Images of God (Arnoldshain, Germany)
- 1987 Self Denial, Self Affirmation (Helvoirt, Netherlands)
- 1986 The inaugural meeting (Magliaso, Switzerland)