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

Programme is out now
(being updated)

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

Conference 2025 Programme

The timetable/calendar of the Conference is already available:

Friday, 21st November
13.00 – 14.00	Registrations
14.00 – 16.00	Opening Plenary From Marx towards a decolonial Marxist Feminism Workshop: Building feminist, queer, and anti-racist networks of resistance, based on dialogues and echoes on KORA (Claudia Varejão, 2024)
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break
16.30 – 18.00	Parallel sessions: Panel 1 1a Reshaping the world working class 1b Queer materialisms: capital, bodies and politics of desire 1c Migration, domestic labour and institutional violence 1d Marxism Feminism as tool for transformation
18.30 – 20.00	Public Session Decolonise bodies, territories and practices

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

Sunday, 23rd November
9.30-11.00	Parallel sessions and workshops Panel 4 4a Land against capital 4b Feminism as an anti-militarist praxis for a just peace 4c Care and contradictions: exploitation and resistance 4d Artistic practices and feminist resistance 4e A materialistic critique on difference and practice of othering Workshop: Care spaces: oppression and practices of resistance
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-13.00	Parallel sessions and workshops Panel 5 5a Challenging social roles through art 5b Our bodies, our rules 5c Destabilising theory to widen horizons 5d Facing the liberal feminism traps 5e Facing the liberal feminism traps Workshop: Feminist fanzine as a combative press, militant material and political education tool
13.00-14.30	Lunch break
14.30 -16.00	Closing session

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

CONFERENCE VENUE:

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

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)