Postdoctoral fellow, Francesca Feo, is chairing the panel "Gender penalties in political representation: intersectional perspectives".

Professor Ragnhild Muriaas, University of Bergen and Associate Professor Christina Fiig, Aarhus University, will chair Panel 22. Gender, Politics and Democracy at the NOPSA-conference in Bergen, June 2024.

In relation to the visit from Professor Hilde Coffé, SUCCESS is hosting a one-day workshop with presenters from Department of Government, Department of Comparative Politics and CMI.

Presentation of the paper: "Where Senior MPs thrive: Institutions Affecting the Level of Seniority in Contemporary Parliaments" co-authored by Ragnhild Louise Muriaas and Torill Stavenes.

Dr Francesca Feo (Bergen University) will participate in the workshop "Italian Politics 2023" organized by Istituto Carlo Cattaneo, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.

Francesca Feo acts as chair and discussant in the panel "Gender and political careers. Gendering perspectives on access and endurance in politics". Feo also presents the paper "The role of sexist attitudes and gender in the electoral success of the Italian far-right" (co-author: Manuela Caiani)

Francesca Feo participates in a panel discussion by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Berlin, titled "Antifeminism Beyond Borders", to talk about the potential role of antifeminism in the success of the Radical Right in Europe.

Nilsson Rabia, Seréna: "The Role, Experiences and Challenges of Female Politicians during and after the Algerian Hirak". Presented in panel "On the Edge: Post-Conflict Political Generations of Women and Youth Activists in the ‘Second Wave’ of the Arab Spring".

Torill Stavenes & Ragnhild Muriaas: "Women in Parliament: Institutions that Make MPs Stay". Presented by Stavenes in panel "Parliamentary Elites in Europe and Beyond".

Wang, Belschner, Bjånesøy & Muriaas: "It’s Just a Joke: How Age and Gender Condition Reactions to Intra-party Violence". Presented by Vibeke Wang in the panel "Intersectionality and Violence in Politics".

Stavenes, Torill & Ragnhild Muriaas, "Women in Parliament: Institutions that Make MPs Stay". Paper presented by Muriaas in the panel Gender Gaps in Political Representation.

Ragnhild Muriaas & Torill Stavenes: "Patterns of gender imbalance among senior parliamentarians across time and space". Presented by Muriaas in workshop on the 13th of June.

Presentation of the paper "Parliamentary Stayers in Western Democracies: Mind the Gender-Gap in Political Endurance", co-authored by Ragnhild Louise Muriaas and Torill Stavenes at the CEE general seminar, co-organised with the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP).