26-28 November 2025: V Polska Konferencja Pamięcioznawcza

Podczas V Polskiej Konferencji Pamięcioznawczej w Katowicach, która odbyła się 26-28 listopada 2025, dr Agnieszka Nowakowska przedstawiła swój referat zatytułowany Ukradzione znaczenia. Pamięć dotycząca zmian prawa aborcyjnego a współczesne debaty dotyczące możliwości przerywania ciąży. Dr Nowakowska wraz z Katarzyną Szarlą zorganizowały panel zatytułowany “Prawa reprodukcyjne i seksualne: pamięć, zmiana i niezmienność”, którego częścią była prezentacja dr […]

16-18 October 2025: GenDJus Final Conference in Trieste

A strong representation of our team (Lourdes Peroni, Carolina Mosquera Vera, Tomasz Detlaf) took part in the The GenDJus Final Conference – (De)Constructing Gender in International Judicial Discourse: Actors, Norms and Practices.  Lourdes and Carolina’s presentation was entitled Deconstructing Gender in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Reproductive Rights Case Law, and Tomek’s Pregnant Woman […]

22-25 September 2025: RC33 11. International Conference on Social Science Methodology

Tomek Detlaf took a trip to Naples between 22-25 September 2025, to take part in the RC33 11th  International Conference on Social Science Methodology, during which he presented the methodological underpinnings of our project. The presentation was entitled Topic Modelling for Argumentation Analysis: Application to Polish Parliamentary Debates on Abortion.

13 October 2025: Gender Equality Laws in Latin America

On 13 October 2025, we had the pleasure of co-organizing (with the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Poznań Human Rights Centre) an open seminar with Professor Helena Alviar (SciencesPo, Paris) and Professor Aleksandra Szczerba (Paradies University in Gorzów Wielkopolski/ Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights) on Gender Equality Laws […]

[Polish only] Aborcja a prawa człowieka: perspektywa francuska i polska

8 października 2025 o godzinie 16:45 odbędzie się dyskusja “Aborcja a prawa człowieka: perspektywa francuska i polska” z udziałem profesor Marty Bucholc i profesora Marcina Kościelniaka (UJ), moderowana przez Cezarego Węgińskiego (UW). Spotkanie odbędzie się w sali Z.520 (poziom -1) w budynku Wydziału Neofilologii UW. Serdecznie zapraszamy!

7 October 2025: Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies Lecture

On 7 October 2025 at 18:00, Marta Bucholc will give a lecture entitled: Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies at the IWM in Vienna. The event will be moderated by Ludger Hagerdorn. In many countries that have recently gone through political transitions—from Eastern Europe to Africa and Latin America—nationalism has re-emerged as a powerful […]

The Team in Białystok!

Members of the AbFig team bid farewell to summer at the 19th Polish Sociological Association Summit, hosted by the University in Białystok (UwB). Iskra de Vries spoke on the abortion debates in the Netherlands, while Tomek Detlaf – on the analysis of sociology as an academic field in Poland. Marta Bucholc took part in a […]

The Team in Rabat!

The members of our team were happy to participate in the V ISA Forum in Rabat, Morocco! We have presented on our research findings and methodology. Marta Bucholc, in addition to organizing and chairing three sessions, presented a paper “Alienated Human Rights? Comparative Insights from a Study of Abortion Debates in Poland and Argentina“; Iskra […]