📅 Conference: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
📍 Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona
⏰ DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: Friday, 24 April 2026
The DIGNITY project at the University of Barcelona, in partnership with the ANTIGONA Group (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and the SAFI Interdisciplinary Network of Women in Legal Academia, is organizing the workshop Women’s Dignity.
The workshop addresses a central question: whether the concept of human dignity—widely invoked in constitutional, legal, and philosophical contexts—operates as a genuinely neutral principle, or whether it carries implicit gendered assumptions. While dignity plays a decisive normative role in contemporary legal systems, its content often remains indeterminate, and its application may conceal underlying biases.
Many of the legal and moral issues typically framed in terms of dignity—such as abortion, assisted reproduction, care work, prostitution, or the limits of bodily commodification—have a clear gender dimension. This workshop seeks to critically examine how such dimensions are addressed, overlooked, or embedded within prevailing conceptions of dignity.
The event will feature contributions from leading feminist legal scholars, as well as a second session dedicated to selected short presentations addressing the question:
Is “Human Dignity” a Gendered Concept?
Read full Call for Abstracts.