[Air-l] Fwd: [CSL]: CONFERENCE CFP: Changing Gender: Research, Theory and Pol icy for Gendered Realities of the 21st century

jeremy hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Fri Dec 10 04:58:21 PST 2004



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> From: J Armitage <j.armitage at UNN.AC.UK>
> Date: December 10, 2004 5:03:29 AM EST
> To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [CSL]: CONFERENCE CFP: Changing Gender:  Research, Theory and  
> Pol icy for Gendered Realities of the 21st century
> Reply-To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society  
> <CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gender at panteion.gr [mailto:gender at panteion.gr]
> Sent: 10 December 2004 09:05
> To: j.armitage at unn.ac.uk
> Subject: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN GREECE 2-3 JUNE 2005, PANTEION
> UINVERSITY
>
> Dear Mr Armitage,
> We are organizing a conference on gender at Panteion University,  
> Athens,
> Greece to be held June 5-6, 2005.  We would much appreciate it if you
> would please publicize our call-for-papers to the members of your list.
>
> Please forward us the announcement to the list to confirm receipt of  
> this
> request or let us know if there is someone else we need to direct our
> inquiry to.
>
> Thank you for your assistance.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Aleka Boutzouvi and Alexandra Halkias
>
> On behalf of The Steering Committee for the Undergraduate Program on
> Gender, Panteion University, Athens, Greece.
> www.genderpanteion.gr
> ( gender at panteion.gr)
>
>
> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>
> Changing Gender:  Research, Theory and Policy for Gendered Realities of
> the 21st century.
> June 2-3, 2005,  Panteion University, Athens, Greece.
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>
> This International Conference is being organized as a forum for the
> presentation and discussion of current issues in research, theory and
> policy pertaining to gender.
>
> The daily and institutional consequences of late modernity render
> disparate social realities increasingly more complex.  The pervasive  
> reach
> of the Mass Media, the effects of a globalizing "information society"  
> and
> developments in the field of biotechnology, along with increasing  
> poverty,
> violence, immigration and the growing negative effects of globalization
> are defining characteristics of the present historical moment.  The
> transmutation of disciplinary practices and the consolidation of  
> assorted
> mechanisms of social control often challenge the foundations of what we
> define as "democracy" even as they advance in its name.
>
> The field of power shaping different societies and their subjects has
> undergone rapid change. At the same time, the ways in which we study
> gender and society, including politics, the economy, culture etc., have
> also been changing, and, indeed, should be changing.  Disciplinary
> boundaries are shifting and the epistemological and methodological  
> ground
> of scholarly work in all fields is being reassessed as a product of the
> focus on gender.  The contribution of Women's Studies as a field during
> the past thirty years, and that of Gender Studies more recently, is
> significant.
>
> The Objective:
>
> We aim for the conference to encourage interdisciplinary thought and
> collaboration as well as rigorous dialogue between theory and the broad
> range of current empirical work. The conference hopes to stand as a  
> unique
> forum bringing together a wide range of scholarly work that  
> contributes to
> the study of gendered social reality.
>
> The conference invites papers dealing with the following questions or
> issues related to them:
>
> What does gender mean at the present?  How do we currently understand  
> what
> it meant to be a woman in the past or in different social contexts of  
> the
> present?  What does the performativity of "woman" consist of and how  
> is it
> represented culturally to different constituencies? How do we  
> understand
> the subject "man" and how is this defined differently in different
> contexts?  What other forms of gender are there? What are the politics  
> of
> these distinctions and what is at stake? How do these identities become
> objects of negotiation and how do they resist or submit to entrenched
> relations of power?
> Given the scope of social changes that we are currently witnessing
> globally, and given the accumulation of knowledge about gender in  
> recent
> years, how might "gender" change in the future?
>
> Finally, the contribution of Women's Studies and Gender Studies  
> programs-
> How are these different? Where has each failed, where have we succeeded
> and what might be the best course for the future?
>
> Participation:
>
> The call to submit papers is directed to a broad spectrum of  
> researchers
> within the social and political sciences, including theory, empirical
> research and policy or specialized practice. Papers that "transgress
> boundaries" are welcome.  In addition, the conference hopes to host one
> panel with papers, or performances, on gender as a category in art,
> especially contemporary art and multi-media.
>
> Those interested in participating should send a 300 word abstract of  
> the
> paper they propose to present, including their name, title, area of
> expertise and contact information, to gender at panteion.gr by January 10,
> 2005.  Abstracts may be submitted in either of the two languages of the
> conference: Greek or English.
>
> Notification as to acceptance: February 15, 2005.
>
> The papers presented at the conference shall need to adhere to a 15min.
> time limit so as to maximize time for discussion.  To be included in  
> the
> program of the conference the full text of the presentation must be
> received by May 1, 2005.
>
> We regret that the conference cannot cover transportation or other  
> costs
> for participants.  The Gender Studies Center of Panteion University  
> shall
> provide a list of accommodation options in the vicinity of Panteion on  
> its
> web site www.genderpanteion.gr as of March 15th, 2005.
>
> Conference Organizers: for the Scientific Committee,
>
> Aleka Boutzouvi
> Lecturer, Department of History
> University of Athens
>
> Alexandra Halkias
> Lecturer, Department of Sociology
> Panteion University
>
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