[Air-L] CFP Graduate Conference: Digital Methods-Feminist Approaches

McMillan, Sally J sjmcmill at utk.edu
Sun May 16 15:41:00 PDT 2010


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On May 16, 2010, at 5:53 PM, "Kathleen O'Riordan" <K.ORiordan at sussex.ac.uk 
 > wrote:

> Call for papers - please circulate widely!
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> Digital Methods, Cultural Politics and Feminist Approaches:
> A One - Day Graduate Conference
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> Monday 5  July 2010
> University of Sussex,
> Media Film and Music
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> Research in the humanities and social sciences has increasingly
> incorporated visual media and digital methodologies. At the same time,
> relatively little attention has been accorded to the way in which   
> feminist
> approaches to science and technology have informed the research  
> process by
> contributing to discussions of private and public, materiality,  
> network
> cultures and identity.
>
> This one-day conference aims to examine this emerging field in the
> intersection of digital methods, cultural politics and feminist  
> theory. The
> conference hopes to bring together Doctoral students as well as early
> career researchers working in media and cultural studies, gender  
> studies,
> digital media, feminist science and technology studies, and queer  
> studies.
>
> Themes of discussion might include:
>
> -Digital methods and visual media in the research of political  
> engagement.
> -Feminist approaches to researching science, culture and technology.
> -Internet research ethics, feminist ethics and research.
> -The concepts of public and private.
> -Epistemological and ontological issues in STS and material feminisms.
> -Actor Network Theory, media studies and Feminism.
> -Notions of difference and identity in digital networks.
> -Information flows and the problem of representation.
> -Gender, biological and information technologies.
> -Science, technology and social change
>
>
> We invite submissions of abstracts for 20-minute individual papers.
> Possible thematics include, but not limited to:
>
> Please send your abstracts of approximately 300 words by 1st June  
> 2010 to
> a.fotopoulou at sussex.ac.uk.
>
>
>
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> Aristea Fotopoulou
> Doctorate Candidate Media and Cultural Studies
> Associate Tutor
> Centre for Digital Material Culture
> School of Media, Film and Music
> SB 120   internal: 6610
> University of Sussex
>
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediastudies/profile206365.html
>
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