Nr. 48, Mai 2011 - AK Geographie und Geschlecht

Using “gender studies” as an umbrella term, which has come to include women’s studies, men
and masculinity studies and queer studies, the aim of the Conference is to examine from a variety
of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
We invite proposals from a wide range of areas including the humanities – literature, law, history,
philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts (including music and theatre), anthropology,
area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguis- tics, social sciences,
behavioral sciences, science and technology, medicine and public health, democracy studies.
Presentations should be in English or French, and will be allocated 20 minutes each, plus 10
minutes for discussion. Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts of up to 100
words (including 5 keywords) in Word format, with an indication of their insti- tutional affiliation,
and a telephone number and e-mail address at which they can be contacted.
Proposals for workshops and panel discussions (to be organized by the participants) will be also
considered.
Please send paper to: genderstudies.conference@gmail.com
Kontakt: genderstudies.conference@gmail.com
Gender and Politics
Einreichefrist Abstract: 01.05.2011
11.04.2012-14.04.2012, Glasgow, Scotland
With our call for papers, we would like to invite to a discussion about recent research on gender
as a category of shaping and transforming the political (and notions of the political) in history.
We welcome a wide range of topics such as the body and sexuality, the self and the collective,
gender as a political argument or as a figure of de-politicization, gender and social movements,
gender enabling or preventing political agency, gender in relation or in competition to other politicizable
categories of belonging, gender and migration, gender and consumption, gender and
knowledge, gender as a figure of the local and/or the global, of the self or the other, gender
and historiography/memory, gender and political language/semantics, gender and images of
the political, gender and nationalism, war, or violence, gender and political emotions... We also
welcome a plurality of theoretical approaches and methods as well as proposals concerning all
historical periods.
The Women and Gender network welcomes proposals for theme sessions as well as individual
papers. Sessions composed around thematic, theoretical or conceptual questions are preferred
to geographical or epoch-oriented sessions, as they favour a comparative point of view. We also
appreciate a global angle, as we hope to make participants from different parts of the world to
work together on similar problems. Every participant can also act as a chair or a commentator
outside the session where he/she is presenting his/her own paper.
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