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Date: Feb 16, 2007 11:25 AM
Subject: cfps: Gender 2007: East meets West Conference
To:
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Are you interested in giving a paper in our forthcoming trans- and
interdisciplinary conference in York in July this year?
Gender 2007: East meets West: UK Postgraduate and Academic Conference in
Women's/Gender Studies. 3-5 July 2007, University of York, UK
Following on from the very successful 'Thinking Gender' conference at the
University of Leeds in 2006, the Centre for Women's Studies (CWS) at the
University of York now invites proposals for a three-day trans- and
interdisciplinary conference 3-5 July 2007.
The conference is aimed at anyone whose work relates to Women's/Gender
Studies and intends to explore cutting-edge methodologies, theoretical
approaches, and practical applications as well as issues of feminist and
queer theory. We are especially interested in work that explores the
multi-dimensionality of women's/gender studies, and that engages with the
relationship between east and west in its multiple forms.
Keynote speakers will include Haleh Afshar (University of York), Mary
Maynard (University of York), David Bell (University of Leeds), Stevi
Jackson (University of York) and Pei-Chia Lan (National Taiwan University).
There will also be two panel discussions:
1) Working Across Cultures: Confirmed speakers include Maria Jaschok (Oxford
University), Delia Davin (University of Leeds) and Jieyu Liu (University of
Glasgow).
2) Intimacy and Modernity: Confirmed speakers include Lynn Jamieson
(University of Edinburgh) and Sik-ying Ho (University of Hong Kong).
We invite papers or panels on any area relating to women's/gender studies
using a range of approaches and methodologies. Themes/areas might include
sexuality, queer theory, bodies, intimacy, family, activism and social
movements, gendered identities, race, ethnicity, religion, diaspora and
migration, development issues, globalization, issues in fieldwork and
research methodologies, cross-cultural and sub-cultural research, space,
culture, media, technology, violence, conflict, representation/s,
literature, cinema, music, history, education, work, medicine, care, ethics.
Please send abstracts of 100-150 words to the Centre for Women's Studies by
16 April 2007 (
[email protected]), putting in the subject-line of your
email: 'Conference submission'. The paper presentations should not exceed 20
minutes. Deadline for registration to the conference is 18 May 2007. For
further details of the conference and booking forms, please see the
conference website http://www.york.ac.uk/conferences/gender2007.