Please distribute widely – papers welcome from UK and non-UK participants!
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Call for papers, panels, posters and discussants
Thinking Gender – The NEXT Generation
National Postgraduate Conference in Gender Studies
June 21-22 2006, University of Leeds, UK
The internationally recognised Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
invites proposals for a two-day trans- and interdisciplinary postgraduate
conference to be convened at the University of Leeds 21-22 June 2006.
The conference will provide an opportunity for postgraduate students to share
critical discussion, dialogue and reflections on recent, present and future
research and to learn from each other’s approaches and experiences in an
informal and collegial environment. The conference is aimed at anyone whose
work relates to Gender Studies and aims to explore cutting edge methodologies,
theoretical approaches, and practical applications as well as to engage in the
reconstitution and examination of concepts in feminist and queer theories. We
are especially interested in work that explores the multi-dimensionality of
gender studies. The conference will also provide opportunities for generic
skills training.
Keynote speakers will include Sasha Roseneil (Leeds University), Gabrielle
Griffin (Hull University) and a roundtable on “Embodied Aesthetics of Gender”
with Ruth Holliday, Shirley Tate, Rachel Cowgill and Brendan Gough (Leeds
University).
The conference will run seminars for postgraduate students on presentation
skills, chairing panels, and getting published. We invite papers or panels in
any area relating to gender studies using a variety of methodological
approaches from different disciplines. Themes/areas may include sexuality,
queer theory, body, family, relationships, social policy, activism and social
movements, policing sexuality/gendered identities, pleasures, subjectivities,
intersectionalities, desire, space, race, class, ethnicities and religion,
national identities, fragmented identities, globalisation, development,
diaspora, subaltern studies, popular culture, media, sport, music,
medicine/health, education, work, literature, representations, history,
(sub)cultures of resistance, combat or violence.
Please send abstracts of 100-150 words to CIGS by March 31, 2006
(n.gerodetti@leeds.ac.uk) putting in the subject-line of your email: ‘PG
conference submission’. The paper presentations should not exceed 20 minutes
and should be submitted to the discussant and panel participants one week
before the conference. For further details see the conference website at
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gender-studies/events/pgconference.shtml
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Dr Natalia Gerodetti
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS)
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
++44 113 343 4950
splndg@leeds.ac.uk