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2012 Cultural Studies Association

Gender / Violence, International Conference
4-6 April 2012, Izmir, Turkey

Organized by: Izmir University of Economics, Gender and Womens Studies Research and Application Center

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 October 2011

The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to understand and expose the violence involved in the very production of bodies, spaces and politics. It will open up the question of violence to inspire different trajectories of thinking and action towards the production different bodies, different spaces and different politics.

Ekokam İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi Sakarya Caddesi No: 156, 35330 Balçova, İzmir Email: ekokam@ieu.edu.tr Visit the website at http://ekokam.ieu.edu.tr/gv2012/ http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=186620

Academicians and researchers coming from different countries will present their papers in the sessions.The regional security problems and the politics and security approaches of the international organizations will be handled in many dimensions as a result.

Each session will be composed of 5 speakers. The total time limit for each session is 90 minutes and each speaker will have 15 minutes to present their papers. The congress language will be both Turkish and English.

Abstracts shall be submitted until,5 September 2011 to the following email addresses:derya.ozveri@kocaeli.edu.tr or itir.aladag@kocaeli.edu.tr . Full texts of the abstracts shall be submitted until 10 October2011.

Theme

•Conflict Analysis and Resolution
•Cultural Studies
•Gender Studies
•Migration
•Economics
•Historical Approaches
•International Law in Middle East
•Nationality/ Identity and Ethnicity
•Politics and Security

Itýr ALADAG GORENTAS , Res. Assist. , General Secretary of the Congress Phone: +90 262 303 16 18 e-mail:itir.aladag@kocaeli.edu.tr Derya OZVERI , Res. Assist. , General Secretary of the Congress Phone: (+90 262) 303 16 15 e-mail: derya.ozveri@kocaeli.edu.tr Email: itir.aladag@kocaeli.edu.tr Visit the website at http://imec.kocaeli.edu.tr http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=186568

We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore the intersections of gender, bodies and technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the internet. In keeping with the conference theme, we are asking contributors to include specific reference to the ways in which their own particular disciplinary frameworks shape their approach to their sites of research.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Dr. Judith Halberstam
Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies, University of Southern California

Dr. Judy Wajcman
Head of Department of Sociology, London School of Economics & Political Science

Dr. Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone
Professor of New Media and Performance Studies at EGS
Professor of Digital Arts and New Media Production in the ACTLab at University of Texas at Austin

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:
• Gender and the technologies of the workplace, education, and public/private spaces
• Disability and technologies of intervention
• Feminist theorizing of intersections between technology and constructions of embodiment, identity, selves
• Performance, new media and other creative expressions:
engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology
• Gendered innovations in technology: gendered objects, design, pasts/futures
• Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies
• Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing
• New Media, digital representation and virtual gendered environments
• Medicalized bodies: reproduction, disease, bioethics, body constructions
• Performing/transgressing gender and sexuality
• Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism
• Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship

As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome innovative uses of technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive presentations, as well as traditional paper presentations. We are committed to the integration of scholarship from the Arts as well as more traditional forms of scholarship and we welcome early contact by email if space and/or technology requirements might present logistical challenges. Proposals will be reviewed and notification will be made by October 15, 2011. Final drafts of papers received before April 26, 2012 will be considered for possible publication. The Gender, Bodies & Technology website, online submission form, as well as the full program from the 2010 conference can be viewed at: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/

If you are interested in joining our growing listserv, or would like more information please contact: Sharon Elber, GBT Coordinator, selber@vt.edu

Sharon Elber GBT Coordinator Women’s and Gender Studies Program Science and Technology Studies Program Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 Email: selber@vt.edu Visit the website at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/ http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=186551

Gender & History Special Issue 25.3 (2013): ‘Gender and Religion’ – call for papers.

Issue editors: Joanna DeGroot (University of York) and Sue Morgan (University of Chichester)

From medieval female spirituality to modern Hindu or Muslim ‘fundamentalisms’, from Buddhist saints and African healers to nineteenth-century muscular Christianity, histories of gender and religion have attracted increasing attention from scholars over the last two decades. This special issue will highlight the rich diversity of ongoing historical work in this field and provide an opportunity to critically reflect upon contemporary theoretical, methodological and historiographical debates and issues within this burgeoning area of gender history.

The term ‘religion’ is both fluid and capacious in its meaning including, inter alia, an intellectual belief system, an interior source of personal motivation or mystical experience, an influential public cultural discourse, a platform for political action, a series of ritual performances or an organisational worship structure. Working with this ‘inclusivist’ notion of religion we are interested in proposals which explore any of these aspects, whether in so-called ‘world’ or ‘major’ religions, or in less well known or large scale areas of religious practice. We have no prescriptive definition of the boundaries between the ‘religious’ and the ‘non-religious’; indeed, the question of how such boundaries have operated, as and when they are thought to have existed, and their shifting and permeable nature is an open one with major implications for the gendered study of histories of religion and secularisation; we warmly welcome proposals dealing with such conceptual themes. We are particularly interested in producing a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary volume which includes scholarship on a wide range of periods, places, and cultures, and in which anthropological, literary, political, theological or artistic approaches are brought to bear on historical treatments of gender and religion. We welcome proposals using these approaches or others and also encourage transnational comparative studies and work on premodern and nonwestern cultures. Other issues might include religious affiliation and gender as markers of difference and/or inequity; the primacy or otherwise of gender in religious identity formations; the (re)periodisation of conventional religious narratives and the historical intersections between confessional or denominational loyalties, race, class and sexuality. In summary this special issue of Gender & History will critically examine the significance of gender as a methodological tool in eliciting news ways of reading the spiritual and the secular.

We plan to approach the creation of this volume via a colloquium to be held 17-18 September 2012 at the University of York (UK). Paper proposals (500-750 words maximum) are to be submitted by 31 October 2011 and invitations to present at the colloquium will be issued by January 2012. Papers must be submitted for pre-circulation to the editors by 15 July 2012 as a condition of participation. After the colloquium the editors will select papers for publication, and those accepted for publication will be expected to submit their revised text by 31 December 2012. This will allow the editors to work with authors to produce the final text of the issue by July 2013 for publication in November 2013 (which our UK colleagues will note falls within the REF timetable !!).

Send paper proposals to joanna.degroot@york.ac.uk AND s.morgan@chi.ac.uk by 31 October 2011.

Dr Sue Morgan Reader in Gender History University of Chichester Chichester PO19 6PE 01243 816162 Email: s.morgan@chi.ac.uk http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=186596

Music, Sound, and the Moving Image was the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media – film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, live cinema, et alia.

Co-edited by Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool) and Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths College), the journal is truly interdisciplinary, inviting contributions across a range of critical methodologies, including musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies, cultural theory, aesthetics, semiotics, sociology, marketing, sound studies, and music psychology.

Call for Papers – Special Issue on Gender and Sexuality

Gender and sexuality
Special Issue Editor: Catherine Haworth

Research into the function and effect of the soundtrack in audiovisual media continues to develop and diversify, but investigation of the theories and ideologies of difference remain underrepresented within these debates. One such area is that of gendered and sexual difference, where despite significant contributions by several scholars, a systematic, focused, and extensive body of work has yet to emerge. Submissions that consider the sonic representation, articulation, or dissemination of gendered and sexual identities or ideologies are therefore invited for this special issue of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, which aims to build upon the strengths of existing work and explore new directions for future research.

Contributions may take the form of full length essays (around 7,500 words) or shorter position papers (1,000-1,500 words) that articulate a particular analytical, critical, theoretical, or methodological standpoint or issue. The journal is also committed to publishing English translations of significant articles from other languages, and proposals or recommendations for translations within the remit of this edition are also welcome. Topics that contributors may wish to address include, but are not limited to:

• The application or relevance of queer theory or notions of difference to any aspect of the soundtrack
• The collapse of categories of difference together within the space of the soundtrack
• Feminist analyses of individual texts, or feminist approaches to wider issues or concepts within soundtrack studies
• Masculinities and their sonic articulation or problematisation within audiovisual media
• The relationship(s) between subjectivity, gender, and sexuality in multimedia texts and/or their audiences
• Relationships between gender, sexuality and the voice in audiovisual media, including any aspects of spoken or sung vocality
• The engagement of the soundtrack with gendered character archetypes and their various roles, behaviours, and potential audience appeals – the ‘hero’, ‘heroine’, ‘femme fatale’, ‘villain’ etc. and their incarnations across various media forms and genres • The role(s) and effects of gender and sexuality within production, distribution, and marketing practices in audiovisual media
• Consideration of gendered and sexual identities within audience, fan, and reception cultures, including ethnographic or psychologically-based approaches
• The relationship between star and fan texts, identities, and cultures with gender, sexuality, and the soundtrack

The final deadline for submissions is 31 October 2011. Please send any queries to Catherine Haworth c.m.haworth@leeds.ac.uk

For more information on Music Sound and the Moving Image, please see our website: http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3727

Catherine Haworth Email: c.m.haworth@leeds.ac.uk

Editors: Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (JMI) Andrea O’Reilly – Editor-in-Chief

Abstract Deadline: May 1st, 2012
Full Deadline: May 1st, 2012

Journal URL: http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/

Theme: The journal will explore the topic of Motherhood Activism, Advocacy and Agency from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, government agencies and workers, artists, mothers, and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject

Suggested Topics:
empowerment and family-life responsibilities; maternal agency and legal norms/practices; public policy and the public/private split; navigating cultural expressions of “good” and “bad” mothering; second and third shift responsibility and agency; online advocacy and empowered mothering; maternal advocacy as theorized or practiced by women of a particular race, class, religion, or culture; workplace norms and maternal advocacy or agency; motherhood and politics; pregnancy and maternal agency; empowered mothering and disability; co-parenting and maternal empowerment; social change potential of memoir, narrative, autobiography, or blogging; maternal empowerment through artistic expression, maternal agency through ‘experts’ or resistance to them; maternal empowerment by being resistant to or rooted in traditions, histories, or generational knowledges; navigating multiple identities as a mother; motherhood movements; advocacy for new family forms and relations; feminist mothering; queer and/or transgendered mothering; gender equity in home/work place; redefining fathering; othermothering; activism by young and/or low-income mothers; maternal activists’ allies and more!

Guidelines:
Articles should be 15-18 pages (3750 words) including references.
All should be in MLA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.
Please see our style guide for complete details: http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/journalsubmission.html
(5 hard copies required + email submission of electronic submission)

CFP Address:
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
140 Holland St. West, PO Box 13022
Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5

CFP E-Mail: info@motherhoodinitiative.org

Contact: Andrea O’Reilly
E-Mail: aoreilly@yorku.ca

Alternate E-Mail: info@motherhoodinitiative.org

Telephone: Andrea O’Reilly – (905) 775-9089

Organizers: Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
Location: Toronto, Ontario (venue TBA)

Conference Date(s): May 10th, 2012 – May 12th, 2012
CFP Deadline: September 15th, 2011

Conference URL: http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/

Keynotes/Speakers: TBA

Theme: We welcome submissions from scholars, students, artists, mothers and others who research in this area. Cross-cultural and comparative work is encouraged. We are open to a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines and creative submissions. This conference will explore the nature, status and experience of mothers and motherhood in various historical, cultural and literary contexts, and examine the many ways in which mothers in different historical periods have been affected by, viewed, and/or challenged contemporary cultural norms and dominant ideologies regarding their role.

Suggested Topics: normative & disruptive discourses about mothers and motherhood in any historical period, including but not limited to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment; the Victorian era; mothers/motherhood and early feminism(s); mothering bodies: mothers and childbirth/lactation and maternal health in any historical period; mothers & midwifery; mothers and education in any historical period; mothers and sons/daughters in any historical period; mothers of color, teen mothers, First Nation/aboriginal/Native American mothers, low-income mothers in any historical period; “good” and/or “bad” mothers in history; mothers and paid/unpaid work in history; adoptive motherhood/adoption in any historical period; wet-nursing, and surrogate motherhood; transmitting maternal knowledges, creative expression and motherhood;
reproductive rights and wrongs, including rise of contraceptive technology alongside state-coerced sterilization; momism and mother blame with the rise of psychology; maternalist political rhetoric in favor of suffrage, labor rights ; rise of intensive mothering; queer/transgendered mothers/mothering in a historical perspective; maternal associations and more!

CFP Address: Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
140 Holland St. West,
PO Box 13022,
Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5

CFP Email Address: info@motherhoodinitiative.org

Contact: Andrea O’Reilly

E-Mail: aoreilly@yorku.ca

Alternate E-Mail: info@motherhoodinitiative.org

Telephone: Andrea O’Reilly – (905) 775-9089