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Call for Papers: Thinking Gender 2011

UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN announces

Thinking Gender 2011

21st Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, gender and sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. This year, we especially welcome papers addressing [...]

Call for papers: Violences and Silences

GEXcel, Gendering EXcellence – Centre of Gender Excellence welcomes you to the conference

Violences and Silences: Shaming, Blaming – and Intervening

October 12 – 14, 2010, Room Temcas, T-House, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish [...]

PECANS Visiting Fellowships 2010-11

CentreLGS PECANS welcomes applications from early career scholars (postgraduate research students and academics up to 5 years post-PhD) wishing to visit either the CentreLGS at the University of Kent or the GSL research group at Keele University for a limited period of time (between 1 and 3 weeks and preferably between November and March) [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: Body of Work, Body of Art

Transgendered Canadian performance artist Nina Arsenault has been characterized as cyborg, intellectual, and artist. After sixty plastic surgeries to feminize and beautify her originally male body, Arsenault has become an icon for a new queer generation. Her stage plays, electronic presence through videos disseminated online, website, blog, social networking presentation sites, her print media [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Sexual Nationalisms

Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Belonging in the New Europe

International Conference – 27 & 28 January 2011 – University of Amsterdam

Since 1989, and even more so after 9/11, the rise of new nationalisms has been inextricably linked to a refashioning of the politics, identities and imaginaries of gender and sexuality in [...]

Doing Queer Studies Now – Call for Papers

The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Graduate Conference, “Doing Queer Studies Now“, October 21-23, 2010. The purpose of this conference is to take stock of and provide a showcase for innovative practices and pursuits in queer studies, both in the humanities and social sciences, as [...]

Call for Contributions for Edited Book Volume: Black Senior Women: Race, Age, and Sexual Identity

Publishing House: Palgrave Macmillan

Editors: Bette J. Dickerson, PhD & Nicole Rousseau, PhD

Publication Date: 2011

A truly collaborative project, the first editor of this piece, Bette J. Dickerson, is an associate professor in the department of sociology at American University in Washington. Dr. Dickerson’s research specialties include: ageing and the social aspects of [...]

Call for Submissions: An anthology of stories by gender non-conforming people about their experiences in sex-segregated spaces

Working Title: Stalled Editors: K. Bridgeman and A. Lee Crayton Contact: stalled.the.book@gmail.com Submission Deadline: December 31, 2010

The range of gender non-conforming folks is broad.  We are men, women, genderqueers, two-spirits, trans women/transwomen, trans men/transmen, intersex, bois, grrrls, butchs, faeries, FtMs, MtFs, tomboys, drag queens, transvestites, transexuals, queers, none or maybe all of the [...]

CREA’s 4th Global Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice

June 12-19, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

Applications are due on or before April 18, 2010. For Institute brochure, click here.

The Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute is an annual, week-long, residential course that focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality. It examines the links between sexuality, rights, gender, and health and their interface with socio-cultural [...]

Call for Papers: 2010 Women & Society Conference

Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2010 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates [...]