2nd Global Conference: Gender and Love (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
2nd Global Conference
Gender and Love
Tuesday 25th September ? Thursday 27th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers:
The study of gender is an interdisciplinary field
intertwined with feminism, queer studies,
sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and
cultural studies (to name just some relevant fields).
This project calls for the consideration of gender
in relation to various kinds of love (with regard,
for example, to self, spirit, religion, family,
friendship, ethics, nation, globalisation,
environment, and so on). How do the interactions
of gender and love promote particular performances
of gender; conceptions of individual and
collective identity; formations of community;
notions of the human; understandings of good and
evil? These are just some of the questions that
occupy this project.
This conference welcomes research papers which
seek to understand the interaction and
interconnection between the concepts of love and
gender; and whether, when, how and in what ways
the two concepts conceive and construct each other.
Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed
panels are invited on issues related to any of the
following themes:
1. Love as a Disciplinary Force: Productions of Gender
* Love, Gender, Essentialism and Ontology
* Love, Gender and Narrative
* Love, Gender and the Law
* Love, Gender and Religion
2. Norms, Normativity, Intimacy
* Rituals and Rites
* Conventions, Commitments and Obligations
* Choices and Respect; Loyalty and Trust
* Transgressions and Taboos
3. Gendered Yearnings
* Personhood and Identity
* Body Politics and Belonging
* Love and Gender Performativity
* Transgender Desires
* Queer Kinship Formations
* Queer Conceptualisations of the State
4. Global Perspectives on Gender and Love
* Transformations of Intimacy in a Global World
* Sex and Choice
* Reproductive Rights
* Sexual Citizenship
* Gender, Love and Trans/Nationalism
5. Representations of Gender and Love
* Aesthetics and Intelligibility
* Gendered Narrations of Love
* Media, Gender and Love
For 2012, the Gender and Love project will meet
alongside our project on Skins and Contemporary
Culture. It is our intention to create cross-over
sessions between the two groups ? and we welcome
proposals which deal with the relationship between
gender and love and Skins and contemporary
culture. The Steering Group particularly welcomes
the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.
Papers will also be considered on any related
theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted
for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. Abstracts
should be submitted simultaneously to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: GL2 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts
is planned for the end of the year. All accepted
abstracts will be included in this publication. We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did not
receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs:
Dikmen Yakalı Çamoğlu
Department of Communication Sciences
Dogus University, Istanbul,
Turkey
Email: [email protected]
Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road,
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
Email: [email protected]
The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims
to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and challenging.
All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go
forward for development into 20-25 page chapters
for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard
copy volume.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-
and-love/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-
and-love/call-for-papers/
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