GENDER-LOVE 2011 - 1st Global Conference: Gender and Love

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Category GENDER-LOVE 2011

Deadline: March 25, 2011 | Date: September 19, 2011-September 21, 2011

Venue/Country: Oxford, U.K.

Updated: 2011-03-17 14:06:43 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Gender and Love

Monday 19th September ? Wednesday 21st September 2011

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

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

25th March 2011. If an abstract is accepted for

the conference, a full draft paper should be

submitted by Friday 8th July 2011. 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

E-mails should be entitled: GL 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). 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: dyakaliyahoo.com

Dr Rob Fisher

Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Priory House, Wroslyn Road,

Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR

Email: glinter-disciplinary.net

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 about the project, please visit

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/gender-and-love/

For further details about the conference, please visit

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/gender-and-love/call-for-papers/

Sponsored by: Inter-Disciplinary.Net