CFP: http://bit.ly/1GsH8Cc
The Sexuality Studies Association welcomes proposals for the fourth annual meeting to be held at SSHRC Congress May 29-31 2016 at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. We invite proposals for work in English or French from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective. There is an opportunity to present the same work in both French and English. If you would like to make two presentations (one in English and the second in French) please state that clearly in your abstract.
In keeping with the 2016 Congress thematic focus on “Energizing Communities” we are particularly interested in papers, creative commentaries, art exhibits, films, multimedia works, and performance art that problematize notions of community and belonging as they intersect with sex, gender and sexuality. The thematic of “Energizing Communities” is particularly timely for the Sexuality Studies Association given our commitment to engaging varied communities, including indigenous, francophone, and artistic communities.
As critical scholars and activists situated in relation to various academic, artistic, and political networks, we are involved in the creation of queer communities and kinship systems. The integration of academic scholarship and community-based research has a long and varied history. Critical sexuality studies resists systems of heteronormativity that privilege dominant kinship structures and sexual practices. Our association cultivates intersectional, decolonizing, and multidimensional theories and methods. We are committed to challenging homonationalist projects that re-inscribe normativity as a technology of governance. These re-inscriptions of power naturalize and privilege dominant epistemologies by subtending ways of knowing prevalent in other/ed communities.
This year, we invite participants to explore the following questions: What are the places of resistance and collusion operationalized by contemporary sexualities and sexuality studies? Which communities and forms of belonging are made viable, and which are rendered uninhabitable within contemporary framings of sexuality? What are the affective stakes of critically “energizing” communities? How might we engage and envision cultures and communities in an age of global politics and transnational relations? We welcome presentations from scholars, activists and artists that examine multiple facets of energizing communities, including (but not limited to):
• indigeneity, de/colonization, and transnationalism • sexuality studies in scholarly, artistic, and community discourses • language, culture, and Anglonormativity • racialization and whiteness • inter/sexed bodies, genders, and subjectivities • dis/ability and Crip theory • trans* subjectivities and trans- theory • the politics of space and counter publics • queer ecologies, the anthropocene, species-ism, and the human/animal divide • vital politics, new materialisms, and object-oriented-ontologies • necro- and biopolitics, the living dead, “slow death”
• labour, precarity, survival
• ‘illicit’ sexualities and sex work
• kinship and families
• rights, recognition, and resistance
HOW TO SUBMIT:
We encourage presentations in a variety of formats, including papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, poster sessions, film and video screenings, performance art pieces, exhibits, and cultural events. Preference will be given to sessions that include artists and/or community-based activists and/or scholars. If you are proposing a non-traditional presentation, please include a brief description of any necessary considerations relating to audio-visual/technical equipment, room size and location, movable seating, or other logistics.
All submissions must be sent as a single file (Word or PDF) and include (1) a maximum 150-word abstract for individual papers, (2) a maximum 50 word bio and (3) a ONE page mini CV that highlights institutional or community affiliation, research interests, current projects and/or publications/exhibits/
Papers are therefore expected to be approximately 15 minutes per presenter. Submissions for both panels and roundtables must indicate that a chair has been designated. Send your submission as an attachment to: sexualitystudiesassociation@
The deadline for submissions is November 20th, 2015. Presenters will be notified of the programming committee’s decision by late January 2016. All presenters must be members of the association by April 1, 2016.
Call for Papers for the 2016 Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. Keynotes: Paul B. Preciado & Gayle Salamon. April 8-9, 2016. The New School For Social Research, New York, NY.
Taking
its title from Naomi Schor’s text with the same name, this conference
reformulates the question that Schor posed 20 years ago concerning
feminist debates around
the writing of Luce Irigaray: is essentialism in contemporary critical
thought still anathema? How can we think about essentialism today
alongside and across different disciplines that might both nourish and
contest one-another such as philosophy, feminist
thought, queer theory, critical race studies, and biology? Have past
outright rejections of essentialism undercut political agendas, by
denying shared connections that might motivate collectivity? What can we
say about essentialist, anti-essentialist, and
more contemporary anti-anti-essentialist (or strategic essentialist)
stances?
The
2016 Philosophy Graduate Student Conference at The New School for
Social Research seeks to explore these questions, and we invite all
of you to engage with us in
thinking about them. We welcome non-traditional presentations,
including works of arts or creative writing as well as traditional
philosophical papers. Papers should be roughly 3000 words. Performances
should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Any accommodations
you may need must be specified in your submission. Potential topics
include considerations of essentialism with respect to: social
constructivism, gender/sexuality, nature/animals, race, trans feminisms,
femininity, identity, technology, disability, queer
theory, revolution/political transformations. Please send all
submissions formatted for blind review to
essentialism2016@gmail.com on or before
December 1.
More information available
here.
Gender
and women studies and feminisms have produced important transformations
in our daily life and in our understanding of reality. While the topic
of equality of rights is increasingly on the public
agenda, there have been advances and retreats and persisting gender
inequalities continue to challenge us to look for more solid analyses.
The
Interdisciplinary Centre on Gender Studies (CIEG) wishes to contribute
to the analytical deepening of these issues and invites you to
participate in the International Congress of Gender Studies,
on 25, 26 and 27th may 2016 under the following theme “Gender Studies in Debate: Pathways, challenges and interdisciplinary perspectives”
We
count on you to address questions such as: what impact have had
different gender equality policies on the effective implementation of
rights? How to ensure the implementation of laws and prevent perverse
effects? Power, relations of power, masculine domination and gender:
which connections? Are there frontiers between activism and research,
and if yes, how/where to draw them? How to balance the collective
subject ‘women’ with ethnic, class, generational, sexual
orientation, and global diversity? How is gender performed in daily
life and in different institutions: between reproduction and agency?
Heteronormativity, bodies, and sexuality: central issue for gender
studies? Men and masculinities: new configurations?
What backlash effects have the crisis, the increased inequalities and
the neoliberal thinking had on the current life of men and women?
We
also wish to bring to the debate the contributions of researchers from
different parts of the world to help us reflect upon the pathways
followed by gender and women studies and feminisms in their
geographic, political and sociocultural contexts.
Marking
its 4th anniversary, CIEG is very pleased to join the celebrations of
the 110 years of Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas
(ISCSP) of University of Lisbon (ULisboa), by organizing
its 1st International Congress.
The abstracts, no longer than
300 words, should clearly indicate in which research line (I, II or III) the paper should be included.
The research lines to consider are the following:
I
Gender, feminisms and women studies
History of ideas and theories;
Contemporary theories and innovations;
Extensive and intensive methodologies and international comparative perspective.
II
Policies, institutions and citizenship
Public policies;
Equality, Law and righs;
Democracy and political institutions.
III
Gender and the construction of contemporary societies
Family, sexuality and intimate relationships;
Representations, identity and culture;
Body, health and gender violence;
Social class, inequality and values;
Work, economy and environment;
Migrations, globalization and development;
Masculinities;
Cultural and artistic gender studies;
LGBT studies.
Abstracts should be sent until
30 november 2015 to the following email address: congressocieg2016@iscsp.
Deadline for notice of acceptance/rejection: 31 january 2016.
The registration fees, in its different modalities, will be available soon.
More information is available in the attached CFP.
