GENDER STUDIES
IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
June 2-3, 2011
(Conference venue: Spiru Haret University, Faculty of Letters,
13 Ion Ghica Street, Bucharest)
Invited speakers:
Anna Babka (University of Vienna)
Efstratia Oktapoda (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)
Ileana Orlich (Arizona State University)
Najib Redouane (California State University, Long Beach)
The rise of gender studies at the end of the 1980s and all through the 1990s coincided with the acceleration of the globalization process made possible mainly by the rise of the new democracies and the new permeability of borders in a postcolonial and postcom- munist world, as well as by the unprecedented impact of the revolution in communication and information technology, with the Internet and the world wide web transforming the world into what McLuhan described as “the global village” (1962).
Using “gender studies” as an umbrella term, which has come to include women’s studies, men and masculinity studies and queer studies, the aim of the Conference is to examine from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives:
1) gendered aspects of the process of globalization, such as the gendered experiences of the relation between the local/ the national and the global, transnational processes and gendered borders;
2) various ways in which globalization has impacted the construction of gender identities and sexualities, the intersection of gender with other categories of identity such as race, sexuality, age, class and nationality, the construction and representation of ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ as identity categories, gender relations as strategies and counter-strategies of power, gender regimes, the relation of gender to social and cultural institutions;
3) the performativity of gender, gender politics, and the representation of gender in culture, literature, visual arts, film, popular culture, the media. The conference aims also to discuss new developments in gender theories and new modes of gender knowledge and critique under the impact of globalization.
We invite proposals from a wide range of areas including the humanities – literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts (including music and theatre), anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguis- tics, social sciences, behavioral sciences, science and technology, medicine and public health, democracy studies.
Presentations should be in English or French, and will be allocated 20 minutes each, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts of up to 100 words (including 5 keywords) in Word format, with an indication of their insti- tutional affiliation, and a telephone number and e-mail address at which they can be contacted.
Proposals for workshops and panel discussions (to be organized by the participants) will be also considered.
All accepted papers submitted in English or French will be published in a conference proceedings book edited by Addleton Academic Publishers (New York)
Deadline for proposals: April 30, 2011.
Please send proposals (and inquiries) to genderstudies.conference@gmail.com
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