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Subject: Diaspora: Call For papers: Gender, Borders, Boundaries.
From: "Amy M. Russell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, January 29, 2008 12:26 pm
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Please Circulate:
Call for papers: GENDER AND BORDERS/BOUNDARIES Interdisciplinary
Postgraduate Conference At Manchester University June 27, 2008
Confirmed speaker: Ruba Salih In association with Centre for
Interdisciplinary Gender Studies/ University of Leeds Migration and
Diaspora Cultural Studies Network Department of Theology and Religious
Studies/University of Leeds Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American
Studies/University of Manchester This one day postgraduate conference
seeks to examine issues of gender and borders/boundaries across a range of
critical perspectives. We want to encourage innovative and
interdisciplinary dialogues and welcome postgraduate students from a
variety of disciplines, such as anthropology, cultural studies, gender
studies, religion, sociology, psychology, politics, geography and social
work.Borders/boundaries are sites for exclusion, control and dominance,
but they are also sites for exchange, transgression and creativity. With
this postgraduate conference we want to focus on gender and the ways in
which it interacts with the forces and powers of national borders and/or
the boundaries of the body. We invite papers that focus on the dynamics
between gender and borders/boundaries both from ethnographic and
theoretical perspectives. We would welcome papers addressing (but not
limited to) the following key themes of the conference: o Boundaries,
space and liminality o Borderlands, identity and gender
o Intersectionality of gender, globalisation and borders o Gendered
migration across borders o The body as a site of boundaries and
contestation o Questioning category boundaries o Contesting borders/
LGBTQ anti-border activism o Gender and transnationalism o Transgression
of borders/boundaries o Sex work and trafficking across borders o Sex
tourism
o Migrant sex work Abstracts should be no more than 300 words sent to:
Amy M. Russell and Susanne Hofmann at:
[log in to unmask] Deadline: 1st February 2008.Please
include your title, name, institutional affiliation and a brief
(100words) outline of your work..If you do not receive a confirmation
email of our receipt after a week please resend your abstract.
Amy M. Russell Theology and Religious Studies & The Centre for
Interdisciplinary Gender Studies University of Leeds
[log in to unmask] Mob: 00447792139465 Tel: 0044 113 34 33649
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