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Subject: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN GREECE 2-3 JUNE 2005, PANTEION
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Dear Mr Armitage,
We are organizing a conference on gender at Panteion University, Athens,
Greece to be held June 5-6, 2005. We would much appreciate it if you
would please publicize our call-for-papers to the members of your list.

Please forward us the announcement to the list to confirm receipt of this
request or let us know if there is someone else we need to direct our
inquiry to.

Thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely yours,

Aleka Boutzouvi and Alexandra Halkias

On behalf of The Steering Committee for the Undergraduate Program on
Gender, Panteion University, Athens, Greece.
www.genderpanteion.gr
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Changing Gender: Research, Theory and Policy for Gendered Realities of
the 21st century.
June 2-3, 2005, Panteion University, Athens, Greece.

CALL FOR PAPERS


This International Conference is being organized as a forum for the
presentation and discussion of current issues in research, theory and
policy pertaining to gender.

The daily and institutional consequences of late modernity render
disparate social realities increasingly more complex. The pervasive reach
of the Mass Media, the effects of a globalizing "information society" and
developments in the field of biotechnology, along with increasing poverty,
violence, immigration and the growing negative effects of globalization
are defining characteristics of the present historical moment. The
transmutation of disciplinary practices and the consolidation of assorted
mechanisms of social control often challenge the foundations of what we
define as "democracy" even as they advance in its name.

The field of power shaping different societies and their subjects has
undergone rapid change. At the same time, the ways in which we study
gender and society, including politics, the economy, culture etc., have
also been changing, and, indeed, should be changing. Disciplinary
boundaries are shifting and the epistemological and methodological ground
of scholarly work in all fields is being reassessed as a product of the
focus on gender. The contribution of Women's Studies as a field during
the past thirty years, and that of Gender Studies more recently, is
significant.

The Objective:

We aim for the conference to encourage interdisciplinary thought and
collaboration as well as rigorous dialogue between theory and the broad
range of current empirical work. The conference hopes to stand as a unique
forum bringing together a wide range of scholarly work that contributes to
the study of gendered social reality.

The conference invites papers dealing with the following questions or
issues related to them:

What does gender mean at the present? How do we currently understand what
it meant to be a woman in the past or in different social contexts of the
present? What does the performativity of "woman" consist of and how is it
represented culturally to different constituencies? How do we understand
the subject "man" and how is this defined differently in different
contexts? What other forms of gender are there? What are the politics of
these distinctions and what is at stake? How do these identities become
objects of negotiation and how do they resist or submit to entrenched
relations of power?
Given the scope of social changes that we are currently witnessing
globally, and given the accumulation of knowledge about gender in recent
years, how might "gender" change in the future?

Finally, the contribution of Women's Studies and Gender Studies programs-
How are these different? Where has each failed, where have we succeeded
and what might be the best course for the future?

Participation:

The call to submit papers is directed to a broad spectrum of researchers
within the social and political sciences, including theory, empirical
research and policy or specialized practice. Papers that "transgress
boundaries" are welcome. In addition, the conference hopes to host one
panel with papers, or performances, on gender as a category in art,
especially contemporary art and multi-media.

Those interested in participating should send a 300 word abstract of the
paper they propose to present, including their name, title, area of
expertise and contact information, to [log in to unmask] by January 10,
2005. Abstracts may be submitted in either of the two languages of the
conference: Greek or English.

Notification as to acceptance: February 15, 2005.

The papers presented at the conference shall need to adhere to a 15min.
time limit so as to maximize time for discussion. To be included in the
program of the conference the full text of the presentation must be
received by May 1, 2005.

We regret that the conference cannot cover transportation or other costs
for participants. The Gender Studies Center of Panteion University shall
provide a list of accommodation options in the vicinity of Panteion on its
web site www.genderpanteion.gr as of March 15th, 2005.

Conference Organizers: for the Scientific Committee,

Aleka Boutzouvi
Lecturer, Department of History
University of Athens

Alexandra Halkias
Lecturer, Department of Sociology
Panteion University

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