The Eighth Annual Gender Symposium:
DIALOGUE, ETHICS AND GENDER IDENTITY
Friday 4 March, 10am-4pm, The Howard Building, Downing College, Cambridge
Supported by the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and CRASSH
Speakers include: Judith Squires (Bristol), Tracy Strong (UCSD), Diana
Coole (Birkbeck), Juliet Mitchell (Cambridge) and Carol Gilligan (NYU)
Over the past 25 years interest in the ethics of 'dialogue' has pervaded
the Social Sciences and Humanities. Conversation, it is argued, can provide
the means to reaching rational consensus between the diverse constituencies
that make up contemporary society. This notion, however, is not without
powerful critics. Voices from across the disciplines have increasingly
contended that the appeal to dialogue rests upon a homogenizing form of
universalism, which threatens the recognition of the crucial and
ineliminable 'differences' that exist between social and cultural groups.
Buried in this emerging disagreement has been the question of gender
difference, and the manifold ways in which it is manifested in power
relations. This conference aims to bring this gender dimension to the
centre of debate between the prospects for 'dialogue' and 'difference'. We
will draw together world-renowned scholars from all sides of the argument
to explore the potential of dialogical ethics as a method to achieving
rational consensus whilst accommodating gender difference.
Further information, including full programme:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/genderdialogue.html
This event is free and open to all.
Sian Hawthorne
Chair, Centre for Gender & Religions Research
Director of Studies, MA Gender Studies and Religion; MA Gender Studies
Lecturer (part-time) Critical Theory & the Study of Religions
Department of the Study of Religions
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4774
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