From: Therese Garstenauer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 13.04.2005
Subject: CFP: A Canon of Our Own? - Vienna, Austria 11/05
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Center for Gender Studies
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
28.11.2005-29.11.2005, Aula, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, A-1090 Vienna
Deadline: 31.05.2005
This conference shall bring together experts in the field of Feminist,
Women's, and Gender Studies from various countries to discuss
differentiations that shape power relations within that very field - and
beyond. Relations and tensions between theoretical and empirical
research as well as potentials and constraints of local contexts of
knowledge production shall be addressed. We are strongly interested to
examine and question the notions of "East" and "West" (mainly) in a
European context.
The conference focuses on the notion of canon along the following lines
- Is there a canon of Feminist, Women's, and Gender Studies that is
valid all over the world? Are there works one needs to have read to join
the community? Which theories and approaches does one have to know and
apply?
- If such a canon exists, how do theories, concepts or texts become
canonical in Feminist, Women's and Gender Studies? Are there any
differences to main/malestream canons?
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Are there implicit or explicit leading disciplines within an assumedly
interdisciplinary context?
- Are Women's and Gender Studies in need of a canon at all? Can they
help developing one?
- How about countries in which - for whatever historical or political
reasons - Women's and Gender Studies evolved later than elsewhere (e.g.
Austria, compared with the US, post-communist countries compared with
"the West")? Can they ever catch up? Do they have to catch up?
- How important is the local context/situatedness of knowledge
production? Can the subaltern (cf Gayatri Spivak) or those from the
semi-peripheries (cf Marina Blagojevic) speak other than by
recapitulating concepts and theories coming from the centre - or in the
capacity of providers of raw data?
-How important are different languages? What about English as an
academic lingua franca on the one hand and as a hegemonic language on
the other?
The conference will comprise 5 - 6 panels of 2 - 3 papers. Presentations
should not exceed 20 minutes. Every speaker will be assigned a
commentator. To assure dense and focussed discussion, speakers and
commentators shall receive all the papers before the conference. The
conference language is English.
Participants are invited to submit a proposal (500 words) indicating the
scope and approach of their contribution, together with a short CV. We
strongly encourage the submission of panels. Proposals in English should
be sent to Therese Garstenauer ([log in to unmask]) by 31
May 2005. Notice will be given by 10 July 2005. Papers are due by 15
October 2005, in order to distribute them in advance. The conference
materials are planned to be published in a series of the Centre for
Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. Travel expenses and
accommodation costs of contributors shall be covered (pending the
definite confirmation of funding).
Therese Garstenauer
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 7
A-1090 Vienna
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