REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference Title : GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES ITALIAN STYLE
Conference Location: MONASH CENTRE, PRATO, ITALY
Organisers: Dr Charlotte Ross, Department of Italian Studies, The
University of Birmingham, Dr Susanna Scarparo, Italian Studies Program,
Monash University and Ms Angela Donahoe, Italian Studies Program, Monash
University
Conference Date: 3-5 July, 2008
Opening address by Luisa Muraro
Keynote speakers: Liana Borghi (Università di Firenze), Daniela Danna
(Università di Milano), Aine O'Healy (Layola Marymount University in Los
Angeles) Rebecca West (University of Chicago)
In the 1980s and the early 1990s, the field of gender studies was commonly
understood and treated as being unproblematically synonymous with women's
studies. However, increasingly, the category of 'gender studies' has
broadened significantly, both informed by and informing developments in
queer and sexuality studies.
This conference will explore how new definitions of and critical
approaches to gender and sexuality have impacted on current debates in
Italian studies as an international field. In particular, we are interested
in how the study of gender and sexuality has changed the map of Italian
studies and critically enriched the discipline particularly
outside of Italy.
Moreover, since the early 1990s a new emphasis on cultural studies has
facilitated growing intersections and dialogues between theoretical
discourses informing traditional fields of enquiry as well as less
traditional fields such as cinema studies, diaspora studies and gay and
lesbian studies. The conference will explore ways in which the combination
of a cultural studies approach with gender and sexuality studies is
changing the landscape of the discipline of Italian Studies in Italy and
beyond.
Topics for discussion will include (but are not confined to):
• representations of gender and sexuality in literature and film • social
and cultural engagements with definitions and negotiations of gender and
sexuality in Italian and italophone contexts • the influence of anglophone
discourses on gender and sexuality studies on the development of Italian
Studies within and beyond Italy • the specificity of critical and
theoretical discourses on gender and sexuality within Italy • the impact
and representation of gender and sexuality studies in the field of Italian
migration studies
We invite those interested in presenting a paper at the conference to send
• an abstract of around 200 words and a brief biog
• proposals for panels including brief biogs of participants
to the following address: [log in to unmask]
The deadline for proposals is 10 December 2007
For further information see the conference webpage:
http://arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/conferences/gender-and-sexuality/index.php
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