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> GENDER AND BORDERS/BOUNDARIES
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> Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
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> At Manchester University
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> June 27, 2008
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> We would welcome papers addressing (but not limited to) the following key
themes of the conference:
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> o Boundaries, space and liminality
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> o Borderlands, identity and gender
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> o Intersectionality of gender, globalisation and borders
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> o Gendered migration across borders
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> o The body as a site of boundaries and contestation
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> o Questioning category boundaries
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> o Contesting borders/ LGBTQ anti-border activism
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> o Gender and transnationalism
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> o Transgression of borders/boundaries
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> o Sex work and trafficking across borders
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> o Sex tourism
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> o Migrant sex work
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> Abstracts should be no more than 300 words sent to:
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> Amy M. Russell and Susanne Hofmann at:
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> Deadline 1st February 2008.
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> Please include your title, name, institutional affiliation and a brief
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> If you do not receive a confirmation email of our receipt after a week
please resend your abstract.
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> Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Department of Theology and
Religious Studies University of Leeds
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> Susanne Hofmann
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> Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies, Department of Spanish and
Portuguese University of Manchester
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