Looks a great conference Mustafa. Good luck with it.

Mick


On 25/08/2011 01:36, "Halit Mustafa Tagma" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Call for Papers
> 
> Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence
> 
> 22-23 May 2012 Istanbul
> 
> Gender and Women’s Studies Forum
> 
> Sabanci University
> 
> 
> Workshop organized in the framework of the
> Central European University - Sabanci University Joint Academic Initiative
> 
> by Ayşe Gül Altınay and Andrea Petö
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> 
> 
> Opening Remarks by Cynthia Enloe
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> 
> 
> 20th century has been a century of wars, genocides, and other forms of
> political violence. It has also been a century of feminist struggle
> and theorizing globally. At the peak of what is sometimes called the
> “memory boom,” this conference seeks to explore the different ways in
> which wars, genocides, and other forms of political violence are
> remembered through a gender lens. Central questions include (but are
> not limited to):
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> 
> 
> How have wars, genocides and other forms of political violence been
> narrated and represented by men and women?
> How do women remember and narrate sexual violence in war?
> How do (written, oral or visual) testimonies challenge or reinforce
> the hegemonic accounts of wars and genocides?
> How are wars memorialized and gendered through monuments, museums, and
> other memory sites?
> What is the impact of the ethnicization/racialization of violence on
> the making of gendered memories?
> How is the relationship between the “personal” and the
> “public/national/political” (re)conceptualized in popular culture,
> film, literature, and (auto)biographical texts dealing with war,
> genocide, and other forms of political violence?
> How are “humanitarian interventions,” post-conflict processes, and
> transitional justice gendered?
> How do women’s, feminist, and LGBTQ movements contribute to critical
> memory work on wars?
> What kind of impact has feminist scholarship had on war and militarism
> studies, genocide studies, and memory studies?
> What new concepts or theoretical frameworks (queer? postcolonial?
> critical race studies?) promise new openings in feminist analyses of
> memory work on wars and genocides?
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> 
> 
> Applications:
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> 
> 
> The working language of the conference will be English. Scholars of
> all levels and from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Priority
> will be given to papers that deal with Europe (in the largest sense of
> the term) or Europe’s connection to the discussed context, but other
> papers will also be considered.
> 
> 
> 
> Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) outlining the relevance and
> novelty of your contribution, together with a 200 words resume.
> 
> 
> 
> Presenters will be required to submit their presentation in writing
> prior to the workshop. With the participation of Cynthia Enloe and
> other prominent scholars from the field as discussants, we are hoping
> for close engagement and critical debate during the workshop.
> Presenters will be encouraged to submit their revised papers for the
> special issue of the European Journal of Women’s Studies on the same
> topic (to be edited by Altınay and Petö).
> 
> 
> 
> There are limited funds for those participants who do not have other
> sources of funding to attend the workshop. When submitting your
> abstract, please indicate your need for any financial assistance.
> There are no registration fees. Lunch, tea and coffee will be provided
> for all participants.
> 
> 
> The application deadline is 16 December 2011.
> 
> To submit your paper and for more information: [log in to unmask]
> Workshop website: http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/genderconf/

Michael Dillon
Distinguished Professor of Politics, Şehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Emeritus Professor of Politics Lancaster University, UK.
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