SAVE THE DATE

2015 Feminist and Women¹s Studies Association (FWSA)
Conference

Everyday Encounters with Violence: Critical Feminist
Perspectives

9th ­ 11th September 2015
School of Geography, University of
Leeds

This three-day conference aims to create an inclusive and supportive
space for scholars at all career levels to come together in a supportive
environment to engage in critical feminist perspectives on violence. We draw
upon a wide definition of violence from sources in the arts, humanities and
social sciences, seeing this both as an everyday social force inflicting
harm, suffering, grief and trauma and as a transformative force that
produces gendered agency, social action and resistance. We will examine
violence as embedded in the very fabric of everyday life via gendered
encounters with for example ­ modernity, neoliberalism, sovereign power,
rule of law, globalization, technology, as well as institutional, popular
and everyday cultures. We foresee a range of different types of sessions
fostered in this conference. In addition to traditional plenary and paper
sessions, we are looking to include practitioner panels, performative
workshops, talking circles and World Café style interactions between
participants.

A detailed Call for Papers will be announced by early June
2014 where we will announce a range of registration levels along with
further information on venue, accommodation and social/networking events. We
are keen to ensure that the conference is inclusive and accessible to as
wide a variety of people as possible and therefore have included provisions
for on-site (subsidized) childcare, a range of accessibility needs and
(reduced-rate) virtual attendance. As an FWSA conference we will also be
live tweeting and hosting dedicated conference bloggers from the FWSA
membership. We are also looking into providing a limited number of travel
bursaries for postgraduate students.  

Please contact Ayona Datta
[log in to unmask] or Martin Zebracki [log in to unmask] with
expressions of interest in being part of these events and to add your name
to our email list when we will circulate information and regular updates
related to the conference.

Save the date and do not miss out on this
critical, engaging and welcoming event.

Organising Committee
Ayona
Datta
Martin Zebracki 
Deirdre Conlon
Emma
Kerry

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Dr M.M. (Martin)
Zebracki
Lecturer in Critical Human Geography
School of Geography
University
of Leeds
University Road
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

+44 (0) 113 34
33331

http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/m.zebracki
http://www.zebracki.org
@zebracki