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Subject: [NewResearchersNetwork] Gender and Religion in Global Perspectives
From: "Tuomas Martikainen" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, May 3, 2006 4:56 pm
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Call for papers:
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
University of Copenhagen, 2006
Gender and Religion in Global Perspectives
Relocating Agendas, Approaches and Practices in the 21th Century
Place: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: October 27-28, 2006
Organizers: Research Priority Area: Religion in the 21st. Century and
the Co-ordination for Gender Studies in Denmark
Gender and religion are burning issues and have been continually
exposed in the media, in politics and in culture over the last
decades. Gender issues are often exposed in relation to religion in
complicated ways that are both local and universal. How have gender
and ideas about gender roles been used and misused in religious
revivals? How do ideas about religion, gender and equality influence
power relations locally and around the globe? What are the
implications of understanding gender and religion as constructed and
as sites for both conceptual and practical conflicts about meaning?
How and where have gender and sexuality acted as central sites of
negotiations, debates and conflicts, both within and between religious
communities and commitments?
The conference aims at bridging gender and religious studies and at
transforming scholarship and reflection in both current and historical
perspectives. The goal is to enhance the exchange between scholars of
different disciplines and to create a space for exchange across
research specialisations. Every scholar interest-ed in framing his or
her contribution in relation to the themes of the conference is
invited to submit a paper or to suggest a workshop.
Main themes:
1. Gender and religion. Troubling Agendas, Approaches and Practices in
the 21st. century
2. Gender and the Power and complexity of Symbols
3. Masculinities and religious mobilisations around the Globe
4. Construtcion and Deconstruction of Gender. Global Value Surveys and
beyond.
Speakers include:
• Ass. professor, dr. Saba Mahmood, UC Berkeley, USA
• Dr. Nacira Guenif-Souilamas, Sorbonne, Paris
• Prof. Dr. Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Blom Hansen, Yale/Amsterdam University
• Prof. Dr. Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Preliminary workshop themes:
• Religious mobilisations and revivalism
• Missionary Practices and carriers
• Religion, Migration and Transnational identities
• Gendering religious spaces
• Masculinities
• Queering Spirituality and Sexuality,
• Bodies and Symbols - negotiating boundaries and possibilities
• Religion, Democracy, Human Rights
• Ideas of Gender and Fundamentalism
• Gender and Euro-Catholicism
• Gender and religious conversions
Deadlines:
Call for papers: (200 words) + CV:
June 1st, 2006
Registration:
September 1st. 2006
Conference Fee:
Employed: 500 Danish Crowns/80 Euro
Fee for Students and Unemployed: 200 Danish Crowns/40 Euro
Information and contact:
Coordination for Gender Studies, University of Copenhagen, Ø.
Farimagsgade 5 A, Postbox 2099, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.sociology.ku.dk/koordinationen/religion
http://www.ku.dk/satsning/Religion/index.htm
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Sharon Smith
