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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** Apologies for cross-posting. -------- Algne kiri -------- Teema: ESF workshop--invitation Kuupäev: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:56:08 +0100 Kellelt: Ide Corley <[log in to unmask]> Kellele: Aet Annist <[log in to unmask]> Dear Dr Aet Annist, I'm writing as the principal convenor of a European Science Foundation workshop entitled "Multiple Modernities of Same-Sex Sexuality in Nigeria" to be held at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth in August 18-20, 2010. As sexuality has recently become a flashpoint in African public culture, the purpose of the event is to gather scholars in either African or sexuality studies, or both, from across Europe and provide them with an opportunity both to debate the current research and to formulate plans for follow-up research activities and/or collaborative actions. Any scholar who is interested in dissident sexualities, the question of the human or human rights, how globalization effects intimate relations and related topics would be most welcome. We seek 100-150 word proposals for papers (15-20 minutes long) from interested scholars *as soon as possible* and attach the project description here. In the case that a proposal is successful, a formal invitation from the European Science Foundation will follow. We will offer to reimburse travel costs up to the value of E250 subject to the provision of receipts. Accommodation for two nights at the Maynooth Campus Conference Centre will be provided as well as lunches and dinners for the three-day duration of the workshop. Further information on the ESF can be found at this link: http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops.html The following speakers, among others, have been confirmed: *Rudolf Gaudio (USA)* is a Professor of Anthropology at Purchase College, State University of New York. Building on his long-term research on language and society in Africa and elsewhere, his research now pays attention to media, popular culture, and public policy as well. He recently published a book, /Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City <http://www.amazon.com/Allah-Made-New-Directions-Ethnography/dp/1405152524>, /which is about feminine men in northern Nigeria. His newest research focuses on Nigerian Pidgin (a language that combines words and grammar from English and various African languages) and the way it is being used by migrants to Nigeria’s capital city as well as in hip-hop music, film, and other popular media. *Neville Hoad* is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in nineteenth-century British literature, Victorian anthropology and sexology, Darwin and social Darwinism, feminism in imperialism, anglophone postcolonial literature and theory, South African literature, critical race studies, queer theory, and international human rights law, among other subjects. He is the author of /African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization/ (2007), and the co-editor of /Sex and Politics in South Africa: Equality/the Gay and Lesbian Movement/the Struggle/ (2005). *Madhavi Menon* is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. She is the author of /Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama/ (University of Toronto Press, 2004), which explores how Renaissance rhetoric manuals encounter and present desire; and of /Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film/ (Palgrave, 2008), a polemical inquiry into the methodologies within which we study desire. She is also the editor of /Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare/ (Duke UP, 2010), which is the first book to put queer theory in conversation with every one of Shakespeare's poems and plays. *Elina Oinas* a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. She has been a visiting scholar at the Women and Gender Studies Departments at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2002, 2003) and the University of California, Berkeley (2005-2006). She is author of /Making Sense of the Teenage Body--Sociological Perspectives on Girls, Changing Bodies, and Knowledge/ (Abo Akademi U P, 2001) and of a number of articles on agency, empowerment and victimhood in feminist writings on HIV and gender in Africa. She is also co-editor of the /Nordic Journal of Women's Studies/. *Steven Pierce* is a Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester. His first book, /Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination /(Indiana UP, 2005) is a study of the colonial government of northern Nigeria, looking at the way in which rights in land became the primary idiom for governing small-scale farmers. With Anupama Rao, he has co-edited /Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, /a collection of essays which examines the relationship between bodily violence and categories of difference such as race, religion, and gender, tracing the intimate relationship between strategies of governance and often-intertwined discourses of humanitarianism and bigotry. His most recent work focuses on the history of humanitarianism and human rights. *Caroline Rooney* is Director for the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent. Her most recent book /Decolonising Gender/ (Routledge, 2007) offers a critique of the performative reifications of language and gender from a postcolonial perspective, showing how poetic realist writing endeavours to engage in non-essentialist affirmations of the collective beyond identity politics. Her previous book, /African Literature, Animism and Politics/ (Routledge, 2000), explores the positing of an unthinkable Africa in colonial discourse and further explores how African literature reflects and may be inflected by a consciousness of African philosophy. She has long-standing theoretical interests in deconstruction and psychoanalysis, with articles in this area published in the Oxford Literary Review and Angelaki. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at this email address ([log in to unmask] <https://myce.nuim.ie/uwc/webmail/java_script:main.compose%28%27new%27,[log in to unmask]>) or by telephone at 011 353 1 4908004. Kind regards, Íde Corley Íde Corley, PhD Lecturer in English School of English, Media and Theatre Studies National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland Tel +353 1 708 3515 Fax + 353 1 708 6418 ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************