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Researchers from Social Sciences and Humanities are invited to participate in the following ESF-LiU Conference: Religion, Gender and Human Rights: Challenges for Multicultural and Democratic Societies Scandic Linköping Vast, Sweden, 21-25 June 2011 Chaired by: Niamh Reilly, National University of Ireland, IE; Stacey Scriver, National University of Ireland, IE & Sara Silvestri, City University London, UK Closing date for applications: 29 March 2011. Full conference programme accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/11352<http://www.esf.org/conferences/11352>. This conference will examine the nexus of religion, gender, identity, human rights and politics with a particular focus on Europe in a context of globalisation. It will fill a gap in current literature on religion, politics and society, which tends to ignore or treat as secondary the gendered dimensions of these developments. Toward this end, the conference seeks to advance knowledge and understanding, and to build a coherent research network, around the following core goals to:1) Move gender from the periphery to the centre of contemporary debates about the role of religion in public and political life; 2) Stimulate new feminist and gender scholarship concerned with the critical (re)interpretation of religions and gendered faith-based practices across different religious traditions; 4) Foreground and apply an 'intersectional' lens to issues of religion, gender and women's human rights, and bring into dialogue feminist theorizing on gender and religion across global 'South' and global 'North' perspectives; 5) Expand the horizon of gender-focused human rights analysis at the nexus of religion, gender, citizenship and rights. The conference will bring together senior and emerging scholars across a range of relevant disciplines including, but not limited to, political science and international relations, sociology, gender and women's studies, human rights and socio-legal studies, development, anthropology, European studies, and religious studies. * Strand 1: Identity, representation and multiculturalism Panel I - Gender and religion: identity, religious subjectivities and law and politics Roundtable I - Gender, religion and identity: immigration, integration and multiculturalism * Strand 2: Religious subjectivities and critiques Panel II - Religious subjectivities and gender critiques of religions - Foregrounding feminist and gender studies in religion across different traditions Roundtable II - 'Religion' in the academy through a gender lens: challenges in theory, methods and practice - A conversation between scholars working 'in religion' and 'on religion' * Strand 3: Law, rights, states and politics Roundtable III - Gender, religion, human rights and the state - Focus on the role of law and state in regulating and/or accommodating 'religion', religious expression and balancing 'rights' Panel III - Secularization, secularism and the public sphere: engendering debates - Exploring competing ideas about 'secularization' and the principle of secularism in multicultural democracies Panel IV - Gender and religion in international/transnational politics and global issues - Religion in national/transnational politics and policy making; religious identity/religious actors in conflict/post-conflict contexts Confirmed speakers include: · Fadwa Al-Labadi, Al-Quds U. Jerusalem, IL · Valerie Amiraux, U. Montreal, CA · Tina Beattie, Roehampton U., UK · Sarah Bracke, KU Leuven, BE · Geraldine Finn, Carleton U., CA · Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford U., US · Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, UMB Boston, US · Harriet Harris, U. Edinburgh, UK · Naomi Goldenberg, U. Ottawa, CA · Breda Gray, U. Limerick, IE · Anka Grzywacz, Catholics for Choice, PL · Anne Jenichen, U. Bremen, DE · Catarina Kinnvall, Lund U., SE · Titia Loenen, Utrecht U., NL · Elif Medina, U. Vienna, AT · Vesna Malesevic, NUI Galway, IE · Rubya Mehdi, U. Copenhagen, DK · Stephanie Mitchem, U. South Carolina, US · Jeff Redding, CNRS, FR / St. Louis U., US · Sawitri Saharso, U. Twente, NL · Naveed Sheikh, Keele U., UK · Sara Silvestri, City U. London, UK · Jawad Syed, U. Kent, UK · Andrew Yip, U. Nottingham, UK · Nira Yuval Davis, U. East London, UK The conference is open to scientists world-wide, whether from academia or industry. Attendance is possible only after successful application. A certain number of grants will be available for early-stage researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form<http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=352&meetno=1>. ESF contact for further information: Jean Kelly - [log in to unmask] This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), in partnership with Linköping University (LiU). [cid:image001.jpg@01CBD29A.7E7C6830]<http://www.esf.org/conferences/11352> Interested in sponsoring this conference? For more information, please go to our Sponsor Resource Center<http://www.esf.org/conferences/sponsoring> !