Please find a slightly amended call for papers below - this can also be viewed on the Socrel website, along with the original report produced by Mathew Guest, Sonya Sharma and Robert Song.
http://socrel.org.uk/
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The 2014 Socrel Response Study Day will explore Gender Equality in the Academy.
Abstracts of 150 words are invited by 1 August 2014 to:
Dr Abby Day ([log in to unmask]) and
Dr Sonya Sharma ([log in to unmask])
The symposium is organised by Socrel, the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group.
Last year’s symposium was over-subscribed and therefore early submissions are encouraged.
Venue: BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London
Date: Saturday 4 October 2014
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
We are delighted to have as our keynote speakers:
Professor Heidi Safia Mirza, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor Helen Beebee, Philosophy, University of Manchester
Achieving gender equality is a continuing concern in both society and
the academy. Many women are attracted to a career in higher education
because of its autonomy, collaboration and intellectual rewards. In
light of the much welcomed and recent efforts by academics and
administrators, universities have been slow to institutionalise gender
equality. In recent studies that address issues of gender in the
academy, particularly within the humanities and STEM subjects, women
scholars, at varying stages of their careers continue to encounter an
environment where they are in the minority among men, confront the
difficulties of balancing caring responsibilities with the demands of
academia, and where they experience bullying and challenges to
promotion. Importantly, racialised and classed experiences of gender
have also impacted on women in the academy, resulting in multiple forms
of inclusion and exclusion.
As such, women’s experiences of higher education have demonstrated
both the rewards and costs of pursuing a career in academia. The aim of
the symposium is to discuss and interrogate how these issues are being
addressed, experienced and resisted in academic spaces. Some of the
questions we hope to explore on the day are: how do race and class
interact with gender to affect women’s experiences of the academy? How
is gender inequality resisted in everyday academic life? How is gender
equality being taught? What are students’ experiences of gender
inequality amongst the student body and/or with staff? What equality and
diversity initiatives are being instituted to shift academic cultures?
We welcome women at all stages of their career. We welcome papers that
provide intersectional analyses of gender, along with working and
outline papers based not only on research but also reflexive accounts
based on personal experience.
Topics can include, but are not limited to:
- Religion and gender in the academy
- Gender in the curriculum
- Women’s experiences of gender in/equality
- Lived experiences
- Intersectional analyses and approaches
- Career progression
- Power, resistance and change in institutional contexts
- Feminism in the academy
- Researching gender in/equality
- Racialised and classed experiences of gender in the academy
The day will be highly participative and engaged. The symposium will
be organised as a single stream so that the day is as much about
discussion as it is about presentation. We invite individual papers that
are 10 minutes in length and roundtable formats that consist of short
papers, all with the aim to encourage interaction and sharing of
knowledges and accounts.
Papers are invited from students, educators, and researchers in the
disciplines of sociology, anthropology, geography, theology, history,
philosophy, psychology, political science and religious studies. We hope
to attract presentations of sufficient quality to lead to an edited
publication.
Costs: £36.00 for BSA members; £41 for Socrel members; £46.00 for
non-members; £15 for BSA Postgraduate members; £20.00 for Socrel
Postgraduate members; £25.00 for Postgraduate non-members