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Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Gender Studies Conference
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2000-12-01
BEYOND NO MAN'S LAND: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF GENDERED BODIES AND
BOUNDARIES
Conference Dates: March 2-3, 2001
Proposals due: December 1, 2000
Web site: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~harris2/gender/index.html
(forthcoming)
We invite proposals for panels or individual papers exploring the limits
of gender-as they are constructed, contested or defended, and broken
down-from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. We welcome papers from
graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences as
well as from those in professional programs. This conference is
organized
and run by graduate students from many departments at Harvard
University.
Possible topics include:
* Alternatives to Binary Models of Gender (i.e. Male/Female)
Sexualities
* Technology and the Limits of Gender
* Gender and Science
* The Construction of Gendered Identities
* Gender and Definitions of Citizenship
* The Gendering of Spaces
* Gender Frontiers; Gender and Colonialism
* The Intersection of Gender with Race and Class
* The Move from Women's Studies to Gender Studies
* Gender and Work, Gendered Division of Labor
Please send a 1 page proposal including the title of the presentation or
panel and detailing the paper(s) to be presented and how it relates to
the
conference theme. Also include a separate cover letter with your name,
institutional affiliation, and contact information. A number of small
travel grants will be available to presenters traveling to the
conference
from outside the Boston area. If you are interested in being considered
for one of these grants, please indicate this in your cover letter.
Individual paper presentations should be approx. 15-20 minutes in
length;
panels should be comprised of three papers plus commentary (approx.
10-15
minutes).
Proposals should be submitted to the mail or email addresses listed
below
by December 1,
2000.
Presenters will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by
early
January, 2001.
Please contact JuNelle Harris with any
questions or visit our website listed below.
Contact information:
JuNelle Harris
Harvard University
209 Conant Hall
36 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: [log in to unmask]
Call for Papers website:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~harris2/gender/index.html
This announcement was submitted via the H-Net Announcements Website.
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