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Dear colleagues, I thought some of you would be interested in this forthcoming international conference on "Gender and the Law". Here is the call for papers. (Apologies for crossposting) 

Best wishes, 

Seref 



                                                      International Conference
                               Gender and "The Law": Limits, Contestations and Beyond
                                                4-6 June 2014, Izmir, Turkey

 

Call for Papers


Abstract Submission Deadline: 7 December 2013

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the discursive, historical, political, social limits of legal systems, including state laws, policies, institutionalised un-written based customs, traditions and their operation about gender-related as well as gender-specific issues. Legal systems often structure, impacts, controls, constructs or deconstructs, intervenes and acts against certain relations whether between or intra states. Legal norms established to protect or promote gender equality may have unintended consequences and legal norms that seem irrelevant to gender may nonetheless significantly impact gender issues and various forms of gender-related violence.

The conference aims to engage with different legal systems across cultures focusing on the ways in which social mores are institutionalised in societies aiming to render a subtle, complex account of the discursive construction of gender, linking together ideologies, language, their cultural groundings and their operation in legal context. It invites the participants to bring in the cases that enable further discussions in relation to broader contexts including social, political, cultural, economic and legal processes that underlie the construction of the gendered subjectivities.
This conference is open for papers across disciplines, including, but not limited to, legal studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, politics, international relations and else.
The conference will explore the following themes:
1- Language structure and legal system: How do systematic aspects of language, structure the meaning of gender roles and mediate the social conflicts with legal institutions deal? How does law affect the meaning system that demarcates the boundaries between right and wrong, moral and immoral? How do legal orders (such as customary law, international law) interact with the hegemonic effects of the state law? : In a related vein, how do we understand the complex and non-determinist embodiment of social epistemologies in legal language?
2- Power and Hegemony: How are both imposition hegemony and moments, discourses acts of resistance made possible in, through and by legal language? How do people use state law or other legal norms to enact their hegemony and or to create resistance?
3- Affect and Law: What are the possibilities of thinking about the ‘affect’ and law? How do particularly debated cases that created public outrage should be understood and analysed in relation to court decisions especially when the decision was against the public? How does the affect of ‘the law’ spread across institutions, media and the public?
4- State and Law: What is the role of ideology of official state in the legal/institutional regimentation and sedimentation of language in the legal institutions? What is the role of culture in legislation? In a cultural relativism-universalism debate, what is the common understanding of human rights and freedoms for the full realization of this pledge? 
5- International Law and Gender Politics: How do global political measures affect international law related to gender? 
6- Employment and Labour Market: How does discrimination and equality in relation to gender, apply within the field of employment in a legal context? What are the limitations of the principles of non-discrimination and equal treatment in achieving to enter the labour market?
7- Migration: What are the impacts of policies that cause gender-discrimination in migration and refugee context? What kind of policy and practices are needed in the global policy agenda to address gender equality in the migration context?

The decision process for the contributions will include two steps: in the first instance abstracts (up to 350 words) will be reviewed by the conference committee and those invited for the second step will be asked to submit a full proceedings paper (up to 4000 words). All papers invited for the final programme will be published in the conference proceedings and will also be considered for a potential edited book that will be compiled by the organisers after the meeting. Formal meetings will be followed with a social programme and relevant site visits organised by the host institutions. www.socialstudies.org.uk  

Click here for conference website: 

http://www.socialstudies.org.uk/conferences/genderandlawconference

Keynote Speakers

Prof Sara Friedman
Anthropology Department, Indiana University

Prof Juliet Mitchell
Psychoanalysis & Gender Studies, University of Cambridge

Prof Lisa Webley
Empirical Legal Studies, University Of Westminster

Prof Julia Eckert
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern

Prof Heaven Crawley
Centre for Migration Policy Research, Swansea University

Prof Robert Wintemute
Department of Law, King’s College

 

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: 7 December 2013
Paper notification: 24 January 2014
Early-bird registration: 24 March 2014
Final registration deadline: 28 April 2014
Full-paper submission deadline: 9 May 2014

  

Venue


Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey (4-5 June 2014)
Gediz University, Izmir, Turkey (6 June 2014)

Conference Comitee


Prof Muhammet Ozekes (Dean of the Law Faculty, Gediz U.)
Prof M.Vedat Pazarlıoğlu (Dept of Economics, Dokuz Eylül U.)
Dr Sibel Safi (Law Faculty-Gediz University, LCSS, UEL)
Dr Ozlem Biner (Dept of Anthropology, U. of Cambridge)
Dr Nevzat Şimşek (Dept of Economics, Dokuz Eylül U.)
Dr Latif Taş (Law Faculty, Humboldt U.)
Dr Nalan Kahveci (Law Faculty, Dokuz Eylül U.)
Ms Feray J. Baskın (Dept of Anthropology, Indiana U.)
Ms. Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Dept of Anthropology, U. of Cambridge)
Mr. Şeref Kavak (Department of Politics, Keele U.)
Mr. Ufuk Uçar (Law, LCSS)
MS. Ozlem Erden (Education, Indiana U. )

Contact

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