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> Call for Papers > Gender Myths, Gender Meanings: > An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference > On Gender in East, South and Southeast Asia > Harvard April 28-29th 2006 > > The conference will address gender issues as they relate to East, South > and Southeast Asia, with priority given to theoretically aware approaches. > The conference is intended to enable scholars and researchers in a variety > of fields to communicate across disciplinary boundaries so as to provide > mutual awareness of ideas, issues and data in a more rich and productive > way. All topics and theoretical ideas are welcomed. Postdocs and grad > students are encouraged to submit abstracts of maximum 300 words to the > organizers by February 24th 2006. Notification of acceptance will be made > by March 3rd. Please send abstracts (and any questions) to: Nick Tustin > at [log in to unmask] Abstracts must include: your name, > department, academic institution, contact information, working title, and > summary of your paper in a maximum of 300 words. Presentation time will > be 15 minutes. Please see the second page of the call for more detail > regarding the conference. > Theoretical basis of the conference: > Gender Myths, Gender Meanings. How much of gender is a myth, especially > when considered within another society? How much of gender is a meaning, > in the sense of praxis that possesses significance within political, > social, legal, and interpersonal frameworks? In viewing East, South, or > Southeast Asian society and their diaspora communities from a Western > academic perspective, are we just re-inventing an Asian version of > ourselves? What is the role of indigenous scholarship that emerges from a > non-Western paradigm? In what ways is it useful or helpful to theorize > gender? Can we even talk of gender as a single unitary concept? Should > we engage in recuperative history without first re-evaluating our own > theoretical perspectives? > A key aim of this conference is to promote dialogue between the diverse > disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences that engage in the study > of gender in East, South and Southeast Asia and their related diaspora > communities. This is an emerging field of considerable potential > significance rather than a fully established discipline, and as such, > requires an extended theoretical debate to strengthen and augment its > range of critical and theoretical tools. > We hope to create a conference with as much diversity as possible, so > we are open to a full range of topics across the humanities and social > sciences, provided that it relates to any of the countries in our > geographical range -- for example Indonesia, the Philippines, India, > China, Japan, or Korea and their diaspora communities. If you are unsure > whether we might include your country, just ask! Please submit questions > (and abstracts) to [log in to unmask] Note that the deadline for > submitting abstracts is February 24th 2006. > > -- > Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies > University of Cambridge > 17 Mill Lane > Cambridge > CB2 1RX > United Kingdom > > E.mail: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] > Web: http://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/ > Tel: +44 (0)1223 763593 > Fax: +44 (0)1223 767272 >