1st Annual Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Conference: Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and Natural Disaster
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Submit your work to present at the 2006 GCWS Graduate Student Conference! • Call for Proposals Do we live in desperate times? As the rhetoric of an equal and free society is used to justify the Iraq war, massive hurricanes in the American south have exposed deep domestic disparities around class and race. Natural disasters in Southeast Asia and Pakistan have revealed just how deep the divide is between wealth and poverty on the global scale. Human exploitation, environmental degradation, and conflicts around racial, ethnic, and national identities continue around the world. What does this mean for anyone who stands outside or astride the boundaries of conventional gender/sexual norms? Are we, as scholars and/or activists, prepared for our advancing future? Submission Topics
Possible topics could include, but are not limited to: • All forms of labor and work, including traditionally unrecognized forms such as care work and sex work • Social, economic, and political upheavals stemming from manmade and natural disasters, military conflict, and other forms of violence • Human impact on the environment and vice versa • Emerging and/or changing forms of identity in a global future • The future of identity politics in a globalized world • Re-imagining the theory/practice divide; where and how do scholars and activists fit into today's global cultural 'flows' moving people, goods, information, and ideas? • Original research paradigms and methods • How do past frameworks for understanding gender, sexuality, and global movement help or impede our efforts to describe current shifts? • The changing nature of war/conflict, and implications for the future • The function and dysfunction of various borders and borderlands around nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, etc. To read more about proposal guidelines and to submit your proposal online click•Submit• For more information, contact Andi Sutton, GCWS Program Coordinator at: Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies |
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