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From: J Armitage <j.armitage@UNN.AC.UK> Date: December 10, 2004 5:03:29 AM EST To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [CSL]: CONFERENCE CFP: Changing Gender: Research, Theory and Pol icy for Gendered Realities of the 21st century Reply-To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society <CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>

-----Original Message----- From: gender@panteion.gr [mailto:gender@panteion.gr] Sent: 10 December 2004 09:05 To: j.armitage@unn.ac.uk Subject: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN GREECE 2-3 JUNE 2005, PANTEION UINVERSITY

Dear Mr Armitage, We are organizing a conference on gender at Panteion University, Athens, Greece to be held June 5-6, 2005. We would much appreciate it if you would please publicize our call-for-papers to the members of your list.

Please forward us the announcement to the list to confirm receipt of this request or let us know if there is someone else we need to direct our inquiry to.

Thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely yours,

Aleka Boutzouvi and Alexandra Halkias

On behalf of The Steering Committee for the Undergraduate Program on Gender, Panteion University, Athens, Greece. www.genderpanteion.gr ( gender@panteion.gr)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Changing Gender: Research, Theory and Policy for Gendered Realities of the 21st century. June 2-3, 2005, Panteion University, Athens, Greece.

CALL FOR PAPERS

This International Conference is being organized as a forum for the presentation and discussion of current issues in research, theory and policy pertaining to gender.

The daily and institutional consequences of late modernity render disparate social realities increasingly more complex. The pervasive reach of the Mass Media, the effects of a globalizing "information society" and developments in the field of biotechnology, along with increasing poverty, violence, immigration and the growing negative effects of globalization are defining characteristics of the present historical moment. The transmutation of disciplinary practices and the consolidation of assorted mechanisms of social control often challenge the foundations of what we define as "democracy" even as they advance in its name.

The field of power shaping different societies and their subjects has undergone rapid change. At the same time, the ways in which we study gender and society, including politics, the economy, culture etc., have also been changing, and, indeed, should be changing. Disciplinary boundaries are shifting and the epistemological and methodological ground of scholarly work in all fields is being reassessed as a product of the focus on gender. The contribution of Women's Studies as a field during the past thirty years, and that of Gender Studies more recently, is significant.

The Objective:

We aim for the conference to encourage interdisciplinary thought and collaboration as well as rigorous dialogue between theory and the broad range of current empirical work. The conference hopes to stand as a unique forum bringing together a wide range of scholarly work that contributes to the study of gendered social reality.

The conference invites papers dealing with the following questions or issues related to them:

What does gender mean at the present? How do we currently understand what it meant to be a woman in the past or in different social contexts of the present? What does the performativity of "woman" consist of and how is it represented culturally to different constituencies? How do we understand the subject "man" and how is this defined differently in different contexts? What other forms of gender are there? What are the politics of these distinctions and what is at stake? How do these identities become objects of negotiation and how do they resist or submit to entrenched relations of power? Given the scope of social changes that we are currently witnessing globally, and given the accumulation of knowledge about gender in recent years, how might "gender" change in the future?

Finally, the contribution of Women's Studies and Gender Studies programs- How are these different? Where has each failed, where have we succeeded and what might be the best course for the future?

Participation:

The call to submit papers is directed to a broad spectrum of researchers within the social and political sciences, including theory, empirical research and policy or specialized practice. Papers that "transgress boundaries" are welcome. In addition, the conference hopes to host one panel with papers, or performances, on gender as a category in art, especially contemporary art and multi-media.

Those interested in participating should send a 300 word abstract of the paper they propose to present, including their name, title, area of expertise and contact information, to gender@panteion.gr by January 10, 2005. Abstracts may be submitted in either of the two languages of the conference: Greek or English.

Notification as to acceptance: February 15, 2005.

The papers presented at the conference shall need to adhere to a 15min. time limit so as to maximize time for discussion. To be included in the program of the conference the full text of the presentation must be received by May 1, 2005.

We regret that the conference cannot cover transportation or other costs for participants. The Gender Studies Center of Panteion University shall provide a list of accommodation options in the vicinity of Panteion on its web site www.genderpanteion.gr as of March 15th, 2005.

Conference Organizers: for the Scientific Committee,

Aleka Boutzouvi Lecturer, Department of History University of Athens

Alexandra Halkias Lecturer, Department of Sociology Panteion University

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