Call for Papers
"Gender Across Borders"
Graduate Student Conference
History Department, Brown University
Providence, RI (USA)
May 13-14, 2005
In May of 2005 the Brown University History Department will
hold a two-day conference for graduate students of history
and other disciplines on issues relating to gender. Titled
"Gender Across Borders," the conference will examine how
gender functions as a category of analysis by examining the
thematic, methodological, and theoretical continuities
between all scholars of gender and women. To that end, the
conference will stress cross-temporal conversations and
organize panels around thematically similar but temporally
or geographically diverse papers. Panels will feature three
papers and one commentary by an advanced student or
professor. The conference will offer graduate students
opportunities for participation usually reserved for
faculty.
Potential panel topics include:
* Gender and Conflict
* Gender and the Nation-State
* Intersections of Gender and Sexuality
* Gender and Labor
* Dialogues of Gender across Class and Race
* Gender and Literature
* Gender, Human Rights, and Development
* Influential Scholars of Gender
* Gender and Place
* Gender and Media
* Gender and the Environment
Students are encouraged to submit their own ideas for panels
with the goals of the conference in mind. The list of
possible topics above is by no means intended to be
exhaustive.
The Conference Planning Committee and the Brown University
History Department are pleased to welcome Joan Scott as the
Marjorie Harris Weiss keynote speaker for 2005. Joan Scott's
work has challenged the very foundations of historical
analysis through her pathbreaking examination of gender. Her
most recent work focuses on the vexed relationship of the
particularity of gender to the universalizing force of
democratic politics. She is currently the Harold F. Linder
Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Submission Guidelines:
All submissions must be received by January 15, 2005. To
submit a paper, please email an attachment in Word format
containing an abstract of no more than 250 words and a
one-page curriculum vitae. To submit a panel, please email
only one attachment containing all of the abstracts and
curriculum vitae. The subject of the email must read
Conference Proposal and should be sent to the e-mail address
given below. We cannot be responsible for submissions that
do not meet these requirements.
For more information please contact the Planning Committee
or visit our website (web address and e-mail address
provided below):
Planning Committee
Graduate Student Conference
Brown University
History Department, Box N
Providence, RI 02912
USA
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History/
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