Call for Papers
"Crossroads: Debating Women's Rights, Racism and Religion"
Interdisciplinary Nordic Conference
Norwegian Research Council
The Nordic Academy for Advanced Study (NorFa)
Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research
Centre for Gender Equality, Norway
University of Oslo
Oslo (Norway)
May 30 June 1, 2005
A principal aim of the conference is to initiate dialogue
between minority and majority feminist researchers as well
as activists and policy-makers. We want to address the
complexities surrounding contested issues such as white
and black, majority and minority, human rights and
freedom of religious beliefs from a feminist perspective.
The white womens movement has been criticized for not
taking seriously the situation of black women or women
with immigrant background. White feminists have been
criticized for speaking on behalf of black feminists.
These debates have been intense and in some instances
irreconcilable. The intention of this conference is to open
up a forum for discussion on these issues, conflicts and
controversies. For example, what is anti-racist feminism?
How can solidarity politics be expressed? What is the
political status of womens human rights?
Questions around womens citizenship address all societal
areas. There are strong conflicts between traditional
religious systems that are based on gender-specific rights
and obligations, and secular democratic ideals. The
relations between religion and gender equality is a
well-known multicultural headache. Religious freedom and
womens human rights are burning issues in all societies and
affect current discourses in feminism. We hope to provide a
forum for reflections on gender justice within and across
culture, religion and ethnicity.
The conference will have both keynote presentations in
plenary as well as workshops. The workshop program will be
made available shortly.
Three of the keynote speakers will be:
Uma Narayan
Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Vassar College, USA
Frances Raday
Professor of Law and Expert Member of the UN Committee for
the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Liz Kelly
Professor of Sexualised Violence at London Metropolitan
University, where she is also Director of the Child and
Woman Abuse Studies Unit
You can register by sending an e-mail to KILDEN:
<[email protected]>
Fee: 800 norwegian kroner (97 EUR)
Reduced fee for students and NGO representatives:
300 norwegian kroner (36 EUR)
We would like to encourage you to submit abstracts or papers
before february 15.
Information on workshops will be available after january 5.
Conference Website:
http://kilden.forskningsradet.no/nyhet/crossroads.htm
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