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Call for Posters Theme: Religion, Gender and Human Rights Subtitle: Challenges for Multicultural and Democratic Societies Type: ESF-LiU Conference Institution: European Science Foundation Linköping University Location: Linköping (Sweden) Date: 21.–25.6.2011 Deadline: 29.3.2011 __________________________________________________ This conference will examine the nexus of religion, gender, identity, human rights and politics with a particular focus on Europe in a context of globalisation. It will fill a gap in current literature on religion, politics and society, which tends to ignore or treat as secondary the gendered dimensions of these developments. Toward this end, the conference seeks to advance knowledge and understanding, and to build a coherent research network, around the following core goals to: 1) Move gender from the periphery to the centre of contemporary debates about the role of religion in public and political life; 2) Stimulate new feminist and gender scholarship concerned with the critical (re)interpretation of religions and gendered faith- based practices across different religious traditions; 3) Foreground and apply an ‘intersectional’ lens to issues of religion, gender and women’s human rights, and bring into dialogue feminist theorizing on gender and religion across global ‘South’ and global ‘North’ perspectives; 4) Expand the horizon of gender-focused human rights analysis at the nexus of religion, gender, citizenship and rights. The conference will bring together senior and emerging scholars across a range of relevant disciplines including, but not limited to, political science and international relations, sociology, gender and women’s studies, human rights and socio- legal studies, development, anthropology, European studies, and religious studies. Strand 1: Identity, representation and multiculturalism Panel I: Gender and religion: identity, religious subjectivities and law and politics Roundtable I: Gender, religion and identity: immigration, integration and multiculturalism Strand 2: Religious subjectivities and critiques Panel II: Religious subjectivities and gender critiques of religions - Foregrounding feminist and gender studies in religion across different traditions Roundtable II: ‘Religion’ in the academy through a gender lens: challenges in theory, methods and practice - A conversation between scholars working ‘in religion’ and ‘on religion’ Strand 3: Law, rights, states and politics Roundtable III: Gender, religion, human rights and the state - Focus on the role of law and state in regulating and/or accommodating ‘religion’, religious expression and balancing ‘rights’ Panel III: Secularization, secularism and the public sphere: engendering debates - Exploring competing ideas about ‘secularization’ and the principle of secularism in multicultural democracies Panel IV: Gender and religion in international/transnational politics and global issues - Religion in national/transnational politics and policy making; religious identity/religious actors in conflict/post-conflict contexts. Confirmed Speakers include: Fadwa Al-Labadi, Al-Quds U., IL; Valerie Amiraux, U. Montreal, CA; Tina Beattie, Roehampton U., UK; Sarah Bracke, KU Leuven, BE; Geraldine Finn, Carleton U., CA; Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford U., US; Naomi Goldenberg, U. Ottawa, CA; Breda Gray, U. Limerick, IE; Anka Grzywacz, Catholics for Choice, PL; Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, UMB Boston, US; Harriet Harris, U. Edinburgh, UK; Anne Jenichen, U. Bremen, DE; Catarina Kinnvall, Lund U., SE; Titia Loenen, Utrecht U., NL; Vesna Malesevic, NUI Galway, IE; Elif Medina, U. Vienna, AT; Rubya Mehdi, U. Copenhagen, DK; Stephanie Mitchem, U. South Carolina, US; Jeff Redding, CNRS, FR / St. Louis U., US; Sawitri Saharso, U. Twente, NL; Naveed Sheikh, Keele U., UK; Sara Silvestri, City U. London, UK;Jawad Syed, U. Kent, UK; Andrew Yip, U. Nottingham, UK; Nira Yuval Davis, U. East London, UK Chair: Niamh Reilly, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE Co-Chairs: Stacey Scriver, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE Sara Silvestri, City University London, UK Conference participation is possible only after successful application. Deadline for applications: 29 March 2011 Applications from young and early career researchers wishing to present posters and/or short talks related to one of the three thematic strands of the conference are encouraged. Detailed information on all aspects of the conference are available from the conferemce website: http://www.esf.org/conferences/11352 Contact: Ms. Jean Kelly, Conference Officer European Science Foundation Research Conferences Unit 149 Avenue Louise Box 14 Tour Generali, 15th Floor B-1050 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 533 2025 Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.esf.org/conferences/11352 __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
