Call for Papers by University of Hildesheim plz address requests to: [email protected]
Dear colleagues and friends, it is with great pleasure that we send you our call for papers (see below + attachment) for the international conference Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy?, which will take place at our university at the end of september/early october 2009. Please disseminate this call for papers / panels among your colleagues and interested friends and please do forward it through your mailing lists as widely as possible or post it on your newsletters / websites (for link to conference website see below). Please also note that for those coming from Asia, a limited number of conference grants, covering related costs for travel and accomodation, will be kindly provided by the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. Looking forward to hearing and hopefully welcoming many of you in the UNESCO world heritage city of Hildesheim, Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy? 30.9.-02.10.2009, University of Hildesheim, Germany Call for Papers The conference series “Women and Politics in Asia” started 2003 in Sweden, at Halmstad University, and was continued 2004 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and 2005 in Islamabad, Pakistan. In 2009, the fourth international conference of its kind will be convened by the Institute of Social Science at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Building upon “Women and Politics in Asia 2005: Discovering the Gender Face of Politics”, Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy? aims to reflect upon the links between · democracy and the feminisation of the halls of political power · gender and (power) politics · gender relations and gender ideologies and their impact on specific socio-political systems, modes of interaction / participation and citizenship discourses · gendered forms of political participation and agency within Greater Asia in an integrated comparative perspective. This region of the world is interesting for students of democracy for a number of reasons: Many Asian countries have acceded to different forms of democratic government in the past few years while other countries belong to the group of fragile states, struggling with instable or autocratic governments, heterogeneous gender and identity politics and/or with internally contested democratisation/liberalisation and state-building projects resulting in distinctive gendered outcomes. The vast majority boast extremely diverse populations, which generates enormous challenges for the establishment of balanced political representation and participation; many countries have adopted affirmative action measures to increase the representation of women and ethnic groups in their parliaments; many countries have elected women to the highest positions of executive and legislative power; finally, many countries are confronted with national and international initiatives for gender mainstreaming, women machineries and progressive gender policy regimes as part of a good governance concept of ODA donor countries or lobbying from (trans)national women’s movements and non-governmental organizations throughout the region. This conference is soliciting papers for the following four themes (and parallel sessions): · Political Actors and Institutions · Public Policy · Political Theory and Citizenship Discourses · Feminist Movements For individual paper proposals, please send 1) the name and institutional location of the presenter; 2) the curriculum vitae (2 pages max.) of the presenter; 3) the title of the presentation; 4) a one page description of your proposal with reference where appropriate. Deadline: February, 28, 2009 to [email protected]. For convening a panel, please send 1) the name and institutional location of the convener; 2) a list of presenters who agreed to participate in the panel; 3) the curriculum vitae (2 pages max.) of the convener as well as presenters; 4) the title of the panel and the different presentations; 5) a one page description of your proposal with reference where appropriate. Deadline: February, 28, 2009 to [email protected]. The selection of proposals will be conducted by the international organisation committee of WPA 2009 until March, 31, 2009; an intra-regional balance will be considered. All conference papers have to be submitted until August, 31, 2009, and will be made available online. Selected conference publications will be published in the ZIF series Focus Gender, Münster et.al.: LIT Verlag (to be confirmed). Participants coming from Asia can apply for a limited number of grants, covering travel and accomodation costs related to the conference, kindly provided by the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. Please indicate your request for funding when sending your paper or panel proposal. Conference Organizers: Professor Dr. Claudia Derichs Director of the Institute of Social Science, University of Hildesheim [email protected] Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Hildesheim [email protected] Contact Address University of Hildesheim Institute of Social Science Marienburger Platz 22 D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/de/35265.htm Tel: +49-5121-883-500 Fax: +49-5121-883-501 The conference is organized in cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation and with the support of the University of Hildesheim, ZIF - Centre for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies at the University of Hildesheim and the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. -- circulated by: *********************************************************************** Watch Indonesia! e.V. 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