Call for Papers and Participation

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Deadlines: 
Submission of Abstracts: April 15, 2008
Paper Submission: September 1, 2008
Conference: September 22-23, 2008,  Örebro University, Sweddam

Convenors are Erika Svedberg from the Institute of Thematic Gender Studies and Örebro University and Annica Kronsell from the Department of Political Science at Lund University. The convenors were part of a group organizing the international conference at Lund University: A World in Transition. Feminist Perspectives on International Relations, in May 1996. This conference is a follow-up of that successful event. The War Question for Feminism-conference is organized within the Institute of Thematic Gender Studies a new two-campus milieu for gender research at Linköping University and Örebro University in Sweden, led by Professors Nina Lykke and Anna Jónasdóttir.

Theme 1: War as a Feminist Issue The central argument for this theme is that war is a feminist issue/question.
There is a long-standing and historical split within the women´s movement on whether to be pro-nation or pro-peace which seem to have made feminists somewhat uncomfortable with the war question. War is a feminist concern because conflict relations between states or organized groups affect women as well as men, violence used in violent conflict is often exualized and because militaries and arms is a substantial part of public resource spending. If there would ever be a truly feminist state, would this state have a military organization? Would it have an army, weapon production and military spending? War is an economic issue and feminist researchers should not ignore the military/defense budget as part of the (welfare) state budget? Arms production and trade is also connected to military budgets and what would a feminist analysis of the arms trade come up with? The means used in the waging of contemporary wars like rape, forced prostitution and other forms of sexual violence seem to be an integral part of the organized forms of violence. It shows that the means used in war-making are gendered. The trend for some militaries of western democratic states is to engage in the war on terror while another trend is to move much more into international peace-enforcement and peace-keeping. Is the trend to train militaries for peace-keeping tasks a way to de-militarize the military? Are the efforts of gender mainstreaming peace-keeping a way to feminize the military?

Theme 2: Militarism and Masculinities
This theme takes the starting point in that the military organization historically has been exclusively male and part of nation building, in relation to state militaries or to resistances like guerrilla, insurgency warfare. Nation building is highly interconnected with militaries with conscription as an illustrative example. Norms relevant for military practice like hierarchy, group cohesion and organized violence as problem solving, have been tied to norms of heterosexual masculinity. How is masculinity related to the task of the military organization? What is the
relationship between masculinity and the role of the warrior, in the "war on terror" militaries, insurgency, and guerrillas or in peacekeeping? Are UN peace-keepers real men or "sissies in arms"? Sexuality has been an integral aspect of the military organization with the wide use of pornographic material, sexualized language, sexual harassment within bases and prostitution as well as rape near military bases. As we are seeing sexualized violence in war being used against both civilians and soldiers as part of strategic warfare we might ask; what is the relationship between patriarchy, militarism and misogyny in different contexts in contemporary warfare? What does this tell us about the relationship between military violence and sexuality? Can the military be democratized? Is it possible to think of a military where men and women serve side by side as comrades, without sexism? Is it possible to move beyond the heterosexual masculinity norm as an organizing principle of the military?

Theme 3: Feminist concepts travelling into the area of security, the military, violent conflicts and peacekeeping operations.
The focus of this theme is on travelling concepts. The idea of travelling concepts was developed in the Women´s Studies/Gender Studies project Athena with the aim of considering how concepts introduced and developed by feminist scholars are used for particularly educational but also research purposes in different European contexts. A central question is how feminist concepts may be translated across linguistic and cultural barriers while still conveying the same meaning. What happens when concepts travel? When feminist concepts are put into practice, do they acquire new meanings? When new meanings develop, how can they be understood? What does it tell us about the context in which they are being used? In this theme we are particularly concerned with the translation and implementation of feminist concepts into political, policy and administrative settings. Central questions are how have, for example, the concepts of gender/gender mainstreaming/gender perspectives been used or put into practice in security, defense and military understandings and settings.

One example here is the UN Security Council Resolution 1325. We want to look at how concepts from feminist research and activism travel from one setting to for example different national settings of security policy and military strategy.

We welcome abstracts of no more than 300 words addressing one of the three themes of the conference. Please send it to the conference organizers:

 Further Information: [Erika.Svedberg@sam.oru.se and Annica.Kronsell@svet.lu.se] 

Deadline: June 1, 2008
Conference: January 21-23, 2009, First European Conference on Politics and Gender, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

The ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics invites panel and paper proposals for the First European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG). The conference aims to bring together scholars engaged in cutting-edge research on a wide range of topics related to gender and politics. Scholars from member and non-member institutions of the ECPR are welcome to apply. The program will include a keynote address given by Judith Squires from the University of Bristol, as well as a roundtable on current European Union-funded gender and politics projects.

The conference will be organized around ten sections, convened by the following scholars:
Social Movements - Lee Ann Banaszak
Political Parties and Representation - Joni Lovenduski
Sexuality and the Body - Joyce Outshoorn
Methods and Methodologies - Jacqui True
Violence, War, and Security - Lene Hansen
Development and Democracy - Shirin Rai
States and Public Policies - Amy Mazur
Identity and Multiculturalism - Sawitri Saharso
Citizenship - Birte Siim 
Feminism and the International - Christine Sylvester

Proposals should be sent by email to the conference secretary Jemima Repo [jemima.repo@helsinki.fi]. Acceptance of papers and panels will be confirmed by 1 September 2008.
Proposals for individual papers should include the name, affiliation, and contact details for all paper authors, a 200-word abstract and paper title, as well as indicate which section the paper is for. Proposals for whole panels should include the full details for each paper (see above), a panel synopsis, as well as names, affiliations, and contact details for the panel chair and discussant.

The Standing Group on Gender and Politics was founded in 1985 as the Standing Group on Women and Politics. It currently has 300 members from all over the world. The next ECPG conference will be held in 2011.

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Deadline: September 19, 2008
Conference: June 4-7, 2009, Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics, Utrecht/ Niederlanden

The 7th European Feminist Research Conference is an international event based on cutting-edge scholarship. The conference will reflect a diversity of feminist and gender studies research incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences. The focus is on the way in which knowledge, politics, and the imagination inform gendered cultures in contemporary Europe.

European Feminist Research Conferences usually have more than 500 participants from both inside and outside of Europe. The Conference has a track record of presenting innovative feminist scholarly work with critical perspectives on contemporary Europe. This triennial conference is this time organised by Athena (Advanced Thematic Network in Activities in Women's studies in Europe), Gender Studies Programme Utrecht University and Aiofe (Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe). The 7th edition of the European Feminist Research Conference will be interdisciplinary in several ways. Firstly, it will employ the Utrecht expertise of crossing the boundaries of the scholarly and the artistic through a focus on, and a review of, literary, visual and artistic representations. Secondly, it will work with a matrix of intersecting themes rather than with singular conference strands. Thus participating scholars, students and artists are asked to situate themselves in this cross-cutting matrix.

Paper proposals have to refer to two of the themes:

A: Imagination art & politics
Coordinators: Dr. Marta Zarzycka, Prof.dr. Kirsi Saarikangas, Domitilla Olivieri
Key words: women artists, canon, global art history, cultural hybridity

B: Feminism in post-secular Europe
Coordinators: Prof.dr. Willy Jansen, Dr. Sarah Bracke, Dr. Chia Longman
Key words: religion, 'clash of civilisations', religious vitality, believing and belonging, secularity

C: Global connections: migration, consumption and politics
Coordinators: Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi, Dr. Gail Lewis, Sabrina Marchetti
Key words: postcolonial cultures, transnational feminism, citizenship, commodification, migration

D: Sexuality, public, private and beyond
Coordinators: Prof.dr. Gloria Wekker, Lena Eckert, Malena Gustavson
Key words: globalization, intersectionality, public and private, queer, masculinities

E: War and violence
Coordinators: Prof.dr.  Andrea Petö,  Izabella Agardi
Key words: conflict studies, political rape, post-socialism, masculinity, trauma

F: Media and Technology: The politics of Representation
Coordinators: Dr. Cecilia Asberg, Prof.dr.hab. Elzbieta Oleksy, Drs. Edyta Just, Prof.dr. Nina Lykke
Key words: science, technology, media, visual culture

G: Multi-ethnic Europe: identities, boundaries and communities
Coordinators: Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic, Prof.dr. Allaine Cerwonka,  Drs. Maayke Botman
Key words: multiculturalism, transnationalism, European-ness, political subjectivities, in/exclusion; intersectionality
 
H: Stories to tell: fiction, history & memory
Coordinators: Doro Wiese, Dr. Babs Boter, Prof.dr. Adelina Sanchez 
Key words: feminist assessment of the powers of narrative; intersectionality; reliability of (hi)stories and memories; unspeakability; other modes of telling

I: Women's movements of past, present and future: Generation in feminism
Coordinators: Prof.dr. Berteke Waaldijk, Drs. Iris van der Tuin, Sandra Prlenda
Key words: generations, new feminisms, histories of women's movements, EU-equal opportunities

J: Cultures of Knowledge: the Sciences, Humanities and gender
Coordinators: Prof.dr. Mineke Bosch, Prof.dr. Kaat Wils, Dr. Christine von Oertzen
Key words: knowledge, women/gender in science, epistemology, feminist theory, representations of gender and science

K: Social economic Europe
Coordinators: Dr. Bettina van Hoven, Prof.dr. Anastasia Lada
Key words: Labour market, geographies of care, environment, nomadism, old and new identities

Submission of abstracts, panel proposals and registration: http://www.7thfeministconference.org/
 
Abstracts should have not more than 300 words and can only be uploaded using the submit link at http://www.7thfeministconference.org/
Paper abstracts send to the general conference email address 7thfeminist@let.uu.nl will *not* be taken into account.
Paper abstracts have to be submitted before September 19, 2008.
 
If you would like to propose a panel or for any other information on the conference, please contact us at 7thfeminist@let.uu.nl before July 15, 2008.

Further Information: [http://www.7thfeministconference.org/]

Deadline: none
Submission: October 2007

Since the 1980s research on the history of the so-called first and second women’s movement in Europe evolves from different perspectives, mostly in the form of scientific papers proving academic qualification.

At the same time the historiography of women’s movements still notes lengthy gaps, thus raising desiderata for its research. Not only is this gap traced back to the fact that yet only a few monographs and anthologies are published. Moreover university publication series on this topic are mostly unreleased.

Historians dealing with women’s movements from different countries are hardly linked. The workshop “Women’s Movement linked, Historiography and Documentation” (PDF) organized by Ariadne, Austrian National Library and the Department for Contemporary History Vienna University on April 20th, 2007 was a first step towards furthering an exchange at least within Austria. (A report on the event by Veronika Wöhrer is available in Salon 21.)

The Research Platform Repositioning of Women’s and Gender History’s Call for Papers addresses all who currently work on a diploma thesis or dissertation dealing with the History of European Women’s Movements (19th till 21st Century)- or all who finished their work in the last two years and have not published it (yet).

The abstract (about 1.000 characters) should comprise the following:

• The topic
• The used sources
• The particular key question(s)
• Results of your research
• Open questions

Furthermore the date of completion as well as potential publications can be named. The authors will be able to present and put their texts into discussion in the virtual forum Salon 21. Thus along with knowledge on current research contacts should be established.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact:
Christa Hämmerle, christa.ehrmann-haemmerle@univie.ac.at
Li Gerhalter, frauennachlaesse.geschichte@univie.ac.at

Further information: [University of Vienna]

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