Call For Papers - Queer Feminisms Symposium
Call for Papers
QUEER FEMINISMS SYMPOSIUM
3rd Mapping Feminist Scholarship Symposium, Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship
Friday 6 June, 2008
10am-6:30pm
Thomson House Ballroom
3650 McTavish
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
This symposium is intended to stimulate discussion of graduate students’ work in feminist, gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. We approach Queer Feminisms broadly as interdisciplinary work, theory and activism synthesizing queer and feminist perspectives and approaches.
This will be an intimate symposium, conducive to workshop-style interaction between presenters and audience. The symposium is comprised of a series of panels throughout the day, followed by a keynote address. Lunch and refreshments will be available for participants. In efforts to make the symposium accessible, this event is free of charge.
Our Keynote address will be given by renowned postcolonial feminist scholar Professor M. Jacqui Alexander (Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Toronto). As an expert on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, Dr. Alexander will be speaking on her work on transnational feminism. Her research explores North American feminism, queer studies and the transnational frameworks that foreground questions of colonialism, political economy, and racial formation.
We are seeking paper proposals for 2 panels on the following themes and possible (though not exhaustive) subtopics:
Proposals should be no more than 500 words and sent to ggfs.mcgill@gmail.com by Monday 14 April 2008. Please include the panel theme your paper is best situated within and a short bio.
Proposals in French will be accepted, however the symposium will primarily be held in English.
Whisper translation will be available upon prior request.
Transportation expenses will not be covered by the symposium.
Thomson House is a wheelchair accessible location.
http://ggfsmcgill.blogspot.com
ggfs.mcgill@gmail.com
QUEER FEMINISMS SYMPOSIUM
3rd Mapping Feminist Scholarship Symposium, Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship
Friday 6 June, 2008
10am-6:30pm
Thomson House Ballroom
3650 McTavish
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
This symposium is intended to stimulate discussion of graduate students’ work in feminist, gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. We approach Queer Feminisms broadly as interdisciplinary work, theory and activism synthesizing queer and feminist perspectives and approaches.
This will be an intimate symposium, conducive to workshop-style interaction between presenters and audience. The symposium is comprised of a series of panels throughout the day, followed by a keynote address. Lunch and refreshments will be available for participants. In efforts to make the symposium accessible, this event is free of charge.
Our Keynote address will be given by renowned postcolonial feminist scholar Professor M. Jacqui Alexander (Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Toronto). As an expert on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, Dr. Alexander will be speaking on her work on transnational feminism. Her research explores North American feminism, queer studies and the transnational frameworks that foreground questions of colonialism, political economy, and racial formation.
We are seeking paper proposals for 2 panels on the following themes and possible (though not exhaustive) subtopics:
(I) Immigration, Citizenship & Movement
- migration, immigration, diaspora, transnationalism,
- social movements, activism, solidarity, resistance, law
- deportation, policing, borders/border control, documentation, passports and papers
- No One is Illegal, Sans Papiers, No Borders, Open Borders, etc.
(II) Identity, Embodiment & Desire
- media, policy, representation
- sexuality, bodies, class, race, (dis)ability
- desires, fetishization, exotification, sex work
- performativity, drag, passing, medicalization
Proposals should be no more than 500 words and sent to ggfs.mcgill@gmail.com by Monday 14 April 2008. Please include the panel theme your paper is best situated within and a short bio.
Proposals in French will be accepted, however the symposium will primarily be held in English.
Whisper translation will be available upon prior request.
Transportation expenses will not be covered by the symposium.
Thomson House is a wheelchair accessible location.
http://ggfsmcgill.blogspot.com
ggfs.mcgill@gmail.com
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