1st Annual Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Conference:
Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and Natural Disaster
March 30-31, 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Conference Abstract:
Do we live in desperate times? As the rhetoric of an equal and free society is used to justify the Iraq war, massive hurricanes in the American south have exposed deep domestic disparities around class and race. Natural disasters in Southeast Asia and Pakistan have revealed just how deep the divide is between wealth and poverty on the global scale. Human exploitation, environmental degradation, and conflicts around racial, ethnic, and national identities continue around the world. What does this mean for anyone who stands outside or astride the boundaries of conventional gender/sexual norms? Are we, as scholars and/or activists, prepared for our advancing future?
Call for Proposals
1st Annual Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Conference:
Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and Natural Disaster
March 30-31, 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
We are currently inviting proposals for three presentation formats:
- Individual Paper
- Pre-Formed Panel
- Poster Session
Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:
- The changing nature of war/conflict, and implications for the future
- The future of identity politics in a globalized world
- Re-imagining the theory/practice divide: where and how do scholars and activists fit into today's global cultural 'flows' moving people, goods, information and ideas?
- The function and dysfunction of various borders and borderlands around nationality,ethnicity, sexuality, etc.
- Comparative approaches in the study of gender, conflict and cultural production (e.g.art, literature, creative modes of social action)
- Original research paradigms and methods
Graduate Students and advanced Undergraduates may submit.
Proposals from the humanities, arts, and social sciences welcome!
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2006
Submission guidelines can be found here.
The 2006 GCWS conference is an event organized by graduate students for graduate students working in Women's and Gender Studies. It is a 2-day event where students and faculty will gather to present and discuss cutting-edge student work, workshop ideas, and network with faculty and peers. Proposals will be subject to an anonymous peer-review process. Notification of proposal status will occur no later than Monday, March 6, 2006.
Please submit a short biographical statement and a 250-word abstract with the title for proposals for individual paper presentations and poster sessions to gcws@mit.edu. Proposals for pre-formed panels of three to four presenters should include short (no more than 100 words) abstracts of each paper along with the panel proposal.
Email paper and panel proposals to gcws@mit.edu or submit online.The Graduate Consortium in Women?s Studies
Building 16 Room 287, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
P: 617.324.2085
F: 617.324.2090
Email: gcws@mit.edu
For more information on this event, please visit
http://web.mit.edu/gcws