The Gender Matters Conference at Governors State University (University Park, Illinois) has issued a call for papers. The interdisciplinary conference takes place April 8, 2011.
The Gender Matters Conference highlights research on gender, women, and sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. Conference planners seek to bring together students, activists, and researchers from the Chicagoland area and Midwest region to discuss the ongoing role of gender in structuring society. They invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels.
The conference theme playfully invokes the germinal work of Judith Butler referencing both Gender Trouble and Bodies that Matter. Broadly, conference planners invite work on all matters of gender. More specifically, they are particularly interested in work that explicates how gender matters, and continues to matter, in our world. Potential topics for papers or panels include, but are not limited to: globalization; social justice; futurity and queer temporalities; performativity; intersectionality with ethnicity, race, and/or citizenship; health disparities; gendered, racialized, and sexualized bodies; sexual subcultures; activism; queer intimacy and kinship; transgender rights; queer(ed) histories and historically queer; feminisms; drag performance; masculinities; gender and/or sexuality as studied in any field.
The deadline for paper and panel submission is Jan. 31, 2011. Submission guidelines and forms, and conference registration information can be found at: http://www.govst.edu/gendermatters
Please direct inquiries to Dr. Jason Zingsheim at j-zingsheim@govst.edu
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