ATGENDER

Calls for Papers

Call for proposals for the Teaching with Gender Series

 

The ATGENDER Board which took over from Athena3 the ATHENA Bookseries: Teaching with Gender. European Women’s Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms is calling for proposals for new volumes. The financial situation permits the publication of one or two more volumes. The proposed volumes should follow the format of the series, should not be longer than 350 000 characters, should include “Teaching” and either “Women” or “gender” of “feminist” in the (sub-)title. The proposals (max. 800 words in length) consisting of the description of the content of the book, should also make a statement about how many of the authors are members of ATGENDER. Only proposals submitted by members of ATGENDER can be accepted. All proposals will be subject of a peer review procedure of the Editorial Board evaluating the proposals based on popularity of the subject, appropriateness for the Series, contributions to the literature, legitimacy of conclusions, relevance for teaching.

Please submit the proposal by 30 September 2010 to Vera Fonseca at info@atgender.eu

Second “Equal is not enough” Conference “Challenging differences and inequalities in contemporary societies” Antwerp (Belgium), 1-3 December 2010

 

Abstracts should be sent to equalisnotenough@ua.ac.beby 1 March 2010 at the latest. All information can be found on the conference website: www.equalisnotenough.org.

Despite the high level of welfare in liberal-democratic societies, these societies still question themselves on the meaning of equality, the nature and causes of inequalities, as well as on the kinds of policies that are likely to reduce them. Within the current global context, characterised by rapid movements of people, goods, capital and ideas, inequalities appear to be less tied to specific places than only a few decades ago, and appear increasingly structured along identity axes, such as gender, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, sexual preference, class.

The key role that identities play in shaping inequality is indicated by the thriving political and academic debates on such concepts as diversity, multiculturalism, integration, intersectionality, autonomy, empowerment and inclusion. These notions have inspired new approaches to equality policies, which today face the challenging task of fostering equality. They need to find shared principles while taking into account increasingly complex individual and collective positions, expectations and needs embedded in multiple social, economic and political relations crossing national borders and evolving over time. The great difficulty that equality faces derives from, on the one hand, the increasing recognition of the legitimate existence of ‘difference’ along multiple identity lines and, on the other, the need to disconnect such differences from power inequalities, thus establishing fairer institutional arrangements for all.

This multidisciplinary conference wants to contribute to the understanding of the causes, consequences and the dynamics of inequality along socio-demographic lines in contemporary societies and of the policies to combat it. It addresses grounds of inequality such as gender, ethnicity, sexual preference, disability, class, and age, as well as their comparison and intersection. Reflecting different disciplinary perspectives, the conference is structured in four streams: the law, public policies, organisations and the life course. Each stream has its own specific call, which can be found on the conference website, or by following these links: 

Stream 1: Law is not enough

Stream 2: Challenging differences and inequalities in and through policies

Stream 3: Equal Opportunities throughout the life course

Stream 4: Diversity is not enough: Interrogating difference and inequality in organisations

 

Key note speecheswill be given by Prof. dr. Myra Marx Ferree (University of Wisconsin, US), Prof. dr. Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths, University of London, England) and Prof. dr. Christa Tobler (Leiden University, the Netherlands).

We look forward to welcoming you for what promises to be an exciting opportunity to exchange new research findings and explore new ways of dealing with the challenging differences and inequalities in our contemporary societies!

The Programme Committee 

 

 

2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

 Proposals and papers due March 15, 2010

Simone de Beauvoir: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

18th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society

Cagliari (Italy), 23-26 June 2010

 

Call for papers before April 23rd, 2010 800 words in English, French, or Italian and a short Curriculum Vitae which includes your contact details and institutional affiliation, if any, to both conference organizers: Dr. Andrea Duranti (duranti.andrea@gmail.com) AND Dr. Matteo Tuveri (m.tuveri@gmail.com)

 

102 years have passed since her birth, 24 since her death, 61 since the publication of her masterpiece, The Second Sex, a work that changed forever the way in which the world looks at women. Yet Simone de Beauvoir, widely considered as the inspiration for modern feminism, still represents an essential reference for millions of women and men all over the world who have been influenced by both her theoretical and her narrative works and by the example of her own life. The 18^th International conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, an association created in December 1981 in order to promote the study and diffusion of her ideas, is going to take place in Cagliari, capital of the island of Sardinia (Italy), from June 23rd to 26th, 2010. At the beginning of the second decade of the second millennium, the conference will highlight the multidisciplinary studies inspired by Beauvoir and the prospective impact of her works in the shaping of our future. The conference, entitled “Simone de Beauvoir: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, anticipates providing evidence of the extraordinary and undiminished relevance of this multifaceted figure both for a wide variety of academic fields and disciplines including literature, history, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, women’s studies and epistemology, and for the feminist struggle for gender equality.

 

We welcome a broad range of perspectives: historical, literary, and comparative analyses of Beauvoir's life and works and of the impact of her ideas on her own time, including second-wave feminism (Yesterday); surveys of relevant contemporary issues (Today); and examination of new research orientations such as “queer theory,” “post-feminism,” and current efforts to redefine and reshape the agenda of the women's movement (Tomorrow). In view of the geographical location of the conference, “Mediterranean” perspectives on Simone de Beauvoir and gender issues will be particularly welcome.

 

To submit a proposal for a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 800 words in English, French, or Italian and a short Curriculum Vitae which includes your contact details and institutional affiliation, if any, to both conference organizers: Dr. Andrea Duranti (duranti.andrea@gmail.com) AND Dr. Matteo Tuveri (m.tuveri@gmail.com) by April 23rd, 2010. Most conference sessions will be in English or French, with the possibility of some sessions in Italian depending on the nature of the proposals received. For further details about the conference and the location, please visit the conference’s official website (http://sites.google.com/site/sdbconference2010/) and the Simone de Beauvoir Society's official website (http://simonedebeauvoir.free.fr/).

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