Journées d’études

Zeit: 18-19 avril 2008
Ort: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Einreichefrist Abstract: 31.10.2007

L’obscénité et la pornographie ont progressivement été constituées comme objets de sciences sociales à part entière – bien qu’encore sans doute marginaux. Le regard académique ou savant s’est déplacé, d’un jugement extérieur vers des études de ces formes de production culturelle en tant que telles. Elles ne sont ainsi plus abordées exclusivement sous un angle normatif, inscrit dans une opposition binaire entre anti-censure / anti-pornographie, mais donnent lieu à des travaux visant à préciser la diversité et l’histoire de leurs caractéristiques, leurs conditions de production et de diffusion, leurs usages. Continue reading →

10-12 January 2008
London
Application due: 1 November 2007

The German Historical Institute London is organizing its twelfth annual conference for postgraduate research students in the UK and Ireland working on German history, Anglo-German relations, or comparative topics. The conference’s intention is to give PhD students an opportunity to present their work in progress and to discuss it with other students working in the same field. It is hoped that the exchange of ideas and methods will be fruitful for all participants. Continue reading →

Vilnius University, Kaunas Faculty for Humanities, Lithuania
November 29-30, 2007
Abstract submission: 2007-09-30

The conference goals are to analyse and summarize the quantity and quality of gender studies and gender research in Baltic region, also to identify common European tendencies in gender research and the regional peculiarity. Lithuanian Women Movement is celebrating 100th anniversary of the 1st Women Congress. This event will give the opportunity to evaluate and analyse gender problems in the region of Baltic Sea.

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Ort: Örebro University
Zeit: 22-25 May 2008
Application Deadline: 10 December 2007

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council Centre, Örebro University and Linköpings University launched a project to establish a European Center of Gender Excellence based in Sweden– Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment. In 2007-08, the theme of research sponsored by GEXcel has been „Gender, Sexuality, and Global Change,“ directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. (For a full description of the theme, go to http://www.genderexcel.org)

We invite applications for this conference of workshops from junior and senior scholars whose research directly addresses one of the following three sub-themes:
1) Sexuality, Love and Social Theory;
2) Power and Politics: A Feminist View; and
3) Common and Conflicted: Rethinking Interest, Solidarity, and Action Continue reading →