Gender and/in Indigenous Ways of Living and Knowing
Invitation to a Conference and PhD course in Tromsø, Norway,
30 September – 2 October 2009
It is with pleasure we invite students, researchers and everyone else interested to participate in a research conference on gender and indigeneity. The overall objective of the conference is to bridge current gaps of understanding in the field of gender and indigeneity. Speakers come from a variety of academic fields across the social sciences and humanities, as well as from civil society. In recognition of how academic work itself is part of the overall colonial dynamic, the conference will also address the topic of indigenous versus academic ways of knowing.
The conference language is English.
Deadlines:
PhD-course/abstracts/conference registration: 15 August 2009
Application for admission to PhD-course: 15 August 2009
Submission of PhD-papers: 18 September 2009
More info http://uit.no/kvinnforsk – please follow links from main page. Continue reading →

Von allen gesellschaftlichen Sphären, in denen Geschlechterkonstruktionen gebildet und immer wieder neu ausgehandelt und transformiert werden, ist die Populärkultur diejenige mit der breitesten und zugleich unmittelbarsten Wirkungsmacht. Dabei schließt der weite Begriff der Populärkultur, wie er in den Cultural Studies verwendet wird, unterschiedliche Felder ein: Massenmedien und Trivialkultur ebenso wie oppositionelle Subkulturen, aber auch Sport und Popmusik. Zu fragen ist nach der Konstruktion von Weiblichkeit, Männlichkeit und dem Verhältnis der Geschlechter in unterschiedlichen Feldern, Medien und Orten der Populärkultur.
Für die Vortragsreihe, die als Teil einer Lehrveranstaltung im Rahmen verschiedener Studienrichtungen im Studienjahr 2009/10 an der Universität für angewandte Kunst stattfinden wird, laden wir WissenschafterInnen und KünstlerInnen aller Disziplinen ein, ihre Perspektive zu obigen Fragestellungen vorzustellen. Vortragende erhalten ein Honorar von € 300, Reisekosten werden übernommen. Die Publikation der Beiträge ist geplant. Continue reading →

Rethinking European (Homo)Sexual Modernity
18-20 March 2010, Antwerp (Belgium)
A three-day conference organized by the Department of History of the University of Antwerp in collaboration with the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities.
Historical analyses of same-sex eroticism have been dominated by Foucauldian and other Eurocentric conceptions of sexual modernity. Not only has this produced epistemological and methodological gaps, but the approach has rendered a narrative of Europe as homogenous and exceptional. Most histories have also failed to draw upon post-colonialist understandings of how European sexual modernity was not a monomorphous project but one developed in multiple settings within Europe and in relation with the rest of the world. Our conference explores how looking at relational encounters may help us to overcome monolithic histories of same-sex eroticisms in Europe.
We seek to „provincialize“ Europe by taking account of postcolonial theories on how Europe’s modernity emerged through Continue reading →

Citizenship Studies Special Issue: IMMIGRANT PROTEST
Guest co-editors: Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University, USA) and Imogen Tyler (Lancaster University, UK)
This proposed special issue on immigrant protest will explore forms of dissent, resistance and revolt amongst citizens and non-citizens. It will invite contributions addressing immigrant protest in everyday, local and wider national and global contexts. It will particularly seek out interdisciplinary work by scholars, activists, and artists which offer accounts and analyses of protests and protest materials, an arena that is under-represented and under-explored in immigration and migration studies.
The rise in migration flows across the globe; the condition of refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, detainees with precarious status and the „problems“ occasioned by their presence in various national contexts; policing measures across the world that aim to control the incoming strangers; and the increasing criminalization of migrants are phenomena that have generated much recent scholarship, especially in social sciences. Continue reading →