RN32 Political Sociology/ RN 33 Women’s and Gender Studies: Social Relations in Turbulent Times (Web)

Venue: Genf/Geneva, Switzerland
Time: 7th-10th September 2011
Deadline: 25th February 2011

Panel: Gendered Exclusion in Uncertain Times – (Post)Multiculturalism, Denizenship and Radicalism in Europe

The first decade of the third millennium appears to epitomize a turbulent times: the September 11th suicide attacks, the global economic meltdown, the rise of radical right populist parties across Europe, and the ever louder critical voices against multiculturalism.

These are just some examples among many other political developments that shape the debate around discursive exclusionary projects and the calls for forging a common national/European project around issues of shared identity and cultural homogeneity in turbulent times. Continue reading →

Dr. Mikolaj Szoltysek and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Sabine R. Huebner (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, GER) – 36th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association

Time: 17.11.2011-20.11.2011
Venue: Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline: 15.02.2011

The use of scientific samples of census data that are comparable across space and time is revolutionizing research into demography, economics, and family history. Among the many issues discussed in association with these new developments in data infrastructure, the questions of who lives with whom, and for what reasons, remain central. Variations in components of the co-resident domestic groups are often considered the most crucial indicators of diversity in family systems. Diversity in people’s living arrangements reflects a variety of preferable or achievable residential patterns, and likely indicates differential notions regarding the way obligations to kin from outside the immediate family are structured. The study of residence patterns not only contributes to a better understanding of household composition; it is also of primary importance in explaining demographic outcomes. As recent research suggests, domestic groups formed according to stem- and joint-family rules would make for different fertility outcomes. Continue reading →

Zentrum für Genderforschung, Kunstuniversität Graz

Zeit: 12.12.2011
Ort: Kunstuniversität Graz, Palais Meran, Florentinersaal, Leonhardstraße 15, 8010 Graz, Österreich
Einreichefrist Abstract:  31.03.2011 
Ausführliche Informationen (pdf)

Macht über Menschen verwirklicht sich in physischer Gewalt wie in intellektuellen Akten. Unter diesen nimmt das Einstufen und Einordnen von Personen eine zentrale Rolle ein. Nicht erst seit Leporellos Registerarie zählt das Rubrizieren und Klassifizieren von Frauen zu den Topoi der Opernbühne. Bei Mozart antwortet den überkommenen Typisierungen der commedia dell’arte eine atemberaubende Individualisierung der weiblichen Gestalten. Das Opernwerk von Richard Strauss lässt sich als Wiederaufnahme dieses Prozesses in den veränderten Kontexten des 20. Jahrhunderts begreifen. Nachdem er mit einem männlichen Wagnerischen Helden – Guntram – begonnen hatte und gescheitert war, kam Strauss durch die ‚Entdeckung‘ der Weiblichkeit seit „Salome“ (1905) als Opernkomponist zu sich selbst. Continue reading →