Faculty of Letters (Spiru Haret University) in collaboration with the Department of German Studies (University of Vienna)
and Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, the Contemporary Science Association (New York), the Center of Research in Gender Studies affiliated to the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (New York), the Addleton Academic Publishers (New York) and the COST Project Women Writers in History
Time: June 2-3, 2011
Conference venue: Spiru Haret University, Faculty of Letters, 13 Ion Ghica Street, Bucharest, Romania
Deadline for proposals: April 30, 2011
Please send proposals (and inquiries) to genderstudies.conference@gmail.com
Invited speakers:
Anna Babka (University of Vienna)
Efstratia Oktapoda (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)
Ileana Orlich (Arizona State University)
Najib Redouane (California State University, Long Beach)
The rise of gender studies at the end of the 1980s and all through the 1990s coincided with the acceleration of the globalization process made possible mainly by the rise of the new democracies and the new permeability of borders in a postcolonial and postcom- munist world, as well as by the unprecedented impact of the revolution in communication and information technology, with the Internet and the world wide web transforming the world into what McLuhan described as „the global village“ (1962). Continue reading →