Virginia Tech (Web)
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Time: April 15-16 2016
Proposals due: December 1, 2015
In conjunction with an interdisciplinary graduate course, the organizers are holding a two-day conference on sexual violence. They seek papers that offer innovative methodologies and/or theoretical frames, and we encourage papers that examine change over time, “non-western” contexts, and/or marginalized communities and encourage a multiplicity of approaches and topics; the following list serves only to illustrate the range of issues with which we are concerned:
- Rape across the lifespan: children, adults, elders
- Rape across sexes, genders, and sexualities
- The long-term effects of rape on the individual, the family, the community
- The ethics of research on rape
- Feminists movements and anti-rape activism
- Defining consent and coercion
- Rape on campus
- Who is a rapist? Motivations, histories, representations
- Popular, academic, medical, and legal representations of rape
- Rape in conflict and post-conflict settings
- Linking research, teaching, and activism
- Combating rape and a rape culture
- Representing rape in literature and visual media
Confirmed keynote speakers: Ray Douglas (Colgate), Thomas Foster (Depaul), and Catherine Jacquet (LSU)
Papers will be pre-circulated to all registered conference presenters and attendees.
Abstracts (300 words) due December 1, 2015
Complete papers (10-15 pages) due March 21, 2016
For inquires and to submit abstracts, please email Brett Shadle (shadle@vt.edu) and Sharon Johnson (spjohnson@vt.edu)
Contact Info: Brett Shadle & Sharon Johnson
Contact Email: shadle@vt.edu
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