The Annual Gender and Medieval Studies Conference invites you to its annual conference: „Gender and Difference“.
The concept of difference enables us to explore medieval gender in a number of ways. It allows us to think about the construction of gender, through its relationship to various other categories of difference such as social status, sexualities, and ethnicity, and age. It also allows us to think about how gender is used to construct, articulate, and represent various forms of difference. Explorations of the gendering of objects and the monstrous, for example, can illuminate, blur, or challenge binary distinctions.This conference seeks to provide a forum in which such approaches can be discussed and developed. Papers are encouraged from a wide range of disciplines, such as art history, literature, archaeology, and history. In particular, the conference hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussion about the theoretical and practical implications that ideas of difference have on gender studies. Themes to consider could include:
• Religion, Ethnicity and Race
• Regional Difference and National Identity
• The Monstrous, Outsiders and the Other
• Marital Status, Social Status as Categories of Difference
• Sexualities
• The Blurring of Difference