domingo, 12 de outubro de 2008

Feminist Transitions

22nd Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Conference
19th-21st June 2009
Hosted by Edge Hill University at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

Recent years have seen an unprecedented broadening of feminist issues and practices. Feminist perspectives have moved across and beyond a number of established boundaries – including geographical, national, economic, ethnic, political, theoretical, cultural, popular, sexual and gender – to expand the scope of the movement. Now more than ever, there is a need for an inclusive feminism that sees diversity as strength and engages productively with the complexities and contradictions of the twenty-first century.

Keynote Speakers

Professor Judith Halberstam (University of Southern California)
Professor Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Aims

The aim of this conference is:

To reflect on a wide range of social, cultural, theoretical and global transitions that have affected and/or modified feminism’s identity, representation, activism and politics;
To debate the state of twenty-first-century feminisms.

Topic Areas

Topic areas/subjects for consideration (across the Arts, Humanities, Political and Social Sciences) might include:

Transitional feminisms
Transitional genders
Trans- and/or post- theory
Feminist waves/generations
Feminism and diversity
Feminist boundaries/limits
Transnational/global feminisms
Feminist activism/politics

We also welcome proposals for papers and panels on individual feminist thinkers and how their feminist positions have transitioned.

Please send a 250-word abstract for papers and/or a 500-word abstract for panels, along with a brief biographical note to feministtransitions@edgehill.ac.uk. The deadline for abstracts is 30th January 2009.