CALL FOR PAPERS
<br>Gender / Violence
International Conference
4-6 April 2012
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Gender and Women's Studies Research and Application Center (EKOKAM)
Izmir University of Economics
<br><br>With the maturation of feminist, gay and lesbian and queer theories,
gender and violence have been inseperable terms in critical discourses of
all disciplines. Taking a broad spectrum of forms from the most obvious
versions of domestic violence to more subtle forms of intolerance,
violence has been a recurrent term in contemporary theory and an
embarrassingly convenient strategy of gender discrimination in practice.
Inevitably tied to issues of race and class, less visible forms of
violence are even more threatening as they cannot be isolated. Far from
disturbing everyday life, they constitute commonly acceptable bodies,
spaces and politics the gendered nature of which often remains invisible.
<br><br>The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to understand and expose
the violence involved in the very production of bodies, spaces and
politics. It will open up the question of violence to inspire different
trajectories of thinking and action towards the production different
bodies, different spaces and different politics. In the final analysis
this is an ethical project inquiring into the possibility of theorizing
and acting from a place of openness to hearing the voice of the other.<br><br>Conference Themes
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Body
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Representations of violence in art
<br>Cosmetic surgery
<br>Gendered violence in the mental health system
<br>The construction of sexed bodies in torture<br>Everyday constructions of masculinities and femininities
<br>Rape
<br>Migrant bodies<br><br>Space
<br>War zones
<br>Constructions of gendered public spaces
<br>Spaces of migration and asylum
<br>Domesticity and violence
<br>Ghettoization of gender / violence
<br>Queering public space
<br>Gendered violence in virtual space
<br><br>Politics
<br>Theorizing violence / non-violence
<br>Technologies of violence and control
<br>Ethnicity / race / gender / violence
<br>Discrimination
<br>Law as recognition and confrontation
<br>Gendered constructions of political discourse
<br>Representations of gendered violence in the media
<br><br>Please write an abstract of 300-350 words by October 15, 2011 for your
paper proposals on one of the conference themes. Abstracts should be
single-spaced (Arial, 12 pts.) The title of your paper, your name and
affiliation should be printed on a separate page. Applicants will be
notified on the acceptance status of their papers by November 15, 2011.
<br><br>Please e-mail your abstracts to: <a href="mailto:ekokam@ieu.edu.tr" target="_blank">ekokam@ieu.edu.tr</a>
For further information see the conference website:
<a href="http://ekokam.ieu.edu.tr/gv2012/" target="_blank">http://ekokam.ieu.edu.tr/gv2012/</a>
<br><br>Kind Regards,
<br><br><br>Organizing Committee
<br>Prof. Dr. Gülsüm Baydar (chair)
<br>Prof. Dr. Sevda Alankuş
<br>Asst. Prof. Olga Hünler
<br>Asst. Prof. Devrim Sezer<br>Asst. Prof. Seher Şen
<br>Inst. Itır Bağdadi
<br>Inst. Berna Okan Aydoğan
<br>Inst. Burkay Pasin
<br>EKOKAM secretary: Aysegul Ozdemir
<br><br>Address: Izmir University of Economics, Sakarya Caddesi, No: 156, 35330,
Balcova, Izmir
tel: 0 232 4888386
fax: 0 232 2792626
e-mail: <a href="mailto:ekokam@ieu.edu.tr" target="_blank">ekokam@ieu.edu.tr</a><br><br><br><br><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><font size="2">Olga S. Hünler, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Psychology<br>
İzmir University of Economics<br>35331 Izmir Turkey<br><br>Phone:+90 232 488 8547<br>Fax :+90 232 279 26 26</font></pre>
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