[Discussion] CFP: Not Just Sexuality (grad) (UK) (1/7/05; FWSA, 2/25/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

One-day seminar at the Centre for Women's Studies (CWS)
University of York
Friday February 25th 2005
Part of the FWSA* Postgraduate Seminar Series:
'Where Next for Women's/Gender Studies?'

Call for Papers

Sexuality is a familiar topic in contemporary Women=E2=80=99s/Gender
Studies and we believe that the beginning of the new millennium is a
pertinent time to ask whether there is anything left to say on the
subject. NOT JUST SEXUALITY, the second seminar in the FWSA Postgraduate
Seminar Series, will offer postgraduates the opportunity to
re=EF=AC=82ect upon, explore and create diverse vocabularies, meanings,
and intersections in relation to the theme of sexuality.

Questions for consideration include: How are contemporary debates on
sexualities being re/con=EF=AC=81gured? What new kinds of sexual
communities are being imagined? What are the functions of terms such as
'normality' and 'deviancy' inside and outside Women's/Gender Studies?
How might we develop the existing critical vocabulary and understandings
of sexuality? Is it productive to de/re/construct this 'language of
sexuality'?

CWS seeks submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their
studies and work-in-progress is welcome.Proposals are invited on (but by
no means limited to) the intersections of sexualities with intimacy,
sensuality, violence, health, technology, visual culture, citizenship,
family, literature, sex work, queer, ordinariness, age, disability,
popular culture, celibacy and asexuality. We are pleased to accept
proposals for the following:

1. individual papers (20mins)
2. workshops (60-90mins)
3. short polemics (5-10mins)

Please note that we are also happy to consider other creative
suggestions.

Send a 250-word abstract with a short biography to: Karen Coulter,
Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, York YO10 5DD or email:
kdc102@york.ac.uk.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 7th January 2005.

For further information or to reserve a place please contact one of our
organising team
Karen Coulter kdc102@york.ac.uk Terri He tch500@york.ac.uk
Julie Palmer jdp108@york.ac.uk Meghan Reid mnr500@york.ac.uk

OR you can visit our website: www.wherenext.org.uk
*Feminist and Women's Studies Association


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