[Discussion] "Gender Across Borders"

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

"Gender Across Borders"
Brown University Graduate Student Conference
May 13-14, 2005
Call for Papers

In May of 2005 the Brown University History Department will hold a
two-day conference for graduate students of history and other
disciplines on issues relating to gender. Titled "Gender Across
Borders," the conference will examine how gender functions as a category
of analysis by examining the thematic, methodological, and theoretical
continuities between all scholars of gender and women. To that end, the
conference will stress cross-temporal conversations and organize panels
around thematically similar but temporally or geographically diverse
papers. Panels will feature three papers and one commentary by an
advanced student or professor. The conference will offer graduate
students opportunities for participation usually reserved for faculty.

Potential panel topics include:

    * Gender and Conflict
    * Gender and the Nation-State
    * Intersections of Gender and Sexuality
    * Gender and Labor
    * Dialogues of Gender across Class and Race
    * Gender and Literature
    * Gender, Human Rights, and Development
    * Influential Scholars of Gender
    * Gender and Place
    * Gender and Media
    * Gender and the Environment

Students are encouraged to submit their own ideas for panels with the
goals of the conference in mind. The list of possible topics above is by
no means intended to be exhaustive.

The Conference Planning Committee and the Brown University History
Department are pleased to welcome Joan Scott as the Marjorie Harris
Weiss keynote speaker for 2005. Joan Scott's work has challenged the
very foundations of historical analysis through her pathbreaking
examination of gender. Her most recent work focuses on the vexed
relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force
of democratic politics. She is currently the Harold F. Linder Professor
in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey.

Submission Guidelines:

All submissions must be received by *January 15, 2005.* To submit a
paper, please email an attachment in Word format containing an abstract
of no more than 250 words and a one-page curriculum vitae. To submit a
panel, please email only one attachment containing all of the abstracts
and curriculum vitae. The subject of the email must read Conference
Proposal and should be sent to the e-mail address given below. We cannot
be responsible for submissions that do not meet these requirements.

For more information please contact the Planning Committee or visit our
website (web address and e-mail address provided below).

Planning Committee
Brown University Graduate Student Conference
History Department, Box N
Providence, RI 02912

	History Grad Conference
Brown University
Box N
Providence, RI 02912
Email: history_grad_conference@brown.edu
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Visit the website at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History/