[Discussion] CFP: Gender Agendas (Cyprus) (2/11/05; Inscriptions, 5/12/05-5/13/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Gender agendas, including transvestites, transsexuals, the transgendered
and queering

A Panel Discussion at the
Eighth International Literature and Humanities Conference,
INSCRIPTIONS '05
An arts and culture conference and festival at
Eastern Mediterranean University in
Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
May 12th - 13th, 2005

The Eighth annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held at
Eastern Mediterranean University as part of Inscriptions '05 an Arts and
Culture festival taking place at the university and environs between May
12th - 13th, 2005. In conjunction with a wide selection of music,
performance and film events, discussion- friendly papers are being
solicited for our symposium. Although we will be publishing selected
presentations from Inscriptions '05, we encourage participants to move
away from the standard prewritten, "finished paper" format, towards a
more open-ended presentation, which will provoke and contribute to a
genuine exchange of research and ideas during the panel sessions. Our
aim is to create a forum and publishing venue for inspiring work in
progress, where the exchange of ideas with fellow academics
participating in the conference will contribute to the final form of
participants' work.

With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine
the current status of critical thinking on gender agendas, including
transvestites, transsexuals, the transgendered and queering. Of
particular interest are presentations which consider these agendas as
culturally political sites for interrogating hegemonic discourses.

Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
-           faith and healing in queer literature
-           transgendered television characters
-           queer cultures in cyberspace
-           equations between gender and technologies
-           pleasure, play and pain: the poetics of sado-masochism
-           trans-feminism
-           medical ethics and transsexuals
-           the sex industry and the future of the female image
-            "Barbie" and Teletubbies
-           class, race and sex
-           issues of gender, sexuality, and The Jerry Springer Show
-           drag queens/drag kings in the desert
-           queer theory: subversive or canonical?
-           queering psychoanalysis
-           the legacy of Jean Genet
-           gendered gazes: Laura Mulvey, Norman Bryson,
             Judith Butler.
-           gender and legal theory
-           gendering religion
-           nature/nurture and societal norms
-           military machismo and the female soldier
-           Anglo-American vs. French feminisms
-           Bowie, music and androgyny
-           Michel Foucault's archaeologies of sexuality


Please send 250 word abstracts by 11th February, 2005 to
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr
and please visit
http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/inscriptions for more information.



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