[Discussion] CONF./CFP- Gender Workshop 2005, Int'l University of Bremen, April 29-30, Germany

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CONF./CFP- Gender Workshop 2005, Int'l Univ. of Bremen, April 29-30, Germ=
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Call for Papers
Gender Workshop 2005 - Theories and Methods of and for Gender Studies
International University Bremen
April 29-30, 2005

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the second Gender
Workshop at International University Bremen, which will take place on
April 29-30, 2005. The Gender Workshop is a multidisciplinary conference
that aims to introduce and align ways of seeing and negotiating gender
as an analytical category in various academic fields and paradigms. The
term workshop is chosen to stress our wish to offer a forum for lively
discussions and active exchange. The workshop brings together scholars
from a broad range of interests and offers talks and discussions on
theoretical and methodological issues of gender studies and gender
theory from both the perspective of traditional academic disciplines and
interdisciplinary angles.

The First Gender Workshop took place at International University Bremen
in February 2004. Presentations at the Gender Workshop 2004 covered a
variety of fields, such as, development and institutionalization of
Women's and Gender Studies in Germany, China and post-Soviet countries;
gender theories and empirical studies in psychology; gender, nationalism
and migration; gender, genre and (trans)gender formations in literature;
construction of gender in historical discourses; gender representations
in visual arts and movies. The workshop provided an opportunity to
introduce and discuss the many ways gender can be approached in
different fields of research. Selected papers of the Gender Workshop
2004 will be published early 2005 in a special volume titled Negotiating
Space for Gender Studies: Frameworks and Applications by Peter Lang
Publishings.

The many fields that participated in the first Gender Workshop shall by
no means restrict the choice of fields that will participate in the
second one. They are, however, listed above in order convey the
versatility and variety of fields that the workshop is based upon. The
Gender Workshop 2005 will follow the conceptual multidisciplinary
framework of the first conference and continue discussing the different
ways of studying gender as an analytical category in different academic
fields. Special attention will be given to the applicability,
correspondence and incorporation of the category of gender in
methodologies and epistemologies of traditional academic disciplines. In
addition, the Second Gender Workshop will elaborate with greater
precision the varying theories and methods of gender studies.

In order to connect the many different fields and create a basis for
comparison at Gender Workshop 2005, and in order to work towards a
thorough understanding of both theory and methods of and for gender
studies, we would like each contribution to refer to the following three
pivotal points:

First, we would like participants to point out in detail the theories of
gender that are important for their research, and to elaborate on the
coherence of these theories with their disciplines and fields of study.

Second, we would like our participants to comment on the applied
theories of gender and explain which parts of them are central and which
parts are more marginal for their own studies of gender, and why. That
is, we would like to discuss which meanings, aspects, and/or
characteristics of gender are most crucial (or less important,
respectively) for one's research.

Third, we would like our participants to specify the methods they use in
their research.

Each participant will have 60 minutes to discuss her or his research
project, including 30 minutes for presentation and 30 minutes for
discussion. The workshop language will be English.

We would like to emphasize that the general conceptual framework of the
Gender Workshop sketched above does not only target the ones who have
worked with the category of gender for many years, and who are thus more
proficient in gender studies. Instead, we would like to invite to our
workshop any academics, experts or novices, who consider the category of
gender important for their research and who would like to share their
ideas and approaches with fellow researchers from other schools and
disciplines. Contributions from the humanities, social sciences and
natural sciences are equally welcome. (Since applications by natural
scientists have been rare at our first workshop, we would like to
encourage natural scientists to contribute.)

If you are interested in participating at the Gender Workshop 2005,
please send abstracts of 250-300 words explaining your research project,
as well as theories and methods you are using in it by Monday, February
7, 2005, to the workshop organizers:

=D6zen Odag: o.odag@iu-bremen.de and
Alex Pershai: a.pershai@iu-bremen.de.

Please include your academic affiliation in your letter.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Ozen Odag and Alex Pershai




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