[Discussion] CFP: Women and Labor (grad) (12/10/05; 3/4/06)

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From: amita nijhawan <anijh001@ucr.edu>

The (se)X Factor in Labor

We are inviting graduate students to submit papers, performances and
panels/roundtables for our conference that takes a special look at women who
labor. The definition of labor is broad and can include issues such as domestic
labor, wage labor, sweatshops, sex work, motherhood, slavery to capitalism,
bondage to hegemonic structures and systems, bondage to ideologies that restrict
our freedom, bondage to/desire for love, sex and relationships and limiting
self-concepts, and more. We invite graduate students to ask critical questions
on these imperative issues, and welcome both academic and non-academic/artistic
submissions. We are looking at this event as an cross-disciplinary, interactive,
inter-woven space that allows people from diverse fields of interest to come
together and share their work.

This conference is a part of the Mellon Workshop "Of Human Bondage" which is a
year long series of events to be held at the University of California at
Riverside. Mellon Workshops on various topics are a yearly feature of academic
life at UCR and bring together scholars whose work it is to engage in
intellectual thought and creative scholarship.

The conference is a one day event to be held on Saturday, March 4, 2006. The
deadline for submission of abstracts is December 10, 2005. Please email your
abstracts to Amita Nijhawan, anijh001@ucr.edu. Please also mention if you have
any special needs for technology or space. Abstracts should be e-mailed in the
body of the message rather than as attachments. Please include a brief
biography.

Amita Nijhawan
Department of Dance History
University of California, Riverside


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