[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Gender Across Borders II (1/31/06 & 2/15/06; 4/21/06-4/22/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: adspain@buffalo.edu


EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PANEL PROPOSALS:  1/31/06
Abstracts for individual Papers/Posters Deadline:  2/15/06

GENDER ACROSS BORDERS II: RESEARCH SUBJECTS
(Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium)
April 21-22, 2006
Institute for Research & Education on Women and Gender
State University of New York at Buffalo
genderbuffalo.org

Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Bhanu Kapil (Naropa University) and
Molly Carnes (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Bhanu Kapil investigates themes of colonialism, the female body, and the 
problem
of identity. She is the author of Autobiography of A Cyborg (Leroy Chapbook
Press, 2000) and The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey, St. Press,
2001), a collaged work that has been described as both a book-length 
poem and an
experimental novel. Currently writing a novel set in colonial Bengal, 
The Wolf
Girls of Midnapure, Kapil teaches at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Dr. Molly Carnes is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, 
Psychiatry, and
Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She
directs the Center for Women's Health Research and four federally-funded
training grants aimed at increasing the development of a diverse cadre 
of future
leaders in academic medicine, science, and engineering. She is 
co-director of
the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award from the National Science
Foundation which supports the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership
Institute (WISELI). Dr. Carnes is committed to transforming the academic 
culture
to be more welcoming of women and supportive of their career 
advancement. She is
using women's health research as a venue to accomplish this. In 1999, 
Dr. Molly
Carnes received the distinct honor of becoming the first Jean Manchester 
Biddick
Professor of Women's Health Research. She is the recipient of 2001 Addis
Costello Internist of the Year Award by the American College of Physicians
American Society of Internal Medicine - Wisconsin Chapter , the 2002 
YWCA Woman
of Distinction Award, and the 2004 Women in Medicine Award from the 
Association
of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

CALL FOR PANELS/PAPERS/POSTER DISPLAYS:

An interdisciplinary conference focusing on women and gender, "Gender Across
Borders II:  Research Subjects," takes seriously the subjection of bodies to
research:  we are interested in ethical and contentious issues orbiting both
subjects *of* research and subjects *as* researchers.  In particular, we are
interested in proposals and research that take into account the sexed and
gendered nature of their subjects.  Proposals for panels and individual 
papers
might consider:

Subjects of research:

-- Research Methodology and our Subjects:  Research, methodology, writing
(scientific or otherwise) openly concerned with the sex/gender/sexuality 
of its
subjects.  Papers might consider how research situates our subjects in 
relation
to gender, sex, or neutrality, and/or in relation to other social indicators
such as race, class, disability, nationality, etc. Explorations of 
implications
of methodology, categorization, and sampling of populations making 
visible the
particularity of subjects are of special interest, as are papers that 
address
how such categorization might effectively hurt our subjects. Papers 
might also
address the incorporation or exclusion of sexed/gendered/sexualized 
dimensions
of subjects (intentional or otherwise) in social planning, policy, 
architecture,
design, art, and media. The subjection of *oneself* to gendered/sexed/ 
sexuality
research and analysis (self-reflexive ethnographies, new & mixed media, art,
film, etc.) are also welcome.

--Goals of Research:  consideration of sex/gender/sexuality of subjects 
in terms
of the effects of and/or goals of research, therapy, treatment, artistic or
theoretical interventions.

--Subjects in Context:  implications of situating, analyzing, and/or 
treating
gendered subjects within a specific social context whether defined as 
global,
transnational, rural, cosmopolitan, communitarian, postcolonial, etc.

--Other Subjects:  non-human life, animal research (ethics and care), 
sexuation,
inanimate subject matter, objects of study. Perspectives on the relation 
between
human and the non-human are also welcome.

--Material and Historical Conditions of Research: considerations of the
production of knowledge, research, artifacts, artwork, both historically 
and in
the present, including analysis of physical space of research, geography,
funding, access to materials, institutional support, etc.

Subjects as researchers:

--Productive Constraints of Researchers:  Analyses of how (gendered) 
researchers
are subjected to particular methodologies and constraints, whether temporal,
material, economic, physical or geographic. One might consider the 
productive
limitations therefore placed on data, analysis and conclusions. Or, one 
might
reflect on the position of the self as observer, how one situated to
see/analyze/look in particular ways. We very much encourage retrospective
analyses of completed projects, presentations and analyses of research in
progress (dissertations, thesis work, experiments, etc.), or descriptions of
future research given such considerations.

--Subjects of Empire/Colonizing Subjects and Research.

--The Demand: Subjects, research! Issues of collaboration, supervision, and
authority (pre- & postdoctoral relationships); research as labor; 
questions of
subjectivity and writing.

--Emerging Women Scientists and Engineers: Researchers whose work does not
explicitly discuss gender are welcomed and encouraged to present their 
current
research in format most appropriate to their work: panel discussion, 
power-point
presentations and/or poster display.

--Work Life Forums:  balancing research, non-academic life, family, sanity.

Two poster-prizes will be awarded to outstanding poster displays in the 
exhibit
accompanying the symposium.

We welcome proposals for panels, individual papers and poster displays 
from all
disciplines.  Abstracts should be included in the body of an email sent to
adspain@buffalo.edu, and must not exceed 300 words.

Deadline for Panel Proposals:  January 31th, 2006.

Deadline for Abstracts of Individual Papers and Poster Displays: 
February 15th,
2006.



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