[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Gender Across Borders II: Research Subjects (grad) (3/6/06; 4/21/06-4/22/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: A Spain <adspain@buffalo.edu>

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

Call for Papers - Extended Deadline:  March 6, 2006

We welcome abstracts of papers and poster displays from all disciplines.
Abstracts should be submitted online at genderbuffalo.org or included in the
body of an email sent to adspain@buffalo.edu and must not exceed 300 words.
Please include a brief bio no longer than 200 words.

Keynote Speakers:  Bhanu Kapil, Naropa University
Molly Carnes (Wisconsin-Madison), Co-Director of Wiseli&#65533;s Women in
Science & Engineering Leadership Institute.

CFP:  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,
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 
&#65533;indicators&#65533; such
as &#65533;race,&#65533; 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.

--&#65533;Other&#65533; 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:  &#65533;Subjects, research!&#65533;  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.

--&#65533;Work Life&#65533; Forums:  balancing research, non-academic life,
family, sanity.


This list is not intended to be exhaustive.

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

Deadline for Poster Abstracts:  April 1, 2006