[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Feminism and War (4/15/06; 10/20/06-10/22/06)

[Nazan Haydari]

Announcing: A Conference on "Feminism and War"
October 20-22, 2006, at Syracuse University 

Call for Proposals 

(DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION) _ 
<http://womens-studies.syr.edu/FeminismAndWar_Call.pdf>

The Women's Studies Program at Syracuse University
invites proposals 
for papers 
to be presented at a national conference on the
contested and complex 
relationship between feminism and war. The focus will
be on recent U.S. 
government initiatives that claim war in the name of
women's 
liberation, but 
with a global and transnational context in which other
military actions 
might be 
considered. We look forward to energetic dialogue
frominterdisciplinary 
perspectives on these sub-themes:

Women's Liberation and U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. War and Women in Iraq and Afghanistan
War and Women in and of the U.S
The War and Organizing for Women's Liberation

We hope to examine questions such as: What are the
multiple 
interpretations of 
the phrase "women's liberation"? How are these
multiple interpretations 
related 
to the specifics of religion, culture, history, nation
within the 
current U.S. 
wars? What, in fact, is assumed about the category
"woman" in the 
context of 
these conceptual and actual locations at this moment
in time? What 
different 
philosophical concepts of "freedom for women" might be
implicit in the 
current 
debate raised by the conduct of U.S. wars? What
different 
histories--national, 
gendered, religious--intersect within this debate
about women and 
freedom? What 
are the liberating and limiting aspects of religion in
relation to 
women in 
these debates? How does the struggle over definitions
of women's 
freedom 
manifest itself in cultural creations, artifacts, and
productions? Have 
women in 
Iraq and Afghanistan been liberated by the recent Gulf
War? A special 
invitation 
is extended to activists to submit proposals, to
increase dialogue 
between 
theoretical analysis and grounded experience. The
conference schedule 
will 
include plenary sessions, paper presentations,
discussion groups, and 
cultural 
events.

The Conference Organizing Committee includes Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, 
Minnie 
Bruce Pratt, Linda Martín Alcoff, Gwen Pough, and
Vivian May. We will 
consider 
proposals for single papers or panels. Please send a
one page abstract 
for each 
paper, or send a one page description of each panel
proposal with one 
page 
abstracts for each paper in the panel to the committee
at the address 
below.

Proposals are due April 15, 2005 through email or
regular mail to:

Janet Dodd
Women's Studies Program
208 Bowne Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse NY 13244
jkdodd at syr.edu

Notifications of acceptance will be made by May 15, 2005.

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