[Bilimsel Haber] Call for papers: Women, Gender and the Cultural Production of Knowledge, Sofia, 2007

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Deadline extended! New deadline 15 December 2006!

CALL FOR PAPERS

Women, Gender and the Cultural Production of Knowledge
8-12 August 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria

Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History


Cultural history deals with various ‘artefacts’ produced by human
activity throughout history: with both practices and representations,
with written and visual texts. It is interested in both written and oral
(but also visual) aspects of culture (understood in anthropological
sense: cultural artefact as locus of meaning).

We welcome interdisciplinary contributions (coming from fields as
diverse as history and literary studies, cultural studies, art history,
media studies, anthropology, history of philosophy, historiography)
dealing with historical aspects of production, signification and
reception of culture – all from a gender perspective. We aim to bring
together scholars at different stages of their careers from all over the
world.

We are interested in cultural production that deals with individual and
collective authorship, with modes of publication (i.e. with the ways
that bring cultural artefacts before the public), and with the
historical context of production.

Cultural signification is important for the production and reception of
artefacts. It pays attention to the social conventions within which the
artefacts are produced (literary language, styles of painting, writing,
film genre, etc.);

Cultural reception/consumption that studies how the artefact was
received/read/understood by contemporaries and the meanings it provoked
later under new historical circumstances;
We are interested in studies that pay attention on the role gender,
class, ethnicity, race, age played in the process of cultural
production, transmission and consumption of knowledge, studies that
consider:
oral and written culture, both in traditional and modern societies;
restricted and mass literacy;
the role of literate culture in societies with predominantly oral culture;
the role of oral culture in modern societies of mass literacy/high
literacy rate;
the modes of reading and writing and their role throughout space and
time, in various places and historical periods;
the role of traditional and modern media in the cultural production of
knowledge;

We are interested:
● in how cultural memory operates and in the related question about the
gender of that memory, and social and cultural production of women and
gender in history;

● in the role religion/church, education and state play in the process
of cultural production and consumption.


Submission of Abstracts

Abstracts in English (no longer than 300 words) should be sent to the
organizers by e-mail: ifrwh_bulgaria2007 at mail.bg not later than October
15, 2006. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be mailed to the
corresponding author no later than November 15, 2006.


GENERAL INFORMATION

Venue

The Conference will take place on August 8 – 12, 2007 in Sofia,
Bulgaria. It will be hosted by St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia,
the oldest and most prestigious Bulgarian University.

Web site

A Conference web site www.ifrwh-bulgaria2007.org will be set up and will
be available after October 1st 2006.
The web site will provide all the necessary information for
Online-Registration, Accommodation, Exhibition options, Social program,
Pre and Post conference tours, Important dates, etc.

Registration

Registration fee
Up to January 31st 2007           150 EUR

After January 31st / On spot     260 EUR


NB! Students and guests could apply for reduction of the Registration fee.


The Registration fee for Delegates and Students includes:

·       Attendance to all scientific sessions
·       Access to the exhibition area
·       Delegate’s kit
·       Coffee breaks in the plenary days
·       Luncheons in the plenary days
·       Opening Ceremony followed by Welcome Reception on August 8th2007
·       Gala dinner on August 10th 2007



Contacts

Prof. Krassimira Daskalova
President of the International Federation for Research in Women's
History Sofia, Bulgaria

Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences St. Kliment Ohridski
University of Sofia
15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.Sofia-1504, Bulgaria

tel/fax (office): 00359-2-870-42-36
tel (home): 00359-2-872-25-96
e-mail: krassimira_daskalova at yahoo.com