[Bilimsel Haber] Call for papers: The History of Race and Sexuality

[Gonul Pultar]

Subject: Call for papers: The History of Race and Sexuality


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Call for Papers

The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the University of 
California, San
Diego and the Journal of the History of Sexuality, invite paper 
proposals for a
conference on the history of the intersection of race and sexuality. 
 The best
papers presented at the conference will be peer-reviewed and edited as a
special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality.  The 
conference will be
held in San Diego on the UCSD campus on Saturday, January 17, 2009.  All
expenses will be covered for conference participants.

We invite paper proposals for participation in the conference on any 
topic that
deals with the history of the intersection between race and sexuality in 
any time
period, anywhere around the globe. Topics may include, pre-marital sexual
control and seclusion, marital and sexual practices, incest, rape, same-sex
eroticism, adultery, indigenous sexual practices, state regulation and
surveillance of sexualities, proscriptive literatures on sexualities, 
discourses on
affection, desire, and love, sexual identities, asexuality, 
auto-eroticism, to
name just a few.

For consideration as a conference participant please send electronically 
1) a
two-page paper proposal and 2) a two-page résumé listing of your
publications.   Send proposals to Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Mathew Kuefler 
at the
following email addresses: rgutierrez at uchicago.edu 
<mailto:rgutierrez at uchicago.edu>, jhistsex at mail.sdsu.edu 
<mailto:jhistsex at mail.sdsu.edu>.

Deadline for the receipt of paper proposals is December 1, 2008.
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
The Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History
Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Mail Box 118
Chicago, IL 60637-1554
USA

phone: +1 (773) 702-8063
fax: +1 (773) 834-2000