[Bilimsel Haber] Gender / Violence Conference_Call for Papers

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 CALL FOR PAPERS
Gender / Violence International Conference 4-6 April 2012
Gender and Women's Studies Research and Application Center (EKOKAM) Izmir
University of Economics

With the maturation of feminist, gay and lesbian and queer theories, gender
and violence have been inseperable terms in critical discourses of all
disciplines. Taking a broad spectrum of forms from the most obvious versions
of domestic violence to more subtle forms of intolerance, violence has been
a recurrent term in contemporary theory and an embarrassingly convenient
strategy of gender discrimination in practice. Inevitably tied to issues of
race and class, less visible forms of violence are even more threatening as
they cannot be isolated. Far from disturbing everyday life, they constitute
commonly acceptable bodies, spaces and politics the gendered nature of which
often remains invisible.

The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to understand and expose the
violence involved in the very production of bodies, spaces and politics. It
will open up the question of violence to inspire different trajectories of
thinking and action towards the production different bodies, different
spaces and different politics. In the final analysis this is an ethical
project inquiring into the possibility of theorizing and acting from a place
of openness to hearing the voice of the other.

Conference Themes
Body
Representations of violence in art
Cosmetic surgery
Gendered violence in the mental health system
The construction of sexed bodies in torture
Everyday constructions of masculinities and femininities
Rape
Migrant bodies

Space
War zones
Constructions of gendered public spaces
Spaces of migration and asylum
Domesticity and violence
Ghettoization of gender / violence
Queering public space
Gendered violence in virtual space

Politics
Theorizing violence / non-violence
Technologies of violence and control
Ethnicity / race / gender / violence
Discrimination
Law as recognition and confrontation
Gendered constructions of political discourse
Representations of gendered violence in the media

Please write an abstract of 300-350 words by October 15, 2011 for your paper
proposals on one of the conference themes. Abstracts should be single-spaced
(Arial, 12 pts.) The title of your paper, your name and affiliation should
be printed on a separate page. Applicants will be notified on the acceptance
status of their papers by November 15, 2011.

Please e-mail your abstracts to: ekokam at ieu.edu.tr For further information
see the conference website: http://ekokam.ieu.edu.tr/gv2012/

Kind Regards,


Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Gülsüm Baydar (chair)
Prof. Dr. Sevda Alankuş
Asst. Prof. Olga Hünler
Asst. Prof. Devrim Sezer
Asst. Prof. Seher Şen
Inst. Itır Bağdadi
Inst. Berna Okan Aydoğan
Inst. Burkay Pasin
EKOKAM secretary: Aysegul Ozdemir

Address: Izmir University of Economics, Sakarya Caddesi, No: 156, 35330,
Balcova, Izmir tel: 0 232 4888386 fax: 0 232 2792626 e-mail:
ekokam at ieu.edu.tr



Olga S. Hünler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
İzmir University of Economics
35331 Izmir Turkey

Phone:+90 232  488 8547
Fax  :+90 232 279 26 26
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