Gender remains an important concept in historical enquiry. This two-day conference will explore gender (both masculine and feminine) in domestic, national and imperial contexts. This conference invites postgraduates and academics to consider gender within these confines from the eighteenth century to the present day. The first day will provide postgraduate and academics early in their career to present papers in an informal and constructive environment. The second day will be dedicated to papers and a roundtable discussion by academics who have made substantial contribution to this field (please see website for more details).

A 3-Day, International, Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the Women´s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC), School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Keynote Speakers: Adrienne Rich, Ruth Vanita

conference program

As a branch of gender history, histories of masculinity have often examined both social ideologies and subjective male identities in a framework that defines them against the feminine. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars studying masculinities in a variety of fields, including literature, history, art history, sociology and philosophy, to explore some of the forms of "otherness" against which ideas of masculinity have been defined over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to the question we hope to uncover a fuller and more complex picture of what, historically, socially and culturally, it means to be a man.

The WIDE conference is intended to be a space for women from the East, North and South to analyse critically European and international aid and trade policies, in order to name the challenges, to identify the opportunities and to agree on a common agenda to ensure that this new aid, trade and foreign policy architecture reinforces and supports commitments on women’s human rights and gender equality.

September 3-4 2007, Loughborough University, UK
A conference sponsored by the Space, Sexuality and Queer Working Group of the IBG.

This one-day conference seeks to explore how the issues of "genderg", "sexual divisions" and "sexuality" are currently taught in the social sciences in Higher Education. The conference is keen to discover what challenges educators face when they attempt to explore the complex sets of issues around gender and sexuality within their social science subjects and, importantly, what learning, teaching and assessment innovations academics have developed to help them in this process. The conference aims to build upon participants´ past experiences. It also seeks to provide a space to raise some important – and sometimes uncomfortable – questions about our collective understanding of how the issues of gender and sexuality can be dealt with in the higher education curricula.

BEYOND MASCULINITY is looking for contributions in four key areas: Identity Intersections; Feminism, Gender, and Politics; Bodies, Desire, and Pleasure and Queer Male Communities.

Forth international and interdisciplinary workshop within the scope of women and gender-studies at the University of Luxembourg
Theme: GENDER - POWER - CHANGES

Institute for Women´s Studies, Lancaster University, 27-29 September 2007
International Conference with papers, exhibitions and performances.

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society seeks submissions for cover art. Published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press and distributed internationally, Signs is an interdisciplinary academic journal that focuses on issues of gender, race, class, nation, and sexuality.