Call for Papers
Continuing from last year's successful project launch, this inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine issues surrounding the conjunction between evil and the feminine. In many cultures women have been long suspected as the source of sundry human miseries, however basic to society they may be. At the same time as ideals of purity and dedication to family have been exalted and feminine beauty lauded, women have been viewed as embodying sinister forces of evil. Mistrusted as seductive and beguiling, women are also often thought of as vengeful, manipulative and even malevolent. In grappling with our understanding of what it is to be 'evil', the project aims to shine a spotlight on this dark area of the human condition and explore the possible sources of the fear and resentment of women.

The objective of the mini-conference is to bring together scholars from countries across the globe on interpersonal violence directed against women
Organized by: Athens Institute for Education and Research
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 January 2010
Website: http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Sociology.htm
Contact name: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas

This conference will bring together scholars working in the broad area of gender and difference, across a wide range of social and cultural texts and practices.
Organized by: Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University and the Englisches Seminar at the University of Cologne.
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 January 2010

The language of citizenship has, in recent years, been mobilized by feminists to articulate a wide range of claims and demands. The notions of economic, political, social, cultural, sexual/ bodily, and intimate citizenship, for example, have all been developed and explored in terms of their normative potential and their actual realization. In Europe, in particular, there has been a strong steer from research funders and policy makers towards research agendas which address the question of citizenship in the context of increasingly diverse and multicultural societies.

Questions of gender and sexualities are essential to understand politics of race and nation at different levels of analysis, whether the local, the national, or the global. 
Drawing on what David Goldberg called the ‘liberal paradox’, i.e. how the commitment of modernity to idealized principles of liberty and equality goes hand in hand with a multiplication of racialized identities and the sets of exclusions they prompt and rationalize, enable and sustain (Goldberg 1993), the proposed session will tackle the ways in which ethnocultural exclusion and racialization processes in western liberal democracies currently operate through the problematization of minority/migrant gender relations and sexualities.

This workshop intends to analyse the actual situation of gender discrimination and to evaluate academic quality within European universities and polytechnics.Therefore, the workshop would render the actual situation of women in academia visible and, as a result, facilitate their institutional participation. As female scholars are often interested in subjects which are not considered to be core issues in the field of communication and media studies, we will ask female scholars to reflect about how their research interests are connected to the so-called ‘mainstream studies’. We will also welcome papers on gender equality and career opportunities, difficulties and challenges.

The 4th Christina conference explores the complex connections among gender, nature and culture.The conference asks how this mutual intertwining of nature, culture and gender has been theorized, represented and experienced.

Abstrakt
Rozsah: max. 1 strana textu (řádkování 1), bez grafi ckých příloh.
Jazyk: česky, slovensky nebo anglicky.
Termín zaslání abstraktu: do 20. 11. 2009
Požadavky na abstrakt jsou součástí přílohy.

The Department of Women’s & Gender Studies at Syracuse University
invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor
of Women’s & Gender Studies

The conveners of this workshop are experienced in comparing policies across countries, and analyzing their effects using individual-level data. However, other research designs are methods are also welcomed, including intensive studies of one or a few cases, and – in particular – mixed-method studies. The workshop is open to all disciplines.
Participation in most workshops will be restricted to paper presenters (preferably doctoral students) and discussants (senior faculty members).