CFP: Gender, body and sexuality in Europa
Call for papers
Gender, Body and Sexuality in Europe
Conference April 29, 2006, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Deadline for application is Jan. 15, 2005.

The Co-ordination for Gender Studies in Denmark and the Association for Gender Research in Denmark invite proposals for the conference Gender, Body and Sexuality in Europe. As part of University of Copenhagen's academic focus area Europe in Transition, the annual gender conference in Denmark focuses on Gender, Body and Sexuality in Europe. The objective of the conference is to create space for discussions and reflections on the relations between gender, body and sexuality in Europe. During the past decades Europe has undergone major political, economic and social changes that challenge the existing cultural and social institutions.
The conference will highlight the following issues:
* Values and identities in the wake of new democracies, media and (Euro)globalization
* Gendered and sexual social conventions of everyday life in a new and diverse Europe
* Gender, identity and sexuality in the current context(s) of politicization, economic development

Please send abstract of max. one page to europa@sociology.ku.dk.
Deadline for application is Jan. 15, 2005.
More information on
www.sociology.ku.dk/koordinationen.

We are interested in abstract within the theme listed below as well as
other and/or related themes.

European identities and citizenship
Democracy, nation and nationalism, post nationalism, race and
ethnicity,
religion, migration, welfare, gender equality

The world of work
Gender in organisations, work vs. family, gender and politics

Regulations of body and reproduction
Health, sports, parenting, abortion, reproductive technologies

Regulations / de-regulations of gender and sexuality
Transgender, transsexuality

Culture and media
Crime novels, chick lit, chick flick, popular culture, queer readings,
everyday feminism, gender constructions and women literature

Desire
Constructions of sexuality and performances, gender and desire

Technologies
Information technologies

Masculinities
Changing gender roles

'New' constructions
Intelligent design

Theory
Intersectionality, queer theory, feminism, post colonialism


The Co-ordination for Gender Studies in Denmark
University of Copenhagen
Department of Sociology
Шster Farimagsgade 5
P.O. Box 2099
DK-1014 Copenhagen K.
Tlf: 3532 3501
helle.poulsen@sociology.ku.dk
http://www.sociology.ku.dk/sochrc/koordinationen

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