[NIS_GS:] Conf Sweden: Hetero factory: Challenging Normativity....

CHALLENGING NORMATIVITY IN SCHOOL AND WORKING LIFE
Conference at the Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden 13 - 15 June 2006

http://www.ituf.liu.se/konferens/hetero_factory/home

Gender and sexuality are intertwined in many ways in everyday processes and practises. At school and in working life, people are understood and treated as girls or boys, men or women, and usually also automatically as heterosexuals.

Heteronormativity is maintained and contested by students, teachers and employees. In some aspects schools and work places can be analysed as
"hetero factories" - a name inspired by Leena-Maija Rossi´s book Heterotehdas (Hetero Factory) (2003). Another reason to entitle the conference "hetero factory" is that it is meant to be an explorative and innovative factory in
itself. A context where new ideas and ways of doing research can be developed, in order to further understanding on the ways normative practises can be questioned and analysed. The conference site is an old textile factory (now the Museum of Work)in the old industrial area in down town Norrköping.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Debbie Epstein
Debbie Epstein, University of Cardiff, UK
Leena-Maija Rossi
Leena-Maija Rossi, University of Helsinki, FI

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Steven Seidman
Steven Seidman, State University of New York at Albany, US
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Jukka Lehtonen
Jukka Lehtonen, University of Helsinki, FI

CALL FOR PAPERS - WORKSHOP STREAMS

We welcome abstracts and suggestions for paper sessions on the subject of heteronormativity as analytic tool and/or as object of study in relation to working life, education and research.
Some important questions that we hope will be addressed are for example:

Queer theory and/or the construction of heteronormativity

Is the concept of heteronormativity a consequence of queer theory or a means to neutralise queer theory and the challenges it poses to stable categories and identity politics?
Intersectionality - a fruitful concept or just a fad?

Is it possible to take into account the interaction of different normativities, and how they affect and change each other, without making one into a fundamental category?

Methodology

How is it possible to study heteronormativity?
What are the methodological challenges? What
ethical issues raise this focus?
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Deadline for abstracts is 16.12 2005.
Please limit the abstract to 200 words. Include
the following information with your abstract:

* Author(s)
* Academic titles
* Institutional affiliations
* Paper title
* (Session title)

Please send abstracts (word, pdf) to:

hetero_factory@ituf.liu.se

We will let you know no later than 9.1 2006
whether your paper has been accepted.
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ACCEPTED SESSIONS:
>From the Cradle to the Grave: Heteronormativity and the Life Course

Chair: Sari Charpentier - The
Abo Akademi University, Finland,
Richard Ward - The Open University, UK

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Social Policy and Heteronormativity
Chair: Elisabetta Ruspini - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
http://www.ituf.liu.se/konferens/hetero_factory/home
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