4th Global Conference: Gender and Love

4th Global Conference: Gender and Love Wednesday 24th September - Friday 26th September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations The study of gender is an interdisciplinary field intertwined with feminism, queer studies, sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies (to name just some relevant fields). This project calls for the consideration of gender in relation to various kinds of love (with regard, for example, to self, spirit, religion, family, friendship, ethics, nation, globalisation, environment, and so on). How do the interactions of gender and love promote particular performances of gender; conceptions of individual and collective identity; formations of community; notions of the human; understandings of good and evil? These are just some of the questions that occupy this project. This conference welcomes research papers which seek to understand the interaction and interconnection between the concepts of love and gender; and whether, when, how and in what ways the two concepts conceive and construct each other. Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes: 1. Love as a Disciplinary Force: Productions of Gender - Love, Gender, Essentialism and Ontology - Love, Gender and Narrative - Love, Gender and the Law - Love, Gender and Religion 2. Norms, Normativity, Intimacy - Rituals and Rites - Conventions, Commitments and Obligations - Choices and Respect; Loyalty and Trust - Transgressions and Taboos 3. Gendered Yearnings - Personhood and Identity - Body Politics and Belonging - Love and Gender Performativity - Transgender Desires - Queer Kinship Formations - Queer Conceptualisations of the State - Interpersonal attraction 4. Global Perspectives on Gender and Love - Transformations of Intimacy in a Global World - Sex and Choice - Reproductive Rights - Sexual Citizenship - Gender, Love and Trans/Nationalism 5. Representations of Gender and Love - Aesthetics and Intelligibility - Gendered Narrations of Love - Media, Gender and Love The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups âÄì and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Gender and Love and Suicide, Self Harm and assisted Dying and Digital Memory. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: GL4 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Dikmen Yakal? Ãáamo?lu: dyakali@yahoo.com Rob Fisher: gl4@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the 'Gender and Sexualities' series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-and-love/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.