[GWAMIT] Please distribute: Call for Papers: Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces

[GWAMIT]

Hi GWAMIT folks! 

Can you please distribute this CFP to your list?  Thanks!
Andi

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Find below information about the upcoming Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies graduate student conference.  Please forward this widely to your students and colleagues, and we look forward to the exciting conversations ahead!  For more information and to access the online submission form, contact gcws at mit.edu or go to the web site: 

http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_conference_2011/index_Intro_2011.html

GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND URBAN SPACES

A graduate student conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

March 11th and 12th, 2011


 

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Urban spaces both produce and are produced by gender. The Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies conference, Gender, Sexuality and Urban Spaces, seeks to explore the reciprocity of these complex relationships. We are interested in how life (or living) in urban spaces mark as well as produce gendered and sexed bodies and how gender, class and race relations, performances and sexualities, in turn, make their marks on the urban spaces. By urban spaces, we mean the lived practices and representations through which a variety of spaces are constituted within and beyond the scope of the city. We invite submissions that examine the construction of gender and sexuality (in conjunction with race, class, & mobility) and urban spaces across a range of historical, cultural, national, fictional, and conceptual contexts.

 

From census surveys, subway maps, and zoning laws to post-apocalyptic narratives, the construction of sexualities, gender relations, performances, and gendered bodies in urban spaces has been robustly imagined, documented, and regulated. Keeping in mind the rich interdisciplinarity suggested by these approaches, this conference seeks to address the following questions:

How have evolving conceptions of gender and sexuality altered the city in the past, present, and future?
How has the city altered conceptions of gender / sexuality?
How have understandings of gender / sexuality shaped the material and social / cultural spaces of the city?
How do gender / sexuality impact access to urban spaces and why?
How are conceptions of gender and sexuality reinforced, challenged, or subverted through gendered / sexed bodies and the urban spaces they inhabit?
 

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

Spatial Dynamics of the City

Built and Natural Urban Environments

Public and Private Spaces

Access: to Institutions, to Policy, to Geographies, etc.

Feminist Practices in the city

Migration, Immigration, and the City

Transportation and Mobility

Urban Aesthetics

Queer Spaces

Gender and Technologies

Institutions and Gender

Urban Activism

Tourism and Gender

Intersectionality and the City

Visual and Textual Representations

 

Please submit 250-word abstracts for 15-minute individual presentations or a proposal for a complete panel of three papers with a 100-word panel abstract and paper abstracts of 150 words each. Submit proposals online or E-mail to gcws at mit.edu by December 2nd, 2010. All submissions should include 3-5 sentence biographical statements for all paper presenters, which include current research interests and institutional affiliation(s). Please note all AV needs you will have in an additional paragraph. 


ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM: http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_conference_2011/index_Grad_2011.html


Accepted participants will be notified via e-mail by January 7th, 2011.

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Andrea Sutton
Program Coordinator
Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at MIT
http://web.mit.edu/gcws
617-324-2085
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Andrea Sutton
Program Coordinator
Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies 
Building 14N Room 211, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617) 324-2085
http://web.mit.edu/gcws

*Office hours for GCWS are Tuesdays - Fridays, 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM

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