Conferences and Call-for-Paper Announcements
--"Gender and Social Transformation: Global, Transnational and
Local Realities and Perspectives"
July 17-19, 2009 in Beijing, China.
Key Conference Organizers:
- Dr. Esther Ngan-ling Chow Professor, American University, USA.
- Dr. Tan Lin, Director, China Women’s Studies Institute, All-China Women’s Federation in P.R. China.
The goal of the conference is to provide an international forum in which to examine
how women and gender relations are shaped by societal transformation economically,
politically, socially and culturally in the global, transnational and local contexts
and processes. The conference explores how dynamics process of globalization and
transnationalism has impacted on women’s lives, as it has challenged even altered
gender relations on the ground. Using a kaleiscopic gender lens, the meeting will
examine how women and men in different locations around the world experience societal
transformation and how they respond to and challenge transnational and global processes
of changes. Intersectionalityof race, ethnicity, class, gender, nationality and other
dimensions will be emphasized in the conference program.
We will address the cutting-edge issues, pressing social problems and emergent
phenomena that are critical to interrogate the existing theoretical paradigms to study
globalization, transnationalism and the local from critical gender perspectives.
In addition, we promote the development of theory, method, and practice by emphasizing
how theory and research on women and gender can inform public debates, policy, and
praxis, contribute to empirically grounded research, advance feminist scholarship,
inspire collective action by empowering women as well as men, locally, transnationally
and globally. To do so, the conference offers a medium through which scholars,
researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, civil society actors and grassroots activists
can engage in meaningful dialogue for positive social change in various contexts.
We welcome, particularly, innovative theoretical work as well as empirical research
that have not published before.
Major Topics of Interest:
- Theorizing globalization and transnationalism and feminist critiques
- Work, economic transformation and global economy
- Gender Mainstreaming, development and policy
- Migration, citizenship, and politics of difference/recognition
- Political participation, civil society/engagement and gender justice
- Identity, media and cultural changes
- Education, health, environment and family transition
- Women’s agency, activism, and social movements
Conference Format: Key speakers will include Judith Lorber, Myra Marx Ferree, Michael Kimmel, Peggy Levitt,
Rhacel Parrenas, Christine E. Bose and other speakers from China and other countries. Two plenary sessions
will feature gender issues in globalization and transnationalism and frontiers of feminist scholarship and methodology.
Other papers sessions, panel discussion and one workshop on comparative and collaborative research will be organized.
Official Languages: Chinese and English
Funding Support: The conference is primarily funded by the China Women’s Research Society and partial support
from the American University.
Submission Deadline: If you are interested in this conference, submit your proposed paper abstract (250-500 words) by
February 15, 2009.
English paper abstract will be submitted to Esther N. Chow (echow@american.edu) and
Chinese paper abstract to Wu Jing (wujing@wsic.ac.cn).
Notification of paper acceptance will be around mid-March, 2009.
Registration Fees: Registration fees are paid in accordance with the membership scale specified by the International
Sociological Association. (www.isa-sociology.org/memb-i/index.htm)
US$100 for Category A countries, US$60 for Category B countries and US$35 for Category C countries .
There will be ten hotel accommodation awards given to women of color scholars/researchers from the Global South.
There is absolutely no travel fund available.
Expected Outcomes: The conference outcomes will be conference Proceedings and two books based on selected conference papers—
a Chinese one to be published in China and an English one to be published in the USA.
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---International Conference on Gender Studies
Shanghai, June 26-29, 2009
University of Michigan-Fudan University
Institute for Gender Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai
The University of Michigan and Fudan University joint Institute for Gender Studies will
host the first international conference on gender studies in China from June 26 to June 29,
2009. The conference is part of a long-term collaboration between the two universities to
promote scholarship on and curriculum development of women’s and gender studies.
Aimed at furthering scholarly communication and exchange between scholars in and
outside China, this conference encourages the participation of a new generation of
Chinese scholars, students, and feminist activists, whose fresh scholarship and vibrant
activism has not yet been exposed adequately to the international academic world. The
conference welcomes research papers with a focus on China or ones that address global
issues in diverse regions and contexts or through a transnational feminist perspective.
University faculty members and graduate students are welcome to submit individual
paper abstracts or panel proposals in line with the following suggested themes:
1. Gender and global capitalism
2. Gender in post-socialism
3. Economic empowerment for gender equality
4. Gender, culture, and the state
5. Gender and public policies
6. Gender, work, and the workplace
7. Gender and education
8. Gender and history
9. Gender and the law
10. Gender and cultural representation
11. Gender and the media
12. Gender and migration
13. Gender, ethnicity and class
14. Gender and aging
15. Gender and the family
16. Gender and sexuality
17. Masculinities and femininities
18. Feminist activism, local and global
19. Transnational feminist theory
20. Strategies of “gender mainstreaming”
21. Integrating social practices in gender studies curriculum
22. Feminist scholarship and activism
The conference languages are Chinese and English. Please submit a 200 word
abstract or panel proposal in either or both of these languages. Please provide relevant
information regarding the academic position and institution of each presenter,
including e-mail addresses. The joint Institute for Gender Studies will provide room
and board for presenters at the conference in Shanghai. The deadline for submitting
abstracts and proposal is July 31, 2008.
Contact persons: Xu Li: xuliluo@umich.edu
Lu Qihong: iglu@fudan.edu.cn
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--"DIFFICULT DIALOGUES"
November 12-15, 2009 Atlanta, GA
National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference link:
Deadline to submit proposals: February 15, 2009
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--Feminist Transitions, 22nd Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Conference
19th-21st June 2009, Edge Hill University at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
The deadline for abstracts is 30th January 2009.
Website: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/FWSA/index.htm
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--"Feminist Research Methods - An international conference."
Stockholm, Sweden, 4 to 6 Feb. 2009.
Website: http://www.kvinfo.su.se/femmet09/
Contact name: Gunilla Bjerén
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