Gender and Post Communism Conference, Ohio

crossposted from aWID list

Conference: "Placing Gender in Postcommunism" / Oxford, Ohio, USA /
October 18-19, 2002.

* Conferencia y Solicitud de Ensayos (en inglés) sobre el concepto del
Género
en el Post-comunismo / Oxford, Ohio, EE-UU / 18 al 19 de octubre del 2002 /
Plazo para entrega del resumen: 1º de agosto, 2002. Para mayores informes,
envíe un correo electrónico a:
[email protected].

* Conférence et demande d'articles (en anglais) sur le concept du genre dans
le post-communisme / Oxford, Ohio, É-U / 18 au 19 octobre du 2002 / Date
limite pour envoyer son résumé est le 1er août, 2002. Pour des
renseignements
supplémentaires, veuillez envoyer un courriel à:
[email protected].


The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami
University invites graduate student papers reflecting on the many ways
gender
is implicated in postcommunist social, cultural, and political formations.
By calling for papers that "place" gender in post-communism, we hope to
promote two lines of inquiry:

1. What are the sites and spaces in which and through which gender is
(re-)constituted in postcommunism?  We point to a range of kinds and levels
of place or space, from the most specific and local to the largest and/or
most diffuse, from communal apartments, kiosks, and farmers' markets to
medical, educational, legal, and political institutions, to nation states
(and the borders between them), to the internet.  Papers might consider
transactions made on street corners or comparatively analyze regional
differences in gender-related policies or gendered participation in
parliaments or bureaucracies.  They might highlight the gendered
implications
of postcommunist architecture or the gendered aspects in the travels of
migrant laborers.  Papers might also consider gender and gender studies in
postcommunist academic institutions or the role of gender in civil society.

2. How can we most fruitfully place gender in terms of our own intellectual
discourses?  And what are the imagined geographies that undergird our
thinking about gender in postcommunism?  Much current work draws either
implicitly or explicitly on a dichotomy between feminisms east and west or
denies that such differences exist.  We seek work that might point the way
to
new and variegated feminist topographies.  For instance, how might the work
on gender and postcolonial studies be brought to bear in thinking about
postcommunism?  What would comparisons of Polish and Pakistani feminisms
look
like?  How might theories of intersectionality be brought to studies of Roma
women?  How might feminist studies of Islam make sense of Islamic
postcommunist regions?

Papers may hail from any discipline (anthropology, sociology, political
science, literary criticism, folklore, religious studies, history, etc.) and
may focus on any aspect of social and political life in which gender is at
stake in any of the postcommunist countries in Central and Eastern Europe or
Central Eurasia.  We strongly encourage proposals from grad students who
have
already completed their dissertation research.  The Havighurst Center will
provide accommodation in Oxford, ground transportation from the airport, and
partial travel funding (up to $250 for domestic travel and up to $500 for
international travel).

To be considered for the conference, submit an abstract of approximately 250
words and a CV to [email protected] by August 1, 2002.

Please type "grad student conference" as the subject of the email.  We plan
to get back to you by September 1, 2002.  Final papers, of approximately 15-
25 pages, must be submitted by October 1, 2002, when they will be posted on
the Havighurst website.