University of Helsinki
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS OPEN 7th of January–15th of February
Gender Studies Conference 2019 on Violence 24.-26.10. in Helsinki
What is violence? How is violence normalized in some contexts? How do gender, sexuality, race, and class, among other axes of power, intersect making some bodies more prone to experiencing violence? How to subvert and challenge different forms of violence, and what are the respectful and nuanced forms of solidarity and activism that take the specificity of people’s experiences into consideration?
We warmly invite scholars from a variety of locations in the Global North and South to participate in the discussions on violence! This conference in Helsinki will approach multiple aspects of violence across the wide multidisciplinary field of gender, sexuality, queer, trans, disability, postcolonial, and critical race studies.
The conference is organized and hosted by the Gender Studies Discipline of The University of Helsinki together with the Association for Gender Studies in Finland (SUNS).
We open workshop submissions from the 7th of January until the 15th of February. We invite you to submit proposals for workshops in English, Finnish or Swedish. In addition to traditional workshop contributions we also welcome other forms of creative collaborations/presentations/performances.
For more information, see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference/call-for-workshops
Submit an abstract of your workshop (max 2000 characters with spaces), title, keywords, short bio (max 1000 characters with spaces), a chair/chairs, a discussant, and a list of themes for potential papers. Fill in the submission form: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/94401/lomake.html
To contact the conference team, please email us at genderstudies2019[at]helsinki.fi
Please circulate widely to your networks and all persons interested!
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Anna Heinonen
Doctoral student (M.Soc.Sc.)
Helsinki University
Department of Cultures
SKY Doctoral Programme