University of Helsinki
We welcome paper proposals for the Gender Studies 2019 Conference: On Violence. We warmly invite scholars from a variety of locations in the Global North and South to participate in the discussions on violence.
We welcome paper proposals for the wide range of workshops featured on the program. We have 40 workshops that approach multiple aspects of violence and widely represent the multidisciplinary field of gender, sexuality, queer, trans, disability, postcolonial, and critical race studies:
- Challenges in studying THB and violence against (migrant) women & children
- Gender Based Violence in New Migrant Communities
- Gender in treatment of intimate partner violence
- Experiences of violence without regular shelter or in supervised housing
- Approaches to Tackling Gender-Related Violence
- Gender-based violence and urban spaces. From security to self-determination
- Gender, global health and violence: Feminist perspective
- Mapping and measuring cultures of violence in sexual & reproductive health care
- Gender, Sexuality, and Violent Spaces
- Interrogating Violence in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
- Tracing violence in transitional justice: reproduction & gender narratives
- Violence against non-human animals: intersectional perspectives
- Violence on/by Matters
- Of Racialised Others: Intersectional Feminist Solidarity in A Room of Our Own
- Deconstructing Narratives of Violence and Intersectionalism
- Anti-feminist Currents in Latin America
- Affect and Violence: Gendering the Middle East
- Narrativizing Gendered Violence in African Contexts
- Institutional and Institutionalized Violence in Educational Context
- Organizational Violence and Violations, Gender and Blurring Boundaries of Work
- Online violence against women: the antithesis of gender equality?
- Violation of (Sexual) Intimacy in the Era of Digitalisation
- Gendered Violence in a Digital Age
- Queer Grief, Death as Violence?
- Trans Violence and the Global South
- Comparative perspectives on violence and agency in social movements
- On violence in the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt
- Against violent frames – Queer development, alternative practices and epistemic interruptions
- White feminists, Anti-Racism and Privilege
- Indigeneity, gender, violence and activism
- Legitimised and institutionalised violence, gender and sexuality
- Naming and Experiencing Violence
- Violence and affect
- Reading, writing, theorizing with and against feminist and queer literary studies
- Telling about Myself Again: the Compulsory Self-Narration of Minorities as Violence
- Safer spaces in academic and activist communities (bilingual FI/EN)
- Violence in Schools for Children with Disabilities
- Narratives of Masculinities and Violence In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
- Miehiä ja maskuliinisuuksia
- Väkivallat ja -vallattomuudet sekä eettiset kohtaamiset kasvatuksessa
You’ll find the workshop descriptions here: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference/call-for-papers
We open submissions for paper proposals from the 21st of March until the 30th of April. We invite you to submit paper abstracts in English or Finnish.
After selecting the appropriate workshop, proceed to submit your an abstract of your paper (max 2000 characters with spaces) using this e-form: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/97441/lomake.html
For further information, see conference web page: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference
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To contact the conference team, please email us at genderstudies2019[at]helsinki.fi.
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).
Please circulate widely to your networks and all persons interested!