Call for papers, panels, posters and discussants! "Thinking Gender - The NEXT Generation" National Postgraduate Conference in Gender Studies, June 21-22 2006, University of Leeds, UK

The internationally recognised Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies invites proposals for a two-day trans- and interdisciplinary postgraduate conference to be convened at the University of Leeds 21-22 June 2006. The conference will provide an opportunity for postgraduate students to share critical discussion, dialogue and reflections on recent, present and future research and to learn from each other's approaches and experiences in an informal and collegial environment. The conference is aimed at anyone whose work relates to Gender Studies and aims to explore cutting edge methodologies, theoretical approaches, and practical applications as well as to engage in the reconstitution and examination of concepts in feminist and queer theories. We are especially interested in work that explores the multi-dimensionality of gender studies. The conference will also provide opportunities for generic skills training.(more)

Keynote speakers will include Sasha Roseneil (Leeds University), Gabrielle Griffin (Hull University) and a roundtable on "Embodied Aesthetics of Gender" with Ruth Holliday, Shirley Tate, Rachel Cowgill and Brendan Gough (Leeds University).

The conference will run seminars for postgraduate students on presentation skills, chairing panels, and getting published. We invite papers or panels in any area relating to gender studies using a variety of methodological approaches from different disciplines. Themes/areas may include sexuality, queer theory, body, family, relationships, social policy, activism and social movements, policing sexuality/gendered identities, pleasures, subjectivities, intersectionalities, desire, space, race, class, ethnicities and religion, national identities, fragmented identities, globalisation development, diaspora, subaltern studies, popular culture, media, sport, music, medicine/health,education, work, literature, representations, history, (sub)cultures of resistance, combat or violence.

Please send abstracts of 100-150 words to CIGS by March 31, 2006 (n.gerodetti@leeds.ac.uk) putting in the subject-line of your email: 'PG conference submission'. The paper presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and should be submitted to the discussant and panel participants one week before the conference. For further details see the conference website at www.leeds.ac.uk

Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies University of Cambridge 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX, United Kingdom E.mail: gender@hermes.cam.ac.uk or admin@gender.cam.ac.uk Web: www.gender.cam.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1223 763593, Fax: +44 (0)1223 767272

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