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Subject: Gender and the Politics of Shame Conference
Date: 2015/06/23 03:01
 From: Clara Cecilia Fischer <[log in to unmask]>
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF SHAME

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

14TH NOVEMBER 2015

Recent decades have seen unprecedented scholarly interest in affect and
the politics of emotion, particularly in feminist and queer theoretical
frames. At the same time, activists outside the academy have drawn
attention to the role emotions, particularly the self-conscious emotion
of shame, have played in mobilisations against marginalised groups, and
have suggested ways of countering the shaming of said groups. While
significant advances have been made in the development of shame theory
and in the further theorisation of affect and political emotions,
scholars and activists are now invited to take stock of contemporary
theoretical work on shame, and to present new and promising ways of
thinking about and engaging the conference theme of _gender and the_
_politics of shame_.

To this end, papers might address, without being limited to, the
following topics:

	* -       Shame and masculinities and femininities

	* -       Shame and LGBTQI experiences

	* -       Shame and class

	* -       Racialized shame

	* -       Shame and theories of emotion and affect

	* -       Shame and related self-conscious emotions (embarrassment,
guilt, pride)

	* -       Shame and agency/subverting shame

	* -       Body shame

	* -       Shame and the nation-state

	* -       Shame and aesthetics

	* -       Shame and social movements/activism

Given the interdisciplinary interest in shame and the politics of
emotion, papers from a variety of disciplines, including gender studies,
philosophy, politics, sociology, cultural studies, and history, are
welcome.

Confirmed keynoted address: Professor Bonnie Mann (University of
Oregon).

Please submit abstracts of not more than 500 words by SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
to [log in to unmask] Successful applicants will be contacted by
14TH SEPTEMBER.

This conference is supported by an award from the British Academy.

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Dr. Clara Fischer
Newton International Fellow of the British Academy
Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Research Associate, University College Dublin Women's Studies
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