This is a reminder of the proposal submission deadline for this
exciting upcoming interdisciplinary conference:
“Gender, Bodies and
Technology”
Proposals are invited for an
Interdisciplinary Conference
April 22-24, 2010
Sponsored by the Women’s and
Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech
Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2009
We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural
sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers,
panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore: the technological
production of gendered and racialized bodies, historical and contemporary
feminist appropriations of technology in aesthetics and representations of
embodiment, and the gendered implications of technology in contexts ranging
from classrooms to workplaces to the Internet. We construe technology broadly
to include material culture and the apparatus of daily life, such as writing,
books and the built environment.
Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:
-Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and
gendered bodies
-Work, healthcare, education and activities of daily life as produced
through technologies
-Performance, new media and other creative expressions as sites for
engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology
-Biopolitics and medical engineering of reproduction, sexual identity
and gender
-Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing
-Surveillance, containment, in/security and militarization
-Identity and technological design, production and use; gender, race,
age, class and sexuality in SET (sciences, engineering and technology) fields
-New media art and feminist aesthetics
-Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism
-Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological
citizenship
As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference
itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome innovative uses of
technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive
presentations, as well as traditional paper presentations. Using the form
attached, please submit a proposal of up to 300 words for each individual
presentation, including not only the scholarship you will engage but also the
format that you wish to use. For panels, include an abstract for each
presentation. Please specify in your proposal any special requirements for
technology or space that you anticipate. Proposals will be reviewed by Virginia
Tech Women’s and Gender Studies faculty/affiliates with appropriate
expertise and notification of the outcome will be made no later than October
15, 2009.
Proposals should be submitted via our website at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/.
If that is not possible, or if you have questions, please contact:
Sharon Elber
GBT Conference Co-Planner
STS/Women’s and Gender Studies (0227)
Virginia Tech