Proposals are invited for our second, biannual interdisciplinary conference:

"Gender, Bodies & Technology: (Dis)Integrating Frames" 
April 26-28, 2012
Roanoke, Virginia
Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech 

 

Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2011 

 

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 intersections
of gender, bodies and technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to
workplaces to the internet. In keeping with the conference theme, we are
asking contributors to include specific reference to the ways in which their
own particular disciplinary frameworks shape their approach to their sites
of research.

 

Our confirmed keynote speakers include:

 

Dr. Judith Halberstam

Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies,
University of Southern California 

 

Dr. Judy Wajcman 

Head of Department of Sociology, London School of Economics & Political
Science

 

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to: 

.               Gender and the technologies of the workplace, education, and
public/private spaces

.               Disability and technologies of intervention

.               Feminist theorizing of the intersections between technology
and constructions of embodiment, 

identity and selves

.               Performance, new media and other creative expressions:
engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions 

of embodiment and technology

.               Gendered innovations in technology: gendered objects,
design, pasts/futures 

.               Technological production and control of classed, racialized,
aged and gendered bodies

.               Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied
theorizing 

.               New Media, digital representation and virtual gendered
environments

.               Medicalized bodies: reproduction, disease, bioethics, body
constructions

.               Performing/transgressing gender and sexuality

.               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. We are committed
to the integration of scholarship from the Arts as well as more traditional
forms of scholarship and we welcome early contact by email if space and/or
technology requirements might present logistical challenges.

 

Proposals will be reviewed and notification of the outcome will be made by
October 15, 2011. We are pursuing publication outlets for selected papers
from the conference. Final drafts of papers received before April 26, 2012
will be eligible for consideration. The Gender, Bodies & Technology website,
online submission form, as well as the full program from the 2010 conference
can be viewed at:  <http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/> http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/ 

 

For more information or questions please contact: 


Sharon Elber
GBT Coordinator

Women's and Gender Studies Program

Department of Sociology 

Virginia Tech

408 McBryde Hall (0137)

Blacksburg, VA, 24061 USA

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 <http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/> http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/