Proposals are invited for our second, biannual interdisciplinary conference:

“Gender, Bodies and Technology: (Dis)Integrating Frames” 

April 26-28, 2012 Roanoke, Virginia 

Sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies 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. 

 

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

Dr. Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone 

Professor of New Media and Performance Studies at EGS

Professor of Digital Arts and New Media Production in the ACTLab at
University of Texas at Austin

 

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 intersections between technology and constructions
of embodiment, identity, 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 will be made by October 15, 2011. Final drafts
of papers received before April 26, 2012 will be considered for possible
publication. 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/  

 

For more information or if you would like to join our growing listserv of
scholars and artists working at this intersection, please contact: Sharon
Elber GBT Coordinator [log in to unmask] 

 

Sharon Elber

GBT Coordinator

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

Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Science and Technology Studies Program

Virginia Tech

USA