News and Conferences
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Conferences
(Co-)Organized by Prof. Neumeier
GENDER & DIFFERENCE
with Chris Weedon (Cardiff, 20-23 May 2010)
The conference will bring together scholars working in the broad area of gender and difference, across a wide range of social and cultural texts and practices. It will feature research by faculty and graduate students working in critical and cultural theory, literature, film studies, sociology and other relevant fields. We will discuss cuttting edge research that addresses the various ways in which differences of all kinds — ranging from ethnic, racialised and religious differences to location, time period, class and sexual orientation — complexify the analysis of gender and gender politics. Proposals are welcome from all relevant academic disciplines and theoretical frameworks, covering any historical period.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: CLAIRE COLEBROOK & MANDY MERCK
Prospective speakers are invited to submit a 500 word proposal along with a
short CV to the conference organizers at: gd@cf.ac.uk by 28 February 2010.
The Rediscovery of India through Theatre and Cinema
with Nilufer Bharucha and Sridhar Rajeswaran (Kachchh, March 2010)
Recent Conferences
Gothic Renaissance
03.-04.12.2009, Cologne
Organised with Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen (University Zürich)
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Dichotonies - A Workshop on Music and Gender
13.-15.06.2008, Cologne
Dichotonies. Gender and Music, the volume that resulted from the conference organised by Beate Neumeier in association with gender forum, has now been published by Universitätsverlag Winter. It brings together twenty-one orginal essays by international scholars from the fields of gender studies, cultural theory, and music studies. Covering a wide range of music genres and theoretical perspectives, the shared concern of all contributions is the underlying concept of gender and sexuality pervading music production and performance as well as its consumption. Through the shared focus on the interrelation of music and gender in theory and performance, the volume comprises such seemingly disparate categories as Classical and Pop music, Gangsta Rap and Liederspiel and thus contributes to the unsettling of established boundaries and points towards the continuity of important dialogues.
Call for Papers
Between the National and the Transnational, 1945-1980:
Masculinities in British and American Literature
between World War II and Thatcher/Reagan
The First of Three International Workshops:
TU Dresden, Germany, 9-11/06/2010
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Horlacher (TU Dresden), Prof. Kevin Floyd (Kent State University