[ecrea] CFP: "Fighting Women: A Symposium on Women's Boxing"

Fighting Women: A Symposium on Women's Boxing
June 21-22, 2013
The Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by Brock University

The legacy of women's boxing, including women fighting for financial 
gain, traces back to the first
half of the 18th century. Yet women's amateur boxing only became 
legalized in many parts of the
Americas in the 1990s. There are now over 120 international boxing 
federations with registered
female competitors, and the debut of women's boxing at the London 
Olympics placed it on an
international stage.

This two-day symposium seeks to explore the diverse ways women have 
participated in amateur
and professional boxing. The purpose will be to investigate women's 
involvement in boxing in its
broadest sense, from historical, ethnographic, cultural, and artistic 
perspectives. This cross-genre
approach hopes to take into account the multiple, often intersecting, 
aspects of this exploitative and
dysfunctional, yet equally compelling and beautiful, sport.

"Fighting Women" encourages presentations from diverse fields of study, 
including physical
cultural studies, women and gender studies, history, media and 
communications, film studies,
sociology, visual artists, and filmmakers, among others. Topics may 
include, but are certainly not
limited to:

*  Histories of Fighting Women
*  Ethnographies and Oral Histories
*  Cultural Representations
*  Theoretical Discussions
*  Identity Formation
*  Visual/Artistic Expressions
*  New Media and Social Networks
*  Embodiment and Agency

Please email abstracts of 250 words for 30-minute presentations or 
visual/film exhibits together
with a one-page CV including the author's name, institutional 
affiliation and position, phone
number, and postal and email addresses to 
(fightingwomen.symposium /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(fightingwomen.symposium /at/ gmail.com)>.
Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2013. All submissions will be evaluated 
by the Program
Committee and a preliminary program will be announced by February 15, 2013.

Visit the website at: www.fighting-women.com <http://www.fighting-women.com>

Please contact Chair of the Program Committee, Dr. Cathy van Ingen 
(Brock University) with any
questions at (cathy.vaningen /at/ brocku.ca) <mailto:(cathy.vaningen /at/ brocku.ca)>

The Program Committee consists of:
Dr. Cathy van Ingen, Brock University, Canada.
Dr. Benita Heiskanen, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland.
Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, U.S.A.