[ecrea] CfP: Conference on Gendered Citizenship

GENDERED CITIZENSHIP: History, Politics and Democracy
The Ida Blom Conference
14-15 October 2013
Bergen, Norway

Abstract deadline: 1 March 2013

Norway was a pioneer state in Europe introducing the general vote for 
both men and women in 1913. As part of the 100-year celebration, the 
University of Bergen and the Uni Rokkan Centre will organize an 
international conference on gendered citizenship. The conference is 
named after Professor Emerita Ida Blom from the University of Bergen, 
recently appointed an honorary member of the American Historical 
Society. Her groundbreaking work on citizenship, women’s suffrage and 
women’s health issues has inspired academics in Norway and abroad and 
has also had great public impact.

As we have entered the new millennium, women's right to vote is almost 
taken for granted. Yet many issues are still to be solved. The rights, 
privileges, and duties of citizens are not equally distributed – neither 
within nation states nor across the globe. The concept of citizenship is 
a way to reflect on that distribution, highlighting right’s claims, 
participation, entitlements and voice, as well as political, economic 
and cultural processes of inclusion and exclusion. The notion of 
citizenship also evokes questions of belonging, language, identity and 
the body, calling for thorough rethinking of what it means to be a human 
being and a member of society in the world today. We want to ask how 
gender issues both influence and challenge the meaning of citizenship. 
The conference embraces an interdisciplinary and broadly framed approach 
to historical and contemporary questions concerning gender equality and 
democracy, both in the political and in the cultural sphere.

Keynotes: Ida Blom, Mounira Maya Charrad, Jasbir Puar, Birthe Siim, 
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Liesbet van Zoonen

In accordance with the broad scope of the conference we welcome panels 
and papers on topics that include and exceed those that are ultimately 
tied to participation in the formal political system. Citizens exercise 
their rights in several ways on a plethora of arenas and we therefore 
encourage contributions that explore gendered citizenship in various 
societal contexts. We invite you to take an explorative approach to key 
concepts such as citizenship, politics and democracy, and emphasise 
changing theoretical and historical understandings of gender. We hope 
this expanded understanding of political participation will generate new 
ideas and knowledge on how citizenship is practiced, debated and 
negotiated in past and current societies. The panel sessions are divided 
into three thematic strands:
· Representation, Democracy and Freedom
· Sexual Citizenship
· Gender and the Public Sphere

For the full Call for Papers please visit https://www.uib.no/idablom2013/en

Media scholars are particularly encouraged to note the thematic strand 
on gender and the public sphere. This theme addresses a variety of 
issues concerning gender and citizenship in the public sphere, 
historically and today. Gendered citizenship is constructed and 
represented in the cultural and political public sphere, finding diverse 
expressions in mainstream publics, sub-publics and counter-publics, 
through different forms of participation and activism, and in popular 
culture, art, literature and in the media. This thematic strand invites 
scholars to explore the cultural and social conditions of democracy and 
freedom in various public spheres and to investigate the ongoing debate 
on what should be private and what should be public. Topics include but 
are not limited to:
· Gendered representations in art, literature, media and popular culture
· Gender, politics and power in public debate
· Media use, identity and cultural citizenship
· Social media, democracy and participatory culture
· Activism, Social movements, counter-publics and sub-publics

Practical Information:
You are invited to suggest both coordinated panels and individual 
papers. Abstracts should have maximum 300 words and coordinated 
panels/workshops should have 3 to 4 participants. You should specify 
which of the thematic strands your proposal is directed at. The deadline 
for submission of abstracts or suggestions for panels/papers is 1stof 
March 2013.

For information and submission of abstracts, please see the conference 
website: https://www.uib.no/idablom2013/en

For questions: Please send an e-mail to (gencit2012 /at/ uib.no), or contact:
Senior Researcher Hilde Danielsen, E-mail: (Hilde.Danielsen /at/ uni.no)
Adviser Bente Krossøy, E-mail:(Bente.Krossoy /at/ adm.uib.no)



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