[ecrea] CFP--Thinking Gender Justice

*Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities (CGFS)**//*

University College Dublin, Ireland*//*

*Call for Papers*

*/Thinking Gender Justice/*

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*/1^st  Annual CGFS Conference/*

*/University College Dublin, 23^rd -25^th  May 2018/*

Emerging feminisms and gender studies have over the last decade and more 
placed an increased emphasis on an understanding of social 
relationships, power structures and social change through the 
intersections of race, class, gender and sexualities. The core question 
now is how can feminism and gender studies continue to offer critical 
insights and understandings in the context of the rise of the right, new 
nationalisms and the growing ethnic, class, gender and religious 
conflicts, within and between nations-States? And how can gender studies 
and feminism contribute to current discourses on power (both historical 
and current), strategies of resistance and formations of solidarity? 
What kind of space do identity politics and intersectionality occupy in 
political action? Who gets to frame the language and the scope of debate 
within feminism, gender and queer studies? How are southern theories and 
decolonial praxis changing the academy? How does representation in 
popular culture, media, digital culture, literature and other forms of 
cultural practice and production promote or challenge forms of gender 
justice and injustice? What can we learn for the present and future from 
subjugated histories, including the histories of women’s struggles and 
histories of conflict and subordination between women? The aim of this 
conference is to reflect on these and related questions from a range 
of disciplinary and multidisciplinary fields, and from the perspective 
of those active and committed to creating the conditions for change in 
Ireland and globally.

This Conference is the* First* *Annual Conference *of the* Centre for 
Gender, Feminism and Sexualities (CGFS)*, *University College 
Dublin* which brings together activists, artists and academics, and 
draws on transdisciplinary perspectives in feminism and gender studies.

*Confirmed keynote speakers include Harsha Walia, *activist, writer, and 
popular educator and author of /Undoing Border Imperialism/**and 
*Professor Inderpal Grewal, *Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality 
Studies at Yale University and author most recently of S/aving the 
Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First Century 
America/ (2017)**


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*Papers are welcome on:*

- borders and boundaries

- biopolitics and body politics

- neoliberalism, feminism and gender

- class and feminist politics

- colonialism and decoloniality in feminist politics and thought

- gender and climate justice

- trans politics, transfeminisms, trans theory

- gender, feminism and indigenous movements

- feminist theory, politics and activism

- geopolitics and new borders

- coercion, discrimination and exclusion

- sexual entitlement and resistance

- critical methodologies

- gender, sexuality and feminisms in cultural representation

- gender and feminisms in digital cultures and social media

- histories of gender, feminisms and sexualities

- feminist & gender theories in a global context

- ‘NGO-ization’ and global gender justice

- queer politics and queer studies in a global context

- restorative gender justice

- activisms online

- debates on gender, sexuality, human rights and citizenship


*Guidelines for abstracts:*

Proposal deadline: 5pm, Friday 2^nd  February.

Submit your proposals by email to: (cgfs /at/ ucd.ie) <mailto:(cgfs /at/ ucd.ie)>

Please include your name, affiliation where relevant, a very short bio 
(100-150 words) and an abstract describing your presentation. Abstracts 
should not exceed 250 words.

Panel proposals are also welcome. If you are submitting a panel 
proposal, please send a panel abstract of no more than 250 words plus 
details of participants and presentations.

We welcome proposals from artists, activists, and others as well as 
academics.


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