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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This is a reminder of the proposal submission deadline for this
exciting upcoming interdisciplinary conference:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>“Gender, Bodies and
Technology”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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12.0pt'><a href="http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/"
title="blocked::http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/">http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Proposals are invited for an
Interdisciplinary Conference <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>April 22-24, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Roanoke</span></font></b></st1:City><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>, <st1:State w:st="on">Virginia</st1:State></span></b></st1:place><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Sponsored by the Women’s and
Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><u><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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 technological
production of gendered and racialized bodies, historical and contemporary
feminist appropriations of technology in aesthetics and representations of
embodiment, and the gendered implications of technology in contexts ranging
from classrooms to workplaces to the Internet. We construe technology broadly
to include material culture and the apparatus of daily life, such as writing,
books and the built environment. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and
gendered bodies <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Work, healthcare, education and activities of daily life as produced
through technologies <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Performance, new media and other creative expressions as sites for
engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Biopolitics and medical engineering of reproduction, sexual identity
and gender<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Surveillance, containment, in/security and militarization<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Identity and technological design, production and use; gender, race,
age, class and sexuality in SET (sciences, engineering and technology) fields <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-New media art and feminist aesthetics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological
citizenship <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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. Using the form
attached, please submit a proposal of up to 300 words for each individual
presentation, including not only the scholarship you will engage but also the
format that you wish to use. For panels, include an abstract for each
presentation. Please specify in your proposal any special requirements for
technology or space that you anticipate. Proposals will be reviewed by Virginia
Tech Women’s and Gender Studies faculty/affiliates with appropriate
expertise and notification of the outcome will be made no later than October
15, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Proposals should be submitted via our website at <a
href="http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/" title="blocked::http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/">http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/</a>.
If that is not possible, or if you have questions, please contact: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Sharon Elber<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>GBT Conference Co-Planner <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>STS/Women’s and Gender Studies (0227)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Virginia Tech<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Blacksburg</span></font></st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">VA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">24061</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="mailto:selber@vt.edu">selber@vt.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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