CFP Gender, Bodies, Technology

[Sharon Elber]

Of possible interest to some on this list:

 

 

"Gender, Bodies and Technology"

http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/

 

Proposals are invited for an Interdisciplinary Conference 

April 22-24, 2010

Roanoke, Virginia

Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech

 

Proposal Deadline:  September 15, 2009

 

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. 

 

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:

-Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and
gendered bodies 

-Work, healthcare, education and activities of daily life as produced
through technologies 

-Performance, new media and other creative expressions as sites for
engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology 

-Biopolitics and medical engineering of reproduction, sexual identity and
gender

-Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing 

-Surveillance, containment, in/security and militarization

-Identity and technological design, production and use; gender, race, age,
class and sexuality in SET (sciences, engineering and technology) fields 

-New media art and feminist aesthetics

-Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism

-Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological
citizenship  

 

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.

 

Proposals should be submitted via our website at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/.
If that is not possible, or if you have questions, please contact: 

 

Sharon Elber

GBT Conference Co-Planner 

STS/Women's and Gender Studies (0227)

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061

selber at vt.edu

 

 

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