Transgender Studies and Theories: Building up the Field in a Nordic Context
November 18-20, 2009, Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden
Papers are invited for an international conference on transgender studies and
theories in a Nordic context. Within the Nordic context there are already a
number of activists and researchers from different disciplines focusing on
transgender questions. However, at present, there is no network to connect
people with an interest in trans questions.
This conference aims to:
• collect and share transgender knowledge
• develop interdisciplinary perspectives on transgender questions
• create networks and establish contacts between researchers
• discuss collaborative work between different interested groups
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Gayle Salamon, Allucquére Rosanne Stone, Del LaGrace Volcano, Stephen Whittle
Supported by funding from Vetenskapsrådet and Linköping University, this
conference will combine keynote presentations by internationally renowned
experts, seminar presentations and discussions, a performance by a drag king
group, and an art exhibition by Del LaGrace Volcano. A special issue of the
Graduate Journal of Social Science will be published in 2010
with a selection of papers developed from the conference. We welcome papers from
researchers, transgender activists, and transpersons from the Nordic countries,
Europe and the broader international scene on/across/expanding the following
themes:
· Transpolitics (including anti-discrimination work, research ethics &
methods, conceptualising “trans”)
· The Trans Body: the Good Life and the Good Body (including medicine,
bioethics and philosophy)
· Trans(bio)graphy, Transnationality, Transectionality (including
personal/political/theoretical/locational narratives)
· Embodiment, Technology and Culture (including “technologies” of
the transgendered body, the posthumanities)
· Trans Art, Culture and ‘Performance’ (including questions of
representation, politics vs aesthetics)
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words indicating your preferred
theme and a brief biography (max 150 words) in English to:
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Deadline for abstract submission: 1 September 2009
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