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CfP: Feminist Thought and the Politics of Concepts; University of Helsinki, 23-25. May 2013

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5th Christina Conference of Gender Studies: Feminist Thought and the Politics of Concepts

University of Helsinki, 23–25. May 2013.
The 5th Christina Conference on Gender Studies focuses on the role of concepts in feminist  thought. Concepts are crucial in all research, and also often deeply political, as feminist  scholarship creates and circulates conceptual innovations which transform social realities  transnationally.

Concepts such as ”gender” and ”queer” have already showed their transformational  power. A plethora of others contest realitites, but are also prone to creating conficts  and politics of its own within feminist thought: just consider ”equality,” ”sexual  difference,” ”representation,” ”sex work,” ”transgender,” ”social  construction,” ”materiality,” ”affect,” ”masculinity,” ”body,” ”performativity,” or ”intersectionality.”

The choice of concepts in research is always a political choice, and it also takes part in the  politics of concepts within feminist scholarship.  We invite feminist scholars of all disciplines to present papers in which they discuss conceptual  choices and the role of concepts in their work. Papers can be theoretical studies or studies  which highlight the role of concepts in empirical work, as well as case studies of particular  concepts. Areas of interest in this conference include feminist studies of culture; feminist theory  and philosophy; feminist studies of politics and law; queer studies;, study of race, class and  nation; postcolonial research; intersectionality; and transdiciplinarity. Do particular sets of  concepts, such as those of psychoanalysis, Deleuzian theory, postmodern thought, or Marxist  theory guarantee good analysis? Do these vocabularies exclude and fight each other, and how  do entirely new concepts come about? Which concepts work in your thought and writing? Why  would you defend the use of a particular concept and refuse another one? How do concepts  work: alone or in opposition with each other? The conference takes on the task of politiziging  feminist scholarship by exploring the conflict of concepts withing the field of feminist scholarship.

Keynote speakers:
Tina Chanter (DePaul University, US)
Davina Cooper (Kent Law School, UK)
Elsa Dorlin (Université Paris 8, France)
Jack (Judith) Halberstam (University of Southern California, US)

The Organizing Committee invites abstracts for individual 20-minute presentations. Please  submit your abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief biography (max. 100 words) via the  electronic form at www.helsinki.fi/genderstudies/conference

The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2012.

For more information, visit www.helsinki.fi/genderstudies/conference or contact us at christinaconference@helsinki.fi

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