Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:06:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Cairo 2003  (fwd)




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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:41:31 -0500
From: Hillary Palmer <hp166-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Cairo 2003


CALL FOR PAPERS

Gendered Bodies, Transnational Politics: Modernities Reconsidered

Friday through Sunday, December 12-14, 2003, Cairo, Egypt

"Gendered Bodies, Transnational Politics: Modernities Reconsidered" is a
workshop organized by the Institute for Gender and Women's Studies (IGWS)
at the American University in Cairo and the Center for the Study
of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) at New York University. It is co-sponsored
by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Hagop Kevorkian Center for
Near Eastern Studies, and the Diversity Studies Initiative, Graduate School
of Arts and Science at New York University.


This workshop seeks to understand and explore the complexities
surrounding gender and sexuality dynamics in the Middle East, North Africa
and Central Asia by facilitating a conversation between scholars working in
(a) women's studies in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia; (b)
transnational feminism; and (c) gender and sexuality studies. It provides a
space for an epistemological conversation that reexamines the ways in which
dominant discourses on modernity and the articulation of social and
political space and place -- as delineated by political and cultural visions
of the postcolonial world order and its boundaries -- have critically
informed women's and gender studies over the past few decades.


Especially welcome are contributions addressing the following questions:


1.To what extent have dominant discourses of modernization that posit
modernity as a singular path and framework affect the ways in which
gendered and sexualized knowledge is produced and reproduced in general, and
in Middle East/ North Africa and Central Asian area studies, in particular?


2. What sorts of questions animate women's, gender and sexuality studies
at specific geographical locations? What sorts of genealogies mark these
questions? Who authors them at what sites? And how do they travel within
the global academy?


3. How does the notion of grounding conceptual frameworks fare in an
intellectual era grounded in a moral economy that privileges things
hybrid and transnational at the expense of local, localized, and localizing
practices?


4. Between the call to get beyond area studies and the demand for
localized practices, how do we/can we envision gender and women's studies in
Middle East/North Africa/Central Asia with an emancipatory component? In
other words, what are the epistemological concerns that emerge in and
produce specific research agendas and methodological practices around the
study of gender and sexuality dynamics in Muslim/Arab/Central Asian
contexts?


A limited number of scholars from outside the Middle East/North Africa
region will be funded.


Please send an abstract of 750 words by May 1, 2003 to: <igws-AT-aucegypt.edu>.


Abstracts will be accepted in Arabic or English.


Notification of accepted abstracts: June 15, 2003


Full papers (15-20 pages, including bibliography) due, for circulation to
workshop participants: October 1, 2003


For more information, please contact Dr. Rabab
Abdulhadi  <rabab.abdulhadi-AT-nyu.edu> or Dr. Martina Rieker
<mrieker-AT-aucegypt.edu>.



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Carolyn Dinshaw
Professor of English
Director, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
New York University
285 Mercer Street, Third Floor
NY, NY  10003-6653
tel. 212-992-9542  fax: 212-995-4433
NYU mail code: 0621




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