CFP:Encountering the Archive: Simulations, Manipulations, and Debunking April 5-6, 2018 School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU.

Concept Note:

At an hour when China is deciding to rate its citizens based on digital data records and social media is beginning to look like quasi-archives of its users, one must return to questions of information keeping and the archive that plague our everyday. Both Foucault and Derrida remind us of the archive’s claim to authority, their architectural prowess, and their claims to the production of knowledge itself. Derrida traces the archive to its Greek roots of Arkhe as the site “..there where things commence- physical, historical, or ontological principle- but also according to the law, there where men and gods command, there where authority, social order are exercised, in this place from which order is given- nomological principle”. From the impressive Greek edifices, archives today have come to signify any process of storing and accumulating information, digital or analogue, electronic or otherwise, that can be tabulated, computed and phished out when demanded.

The archive is both dogmatically transparent and astutely concealed. On one hand, the archive organizes and stores its data with finesse, thereby inviting its users to glean from it. And yet, the archiving medium, made fragile by time, belies such an easy invitation. The archive encoded through specific medium, like data servers, paper, pen, tapes, microfilms etc., posit themselves as protecting, or concealing material, readily available for use. This dialectic between storage and retrieval complicates the objectives of an archive, so that every archive must find its own synthesis between these two purposes. This dialectic becomes all the more prominent when we view the troubled relationship between the contemporary and the archive, between the object’s waxing and waning in time. The contemporary, in many ways, averts historicization. It is both what we are intimate with, and yet remains in darkness, a relationship of profound dissonance, disjunction and anachronism. Therefore, to archive in the contemporary then is find ourselves in a temporal bind.

In art practice comprising visual, cinema, theatre and performance studies, we have explored the term “archive” through a multiplicity of methodologies. With the shift from artist-as-curator to artist as archivist, we investigate the realm of images (still/moving, analogue/digital, etc.) as they relate to the archive, and how they have charted a shift away from paper-based archives since the latter half of the nineteenth century. We study how their forms, the systems that produce them, the modes and techniques of perception and the circulation networks they engage in have produced a new imagination of the archive. In this we also ask where is the archive – are they the primary spaces from archives and museums, to newer modalities of cloud and hard drives, or the site and the field – the repository of all those unfound traces? With the coming of technologies of mechanical reproduction, archives collecting audio-visual documents such as photographs, films, videos and sound recordings are caught in the double bind of preserving the past, and the threat of preserving too much of it, generating only “an archive of noise”, which escapes the control of the archons, historians or artists who use them. We are persistently raising the question whether performance is that which disappears or that which persists transmitted through a non-archival system of transfer, a kind of knowing-in-the-flesh called the repertoire. These bring about a shift in our understanding of the archivist, who Ginzburg would now identify with the hunter, who is a reader of obtuse signs who had to reconstruct shapes and movements of invisible prey from detritus (foot tracks, excreta, etc.) and commit such knowledge to motor-reflex memory.

In a New historicist tenor where we embrace that “the real” is never accessible as such, this conference invites debates, performances and artwork around the spectral presence of the archive, which we must at the same time concretize and dissolve.

Suggested topics for these may include (though not limited to):

• Archive and the Field

• De-colonizing, de-brahmanizing and queering the archive

• Materiality of the modern archive

• Database aesthetics and the archive 

• The body and the archive 

• The artist as archivist 

• Archive and the production of knowledge 

• Memory and the archive 

• Waste/ Detritus/ Noise and its relation to the archive

• Found footage and documentary film-making

We invite proposals from ALL disciplines, in the form of 250-300 word abstracts or video clips or audio recordings of 6-7mins or in a visual template(interested participants will be mailed the template). Please mail your proposals saastudentsconference@gmail.com by 23:59 hrs. 15th March, 2018.

Due to paucity of funds, we would not be able to give travel allowance to outstation candidates. However, your food and lodging will be looked after. There is no registration fee to take part in this conference.

CFP:Archiving Feminist Futures – Temporality and Gender in Cultural Analysis, Nov-1-3 2018, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

A warm invitation to Berlin for the conference Archiving Feminist Futures.

We would like to approach this topic through

talks, roundtables, project presentations, and installations.

November 1–3, 2018

The Kommission Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv)

In cooperation with the Department of European Ethnology, HU Berlin and the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG), HU Berlin

Organizing committee: Beate Binder, Silvy Chakkalakal, Urmila Goel, Sabine Hess, Alik Mazukatow, Francis Seeck

Throughout the recent German electoral campaign, affective invocations such as “Now is the Time!”, “Return to the Deutsche Mark”, and “Rehabilitate Democracy” were repeated continuously. As is so often the case with political events like these, one could observe how time was employed both as an idea and a resource. Images of a “fair future” stood alongside a “golden past”, and a present that—characterized by many as having gone haywire—was positioned as the main political target. Drawing upon concepts of time lies at the core of political campaigns that employ a strong request for action and change, be this progressive or reactionary. In future thinking as well as in a fixation with the past aimed at defending the status quo, time and temporality create powerful cultural orders and initiate processes of inclusion and exclusion as well as of collectivization and subjectification.

The conference “Archiving Feminist Futures” builds on current debates around “feminist futures” and “queer temporalities”, which encourage us to consider temporality from an intersectional perspective. Time, in this sense, is regarded as a gendered phenomenon. The conference theme thereby also refers to the persistent discussion within cultural anthropology about the nexus of “time and the other” (Fabian 2002). How are time and temporality being practiced, narrated, placed, and made tangible? Specifically, we aim to investigate the very parameters of power and inequality that arise from these constellations. The academic practices of ethnography and archiving include an important anticipatory element, as they always assume and imagine a future for which we describe, archive, and pass on. In this sense, we would like to approach the everyday, political, and methodological dimensions of time and temporality.

The following questions are of particular interest: What role do temporal practices play in the cultural analysis of gender studies? What are the effects of time understood as a classificatory category within fieldwork as well as during the process of scholarly exploration and evaluation? What is the speculative and anticipatory potential of a cultural anthropology informed by queer and feminist theory? How do we anticipate the future of the analysis of gender relations and structural inequalities from a perspective of European Ethnology? What do we understand by “queer futures” or “feminist futures”? What kind of spaces of power and possibility are we conceptualizing with such terms? Are we archiving for the future or can the future itself be archived? And, finally, the fundamental question: How are time and temporality intertwined with gender?

Academic debates about postfeminism, postcolonialism, and migration as well as broader discussions around Gender Shift and Womenomics address the idea of the future of gender within several social fields. “Archiving Feminist Futures” invites the interrogation of feminist futures, temporal practices, and processes of temporalization from a range of disciplines, to bring together scholars of politics, the economy, care, law, art and popular culture, as well as technology, sustainability, medicine, and biology.

We would like to approach historical, theoretical, and methodological imaginations of the past, present, and future, all of which articulate broader conceptions of society, making visible feminist and queer theory as social and political movements. In their approach to time and temporality, such discussions of the future constantly take into account the state and status of feminist and queer theoretical and methodological efforts (Halberstam 2005). Conflicts between various feminist pasts and their own specific historiographies come to the fore (Binder/Hess 2013; Hark 2005); the possibilities and desirability of feminist futures become apparent (Milojevic 1998). The intensified debate about the future raises the question of political agency in the “here and now” and leads to a critique of the so-called over-presence of the future within the present (Avanessian/Malik 2016). This discussion can also be productively informed by feminist and postcolonial perspectives, for example when connected with provocative concepts such as “feeling backward” (Love 2007) or “being anachronistic” (Zinnenburg Carroll 2016). Against this backdrop, thinking, designing, and envisioning futures goes hand in hand with the cultural analysis of past and present times.

We would like the idea of archiving futures therefore to be a productive approach for our conference. This empirical and ethnographic frame also includes the reflexive and anticipatory potential of European ethnology and its various methods and materials of cultural analysis.

We invite proposals for 20-minute talks or alternative forms of presentations (debates, short presentations, commentaries, exhibits, installations, performance). Prospective contributions may address, but are not limited to, one of the following areas:

• How do we make use of time?

Empirically informed research on temporal practices and temporal orders of the past and present, for

example analyzing gender (e.g. its constituting or stabilizing effects) from an interdependent perspective.

• Politics of/for the future:

Empirically informed research exploring fields in which time and/or the future are used as a political

argument with close study of its subjectivizing and gendering effects.

• Cross-boundary interventions:

Feminist science fiction, artistic and activist sketches of gender, time, and temporality.

• Research practices within Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology, and Gender Studies: Temporal approaches to one’s own academic work: methodological and theoretical reflections on paradigms of development, genealogies, chronologies, linearities, legacies, or cultural heritage.

Please include the title of your talk or presentation, a short bio, and brief abstract of no more than 300 words (in German or English). Please send your proposal to future.archives.ifee@hu-berlin.de by March 30, 2018. We would like to emphasize the possibility to propose other media formats (film, exhibition, sound, photography, experimental writing, etc). There will be the possibility to present such works.

With kind regards from Berlin,

Beate Binder, Silvy Chakkalakal, Urmila Goel, Sabine Hess, Alik Mazukatow, Francis Seeck

 Contact Info: 

Prof. Dr. Silvy Chakkalakal 

Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Møhrenstraße 41, 10117 Berlin

https://hu.berlin/chakkalakal 

Contact Email: 

future.archives.ifee@hu-berlin.de

Call for Papers for an International Conference on Migration-"The Migrant and the State: From Colonialism to Neoliberalism", TISS, Patna, India

Call for Papers :

The latest Economic Survey (2016-17) of the Government of India has a full chapter devoted to interstate migration in the country. Titled ‘India on the Move and Churning: New Evidence,’ the chapter begins with a quote by B. R. Ambedkar: ‘An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts.’[1] Clearly in its present outlook on migration the Indian government strives to make a positive connection between mobility of labour and large scale social transformation facilitated through the channels of this mobility riding on a new set of evidence from novel methods of enumeration like Cohort-based Migration Metric and Railway Passenger Data based Metric that show a considerable increase in the volume of interstate migration in comparison with the provisional D-5 tables in the 2011 Census. Notwithstanding the correctness of the estimates, we may infer that the Indian state is considering the phenomenon of migration not only as a means of economic development but also as an instrument of effecting social transformation by governing the flow and direction of the movement of the working population. The desire to identify and manage the potential workers on the move is also palpable in the two observations made in the study: (1) the female workforce is a highly potential agent of development and (2) the expansion and integration of the labour markets require portability of food security benefits, healthcare and basic social security provisions through better interstate coordination entailing re-imagination of the federal structure of the country.

It does not need saying that the relatively recent interest in migration has a long history that can be traced back to the days of colonialism, slavery and indentured labour. The relationship between the state and the migrant has gone through many a mutation since then; the mutuality of their existence has also been sifted by a range of seemingly external forces, institutions and processes. However, according to Timothy Mitchell, the debate about the elusive boundary between the state and the non-state entities has a tendency to assume inaccurately that the division is external to their respective forms and mechanisms.[2] The same division is again reinforced in the often contradictory understandings about the state either as an abstract concept or as an amalgam of well defined functions and material practices. The problem with this definitive position is that it often obscures the politics that contributes to the internalisation of the externalities between the state and non-state entities. It is therefore imperative to follow the trails of this elusive boundary as we live in a time when both the notions of a strong and a weak state can exist simultaneously and operate in the same plane of material interventions. Migration seems to be a potent site of studying these processes in the sense that it stages the enactment of flexing boundaries repeatedly and often in ways that reproduce the logic of externalisation of the non-state entities like the society or the economy. In the same token, it also reintroduces the state in our imagination as an effect of a boundary-making exercise where the limits of economic development, social churning and reordering of the state interact with each other and produce novel forms of governmental apparatuses.    

The International Conference on the dynamic and ever-changing relationship between the state and the migrant aims to meet the timely demand of chronicling these interactive, interspersed narratives of mutuality where the figure of the migrant is produced in the various domains of statist paraphernalia over the last two hundred years. At the same time, it will focus on histories of the reinforcement of the state – both as ideas and material realities – in our collective political imagination by eliciting various other flexible boundaries between the market and the state, the legal and the illegal, the formal and the informal and the mobile and the sedentary. The broad thrust of the conference will be on (a) how significantly different is the ‘postcolonial condition’ from colonialism with respect to the relationship between the state and the migrant; (b) what is the specificity of the neoliberal refashioning of the state in dealing with the mobile workforce; and (c) how new technologies of enumeration and intervention affect the state’s perceptions of and expectations from the migrant.

Individual papers and panels are welcome on any of the following themes and related areas:   

1.      Migrant labour in the colonial period

2.      Migrant and Postcolonial industrialisation

3.      Migration and gender

4.      Identity, violence, and displacement

5.      Changing agrarian relations

6.      New technologies of governance

7.      Trans-border migration

8.      Labour, informality and logistics

9.      Migration and urbanisation

10.  Social movements and forms of resistance

Important Dates

Submission of abstract: 31st May, 2018

Intimation of selection of abstract: 30th June, 2018

Registration of paper presenters: 1st to 15th July, 2018

[Registration Fee: Rs. 1000/- for Indian participants and $100 for international participants]

Submission of full paper: 21st October, 2018

Date of Conference: 29th and 30th November and 1st December 2018

To submit your abstract or for any query, write to patna.conference@tiss.edu

Contact Info: 

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna Centre

Delhi Public School Senior Wing 

Village: Chandmari, 

Danapur Cantonment, Patna - 801 502 (Bihar) INDIA

Contact Email: patna.conference@tiss.edu

URL: http://tiss.edu/view/5/mumbai-campus/centre-for-development-practice-and-research/call-for-papers-for-an-international-c...

International Conference on Women Empowerment, Education and Social Sciences 15- 17 March 2018 Goa, India

Call for Papers

The International Conference on Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences 2018 (ICWES 2018 ) to be organized by IMRF in collaboration with Carmel College for Women and other International Bodies shall be one of the significant conferences in Women Studies, Education & Social Sciences Community held in conjunction with the UGC India Approved Journals .

The Conference is designed with Special Invited Research Lectures, Paper Presentations and Poster Presentations. International Conference on Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences 2018 is honored by bringing UGC Approved - Arts & Education International Research Journal Vol-5 Issue 1 with 2349– 1353, Peer reviewed Social Sciences International Research Journal Vol-4 Spl Issue with ISSN 2395 – 0544, with all papers accepted for publication. The main intention is to reflect the pioneering state of research in Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences 

Some non-technical talks connected with promotion of research in Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences will also be convened. 

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Original research papers in the following disciplines but not confined, related to Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences from Post Graduate Students, Research Scholars, Faculty, Scientists are invited for presentation.​ 

Women Studies 

Feminist method |Gender studies |Gender mainstreaming |Gynocentrism |Kyriarchy |Matriarchy |Women's studies | Patriarchy |Écriture féminine | Leadership etc., and allied subjects 

Education

Primary education |Secondary education |Higher education |Vocational education |Adult education

Alternative education |Madrasa education |Woman education |Dance education |Distance education | International studies | Journalism education |Special education |Vocational education 

Social Sciences 

Anthropology |Archaeology |Criminology |Demography |Economics |Geography (human) |History International relations |Jurisprudence |Linguistics |Pedagogy |Political science |Psychology |Science education |Sociology | Public Administration |Journalism etc., and allied subjects. 

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English Studies Linguistics |Sociolinguistics |Discourse analysis |Language learning and teaching | Literature American literature – including African American literature |Jewish American literature Southern literature | Australian literature |British literature |Canadian literature | Irish literature New Zealand literature |Scottish literature |Welsh literature |South African literature | Translations 

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Submission of Papers 

Participants intending to present papers in conference are requested to submit soft copy of the abstract incorporating the motivation, method of solution and important findings of their investigation to icwes2018@gmail.com. 

Important Dates 

Participation is for limited number. 

To reserve your participation with the notified fee and with out any late charges register the earliest 

Last date to submit Abstract : 20/02/2018 

Last date to Register : 25/02/2018 

Optional 

Last date to submit Full Paper if interested in Publication : 20/02/2018 

Contact Us 

If you need more information, have questions, or would like to offer a suggestion, please be in touch. 

You can contact us via phone, email.

We’ll get back to you as soon as possible. 

Tel: +91 9533421234, +91 9618777011

Email : icwes2018@gmail.com

HQ : Vijayawada, Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh, India

www.imrf.in | www.imrfjournals.in | www.imrfedu.org

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ICSSR Funded Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences-21st - 30th March 2018,Central University of Jharkhand

Call For Applications:

The Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi,invites applications from M.Phil., Ph.D., and PDF scholars who are doing research on any topics and issues related to folklore for participation in a Ten-Day National Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences to be held on 21st - 30th March 2018 at CUJ Campus (Ranchi).

This ten-day workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences is fully sponsored by IndianCouncil for Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.

The Course Director of the workshop is Dr. M. Ramakrishnan, Asst. Prof., Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, CUJ. (Ph: 09199140340 / 09444868577)

The Co-Course Director of the workshop is Dr. Rabindaranath Sarma, Head & Assoc. Prof.,Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, CUJ. (Ph: 07549198583)

The preference will be given to the applicants belonging to the SC, ST, Minorities, Women, OBC, Other categories as per the instructions of the ICSSR.

There is no registration fee for the participants and the outstations participants will be provided free accommodation along with their travel allowance.

The venue of the programme is

 Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi – 835205 (Jharkhand)

The duly filled in application along with the scanned copy of the documents must be sent to the Course Director on or before 23rd February 2018 by email only at ilakkiyameen@gmail.com.

The date of notification of the selected candidates is 26th February 2018.

Application Forms can be downloaded from the University Website: http://www.cuj.ac.in/

For more details

COURSE DIRECTOR/ CO-COURSE DIRECTOR

Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language

and Literature

Central University of Jharkhand

Brambe, Ranchi - 835205

CFA:Summer Courses-Language Intensives in Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Nepalese-New Graduate-Level Advanced Tibetan Reading Seminar- June 13- August 10, 2018 Kathmandu University

Call For Applications:

Kathmandu University - Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Tibetan, Sanskrit and Nepalese summer intensive language courses. The courses include beginning and intermediate classical Tibetan, three levels of colloquial Tibetan (beginning, intermediate, and advanced), beginning and intermediate Sanskrit, and beginning and intermediate Nepalese. An introductory Buddhist studies intensive, combining study and a meditation practicum at a retreat center in the Kathmandu Valley will also be offered.

In addition, this year CBS is offering a new graduate-level, for-credit Advanced Tibetan Reading Seminar to be taught by Professor Klaus-Dieter Mathes from the Univ. of Vienna and Professor Yaroslav Komarovski from the Univ. of Nebraska.

The spoken language courses, which are structured to offer full immersion in the local languages and cultures, offer the opportunity to live with Tibetan and Nepalese families. All classes are held at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery, just a few minutes’ walk from the Great Stupa of Boudhanath in the Kathmandu Valley. This summer's courses begin June 13 and end August 10.

For more information, visit:  www.ryi.org/programs/summer-intensives.

Contact Info: 

Joanne Larson

Director of Programs

Kathmandu University

Centre for Buddhist Studies

at Rangjung Yeshe Institute

Contact Email: 

joanne.larson@ryi.org

URL: 

http://www.ryi.org

International Conference on Journalism: Who Creates the News?- 13 January 2019, United Kingdom

Call For Papers:

News making and the influence of sources on news production have been a focus of interest of scholars since 1970s when Sigal published his seminal study on news sources. Much has changed since then and while routine sources such as Government’s press releases and other information still influence news agenda, entrepreneurial sources such as charities and NGOs are also making a momentum in acting as sources to journalists. In part, charities became sources because of newsworthiness their work adds to journalists who can argue they are serving the public by reporting on charity activism and raising awareness of charitable causes. However, journalists also report using contacts when sourcing news, and many academic studies reported increased reliance on PR content, because of which journalism also earned the nickname “chournalism”.

In addition, growing number of studies report that women are not as present in newsrooms as much as men, and that newsrooms still remain a place for blokes. Nevertheless, some studies reported that not only women do not participate in main news writing as much as men but that when something moves from traditional “female” sections (such as health, lifestyle and food) to news then it is again men who write on these topics and not women.

Major political debates revealed question of media ownership and influence of editorial policies on news content and sourcing stories. For example, during the Brexit debate in the UK newspapers such as The Guardian took a pro-remain stance while newspapers such as The Daily Mail and The Sun pushed for the leave vote. Therefore, the question is also who creates editorial policy, and how these editorial policies influence the agenda of each newspaper? What does having an editorial position means for news and journalism? How do we understand news and news making? Is impartiality truly a myth?

Nevertheless, SEO also had an impact on journalism because media organisations now need not only serve as watchdogs of democracy and inform the public on current events, but they also need to create content that their audiences are searching for on search engines. Some argue that this has had a negative impact on journalism as media organisations are producing content their audiences want to consume rather than serving the public by informing them on what they find relevant and newsworthy. Whether we see SEO as negative or positive, it is a fact that it changed journalism and brought to a stakeholder orientation within media organisations, with which it also diminished media’s traditional gate keeping function.

These and other issues are the subjects of our conference. Papers are invited (but not limited to) for the following topics,

Exploration of sources in creating news
Agenda setting studies
Women in journalism
Editorial policies and news making
Media ownership and its influence on news making
Impartiality in news reporting
Journalism education
Journalism and public opinion
Journalism freedom
Fake news
Fact checking
Reporting the truth
SEO and its influence on journalism
Reporting standards
Investigative journalism
Social media as a source of news stories
The role of social media presence in building a career in journalism
Citizen journalism
The role of PR in news production


















Both researchers and practitioners are welcome to submit paper proposals.

Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić (martinahr@gmail.com) by 15 October 2018. Decisions will be sent by 1 November 2018 and registrations are due by 15 December 2018. In case we collect enough abstracts earlier, we will send decisions earlier.  

Conference fee is GBP 180, and it includes
The registration fee
Conference bag and folder with materials
Access to the newsletter, and electronic editions of the Centre
Opportunity for participating in future activities of the Centre (research & co-editing volumes)
Meals and drinks
Sightseeing for second day of the conference
WLAN during the conference
Certificate of attendance

Centre for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences is a private institution originally founded in December 2013 in Croatia. Since July 2016 the Centre is registered in Leeds, UK.

Participants are responsible for finding funding to cover transportation and accommodation costs during the whole period of the conference. This applies to both presenting and non-presenting participants. The Centre will not discriminate based on the origin and/or methodological/paradigmatic approach of prospective conference participants.

Information for non-EU participants:

The Centre will issue Visa letter to participants with UK entry clearance requirement. The British Home Office has a very straightforward procedure, which is not excessively lengthy and the Centre will also issue early decisions to participants with Visa requirements.

Contact Info: 

Dr Martina Topic

Contact Email: 

martinahr@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.socialsciencesandhumanities.com/international-conference-on-journalism-who-creates-the-news/

Fifth International Conference on Women's Studies- January 26, 2019 : United Kingdom

RATIONALE

Feminists started to advocate equality and fight for women rights decades ago, and so far we have experienced several waves of feminism. While at the beginning of activism, the issue was in women’s equality in general for women were banned from exercising even basic rights such as the right to vote or work, current feminism is standing up against issues such as glass ceiling (where women can only progress in their careers up to a certain point, but fail to obtain managerial positions), wage gap (where women are paid less for same positions as men), as well as traditional battle against patriarchy that is clearly still alive and well. For example, even though it is legally possible for men to take paternal leaves and stay at home to take care of children and household, it is still women who have these requests approved more often than men, which testifies that patriarchal views of expected roles are still present. In addition, in some countries women are still banned from exercising basic rights such as the right to vote, work in all positions and even the right to drive. While there is a number of men that experience family violence, it is still women who mostly suffer from this type of abuse, while those men who do suffer from it fear reporting it due to expectation that the men is the boss in the house. Nevertheless, with the rise of Far Right political candidates and public speakers started to question Feminism and argue that it fulfilled its purpose, while at the same time re-introducing old prejudices and practices against women where an emphasis is based on their appearance, etc.

The questions the conference addresses are how far have we got, and what needs to be done to achieve true equality of both men and women, and a society where there are no expected roles? Has Feminism failed?

Papers are invited (but not limited to) for the following panels:
Patriarchy
Women and the rise of Far Right
Women and labour
Women and discrimination
Women and sexual violence
Women and religion
Women in the media
Women and politics
Women and sexuality
Theory and methodology in women’s studies
Women: East vs West
Women and reproductive rights
Women and education
Women and leadership
Men’s rights






Prospective participants are also welcome to submit proposals for their own panels. Both researchers and practitioners are welcome to submit paper proposals.

Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić (martinahr@gmail.com) by 15 October 2018. Decisions will be sent by 1 November 2018 and registrations are due by 15 December 2018. In case we collect enough abstracts earlier, we will send decisions earlier.   

Conference fee is GBP180, and it includes,
The registration fee
Conference bag and folder with materials
Access to the newsletter, and electronic editions of the Centre
Opportunity for participating in future activities of the Centre (research & co-editing volumes)
Meals and drinks
WLAN during the conference
Certificate of attendance

Centre for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences is a private institution originally founded in December 2013 in Croatia (EU). Since July 2016 the Centre is registered in Leeds, UK.

Participants are responsible for finding funding to cover transportation and accommodation costs during the whole period of the conference. This applies to both presenting and non-presenting participants. The Centre will not discriminate based on the origin and/or methodological/paradigmatic approach of prospective conference participants.

Information for non-EU participants:

The Centre will issue Visa letter to participants with UK entry clearance requirement. The British Home Office has a very straightforward procedure, which is not excessively lengthy and the Centre will also issue early decisions to participants with Visa requirements.

Contact Info: 

Dr Martina Topic

Contact Email: 

martinahr@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.socialsciencesandhumanities.com/fifth-international-conference-on-womens-studies/