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The Executive Committee of the Ninth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 6-8, 2008. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline.
This year’s theme, “Contentious Voices,” incorporates a variety of trends shaping the field of women’s and gender history. We welcome paper or panel submissions that analyze the state of the field, particularly those that problematize it or suggest new avenues of inquiry. We are especially interested in papers that engage with the intersections between women’s and gender history and sexuality studies, and address such themes as race, religion, dissent, discipline and embodiment from a range of methodological vantage points, including queer theory, black feminist thought, transnational/post-colonial thought, the social sciences and humanities
For this year’s Symposium, we are delighted to announce two plenary speakers who engage many of these themes in their work:
• Saidiya Hartman (Professor of African American and American Literature - Columbia University)
All submissions must be received by November 8, 2007. To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format (preferred method), please send five (5) copies of a 250-word abstract AND a one-page curriculum vitae for EACH paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair
• Sara Ahmed (Professor in Race and Cultural Studies - Goldsmiths, University of London)
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