Center for Women’s Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University invites paper, panel and event proposals addressing various themes on women/gender studies. The Third International Conference, which will be held at the EMU campus in Famagusta, North Cyprus between April 20-22, 2009, aims at bringing together scholars, researchers, performers and activists from various disciplines in the social sciences to present their works and exchange ideas in a wide range of issues such as economic, socio-cultural, law, politics, communication, design and etc. Under the general theme “Gender at the Crossroads: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives" including but not limited to:

Representation/Visibility/Space
· Gender/Women, Media and Popular Culture
· Poverty and Social Exclusion
· Women in Public and Private spaces
· Borders, Migration and Gender/Women
· New Slavery and Women Trafficking

Activism
· Conflict, War, Militarism and Gender/Women
· Gender/Women, Ethnicity, Nationality, Race
· Gender/Women, Religion and Spirituality,
· Gender/Women, Environment.

Research /Theory
· Methods and Methodologies in Gender/Women Studies
· New Paradigms in Gender/Women Studies

The language of our international conference will be both English and Turkish although translation is not available.

The deadline for submitting proposals is 27 June 2008.
The deadline for submitting full papers is 23 January 2009.

Detailed information is available on http://cws.emu.edu.tr/GCR2009