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class=MsoNormal align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><FONT
size=3>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Gendered
Memories of War and Political Violence<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Istanbul</SPAN></st1:City></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US> - May 22-23,
2012<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Gender and Women’s Studies Forum
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Sabancı</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Workshop organized in the framework of the
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>Central</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">European</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">University-Sabancı</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US> Joint Academic
Initiative <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>by Ayºe Gül Altınay and Andrea
Petö<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Opening Remarks by Cynthia Enloe
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"
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lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>20<SUP>th</SUP> century has been a century of wars,
genocides, and other forms of political violence. It has also been a century of
feminist struggle and theorizing globally. At the peak of what is sometimes
called the “memory boom,” this conference seeks to explore the different ways in
which wars, genocides, and other forms of political violence are remembered
through a gender lens. Central questions include (but are not limited to):
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<UL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm" type=disc>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>How have wars, genocides and other forms of political
violence been narrated and represented by men and women?
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>How do women remember and narrate sexual violence in
war? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>How do (written, oral or visual) testimonies challenge
or reinforce the hegemonic accounts of wars and genocides?
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-US>How are wars memorialized and gendered through monuments, museums,
and other memory sites?</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>What is the impact of the ethnicization/racialization
of violence on the making of gendered memories? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>How is the relationship between the “personal” and the
“public/national/political” (re)conceptualized in popular culture, film,
literature, and (auto)biographical texts dealing with war, genocide, and other
forms of political violence? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>How are “humanitarian interventions,” post-conflict
processes, and transitional justice gendered? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>How do women’s, feminist, and LGBTQ movements
contribute to critical memory work on wars? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>What kind of impact has feminist scholarship had on
war and militarism studies, genocide studies, and memory studies?
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"
lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>What new concepts or theoretical frameworks (queer?
postcolonial? critical race studies?) promise new openings in feminist
analyses of memory work on wars and genocides?
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"
lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><FONT
size=3>Applications: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>The
working language of the conference will be English. <SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Scholars of all levels and from all disciplines are
encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to papers that deal with Europe (in
the largest sense of the term) or <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>’s
connection to the discussed context, but other papers will also be considered.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><FONT
size=3>Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) outlining the relevance and
novelty of your contribution, together with a 200 words resume.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><FONT
size=3>Presenters will be required to submit their presentation in writing prior
to the workshop. With the participation of Cynthia Enloe and other prominent
scholars from the field as discussants, we are hoping for close engagement and
critical debate during the workshop. Presenters will be encouraged to submit
their revised papers for the special issue of the European Journal of Women’s
Studies on the same topic (to be edited by Altınay and Petö).
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><FONT
size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>There are
limited funds for those participants who do not have other sources of funding to
attend the workshop. When submitting your abstract, please indicate your need
for any financial assistance. There are no registration fees. Lunch, tea and
coffee will be provided for all participants. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US>The application
deadline is December 16, 2011</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
lang=EN-US>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=EN-US>To submit your paper
and for more information: <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><A
href=""><FONT color=#0000ff>genderconf@sabanciuniv.edu</FONT></A> and
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><A href=""><FONT color=#0000ff
face="Times New Roman">http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/genderconf/</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>Prof. Dr. habil. Peto Andrea<BR>Central European
University<BR>Department of Gender Studies<BR>H-1051 Budapest Nador utca 9<BR><A
href="http://www.gend.ceu.hu/habil_andrea_pet.php">www.gend.ceu.hu/habil_andrea_pet.php</A><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>