<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Agata Stasińska</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:astasinska@psych.pan.pl" target="_blank">astasinska@psych.pan.pl</a>></span><br>Date: 2015-04-20 17:44 GMT+02:00<br>Subject: Fwd: [CRITSEX] Call for papers - Sex and Sexuality in East-Central Europe, Past and Present - CEU Budapest<br>To: <a href="mailto:QUEERKINSHIP@jiscmail.ac.uk" target="_blank">QUEERKINSHIP@jiscmail.ac.uk</a><br><br><br>
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For those of you interested in sexuality in the region.<div><div><br>
Please circulate widely!<br>
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<td>[CRITSEX] Call for papers - Sex and Sexuality in
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<td>Katerina Liska <a href="mailto:katerina.liska@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank"><katerina.liska@GMAIL.COM></a></td>
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<td>Katerina Liska <a href="mailto:katerina.liska@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank"><katerina.liska@GMAIL.COM></a></td>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear all,</font>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">please find the
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="14cd8d2c8c3eec10_14cd7859ce6bd21f_GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US">Sex
and Sexuality in East-Central Europe, Past and Present</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></font></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><b> </b></span><b>An
Interdisciplinary Conference at the
Central European University</b></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span lang="EN-US"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Budapest
</font></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span lang="EN-US"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">October
16-17, 2015</font></b></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sex and sexuality in
East-Central
European contexts are relatively new topics of academic
inquiry. While the past
five years have seen a growing academic interest, from
histories of queer life,
prostitution and sexology to ethnographies of lgbtq
movements and queer
literary representations, forums for scholars working on
sex and sexuality in
East-Central Europe have often remained fragmented and
disciplinarily bound.
This conference strives to contest and bridge these
boundaries by bringing
together scholars from a wide range of disciplinary
perspectives to ask: What
are the driving questions, theoretical and conceptual
issues, and social and
political realities that have shaped research agendas in
this area? How can we
work together to expand our understandings of these
issues and realities and
their consequences? How can the site of East-Central
Europe, past and present,
challenge us to theorize and politicize sex and
sexuality in new ways? </font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">We invite proposals for papers and
pre-organized panels addressing historical and
contemporary aspects of sex and
sexuality in the East-Central European context within the
following broad
themes:</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">State,
trans/supra-state, and civil society institutions,
discourses, and practices <span style="background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Political
economies </span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Religion</span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Markets
(i.e. commodifications, consumptions, tourisms, sex
work, pornography,
prostitution, trafficking)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Science,
medicine and public health (i.e. HIV/AIDS, <span style="background-repeat:initial initial">medical-scientific
knowledge
and expertise, etc.)</span></span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Normativities,
non-normativities and queerness</span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Disabilities
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Mainstream,
marginal, and alternative social movements</span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style="font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Reflection
on the above in literature and the arts as well the
media (including, new
media, social media)</span></font></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify">We
welcome proposals from the humanities
and the social sciences including but not limited to
anthropology, literary
studies, history, political science, sociology, science
studies and women’s,
gender, and sexuality studies.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Paper
proposals should include:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·
</span><span lang="EN-US">contact
information (name, email and academic affiliation of the
applicant);</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·
</span><span lang="EN-US">a
300 to 400-word abstract that includes the title of
paper;</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">·
</span><span lang="EN-US">a
short biographical statement.</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Pre-organized panels
should consist of
3-4 papers. Panel organizers are welcome to suggest a
discussant for their
panels. If you wish to organize a panel in a different
format, please contact
the conference organizers.</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Panel proposals should include
information
about proposed papers as listed above and a 300-400-word
panel description.</font></p>
<p><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Please send
your proposals to </span></b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:sexineuropeconference@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">sexineuropeconference@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">The deadline is
June 30, 2015</font></span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">All proposals and papers must be in
English</font></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Confirmed keynote speakers:</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Joanna
Mizielinska, </span><span lang="EN-US">Polish
Academy of Sciences, Poland</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Josie
McLellan, University of Bristol, United Kingdom</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Organizers:</font></span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">Agnieszka Koscianska, Ph.D.</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">Assistant Professor</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">Deputy Director </font></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">Department of Ethnology and Cultural
Anthropology</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">University of Warsaw</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">Poland</font></span></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Anita
Kurimay<span lang="EN-US">,
Ph.D.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Assistant
Professor </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Department
of History </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bryn
Mawr College </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">United
States</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kateřina
Lišková, Ph.D. </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Assistant
Professor</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Gender
Studies Program, Department of Sociology </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Office
for Population Studies, Masaryk University</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Czech
Republic </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hadley
Z. Renkin<span lang="EN-US">,
Ph.D.</span>
</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Assistant
Professor </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Department
of Gender Studies </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Central
European University </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hungary</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Eszter
Timár<span lang="EN-US">,
Ph.D.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Assistant
Professor </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Department
of Gender Studies </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Central
European University </font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hungary</font></p>
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