Gender and Sexuality Italian Style
Monash Centre, Prato, Italy
3-5 July, 2008
Deadline for Abstacts: December 10, 2007 (Closed)
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Gender and Sexuality Italian Style
In the 1980s and the early 1990s, the field of gender studies was commonly understood and treated as being unproblematically synonymous with women’s studies. However, increasingly, the category of ‘gender studies’ has broadened significantly, both informed by and informing developments in queer and sexuality studies.
This conference will explore how new definitions of and critical approaches to gender and sexuality have impacted on current debates in Italian studies as an international field. In particular, we are interested in how the study of gender and sexuality has changed the map of Italian studies and critically enriched the discipline particularly outside of Italy.
Moreover, since the early 1990s a new emphasis on cultural studies has facilitated growing intersections and dialogues between theoretical discourses informing traditional fields of enquiry as well as less traditional fields such as cinema studies, diaspora studies and gay and lesbian studies. The conference will explore ways in which the combination of a cultural studies approach with gender and sexuality studies is changing the landscape of the discipline of Italian Studies in Italy and beyond.
Organisers
Dr Charlotte Ross, Department of Italian Studies, The University of Birmingham,
Dr Susanna Scarparo, Italian Studies Program, Monash University and
Ms Angela Donahoe, Italian Studies Program, Monash University.
All Enquiries
angela.donahoe@arts.monash.edu.au
Links
http://arts.monash.edu.au/italian/ Italian Studies, Monash University
http://www.italian.bham.ac.uk/ Italian Studies, University of Birmingham
http://www.ita.monash.edu/ Monash University Prato Centre
http://www.ita.monash.edu/visit/accommodation/ Accommodation in Prato
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