Call for Papers (now closed)
Australian Women's Studies Association - National and International Conference
9-12 July 2006 Melbourne , Australia
The 2006 conference theme is
Twenty First Century Feminisms
The Australian Women's Studies Association (AWSA) will be holding its next conference in July 2006 in Melbourne. The conference is organized through the Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research at Monash University and co-sponsored by the Research Centre for Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change at the University of Queensland. The AWSA is the peak professional organization for Women's Studies and Gender Studies in Australia. The conference venue, the Hotel Y, is located centrally in Melbourne city.
Plenary speakers include:
- Lisa Adkins, Manchester University
- Carolyn Allport, President, National Tertiary Education Union
- Rosemary Calder, Former Head, Office of the Status of Women
- Annamarie Jagose, University of Auckland
- Maria Jaschok, Gender Institute, Oxford University
Themes and strands which reflect current planning (but do not exclude other topics) are as follows:
- futures for feminism
- international issues in feminism
- women's studies and gender studies teaching issues and institutional questions
- gender, work, law and policy
- feminism, education and universities
- gender, sexuality, technology and medicine
- feminist theory, critiques and controversies
- indigenous women
- histories of feminism
- gender, globalization and the 'war on terror'
- gendering immigration and asylum debates
- ' Third World' feminisms
- lesbian studies
- transgender issues
- theorising sexualities
- gender, race, ethnicity, class
- generational feminisms
- literature, art, media and culture
- women, suffrage, and political representation in the past and present
- open section