CALL FOR PAPERS

 

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. Please send your abstracts (not more than 300 words) through http://cws.emu.edu.tr/GCR2009.  

 

The deadline for submitting full papers is 23 January 2009.

 

Submissions are subject to blind peer review at every stage. Abstracts and papers will be accessible to all participants on the conference web site once the complete program is set.

 

Do not hesitate to contact below name if you have any question

Assist. Prof. Dr. Nurten Kara

Eastern Mediterranean University

Center for Women’s Studies

e-mail: cws-kaem@emu.edu.tr  or nurten.kara@emu.edu.tr

 

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

 

You may download the Conference Poster from here: