Glocalising sex and gender: Travel bursaries

Posted on | February 10, 2009 | No Comments

The workshop I mentioned yesterday has just announced that there are 4 grants available for students wishing to attend the workshop, but who usually reside outside of the Sydney urban area. There is a draft of the program here for anyone who might be thinking of going.

To apply for a grant, you will have to be quick! Send a statement of 500 words, a bio & an explanation of your interests and the benefits of attendance should be sent to Sarah at glocalising.sex[at]usyd.edu.au by Friday February 13th.

The Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, together with the CRN’s Identities and Communities node, is delighted to announce the upcoming workshop:

Glocalising Sex & Gender: Consumption, Culture, Practice

Thursday 26th – Friday 27th February, Redfern Town Hall, Sydney.

Over the course of two days we invite participants and speakers to bring together their ideas on how contemporary gendered and sexual cultures are produced by local, inter- and trans-national contexts of consumption and production.

The relationship between globalisation, transnationalism, queer theory-politics, and feminist theory-politics, has already been critically established, though often in ways whereby a concern with either queer or feminist perspectives precludes one from the other. This workshop will continue in the vein of transnational study, with a focus on the concrete ways in which glocalised gendered and sexual effects are produced.

Our international participants, including Dr. Ulrika Dahl (Södertörn University, Sweden), who will run a workshop on feminist methodologies, representation, and research within your own community, and Prof. Chengzhou He (Nanjing University, China) who will give a plenary on feminism and the Chinese context, will set up the depth and breadth of research on gender, sex, sexuality in the glocal. Prof. Elspeth Probyn (University of South Australia) will also be offering her thoughts in the closing plenary.

Members of the Gender and Cultural Studies department will be presenting a number of papers and we will be joined by speakers from other areas of Australia and beyond.

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