Appel à communication : Medieval and Early Modern Studies Symposium « Sex and Gender Politics » – Date limite 8 Juillet 2019

Appel à communication : Medieval and Early Modern Studies Symposium « Sex and Gender Politics »
(9 October 2019, Northumbria University, Newcastle, Angleterre)
Date Limite: 8 JUILLET 2019

Keynote speaker: Dr Elena Woodacre (University of Winchester), author of The Queens Regnant of Navarre: succession, politics and partnership, 1274-1512, lead editor of the Routledge History of Monarchy, founder of the Royal Studies Network

This one-day event hosted by the Medieval and Early Modern Studies research group at Northumbria University, Newcastle, brings together academics, early career researchers, and PhD students for an interdisciplinary symposium linking new and more traditional approaches to medieval and early modern gender studies broadly defined.

Recent years have seen a proliferation of approaches to gender studies to include, for example, incorporation of LGBTQ and challenging heteronormativity, history of emotions, and the recognition that to understand gender relations, we must equally study both femininity and masculinity. At the same time, interdisciplinary approaches, from literature, archaeology, music, history, linguistics, art and performance, continue to provide us with new and exciting ways of unlocking experiences of the past as both physical and sexual, as well as structured by gendered social norms.

We invite 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of ‘Sex and Gender Politics’ but are also open to other formats (roundtable discussions, shorter work-in-progress papers, performances, reconstructions, posters etc). We hope that the informal atmosphere of a symposium will provide a friendly forum for both developed work as well as work-in-progress and trying out new ideas.

We welcome proposals relating to gender, sex and politics in their broadest senses. Moreover, we understand the term ‘politics’ broadly, as incorporating both governance and power relations between individuals and groups, therefore relating to court and diplomacy, local, family, and religious politics.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Expressions of identity
Mistresses and favourites
Cross-dressing on stage and beyond
Sexual violence and harassment
Representation and iconography
Sexuality and eroticism
Authority and power
History of emotions
Consumerism and material culture
Work and leisure
Boundaries, restrictions, limitations, and resistance

Please email your proposals to Katarzyna Kosior (katarzyna.kosior@northumbria.ac.uk) by 8 July 2019.

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