CALL FOR PAPERS: Gender agendas, including transvestites, transsexuals, the
transgendered and queering

INSCRIPTIONS '04: an arts and culture conference and festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
June 3rd- 4th, 2004

      The seventh annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held
at Eastern Mediterranean University as part of Inscriptions '04, an Arts and
Culture festival taking place at the university and environs between June
3rd - 4th, 2004.  In conjunction with a wide selection of music, performance
and film events, discussion- friendly papers are being solicited for our
symposium.  Although we will be publishing selected presentations from
Inscriptions '04, we encourage participants to move away from the standard
prewritten, "finished paper" format, towards a more open-ended presentation,
which will provoke and contribute to a genuine exchange of research and
ideas during the panel sessions. Our aim is to create a forum and publishing
venue for inspiring work in progress, where the exchange of ideas with
fellow academics participating in the conference will contribute to the
final form of participants' work.

    With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine
the current status of critical thinking on gender agendas, including
transvestites, transsexuals, the transgendered and queering.  Of particular
interest are presentations which consider these agendas as culturally
political sites for interrogating hegemonic discourses. Possible topics
might include but are not limited to:

-           faith and healing in queer literature
-           transgendered television characters
-           queer cultures in cyberspace
-           equations between gender and technologies
-           pleasure, play and pain: the poetics of sado-masochism
-           trans-feminism
-           medical ethics and transsexuals
-           the sex industry and the future of the female image
-            "Barbie" and Teletubbies
-           class, race and sex
-           issues of gender, sexuality, and The Jerry Springer Show
-           drag queens/drag kings in the desert
-           queer theory: subversive or canonical?
-           queering psychoanalysis
-           the legacy of Jean Genet
-           gendered gazes: Laura Mulvey, Norman Bryson, Judith Butler.
-           gender and legal theory
-           gendering religion
-           nature/nurture and societal norms
-           military machismo and the female soldier
-           Anglo-American vs. French feminisms
-           Bowie, music and androgyny
-           Michel Foucault's archaeologies of sexuality


Please send 250 word abstracts by 31st January, 2004 to:
 [log in to unmask]
or
[log in to unmask]
and please visit  http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html for more
information.

*******************
The German Studies Call for Papers List
Editor: Stefani Engelstein
Assistant Editor:  Karen Eng
Sponsored by the University of Missouri
Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html