CALL FOR PAPERS
SEXUALITIES IN WORLD HISTORY
Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22,
2007, Davis, CA
The UC World History Workshop and the Cross-Cultural Women's and gender History
group at UC Davis solicits paper proposals for a conference on Sexualities
in World History, to be held on the Davis
campus April 21-22, 2007.
We welcome papers that engage any
aspect of Sexualities in World History. Topics might include but aren't
limited to: desire, pleasure, fantasy, erotics; non-reproductive sex;
identities, stereotypes, and stigmas; bodies, performance, power dynamics; same
sex love; prohibitions, taboos, and transgressions; sex in
transnational/transcultural contexts; sexuality, health, and disease;
commodification, consumerism, and traffic. We are particularly interested in
trans-regional perspectives on these topics, and in exploring the sexualities of
cultures and time periods for which an explicit vocabulary of sexuality does
not exist. We also invite methodological papers that focus on teaching the
history of sexuality in a world-historical context. Submissions from graduate
students are particularly welcome.
Proposals for either individual
papers or panels are welcome (but we would prefer panels to address one theme
across regions rather than specific regions); individual papers will be
aggregated into panels by the organizers.
Abstracts of proposed papers (or panels) should be sent by email to Beverly
Bossler (bjbossler (at) ucdavis.edu); the original deadline was September 20th,
2006. People interested in attending without submitting a paper should contact
the same address.
The
UC World History Workshop, begun in 1999, is a multi-campus research group
(MRG) sponsored by the UC Office of the President and contributions from
participating campuses. Participation by non-UC faculty and students is
welcome to the extent that space and budgets allow. For further
information, see our website at http://ucworldhistory.ucr.edu/
or contact the conference organizer, Beverly Bossler, at bjbossler (at)
ucdavis.edu.
Please feel free to forward this email to others who may be interested.