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<div class="">Please note we have <i class="">extended our paper proposal deadline
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
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<p class="x_MsoTitle" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class=""><u class="">trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity</u></b></font></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoSubtitle" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class=""><u class="">An international conference at the University of Otago</u></b></font></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoSubtitle" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><b class=""><font size="5" class=""><u class="">23<sup class="">rd</sup> - 25<sup class="">th</sup> November 2015</u></font></b></span></p>
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<h1 class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Keynote speakers include:</span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Sandra Grey, Victoria University, Wellington / Tertiary Education Union President</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Audrey Yue, The University of Melbourne</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><i class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Third keynote TBA</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" class="" style="font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<h1 class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">The conference is organised by the Department of Media, Film and Communication, University of Otago, in conjunction with the following:<span class="" style="background:yellow"></span></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Dunedin Free University</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Fresh and Fruity Gallery Collective</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Blue Oyster Art Project Space</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">The Tertiary Education Union (Otago branch)<font face="Calibri" class=""></font></span></p>
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<h1 class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">trans/forming feminisms: media, technology, identity</span></i></h1>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Discussions of feminist theory and activism have taken on a new dynamism in the past decade. Online media spaces – such as twitter, tumblr and blogs like
<i class="">Jezebel, feministing </i>and <i class="">autostraddle</i>– have provided a key site for the debate of what it means to be a feminist in the contemporary moment. Hashtag flashpoints over popular cultural figures such as Beyonce, Iggy Azalea, Miley
Cyrus and Lena Dunham as well recent social movements around #thisiswhatafeministlookslike #feminismisforwhitewomen and #slutwalk have generated broader popular, and critical, discussions around gender politics. Further, activists around feminist, trans* and
Queer politics have integrated technology as an important means for consciousness-raising as well as enabling broader struggles against patriarchy, hetero-normativity and non-inclusive forms of feminism. Alongside this, numerous academics (Sara Ahmed, Jack
Halberstam, Tiziana Terranova) are moving ‘online’ to use web spaces as a means for disseminating theoretical work to a broader audience.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">All this points to an invigoration of feminist theory and politics which we are signaling via the prefix ‘trans’ – as a way of gesturing towards not only trans* politics, but the notion of transformation, change
and the animation of new modes of being, thinking and doing ‘feminism’.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">This conference brings together international scholars and activists from diverse disciplinary and radical political backgrounds to foster discussions around theorizing and doing feminist activism. In particular
<i class="">trans/forming feminisms</i> focuses on the intersections and tensions between contemporary feminist conceptualizing, activism and media technologies. It aims to combine theory with on-the-ground organizing in a productive and transformative discussion,
and to provide a forum to unpack the tensions between intellectual imperatives, praxis, and mediated modes of feminist communication and activism.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">trans/forming feminisms</span></i><span lang="EN-US" class=""> is organised collectively and we aim to produce a genuinely open space for the interaction between activists and academics. Thus we
also encourage creative and praxis / performance-based proposals and ideas for skillshares and workshops which will run alongside more traditional academic papers.</span></p>
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<h1 class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Topics and approaches on which we would welcome proposals for papers and panels include the following but are not confined to them, and are in no particular order:</span></h1>
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<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">How does the ‘mediated self’ and Web 3.0 enable particular modes of feminist practice?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">How do media platforms, such as social networking sites, constitute and reproduce forms of white bourgeois feminism and how can intersectional feminism counter this?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">What are the cultural politics around ‘trigger warnings’ and ‘call outs’ on social media platforms?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">How do contemporary gender and feminist politics intersect with theories of the ‘transhuman’?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">How are the politics of intersectional feminists performed and consolidated online?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">What are the political and theoretical implications of the popularising of terms such as ‘cis’, ‘trans*’ and ‘Queer’ via their foregrounding on social media sites such as tumblr and twitter?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">How do media formations (technologies, institutions, practices) operate in relation to feminist politics in different geographic contexts?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">What does ‘rape culture’ mean in the current Web 3.0 context?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">What is the relationship between sexual violence and media representations?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">How might mediated practices empower women to fight back against sexual violence?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">What is the role of media in fermenting radical changes in global gendered oppression?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:24.0pt; text-indent:-24.0pt">
<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">How has the ongoing proliferation of gendered identities affected feminist theoretical engagements and the broader political movement?</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Who is the feminist subject in the contemporary moment?</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">What the relations between media technologies and the non-cis-male subject?<font face="Calibri" class=""></font></span></p>
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<h1 class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Topics and approaches on which we would welcome proposals for skillshares and workshops include the following but are not confined to them, and are in no particular order:</span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">narrativising / writing feminism in the contemporary university</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">practical activist workshops – how to take action / deal with institutions such as the police; what is rape culture and how
<i class="">whanau</i> / family and friends can battle this</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" class="">- </span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">skillsharing between feminist academics / strategies for being feminist in the university context<font face="Calibri" class=""></font></span></p>
<h1 class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Dunedin</span></h1>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Dunedin is a beautiful small city, located in the South Island of New Zealand. A true ‘university town’, it buzzes with student life and academic activity. It hosts a number of independent art galleries, bookshops
and radical institutions. Alongside these cultural sites, Dunedin offers stunning opportunities for nature tourism and is a perfect taste of New Zealand’s natural beauty. Tramping (hiking) tracks are within easy distance of the town, as is the striking Otago
Peninsula, home to albatross colonies and rare penguin breeds.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="x_Heading1Char"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:14.0pt"><b class="">Please send panel proposal, paper abstracts, and proposals for info booths or skillshare / workshops to the collective at</b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><b class="">:</b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="background:yellow"><a href="mailto:transformingfeminisms@riseup.net" class="">transformingfeminisms@riseup.net</a><a href="mailto:e.v.pollard@leeds.ac.uk" class=""></a> by 1<sup class="">st</sup> May
2015 as an email attachment in Word.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Papers will be 20 minutes long, with ten minutes for questions. Panels will generally be made up of 3 speakers and a chairperson.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Skillshares will run for 1-2 hours and can take diverse and creative formats.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Infobooths with be stands in shared / communal space – tables and chairs will be provided.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Panel and skillshare proposals should provide an outline of the panel idea and its relations to the conference theme (200 words max), and provide abstracts of the 3-4 speakers (250 words maximum per abstract),
and the name of a person who will chair the pane. Paper abstracts, infobooth ideas and skillshare proposals should be 250 words maximum and should explain the connection to the conference theme.</span></p>
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<h1 class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Registration fees: </span></h1>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Academic: NZ$200</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Postgraduate / casual lecturer: NZ$75</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Activist: NZ$55</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Registration includes lunch and refreshments (including a ‘cocktail function’) for the duration of the conference.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Researchers from countries where it is difficult to fund research travel should consult the conference organisers.</span></i></p>
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<h1 class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Collective members: </span></h1>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Rosemary Overell, Vijay Devadas, Catherine Fowler, Massimiliana Urbano, Kevin Fletcher, Catherine Dale, Rebecca Stringer, Katharine Legun, Annabel Cooper</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/transfem15" class="">
https://twitter.com/transfem15</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Web page: <a href="http://transformingfeminisms.noblogs.org/" class="">
http://transformingfeminisms.noblogs.org/</a></span></p>
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