<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:12px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:12px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><b>Gender and the Everyday: Contemporary Communication, Culture and Media </b></span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><a href="http://airmail.calendar/2017-09-29%2012:00:00%20AWST" style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Friday, 29th September 2017</a><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"> </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><a href="http://airmail.calendar/2017-06-07%2009:00:00%20AWST" style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">9am to 4.30pm</a><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"> (followed by informal drinks) </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Communication, culture and media are embedded in our everyday lives in ways we often do not realise. Whether we wake up and reach for our phone or think carefully about how to phrase that difficult sentence in an email these multiple forms of communication, culture and media are embedded in our everyday. Similarly, as children we are given a gender designation that affects our lives in innumerable everyday ways from toys, to sports, to conceptions of self and a sense of the choices available to us: our gender inflects our everyday experiences and engagements with our bodies and those around us, especially as we manoeuvre public and private spaces. In this conference, we invite research that draws attention to the intersections between gender, the everyday and the forms of communication, culture and media we engage in. </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Inspired by recent activisms around gender that protest significant social, political and economic inequalities, for this Gender and the Everyday Conference, we invite papers on the familiar, intimate and the banal as well as the public and political, discussions of current events and controversies as well as lingering issues. We invite papers on a range of topics including, but not limited to: </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Representation(s), Genre, Form </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Organisational, local, national, international and/or global contexts </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Historical, social or cultural perspectives </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Theoretical, conceptual or methodological approaches </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Generation, youth and/or ageing </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Pedagogical approaches including teaching case studies </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Places, spaces and sites </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Activism, activists and interventions </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Sport, fitness, health and/or well-being </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Digital media and technology </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">• Troubling gender </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Delegates will have the opportunity to submit a written version of their paper after the conference for possible inclusion in a special issue of Outskirts journal (</span><a href="http://www.outskirts.arts.uwa.edu.au/" style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">http://www.outskirts.arts.uwa.edu.au</a><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">). </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Email your abstract of no more than 250 words including a title and a 50-word biography to: </span><a href="mailto:waccmlist@gmail.com" style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">waccmlist@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"> by </span><a href="http://airmail.calendar/2017-06-30%2012:00:00%20AWST" style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Friday June 30th, 2017</a><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">. </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Panel proposals inclusive of 3-4 papers that share a similar theme are especially welcome. </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Accepted individual papers will be allocated a 20-minute presentation slot in the conference. </span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Conference location: Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, Western Australia</span><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">Contact/enquiries: </span><a href="mailto:waccmlist@gmail.com" style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">waccmlist@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">WACCM Facebook </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WACCM/" style="font-family:'helvetica Neue',helvetica;font-size:14px">https://www.facebook.com/WACCM/</a></div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1496824444923717120" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div></div></body></html>