Faculdad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, May 16-18, 2012

10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WOMEN'S STUDIES // X JORNADAS INTERNACIONALES DE ESTUDIOS DE LA MUJER
TOPOGRAFÍAS DOMÉSTICAS Y GÉNERO // NEGOTIATING GENDERED SPACES
Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
16, 17, 18 Mayo, 2012
The Departments of Anglo-American Philology I and II (Linguistics and Literature) wish to announce their 10th International Conference on Women’s Studies, and invite you to submit papers on the topics listed below. The Organizing Committee for this conference, featuring national and international speakers, will publish texts selected after peer review for the Women's Studies collection, Vol. VIII.
Organizing Committee: Ana Antón-Pacheco, Isabel Durán, Noelia Hermando, Carmen Méndez, JoAnne Neff, Ana Laura Rodríguez
Themes (suggested, but not limited to):
* Public vs. private spaces
* The home as a metaphor of confinement and lack of freedom / as liberating space in literature and art
* Gender and Architecture: male and /or female spaces
* Identity and domestic topographies
* Feminism and Transnational spaces
* Interpreting and interacting with space
* The language of domesticity; new definitions of the domestic space
* The deconstruction of “home”
* Domestic Violence
SEE COMPLETE CALL FOR PAPERS AND TEMPLATES ATTACHED (word doc files)
Abstract of 400 to 500 words (bibliography does not count towards this limit). Use the templates provided. Send by e-mail to:
jornadamujer@filol.ucm.es
Deadline:  February 15th 2012.