CFP: Australia Forum on Sexuality, Education and Health

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CFP: Australia Forum on Sexuality, Education and Health

1st National Conference
Equity and Justice in Gender, Sexuality, Education and Health
University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, NSW
22-23 November 2015

The Australia Forum on Sexuality, Education and Health (AFSEH) announces a Call for Papers for its 1st National Conference, to be held on the Parramatta campus of the University of Western Sydney.

AFSEH brings together practitioners, educators, students, researchers and policy makers from across Australia, working in the fields of gender, sexuality, education and health.  The forum enables discussion and debate on contemporary issues and concerns, builds and consolidates networks, and develops collaborative initiatives.

The 1st National Conference seeks to increase the public profile of work on equity and justice particularly pertaining to gender, sexuality, health and education issues today.  The meeting will provide a catalyst for important interdisciplinary work to address these concerns.

Keynote speakers include Simon Blake (Chief Executive Officer of the UK National Union of Students and formerly Chief Executive Officer of Brook the health charity for children and the National Children's Bureau's Sex Education Forum) and Julie Bates (Director of Urban Realists, lobbyist, 'out' sex worker, harm reduction advocate and sex worker rights activist for more than a quarter of a century)

We invite abstracts for papers, posters and symposia presentations. Abstracts should be 300 words long and address one (or more) of the themes below. All abstracts will undergo peer review.

Conference Themes

?   Genders and sexualities in health and education: working together for equity and justice

?   Digital cultures and youth: rights, ethics and responsibilities

?   Intersectionality, sexualities and gender

?   Communities, parents and sexual health: whose rights?

?   Youth-led initiatives: local and international perspectives

?   Popular pedagogies and informal education

It is envisaged that at least two publications will arise from the conference:  a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Sex Education, and a book based on a combination of theoretical and cross-disciplinary educator/practitioner work.

Please include along with your abstract, the presentation?s title, the presenter?s name and affiliation (or list of presenters? names and affiliations), the conference theme addressed and contact details including an email address.

Send your abstract to Jawed Gebrael: J.Gebrael@uws.edu.au 

Abstracts should be received by close of business, Friday September 11, 2015

Registration information for the conference will be available shortly.  Follow the AFSEH bloghttps://afseh.wordpress.com/

CFP Conference: The Cultures of New India

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CFP Conference: The Cultures of New India

30 January 2016 | University of Brighton
 
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Daya Thussu (Co-Director of India Media Centre, University of Westminster; author of Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood, Palgrave/Macmillan)
Dr Emma Dawson-Varughese (author of Reading New India, Bloomsbury)
 
The twenty-first century has been full of predictions of Indian success. Declarations of ‘India Rising’, ‘India Shining’, a new ‘Indian Century’ occur regularly. While the economies of Europe and the Americas have stagnated, the economies of Asia appear to be booming and a new generation of Indians now see themselves as the agents of globalization. Many aspects of Indian society appear transformed by this new prosperity with a new class of young, wealthy, urban Indians challenging the stereotypes of life in their country. Yet, commentators on this phenomenon are keen to point out that India’s move from Nehruvian values to liberalizing consumerism has produced a peculiarly Indian version of neoliberalism, one that responds to Indian values of the family and of the state just as much as to any, seemingly, universal ideas about wealth and freedom. At the same time, many of the inequalities of caste, class, gender and region persist. India’s rural poor remains beset by the challenges of the last century and appears immune to the supposed benefits of consumer citizenship that are enjoyed by an urban elite. Corruption, so often associated with India’s state infrastructure, remains the celebrity cause of the self-appointed representatives of Young India. Alongside the anxieties about women workers in the new service- sector industries, India has recently been confronted with a high-profile rape-crisis and a deeply embedded culture of misogyny.

  • How then has culture, both from within and outwith India, responded to India’s new identity?
  • What do literature, film and popular culture have to tell us about the nature of India’s modernity?
  • How do the official and un-official versions of India’s self-presentation compare?
  • How do international impressions of India sit with the nations self image?

We invite proposals (c300 words) for papers that investigate these questions. Among other topics, these might consider:

  • Representations of youth culture
  • Generational conflict
  • Call centre work/ workers
  • Gender and the new India
  • Indian neoliberalism
  • Contemporary Indian nationalities (NRI/PIO and beyond)
  • Indian New Wave and Art Cinema
  • Bollywood as a global brand
  • Communalism and the New India
  • India and social media
  • The languages of Indian culture


DEADLINE: email your proposal and short bio to C21Writings@Brighton.ac.uk by 30 Sept 2015
  
Registration (£60/£40): http://bit.ly/1S7hGUz
Website: http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/c21/events