CFPs for two grad student sessions at AAG

[Destiny Aman]

Hey Folks!

Thought you might be interested in the following info on a couple of AAG grad student sessions below. Feel free to forward to grads/early career faculty you think might be interested.

Thanks!

Destiny Aman
GPOW Student Rep


Call for Papers: Gender, Feminisms, and Violence
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington DC 14-18 April 2010

Co-Organized by Destiny Aman (Penn State), Kate Senner (Syracuse) and Maria Fannin (Bristol), on behalf of the Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group (GPOW) of the AAG.

The Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group is organizing a session for the 2009 annual meeting for graduate students/postgraduates on the theme of gender, feminisms, and violence. We welcome empirically- and conceptually-focused papers by graduate students and early career faculty on geographical aspects of violence, gender and feminisms, and especially invite submissions in the following areas:

*Gender and corporeal violence
*Gender and militarization
*Gendered perspectives on the violence of unequal resource distribution
*Violence and methodologies
*Epistemological violence
*Gender, scale, and violence: domestic to global

Discussant: Melissa W. Wright, Departments of Geography and Women's Studies, Penn State University

Submissions need not be limited to these themes; we welcome expansive interpretations of these themes and encourage papers on any topic related to gender, feminisms and geography. Please send proposed titles and abstracts of up to 250 words to Destiny Aman (dda...@psu.edu) or Kate Senner (ksse...@syr.edu) by October 15, 2008.



Call for Papers: Gender, Sexuality, and Space: In Memory of Glen Elder
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington DC 14-18 April 2010

Co-Organized by Destiny Aman (Penn State), Kate Senner (Syracuse) and Maria Fannin (Bristol), on behalf of the Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group (GPOW) of the AAG.

The Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group is organizing a session in memory of Glen Elder for the 2010 annual meeting on the theme of gender, sexuality and space. This session is co-sponsored by the Sexuality & Space Specialty Group.

We welcome empirically- and conceptually-focused papers by graduate students and early career faculty on all geographical aspects of gender, sexuality and space, and especially invite submissions in the following areas:

* Feminism, gender and queer theory: the role of "proper objects"
* Queer transexions of gender, race, and sexuality
* The epistemology of the closet
* Sexuality and the city: queer urban spaces
* Queering the body: Where is gender? Where is sexuality?
* The spaces of queer politics: body, city, nation, and planet
* The 'third sex' in 'thirdspace': queering the academy

Please send proposed titles and abstracts of up to 250 words to Destiny Aman (dda...@psu.edu) or Kate Senner (ksse...@syr.edu) by October 15, 2008.