The International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture is coming to Chester, 11-13 Sept 2020
Gender: Transmutations and Transgressions
Gender, feminist and women’s studies, and gender activism have always walked a tightrope between transformation, transmutation and transgression. Attempts to transform existing structures and practices have often been dismissed – at least initially – as unacceptable transgressions, seeming to ignore the fact that transgression is often a precursor to change and transformation we come to embrace. This panel invites proposals that explicitly address the themes of the conference – transformations, transmutations, transgressions – across gender, religion, culture, theology, literature, and the arts. Potential themes include (but are not limited to):
- inequalities in the academy – race, gender, religion, sexuality class, ableism, age
- religion, gender, and activism
- the relationships between literature and the arts, and gender and
religion - religious feminisms and agency
- queer theory, religion, and the arts
- the body
Please send abstracts (around 300 words) for 20-minute presentations and queries to d.llewellyn@chester.ac.uk and a.e.jasper@stir.ac.uk no later than 1 December 2019. We also welcome alternative formats and suggestions for panels. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.