Proposals are invited from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces. The proposals are expected to explore: the technological production of gendered and racialized bodies, historical and contemporary feminist appropriations of technology in aesthetics and representations of embodiment, and the gendered implications of technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the Internet.

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies
• Work, healthcare, education and activities of daily life as produced through technologies
• Performance, new media and other creative expressions as sites for engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology
• Biopolitics and medical engineering of reproduction, sexual identity and gender
• Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing
• Surveillance, containment, in/security and militarization
• Identity and technological design, production and use; gender, race, age, class and sexuality in SET (sciences, engineering and technology) fields
• New media art and feminist aesthetics
• Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism
• Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship

Proposal Deadline:  15 September 2009

More information can be found HERE

Proposals should be submitted via our website. If that is not possible, or if you have questions, please contact:

Sharon Elber GBT Conference Co-Planner,  STS/Women’s and Gender Studies (0227), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 selber@vt.edu