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ALERT! The editors of Feminist Theory are interested in the possibility of publishing a special section on the topic of the recent CEU symposium on Gender, Empire, and the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe . They request submissions by September 1, 2007. All submitted manuscripts will be vetted through the regular journal process. For more information, contact the editors directly. See the journal website for their contacts and also for submission requirements. http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200796. POSTED PRESENTATIONS! Thanks for a wonderful conference! We are pleased to post the presentations from the many different panels. These documents (either word or pdf) are posted below: Erzsebet Barat, How to identify and critically analyze a distinctive aspect of power, namely its conceptual practices of knowledge production? (doc) Eva Federmayer, Provocateur, Closing Roundtable (Session VIII) (pdf) Margara Millan, Reflection: On Gender, Empire and the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe (doc)Sneja Gunew, Cosmopolitanisms/Occidentalisms: Mediating Empire in Diasporas (doc) Priti Ramamurthy, Feminist Conundrums in Contemporary Post-Socialist India (pdf) Allaine Cerwonka, Traveling Feminist Thought: "Difference" and Transculturation in Central and Eastern European Feminism (doc) Susan Zimmermann, The Institutionalization of Women and Gender Studies in Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse, Beyond Biopolitics: Security, Governance, and Economy Jasmina Husanovic, Trajectories of Gender Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina : From a Case Study to an Epistemic Community?
Sessions and Schedule GENDER, EMPIRE, AND THE POLITICS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE This symposium will address the conjuncture of a number of important issues affecting the emergence of Gender Studies within the academies of Central and Eastern Europe : How have regional religious and cultural orientations framed the content, scope, and value of gender as a category of analysis and as a new field of study? How does the academic institutionalization of Gender Studies reflect, contest, and transform the emergence of new norms of gender equality in the context of communism's historical eclipse? How do broader transformations in the academies of Central and Eastern Europe , specifically, their relation to the state, to the European community, and to the contemporary practices of empire, inform both Gender Studies and the wider reconfiguration of academic knowledge projects in which it participates? How does the practice of Gender Studies in the region mark the limits of imperial ambitions and the multidirectional character of transnational flows? And what is the impact of transnational feminist frameworks of analysis on the research, theory, and curricula of the field? The organizers assume this line of inquiry not only benefits from, but in fact requires, a comparative analytic frame. The specificity of Gender Studies in Central and Eastern Europe (the particularities of its issues, methods, sites of intervention, and conditions of possibility) can only be drawn in relation to the cognate and the disparate issues, methods, sites, and conditions of Gender Studies in Western Europe, the U.S., other regions of the former Soviet bloc, and elsewhere. And there is no term more central to the ongoing elaboration of Gender Studies in an international context than that of the "transnational," which seems to explore and identify the ways in which cultures, languages, peoples, and forms of government do not always respect -- let alone remain within -- the geographical borders that have consistently defined nation-states. The move from nation to region to issues of globalization and the international is thus specified and interrogated under the emergent arena of inquiry increasingly referred to as "transnational feminist studies." The symposium thus seeks to use regional analysis to pose a broader inquiry about the ways that knowledge projects such as Gender Studies travel across institutional, national, regional, and geopolitical contexts in order to think more generally about how to approach the study of local/regional particularity and transnational processes. To this end, participants will investigate a series of analytical and methodological questions: How do we attend to the specificity of regions without reifying borders and attributing to cultures and societies already penetrated and transformed by global capitalism a discrete or foundational identity? Conversely, how do we engage the heterogeneity and uneven effects of transnational processes already differentiated by region when we start from a dichotomized understanding of regional places and transnational flows? How do we frame a transnational dialogue on the conditions of life, of social movement, and of intellectual work in an unevenly integrated world system when what seems to vary most across cultures and regions is not only what matters, but what matters enough to claim critical attention in the first place? 8:30-9 Registration and Morning Coffee (in front of CEU auditorium) Welcome (9:00-9:15) Session I (9:15-11:00): Histories of Gender Studies in the Region Presenters: Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University), Anna Tempkina (European University at St. Petersberg), Jasmina Husanovic Session II (11:00-1:00): Contexts - The Political Economies of Gender Studies in CEE Presenters: Susan Zimmermann (Central European University), Eva Cherniavsky (University of Washington), Gabriele Griffin (University of York) Lunch (1:00-2:15) Session III (2:15 - 4:15): The Knowledge Economies of Gender Studies in CEE Presenters: Zsazsa Bar á t (Central European University ), Maria Hildegard Nickel (Humboldt University), Elissa Helms (Central European University) Afternoon Coffee (4:15-4:30) Session IV (4:30-6:30): Open Discussion Provocateurs: Neda Atanasoski (SUNY Stony Brook), Hana Havelkova (Charles University), Clare Hemmings London School of Economics) Conference Dinner (7:30) Trófea Grille, Margit Korut [for invited faculty participants] ************************************************************************** Symposium Day Two - May 18, 2007 Session V (9-10:45): Comparative Genealogies of Empire Presenters: Ranji Khanna (Duke University), Jacqueline Heinen (University of Versailles-Saint Quentin), Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia) Morning Coffee (10:45-11:00) Session VI (11:00-1:00): Keywords: Feminism, Transnationalism, Interdisciplinarity Presenters: Inderpal Grewal (University of California, Irvine), Sabine Hark (Technical University of Berlin), Jasmina Lukic (Central European University) Lunch (1-2:15) Session VII (2:15-4:15): Regions and Flows Presenters: Priti Ramamurthy (University of Washington), Ara Wilson (Duke University), Allaine Cerwonka (Central European University) Afternoon Coffee (4:15-4:30) Session VIII (4:30-6:30): Closing Roundtable Provocateurs: Éva Federmayer (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem), Gail Kligman (University of California Los Angeles), Robyn Wiegman (Duke University) Rector's Symposium Reception (6:30)
Damir Arsenijevic is a doctoral candidate and a visiting lecturer in the School of English, De Montfort University, UK. He is also a seminar leader of the module 'Gender, Ideology, Culture' within the newly established MA Programme in Gender Studies, at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies, University of Sarajevo. His doctoral research is on the emancipatory politics of Bosnian poetry in relation to the socio-political changes in this country since the late 1980s. His research interests and publications are in the field of cultural and literary theory. He is also an internationally published translator of poetry and literary theory from Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian into English. Neda Atanasoski is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California at San Diego in 2005. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. and Eastern European film and media during the Cold War and after, U.S. race relations and popular culture, war, violence, and nationalism, and international legal discourses about racial and religious difference. Currently, she is working on a book project that traces the evolution of U.S. racial thinking and imperialism in relation to Eastern Europe since the Cold War by examining 20th century U.S. film and media appropriations of 19th century Western European imperial narratives, such as Carmen, Heart of Darkness, and Dracula. She has also begun research on the relationship between U.S. political and media discourses about religious and ethnic conflict in non-Western regions and U.S. militarism since 1990. Zsófia Bán is Associate Professor of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Department of American Studies. She is also a writer, and a literary and art critic. She teaches American literature, art and visual culture. Her research focuses on word and image studies as well as different aspects of visual culture (gender, power, Holocaust, family pictures, memory and narrative). Her publications include Desire and De-Scription: Words and Imgaes of Postmodernism in the Late Poetry of William Carlos Williams (Rodopi, 1999), Amerikáner (Magvetõ, 2000; a volume of essays on American literature, art and popular culture), "Does Literature Have Gender?" (Kossuth Kiadó, 2005, originally a lecture broadcast on Hungarian national television as part of the series Mindentudás Egyeteme [Université de tout savoir]), and a great number of studies and critical pieces on women's art, visual culture and literature. Her most recent publications are: "Veverka, avagy az emlékezés fortélyai - W. G. Sebald Kivándoroltak és Austerlitz c. regényeirõl" [Veverka or the ruses of memory - On W. G. Sebald's novels The Emigrants and Austerlitz ] ( Holmi , 2007, January); "Az anatómia melankóliája - Szó-kép és tekintet Nádas Péter Párhuzamos történetek c. regényében" [The Melancholy of Anatomy: Words, Images and Gaze in Péter Nádas' Parallel Stories ] ( Holmi , 2006, August). In 2006 she co-organized an international conference at the Budapest Goethe Institute called "Exposed Memory: Family Pictures in Private and Public Memory", whose volume she is now co-editing. A book of her short stories in Hungarian is to be published in April, 2007(Esti iskola - olvasókönyv felnõtteknek [Night School - A Reader for Adults]. Susan J. Bandy is currently a visiting professor at the Institute of Coaching and Sport Education of Semmelweis University in Budapest. She earned her Ph.D. in Sports Studies with an emphasis in history and philosophy of sport from Arizona State University. She edited Coroebus Triumphs: The Alliance of Sport and the Art and co-edited Crossing Boundaries: An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport. She also jointly edited a special issue of Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (1997) devoted to women's writings. She has published articles concerning gender, body, and sport in several publications including Dansk Sociologi, Idraetshistorisk Arbog, and Women's Studies Quarterly . She is currently working on two books F ortællinger om idræt i Norden: Helte, erindringer og identitet (Scandinavian Sport Literature: Heroism, Memory and Identity) and Gender, Body and Sport in Historical and Transnational Perspectives. Erzsébet Barát is a full-time associate professor of linguistics and gender studies at The English and American Studies Institute, University of Szeged and has been a visiting associate professor at Gender Studies, CEU, Budapest since 2000. She earned her PhD in 2000 in Linguistics from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK . Her major field of research is critical discourse analysis, with a focus on the relationship between power relations and language use, analyzing the ideological investments of discourses of gender and sexuality. In September 2005 she and her colleague, Klára Sándor, launched the first annual conference series on language and gender in Hungarian. Her most important recent publications include the Hungarian translation of Judith Butler's Bodies That Matter, which she co-authored with Bea Sándor (Új Mandátum Kiadó, Budapest 2004); "The 'Terrorist Feminist': Strategies of gate-Keeping in the Hungarian Print Media", in Michelle M. Lazar (ed) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Gender, Power and Ideology in Discourse . Palgrave, 2005; "Variations to Cooptations: The uses and abuses of 'feminism'" Eva Blimlinger & Therese Garstenauer (eds) Women/Gender Studies: Against All Odds. StudienVerlag, 2005; and "The importance of a discoursal approach to translation as an organized practice" in Marlen Bidwell & Karin S. Wozonig (Hg.) A Canon of Our Own? Kanonkritik und Kanonbildung in den Gender Studies. Studien Verlag, 2006. She is currently working on a book that explores the (enabling) limits of sexual citizenship through the critical discourse analysis of the hate speech debate in Hungary in response to the failed legislative initiative of the Government from the perspective of the victimized target. Allaine Cerwonka is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Gender Studies at Central European University . Her Ph.D. is in Political Science ( University of California Irvine); however, her research and teaching interests are interdiscplinary. She has published two books, Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia (Minnesota UP, 2004) and Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork (Chicago UP 2007, co-authored with Liisa Malkki). Her research interests include processes of transnational feminism; social theory; globalization; social geography; the ethnographic process; cultural studies, and the body. Her latest research focuses on the commodification of reproduction in the global political economy. Patricia Ticineto Clough is professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York. She is author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (2000); Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse (1994) and The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism (1992; 2nd . ed. 1998). As the former director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, Clough co directed a four year, Rockefeller Foundation funded seminar titled: Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique. The seminar brought together scholars, teachers, researchers, activists, and policymakers to develop a gendered, critical human security framework through a comparative analysis. Much of Clough's work on affect, biopolitics and biocapitalism draws heavily on the intellectual, cultural and political resources of this seminar experience. Dasa Duhacek is an Associate Professor at the Political Science Department, Belgrade University, Coordinator and a co-founder of the Belgrade Women's Studies Center. She has a BA in Philosophy, from the University of Belgrade ; MA in Women's Studies and a PhD in Political Science, both from Rutgers University. Her research and teaching is in the fields of feminist theory, philosophy and political theory. Her special areas of interest are issues of political responsibility and the work of Hannah Arendt. She has lectured in the region, at Central European University, (CEU) Budapest , Inter-University Center (IUC) Dubrovnik, at NOISE, ATHENA Summer School. She has also organized international conferences in Belgrade , such as the Inaugural Conference: Women's & Gender Studies in the Countries in Transition, in 1998. Her recent publications include Captives of Evil: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt (co-edited with Obrad Savic); "The Making of Political Responsibility: Hannah Arendt and/in the Case of Serbia" in eds., J. Lukic, J. Regulska, D. Zavirsek Citizenship in Eastern Europe, Ashgate, 2006; "Feminist Perspectives on Democratization in Serbia/Western Balkans" in Signs 2006. Eva Federmayer is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Department of American Studies of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary and at the Department of American Studies of the University of Szeged, Hungary. She is author of Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism (1983) and editor and co-author of the electronic textbook, Netting America: Introduction to the Culture and Literature of America (2006). Since the 1990s she has published articles on the politics of race, ethnicity, class and gender in American culture and literature, Hungarian home design, African American film and African American women writers. She is co-president of the Hungarian Association of American Studies (HAAS) and in this capacity she organized an international conference, American Studies as Cultural Studies: Theory and Practise (2004) in Budapest . Currently she is editing a collection of essays and working on a book about discourses of race in American culture. Linda Fisher received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University and is presently Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University . Her main research areas are contemporary Continental philosophy, particularly phenomenology and hermeneutics, feminist philosophy and gender theory, and aesthetics. She is co-author of Good Reasoning Matters! (2nd ed., 1997), and co-editor of Feminist Phenomenology (2000) and Feministische Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik (2005). She has also written on topics such as sexual difference, gender and reason, Beauvoir, identity and alterity, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, art and the art work, opera, Shakespeare, and David Mamet. Her current research focuses on two key themes: elaborating the relation of phenomenology and hermeneutics with feminist thought, as the basis for developing a feminist phenomenology and hermeneutics - meaning both a phenomenological approach in feminist theorizing, and the articulation of a phenomenology of gender and gendered experience; the other on feminist and philosophical accounts of (sexual) difference and diversity, including theories of recognition and multiculturalism. Both themes contribute to the project of thematizing a phenomenology of gendered and other specificities of lived experience, identities, and social worlds. She is currently working on two book manuscripts corresponding to these themes. Eva Fodor has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is now associate professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest ,Hungary. She is interested in exploring how the notion, ideology, practice and social consequences of women's work change under shifting social conditions. Her first book, Working Difference: Women's Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945-1995 (Duke University Press 2003) theorizes the differences between state socialist and capitalist gender regimes at paid work. Next she turned to an analysis of the feminization of poverty in post socialism, and currently she is working on a project which explores social ,and especially gender inequalities in work, leisure, and political participation in a comparative international context. Inderpal Grewal is Professor of Women's Studies at UC Irvine and the Director of the Phd Program in Culture and Theory. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory; gender and globalization, human rights; NGO's and theories of civil society; theories of travel and mobility; South Asian cultural studies, postcolonial feminism; and Victorian imperial culture. She is the author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel (Duke, 1996) and Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (2005), and has worked with Caren Kaplan on two projects: Gender in a Transnational World: Introduction to Women's Studies (2001) and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational: Feminist Practices (1994). She jointly edited a Special Issue of Signs (2001) on "Gender and Globalization"; and a Special issue of positions: e. asia cultures critique (2000) on "Asian Transnationalities: Media, Markets & Migration." Currently she is working on a book length project on the relation between feminist practices and security discourses. Professor Gabriele Griffin holds the Anniversary Chair in Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. Her research centers on women's cultural production, contemporary women's issues, and on Women's Studies as a discipline. She is co-editor of the academic journal Feminist Theory. Currently she coordinates an EU-funded research project on "Integrated Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities" (2004-7). Recent publications include Research Methods for English Studies (ed.; Edinburgh UP, 2005); Doing Women's Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences (ed.; London: Zed Books, 2005); Employment, Equal Opportunities and Women's Studies: Women's Experiences in Seven European Countries (ed.; Koenigstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2004); Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights (Cambridge UP, 2003); Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women's Studies (co-ed.; London: Zed Books, 2002); and Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing (Routledge, 2002). Sneja Gunew has taught in England, Australia and Canada, and published widely on multicultural, postcolonial and feminist critical theory. Currently she is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she also directs the Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations (2002-7). She has edited and co-edited many volumes on multicultural women's issues and writing in Australia and several books on feminist studies, including Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct; A Reader in Feminist Knowledge (1990-91); Feminism and the Politics of Difference (1993), and Arts for a Multicultural Australia: Issues and Strategies (1994). She also established the first library collection of ethnic minority writings in Australia. Her books include Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Studies (1994) and Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms (2004). Her current work is in comparative multiculturalism and in diasporic literatures and their intersections with national and global cultural formations. Francisca de Haan is Professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University. She directed a biographical research project with participants from 22 countries in the region, which result in the award-winning Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries, eds. Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova and Anna Loutfi (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2006). She is also founding editor of ASPASIA. International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women's and Gender History. (Co-editors: Maria Bucur and Krassimira Daskalova). ASPASIA 1, on Women's Movements and Feminisms, will appear in March 2007. De Haan has just started a new book project about the three major international women's organizations (ICW, IAW, and WIDF) during the Cold War. Hanna Hacker, University of Vienna , is a sociologist and historian with emphasis on cultural and postcolonial studies in a feminist and queer studies perspective. Mostly working as an independent researcher and, for a shorter period, as a technical advisor for gender and women's empowerment in development co-operation, she held posts as lecturer and visiting professor at several Austrian universities, in Yaoundé (Cameroon), and, in 2001/2002, at the Department of Gender Studies at CEU. She has widely published on women's movements and on sex/gender transgressions in European history. Her recent research focuses on whiteness, on transnationalities and on New Media cultures. Publications include Frauen und Freundinnen. Studien zur "weiblichen Homosexualität' am Beispiel Oesterreich 1870-1938 (1987) (Women and Women Friends. Studies in 'female homosexuality': the case of Austria, 1870-1938 ); Gewalt ist: keine Frau. Der Akteurin oder eine Geschichte der Transgressionen (1998) ( Violence Is: No Woman. Fe/Male agency or a history of transgressions); Whiteness (2005) (edited with Mineke Bosch); Norden. Sueden. Cyberspace. Text und Technik gegen die Ungleichheit (2007) (North. South. Cyberspace. Text and technique against inequality); "Developmental Desire and/or Transnational Jouissance: re-formulating sexual subjectivities in transcultural contact zones" in Geographies of Sexualities (edited by Gavin Brown et al., forthcoming). Sabine Hark is currently Professor for Gender Studies at the Technical University of Berlin. She is the author of deviante Subjekte. Die paradoxe Politik der Identität (1999) (deviant Subjects. On the paradoxes of identity politics) and Dissidente Partizipation. Eine Diskursgeschichte des Feminismus (2005) (Dissident Participation. A discourse history of feminism), and of numerous articles on feminist theory, queer theory, sexual politics and rights, inter- and transdisciplinarity in women's studies, and sexual citizenship. She edited Grenzen lesbischer Identitäten (1996) (Borders of Lesbian Identities) and a reader in feminist theory, DisKontinuitäten: Feministische Theorie (2001) (DisContinuities: Feminist Theory), and co-edited Gender kontrovers. Genealogien und Grenzen einer Kategorie (2006) (Controversial Gender. Genealogies and Limitations of a Category) and Queering Demokratie. Sexuelle Politiken (2000) (Queering Democracy. Sexual Politics). Recent research interests include a) questions of knowledge transformation, b) the intersectionality of heteronormativity and gender, c) sexual citizenship, and d) new forms of social exclusion. Jacqueline Heinen is professor of sociology at university of Versailles-Saint-Quentin and director of Cahiers du Genre (CNRS). She is president of the Conseil national des universités (CNU) of France. She serves as an expert in several Scientific Councils and Research Consortiums. She has co-organized, with the UNRISD (UN Research Institute) a conference on women in development, held in Paris in 2006. Her researches deal with gender and social policies in Western and Eastern Europe. She has directed a comparative research on gender and local democracy in seven European countries, issuing a Guide to the Integration of Gender Equality in Local Government Policies (with F. Gaspard, eds, 2004). Recent publications include: L'égalité, une utopie?, L'Harmattan 2002 ; "Children collective keeping in Poland, yesterday and today", in Michel and Mahon eds., Child Care and Welfare State Restructuring , Routledge 2002; "Social and Political Citizenship in Eastern Europe. The Polish Case" with S. Portet, in Molyneux and Razavi eds, Gender Justice, Development and Rights, Oxford Univ. Press, 2002; 'Genre et politiques sociales en Europe de l'Est', Transitions 1/2004. Co-author (with R. Lister, F. Williams et al. ) of Citizenship in Western Europe. New challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context, Policy Press forthcoming, May 2007). Elissa Helms is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at CEU. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the intersection of gender with nationalism, ethnic violence, representations of Islam, social/political activism and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and ethnographies of the state and post-socialism. Geographically, she focuses on the former Yugoslavia , Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Balkan Muslim societies. She is an editor of The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-war Society (edited with Xavier Bougarel and Ger Duijzings, Ashgate, January 2007), a collection of local-level studies of post-war Bosnia, and is actively engaged in helping to foster a new generation of anthropologists and gender studies scholars in and of the former Yugoslavia. She is currently working on a book manuscript which is an ethnography of women activists in the aftermath of the profoundly gendered violence of the Bosnian war. This and the rest of her work engages directly with the core themes of this workshop as it focuses, through a gender lens, on issues of representation and the circulation of ideas in a post-socialist society on the margins of Europe that has been subject to new forms of direct and indirect foreign intervention. Clare Hemmings is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics. Her teaching and research reflect her background in literary theory, human geography, sociology, women's studies and sexuality studies. She has worked extensively on the significance of bisexuality for sexuality studies, as indicated by both her co-edited collection, The Bisexual Imaginary (Cassell, 1997), and her book, Bisexual Spaces: a Geography of Sexuality and Gender (Routledge, 2002). Recently, she completed work on the limits of translating Western sexual meanings globally, as well as a book manuscript on feminist historiography and epistemology, which explores how gender as a concept is mobilised in transnational social, political and cultural contexts. Clare was manager of the project 'Travelling Concepts in Feminist Pedagogy: European Perspectives', which traced the translation and alteration of key feminist concepts across 8 European contexts. She co-edited (with Ann Kalsoki-Naylor) a series of short books of the same name emerging from the project and collaborated on the interactive website available for public use from 2006. She has held visiting appointments at Duke (US), Utrecht, (the Netherlands) and Kwazulunatal (S. Africa), and she is one of the collective editors of feminist theory's longest-standing international journal, Feminist Review. Dr Jasmina Husanovic was born in 1973 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She studied political theory and international relations at the University of Warwick, UK. In 2003 she received her PhD degree from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK , for the doctoral thesis entitled "Recasting Political Community and Emancipatory Politics: Reflections on Bosnia". She is currently engaged in numerous national, regional and international research, publishing and translation projects in the field of political philosophy, as well as cultural and social theory, and gender studies. Some of her recent publications are: "'In Search of Agency': Reading practices of resistance to old/new biopolitics of sovereignty in Bosnia", in Sovereign Lives. Grammars of Power in an Era of Globalisation (New York: Routeledge, 2004), an edited volume Tracing New Politics: Culture and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Tuzla: Centre City, 2006), and "At the Interstices of Past, Present, and Future: Politics of Witnessing in Bosnia and Cultural-Artistic Practices of Traversal" in Leap Into the City. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions ( New York : DAP, 2006). Since 2004 she works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and since 2006 also as a lecturer at the MA programme in Gender Studies, CIPS, University of Sarajevo. From 1992 to date, she has been either professionally or voluntarily active in various civil society initiatives and networks, especially in the field of cultural production. Biljana Kasic is a feminist theorist, peace and civil activist. She was born in Split and lives in Zagreb, Croatia. She has a Ph.D. in Political Sciences even though her professional life is at the same time a meeting and crossing place of different disciplinary areas (history, sociology, philosophy, art, political sciences). From 1995 to 2006 she was the coordinator of the Centre for Women's Studies - Zagreb. She currently teaches at the University of Zadar at the Department of Sociology and as a guest lecturer at various universities in Croatia and worldwide. Her fields of interest include feminist epistemology, postcolonial theories, women's culture of resistance, theories of identities, justice and ethics. She is co/author and co/editor of numerous books as well as studies and papers including Gyné politiké or about Woman as Political Citizen (2004), "Féminismes 'Est-Ouest' dans une perspective postcoloniale". Nouvelles Questions Feministes, Vol.23, No 2. (2004), "Re-thinking the Imaginary of Home(s)". n. paradoxa, Vol 11. (2003), ACTIVISTS 'Spelling Out' Theory, (2000), Women and the Politics of Peace: Contributions to a Culture of Women's Resistance (1997). She draws exceptional power from her feminist activism which began back in the seventies, when she was involved in the movement against violence against women, and up to the present through her active role within El Taller (Tunis ) and Council of Europe theorizing and searching for alternative justice and peace. Ranjana Khanna is Associate Professor in the Department of English, the Program in Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University, where she focuses on literature and psychoanalytic, postcolonial and feminist theory. Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism was published by Duke University Press in 2003, and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present will appear from Stanford University Press in 2007. Khanna received her DPhil in Women's Studies from the University of York in 1993, and is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her new project is on "Asylum: The Concept and the Practice," links one form of asylum's institutional setting (the mental asylum) to its most expansive version (the nation) in order to examine the complex relationship between sovereignty, institutions, living bodies, citizenship, and concepts of both the human and the valuable. For the Budapest symposium, she is particularly interested in thinking about the future of Marxist feminism, and the manner in which post-socialist Eastern-European scholars understand sovereignty, subjectivity, and the global. In July 2007, she will become Margaret Taylor Smith director of Women's Studies at Duke. Gail Kligman is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies at UCLA. She has written widely on culture, politics and gender in East Central Europe, both socialist and postsocialist. Her books include The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics and Popular Culture in Transylvania , The Politics of Duplicity : Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania , The Politics of Gender After Socialism (co-authored with Susan Gal) and Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism (co-edited with Susan Gal). She is presently co-authoring, with Katherine Verdery, an historical ethnography of the collectivization period in Romania. Among her gender-related courses are the politics of reproduction, trafficking and migration, and gender, nations, and nationalisms. Birgit Langenberger , Visiting Scholar at CEU, Department of Gender Studies, Lecturer in Gender Studies and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. She studied at the University of Vienna, Austria (Ph.D in Philosophy, 1996) and the University of California , Berkeley , USA . Post-Doc study of Political Science at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA where she is currently finishing her 2 nd Ph.D (on the American Declaration of Independence and questions of slavery, colony, revolution, and gender). Her research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and include Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of History ("Memory Studies"), Legal Philosophy, Legal Gender Studies, Gender-, Cultural-, and Post-Colonial Studies, Critical Race Theory. Gail Lewis is Reader in Gender and Ethnicity at the Institute for Women's Studies at Lancaster University in England, of which she is Director. Her research focuses on the articulations of gender, racialisation and citizenship in the constitution of the boundaries of the nation and the European Union, and she is especially keen to explore these dynamic relations in fields of social welfare. She draws upon feminist postcolonial, critical race, and psychoanalytic theory. She has published in the European Journal of Women's Studies, Feminist Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Mobilities, and her books include 'Race', Gender, Social Welfare: encounters in a postcolonial society (2000) and Citizenship: personal lives and social policy (2004) which she edited and co-authored. She has delivered keynote lectures at international feminist conferences in the USA , Canada and Europe . She was a founder member of Britian's first Black Women's Organisation in the 1980s (OWAAD) and was long involved in other community based black and anti-racist/anti-imperialist feminist activism. She is co-organiser of an international conference, 'Melancholic States,' to be held in September 2007. She is currently working on a book, Technologies of Citizenship and Subjection: feminist postcolonial thought and the multicultural social. Anna Loutfi is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Central European University , Budapest (Department of Gender Studies), where she defended her Ph.D. in History (in 2006). Her doctoral thesis is a study of the effect of legal pluralism and legal homogenisation (national codification) on gender relations and family laws in Habsburg Hungary , 1848-1914. Her general academic interests include: legal pluralism and legal codification processes in historical perspective; family law and the sociology of the family, with a focus on gender relations; cultural, social and legal constructions of 'official' and 'unofficial law', and the role of social movements in shaping law; the use of critical legal theory for history and the use of global perspectives for local social thought. She is a member of the Law and Society Collaborative Research Network (CRN) on Law and Social Movements and co-editor of A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19 th and 20 th Centuries (New York: CEU Press, 2006). Jasmina Lukic , is a Recurrent Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University in Budapest . She is also associated with Women's Studies Center in Belgrade and Women's Studies Center in Zagreb , where she regularly gives lectures and short courses. She has been a co-founder and the editor in chief of the journal for feminist theory Zenske studije (1996-1999) and she is an associate editor of The European Journal of Women's Studies and of Aspasia . Her research interests are primarily related with literary and cultural studies, and with South-Slavic literatures. She has published a number of articles and book chapters, as well as critical studies The Other Face (1984) and Metafiction: Reading the Genre (2001), and she has edited Special Issue on Women, Identity, and Identification: "Who are I" of European Journal of Women's Studies (2003). Together with Joanna Regulska and Darja Zavirsek, she has edited a volume Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe (2006). Eniko Magyari-Vincze is professor at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania and coordinates the M.A. Program, "Gender, Differences and Inequalities" at the same university. Her research and teaching interests include gender and ethnicity, anthropology and feminism, anthropology of reproduction, and action research. She is author of The Anthropology of Nationalist Identity Politics (in Romanian, 1997), Experiments in Cultural Analysis (in Romanian, Hungarian and English, 1997), Talking Feminist Institutions. Interviews with leading European scholars (English, 2002 ), Difference that matters: Social-cultural diversity through the lenses of feminist anthropology (in Romanian, 2002 ), Feminist anthropology in-between theory and practice (in Hungarian, 2006), Social exclusion at the crossroads of gender, ethnicity and class: A view through Romani women's reproductive health (in English and Romanian, 2006, together with the film Red poppies). Margara Millan is a full time professor in Faculty of Political and Social Sciences in National University of Mexico. She is sociologist and has a PhD in Anthropology. She has been Coordinator of Latin American Center in the same Faculty, where she leads the Cultural Processes and Gender Research Group. Her research has been on gender representation in cinema, publishing a number of articles on that field and the book Derivas de un Cine en Femenino , 1999. In the last years she has explore indigenous women cultural representation in Mexico, tracing nationalistic, zapatista and feminist views of indigenous women. She has also been part of the project Translocalities/ translocalidades, feminist politics of translation in Latin/a Americas , coordinated by Sonia Alvarez in Amherst , Mass, being a contributor of the book in press, with a chapter on politics of translation in contemporary Mexican feminism. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Gender Department at Central European University from January to August 2007. Maria Hildegard Nickel holds a Diploma in Cultural Studies and Sociology from Humboldt University, Berlin, and a PhD in Sociology of the Family. Since 1987, she has been teaching and working at Humboldt University, Institute of Sociology, with a primary emphasis on the sociology of work and gender relations. She was the scientific director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's Studies at Humboldt University from 1993-2002; speaker of the Women's Studies Section of the German Society of Sociology from 1999-2002, and State Secretary for the Senate Department for Economics, Labour and Women's Issues in the Berlin Government. She has published numerous essays on the service sector, on the sociology of work and on gender relations, especially on gainful employment of women in the GDR and the new German states. She has recently published two edited collections: Reinventing Gender, Women in Eastern Germany since Unification (with E. Kolinsky), and Subjektivierung von Arbeit - Riskante Chancen (with K. Lohr). Almira Ousmanova is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of MA program on 'Gender, Culture, Society' at the European Humanities University (located previously in Minsk, since 2005 in Vilnius, Lithuania). She received her Ph.D. in Social Philosophy from the Belarusian State University at Minsk in 1993. She has held post-doctoral fellowships in France , UK , Italy , Germany , and the USA; and she has taught in Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, Tadjikistan, Armenia, Romania, and Ukraine. In 2003-06 she was the co-director of HESP Re-SET Project on "Rethinking Visual and Cultural Studies: new subjects, methods and teaching strategies". In 2002-04 she was a research fellow in Essen , at KWI in the framework of the international project directed by Luisa Passerini on "Europe: Emotions, Identity, Politics". Her research and teaching interests include Soviet and Post-Soviet visual culture, art and politics, Visual Practices in a Society of Consumption, Gender Representations in Visual Arts (cinema in particular), Gender and Globalization, etc. She has published several books and articles on semiotics, Gender Studies and Film Theory. Her recent publications are Umberto Eco: paradoxes of Maria do Mar Pereira is a PhD student at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her PhD thesis analyses the status of the study of gender in the social sciences in Portugal, both at the level of research activities and pedagogical practices. By looking at the study of gender as an object of power struggles over what counts (and can/should therefore be funded, certified and included in degree programmes) as 'real' and 'proper' scientific knowledge, she hopes to contribute to further understandings of the structure and politics of epistemic communities in the social sciences. Maria holds an MSc in Sociology from the Portuguese Higher Institute of Social Sciences and Business Studies (ISCTE), in the context of which she undertook an ethnographic study of the negotiation of gender among teenagers in a school in Lisbon. She has also studied masculinities and fatherhood, representations of gender in the media, and young women's participation in social and political decision-making. She maintains an active involvement in feminist movements at grassroots and institutional/policy levels, having coordinated a number of awareness raising projects aimed at young people and been a member of the executive committee of various local and national (Portuguese) and international non-governmental organisations. Prof. Dr habil. Andrea PETO associate professor at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University, and associate professor at University of Miskolc, where she directs the Equal Opportunity and Gender Studies Center, Hungary. She has published several books which include: Nõhistóriák. A politizáló magyar nõk története (1945-1951) (Hungarian edition, Seneca 1998). This book was translated and distributed by Columbia University Press as Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 (2003). Her second book was a political biography entitled Rajk Júlia (Balassi, Budapest , 2001) published in the series "Feminism and History" that she edits. Her most recent book examines the link between gender and conservatism entitled: Napasszonyok és Holdkisasszonyok. A mai magyar konzervatív noi politizálás alaktana, (Women of Sun and Girls of Moon. Morphology of Contemporary Hungarian Women Doing Politics) (Budapest , Balassi). This book project was awarded the Bolyai Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006. She is also the author of numerous articles in English, Russian, German, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Hungarian, Italian and French. She has edited six volumes in Hungarian, ten volumes in English, two in Russian and she serves on the board of several journals in the field of women's history (Gender and History, Clio, Visuoemene, Kultúra. Straipsniu rinktine) and as an associate editor of Feminist Europe, The Review of Books, member of the editorial board of Memory and Narrative, President of the gender and women's history section of the Hungarian Historical Association and the Feminist Section of the Hungarian Sociological Association. Presently she is working on transitional justice, gender and the holocaust. She was awarded by President of the Hungarian Republic the Officer's Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Koztarsasagi Erdemrend Tisztikeresztje) in 2005. Dr. Joanna Regulska is a Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Geography and is a Chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, at Rutgers University , USA. She is also the Director of the Office of International Programs, School for Arts and Sciences at Rutgers . She is the founder and director, since 1989, of the Local Democracy Partnership (formerly Local Democracy in Poland ) Program. In 1996-98 she was a co-director of the Program on Gender and Culture at the Central European University , Budapest . Most of her research and teaching concentrates on women's agency, political activism, grassroots mobilization and construction of women's political spaces. She has also conducted extensive work on the impacts of political and economic restructuring on the process of democratization, citizens' participation and decentralization in central and eastern Europe. Dr. Regulska has published over 90 articles, chapters and reports and have presented over 100 papers at national and international meetings of learned societies. She is an author and co-author of five books, most recently Women and Citizenship in Central and East Europe with Jasmina Lukic and Darja Zavirsek, ( Ashgate Publisher, UK 2006 ). Currently she is completing several collaborative book manuscripts: Shaping Women's Agenda and Public Discourses in the Enlarged Europe (in English); Cooperation or Conflict: State, Union and Women (in Polish) and with B. Smith, From Cold War to the EU: Women and Gender in Contemporary Europe. For her contributions to the development of local democracy, local government reform and empowerment of women in public life she has been awarded, by the President of Poland, in 2004 the Knight Cross of the Order of Restitution of the Republic of Poland and in 1996 The Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. In 1996, she received also Presidential Award for the Distinguished Public Service from the President of the Rutgers University. Mindy Jane Roseman, JD, PhD, is lecturer in law at Harvard Law School , where she is also Academic Director of the Human Rights Program (HRP), Harvard Law School . She teaches courses on international reproductive and sexual health and rights as well as supervises clinical projects in the area of health and human rights. She is the co-convener of the Group on Reproductive Health and Rights at the Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) which brings area faculty and activists together research and discuss a range of issues: 2007-09 activities will be focused on the integration of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health services, programs, and research. Before joining the law school, Roseman was and instructor in the Department of Population and International Senior Research Officer at the International Health and Human Rights Program, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, HSPH. There, she taught, researched and reported on a range of health and human rights issues, with special focus on reproductive and sexual rights, including HIV and AIDS, women's and children's rights. Before coming to Harvard she had been a staff attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York , in charge of its East and Central European program. She also holds a doctorate in Modern European History with a focus on France . She assisted in the founding of the Program on Gender and Cultural Studies (later the Gender Studies Department) at the Central European University and was its first associate director. Her current writing projects include a critical evaluation of international reproductive health and rights policies, entitled "Global Reproductive Health and Rights: The Way Forward (forthcoming U of Penn Press and supported by the Macarthur foundation), and a history of the eugenics and human rights movements in France. Jackie Stacey is Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University in the UK . She is about to take up a new post in the Research Institute on Cosmopolitan Cultures at Manchester University from September 2007. She is a co-editor of two journals: Screen and of Feminist Theory . She is author of Star Gazing: Female Spectators and Hollywood Cinema (1994) and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997) and co-author (with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury) of Global Nature, Global Culture (2000). She has also co-edited a number of books, including Romance Revisited with Lynne Pearce (1995) Thinking Through the Skin with Sara Ahmed (2001) and Queering Screen with Sarah Street (2007). She is currently working on a new book on representations of gender, sexuality and racialisation in films about genetic engineering and cloning, The Cinematic Life of the Gene (Duke forthcoming). Dorottya Szikra is an Associate Professor at Eötvös University, Budapest , Faculty of Social Work and Social Policy. Her main research fields are: the history of social welfare, the history of Hungarian and Eastern European social work, social policy and family policy. Her recent publications include: The Thorny Path to Implementation: Bismarckian social insurance in Hungary in the late 19th century . European Journal of Social Security, Volume 6, Nr. 3, September, 2004. Pp. 255-272; with Eszter Varsa, "Gender, class and ethnicity-based differentiation in the practice of Hungarian social work. A case study of the Kozma-Street Settlement, 1935-1945". In Need and Care - Glimpses into the Beginnings of Eastern Europe's Professional Welfare, eds. Kurt Schilde and Dagmar Schulte (Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen, 2005). Irene Silverblatt is professor of cultural anthropology and history at Duke University. She researches the interplay of gender configurations, race formations and power in the context of state-making and colonialism. Investigations into the Inca Empire and colonial Peru have resulted in two books: Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru and Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. Current research interests include the politics of memory and the obligations of history in Central and Eastern Europe. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard. Dr. Kornelia Slavova teaches American Studies at the Department of English and American Studies, Sofia University, Bulgaria. Her publications are in the fields of cross-cultural studies, American literature, and gender studies. She has edited and co-edited several books on gender theory and literary criticism including Women's Time (1997) Theory Across Boundaries: Introduction to Gender Studies (2000), Gender and Order in Bulgarian Culture (2005). Her most recent book is The Gender Frontier in Sam Shepard's and Marsha Norman's Drama (2001). She has translated a number of feminist books into Bulgarian, including Our Bodies Ourselves (2001), Feminist Knowledge (2002), and Women's Identities in the Balkans (2004). Anna Temkina is professor, PhD social sciences, co-director MA gender study program, at the European University at St Petersburg . Her research and teaching interests include ethnic, national and citizenship's dimension of the gender relations, feminist and social theory, gender culture and sexuality in contemporary Russia , biographical research, qualitative methods of sociological research, reproductive health. Currently she is working on book on transformation of sexuality in Russia , Armenia and Tajikistan and on research project on sexuality and reproductive health. She is author and coauthor of numerous articles in different languages, among them are "Gender and Women's Studies in Contemporary Russia", "Gendered Citizenship in Soviet and Post-Soviet societies". "Happy Marriage' of Gender Studies and Biographical Research in Contemporary Russian Social Sciences", "The Development of Feminist Organisations in St.Petersburg 1985-2003", "The Construction of Sexual Pleasure in Women's Biographies", "Institutionalization of Gender Studies in Russia: Issues and Strategies", "Die Krise der Mannlichkeit im Alltagsdiskurs. Wandel der Geschlechterordnung in Russland", "Sexual Scripts in Women's Biographies and the Construction of Sexual Pleasure" Eszter Timar is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Emory University and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University . She is working on a project on rights claiming and the figure of the gay citizen; her research interests include: queer theory, sexuality in social thought, literary theory, philosophy of citizenship. Madina Tlostanova is Professor of Comparative Politics at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, in Moscow. She received her Ph.D. in literature from Gorky Institute of World Literature (Russian Academy of Sciences) in 2000. Here research interests include post-colonial, global and comparative studies with an emphasis on the post-soviet cultural and political imaginary, particularly that of the non-European Soviet ex-colonies, and the trans-cultural and post-national aesthetics and subjectivity. She is author of Multicultural Discourse and US Fiction of the Late 20th Century (2000, in Russian), Living Never; Writing from Nowhere: Post-Soviet Literature and the Transcultural Aesthetics (2004, in Russian), A Janus-Faced Empire. Notes on the Russian Empire in Modernity Written from the Border (2003, in English) The Sublime of Globalization ? Sketches on Trans-cultural Subjectivity and Aesthetics (2005, in English). Currently she is working on a book on gender, race and sexuality from the perspective of Caucasus and Central Asia, which explores the specific ways of shaping gendered subjectivity that worked in the colonial spaces of the subaltern Russian empire, the effect of the distorted ways of modernization on several generations of women from these locales and the shaping of the specific sensibility of the border dwellers that has reinforced itself in the last decade. Valentina Uspenskaya is Associate Professor of Political Science and Head of Gender Studies Centre at Tver State University/Russia. She is also Head of Social Studies and Humanities Department at Russian State Social University/Tver Branch. Her research and teaching interests include Feminism in Europe, Politics of Gender Equality in Nordic Countries, Gender and Politics in Russia; Institutionalisation of Women's and Gender Studies in Europe. She is author of Feminism Before Feminism: Idea of Women's Rights in History of European Social Thought, XV-XVIII (2003), On the Road to Gender Equality (2004). She is also composer and editor of 11 books, among them: Women in Social History of Russia (1997), Feminism and Gender Studies (1999), Marxist Feminism: Collection of Works of Alexandra Kollontai (2002), Sex and Gender in Social Studies and Humanities(2005), Men's Answers on Women's Question in Russia (2006), Feminist Answers on Women's Question in Russia (forthcoming). Her book Feminism: From Vindication of the Rights of Women to the Politics of Gender Equality is coming in 2007. In 2006, she was an organiser of summer symposium in Tver: Gender Equality and Gender Studies in Sweden and Russia, which brought together many Swedish and Russian scholars and activists. She has also begun research on gender climate in local government and is working on a book. Kathi Weeks is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University. She is trained as a political theorist with specialties in U.S. feminist theory, Marxism, and poststructuralist theory. Her current interests include the sociology of work, utopian thought, and autonomist Marxist theory. She is working on a book project that focuses on the changing structures and cultures of work in the context of globalization and explores demands for shorter hours and basic income in terms of their potential contributions to post-work politics and ethics. Her book, Constituting Feminist Subjects, appeared in 1998. She has also edited, with Michael Hardt, The Jameson Reader . Laura Wexler is Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Yale University. Her research focuses on visual culture (primarily photography and film) and national regimes of gender, race and class difference. She is interested as well in transnational feminist critiques of social violence and its aftermath, and in transnational feminism generally. Her publications include Pregnant Pictures (2001) (with Sandra Matthews) and Tender Violence; Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism (2001), which won the American Historical Association's Joan Kelley Memorial Prize for the best book in women's history. She also co-edited a special volume of the Yale Journal of Criticism on contemporary cultural perspectives on the Holocaust (2001). Her most recent publication is "The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904," in Haunted By Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (2006). Currently she is at work on two books, one an analysis of the work of photographer Diane Arbus in relation to mid-twentieth century U.S. culture, and the other a study of the racial politics of empire through domestic spectatorship at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Robyn Wiegman is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University. She has published American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (Duke 1995), Who Can Speak: Identity and Critical Authority (Illinois 1995), Feminism Beside Itself (Routledge 1995), AIDS and the National Body (Duke 1997), The Futures of American Studies (Duke 2002), and Women's Studies on Its Own (Duke 2002). She is currently completing two book projects. Being in Time with Feminism examines the history of institutionalization of feminism in the U.S. academy; Object Lessons: The U.S. Knowledge Politics of Identity pays attention to relations of identification and affect in the constitution of identity as a domain of academic inquiry. Ara Wilson's scholarship investigates the gendered and sexual dimensions of globalization. Trained in cultural anthropology, she began her research with long-term fieldwork in Thailand that resulted in a 2004 ethnography, The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons and Avon Ladies in the Global City. This project applied questions from feminist and queer theory to analyze the changing formulations of sexuality, gender and ethnicity in Asia. She has also conducted research on transnational organizing on feminist issues and sexual rights and is currently working on a book, Sexual Latitudes, that explores the implication of globalization as the stage for sexual politics. Her work combines attention to political economy with critical studies of culture and post-colonial critiques of Eurocentrism through concrete/grounded case studies. Currently Director of Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University, she has taught transnational feminist cultural studies at the Ohio State University and has been a fellow at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, the Five College Women's Studies Research Center in Massachusetts, and the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality at Kent University (UK). Tomiko Yoda is an Associate professor in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Program in Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Construction of Japanese Modernity (2004) and a co-editor of Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life From the Recessionary 1990s to the Present (2006). She has published articles on gender and postwar Japanese capitalism, the construction of Japanese literary history, gender and nationalism, and the role of feminist theory in the study of premodern Japanese literature. She is currently working on a research project that examines the feminization of consumer culture in Japan since the late 1960s. Through perspectives informed by theories on global political economy and cultural conditions of late capitalism the project seeks to problematize the ways in which gender relations in the Japan have been often explained in terms of its particular culture and tradition. Susan Zimmermann is Professor of History at CEU, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Gender Studies and the Department of History. She is the author of "The Challenge of Multinational Empire for the International Women's Movement: The Case of the Habsburg Monarchy", in: The Journal of Women's History 17 (2005) 2, 87-117; "Women's and Gender Studies in a Global-Local Perspective: Developing the Frame", in: Heike Flesner, Lydia Potts (eds), "Societies in Transition-Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies", Opladen 2002, 61-77; The Better Half? Women's Movements and Women's Endeavors in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918, Wien-Budapest 1999 (in German); and Splendid Poverty. Poor Relief, Child Provision, and Social Reform in Budapest. The "Social Laboratory" of the Habsburg Monarchy Compared to Vienna 1873-1914 , Sigmaringen 1997 (in German). My current research focuses on the complex history of how international(ist) aspirations and politics were engaged with re-enforcing or challenging pre-existing structures and hierarchies in the global inter-state system, and how local activists and organized groups on the ground tried to influence, shape, and change related politics within organized internationalism.
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