Saida Waheed Gender Initiative Calls for Proposals

Via LUMS.edu.pk

The Saida Waheed Gender Initiative at LUMS announces its inaugural colloquium for student research examining issues relating to the study of gender in Pakistan.

Applications are being invited from students (undergraduate and master’s) across disciplines – including history, economics, literature, public health & medicine, sociology, anthropology – to present at the colloquium, which will take place on April 9, 2016.

Foregrounding gender as a contested category of analysis and action, the Initiative approaches gender as a set of relations and processes that include women, men, and members of the third gender. We encourage research proposals that attend to the complex construction and operation of gender across different spatial and temporal contexts. This may include research on topics including, but not limited to, representations of gender in literature/film/television, the politics and economics of gender and inequality, histories of activism and organizing, debates within feminist theory, the causes and consequences of gender-based violence, the construction of gender within religious discourses, etc.

How to Participate

Please submit a 250 word proposal outlining your research project (including your research question, methodology and main argument). Please email the proposal to gender@lums.edu.pk The deadline for submission is March 12, 2016. Selected students will be notified within a week’s time.

Colloquium Structure

The colloquium will take place on April 9, 2016 at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Selected student papers will be organized into panels. Following presentations, faculty and students will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters and engage in discussion. The colloquium offers students the opportunity to share their research, think across contexts and disciplines, and receive critical feedback from peers and faculty. All students will receive a certificate of participation.

Questions and Concerns

Please direct all questions and concerns to gender@lums.edu.pk

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