International Conference KU Leuven | 18-20 December 2017
Deadline for proposals: 1 August 2017
The conference on the gender of sovereignty in European politics and aesthetics wants to bring together investigations that revisit issues of gender and sovereignty from a variety of disciplines. The historical scope of the conference ranges from the beginnings of modernity to the present. We invite papers that address imaginations of sovereignty in political and cultural discourse either through case-studies or in comprehensive analyses envisioning a modified history. Topics of interests include but are not restricted to:
Women's sovereignty in politics, the arts and different media and performances: cases, modifications and ambivalences
Metonymies of sovereignty (in civic life and cultural networks)
Fantasies of female rule in intellectual or poetical discourse
Gender, authority and literary and artistic genres
Beyond the public eye: experiences and reflections of power in correspondence, diaries and memoirs
History and historiography: from historicism to biopolitics
Pathological scripts of female rule
Bodies of female rule
To submit a proposal, go to http://thegenderofsovereignty.be/papers.html
Source: Fabula