Call for Papers: Gender and the Law International Conference --
Limits, Contestations and Beyond
Izmir, Turkey
4-6 June 2014
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the
discursive, historical, political, social limits of legal systems, including
state laws, policies, institutionalised un-written based customs, traditions and
their operation about gender-related as well as gender-specific issues. Legal
systems often structure, impacts, controls, constructs or deconstructs,
intervenes and acts against certain relations whether between or intra states.
Legal norms established to protect or promote gender equality may have
unintended consequences and legal norms that seem irrelevant to gender may
nonetheless significantly impact gender issues and various forms of
gender-related violence.
The conference aims to engage with different
legal systems across cultures focusing on the ways in which social mores are
institutionalised in societies aiming to render a subtle, complex account of the
discursive construction of gender, linking together ideologies, language, their
cultural groundings and their operation in legal context. It invites the
participants to bring in the cases that enable further discussions in relation
to broader contexts including social, political, cultural, economic and legal
processes that underlie the construction of the gendered
subjectivities.
This conference is open for papers across disciplines, including, but not
limited to, legal studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, cultural
studies, politics, international relations and else.
The conference will
explore the following themes:
