Gender, Bodies, & Technology is an initiative within Women’s and Gender
Studies at Virginia Tech that aims to creatively and intellectually
explore the multiple, proliferating, and gendered dimensions of
technologized bodies and embodied technologies. Through our initiative
and biannual conference, we seek to demonstrate, theorize, and perform
the discursive and material nodes around which gender, bodies, and
technology both cohere and fracture: how, for example, do the specter
and reality of transvaginal ultrasounds index a historically specific
female body? What is the relationship between expanded combat roles for
female soldiers and the U.S. military’s escalating use of “unmanned”
drone warcraft? How should we interpret airport body scanners and
restroom architecture that threaten and displace transgender persons?
Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2013
We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural
sciences, feminist science studies, visual and performing arts, life
sciences, and STEM fields for papers, panels, workshops, new media, art,
and performance pieces that explore the intersections of gender, bodies
& technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to the military, and
from health care to the media.
Find out more here: Gender, Bodies, & Technology at Virginia Tech 2014
Any questions, please contact Christine Labuski/GBT Coordinator and Conference Co-Director at chrislab@vt.edu
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