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CFP:
Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium
The University of Toronto, October 18, 2014
Gender and sexuality are two of the critical organizing axes of
contemporary life. Alongside and intersecting with race, class, nation,
and others, they constitute the ways through which we make ourselves known
to ourselves and to one another: as men, women, or one of the 58 new
gender options offered by Facebook, and as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
asexual, and all the other varied and ever-changing linguistic markers of
preferences of physical and emotional intimacy. Just as legal studies, the
hard and social sciences, philosophy and literature, information studies
is a discourse called to respond to the challenges posed by critical
perspectives on gender and sexuality. Perhaps more than any other
discipline, information studies confronts the theoretical with the
material. How do both the ?the archive? and the archive organize, and how
are they organized by, gender and sexuality? From the collections we build
to the access tools we design to the histories we collect, catalog, and
preserve, information studies theorists and practitioners are always
engaged in the projects of making and being made.
We invite proposals to join and extend these conversations during a
one-day colloquium to be held at the University of Toronto on October 18,
2014. Presentations will consist of individual papers organized around
themes that emerge from the submissions.
Suggested topics include:
? Information studies and its engagements with cross-disciplinary
theories of gender and sexuality
? Practice-based responses to critical theories of gender and
sexuality in information responses
? Critical approaches to cataloging and classification
? Feminist and queer library pedagogies, both in information
studies schools and at the K-12 and undergraduate levels
? Queer and feminist archival practices, both theoretical and material
? Sexed and gendered labor in information environments
? Intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, and
other axes of social organization
? Critical feminist and queer critiques of the technologies of
information production, organization, and dissemination
Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to [log in to unmask]
Proposals due May 1, 2014. Notification June 1, 2014.
Thanks to the University of Toronto Faculty of Information for generously
hosting this colloquium.
Rory Litwin
P.O. Box 188784
Sacramento, CA 95818
Tel. 218-260-6115
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http://libraryjuice.com/
http://rorylitwin.info/
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