"Gender, Bodies & Technology: (Dis)Integrating Frames"
April 26-28, 2012
Roanoke, Virginia
Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech


Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Dr. Judith Halberstam

Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies, University of Southern California

Dr. Judy Wajcman

Head of Department of Sociology, London School of Economics & Political Science

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:

. Gender and the technologies of the workplace, education, and public/private spaces

. Disability and technologies of intervention

. Feminist theorizing of the intersections between technology and constructions of embodiment,

identity and selves

. Performance, new media and other creative expressions: engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions

of embodiment and technology

. Gendered innovations in technology: gendered objects, design, pasts/futures

. Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies

. Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing

. New Media, digital representation and virtual gendered environments

. Medicalized bodies: reproduction, disease, bioethics, body constructions

. Performing/transgressing gender and sexuality

. Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism

. Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship

The Gender, Bodies & Technology website, online submission form, as well as the full program from the 2010 conference can be viewed at: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/ http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/

For more information or questions please contact:

Sharon Elber GBT Coordinator

Women's and Gender Studies Program

Department of Sociology

Virginia Tech

408 McBryde Hall (0137)

Blacksburg, VA, 24061 USA

mailto:selber@vt.edu selber@vt.edu

http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/ http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/