Religion, Gender and Sexualities One-Day Conference — Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Call for Papers: Religion, Gender and Sexualities One-Day Conference
Friday 1st July 2016, 10.00-16.30
Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Guest speaker: Dr Kristin Aune, Senior Research Fellow, Coventry
University: “Feminist Spirituality as Lived Religion: How UK Feminists forge Religio-spiritual Lives”
To celebrate the formation of the Gender, Sexualities and the Body and the Religion, Ethnicity and Nationhood research streams within the Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture at Aston University, we are hosting a joint inaugural event. Entitled ‘Religion, Gender and Sexualities’, this one-day conference will explore the intersection of religion, gender and sexualities within everyday contexts. Scholarship has started to unpack these multi-faceted relationships, but this is still an emerging research area which requires further study and exploration. We welcome abstracts which address any element of this relationship and could include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
• Sexual practices and negotiations within religious environments
• LGBTQIA experiences and religion
• Sexuality support networks within religious communities
• Singleness; celibacy
• Gendered power negotiations in intimate relationships
• Marital experiences
• Commitment ceremonies (e.g. civil partnerships, marriage)
• Parenthood/non-parenthood
• Virginity
• Monogamy/Polygamy/Polyamory
• Embodiment and religion
• Gender, sexual and religious identities in different contexts
(e.g. the workplace, leisure)
• Religious ritual, gender and sexuality
There will be no charge for speakers to attend this one-day event.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided on the day. For delegates wishing to attend but not present, there will be a small charge for refreshments and lunch (£12).
Deadline for abstracts: May 27th 2016. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Dr Sarah-Jane Page
(s.page1@aston.ac.uk
More information:
http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-centres/ccisc/news-and-events/
Sarah-Jane Page
Lecturer in Sociology
N920, Languages and Social Sciences
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
s.page1@aston.ac.uk
Co-author (with Andrew Yip) of the book, ‘Religious and Sexual Identities’
(http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426370)
