[genderstudies] Call for Proposals: “Consent: Terms of Agreement” Deadline Jan. 1st

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Consent: Terms of Agreement, March 21-23, 2013Call for Proposals: “Consent:
Terms of Agreement”

Submission Deadline: Jan. 1st

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and creative submissions
for an International Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
entitled, “Consent: Terms of Agreement,” to be held at Indiana University -
Bloomington from March 21-23, 2013. Join us for our 10th annual conference,
hosted by the graduate students of the IU Department of English. See below
for details.

Consent: We click it any time we download a new software program. We are
required to give it for medical procedures. Spoken or implied, it struggles
to articulate our desires and will. Without it, numerous laws can be broken
and our senses of agency violated.

We cannot disentangle it from larger structures of power, either. Antonio
Gramsci defines hegemony, for example, as "characterized by the combination
of force and consent, which balance each other reciprocally, without force
predominating excessively over consent." The American Declaration of
Independence stipulates that consent is required to govern a people; that
the freely governed “cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for
public uses without their own consent.” As a term, “consent” is something
with which scholars and theorists across the disciplines must grapple; a
concept that experts, from medical and legal ethics to web and software
design, must constantly define and employ in their practices outside of the
academy.

This conference explores both the cultural and practiced significance of
“consent,” welcoming papers on its diverse meanings and modes of
representation: from issues in the consent to be governed to reading a text
that resists interpretations; from felicitous utterances gone awry to the
struggle for speaking and acknowledging desires between two or more people.
Tracing the theoretical, formal, and political implications of this issue
requires a variety of methodologies and perspectives, so we particularly
encourage interdisciplinary and applied approaches that consider any time
period, place, or practice. Below are some suggestions for possible topics.
While this list is by no means exhaustive, we hope these ideas might
inspire some exciting new thoughts related to the conference theme:

• Aesthetic and collaborative production
• Reading as consent, perception
• Narrative choice, authorship and authority
• Canon building, genre
• Professional ethics: medical, legal, business, public health, IRBs, etc
• Social contract, governing and the governed
• Sovereignty, agency
• National and cultural affiliations
• Informed/uninformed, implied and non-verbal forms of consent
• Resistance/Rejection
• Bodies in contact and intercorporeality
• Con/sensual intimacies, kinship
• Gendered, Sexual, Queer politics of consent
• Privacy, agreement contracts, legal theory
• Piracy (actual and digital), criminality, cons, manipulations
• Age of Consent
• Imprisonment, torture, trial, coercion, force
• Public spheres, marketplace
• Crowd sourcing, “liking” and likeness
• Human-animal relationships and posthumanism
• Environmental and ecological resources
• Game theory, rationality, suspension of disbelief
• Dis/Consensus and synthesis

We invite proposals for individual papers as well as panels organized by
topic. We also welcome the interaction of scholarly and creative work
within papers or panels. Please submit (both as an attachment AND in the
body of the email) an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a few
personal details (name, institutional affiliation, degree level, email, and
phone number) by January 1st, 2013, to iugradconference at gmail.com.

Visit our website (http://www.indiana.edu/~engsac/conference/) for the
complete CFP and additional information in the coming weeks!
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