The study of gender is an
interdisciplinary field intertwined with
feminism, queer studies, sexuality
studies, postcolonial studies, and
cultural studies (to name just some
relevant fields).
This project calls for the consideration
of gender in relation to various kinds
of love (with regard, for example, to
self, spirit, religion, family,
friendship, ethics, nation,
globalisation, environment, and so on).
How do the interactions of gender and
love promote particular performances of
gender; conceptions of individual and
collective identity; formations of
community; notions of the human;
understandings of good and evil? These
are just some of the questions that
occupy this project.
This conference welcomes research papers
which seek to understand the interaction
and interconnection between the concepts
of love and gender; and whether, when,
how and in what ways the two concepts
conceive and construct each other.
