GALE The Global Alliance for LGBT education
London, UK. As always the Schools OUT Conference will be held on the first Saturday of February 2012. It is entitled: Educating OUT Prejudice through the LGBT Lens. Featuring the Classroom, The Rainbow Project and presenters and speakers from the other protected characteristics, the Conference will be rich in resources and ideas for practitioners in the classroom and stakeholders in education.
Fees
Until Jan 26 2012 Student or Unemployed £10, Retired £15 Individual £40 Organisation £50
After Jan 26, 2012 Student or unemployed £15 Retired £20 Individual £50 Organisation £60.
To register call the Drill Hall box office: 020 7307 5060
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The aim of the conference is to analyze the status quo and the future challenges of Queer and LGBTIQ Studies from an ample, inter/multidisciplinary perspective, in order to problematize/destabilize (i.e. to queer) essentialized discourses and totalizing paradigms.
Proposals for Papers and Panels:
Paper and panel proposals are invited on any aspect of Queer or LGBTIQ Studies. They shall be grouped into the following areas:
The proposals will undergo a peer-review process by our international board of reviewers and should be submitted through our website, by 15 December 2012.
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Ohrid, Macedonia. The Department of Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research "Euro-Balkan" (Skopje, Macedonia) in cooperation with the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University (Belgrade, Serbia) is pleased to announce the 15th Ohrid Summer University 2012.
The general aim of the Institute is to gather young post-graduate students, activists, scholars and teaching staff from both Eastern and Western Europe and promote a shared platform for research and trans-disciplinary theoretical reflection on the complex modes of interweaving sexuality, culture and politics, and consequently of exchanging and questioning geopolitically determined discourses in the research of sexualities, gender studies, and queer theory. Our idea is to provide students, scholars and teachers with the opportunity to question, decenter and democratize these areas by way of deferring the notion of theoretical and geopolitical privilege which is often implied by these research areas, and thus to introduce new models of rethinking context-specific phenomena related to sexualities and, vice versa, to enrich theoretical paradigms with context specific phenomena and research.
For any further questions and information, please contact the Summer Institute coordinators:
Slavco Dimitrov, slavco.euba @ gmail.com
Stanimir Panayotov, spanayotov @ gmail.com