CALL FOR PAPERS
Encounters with vulnerability:
The victim, the fragile, the monster, the queer, the abject, the nomadic, the feminine, the shameful, and the rest
An interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate and early-career academics in the area of law, gender and sexuality
Nov 22nd, 2013
Venue: Newcastle University
Host: Gender Research Group, Newcastle University
This one-day conference seeks to bring together postgraduate and early-career scholars from across the UK and beyond to explore the general theme of ‘Encounters with vulnerability: the victim, the fragile, the monster, the queer, the abject, the nomadic, the feminine, the shameful, and the rest’. This interdisciplinary conference in the field of Law, Gender and Sexuality’ will investigate what lies beneath vulnerability, how it is deployed, what it calls for, and how it is denied, among other. Despite its ubiquity, the concept of vulnerability has been fine-tuned in the last decade or so. It has been used to explain and counteract the different dimensions of how the ‘subject’ and the body that it inhabits are deployed – represented, regulated, normalised – through atomistic notions, without relations. To the extent that normative orders, from politics to law, assume or idealize disembodied subjectivity, it encourages us to re-encounter and re-think the different forms of relating to embodiment, with vulnerability as one of its aspects. (more…)