Sexualities and Globalization
Gilbert Elbaz, organizer (CRILLASH)
Call for papers
International Conference date and place UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES
April 17, 2015, Amphi H. Sellaye, Campus Schoelcher, Martinique Deadline for paper submission: May 30, 2015
The issue of sex and sexuality has been historically omnipresent, even though it has been repressed at times. As a speed-increasing trigger, globalization has multiplied the debates around sexuality and shed light on the differences within and between cultures.
Transnational civil society, one of the clearest expressions of globalization, has produced discourses and identities around sexuality which, by way of social movement organizing, have smoothly crossed over borders, thus seriously questioning sexuality as a single-unit concept.
Papers should focus on sexualities as multi-factorial matrices wherein the pluri-leveled interface between desire, pleasure, power and domination sparks tensions that ultimately engender significant social change. As well, they should focus on the resistance strategies used by some groups or cultures against these newly formed identity and discursive social movements that are radicalizing worldwide the ways sex has been so far conceptualized.
Authors are free to use the themes and theoretical framework of their choice, and from within the globalization perspective, they are free to use the region of their choice. However, we should not forget that this endeavor to garner ‘globalized knowledge’ is a way to better understand the Caribbean region, where various conceptions, resistances and innovations co- exist through processes of ‘creolization’, hybridization, but also tensions around the issue of sexualities.
Just as participants are strongly encouraged to use the inter- or pluri-disciplinary theoretical framework of their choice in the area of Arts, Literature, Social Sciences, or the Humanities, so too are they strongly encouraged to use methodologies that include comparative studies.
The Conference will take place on the 17th of April, 2015 on the Martinique Campus of the Université des Antilles in the Hélène SELLAYE Amphitheater.
The guest-speaker will be Professor Jean Paul ROCCHI, a Guadeloupean researcher from the University of Paris-Est, Marne-La-Vallée, noted for his intersectional work on racism and homophobia.
Papers must rigorously meet the editorial norms of the journal Archipelies (See the link on the Internet) and should be submitted to Prof. Gilbert Elbaz, no later than May 30, 2015, at the following address: gilberelbaz@yahoo.com.
Scientific committee
Anne Crémieux, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France, Associate Professor, Film and History.
Xavier Lemoine, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France, Associate Professor, American Studies.
Rozena Maart, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, Associate Professor;
Chair of Gender Studies and a member of the International Assembly of Women Philosophers.
Guillaume Marche, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Professor, American Studies.
Monica Michlin, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, France. Former student of the École Normale Supérieure; Associate Professor in American Literature and Contemporary American Society; currently one of the Vice-Presidents of the French Association for American Studies (AFEA)
Gilbert Elbaz, Université des Antilles, Professor, American Studies.
