Call for Participation at the Conference: Cultural Context of the Institutionalization of Gender Studies in XXI century

Yerevan State University’s Center for Gender and Leadership Studies invites you to take part  at 10 May, 2016 in a conference entitled Cultural Context of the Institutionalization of Gender Studies in the XXI century. The deadline for submission of the abstracts is April 30, 2016, at 5 p.m.

The conference aims to present recent events and actions that address gender issues, and the implementation of interventions at the institutional level. The conference will promote views of specialists concerned with addressing urgent gender issues, as well as the presentation of the results of recent researches. This event also aims at creating a scientific platform for discussions on cultural perceptions of gender issues, and the presentation of their transformations in the XXI century.
Where:
Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

Topics of the conference:

• Cultural Aspects of Gender Studies
• Pecularities of Institutionalization of Gender Studies
• Promoting and Preventive Factors of the Institutionalization of Gender Studies
• Perspectives of Development of Gender Studies on the Institutional Level

Who can participate:
The event is designed for students of in social and related fields; practitioners working in the field of women/gender issues; activists; professionals dealing with gender issues in the academia, and for everyone who is interested in women/gender issues and wants to contribute to the discussion of the cultural context of gender issues.

The deadline for submission of the abstracts is April 30, 2016, at 5 p.m. Please send your e-mail to cgls@ysu.am with the subject line mentioning May conference abstract.
The abstract should not exceed 350 words, and must have a title, and state the general purpose of the paper, and provide a brief content of the presentation. Font type: Sylfaen or Arial Unicode, font size: 11, no space.