Vernacular Modernities Conference
"Class-ifying Gender, Gendering Class"
The conference brings together scholars whose work demonstrates
the often intimate, uneven and powerful connections between
gender and class. Drawing from historical, sociological and
anthropological perspectives, the papers address changing conceptualizations
and practices of class as a gendered dimension of social life
and identity, and of gender as marked by and enacted within
parameters of class. These dialectics are explored in the diverse
cultural contexts of Brazil, Turkey, the Caribbean and the United
Kingdom.
Schedule
Friday, April 4
9:30am - 5:30pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
9:30am - Welcome and Introductions
10:00am - Rosemary Crompton
Department of Sociology, City University London
"Class & Gender after the Cultural Turn"
10:45am - Gul Ozyegin
Department of Sociology, The College of William & Mary
"Class of Sexual Freedom: Gender & Sexual Cultures
of Young Adults in Istanbul"
11:30am - Carla Freeman
Department of Anthropology, Emory University
"Ladies & Others: The Caribbean Conundrum of Respectibility"
12:15pm - lunch
1:30pm - Maureen O'Dougherty
Department of Family & Social Science, University of Minnesota
"Fashion Statements & Rebuttals: Marking Class Privilege
& Gender in
Contemporary Brazil"
2:15pm - Margot Finn
Department of History, University of Warwick
"The Social Life of Contract in Modernising England"
3:00 - break
3:15pm - Carla Jones
Vernacular Modernities Post-Doctoral Fellow, Emory University
Respondent
3:45pm - Bruce Knauft
Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Respondent
4:15pm - General Discussion & Closing Remarks
Sponsored by:
The Vernacular Modernities Program
The Institute for Women's Studies
The Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program
The Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL)
The Hightower Lecture Fund
The event is free and open to the public.
For additional information, contact:
Juana Clem McGhee, BBA, MDiv
Special Programs Coordinator
Institute for Comparative & International Studies
Emory University
1385 Oxford Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Phone: 404-727-6959
Fax: 404-727-6724
Email: jmcghee@emory.edu
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