Race, Class, Gender

CFP: a conference in Paris, 11 September

Race, Class, Gender as categories of difference and inequality: Which perspectives arise from the concept of 'intersectionality' for human and cultural sciences?

Ciera - Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'Allemagne, Paris
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), 54, boulevard Raspail, 75600 Paris
Deadline: 21.05.2009

Conference for Young Academics / CFP Colloque "junior" des Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'Allemagne (Ciera) Paris / Tagung für 'NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen':

Paris, EHESS, September 11th 2009
Deadline 5/21/2009

Concept: Vera Kallenberg, Jennifer Meyer

Race, Class, Gender as categories of difference and inequality: Which perspectives arise from the concept of 'intersectionality' for human and cultural sciences?

What kind of opportunities of agency does a 'local' unmarried, Jewish maidservant (‚Judenmagd') living in the Alsace have compared to a 'foreign' Jewish merchant ('fremder' 'Handelsjude')? How do representations of 'masculinity' in the literature of the Weimar Republic and the structural categories of nation, race and populace corelate? Which interplay of structures of inequality surfaces in the uprisings in the Parisian Banlieus in 2006?

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