Source: BISA List, Deadline: 31.08.2007.

Roundtable: J Ann Tickner; Marysia Zalewski; Margot Light; Fred Halliday; Vivienne Jabri -  Saturday January 26th 2008 at LSE, 11-5.30pm.Paper proposals are invited for this event. Proposals should be of no more than 500 words and should be emailed to Kimberly Hutchings (K.Hutchings@lse.ac.uk) by August 31st 2007.

Workshop Synopsis
2008 is the twentieth anniversary of the ground-breaking Millennium conference on 'Women and International Relations' held at the LSE. This conference introduced feminist perspectives into IR, and established the study of women, gender and international relations as a distinctive sub-field of the discipline in the UK. Several of the papers from the conference were published in a Special Issue of Millennium: journal of international studies (17 [3] 1988). These texts provided a crucial reference point for the development of work on gender and international relations in the years following. In 1998, Millennium again sponsored a conference, this time to mark the 10th anniversary of the original one. The 1998 conference, 'Gender and International Studies: Looking Forward' sought, amongst other things, to assess the trajectory of work on gender and IR and reflect the current 'state of the art' in comparison to ten years before. Papers from the proceedings were published in Millennium 27 (4).

The workshop will be structured around readings of selected texts from the two Millennium issues. We welcome proposals both from authors/ participants in the 1988 and 1998 conferences, and from scholars who have entered the field more recently. Paper proposals should be focused on specific texts from the Millennium issues and on evaluating the timeliness or otherwise of the text's concerns, both then and now. The workshop will culminate in a roundtable including the confirmed speakers listed above.

This workshop is one of a series of events to take place throughout the UK commemorating twenty years of scholarship and teaching in British Gender and International Relations inaugurated by the 1988 conference and the ensuing Millennium issue. These celebratory events will be launched with a keynote lecture given by Cynthia Enloe at the British International Studies Association conference at the University of Cambridge, 17-19 December, 2007.

The aim of the 'Between Past and Future' workshop is to reflect on and assess the commonalities and differences between the past and present concerns of feminist and gender studies IR scholars. This focused series of reflections will then set the scene for later workshops in Manchester, Birmingham and Aberdeen on specific topics in Gender/ IR theory and research, as well as for GIR panels at major national and international conferences during 2008.


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