1st Circular - Call for Papers

III. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
OF THE UNION OF STUDENTS AND GRADUATES OF THE ACADEMICAL PROGRAM “HELLENIC CIVILIZATION” OF THE GREEK OPEN UNIVERSITY “EKATAIOS”
Under the auspices of the Greek Open University

Thinalion Municipality, Corfu 3-6 of June 2010

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR COMMUNICATIONS
The Union of Students and Graduates of the Academical Program “Hellenic Civilization” of the Greek Open University “EKATAIOS” in cooperation with the Thinalion Municipality of Corfu organizes International Scientific Conference with the subject:
“Representations of women in the works of male creators of the Mediterranean”
Under the civil cultural studies there is a conversation in progress on how male artists and creators represented women in their works from their own perspective and the social defenses of their gender. These representations did not always reflect the real conditions which formed the everyday life of women themselves, but were based on how the certain creators believed that women “should” be. Often in their works a strong misogyny was obvious, however, contemporary research from a gender perspective uses this artistic production, in order to reconstruct the multiple obscured feminine past and also add it –while broadening and democratizing it- to the official history and the history of women.
The aim of this conference is, for the first time, a structured development of a fruitful dialogue between the official until now knowledge and the relevant feminist view around women and how did the male creators of the Mediterranean illustrated them in their works, and besides the contribution of the findings of this dialogue in the effort, which is in progress, in order to discern the lives of women and make their voice heard in art reviews, especially for such an important matter about their gender as this one is. Moreover, the goal of this Conference is to encourage young scientists, both male and female, of various scientific disciplines to take part in this scientific dialogue and to present such projects.
The Conference Proceedings, as we hope to cover a wide range of interdisciplinary communications, will comprise a coherent and an integrated kernel of subsequent references and will contribute in the further promotion of the civil reflection, especially to the Study of Genders widely.

In this we invite you to submit your suggestions for communication to the Scientific Committee of the Conference. Your suggestion might be dealing with issues within any form of artistic Mediterranean creativity (such as literature, archeology, arts, including cinema).

You may submit a 250-300 word summary (attached) electronically in the following address, marked as “EKATAIOS, 2010”, by the 10th of January 2010: info@ekataios.gr
The Scientific Committee of the Conference will inform you of the acceptance of your summary by the 28th of February 2010. The rapporteurs are called to enroll on time until the 30th of March 2010.

The accommodation and food for participant rapporteurs will be covered by the Organizing Committee.

Conference languages
Greek and English

Enrollment Procedure
Deposit the amount for your subscription in the National Bank of Greece and in the account 463/480004-42 and also IBAN GR0901104630000046348000442 ETHNGRAA. In the deposit receipt should the name of the depositor be legible. Send the deposit receipt in the following address:
Ioanni Dragoumi 42, 68 100, Alexandroupoli

Registration fees
Rapporteurs: 70€ (registration until 30/03/2010)
Participants: 50€
Students (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral candidates): 20€

For any further questions you may contact the Conference Secretariat:
Ms. Konstantina Papazoglou, telephone number: 6981095278, e-mail: aeriko001@hotmail.com

For the Scientific Committee
Maria Gasouka, Aegean University
Anastasia Siopsi, Ionio University
Ioanna Papadopoulou, Democritus University of Thrace
Ioannis Tsoumas, Technological Educational Institute of Athens