International Studies Association 56th Annual Convention

18-21 February 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Call for Feminist Security Studies Paper and Panels

Conference theme Global IR and Regional Worlds: A New Agenda for International Studies The world of IR is now confronted with new issues, actors, and voices that call for significant re-thinking and broadening of its theories, methods, and empirical horizons. This is not merely the function of a power shift, or the rise of new powers. It also reflects the importance of global issues, like human rights violations, the subjugation of women and minorities, racism, financial meltdowns, forced migration, terrorism, disease, and climate change. ! Global IR transcends the West versus the Rest divide and recognizes the voices, experiences, and agency of the Global South. This new, pluralistic universalism underpins the possibility of a Global IR. http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/NewOrleans2015/Call.aspx Since 2008 the Feminist Security Studies network has assisted the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Program Chair in organizing panels for the ISA Annual Convention. We do not submit papers or panels on behalf of authors or panel organisers. Instead, we group individual papers into panels to hopefully maximize their chances of inclusion in the final program, and to bring scholars working in similar areas into conversation with each other. Given the growing significance of Feminist Security Studies in IR, and the success of the themed panels put forward in 2014, we propose the organization of a similar series of themed panels for ISA 2015 (though we also welcome papers beyond

these themes). We would also welcome full panel and roundtable submissions. The conference theme this year is particularly relevant to feminist, postcolonial and intersectional scholarship, and we would like to encourage co-sponsorship with the conference theme. Suggested themed panels: Global IR, Global Feminisms, Global (In)Securities Methodology and Method in Feminist Security Studies Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Global Peace and Security Governance Feminism, Security and the Environment Pedagogy and/ in Feminist Security Studies Sex, Sexuality and Reproductive Rights in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments Sex, Sexuality and Militaries/Militarism Theorizing Feminist/ Critical Security in Globalized War Economies Reflections on Power, Positionality and Privilege in Feminist Security Studies If you would like to present a paper on one of these panels please submit a title and brief abstract (200 words) of your research along with full institutional and contact information to Sharain Naylor (sharain@hawaii.edu) and/or Laura Shepherd (l.j.shepherd@unsw.edu.au) by 9 May 2014. Please also get in touch to let us know whether you would be willing to act as chair and/ or discussant on the panels that we put forward. Please also be aware that the ISA has strict participation limits: There is an overall limit of four appearances on submissions. You can only submit two research papers of which you are the/an author for consideration.

Please bear these limits in mind when submitting your papers and panels.