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IASSCS-FORD FOUNDATION SEXUALITIES RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM

IASSCS is pleased to announce a small research grants competition for researchers, with the objective to promote research capacity development and research dissemination during 2012. This new initiative is in line with IASSCS’ mission to strengthen research and research capacity globally in socio-cultural dimensions of sexuality, with special attention to countries where sexuality research is not well-developed. Submit all documents to fvaldivia@iasscs.org by January 5th 2012.

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Globalization and gender relations

According to Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney), “neoliberal globalization has certainly impacted masculinity in quite complex ways. It has created more economic insecurity for very large groups of men around the world, which is in contradiction with the circulation of an image of heterosexual masculinity”.

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Sexual Cultures: theory, practice, research

This conference, co-hosted by the Onscenity Research Network and the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University, will take place on April 20-22 2012 at Brunel University, London, UK. Deadline for the submission of proposals is October 31 2011.

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Call For Papers – Queering Paradigms IV

Following the success of the three international, interdisciplinary Queering Paradigms conferences held thus far on three continents, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the Graduate Program in Social Memory at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and the Brazilian Association of Applied Linguistics (ALAB) are proud to announce Queering Paradigms IV, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the 25th to the 28th of July, 2012.

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Maternal health and maternal mortality

Reproductive Health Matters seeks papers about why some countries are reducing maternal deaths and others are not and what has changed in the past decade.