Organizers invite scholars, students, educators, policy makers and other practitioners to consider the challenges and possibilities brought forth by global information and communication technologies for working practices, education and feminist theorization. The conference aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different disciplines and research schools.

Organizers invites abstracts addressing gender and ICT from the perspectives of:
- cultural images
representations of gender, sexuality and technology, or, of gendered agency in technically mediated society and digital culture.
- work
design, production and use processes, work and technology, new forms of work in technically mediated society, global economy and global division of work.
- education and policy
teaching and learning using ICT; gender and e-learning; gendered ways of learning technology, including learning styles and pedagogies; design of ICTs in education, policies of inclusion.
- feminist theory
theorizing the phenomenon of gender and ICT in between images and global processes of trade and work; gender inscriptions in ICT and in computing science.

The Organising Committee is pleased to invite abstracts for individual 20-minute presentations. Research groups can also suggest sessions of several papers. Maximum length of abstract is 500 words.

Abstracts are submitted by 15 October 2006 to address christina-conference@helsinki.fi All accepted abstracts will be published on the conference-website.

CONTACTS
Christina Institute for Women's Studies
P. O. Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38 E)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Fax +358-9-191 23315
E-mail: christina-conference@helsinki.fi