The conference is keen to discover what challenges educators face when they attempt to explore the complex sets of issues around gender and sexuality within their social science subjects and, importantly, what learning, teaching and assessment innovations academics have developed to help them in this process. The conference aims to build upon participants' past experiences. It also seeks to provide a space to raise some important – and sometimes uncomfortable – questions about our collective understanding of how the issues of gender and sexuality can be dealt with in the higher education curricula.

This conference is being jointly facilitated by the Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) and the 'Sexual Divisions' Study Group of the British Sociology Association (BSA). This event will provide an opportunity to meet and network with others working in HE who have an interest in learning, teaching and assessment in the area of gender and sexuality.

Themes include:
- Are the issues of gender, sexuality and sexual divisions still significant in the social science curricula in the 21st Century?
- Teaching Feminisms, Queer Theory, Transtheory, Cultural Studies.
- Higher educational policy in relation to gender, sexuality and diversity: what is the impact on the social sciences?
- Teaching pornography.
- Gender and sexuality in the classroom.
- Teaching gender and sexuality: intersections with 'race'/ethnicity/social class/(dis)ability.
- What continuing professional development is needed in relation to teaching gender and sexuality in the 21st Century?

Other suggested themes will be considered. All disciplines within the field of the social sciences are welcome.

Deadline for abstracts: 5 February 2007.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically via the email given. They must be no more than 300 words max and you must specify three keywords for your abstract.

There may be an ‘open-stream’ for papers which do not easily fit into pre-defined categories.

All papers presented at this conference will be published through C-SAP.

To book a on this event please download a booking form and return it to the contacts.

CONTACTS
C-SAP
Nuffield Learning Centre, University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 121 414 7919
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 7920
Email: f.l.worrall@bham.ac.uk, enquiries@c-sap.bham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk