LGBT Leadership Conference 2012

The LGBT Resource Center at Kansas State University will proudly host the 2nd Annual LGBT Leadership Conference in April, 2012.  Due to the success of the 2011 conference, this year's conference will be a two day event featuring featured speakers and an academic component for students and faculty to present academic research in gender and sexuality. 

 

Kansas State University

Second Annual

LGBT Leadership Conference: 

Expanding Identities 

April 13-14, 2012

School of Leadership Studies 

The focus of the Second Annual LGBT Leadership Conference at Kansas State University is to examine how the daily lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals are inherently entwined with concepts of gender, race, ethnicity, spirituality, class, culture, and sexuality. Identity represents a crucial epistemology within our educational and societal development that continues to often be neglected in mainstream discourse on American culture. Through the representation of multiple identities in embodied lived experience scholars can continue to evaluate and expose how daily perception; whether societal or self; can create paths of acceptance and visibility within and for the LGBT community.

This conference welcomes contributions of research that explore themes of identity within or in conjunction with any of the following:

• Race, ethnicity, and heritage

• Political and social paradigms

• Sexuality: Homosexuality, Heterosexuality, and those beyond the binary

• Gender: Femininity and Masculinity

• Landscapes of ecology and environment

• Class systems

• Place and space

We are currently accepting abstracts for 20 minute academic presentation of research.  Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and be inclusive of aspects of sexuality and gender identities. 

We are currently accepting abstracts for 50 minute work-shops that focus on sexuality and gender identities.  Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words.

All abstracts may be submitted at lgbt@k-state.edu.  Please submit with LGBT conference abstract in the Subject line.  Abstracts are due no later than 5 PM April 9, 2012.

Note:  Abstracts for presentations and work-shops will be accepted after individual registration is complete.  If you have questions concerning presenting and/or conducting a work-shop please contact the LGBT Resource Center at lgbt@k-state.edu or 785.532.5299. 

 

REGISTER HERE!

 

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