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<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We invite scholars to submit an abstract for the upcoming expert meeting ‘Exploring Mixedness in Postcolonial Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches’ at the KU Leuven,
Belgium, on 20–22 March 2024. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This conference focuses on mixed couplehood in postcolonial Europe, where partners do not share the same background in terms of religion, race and/or ethnicity. Mixed couples are regarded as microcosms for analysing societal
norms, prejudices and social change. Previously, scholars used the term ‘inter’ to label mixed couples, for example interracial or interfaith couples. However, the prefix ‘inter’ reflects an understanding of identities as fixed, with couples supposedly ‘doomed’
to live in two worlds simultaneously, while feeling at home in neither. Today scholars instead use ‘mixed’, which does not only refer to the different backgrounds of the partners but also centers on how partners occupy different social positions because of
their divergence from socio-political norms. The concept of ‘mixedness’ furthermore, implies an awareness of the temporal, legal, geographical, and intersectional dimensions in conceptions and experiences of mixed couples. Society's perceptions of what is
mixed changes, and this also affects couples in their day-to-day life. The conference is international and interdisciplinary, bringing together keynote speakers from religious studies, gender studies, theology, law, history and anthropology, as well as from
different geographical contexts. It explores how the meaning of mixedness, as well as reception, representations and lived experiences, change depending on the (historical, legal, contemporary) context, thus reflecting on mixed families in relation to broader
European and postcolonial frameworks of difference.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>
<span lang="EN-US">We welcome scholars to submit an abstract related to the following themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Conceptual explorations of ‘mixedness’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Ethnographic studies of mixed relationships and/or mixed families<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Gender and sexuality in the context of mixed families<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Histories of mixedness in the (post)colonial context<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Legal debates regarding mixed families, e.g. migration law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Theologies of mixedness, e.g. texts/dogma about intermarriage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Cultural representations of mixed relationships/families<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We explicitly encourage junior scholars to apply. You can submit an abstract of 250 words, a title and your affiliation to
<a href="mailto:marianne.moyaert@kuleuven.be">marianne.moyaert@kuleuven.be</a> before
<b>15 December 2023</b>. Feel free to share this call, which you also find attached as a pdf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For more information, see <a href="https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/conference-exploring-mixedness">
https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/conference-exploring-mixedness</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Organizing team:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marianne Moyaert (Chair, KU Leuven); Katrien De Graeve (Ghent University); Lieke Schrijvers (VU Amsterdam); Deniz Aktaš (VU Amsterdam and KU Leuven)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;background:white">dr. Lieke Schrijvers</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;background:white"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4;background:white">Postdoctoral researcher</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4;background:white">Beliefs & Practices, Faculty of Religion and Theology</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4;background:white">Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="background:white">Working days: </span></b><span style="background:white">Mo, Wo, Th, Fr | </span></span><a href="mailto:l.l.schrijvers@vu.nl"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0077B3;background:white">l.l.schrijvers@vu.nl</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;background:white">
| </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lieke-schrijvers/" target="_BLANK??????????䞅֯+"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4">LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">| she/her<br>
<b><span style="background:white">Mailing and visiting address:</span></b><span style="background:white"> De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Research project ‘Unequal Partners? An Ethnographic Study of Christian-Jewish and Christian-Muslim Couples in the Netherlands.’</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Managing editor of the international peer reviewed journal</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4">
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/rag/rag-overview.xml?language=en" target="_BLANK??????????䞅֯+"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4">Religion and Gender</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Recent publication:
</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.54195/RS.13291" target="_BLANK??????????䞅֯+"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4">Schrijvers, Lieke. 2023. “Gender, Gioer en Gebedssjaals: Het Gebruik van een
<i>Talliet</i> door Nieuwe Liberale Joodse Vrouwen.” </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4">Religie & Samenleving</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4"> 18 (1):26-49.</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">See the latest issue of
<i>Religion and Gender </i>13.2: Special issue ‘Contested Conversions’, guest edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk and Anne-Marie Korte
</span><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/rag/13/2/rag.13.issue-2.xml" target="_BLANK??????????䞅֯+"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4472C4">https://brill.com/view/journals/rag/13/2/rag.13.issue-2.xml</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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