International multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 30 September - 2 October 2010. Organised by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton (UK). In recent years the volume of international research on 'Children and War', carried out by academics, governmental and non-governmental organisations and institutions as well as the media, has continually increased. At the same time there has been a growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war and its aftermath. http://bit.ly/d3fOVr

Gender Studies are not only concerned with the study of the relationships between the genders, but also of the social and/or scientific construction of ‘gender’ and of the genderization of knowledge itself. In the comparison of the methodologies used in natural sciences and the humanities, a gendered way of looking at reality becomes obvious. Today, Gender Studies have developed an extremely multi-disciplinary, if not trans-disciplinary character: gender has become a part of the most diverse areas of discussion and has a strong impact on different empistemological categories. The conference aims at a verification of the status quo of the dibate and to develop it further from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Furthermore, it aims at establishing a network of researchers and institutes working in the same area and to provide thus the occasion for exchange and discussions between researchers from various disciplines. For further details, see also the Call for Papers and the Program at Fondazione Bruno Kessler .