Call for Conference Papers and Proposals

Call for Papers
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Panel
James and the Women
Deadline for proposals: September 30, 2009
Convention: April 7-11, 2010, Montreal, Quebec
This pre-approved panel seeks proposals on Henry James's fiction and/or criticism that extend assessments of James's literary relationship to women writers. Topics might include James's appropriations of British as well as American women writersí work, both popular and literary; new perspectives on his relations with women writers that have already received critical attention; instances of women writers appropriating James; James's effect on the careers and writing of women writers he reviewed; comparisons of James relationships to women writers with those of other male figures such as Higginson, and other topics. Please direct 250-500 word proposals, and a brief biographical statement to Rita Bode: rbode@trentu.ca. Queries welcome. For more information on NeMLA and the convention, including the complete cfp for individual panels, please see http://www.nemla.org.

Call for Papers
There's nothing so sensible as sensual inundationî: Mary Oliverís Search for Transcendence
41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Deadline for 500-word abstract proposals: September 30, 2009
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure
Poet Mary Oliver has often been criticized by feminist critics for her close association of women with nature, an association some believe put the woman poet in danger of losing her identity and ability to create meaningful art. However, Oliverís poems suggest that such a connection with nature may indeed be a powerful, transformative experience as her poems investigate how one can merge with nature, experience the natural world and its wonders, and discover how to live fully in oneís life. This session takes up discussion of Mary Oliver who has published 19 collections, received the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and, by some accounts, is one of America ís best-selling and most read poets (see Poetry Foundation). Yet, there is only full book of criticism currently published on her work.
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)
Send abstracts as word document attachments to Jen Riley: jen.riley@umassd.edu
Please note: The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
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Call for Papers
Women's Research Section of National Taiwan University
The 2010 International Conference on Queer Diaspora
June 11-12, 2010
Taipei, Taiwan
Call for submissions: 500 word abstract September 30, 2009
http://queerdiaspora.wordpress.com/call-en/
With a passionate welcome from Taiwan, we would like to invite you to join us and share your diverse thoughtful ideas and papers at our upcoming conference. It will not only provide an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge, but also way for people with "queer perspectives" to cross boundaries and meet.And feel free to contact us with any questions! Womenís Research Section, Population and Gender Studies Center, National Taiwan University Email: wrp@ntu.edu.tw

Call for Participants
The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Women's and Gender Studies, Board-Sponsored Roundtable
Where Are We Now? The Evolution of Women's, Gender and Feminist Studies
April 7-11, 2010
Deadline September 30, 2009
Montreal, Canada (American citizens require passports)
The 2009 "Guide to Women's Studies" published by Ms. Magazine cites 900 WS programs in the United States as well as programs in more than 40 countries. This roundtable discussion traces historical progressions and contemporary repositionings of Women's, Gender and Feminist Studies in the Academy, and examines the changing definitions, scholarship and issues impacting programs. Participants will offer themed presentations on the evolution of Women's, Gender and Feminist Studies (70's, 2nd/3rd wave, Africana, feminist, gender, queer, spirituality, ecofeminist, sexuality, gender violence and gender disability, inclusivity issues and tolerance for divergent philosophies), giving special emphasis to historically successful programs, global, innovative and contemporary ones and best practices. 500 word abstracts and brief bio to Sophie Lavin, NeMLA Women's Caucus Rep, SUNY Stony Brook by 30 September: blavin@optonline.net.

Call for Proposals
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and the University of Puerto Rico
Mothering and Migration: (Trans)nationalisms, Globalization, and Displacement
February 18-20, 2010
University of Puerto Rico
Deadline: September 30th, 2009
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/MotheringMigrations.html
This conference will be the Association for Research on Mothering's 35th conference focused on the topic of Mothering and Migration: (Trans)nationalisms, Globalization, and Displacement. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, government agencies and workers, artists, mothers, and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats. Please email your 250-word presentation proposal and 50 word bio to arm@yorku.ca


Call for Papers
Ninth Annual Red River Women's Studies Conference
Friday, November 6, 2009
Deadline for proposals is October 1, 2009
Conference scheduled from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Comstock Memorial Union
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Moorhead, Minnesota
The Red River WS Conference focuses on topics related to Womenís Studies, Gender Studies and Feminist Studies, including interdisciplinary, intersectional and international. The conference brings together scholars from the Red River Valley region and beyond to present their research and scholarship related to Womenís Studies. Papers and sessions relevant to all topics related to Womenís Studies, Gender Studies and Feminist Studies will be considered. Interdisciplinary research and upper-level student research presentations are encouraged. Submission by e-mail is preferred (as e-mail text or Word document).
For individual paper proposals:
Proposals are invited on topics related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Feminist Studies. Papers/presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Please submit a 500-word (maximum) proposal and include your name, institutional affiliation, and a contact address/e-mail. Submission by e-mail is preferred (as e-mail text or Word document.)
For session proposals:
Sessions proposals, including roundtable discussions, are encouraged. Complete session proposals must include a brief summary of the session, abstracts of individual presentations, and names and contact information for all presenters. Sessions should be no more than 1 hour in length.
Please send proposals and/or inquiries to: Prof. Laurie Blunsom, Chair RRWSC. Womenís Studies, Maclean Hall 175, MSUM, Moorhead, MN 56563, blunsom@mnstate.edu

Call for Proposals
Brown Women Writers Project and Brown University Sarah Doyle Women's Center
Women in the Archives: England/New England
April 24th, 2010
Brown University, Providence RI
Deadline: October 1st, 2009
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/about/activities/wia/
Women in the Archives explores the use of archival materials in the study of women's writing, and the construction of disciplinary practices in archival research and pedagogy. This year our theme is "England/New England", focusing on periodization and regionality in women's writing during the colonial period.

Call for Submissions for Special Issue:
TEACHING THE EARTH

Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy

Deadline: November 30, 2009
Guest Editor: Anthony Lioi
The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 – 10,000 words) and media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. – 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore environmental issues in all pedagogical contexts and disciplinary perspective. Essays should raise questions concerning constructive pedagogical responses to local and planetary environmental issues.
· Ecological literacy
· Environmental ethics
· Natural, cultural, and financial economies
· Resource depletion
· Mass extinction
· Popular culture and the environment
· Religion and ecology
· Corporate greenwashing
· Celebrity environmentalism
· The Earth and the Internet
· Resource wars
· Indigenous nations and environmental sovereignty
· The queer Earth
· Nature writing
· Green cities
· Food and farming
· Radical environmentalisms
· Ecology in the Borderlands
· Environmental racism
· The Anti-Toxics and Environmental Justice movements
· Rural, suburban, and urban geography
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary forum for pedagogical scholarship exploring intersections of identities, power, and social justice. The journal features a range of approaches ­ from theoretical articles to creative and experimental accounts of pedagogical innovations from teachers and scholars from all areas of education. Send submissions or inquiries in MLA format (6th ed.) as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format to: Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, mailto:transformations@njcu.edu transformations@njcu.edu. OR send a hard copy to Transformations, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305. Author(s) name and contact information should be included on a SEPARATE page. For submission guidelines go to: www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.

Eighth Annual Cultural Studies Association (U.S.)
Transcultural mappings: emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies International conference
April 9-11, 2010
Eastern Ave Complex, University of Sydney
Proposal Deadline: November 30, 2009
http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=28
The conference aims to track debates in transnational, area and comparative cultural studies as well as the methodological and ideological implications of such theoretical reworkings. Organized by: Transnational and Transcultural Research Network, University of Sydney
All participants in the Eighth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by February 16, 2010, to be listed and participate in the program. The list of seminars and the instructions are available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu after October 15, 2009. Deadline to sign up will be November 14, 2009.

Call for Papers
33rd Annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference
Cultural Productions, Gender, and Activism
University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC
March 25-27, 2010
Submission Deadline for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS and SESSIONS of 3-5 PAPERS: December 1, 2009
Check for updates and more detailed instructions for submitting abstracts at the conference website
(http://www.cas.sc.edu/wost/conference.html) and the SEWSA organization website (http://sewsa.nwsa.org/events.html).
The Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA) is a feminist organization that actively supports and promotes all aspects of women's studies at every level of involvement. The organization is committed to scholarship on and activism eliminating oppression and discrimination on the basis of sex, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, physical ability, and class. SEWSA is a regional organization under the National Women's Studies Association serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Thematic papers are encouraged, but we welcome paper proposals on all womenís studies topics. Submissions are invited from undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. Selected panels will also be sponsored by the Student Caucus, the LGBTQ Caucus, and the Women of Color Caucus.
LGBTQ CAUCUS OF SEWSA
In response to the challenges of institutional and cultural homophobia in the U.S. Southeast, and in an effort to foreground antihomophobic feminist cultural work, SEWSA is building an LGBTQ Caucus that will provide a strong network for support and the sharing of scholarly and pedagogical ideas around LGBTQ issues throughout the region.
WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS OF SEWSA
In recognition of the central place of "intersectionality" in contemporary women's studies--a widespread disciplinary commitment to analyzing race, class, and gender as powerful interlocking principles by which people are organized globally and locally--SEWSA is building a Women of Color Caucus. The objectives of the group will be to provide a strong network for support and the sharing of scholarly and pedagogical ideas around issues of race throughout the region. Calls for papers for these panels will be announced soon.
STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
A total of $1,500 is available for student travel grants to the annual SEWSA conference. Student travel grants of up to $100 each will be awarded to students presenting papers at the SEWSA conference who attend college within the southeastern region. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. The request should include the student's name, academic affiliation, enrollment year, contact information (including surface address, email address, and phone number), a brief statement giving the paper title, an explanation as to how the conference fits with the student's interest in Women's/Gender Studies, and why attending the conference is important to the student's work. Requests for student travel grants should be submitted via email by January 15, 2010 to SEWSA President Elect Lisa Johnson at mjohnson@uscupstate.edu.

Southern Connecticut State University Womenís Studies Program Presents
The 19th Annual Womenís Studies Conference:
Women & Girls of Color: History, Heritage, Heterogeneity
April 16 -17, 2010
Submissions/Proposals by December 1, 2009
Southern Connecticut State University
http://www.southernct.edu/womensstudies/annualconference/
Both inside and outside of academe, women of color have actively participated in theoretical, artistic, and cultural production, influencing the ways we perceive and think about issues pertinent to women and girls. Situated by both gender and race, yet often at the margins, women of color have been instrumental in challenging scholars to critically re-conceptualize the discourses on race, gender, class, sexuality, and nationality. The scholarly work by women of color and on women of color is simultaneously multicultural, heterogeneous, interdisciplinary, and, in most instances, global and transnational. This is the focus of the conference. Please see the website for more information. The Annual Womenís Studies Conference at SCSU is self-supporting; all presenters can pre-register at the discounted presenterís fee. The fee includes all costs for supporting materials, entrance to keynote events, and all meals and beverage breaks. Currently we do not have a fee that is available.

Call for Abstracts
Popular Culture/American Culture Association's "Women's Studies" area
invites abstracts for the Spring 2010 joint ACA/PCA conference to St. Louis
March 31-April 3, 2010
Submission deadline December 1, 2009
http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php
Please send 250 word abstracts via e-mail: lscoleman@eiu.edu

Call For Papers
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society
American Literature Association
Deadlines December 1, and December 15, 2009
May 27-30, 2010
San Francisco, California
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association conference to be held in San Francisco. Those who are not already members of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will need to join prior to the conference.
Gilman and Religion: This panel will focus on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's engagement with religion in both her fiction and non-fiction. All papers that deal with Gilman and religion are welcome, but panelists may want to focus on the following topics:
--Gilman's critique of and alternatives to male-centered religion in His Religion and Hers or other works of non-fiction.
--Gilman's portrayal of woman-centered religion and spirituality in her fiction.
--Gilman's unexpected secular appropriations of Protestant Christian theology in her racial regeneration narratives.
--How Gilman's discussions of religion can help us better grapple with and offer more nuanced critiques of the racist and nationalistic implications of her work.
Send a 250-word abstract and a one-page CV to: Randi Lynn Tanglen at rtanglen@austincollege.edu by December 1, 2009.
Presenters who are not already members of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will need to join prior to the conference.
Gilman Across the Disciplines
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society invites submissions exploring any aspect of the life and/or work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Proposals may focus on any topic; those representing academic disciplines other than literature are especially welcome.
Submit abstracts of one page, and a brief C.V., by December 15th, 2009 to: Kami Rogers at kamijorogers@sbcglobal.net. Presenters who are not already members of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will need to join prior to the conference.