Call for Conference Papers and Proposals
Congress on Research on Dance
Dance Studies and Global Feminisms
41st Annual Conference : Hollins University , Roanoke, Virginia
November 14 - 16, 2008
Deadline: May 15, 2008
Keynote speaker: Trihn T. Mihn-Ha, Professor of Women's Studies and Rhetoric (Film) at the University of California, Berkeley. The market forces of globalization tend to flatten the uneven terrain of spaces and map out the world in terms of flow of capital. How, within this context, can we create a resistant feminine space of Dance Studies? What would that space look like, how would it feel? How are feminist concerns constructed within dance studies, and how are they negotiated? How have global feminisms emerged, and what can they do? What can dance studies do in relation to the space of a global feminine? How has "the feminine" survived asymmetrical tensions of market forces? We invite presentations that will speak to the emergence of a global feminine and strategies of resistance, mobilization, and art-making. We are especially interested in presentations that reach outside the traditional realms of research topics: unwieldy locations; impossible subjectivities; anarchic formulations of dance and its study. We are also interested in proposals that focus on the current status of dance studies and the role and function of scholarly organizations to address an increasingly global context for scholarship, research, and practice. See website for details and registration form http://www.cordance.org/
Call for papers, panels and seminars
Lifting the Belly High: A Conference on Women’s Poetry Since 1900
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
September 11, 12 & 13, 2008
Deadline May 16th, 2008
We invite panel, paper and seminar topic proposals on women’s poetry since 1900, including but not limited to the direction of scholarship about women’s poetry; producing, accessing and editing texts; pedagogical approaches to experimental writing; neglected issues in women’s poetry; the work of individual poets or clusters of poets; spirituality and religion; and the separatist anthology issue.
· Individual paper submissions should be limited to abstracts of 300 words. Please include your name and contact information.
· Panel proposals should include a rationale as well as paper abstracts of no more than 300 words each. Please include the name and contact information of each participant.
· Seminar proposals should name the panel organizer(s), state a rationale for the topic, explain the discussion format plans and specify an ideal number of participants.
Send submissions electronically to womenspoetry@yahoo.com or by mail to: Women Poets, English Department, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15282. Conference Organizers Elisabeth Joyce, Linda Kinnahan, Elizabeth Savage, Ellen McGrath Smith Questions may be directed to womenspoetry@yahoo.com. For more information and guidelines go here: http://www.duq.edu/womenpoets/
Call for Papers
The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 10.2 of the
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Fall/Winter 2008
Mothers and Daughters
Submissions must be received by May 15, 2008
To submit work, one must be a member of ARM
ARM’s first conference in 1997 was on the topic of “Mothers and Daughters”. As well, this topic was a central theme at ARM’s 10th anniversary conference “The Motherlode” in 2006. The ARM journal though has yet to do a journal issue on this important motherhood theme. Consequently, the ARM journal has chosen the topic of “Mothers and Daughters” for the second issue of its 10th volume. We invite submissions on the topic of “Mothers and Daughters” from a variety of perspectives and on a wide range of themes. Submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area are welcome. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged .
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/vol10no2.html
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Articles should be 15 pages (3750 words).
All should be MLA style, in WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.
Please see our style guide for complete details: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html
Please direct your submissions to:
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Call for papers
A one-day symposium on the global sexually explicit imagery
September 30, 2008, in Athens, Greece
Deadline May 20th, 2008
The symposium is intended as a forum that will explore the ways in which the sexually explicit imagery is socialized through technological, political economic, cultural and other processes. The symposium aims at bringing together scholars working on the broader field of pornography in order to explore, analyze and articulate the need to review and revisit academic, political and cultural understandings of pornography and analyze law and policy based responses to its changing nature, as a global media industry, a form of cultural product with global reach and power to shape meaning and values, as well as an actor affecting public policy. The symposium aims to facilitate the possibility for collaborative research agendas and policy analysis and intervention and is organized within the framework of the
· socialization of youth through porn and porn-defined popular culture and genres (pornorap; suggestive advertising etc) -political economic dimensions of the global pornography industry: labour conditions,; mergers, new geographies of production and consumption
· intellectual property and control over image/profits related issues
· processes of mainstreaming of pornography: tactics, strategies, channels, profits, connection to mainstream media and culture
· conditions of production and consumption and impact on citizenship and democracy
· links to the broader sex industry: human trafficking, sexual slavery, human vulnerability and prostitution, sex clubs etc
· policies and laws on ANY of the aforementioned issues as linked to the production and consumption of the sexually explicit imagery/pornography in national and global contexts -theoretical/analytical interventions on terms, conceptualization of problematique, frameworks of policy and law
· possibilities, strategies and practices of resisting the spread, impact and effects of the pornography industry -women's and children's position in the context of global imagery trade; class and gender, technology and power
The Future of Writing
University of California, Irvine
November 6-7, 2008
Deadline June 1, 2008
Networked communications technologies have become a significant part of American life, resulting in a nearly unprecedented generation of a variety of multimediated texts, many graphically rich and collaboratively written. The Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that “Internet penetration has now reached 73% for all American adults. Internet users note big improvements in their ability to shop and the way they pursue hobbies and personal interests online.” The emergence and growing use of social networking sites have contributed to a significant rise in the production of individual and group Websites through which people and communicates construct, debate, and disseminate online identities, personal ideas, and group values. Again, Pew reports that “Internet users ages 12 to 28 years old have embraced the online applications that enable communicative, creative, and social uses” (http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/2/topics.asp).
“The Future of Writing” is a mini-conference (November 6-7, 2008) designed to bring together scholars across the UC system and a cadre of nationally recognized experts to explore how the new communications technologies, particularly the Internet, are challenging previous conceptions of what “writing” is. Through a range of panels, demonstrations, and an art exhibit, participants will consider the following: How are new communications technologies changing the way people "compose," "write," and "author"? How do collaborative writing spaces and social networking challenge the concepts of “text” and “author”? How are emerging emphases on visual literacies shifting what we think of as writing? And, finally, how do such changes and shifts challenge us as instructors to reconsider and potentially re-conceive educational spaces? We invite proposals for panels (70 mins) and individual presentations (15 mins) that engage the conference themes and that address—theoretically, pedagogically, or both—what the “future of writing” might (or could, or should) be. We also invite proposals for digital art work that addresses the themes of the conference. Please submit a URL (linking to photos of work you wish to present) with an accompanying abstract describing how your piece speaks to the “future of writing.” Please limit your proposal abstract to 300-500 words and submit it via email, by June 1, to Dr. Jonathan Alexander, UC Irvine: jfalexan@uci.edu There will be no conference registration fees. Participants from out of town will be expected to secure their own lodging. This conference is sponsored by UC, Irvine’s HumaniTech and the Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator. For more information, contact Dr. Jonathan Alexander at jfalexan@uci.edu.
Call for Papers
18th Annual SCSU Women’s Studies Conference
“Girls’ Culture & Girls’ Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood”
October 17 & 18, 2008
Deadline: June 12, 2008
What does it mean to be a girl? Who defines girlhood in an age when puberty and sexualization are happening at younger ages? How do girls assert their own identity in an increasingly mediated and consumerist culture which targets girls as a prime audience? Why do U.S. girls who are told that they can do anything feel like they have to do everything, and perfectly? What challenges do girls across races, classes, religions, nations, and cultures face in an ever more globalized world? What is the relationship between girls and feminism? What effect can feminism have on constructions of boyhood and masculinity and how in turn can this effect girls? In the 18th annual SCSU Women’s Studies conference, we will take a close look at girls’ culture and girls’ studies, among the most vibrant areas in women’s studies.
We invite individuals, groups, scholars, activists, artists, girls and all, to submit proposals for panel presentations, round table discussions, or artistic performances. We also invite your ideas and suggestions. Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geopolitical perspectives in order to construct feminist renditions of girls’ cultures, histories, and representations. Expect fun through meals, performance, and poetry slam, with girls and their allies speaking of their struggles and power. Send submissions electronically by June 12, 2008, to womenstudies@southernct.edu. Please include name, affiliation, E-mail, standard mailing address, and phone number. Proposals should be no longer than one page, with a second page for identification information.
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) 2008 National Conference
'FUTURES'
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Panel Proposals due: June 30
Refereed Paper Proposals dues: August 15
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
Cultural studies has historically concerned itself with the cultural practices of the everyday and the now. However, as a politically motivated discipline, cultural studies has an ongoing preoccupation with cultural, economic, and political change, and thus with futures. The 2008 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference will interrogate possible and impossible local, national, regional, and global futures.
Confirmed speakers:
- Judith Halberstam, Professor of English and Gender Studies, Director for the Center of Feminist Research University of Southern California
- Fred Chaney, Order of Australia, Co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, former Deputy Chairman of the Australian Native Title Tribunal
- Kim Scott, Australian novelist, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, WA Premier's Literary Award, and RAKA Kate Challis Award.
Our imaginings of the future shape the lived experience of the present and our cultural memory of the past. These imaginings are usually polarized towards the deeply nihilistic or the jubilantly utopian. This conference will address the spaces between real and fictional futures, and the hopes and anxieties that emerge from those spaces.
Conference themes and topics might include the future of: Landscapes: popular cultural responses to global warming; discourses of evolution; the aesthetics of entropy, erosion, ruins, and wastelands; ghost towns;
The conference will be held in the unique regional environment of Kalgoorlie at Western Australia's School of Mines. Kalgoorlie is the historic centre of mining in Western Australia. The Perth-Kalgoorlie pipeline, completed in 1903, was a contentious development that opened up the goldfields and signified a commitment to the future of WA. The town's growth gave rise to satellite industries such as tourism, beer brewing, and sex work, and today Kalgoorlie is a thriving regional city. However, like any industry centered around natural resources, the mining industry there has a finite future. The choice of Kalgoorlie as a venue therefore not only puts into practice the Association's policy of addressing the needs of regional communities, it emphasizes that the future is a dynamic driven by tensions between development and sustainability. Proposals should be emailed to: l.brennan@curtin.edu.au For all other conference enquiries please contact either Ron Blaber (r.blaber@curtin.edu.au) or Amanda Third (a.third@murdoch.edu.au).
Prostitution, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking
University Of Toledo
September 18 and 19, 2008
Abstracts due June 30th, 2008
Bringing together researchers and practitioners in an effort to lay the groundwork for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program development. To educate social service, health care, and criminal justice professionals on human trafficking and the needs and risks of those victimized by the commercial sex industry. This conference is open to researchers, practitioners, and workers in the social service, criminal justice, and health care fields. Areas of Interest:
· *Violence and the Sex Trade
· *Children and Teen Victims of Trafficking
· *International Trafficking
· *HIV & other Health Related Risks
· *Programming Models and Funding
· *Domestic Trafficking
· *Personal Experiences in the Sex Trade
· *Drug Addiction and the Sex Trade
· *Men & Boys in the Sex Trade
· *Children of Women in the Sex Industry
· *Neighborhood & Community Responses
· *Emotional Health
· *Target Assessment & Effective Intervention
· *Paradigms, Perspectives & Policies
· *Advocacy & Social Action
· *Survivor Experiences and Stories
· *Law Enforcement Perspectives
· *Coalition building and Consciousness raising
Go here for submission guidelines: http://www.prostitutionconference.com/CallForAbstracts.htm
Call for Proposals
Women & Society Conference
October 24& 25, 2008
Marist College, Poughkeepsie New York
Deadline, postmarked no later than July 11, 2008
Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2008 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studies in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates may attend at no cost. Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com and author of Full Frontal Feminism will be delivering the keynote address.
2008 Women’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference
Women and Power
The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
October 3-4, 2008
Deadline August 1, 2008
The 2008 conference will feature scholarly and creative work that treats questions of power in relation to women: the experiences, creations, theories, and practices of power that define and are defined by women as actors, objects, and modes of performance and being in the world. The conference, among other things, aims to provoke discussion about women in positions of power, the vexatious roads they travel to get there, the barriers they meet, defeat, or submit to along the way, and the humorous, sad, and/or inspiring visions that arise from women’s engagement with powers of all kinds—including the powers they possess themselves. This year’s conference will culminate in the publication of selected scholarly papers and creative works in a special conference issue of The South Dakota Review. We solicit proposals for research presentations, scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, brief dramatic performances, film viewings, and creative readings on any topic that treats the diverse intertwinings of women and power. Please upload your electronic proposal at www.usd.edu/wmst/, e-mail 250-word abstracts to aemerson@usd.edu, or send a hard copy to the following address.
The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Joto Caucus & The California State University, Los Angeles’ Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities presents the 2nd NACCS Joto Caucus Conference
Sacred Space Making: Mapping Queer Scholarship, Activism, and Performance
October 10-12, 2008
California State University , Los Angeles
Submissions due August 1, 2008 to: naccs-joto@naccs.org
OBJECTIVE: On a daily basis queer communities across the globe create sacred spaces to resist the detrimental effects of globalization, capitalism, racism, anti-immigrant sentiments, war, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination. Sacred spaces can be physical, social, political, and/or epistemological sites where queer politics, analyses, identities, and values are respected and cultivated. Sacred spaces work as centers of transformation and healing to end all forms of oppression. In November of 2007, the NACCS Joto Caucus hosted its first conference at the University of Nevada , Las Vegas where we envisioned a queer homeland by bridging communities and resisting hate. This year’s conference envisions praxis of sacred space making, where queer scholarship, activism, and performance is discussed and shared. This conference will bring together various queer scholars, activists, artists, students, and members of the community to create sacred spaces that celebrate and honor the legacy of survival, resilience, and resistance among queer communities. We seek to map how sacred spaces allow dialogue on the evolution and revolution of queer scholarship, activism, and performance. In doing so, we continue to imagine and (re)create a queer homeland. While this conference is being organized by a predominately Joto Chicano caucus, we welcome participation from all queer communities resisting to create spaces of equality, equity, safety, inclusiveness, and empowerment regardless of ethnic background, gender orientation, or nationality.
THEME: In the spirit of the above mentioned objective we invite proposals and/or papers from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, community members, activists, and artists/performers. Rather than fostering a purely academic space, this conference encourages interactive workshops, presentations, and dialogues that encourage self-empowerment among participants. The conference will provide a forum for scholarship, activism, and performance that contributes to and informs (directly and indirectly) Jotería, all of our queer Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. We strongly encourage participation from community organizations and transgender people who would like to present their work as we strive to engage in authentic dialogue between/through activism, performance, and scholarship. Themes or topics may include, but are not limited to the following: Art Interventions Immigration/Migration, HIV/AIDS Education,; Identity Mental Health, Spirituality Indigenisma and Indigenismo; Public Health Queer Youth ; Race, Class, Gender Literature; Safe Sex Practices Community Outreach ; Transnationalism Feminism; Queer Communities Herstory/History ; Transgender rights Queerstory; Film Human/Queer/Women’s Rights; Law LGTBQI Studies ; Postcolonial Studies; Globalization Studies; Mentorship Violence Intervention and Resistance ; Ethnic Studies Women’s Studies
PRESENTATION FORMAT:
Proposals and papers are currently being accepted for:
1) Interactive workshops,
2) Roundtables,
3) Academic paper presentations/panels, and
4) Undergraduate student plenary (limited to undergraduate students only)
Please note that all submissions will be carefully assessed by a team of reviewers. The number of submissions accepted will be limited although we will work towards accommodating as many presentations as the schedule permits. Additionally, please note that all presentations (workshops, roundtable discussions, and academic panels) will be granted one hour of presentation time. Caucus members suggest that all presentations include time for interaction (question and answer) with the participants. A moderator or discussant will be assigned for each panel. Please note that presentations are defined as follows:
· Workshops consist of hands-on group facilitation. We encourage facilitators to develop activities to incorporate the participants into the discussion.
· Roundtables consist of an open discussion on selected topics. We encourage roundtables to include participants into the discussion of the topic(s) selected.
· Panels consist of academic research presentations, reports, scholarly papers, or projects. These can be submitted individually (the program committee will group selected submissions into panels that are closely related). We encourage the submission of collective panels consisting of no more than three panelists.
· The Undergraduate Plenary will be a special session during the program where selected undergraduates will present their research papers to the collective audience. Undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers related to the conference theme or other topics mentioned above.
For workshops, roundtables, and panels: Please submit a proposal of 250 words describing the theme, goal, or activity planned. Proposals for panel and paper presentations should include information regarding how these scholarly works are relevant to the conference theme and goal. For submission of panels (of more than one presenter), please include a title for the panel, and individual titles for each presentation.
For the Undergraduate Plenary: (limited to undergraduate students only)
Please submit your academic paper (no more than eight (8) pages in length) with a title, proper citations, and a bibliography. Please indicate in your submission how your paper is relevant to the conference theme and goal.
Please include the following information with your submission:
1) Name(s) of presenter(s),
2) Presentation title(s),
3) University or Organization you represent,
4) City and State,
5) Type of submission (workshop, roundtable, panel, or undergraduate plenary),
6) Type of audio/visual equipment required. Note that limited equipment is available.
Submissions should be sent as word documents to naccs-joto@naccs.org
Proposals accepted into the conference program will be notified by August 15, 2008 via email. If you should have any questions regarding this “Call for Proposals/Papers” please contact us at the email provided above.
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