Conference Announcements
Where Are We Now: Margins and Moves in Women’s Writings
Inaugural Carol Shields Symposium on Women’s Writing: Festival of Voices
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
May 8th, 2009 - May 10th, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/festival-of-voices
Carol Shields earned critical praise for extending and crossing boundaries, for bringing to the centre of serious literary examination those aspects of women’s lives that had been “in the margins.” In a 1990 interview with Harvey DeRoo, Carol spoke of setting out to “write the kind of novel (I) can’t find on the library shelf” and of experimenting in her short fiction with “different narrative approaches.” She also told of resting comfortably with her movement from genre to genre and from a woman narrator’s perspective to a man’s (Larry’s Party). In her words, “there is always some refreshment in taking a different perspective.”
Spelman College Leadership and Women of Color Conference
May 13-14, 2009
Cobb Galleria Centre
Two Galleria Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339
The 2009 Leadership and Women of Color Conference will convene at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, GA. This year’s conference has been developed around the theme of "Building a Community for Change." This leadership conference is organized to demonstrate how gender, culture and economics influence civic engagement for strong communities. Specifically, the conference sessions will explore expanding definitions of community and leadership for change. To learn more about the conference, visit: http://spelmanwomenofcolorconf.com/
El Mundo Zurdo: The First International Conference on the Work and Life of Gloria E. Anzaldúa
The Society for the Study of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (SSGA) and the Women's Studies Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The University of Texas at San Antonio
May 16th, 2009 - May 17th, 2009
http://www.ssganzaldua.org/
Mothers Gone Mad: Motherhood and Madness, Oppression and Resistance
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)/Mamapalooza Inc.
Location: Nola Studios, New York, New York
Conference Date(s): May 28th, 2009 - May 29th, 2009
http://www.yorku.ca/arm
Don’t Fence Me In: Borders, Frontiers, and Diasporas
International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch (IASPM-US)
University of California, San Diego
May 29th, 2009 - May 31st, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.iaspm-us.net/conferences
Theme: Borders, boundaries, and frontiers have intersected and interacted with popular music in differing ways, times, and places, and oftentimes these relationships have been particularly resonant in diasporic communities.
Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
June 3rd, 2009 - June 6th, 2009
Conference URL: http://asle.uvic.ca/
Keynotes/Speakers: Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, author of "The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy"; Ruth Ozeki, author of "My Year of Meats" and "All Over Creation"; Amy Seidl, author of "Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World"; and many others.
A Queer Pacific Islander National Conference
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
Seattle, WA
August 14-16, 2009
http://nqapia.org/
NQAPIA is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islander (API) organizations, is planning a national activist convening. We hope to acquire and expand the aptitude, ability, and achievements of LGBT APIs, break barriers, and connect community so that we can build the capacity of local groups, invigorate grassroots organizing, train leaders, and challenge homophobia, racism, and anti-immigrant bias. Questions can be forwarded to NQAPIA Conference Coordinator Norma Timbang (norma.timbang@gmail.com) or NQAPIA Co-Director, Programs Ben de Guzman (ben_deguzman@nqapia.org)
AAC&U
Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 1-3, 2009
Early registration reduced rates available now through September 3, 2009
AAC&U has opened registration for its first meeting of the next academic year.The conference will bring together faculty, student affairs personnel, academic administrators, students, and others to explore how to move education for personal and social responsibility to the center of institutional culture and academic practice. The program will feature promising practices that develop students' civic engagement and social responsibility in both a local and global context; personal and academic integrity; ability to examine and understand differing (and often competing) perspectives; and ethical and moral reasoning.
Register here: http://www.aacu.org/commerce/EDU09reg.cfm
Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s): ‘Enabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetorics’
Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition
Hosted by Rhetoric & Writing program at Michigan State University.
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
Conference Date(s): October 7th, 2009 - October 10th, 2009
Conference URL: http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/
Women as Transformational Leaders:
Gender and Clear-Headed Leadership in Higher Education
Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL) Conference
UW-Stevens Point
October 22-23, 2009,
http://www.wwhel.org/
The APT Conference 2009
Association for Political Theory
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Conference Date(s): October 22nd, 2009 - October 24th, 2009
Conference URL: http://apt.coloradocollege.edu/
The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals for its seventh annual conference. The APT is an interdisciplinary organization devoted to supporting political theory and political philosophy. They recognize that scholars in a range of disciplines are doing important critical work on social and political questions. The APT Conference provides a collegial setting for scholars of various professional ranks, institutional affiliations and theoretical approaches to engage one another in fruitful discussions of their work. To learn more about the Association and its annual conference, please visit the APT Gateway website. For more information about the 2009 conference, please contact the Program Committee Co-Chairs, Amy McCready mccready@bucknell.edu, and Maurice Meilleur meilleur@illinois.edu
Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
University, Toronto, Canada
Conference Date(s): October 22nd, 2009 - October 25th, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.yorku.ca/arm
Keynotes/Speakers: Invited Keynote Speakers TBC: Dr. Vandana Shiva, Author; Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology Dr. Sherilyn MacGregor, Author; Lecturer, Keele University
Theme: This is ARM's 13th annual conference. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, environmental agencies and workers, environmental educators, 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.Suggested Topics: maternal health and the environment; creating and maintaining sustainable family systems; public/private spaces and the pregnant body; procreation and fertility; disability, environments and the maternal body; mothers, cancer and pollution; mothering and HIV/AIDS, breastfeeding and environmental toxins; mothering, environments, sustainability and technology; women, children and “nature”; the philosophy of nature and its relation to the feminine; nature and culture as gendered concepts; environmental theory and mothering; feminist philosophy of natural science; essentialism and motherhood; Indigenous theories of mothering; mother environmental movements and maternal activism; ecofeminism, maternal environmental activism and global citizenship; environmental activism through the arts; ; mothering in public space and private space; the maternal in architecture; modernist architecture as a symptom of patriarchy (phallic skyscrapers); disability, environments and the maternal body; Internal environments (mothering the self; internal/personal landscapes of mothers); commercialization of nature; consumerism food, farming and the nurturer; GMOs ;The role of mothers in creating food sovereignty
A (M)otherworld is Possible: Three Feminist Visions The Motherhood Movement, Matriarchal Studies, and The Gift Economy
Organizers: Association for Research on Mothering (ARM, International Academy HAGIA, the Gift Economy Network, the Motherhood Foundation, and the International Mothers Network
Location: York University, Toronto, Canada
Conference Date(s): October 22nd, 2009 - October 25th, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.yorku.ca/arm
Diversity Challenge 2009
Organizers: Janet Helms, PhD Guerda Nicolas, PhD
Location: Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA
Conference Date(s): October 23rd, 2009 - October 24th, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/isprc/
Inaugural Carol Shields Symposium on Women’s Writing: Festival of Voices
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
May 8th, 2009 - May 10th, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/festival-of-voices
Carol Shields earned critical praise for extending and crossing boundaries, for bringing to the centre of serious literary examination those aspects of women’s lives that had been “in the margins.” In a 1990 interview with Harvey DeRoo, Carol spoke of setting out to “write the kind of novel (I) can’t find on the library shelf” and of experimenting in her short fiction with “different narrative approaches.” She also told of resting comfortably with her movement from genre to genre and from a woman narrator’s perspective to a man’s (Larry’s Party). In her words, “there is always some refreshment in taking a different perspective.”
Spelman College Leadership and Women of Color Conference
May 13-14, 2009
Cobb Galleria Centre
Two Galleria Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339
The 2009 Leadership and Women of Color Conference will convene at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, GA. This year’s conference has been developed around the theme of "Building a Community for Change." This leadership conference is organized to demonstrate how gender, culture and economics influence civic engagement for strong communities. Specifically, the conference sessions will explore expanding definitions of community and leadership for change. To learn more about the conference, visit: http://spelmanwomenofcolorconf.com/
El Mundo Zurdo: The First International Conference on the Work and Life of Gloria E. Anzaldúa
The Society for the Study of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (SSGA) and the Women's Studies Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The University of Texas at San Antonio
May 16th, 2009 - May 17th, 2009
http://www.ssganzaldua.org/
Mothers Gone Mad: Motherhood and Madness, Oppression and Resistance
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)/Mamapalooza Inc.
Location: Nola Studios, New York, New York
Conference Date(s): May 28th, 2009 - May 29th, 2009
http://www.yorku.ca/arm
Don’t Fence Me In: Borders, Frontiers, and Diasporas
International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch (IASPM-US)
University of California, San Diego
May 29th, 2009 - May 31st, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.iaspm-us.net/conferences
Theme: Borders, boundaries, and frontiers have intersected and interacted with popular music in differing ways, times, and places, and oftentimes these relationships have been particularly resonant in diasporic communities.
Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
June 3rd, 2009 - June 6th, 2009
Conference URL: http://asle.uvic.ca/
Keynotes/Speakers: Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, author of "The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy"; Ruth Ozeki, author of "My Year of Meats" and "All Over Creation"; Amy Seidl, author of "Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World"; and many others.
A Queer Pacific Islander National Conference
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
Seattle, WA
August 14-16, 2009
http://nqapia.org/
NQAPIA is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islander (API) organizations, is planning a national activist convening. We hope to acquire and expand the aptitude, ability, and achievements of LGBT APIs, break barriers, and connect community so that we can build the capacity of local groups, invigorate grassroots organizing, train leaders, and challenge homophobia, racism, and anti-immigrant bias. Questions can be forwarded to NQAPIA Conference Coordinator Norma Timbang (norma.timbang@gmail.com) or NQAPIA Co-Director, Programs Ben de Guzman (ben_deguzman@nqapia.org)
AAC&U
Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 1-3, 2009
Early registration reduced rates available now through September 3, 2009
AAC&U has opened registration for its first meeting of the next academic year.The conference will bring together faculty, student affairs personnel, academic administrators, students, and others to explore how to move education for personal and social responsibility to the center of institutional culture and academic practice. The program will feature promising practices that develop students' civic engagement and social responsibility in both a local and global context; personal and academic integrity; ability to examine and understand differing (and often competing) perspectives; and ethical and moral reasoning.
Register here: http://www.aacu.org/commerce/EDU09reg.cfm
Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s): ‘Enabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetorics’
Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition
Hosted by Rhetoric & Writing program at Michigan State University.
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
Conference Date(s): October 7th, 2009 - October 10th, 2009
Conference URL: http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/
Women as Transformational Leaders:
Gender and Clear-Headed Leadership in Higher Education
Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL) Conference
UW-Stevens Point
October 22-23, 2009,
http://www.wwhel.org/
The APT Conference 2009
Association for Political Theory
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Conference Date(s): October 22nd, 2009 - October 24th, 2009
Conference URL: http://apt.coloradocollege.edu/
The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals for its seventh annual conference. The APT is an interdisciplinary organization devoted to supporting political theory and political philosophy. They recognize that scholars in a range of disciplines are doing important critical work on social and political questions. The APT Conference provides a collegial setting for scholars of various professional ranks, institutional affiliations and theoretical approaches to engage one another in fruitful discussions of their work. To learn more about the Association and its annual conference, please visit the APT Gateway website. For more information about the 2009 conference, please contact the Program Committee Co-Chairs, Amy McCready mccready@bucknell.edu, and Maurice Meilleur meilleur@illinois.edu
Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
University, Toronto, Canada
Conference Date(s): October 22nd, 2009 - October 25th, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.yorku.ca/arm
Keynotes/Speakers: Invited Keynote Speakers TBC: Dr. Vandana Shiva, Author; Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology Dr. Sherilyn MacGregor, Author; Lecturer, Keele University
Theme: This is ARM's 13th annual conference. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, environmental agencies and workers, environmental educators, 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.Suggested Topics: maternal health and the environment; creating and maintaining sustainable family systems; public/private spaces and the pregnant body; procreation and fertility; disability, environments and the maternal body; mothers, cancer and pollution; mothering and HIV/AIDS, breastfeeding and environmental toxins; mothering, environments, sustainability and technology; women, children and “nature”; the philosophy of nature and its relation to the feminine; nature and culture as gendered concepts; environmental theory and mothering; feminist philosophy of natural science; essentialism and motherhood; Indigenous theories of mothering; mother environmental movements and maternal activism; ecofeminism, maternal environmental activism and global citizenship; environmental activism through the arts; ; mothering in public space and private space; the maternal in architecture; modernist architecture as a symptom of patriarchy (phallic skyscrapers); disability, environments and the maternal body; Internal environments (mothering the self; internal/personal landscapes of mothers); commercialization of nature; consumerism food, farming and the nurturer; GMOs ;The role of mothers in creating food sovereignty
A (M)otherworld is Possible: Three Feminist Visions The Motherhood Movement, Matriarchal Studies, and The Gift Economy
Organizers: Association for Research on Mothering (ARM, International Academy HAGIA, the Gift Economy Network, the Motherhood Foundation, and the International Mothers Network
Location: York University, Toronto, Canada
Conference Date(s): October 22nd, 2009 - October 25th, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.yorku.ca/arm
Diversity Challenge 2009
Organizers: Janet Helms, PhD Guerda Nicolas, PhD
Location: Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA
Conference Date(s): October 23rd, 2009 - October 24th, 2009
Conference URL: http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/isprc/
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