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Thursday, September 24, 2009

From The Director

Inclusive Excellence
The 2009-2010 academic year has begun with an added excitement and sense of anticipation for those of us in Women’s Studies and other academic learning communities built upon a grounding of critical thinking, inclusive pedagogies, and curricular transformation at the intersection diversity and identity. The Women’s Studies Consortium is one of the many initiatives in UW System Office of Academic Affairs that is contributing to an Inclusive Excellence Leadership Team being led by Associate Vice President Vicki Washington and the staff of the UW System Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

The UW System is adopting the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) planning process for institutional transformation that puts diversity profoundly at the center of educational excellence. To succeed in the 21st century, students need certain knowledge, skills, and multicultural perspectives, including the ability to empathically put themselves in another’s shoes and work effectively with diverse peoples. Inclusive Excellence is the UW System’s successor to Plan 2008. It is designed as an ongoing process of institutional planning and action (rather than a finite initiative). Its purpose is help UW institutions establish a set of comprehensive, well-coordinated strategic actions that foster greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability at every level of institutional life, with the larger goals of preparing students for responsible, ethical, and engaged citizenship, and to meet the university’s broad educational mission of promoting excellence in professional, civic, and personal life.

To date there have been two System-wide meetings hosted by the Leadership Team to help in the initiation of the campus-based Inclusive Excellence work that will be the site of the central work of Inclusive Excellence.

The most recent workshop took place August 20th in Madison, bringing together over 80 campus leaders to focus on what the next steps are for each of our unique institutions. A special thank you to EDI Organizational Development and Diversity Leadership Planner Shirin Selph for ably chairing the organizing committee that facilitated the gathering, and to the rest of the EDI staff, the IE Leadership Team and campus participants for making this such a meaningful event.

The EDI staff are currently working with each campus to facilitate campus planning as appropriate to each unique institution. Watch for this work to become more visible on your campus, and plan to participate in whatever way you can.

As we settle into autumn there are a number of local and national opportunities for our faculty, students and staff outlined in the categories below.

Upcoming Conferences

Each year a statewide women’s studies conference is organized in collaboration with a campus program. The 2010 conference is being organized and hosted by the UW-Whitewater Women’s Studies Program for April 16-17, 2010. This will be the fifth year that the conference is also co-sponsored and coordinated in collaboration with the UW System Inclusivity Initiative for LGBTQ people, and the second year of collaboration with the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity. Our joint theme is: Leadership and Collaboration in Shaping the Future: The Intersections of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality. There is already a wonderful lineup of speakers including

Sabrina Sojourner, an African-American woman who was the first open lesbian to be elected to the United States Congress,

Rebecca Snedeker, an award-winning young White independent documentary filmmaker whose work supports human rights and explores racialized traditions, creative expression and her native city, New Orleans, and

Yvonne Lumsden-Dill, Executive Director, of the Women’s Leadership Institute of Mount Mary College, a program that works diligently to bring diverse young women from across Wisconsin into public service.

This will be the fifteenth anniversary of the annual UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards, which are a highlight of the conference. Campuses are currently identifying the individuals who will receive the 2010 Outstanding Women of Color in Education recognition. The event will take place Saturday, April 17th at UW-Whitewater, and we are delighted to have as our keynote speaker, Madison’s Poet Laureate, Fabu Carter-Brisco.

This year there UW System has also undertaken presenting the first President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning to acknowledge and highlight the work and expertise of UW faculty across the disciplines. This conference is the result of a unique collaborative effort between many of the UW System faculty development and diversity programs. The gathering will take place the last week in April, 2010. Check ‘Save the Dates’ for a more in-depth description of the event.

The national Women’s Studies learning community is looking forward this November to a fantastic National Women’s Studies Association in Atlanta, GA. This year the conference theme is: Difficult Dialogues: NWSA 2009. The conference will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly or implicitly) as superseding or transcending the politics of race, sexuality, social class, nation, and disability. The conference keynote speaker is Angela Davis and other conference speakers include Pearl Cleage, Natasha Trethewey, M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Mohanty, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Rudolph P. Byrd, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Stanlie M. James, Johnetta Betsch Cole, and Frances Smith Foster.

Acknowledgements

I would like to take a moment to acknowledge Dr. Lisa Beckstrand’s work with the UW System Inclusivity Initiative for LGBTQ People. Lisa has served as an able Coordinator of the Inclusivity Initiative since 2006. During that time Lisa has led the Inclusivity Initiative efforts to achieve access, equity and inclusion for LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff; supported the UW System Climate Study work and contributed to the larger UWSA efforts toward Inclusive Excellence. In December Lisa plans to pass the torch of leadership of the Inclusivity Initiative to a new Coordinator whose position will be situated in the UW System Academic Affairs office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, (see position description in UW System Announcements). Lisa will continue her work as an academic planner and contribute to support Inclusive Excellence in University of Wisconsin System, including working on curricular transformation efforts in Women’s, LGBTQ, and International Studies. Thank you Lisa for a job well done!

A second congratulations goes to Lisa for the recent publication of her book “Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism,” Associated University Presse, 2009. This work aims to uncover the work of Parisian women who challenged prevailing views of female nature, sought social reforms, and were deemed "deviant" for their writing and/or activism during the French Revolution. The book focuses on the work of Olympe de Gouges and Manon Roland, both of whom played active political roles in the Revolution and used writing as a means to influence public opinion.

Please remember to use the WSC E-bulletin to bring additional updates and announcements to the attention of the larger Women's Studies community.

Helen Klebesadel, Director
University of Wisconsin System
Women's Studies Consortium

Save The Dates

SAVE THE DATE
34th annual interdisciplinary Wisconsin Womenís Studies and
5th annual UW System LGBTQ Conference
Leadership and Collaboration in Shaping the Future: The Intersections of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality
April 16-17, 2010
Proposals due October 23, 2009
UW-Whitewater
Bringing together academics, teachers, students, community leaders, activists, and others, the gathering is co-sponsored by the UW-Whitewater Women's Studies Program and three UW System offices: the Women's Studies Consortium; the Institute on Race and Ethnicity; and the Inclusivity Initiative. The conference organizers seek proposals addressing research, scholarship, program development, pedagogy, curriculum, and/or community activism in the fields of Women's, Gender, Racial/Ethnic, and LGBTQ, Disability Studies. A general focus on intersecting diversity issues and identities, as well as emerging and effective educational and organizational practices/processes, is encouraged. Best practices and case studies suitable for replication (or to be avoided) are especially welcome, especially as they relate to the educational advancement of our students and to the fields of Women's Studies, Racial/Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ Studies and/or Disability Studies. Presentations that represent approaches to topics which are collaborative, cooperative, diverse, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational are encouraged. Go here for more information: http://www.uww.edu/conteduc/camps/wsc/form.php

SAVE THE DATE!!!
The University of Wisconsin System
2010 President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Watch here for the Call For Proposals and additional conference information

http://www.uwsa.edu/vpacad/summit/

Proposals due November 4, 2009
The Office of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President Rebecca Martin are pleased to announce the University of Wisconsin System President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a conference to be held April 29-May 1, 2010, at the Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club. The Summit is being co-sponsored by the UW System's Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), the PK-16 Teacher Quality Initiative, the Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE), the Women & Science Program (W&S), the Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC), the Women's Studies Consortium (WSC), and the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.

The President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning will bring together over 250 faculty and staff across disciplines to demonstrate the UW System's commitment to excellence in higher education during tough economic times. It will provide a forum in which to recognize, acknowledge, and share the expertise of faculty and academic staff who excel at teaching, value learning, and are committed to sharing their experience, knowledge, practice, and scholarship. The intentional relationships among teaching, learning, and making excellence inclusive will be highlighted throughout this event.

In addition to keynote addresses by UW System President Kevin Reilly and others, the Summit will feature plenary and concurrent sessions on: assessment, curricular transformation, and the scholarship of teaching and learning across the disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Global and International Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Sciences, and STEM areas. In the context of Inclusive Excellence, other initiatives will be featured, including UW System and institutional work on LEAP Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program, Universal Design, Inclusivity, Women and Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Emerging and Effective Technologies, and High Impact Practices.

The Summit will also provide opportunities for working and constituent groups from throughout the UW System to convene, including, for example, the System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (SAGLA), Compass Campus Teams, Women & Science Program affiliates, and others. UW System faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for the President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning. More information on the Summit and proposal submission will be forthcoming.

Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership
WWHEL 2009 State Conference
Women as Transformational Leaders: Gender and Clear-Headed Leadership in Higher Education
October 22-23, 2009
UW-Stevens Point
For more details and registration, see www.wwhel.org
Keynote speaker: Venita Kelley, Ph.D. Founder of Kelley Communications and Consulting

National Women's Studies Association
Difficult Dialogues
November 12-15, 2009
Atlanta, GA
http://www.nwsaconference.org
Difficult Dialogues: NWSA 2009 will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly or implicitly) as superseding or transcending the politics of race, sexuality, social class, nation, and disability.
Note that the UW System is well represented with thirteen presentations by faculty and academic staff, including Melissa Adler, Keisha Lindsay, Phyllis Holman Weisbard, UW-Madison; Patricia Dyjak, UW-Stephens Point; Teresa Faris, UW-Whitewater; Megan Elizabeth Feifer, and Cathy Seasholes, UW-Milwaukee; Deb Hoskins,, Sandra Krjewski, UW-La Crosse; Dianna Hunter, UW-Superior;Christie Launius, UW-Oshkosh; Leni Marshal, UW-Stout, and Helen Klebesadel, UWSA.

Mark Your Calendar

UW System Sustainability Meeting
Central Wisconsin Environmental Station
Sunset Lodge, Amherst Junction, WI 54407
November 18-19, 2009
The agenda isn't finalized yet, but you can plan on arriving around noon on Wednesday and departing about 1:00 p.m. on Thursday. The Central WI Environmental Station is located 15 miles east of Stevens Point. A block of hotel rooms will be booked in Stevens Point, but the more adventurous in the group can spend the night at the camp. The planning committee is getting started on the agenda, which will be sent out along with registration information within a few weeks. There will be a faculty/curriculum thread. If you are interested in learning more or sharing how you are bringing Sustainability issues into your teaching, contact Helen Klebesadel: hklebesadel@uwsa.edu.
Central WI Environmental Center: http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/cwes/index.aspx

WSC Announcements

Announcing
34th annual interdisciplinary Wisconsin Womenís Studies and
5th annual UW System LGBTQ Conference
Leadership and Collaboration in Shaping the Future: The Intersections of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality
April 16-17, 2010
Proposals due October 23, 2009
UW-Whitewater
Bringing together academics, teachers, students, community leaders, activists, and others, the gathering is co-sponsored by the UW-Whitewater Women's Studies Program and three UW System offices: the Women's Studies Consortium; the Institute on Race and Ethnicity; and the Inclusivity Initiative. The conference organizers seek proposals addressing research, scholarship, program development, pedagogy, curriculum, and/or community activism in the fields of Womenís, Racial/Ethnic, and LGBTQ Studies. A general focus on intersecting diversity issues and identities, as well as emerging and effective educational and organizational practices/processes, is encouraged. Best practices and case studies suitable for replication (or to be avoided) are especially welcome, especially as they relate to the educational advancement of our students and to the fields of Women's Studies, Racial/Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ Studies and/or Disability Studies. Presentations that represent approaches to topics which are collaborative, cooperative, diverse, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational are encouraged. Go here for more information: http://www.uww.edu/conteduc/camps/wsc/form.php

Announcing
Sharing LGBTQ Best Practices: Curriculum Infusion
(Office of Professional and Instructional Development OPID grant supported workshops)
Professor Lisa Kornetsky, UW-Parkside, and Dr. Liz Cannon, UW-Oshkosh, invite UW System faculty and academic staff to attend two separate, one-day-long workshops to expand our understanding of strategies to infuse our curriculum with materials addressing the lives of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and queer identified people.
1) Learning from One Another: Focusing on Pedagogical Need and Strategies in the Development of LGBTQ Courses and Course Content
Friday, October 2, 2009
10am ñ 4pm, with a continental breakfast beginning at 9:30am.
UW-Parkside
The primary goals of this workshop will be to

ï Share expertise in pedagogical strategies for addressing diversity in general and specifically for including LGBTQ content in courses that currently meet the university's diversity/ethnic requirement and those with a wider definition of diversity;

ï Discuss ways in which we can link both content and expertise across the UW System;

ï Explore some possibilities for a joint SoTL project to explore the relationship between student learning in LGBTQ courses and the rest of their curriculum.

This workshop will focus on developing LGBTQ content only courses and including such content in courses already focused on diversity issues. Discussion will address the relationship between this type of diversity course and broader learning outcomes as well as the ways in which students process their learning in diversity courses and how they relate these courses to their work/study in the major and general education.
To register: Email Lisa Kornetsky at kornetsk@uwp.edu. Put LGBTQ in the subject line. Please provide your name, email address, work phone number, which campus you are from, and your department in the body of the email and we will send you an electronic confirmation

2) Embedding Inclusive Excellence into the Curriculum: Sharing LGBTQ Best Practices
Friday, April 9, 2010
10am ñ 4pm, with a continental breakfast beginning at 9:30am.
UW-Oshkosh
The primary goals of the this workshop will be to

ï Identify ways to embed Inclusive Excellence into the curriculum through LGBTQ content;

ï Assist faculty in aligning LGBTQ content with Learning Outcomes;

ï Identify best practices for infusing LGBTQ content;

ï Exchange discipline based syllabi and assignments.

This workshop, while addressing issues from the first workshop, will focus on curriculum infusion on a wider basis, asking the question of how instructors can include diversity in general and LGBTQ content specifically into their general education and major courses. Discussion will address the challenge of teaching material outside oneís defined field of expertise, pedagogical approaches to teaching diversity effectively to resistant students, and how incorporating LGBTQ content connects to and is consistent with campus-based learning outcomes and the goals of the Inclusive Excellence initiative.
To Register:
Email lgbtqcenter@uwosh.edu. Put Embedding Inclusive Excellence in the subject line. Please provide your name, email address, work phone number, which campus you are from, and your department in the body of the email, and we will send you an electronic confirmation.

The two workshops will follow a similar structure. The morning will be devoted to panel members who will share their expertise, and, in the afternoon, participants will be able to engage in discussion and information/syllabi exchange. Panel members for both workshops are

ï Dr. Joe Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UW-Parkside

ï Dr. Deb Hoskins, co-chair Womenís, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of WGSS, UW-LaCrosse

ï Dr. Jordan Landry, Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean, UW-Oshkosh

ï Dr. Susan Wolfgram, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, UW-Stout.

Additional UW System Announcements

Call for Proposals:
The President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Madison, Wisconsin
April 29 - May 1, 2010
Proposals due November 4, 2009

UW System faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for the President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a conference to be held April 29-May 1, 2010, at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison, WI. The Summit is being co-sponsored by the Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), PK-16 Teacher Quality Initiative, Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE), Women & Science Program, Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC), Women’s Studies Consortium (WSC), and the UW System Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.

The President’s Summit will bring together over 200 faculty and staff across disciplines to demonstrate the UW System’s commitment to excellence in higher education during tough economic times. Replacing or expanding upon several smaller annual spring conferences, the Summit will provide a forum in which to recognize, acknowledge, and share the expertise of faculty and academic staff who excel at teaching, value learning, and are committed to sharing their experience, knowledge, practice, and scholarship. The intentional relationships among teaching, learning, and making excellence inclusive will be highlighted throughout this event.

In addition to keynote addresses by UW System President Kevin Reilly and others, the Summit will feature plenary and concurrent sessions on: curricular transformation and the scholarship of teaching and learning across the disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Global and International Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Professional Studies, Social Sciences and STEM areas. Designed to advance Inclusive Excellence, the UW System’s planning process for greater diversity, equity and inclusion, the Summit will showcase presentations focused on: Inclusive Pedagogies in disability studies, race and ethnic studies, women, gender and sexuality studies, and socioeconomic status across the curriculum; Emerging and Effective Technologies in the classroom; and High Impact Practices, those educationally effective practices that include collaborative assignments and projects, writing-intensive courses, first-year seminars, undergraduate student-faculty research, learning communities, international studies, community-based and service learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects.

Proposals in all these areas are invited from UW System faculty, instructional staff, and students with faculty/staff sponsorship. Presentation formats will include papers, panels, café-style and round table-discussions, workshops, and poster sessions. In addition, the Summit will provide opportunities for working and constituent groups from throughout the UW System to convene, including, for example, the IRE Advisory Committee, SAGLA, Compass Teams, the Women & Science Program, and others.

Please submit your proposal to present or to convene a working group by November 4th, 2009, to: http://www.uwsa.edu/vpacad/summit/proposals.htm Confirmations regarding accepted proposals will be sent by mid-December, 2009.

Open Position
University Of Wisconsin System
LGBTQ Initiative Coordinator (Institutional Or Senior Institutional Planner)
Madison, WI
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by Friday, October 1, 2009
The University of Wisconsin System Administration (UWSA) Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is seeking candidates to fill the position of Coordinator for the LGBTQ Initiative and other work broadly related to UW System efforts to achieve equity, diversity and inclusion. The mission for the UW System's LGBTQ Initiative is to promote the success of all populations of LGBTQ students, and employees. The LGBTQ Initiative's work involves advocacy and support for the development and dissemination of new knowledge concerning LGTBQ people through advancing LGBTQ educational experiences, supporting LGBTQ scholarship, teaching, advocacy, and student services. The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is a unit within the larger University of Wisconsin System Administration which supports two research universities, eleven comprehensive universities, thirteen two year colleges, and a statewide university extension. This position is located in Madison, WI. Find full description here: http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/employment/announcements/2009083101.pdf

Open Position
Manager of Diversity Programs
UW-Parkside Center for Community Partnerships
Full consideration given to applications received by October 1, 2009
The Center for Community Partnerships (CCP) at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside invites applications for a full time year round Manager of Diversity Programs. This individual works to align UW-Parkside and UW System cultural competency and inclusive excellence strategic goals with community priorities. This individual focuses on delivering Diversity Programs in the Kenosha and Racine communities and also supports diversity programming efforts on campus. A full job description and application instructions can be found at UWP Employment website at http://www.uwp.edu/departments/human.resources/unclassified.positions/

Let Me Learn: The Tipping Point to Student Success
How Will I Benefit from Attending “Let Me Learn: The Tipping Point”?
October 9-10
UW-Eau Claire and Let Me Learn are co-sponsoring a two-day workshop
This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about this advanced learning system that makes a measurable difference. At this regional workshop, you will learn how to use the Let Me Learn Process® to:

understand your learners, advisees, counselees’ learning needs to a depth you have not reached before;
understand how to improve your students’ persistence and achievement, and;
build not just “classes” but learning communities and teams that achieve greater results
To register or find out more, visit: http://www.letmelearn.org/events/he_regionals/

Spring 2010 OPID Conference Development Grants
Response Due: October 23, 2009
The Office of Professional and Instructional Development is pleased to announce that support will again be available for the development and sponsorship of local, regional, and systemwide workshops and conferences that promote cooperation and exchange among UW System faculty and instructional staff, are focused on effective and innovative teaching to enhance student learning, and promote academic quality throughout the University of Wisconsin System. OPIDís Conference Development Grants Program emphasizes collaboration among faculty, instructional staff, departments, and institutions. We typically fund workshops, seminars, and conferences that bring UW System faculty and staff together to work collaboratively on initiatives in undergraduate education. The grants are intended to support guest travel, materials, and some expenses incidental to the event. Additional instructions, application form and guidelines are available on the OPID website at: http://www.uwsa.edu/opid/grants/.

Call for Proposals 2009-2010
The UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE)
Campus Reading Seminar
Due November 9, 2009
http://www4.uwm.edu/ire/grant_programs/reading_seminars.html
The intellectual joy of discussing a book or books with colleagues and community members in a seminar-like format is, for many, a rare experience. The Institute's Campus Reading Seminar grants support reading groups and scholarly exchanges on subjects dealing with race, ethnicity, diversity, equity, and inclusivity by making funds available for the purchase of books that focus on such themes. Participants in Campus Reading Seminars may include faculty members, academic and classified staff, students, and people from the community. A faculty or academic staff member must submit the proposal. The interdisciplinary composition and diversity of the participants foster intracampus and cross-disciplinary exchanges, stimulate curricular and pedagogical innovations, and encourage campus-community interaction. Over the years, the reading groups have proved to be most popular as well as valuable in spurring campus discussions on issues regarding race, ethnicity, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Funding: The maximum request is $400.00, which only can be used for book purchases. Seminar participants may keep the books. Depending upon the number of proposals the Institute receives, it may be that not all proposals will be funded. (Applicants are responsible for checking on individual campus procedures before sending a proposal directly to the Institute.)
IMPORTANT: This is the first year that the IRE is relying on "electronic" means only to distribute this call. There will be no "hard copy" announcements sent out. We encourage you to forward this e-mail to anyone on your campus who may be interested. Any questions? Please contact the IRE's associate director, Tom Tonnesen, at (414) 229-4700 or: tonnesen@uwm.edu

Announcing the UW System
Fifth Annual Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition
Submissions due: February 19, 2010
The scholarship recipients will be announced in spring 2010.
The Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition has become an important component of the UW System's LEAP Wisconsin initiative, which, in partnership with the Association of American Colleges & Universities, works to champion the value of a liberal education for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality. The initiative focuses campus practice on fostering essential learning outcomes for all students, whatever their chosen field of study. Participation in the Liberal Arts Scholarship Competition is one way UW institutions contribute to the effort with its emphasis on writing and critical thinking, as well as on helping students be intentional about the value and purpose of their pursuit of higher education. As in previous years, funding is once again available to support three scholarships for the three winning essayists, to be awarded in spring 2010 for use in academic year 2010-11: one $2,000 award for a student from the UW Colleges and two $2,000 awards for students at the comprehensive and doctoral institutions. Additional information can be found on the UW System Liberal Education Initiative website at: http://liberaleducation.uwsa.edu/.

Announcing
2nd annual ALLY Conference for Diversity
Noon-6:00 PM, October 24, 2009
UW-Green Bay
The conference is free for UW-Green Bay students. Community members can attend for $25.
Pre-registration is required by Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Registration is available online at http://www.uwgb.edu/aic/ally
The second annual ALLY Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will seek to empower its participants with the knowledge and enthusiasm to strive for change and allyship through its workshops and keynote speaker, organizers say. The conference emphasizes diversity and accessibility issues within all student populations, and also provides a safe environment to celebrate the diversity and talents of women, people of color, persons with disabilities and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning (LGBTQ) community. Conference participants will also learn how to become an ally, or advocate, for these communities. For more information: http://blog.uwgb.edu/inside/index.php/log-news/headlines/08/06/ally_conference_0914/

Announcing
Student Retention Conference
Let Me Learn: The Tipping Point to Student Success
October 9-10, 2009
UW-Eau Claire
Registration Deadline October 2, 2009
Sponsored by UW-EC and LML, Inc.
The Issue: Colleges and Universities continue to grapple with high attrition rates. They have developed excellent resources ÖYet, the number of students who are unsuccessful, withdraw from college or just quietly fade away remains alarmingly high. (Fishman, S. and Decandia, L. (2006), SUCCESS@Seneca: Facilitating Student and Staff Success. College Quarterly, 9, 2). The factors affecting retention and student achievement are ultimately individual, and include (the learning issues of) attitude, coping, self-efficacy, and locus of control (Bean & Eaton, 2001, p. 73). Where to Begin: Across the US and EU in institutions of higher education, the Let Me Learn Process, an advanced learning system which focuses on the learner in the classroom, has proven to make a measurable difference. The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus is accessible; the conference is affordable. This is an excellent opportunity to learn how this advanced learning system can makes a measurable difference on your campus. To register or find more, visit: http://www.letmelearn.org/events/he_regionals/uwec/

Announcing
Civic Engagement in the STEM disciplines across UW System Workshop
October 8-9, 2009
Wisconsin Dells, WI
(An Office of Professional and Instructional Development OPID grant supported workshop)
Opportunity to discuss common issues in implementing civic engagement in STEM classrooms Develop assessment strategies to assess learning goals and engagement with science when integrating civic engagement into curriculum. Collaborate on web resource for connecting faculty with each other and follow up on SENCER conferences. Many different assignments or activities could be considered civic engagement: working with election results and data in a mathematics class writing informative letters to legislators monitoring local watersheds for a chemistry lab designing playgrounds for local community assessing recycling habits of campus community. If you incorporate these activities or wish to infuse more civic engagement into your Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics courses, you are invited to attend this workshop. Contact Patricia Cleary at cleary@uwp.edu for more information, or register online http://uwp.edu/cgi/remark/3/rws3.pl?FORM=CEI_STEM_Fa09.

Announcing
3rd Annual Critical Thinking Conference
Critical Thinking: Performance Tasks
A conference open to all instructors within the UW-System
Friday, October 16, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Legacy Room of the Dreyfus University Center, UW-Stevens Point
Registration closes at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7th
Interested faculty who are unable to attend the entire conference are warmly invited to register and attend whatever part of the conference is consistent with their schedules. This conference is made possible by an OPID grant and support from UWSPís Center for Academic Excellence and Student Engagement. You may register for the conference at: http://www.uwsp.edu/admin/acadAffairs/caese/sites/Events/Conferences/ConfIndex.aspx

Announcing
WAICU All-Sector Meeting On Community Engagement
October 19, 2009
Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI
At the suggestion of WAICU presidents, WAICU is organizing an all-sector meeting on community engagement on Monday, October 19 at Alverno College. People from colleges and universities throughout the state (public and private, 2-year and 4-year) who work in community engagement are invited to the meeting, which will begin at 10:00 a.m. and last until 3:00 p.m. The idea is to learn from each other and identify best practices at WAICU members, UW campuses, and technical colleges. Register today at www.waicu.org by clicking on quick link found at the bottom left hand side of the page. The registration fee is a mere $20 to cover the costs of the event.

Call for Presenters
Problem-Focused Learning
UW-Green Bay Faculty Development Conference
January 21, 2010
Deadline October 23, 2009
You are invited to submit a proposal to the 14th Annual Faculty Development Conference on the UW-Green Bay campus. The theme of the conference this year is ìProblem-Focused Learning.î If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please go to www.uwgb.edu/outreach/facultydev) to the UW-Green Bay Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (catl@uwgb.edu or fax to 920-465-2430). Presentations will be selected based on the strength of the abstract, the relationship to the conference theme, and the need to provide a well-balanced conference which includes a variety of topics. Presenters will be notified early in November.

Call for Presenters
2010 Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Allied College Conference (MBLTACC)
Feb 19-21, 2009
Proposals are due November 15th, 2009
Presenters will be notified by December 15th
UW-Madison
This is the second largest queer conference in the country, attracting students from across the Midwest to engage in honest discussions, challenging dialogues, and life changing connections. Our goal is for students to learn about change from a grassroots level, absorbing valuable skills that they can then bring back to their respective campuses and hometowns. In order to put on the most successful conference possible we are looking for unique and powerful workshops to push the participants to move outside of their comfort zones and learn new things both within the LGBT community and other social justice issues. We have specific workshop tracks that participants can choose from during the conference in order to tailor their learning experience for their own needs and goals.
The tracks include: History and Politics, International Issues, Health and Wellness, Dating and Relationships, Academic and Career, Allyship, Faith and Spirituality, Residence Life
Organizing and Activism: We need knowledgeable and excited workshop presenters to make this conference the best that it can be. If you are interested in changing the lives of LGBT and allied youth from across the Midwest, please fill out the following form. Feel free to fill out as many proposals as you would like, as we encourage presenters to put on more than one workshop.
Proposals are due via email to breakout@mblgtacc.gmail.com. Selection priority will be given to workshops that consciously include queer people of color and transgender students, as we believe these populations are vastly underrepresented.

From the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
SUPPORT GRANTS FOR
RACIAL AND ETHNIC STUDIES
The firm due date is APRIL 9, 2010.

Four categories of grant support are being made available by the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity for implementation during the 2010-11 fiscal year (i.e., July 1, 2010—June 30, 2011). Approximately $135,000 will be distributed across the four categories (Research, Curriculum Development, Campus Activities, and Faculty Development Research Awards). They invite you to go directly to their website at for a longer description:
http://www4.uwm.edu/ire/grant_programs/support_grants.html

Grants up to $5000 in the following categories:
CATEGORY A (Research): grants are for the support of scholarly research on race, ethnicity, diversity, inclusivity, and/or equity b y University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff. Such research with the intention of publication and/or seeking other sources of extramural support is highly encouraged, as is including both undergraduate and graduate students in your research plans in order to stimulate interest in racial/ethnic topics. (Faculty and academic staff should not submit a proposal as a surrogate for what is actually the research of graduate students.) Those applicants chosen for funding may also be contacted by the Institute to write a scholarly article for publication consideration in our newsletter, Kaleidoscope II .
Special consideration will be given to the following themes:
(i) student learning outcomes in racial/ethnic studies courses taught by the applicant;
(ii) use of the curriculum and pedagogy to encourage equity and inclusivity ;
(iii) outcomes from pre-college programs, including the mentoring of K-12 students; and
(iv) successful STEM (science, technology; engineering; math) preparation and competency programs , especially for a more diverse student cohort.

CATEGORY B (Curriculum Development) : grants are to support the development and teaching of new courses pertaining to race, ethnicity, diversity, inclusivity, and/or equity. The courses may be from any discipline or profession, and may be either undergraduate or graduate. If possible, we encourage you to include student collaboration in your course development plans. Those applicants chosen for funding may also be contacted by the Institute in order to write an article about the course for publication in our newsletter, Kaleidoscope II . Special consideration will be given to courses that incorporate the “Inclusive Excellence” planning process for greater diversity.

Grants up to $2000 in the following category:
CATEGORY C (Campus Activities): grants are for the support of miscellaneous campus activities and events that contribute to the understanding of race, ethnicity, diversity, inclusivity, and/or equity. Such activities may include workshops, guest speakers, cultural exhibits, fine arts performances, curricular infusion and instructional innovations, professional development, and materials acquisitions. The proposed activity must directly serve a UW System constituency (faculty, staff, and/or students). If possible, we encourage you to include student collaboration in your planning. Those applicants chosen for funding may also be contacted by the Institute in order to write an article on their project for publication consideration in our newsletter, Kaleidoscope II .

Special consideration will be given to activities that:
(i) support pre-college programs, including the mentoring of K-12 students;
(ii) support STEM (science; technology; engineering; math) preparation and competency, especially for a more diverse student cohort; and
(iii) incorporate the “Inclusive Excellence” planning process for greater diversity.

For more information contact the IRE's associate director, Tom Tonnesen at (414) 229-4700 or via e-mail at: tonnesen@uwm.edu We look forward to receiving your proposals. Tom Tonnesen, Associate Director UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE) c/o UW-Milwaukee--Mitchell 225 P.O. Box 413' Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 229-4700 (414) 229-4581 (fax) tonnesen@uwm.edu http://www4.uwm.edu/ire

Announcing
Reaching-At-Risk Students website available
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies Holly Hassel and English Lecturer, Joanne Giordano, UW-Marathon County, presented an OPID funded conference in June 2009 called Reaching-At-Risk Students. Their website offers information on the conference and will also serve as an ongoing resource for faculty and staff across the state of Wisconsin who work with students who are at-risk of not succeeding academically. Please check it out at http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/rars/index.htm

Announcing
UWSA now has a domestic partner benefit website online: http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/benefits/dpbenefits.html. The page will be updated as information becomes available so please check back for changes, so ch3ck back

Announcing
Liberal Education and America's Promise
Wisconsin Advocacy and Campus Action Initiative
Wisconsin was designated the first official partner state in the LEAP campaign in March 2005. In collaboration with AAC&U, leaders in Wisconsin have piloted a series of campus action and advocacy efforts that champion the value of a liberal education for all college students. An initiative of the University of Wisconsin System, LEAP in Wisconsin seeks to increase understanding of the value and purpose of liberal education for UW System students and Wisconsin citizens. Go here for more information: http://www.aacu.org/leap/wisconsin_initiative.cfm

Announcing
On-line Journal devoted to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Check out the UW System's "Teaching Forum: A Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" that is now on line at: http://www.uwosh.edu/programs/teachingforum/public_html/ which includes several articles of interest to faculty in Women’s Studies and using feminist pedagogical approaches in their teaching.

From the Office of the Women's Studies Librarian

The Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian was created in 1977 to serve students, faculty, librarians, and administrators across the UW System. Located on the Madison campus, the office reaches out to all UW campuses through its many regular and special publications, reference assistance, and professional presentations and consultation. The Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Go here to explore an amazing array of resources: http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/

Available Research Guides:
Researching Topics in Gender and Women's Studies
Research Guide on Second Wave Feminism
LGBTQ Studies Research Guide at UW-Madison
LGBTQ Studies Research Guide for UW System users

Announcing:
The latest version of Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents (volume 29, number 2, Spring 2009) is now available. We suggest that libraries catalog the stable website location for this and subsequent issues at: http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications/feminist-periodicals.html
Please contact Heather Shimon at 608-263-5754 or email at hshimon@library.wisc.edu with any subscription questions.

The Women's Studies Librarian's Office publishes three periodicals on joint subscription, plus an online database videography on women, bibliographies, and occasional books.

The three periodicals are:

FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES features book reviews, news of new periodicals and special issues, articles on out-of-the-way materials: audiovisuals, electronic resources, microforms, and reports. Sample articles are online.

FEMINIST PERIODICALS: A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENTS (4/yr, online only; subscribers will receive notification of each issue) reproduces tables of contents of over 150 women's studies journals and magazines, and includes publishing/subscription information on each periodical.

NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN, GENDER & FEMINISM (2/yr) is a subject-arranged bibliography with additional subject and author indexes to new books in English from academic, trade, small press, and feminist sources around the world. (formerly New Books on Women & Feminism)

Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Publisher, FEMINIST COLLECTIONS, and
Women's Studies Librarian
University of Wisconsin System
430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-5754; pweisbard@library.wisc.edu
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu

Women & Science Program

Women and Science Spring Conference
May 14 and 15
Great Wolf Lodge, Wisconsin Dells

The Women and Science Program hosts an annual retreat for past participants in Program events. All interested faculty in the UW System are welcome to apply. The conference will focus on methods used to improve diversity in STEM education and STEM fields. For more information on the conference visit: Spring Conference 2009 http://www.uwosh.edu/programs/wis/SpringConference2009.php. Or contact: Leigh Ann, Interim Director of the Women & Science Program Department of Kinesiology University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, at mrotekl@uwosh.edu, or 920.424.1323

The Women & Science Program has an updated web site. Check it out here: http://www.uwosh.edu/wis/ It includes the program’s mission and goals revised to:
Promoting excellence and diversity in STEM education
We envision a future in which education in the STEM disciplines is accessible and attractive to diverse students resulting in STEM fields enriched by diverse practitioners.

The mission of the Women & Science Program is to attract and retain more women and minority students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by promoting systematic changes in the ways that science and science education are regarded and carried out within the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin community and beyond.

In particular, the program seeks to: increase faculty expertise in inclusive and student-centered pedagogy; promote science education that includes analysis of the social context in which science is practiced; provide role models of women and minority STEM professionals, scholars, and educators; promote campus & classroom climates that attract and retain women and minority students in STEM disciplines; and foster collaborative communities for UW System STEM educators and students.

The Women & Science Program welcomes its new Director:
Dr. Jennifer Mihalick, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Chemistry, UW-Oshkosh
UWS Women and Science Program
Associate Professor of Chemistry
800 Algoma Boulevard
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Telephone: (920) 424-7404
Fax: 920/424-7076

Calls For Manuscripts, Articles, Submissions

Call for Submissions
Our Stories, OurSelves: The EmBODYment of Womenís Learning
Deadline: September 30th, 2009
http://www.litwomen.org/publications/embody/index.html
How do women's bodies matter in adult literacy and basic education?
Our Volume 1 (Empowering Women through Literacy: Views from Experience) focused on empowering women in the classroom and primarily addressed intellectual and personal barriers to and growth for women's literacy learning. However, we are aware of the many ways in which women's bodies and whole selves are integral to the womanhood we celebrate, yet are ignored, or even silenced, in traditional adult ABE, ESOL, and literacy classes. Even when we do recognize or talk about women's bodies, these discussions generally focus on sexual violence, childcare/parenting, or health. Educators and students seek expression as embodied women, but find these realities difficult to include in current programs and classes. The editors seek to gather writings about the many dimensions of womanhood, specifically related to em-body-ment, as they are experienced in literacy and basic/developmental educational settings.

Call for Papers
41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Session Title: The Role of Non-tenure Track Faculty in the Academy (CAITY sponsored panel)
April 7-11, 2010
Deadline: September 30, 2009
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure
Recent articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education, New Directions for Higher Education and elsewhere question the wisdom of so many part-timers teaching General Education Courses at U.S. colleges and universities. Sponsored by the Contingent / Adjunct / Independent Scholar / Two-Year (C.A.I.T.Y.) Caucus, this roundtable proposes to explore ways non-tenure track faculty can acquire respect within the academy and resist marginalization. It welcomes participants from part- and full-time faculty to consider the question of how to provide equitable and dignified compensation for the non-traditional faculty member, NeMLA roundtables typically feature 3-6 participants who give brief, informal presentations (5-10 minutes) with the remainder of the session open for general discussion. NeMLA charges panelists a media handling fee of $10 for standard audio-visual requests (TV/VCR/DVD, slide projector, overhead projector, media projector). One-page abstracts may be sent via regular or electronic mail to the Panel Chair at the following addresses, where inquiries are also welcome. Mary Ann Tobin, English Department, Triton College, 2000 Fifth Avenue, River Grove, IL 60171, mtobin@triton.edu
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements ($10 handling fee for equipment)

Call for Submissions
Studies in the Humanities
Theoretical Perspectives on Women in Higher Education
Deadline: October 1st, 2009
The editors will cast their net widely: we will seek thesis-driven, innovative essays about women and their experience as students, administrators, and faculty in Normal Schools, colleges, seminaries, and universities that examine pedagogical, scholarly, and research practices in light of (but not to exclusive to) cultural, feminist, gender, historical, rhetorical, and socio-political epistemologies. Essays should have a solid theoretical foundation, and we especially look for those essays that explore past and present contexts of neo-liberal socio/political reform and responses to gender disparities in higher education. Please submit essays of no more than 7-10 double-spaced pages in MLA format by electronic attachment compatible with Microsoft Word. Dr. Theresa McDevitt and/or Dr. Rosalee Stilwell to stilwell@iup.edu or mcdevitt@iup.edu

Call for chapters in an edited volume:
Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism
Deadlines: 300-word abstracts electronically submitted by October 1, 2009, completed chapters will be due by July 1, 2010.
http://groups.google.com/group/philosophy-updates/browse_thread/thread/8de89ee379c304a6
In an article published in Hypatia almost two decades ago, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, asked, ìWhere are all the Pragmatist Feminists?î Seigfried found it curious that feminists had not integrated the intellectual tradition of the United States into their thinking as well as why American pragmatists had failed to engage feminism in a more meaningful manner despite the obvious points of contact between the two branches of thought. Her question remains valid today. Feminist pragmatist scholarship remains a marginalized, albeit robust, area of study. What has occurred in the intervening two decades is the important feminist work of recovery. Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism is an interdisciplinary collection of original chapters that explores the present implications of feminism and pragmatism for theory, policy, and action. Chapters in this volume can take a variety of forms including the drawing of contemporary inference from the work of classical American feminist pragmatist thinkers.
Submissions from all fields are invited. For inquiries please contact Celia Bardwell-Jones at cbardwelljones@towson.edu or Maurice Hamington at mhamingt@mscd.edu . The editors request that 300-word abstracts be sent electronically by October 1, 2009 to Maurice Hamington at mhamingt@mscd.edu Abstracts will be evaluated for and comments/suggestions will be offered to those accepted for the volume.

Call for submissions:
The Tract House is looking for new tracts on 'Darwiniana!'
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum and Philagrafika, The Tract House: The Darwin Addition will be distributing tracts in Philadelphia in early 2010.
Deadline for tracts: October 1, 2009
http://stealthissweater.blogspot.com/2009/08/tract-house-is-looking-for-new-tracts.html
For this special incarnation of The Tract House, we are specifically seeking tracts that have to do with the ideas, themes, and life of Charles Darwin! Tracts can focus on all matter of Darwiniana, including, but not limited to: geology, theology, sexuality, asexuality, extinction, deep time, God, God-lessness, natural selection, mutation, survival of the fittest, breeding, inbreeding, observation, cannibalism, ape relatives, botany, barnacles, hermaphrodites, lost continents, heredity, and animal emotions. In addition, tract writers may want to tackle more practical issues, such as: food and hygiene on a five year journey, how to make friends with strangers living on islands, beards, pet turtles, on-board diversions, keeping specimens from accidentally being eaten, killing for science, and world travel pre-internet.
For images of The Tract House in action, visit http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com/projects/tracthouse/index.html
Please submit your text to: TheTractHouse@gmail.com
What is a tract?
A tract is generally a concise treatise, printed for mass distribution in pamphlet form. Though the most commonly stumbled-upon tracts are religious in theme, tracts historically have also included political manifestos and other ideas.
What about artwork?
If you imagine that there should be a graphic or drawing accompanying your words, send something along or let us know what it is youíd like to see and weíll see what we can dig up.

Call for Essays
Hampton Press book series
Transnational Feminisms
Deadline October 15, 2009
Final essays should be submitted by January 1, 2010
Essays are sought for the first volume in the Hampton Press book series, Transnational Feminisms, that investigates current concepts of transnational or global feminisms, and the attention and critique such concepts have receive within public, scholarly, international, creative and performative discourses. The editors seek a broad-ranging set of investigations on areas including, but not limited to, ethics and transnational feminisms, women and leadership, diverse enactments of feminist activism, and transnational politics of difference. Authors will engage with multiple constructions of global feminism that assume common concerns and similar shared lived experiences by all women in current times. Essays that interrogate intersections of gender, class, nation, ethnicity, and the tendencies of globalization on womenís roles, identities and communities are encouraged. Please send queries and/or abstracts to Noemi Marin, nmarin@fau.edu or Lara Lengel, lengell@bgsu.edu

Call for Submissions
Invisible Culture: A Journal for Visual Culture
The Cultural Visualization of Hurricane Katrina
Deadline for Papers: October 15, 2009
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/
Guest Editors: Nicola Mann and Victoria Pass, University of Rochester
Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute. This issue aims to analyze representations of Katrina and its aftermath using the methodologies of visual and cultural studies. We are interested in the ways that analyses of the politics of representation, as exemplified in the case of Katrina, opens up into a discussion the evolution of visual and cultural studies in the last ten or twenty years. We seek papers that consider visual representations of Hurricane Katrina in a ways unimaginable at earlier points in the intersection between visual studies and cultural studies. Accepted essays will accompany the transcript of an upcoming roundtable discussion between the founders of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochesterís co-founders, on the occasion of the programís twentieth anniversary (Mieke Bal, Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Kaja Silverman, Constance Penley, and Janet Wolff; moderated by Douglas Crimp). Please send inquiries and completed papers (MLA style) of 2,500 ñ 5,000 words to Nicola Mann (nmann2@mail.rochester.edu) and Victoria Pass (vpass@mail.rochester.edu).

Call for Reviewers
In Visible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book and exhibition reviews (600-1000 words). To submit book or exhibition review proposals please email ivcbookreviews@gmail.com. For a list of reviewable titles, see: http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Reviews/review_copies.html

Request for Proposals
2010 Gulf-South Summit
PEOPLE, PLACE, & PARTNERS: Building and Sustaining Engagement in Critical Times
Deadlinefor submissions: October 19, 2009
March 3-5, 2010
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2010 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education March 3-5, 2010. Please see the website http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/gulf_south/ for more details.

Call for Papers
A Special Issue of Women's Writing on Fanny Trollope
Deadline October 31, 2010
Please submit papers for consideration between 4000-7000 words to Tamara S. Wagner at tamarasilviawagner@yahoo.com.sg
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/womenswriting
Still largely overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances (or Fanny, as she preferred to be called) Trollope is now almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, not only covered and transgressed numerous narrative trends. It also spanned from the early 1830s into the mid-fifties, which also prompts us to reconsider conventional lines of demarcation between periods as well as genres. A contemporary of Jane Austen, Trollope started writing at a time when fashionable silver-fork fiction was being self-reflexively reassessed and, throughout her extensive oeuvre, continued to combine diverse narrative forms while capitalizing on the rapidly evolving subgenres of the time. Recent interest specifically in her social-problems novels has brought at least some of her so far lesser known works back into print, while research into women's contributions to periodicals has newly unearthed parallels between her seemingly very different works. A thorough reassessment of her position in nineteenth-century literary culture, however, promises to highlight her own versatility and the diversity of as well as important intersections between literary developments. Contributors should follow the journal's house style details of which are to be found on the Women's Writing web site http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0999082.asp This is the new MLA. Please note that instead of footnotes, we use endnotes with NO bibliography. All bibliographical information is included in the endnotes. For example, we require place of publication, publisher and date of publication in brackets after a book is cited for the first time. Please also include an abstract, a brief biographical blurb (100 words maximum), and a key of 6 words suitable for indexing and abstracting services.

Call for Submissions
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 12.1
Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War and Social Justice
Deadline: November 1, 2009
http://www.yorku.ca/arm
The journal will explore the topic from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, anti-violence activists and other professionals and community workers. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.

Call for Proposals for Chapters
Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity
Deadline: November 1, 2009
http://www.aera.net/HREL.htm
Edited by Linda C. Tillman and James Joseph ìJimî Scheurich
Associate Editors: Colleen Capper, James Earl Davis, Andrea Evans, Gerardo Lopez, Sylvia Mendez Morse, and Grayson Noley
Over the last decade, U.S. schools have been called upon to provide an equitable and excellent education for students who traditionally have been marginalized: students of color, students from low-income homes, students with disabilities, LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered) students, students in families in which English is not the dominant language, female students, and so forth. The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity, a project of the American Educational Research Association, will feature chapters that reframe research within the field of educational leadership; a reframing that is consonant with the existing social, cultural, economic, and political contexts of U.S. schools. The goal of the proposed handbook is to present theoretical and empirical scholarship that focuses on socially just educational leadership, particularly with respect to the education of diverse student populations. Additionally, the orientation of the handbook will be assets based; that is, diversity as an asset to those individuals living it and to schools and society. The primary audience for the handbook is the research and scholarly community. The handbook is intended to serve as a source of knowledge for the next generation of researchers and to lay the foundation for promising and significant directions for future research on leadership, diversity, equity, and social justice. Developed under the auspices of AERAís books program, this handbook was advanced by the editors as a Division A (Administration, Organization, & Leadership) initiative. Proposals are welcomed and encouraged from scholars with relevant research backgrounds, irrespective of AERA or division memberships.

Call for chapters in an edited volume
Demeter Press
South Asian Mothering
Deadline for Abstracts: November 1, 2009
Deadline March 7, 2010
Publication Date: Fall 2011
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/demeterpress.html
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection by Jasjit Kaur Sangha to be published in 2011. South Asian culture reveres mothers for being selfless, nurturing, and devoted to their family. This reverence predicates that women will find fulfillment in mothering, and that mothering will occur in the context of a heterosexual family. This edited collection seeks to unravel the complexity of South Asian mothering by asking: What does it mean to be a South Asian mother? How do embedded cultural values influence South Asian mothering practices? How does non-conformity to South Asian norms and customs affect South Asian mothers? How are South Asian mothers affected by the process of migration? What are the barriers and difficulties experienced by South Asian mothers? What is beneficial about being a South Asian mother? The aim of this collection is to initiate dialogue on the paradoxical experience of South Asian mothering. Theoretical, narrative and arts-informed creative submissions are welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts: 250 words in length.
Deadline for Abstracts: November 1, 2009
Academic Papers: 15-18 pages, Narratives: 8-12 pages, Creative submission 5-8pages Deadline for Papers: March 7, 2010
Please submit proposals to: Jasjit Kaur Sangha jasjit.mothering@gmail.com

Call for Submissions
Gender, Dressing and Transnational Bodies
Deadline: November 12th, 2009
http://www2.drury.edu/ekenny/
This is a call for contributions for a volume on gender, dressing and transnational bodies as part of a new series called ìContributions to Transnational Feminism.î The series is concerned with innovative discussions of gender in a transnational context that investigate and engage various aspects of power and privilege at play in the interaction of peoples, ideas, and commodities in a global economy. Submissions can originate in gender studies, dress studies, social theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory, feminist anthropology, cultural geography, art history, critical theory, development studies or other interdisciplinary fields. Contributions should offer new theoretical insights and/or grounded empirical research that engage with/contest the emerging field of transnational feminism(s). More information on the series can be found here: http://www2.drury.edu/ekenny/. See website for more information.

Call for academic editorial contributors
Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Todayís World
Editors are making assignments with a submission due date of December 1, 2009
This is a new print and electronic reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the encyclopedia will focus on womenís status starting in approximately 2000 and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research, ready-to-use facts. The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary womenís and gender studies. This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the libraryís electronic services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K. Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature, redefining womenís issues in todayís terms. Moreover, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more. The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.
If interested contact Sue Moskowitz, Director of Author Recruitment, Golson Media by e-mail at: women@golsonmedia.com Please provide a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in womenís and gender issues.

Call for Submissions for book
Women and the Media: Global Perspectives
Abstract Deadline: December 1st, 2009
Full Deadline: June 1st, 2010
The editors of Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives are seeking articles and essays for a new book which addresses the global status of women in the media. Looking for such topics as: stereotypical depictions of women, women and political activism, women as commodities, hegemony and the status quo, a new look at the male gaze, and women who are media pioneers. Contact: Theresa Carilli, Department of Communication, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323, carilli@calumet.purdue.edu

Call for Authors and Reviewers
Thirdspace
Deadline December 1, 2009
http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/announcement/view/5
Thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture invites reviews for its forthcoming issue on gender, sport and the Olympics. We welcome reviews of books, films and other media forms that explore the key themes of the issue. If you are the author of a book you would like considered for review, or someone who wishes to submit a suggestion for a book to review, please contact the review editors Lizzie Seal (lizzie.seal@durham.ac.uk) and Joni Palmer (joni.palmer@colorado.edu). If you would like to contribute to this issue as a reviewer but do not have a book, film, or other media in mind: Please see attached list of books, films, etc. Book reviews should range from 650 words to 850 words (about 4-5 paragraphs or 1-2 pages). Review essays (reviewing two or more books in a field) or an in-depth review of an anthology are also welcome, and should be no more than 2000 words (about 7 pages). Reviews of films, performances, exhibitions, computer games and other media forms that concern women and/or gender issues are encouraged. Reviews of this nature should be informed by feminist thinking and demonstrate scholarly criticism. Reviews should range from 650 words to 850 words (about 4-5 paragraphs or 1-2 pages). We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives. Submissions from researchers working within, or among, the disciplines of geography, sociology, literature, area studies, cultural studies, film/media studies, art, history, education, law, and womenís/gender studies are particularly encouraged. We accept the submission of work from scholars of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from emerging feminist scholars, including graduate students. All submissions in this category undergo an internal editorial screen and review process and must conform to our style guide. See website for books available for Review: (A complimentary copy of the book will be sent to the reviewer).

Call for Submissions
A Queer Gaze: Media and the Global GLBT Community
Abstract Deadline: December 1st, 2009
Full Deadline: June 1st, 2010
The editors are looking for research and essays that address how the GLBT communities are represented in the media, both in the U.S. and around the world. They would like to hear from scholars and activists how these communities are silenced or given voice through the media. Contact: Theresa Carilli, Department of Communication, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323, carilli@calumet.purdue.edu

Call for Articles and Essays for a special cluster of Pedagogy on:
Interdisciplinary Pedagogies
Full drafts for review will be due December 31, 2009
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pedagogy/
Guest edited by Michelle Gibson (University of Cincinnati) and Jonathan Alexander (University of California, Irvine) The growing consensus in many academic fields is that students can and do benefit from interdisciplinary courses. These courses utilize pedagogical methods, research, theory, and other scholarship from multiple fields, applying them to issues, problems, or questions. Instructors of interdisciplinary courses usually choose materials based on what is applicable; this distinguishes interdisciplinary courses from multidisciplinary courses, which can often maintain a course focus on disciplinary thinking by providing ìmultiple perspectivesî rather than offering students that theory and research which most effectively forms a nexus of knowledge around the subject(s) under discussion. Some institutions have developed interdisciplinary programs in which faculty from diverse disciplines work together to create interdisciplinary programs. In other locations, particularly in area studies programs like Womenís Studies, Sexuality Studies, Ethnic Studies, etc., instructors working alone develop interdisciplinary pedagogies without the direct input of scholars from ìotherî disciplines. No matter whether teachers work collaboratively or independently to develop interdisciplinary pedagogies, interdisciplinary courses and programs are often touted for their comprehensiveness, their potential for offering creative and innovative coursework, and for the energy and enthusiasm they seem to engender in both students and faculty. We seek articles for a dedicated ìstrandî or ìclusterî of the journal Pedagogy which provide thoughtful and carefully presented definitions of interdisciplinary pedagogy, examples of interdisciplinary pedagogy ìin action,î and/or theory about the interdisciplinary pedagogical endeavor. In general, we hope that authors will avoid simple ìhow-toî articles or simple ìcelebrationsî of interdisciplinary pedagogy. The articles that will interest us most will be those which are themselves interdisciplinary and which are theoretical even as they narrate. Ultimately, we hope to expand our understanding of 'interdisciplinary pedagogy' by problematizing our understandings of it. What is interdisciplinarity in the classroom? In our curricula? In our programs? And in our pedagogies and pedagogical theories?
All articles submitted for this strand will receive two levels of peer review. The strand editors will provide initial review and the articles selected for submission to the journal will then be reviewed using the journalís usual peer-review process. The journalís editors have final say on all essays submitted for publication. For more information, contact either Michelle Gibson (gibsonma@ucmail.uc.edu) or Jonathan Alexander (jfalexan@uci.edu). Proposals for articles are welcome.

Call for Submissions
HEADCASE: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, And Queer (LGBTQ) Writers
and Artists on Mental Illness
An anthology edited by Teresa Theophano, LMSW
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Headcase will be an anthology comprised of 15-20 nonfiction pieces by writers and artists both established and new, exploring the theme of mental health, mental illness, and mental health care in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community. The book is currently being considered for publication by a major queer press. The anthology seeks essays, poetry, and comics by queer consumers of mental health services or queer individuals who have been diagnosed, but do not identify as patients, with mental illness. Works should explore the intersection of queerness and mental health and can include topics such as psychotropics; Gender Identity Disorder and its acceptance or rejection as a legitimate mental disorder; conventional, holistic treatment; experiences in therapy, groups, and/or institutions; how race and ethnicity, class, sex, gender identity, age, and disability impact access to treatment; addiction, self-medicating, and recovery. Modest compensation provided upon publication to contributors whose pieces are chosen.
Guidelines:

Pieces should be between 750 and 1500 words (approximately 3 to 5 double-spaced pages).
While the deadline for a 2010 publication date has not yet been established, submitting your piece by December 1, 2009 is recommended.
Descriptions of pieces in progress are also welcome.
Submissions should be sent as a Microsoft Word document, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman font.
Please provide a brief (100 words or less) bio with your submission

Teresa Theophano is a licensed social worker, out queer mental health consumer, and the author of *Queer Quotes* (Beacon Press, 2004). Please send submissions/project descriptions to her at headcase_anthology@yahoo.com

Call For Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Inventions of Activism
Michael Benton, Alan Clinton, Wes Houp and Danny Mayer, editors.
Deadline no later than February 1, 2010
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/upcoming.shtml
This issue of Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture solicits a variety of work which looks to activism as a broad array of creative practices yet to be defined. We seek not to revisit debates between theory and practice, but to view activism as a form of invention which may lead to new cultural formations. What challenges do activists face as practicing utopians? What more or less local examples of activism can be looked to as models for further practice? How can activism as performance, as technology, as art lead to the production of new political and social theory? How is activism the art of the possible? Please send completed papers and abstracts to the editors at inventionsofactivism@gmail.com no later than February 1, 2010. Earlier submissions and queries are welcome as we may be able to collaborate with authors in order to produce work that not only fits with the intent of the issue but with the standards of Reconstruction.

Call for Articles
Academic Exchange Quarterly, Summer 2010, Volume 14, Issue 2:
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Submission deadline: Any time until the end of February 2010
Submission Procedure: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm
The focus of this issue is on the process of learning.
Who May Submit:
Papers are invited that focus on issues and research related to this "meta-pedagogy." Subject areas might include classroom methods, teaching technologies, assessment that enhances learning, strategies that promote equal opportunity in the classroom, learning styles and beliefs, outcomes-based learning, teacher effectiveness, the use of writing journals or other approaches to represent and assess thinking processes, meta-cognitive strategies used by teachers or students, and the use of different models of learning such as constructivist or behaviorist. Papers may represent investigations at any grade level, K-graduate level
See details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short ñsee http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm#date
Early submission offers an opportunity to be considered for Editors' Choice - http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/edchoice.htm
Please identify your submission with keyword: SCHOLAR-2
Feature Editor: Dr. Betsy Eudey, Associate Professor of Gender Studies & Director of the
Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning California State University Stanislaus
Email: BEudey@csustan.edu

Call for Submissions
Journal of American Culture
The Greening -- or not -- of America
The deadline for submission is Dec. 31 2010
The issue will be published in March 2012
At the focus of this special issue is the global environmental crisis now sometimes being faced, and undeniably also sometimes being denied. What are its implications for the culture of the United States of America , because of its position as the worldís dominant military superpower and consumer of resources, occupies a critical role in the environmental crisis. In this special issue the editors seek contributions from a range of interdisciplinary environmental thinkers, dreamers and practitioners. Essays can address an environmental practitioner or thinker, an idea, issue, philosophy or form of activism, historical or current. They can examine explicitly environmental texts, provide new readings of texts not generally understood as 'green,' and/or also take the form of a 'manifesto.' They can explore 'green' understandings of such basics as birth, food, community, sex, health, sickness, spirituality, and death. They particularly welcome essays based in ecological feminist and transnational perspectives and in awareness of the intersections of environmental devastations with all forms of social injustice. Submissions, generally 15-25 pages in length, are to be original scholarly manuscripts formatted according to MLA style guidelines using in-text citations with author's name and page number. Endnotes and works cited should appear at the end of the paper. In light of space limitations, please avoid excessive use of endnotes. This issue will be edited by Jane Caputi ( jcaputi@fau.edu ) and Suzanne Kelly ( suzmkelly@aol.com ). Direct inquiries to either editor. Send completed manuscripts to The Journal of American Culture at jac@vwc.edu or The Journal of American Culture, Virginia Wesleyan College , 1584 Wesleyan Drive , Norfolk , VA 23502 .

Call for Submissions
The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (JARM)
Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief JARM Vol. 12.2
Deadline: May 1st, 2010
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/journal.html
The journal will explore the topic of Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, health care workers, and other professionals and community workers. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.

Call for Submissions
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Open submission deadline
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/092/contents092.shtml
This journal is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes three themed issues and one open issue per year. Send open submissions (year round) to reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com and submissions for themed issues to the appropriate editors listed on the site.

Call For Submissions
Best Bi Short Stories
Open submission deadline
http://www.biwriters.org
Seeking stories that illuminate something about the experience of being bi. Stories can focus on relationships, romance, dating and sex, of course but weíd like to see much more than that. All genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, romance, historical, mystery, western, vampires, etc. as well as contemporary fiction are encouraged.

Call For Submissions
Journal of International Women's Studies
Open submission deadline
http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/JIWS/
The Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) is currently accepting book reviews for possible publication. JIWS is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. Through its diverse collection, the journal aims to create an opportunity for building bridges across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism; "western" and "third world" feminisms; professionals and students; men and women.

Call for Submissions
Journal of Women's Intercultural Leadership
Open submission deadline
http://www.saintmarys.edu/cwil/jwil
The Journal of Womenís Intercultural Leadership serves as a resource for scholars and practitioners who seek to bring intercultural perspectives and practices to their classes, research, programs, or institutions. This refereed journal focuses on womenís studies, leadership development, and intercultural education (including international and domestic multicultural) and the complex interdisciplinary intersections between these disciplines to yield a distinctive, interconnected synthesis of ideas and best practices. The Journal contains articles, discussion forums, and book reviews.

Call For Submissions
NWSA Journal
Open submission deadline
http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/
The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Womenís Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Womenís Studies, with emphasis on diversity and internationalism. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective.

Call For Submissions
Qui Parle
University of California Berkeley
Open submission deadline
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/
Qui Parle, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, arts and social sciences, is currently accepting general submissions for upcoming issues. Since its inception in 1986, the print journal has explored questions of language and textuality, theories of subjectivity, aesthetics, gender studies, critical theory and postcolonial theory. In recent years, the journal has expanded upon its original affiliation with literary criticism and Continental philosophy in order to feature articles from the human sciences, including the philosophy of science, anthropology, and sociology. This dilation enables even greater possibilities for comparative examinations of critical questions of concern for the humanities and social sciences alike, including: cultural alterity, the politics of visual culture, secularity and religion, nationalisms, political violence, migration and diaspora, questions of psychological development and trauma, the politics of memory, the historical anthropology of science, and modes of non-European or Anglo-American intelligibility.

Call For Submissions
Women's Studies International Forum
Open submission deadline
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journalaudience.cws_home/361/description#audience
Articles discussing gender/women/sexualities in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe, particularly within transnational/globalization frameworks, including the new identity of Europe as European Union and its extension toward Eastern Europe.

Call For Submissions
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Open submission deadline
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions for its 2009-2010 editorial year. Women's Studies provides a forum for the presentation of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences. We encourage scholars from all disciplines to submit articles based in film, television, literature, art, or other media. Women\'s Studies also publishes creative fiction, creative non-fiction, and book reviews. Submissions for cover art or art essays are always welcome.
Submissions: Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts must be formatted according to MLA guidelines. Essays should be approximately 25 pages in length. Authors should also supply a shortened version of the title for a running head, not exceeding 50 character spaces, an abstract of approximately 100 words, the author\'s affiliation and location. Each submitted article must contain author\'s mailing address, telephone number, e-mail, and a short biographical paragraph.
Send a cover letter, three copies of the manuscript, and a copy on disk to:
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Sharon Becker, Associate Editor
Claremont Graduate University
Department of English, Blaisdell House
143 East Tenth Street
womstudj@cgu.ed

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.
Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

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.

Conference Announcements

AAC&U
Educating for Social and Personal Responsibility Conference
October 1-3
Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://www.aacu.org/aacu_news/AACUNews09/august09/news_events.cfm
This Network for Academic Renewal conference will 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 studentsí 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.

6th Annual Conference on Prostitution, Sex Work, & Human Trafficking
October 1- 2, 2009
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
http://www.prostitutionconference.com
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, academics, survivors, and workers in the social service, criminal justice, and health care fields.

Women Mobilizing for Change: Past, Present, Future
October 2-4, 2009
University of Tampa Tampa, Florida
http://web1.cas.usf.edu/wst/fcws/
The breadth of this conference allows for research in a wide historical area, allowing for papers which: a) revisit and reexamine well-known historical landmarks for women to explore their legacies for the present and the future; b) investigate contemporary interaction of womenís movements with local, regional, and global communities, organizations, and institutions; c) demonstrate efforts of women to influence and change existing political, economic, education and community culture and structures to improve the lives of women and children; d) look to the future to explore how underlying ideological concerns today will impact womenís roles tomorrow.

2009 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis
October 25-27, 2009 at the Westin Indianapolis
Registration deadline is October 2nd
A full schedule and registration information can be found at http://www.planning.iupui.edu/institute. The Assessment Institute in Indianapolis is the nationís oldest and largest event focused exclusively on Outcomes in Higher Education. Participants will learn about new techniques and approaches in a variety of outcome assessment areas, including civic engagement, student development, first-year-experience, each of which has its own track throughout the schedule. Several sessions are designed for beginners and others are for the more experienced practitioner.

Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s): ëEnabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetorics
October 7-10, 2009
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/
Highlighting the intellectual traditions of womenís communities, especially communities constellated around specific identity markers such as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation issues, geographic origins; and other topics that address the connections in the conference them

3rd Annual Women of Color Conference
October 9th & 10th, 2009
Spellman College, Atlanta, Georgia
Http://www.feministcampus.org
The Feminist Majority Foundation is proud to partner with Spelman College, the Spelman Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, the Spelman Women's Research and Resource Center, and Bennett College for Women to bring you the 3rd Annual Women of Color Conference. The conference will bring together feminist activist leaders from communities of color around the country. Student leaders will learn about various social justice issues and come together as women of color and allies to strategize for real sociopolitical change as part of a larger movement for justice and equality.

WWHEL 2009 State Conference
Women as Transformational Leaders: Gender and Clear-Headed Leadership in Higher Education October 22-23, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
For more details and registration, see http://www.wwhwl.org
Keynote speaker: Venita Kelley, Ph.D. Founder of Kelley Communications and Consulting In her keynote speech and subsequent workshop, Venita Kelley will show that women are significant contributors at all levels and that when they engage in transformational leadership they strengthen processes, strategic planning, and institutions. In an interactive session on the first day of the conference, Dr. Kelley will provide the constructs of a transformational leadership model that women can begin using immediately to meet their own leadership goals. The Friday morning session will focus on women's need to bring their leadership vision and best practices to the forefront in their work and personal environments, including how to present oneself as a leader in formal and informal ways while incorporating a communication skill component. Hotel Accommodations for October 21 and 22, 2009, at Holiday Inn & Convention Center, Stevens Point, WI, 54481
Rates are $70 single/$99 double using the block code UWS, expires on 9/30/2009. 715-344-0200
www.holidayinn.com.

AAC&U
Integrative Learning Conference: Addressing the Complexities
October 22-23, 2009
Registration through September 30, 2009
Atlanta, GA
http://www.aacu.org/aacu_news/AACUNews09/august09/news_events.cfm
What types of activities allow students to apply their learning to new situations in order to practice the skills and abilities necessary for todayís world? This question and others like it will be explored at AAC&Uís Network for Academic Renewal conference. This conference will highlight the new importance of integrative learning ten years in to the new century.

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built
October 22-25, 2009
York University, Toronto, Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/arm
The conference focuses on 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 ìnatureî; 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

Center for Gender & Intercultural Studies
Succeeding as Women in Higher Education Conference
October 23-25, 2009
SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York.
For information please contact the CGIS office at gender@cortland.edu Websites: Cortland.edu/swhe and Cortland.edu/cgis

8th Women & Society Conference
October 23rd & 24th 2009
Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY
http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womensstudies/conference.html
This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied 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. As 2009 marks the 125th anniversary of Eleanor Rooseveltís birth, the Women and Society Conference is pleased to announce the 2009 keynote speaker Robin Gerber. Gerberís acclaimed Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies From the First Lady of Courage focuses on the continuing need for women to take on more leadership roles and draws on the values, tactics, and beliefs that enabled Eleanor to bring about transformational change in her own time. For more information about Robin Gerber and her books visit www.robingerber.com

National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
Name's 2009 Annual International Conference
October 28-November 1, 2009
Denver, CO
http://www.nameorg.org
NAME celebrates cultural and ethnic diversity as a national strength that enriches a society and rejects the view that diversity threatens the fabric of a society. NAME believes that multicultural education promotes equity for all regardless of culture, ethnicity, race, language, age, gender, sexual orientation, belief system or exceptionality. Multicultural education enables the individual to believe in one's own intrinsic worth and culture, to transcend monoculturalism and, ultimately, to become multicultural. The conference program is filled with exciting speakers and events for networking with colleagues who work in the field of multicultural education and other activists for equity. Registration is now open. If you have questions about the conference, please contact us at name@nameorg.org or (301) 951-0022

Third Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference: The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy
November 6th, 2009 - November 6th, 2009
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, NYC
The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars and activists across disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy. Building on previous work, this is a forum to share pedagogical methods and ideas for teaching in women and gender studies and/or feminist approaches to learning and classroom strategies in various disciplines. Our aim is to address issues of gender and sexuality, in conjunction with race and class, both inside and outside of the academy.

National Women's Studies Association
Difficult Dialogues
November 12-15, 2009
Atlanta, GA
http://www.nwsaconference.org
Difficult Dialogues: NWSA 2009 will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly or implicitly) as superseding or transcending the politics of race, sexuality, social class, nation, and disability.

National Multicultural Institute Leadership Development Conference
Forging New Pathways for Diversity and Inclusion:
Building Skills for Collaboration and Dialogue
November 18-21, 2009
Marriott Crystal City at Reagan National Airport
Arlington, Virginia
http://www.nmci.org/leadership_institutes/index.html
Reflecting one year after the election of our nationís first biracial president, the United States continues to face challenges in creating a truly inclusive and equitable society. Although many organizations dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and civil and human rights share similar visions for inclusion and equity, often they find themselves isolated from, or even at odds with one another. In order to form a unified vision and mobilize our collective strength to create real change, advocates, practitioners and leaders must be equipped with the tools necessary for dialogue and coalition building.
The Fall Conference will be comprised of three segments:
Emerging Issues Forum (November 18) to convene leaders from different sectors and areas of expertise, to engage in thoughtful dialogue on controversial diversity and equity issues, and to elicit concrete strategies for successfully overcoming challenges in the field.
Diversity Dialogue Series (November 19) to provide participants with an opportunity to build and practice skills for effective dialogues on difficult diversity issues.
Diversity Leadership Institute (November 19-21) to provide professionals with the skills they need to effectively manage and lead diverse organizations, build internal capacity for inclusive workplace practices, and drive organizational culture change.

6th International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice:
Reframing Race, Gender, and Teacher-Education Policy
December 5-6, 2009
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
http://www.antioppressiveeducation.org/2009conference.html
What does it mean to prepare teachers to teach toward social justice? Across the United States and around the world, educators face many challenges. Especially troublesome are the economic, social, and political contexts that make difficult our attempts to address differences and oppressions in schools and society. Yet, in the face of these challenges, teacher educators are continuing to produce significant theories, practices, and coalitions. The 6th International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice will offer rare opportunities to discuss cutting-edge research, develop innovative resources, build networks, and explore possibilities for new directions in teacher preparation. The Conference draws together hundreds of educators from around the world with diverse experiences but with shared commitments and priorities. Co-Sponsors: Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies, UIC, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, UIC

Opportunities for Students

Opportunity
National Student Advisory Council (SAC)
Applications must be submitted by September 30, 2009
http://www.aauw.org/About/campus_connection/studentcouncil.cfm
Members of the SAC provide American Association of University Women (AAUW) staff with essential firsthand accounts of student needs and with ideas for combating sex discrimination in higher education and the workplace. They also promote AAUW and our programs on their campus, build ties to the local AAUW branch, contribute to the AAUW Blog, http://blog-aauw.org/ and serve as student leaders at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders <http://www.aauw.org/nccwsl>, held each June in Washington, D.C.

Call for Nominations
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards
Deadline for receipt of materials: October 5, 2009
The award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning; and who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others. The awards are sponsored by K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Education at the University of California-Berkeley. Please go to the K. Patricia Cross page of AAC&U's Web site for complete information.
Eligibility:
All doctoral-level graduate students who are planning a career in higher education are eligible, regardless of academic department. Applicants must demonstrate:
1) Leadership ability or potential for exercising leadership in teaching and learning, with a strong commitment to academic and civic responsibility; and
2) Leadership or potential leadership in the development of others as leaders, scholars, and citizens.
Nomination Process:
A faculty member or administrator must nominate the student, with a supporting letter from a second faculty member or administrator. The following materials must be submitted for an application to be considered:
1) A nomination letter from a faculty member or administrator;
2) A supporting letter from a second faculty member or administrator;
3) A statement from the student indicating how he or she meets the award criteria;
4) A copy of the student's curriculum vitae.
Nominations can be submitted anytime, but no later than October 5, 2009. Nominees must also complete an online form with all contact information. Only complete nominations will be considered.
The Award:
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards provide financial support for graduate students to attend AAC&U's 2010 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Washington, DC January 20-23, 2010. All award recipients are required to attend the conference. The awards include travel, lodging, conference registration, and a one-year affiliation with AAC&U, including subscriptions to all AAC&U periodicals. The awards will be announced in December 2009, and recognized at AAC&U's Annual Meeting in January. Please contact Suzanne Hyers at hyers@aacu.org or 202.387.3760 with any questions. Questions about any of the AAC&U's meetings? Email meetings@aacu.org.

AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal Meeting
Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: Deepening Student and Campus Commitments
Student leadership workshop is titled Ethical Identity and Imagination
October 1, 2-5 pm
This AAC&U meeting uniquely invites student participation. Students are conference session presenters and the Open Forum on Friday evening provides opportunity for students to get involved. Additionally, to further strengthen student participation, AAC&U is hosting a student workshop at the outset of the conference
For more information about the student leadership workshop program and to register, please visit http://www.aacu.org/core_commitments/studentworkshop.cfm

Center for the Humanities First Book Program
Proposals due: October 9, 2009
For more information contact the Center for Humanities
http://www.humanities.wisc.edu/
With support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, the Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce "First Book," a new program for tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. This program is designed to provide helpful and timely feedback to junior faculty preparing their first academic book. In the pilot year we will offer one seminar in the spring semester. For more information, please see the guidelines below.
Program Description:
The core of the program is a workshop organized by the Center for the Humanities in which two external and 5-7 internal readers are brought together to discuss a book manuscript with the author. The workshop structure will allow the reviewers and author to respond to one another's comments and collectively devise strategies for improving the manuscript. The goal is to turn solid and promising manuscripts into first-rate books. Manuscripts selected for participation in this program will be copied and distributed to participating UW-Madison faculty and external reviewers identified by the author (in consultation with the Center Director). The Center then will organize a workshop in which the readers will discuss the work and assist the author in developing strategies for improving (and placing) the manuscript. The focus of the program will be on collective learning and constructive, informed criticism of a scholar's research. This will be a closed workshop, and it will be recorded for the author's benefit. The workshop will consist of both formal presentations and informal commentary from the group. Invited guests will present their responses to the book, while local participants will participate in a discussion of the book. The author will have a chance to respond to the presentations and the commentaries. In order to continue the discussion, the Center will host a dinner for all participants. The Center will carry all the costs for the program, including copying and distribution of the manuscript, travel, accommodation and honoraria for the external reviewers, and dinner following the workshop.
Eligibility and Criteria:
In its first year, this program is open to all tenure-track, junior faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with manuscripts that are near completion, but still in a position to benefit from the review. Participants in the workshop can be humanities faculty at any rank. Proposals must be for the discussion of scholarly manuscripts being written with the aim to secure a publishing contract. Authors and their book projects will be selected based on the potential significance of the finished work, and the potential impact of the book on the author's career. Academic accomplishments also will be taken into account.

AAUW Campaign College
Applications must be submitted by October 16, 2009.
http://www.aauw.org/education/LeadershipPrograms/CampaignCollege.cfm
Campaign College is the only program in the country that encourages and trains women to run for student government on their college campuses. We are accepting applications to host a campus training in spring 2010.

AAUW Campus Action Projects (CAP)
Proposals must be submitted by October 16, 2009.
http://www.aauw.org/education/cap/
Over the past five years, CAP grants of up to $5,000 each, have enabled teams of student leaders and campus faculty nationwide to design and implement programs that address barriers to equity on their campuses or in their communities. This year, CAP projects will address some of the barriers girls and women face entering and staying in the STEM fields, particularly in physics, engineering, and computer science, areas in which the greatest gender disparities exist.

Call For Papers
The UCLA Center for The Study Of Women
The Twentieth Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
2010 Thinking Gender
Friday, February 5, 2010
Deadline October 19, 2009
http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html
Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. For individual papers, please submit a 250-word abstract, a CV (2 pages max, no resumes, please), and a brief bibliography (1 page max). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions. Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html, and note that only complete applications adhering to the stated guidelines will be accepted. Please also note that the Center for the Study of Women cannot provide travel funds for conference presenters.

UnitedHealth HEROES Grants
Deadline: October 22
Youth Service America (YSA) and UnitedHealth Group is excited to team up for the second year to offer UnitedHealth HEROES grants to youth-led (5-25 year olds) service-learning projects addressing childhood obesity. Educators, service-learning coordinators, students in the health professions, public health professionals, and community partners are eligible to apply for the UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning project grants. Grant recipients will receive up to $1,000 in support for service-learning projects that focus on childhood obesity, engage youth ages 5-25 in the planning and implementation process, and take place during Semester of Service 2010 (MLK Day, January 18, to Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25). Interested applicants should begin by completing the Eligibility Quiz at http://tinyurl.com/heroesquiz If you are eligible, you will be given access the application materials

The 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference:
Inspire. Imagine. Innovate!
March 24-27, 2010óSan Jose, CA
Register before October 30 to take advantage of the early bird rates.
http://nslc.nylc.org/registration/index.php
Online registration is now open for this event, which celebrates service-learning as a force that spans cultural and national boundaries, builds communities, and strengthens young people. The conference is the largest gathering of youth and practitioners involved in service-learning, drawing approximately 2,500 attendees from across the United States and many other countries each year. Through three days of general sessions, a thought-leader series, service-learning projects, and networking, the conference engages participants in local, national, and global issues that service-learning addresses. Come explore more than 100 exhibits, and nearly 150 hands-on workshops and service-learning projects.

Call for Papers by Graduate Students Exploring Childhood Studies
April 9, 2010
Rutgers University
Deadline for submission is October 31, 2009
Accepted presenters will receive email notification by January 10, 2010
The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden invite submissions for papers and poster presentations for their first formal graduate student. Graduate students from all disciplines who are engaged in research relating to children and childhood are encouraged to submit proposals. The range of open topics within this field is as broad as the contexts of the experiences of children and childhood: war, health, rights, gender, poverty, wealth, policy, ethics, popular culture, globalization, school, family, home, sexuality, community, and representations in all modes of fiction. The field of Childhood Studies itself is open to interrogation. Selected papers will be grouped into panels that may be based around discipline, theme, or perspective, but will demonstrate the common grounding of the papers in their mutual exploration of children and childhood studies. Paper presentations should be limited to 20 minutes in length. Please send 250-word abstract for paper or poster presentation (specify which) and cover letter with name, current level of graduate study, affiliated university, and email address to m_modica@vfcc.edu. Include the words ìconference abstractî in subject line, and include name on the cover letter only. For further information, contact: Patrick Cox at ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu or Anandini Dar at anandini@camden.rutgers.edu.
Department of Childhood Studies and The Center for Children and Childhood Studies, RutgersñCamden is a leader in the national and international discourse on the state of children and childhood. Visit the Department of Childhood Studies here: http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/

Call For Papers
33rd Annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference
General Conference Theme for 2010: Cultural Productions, Gender, and Activism
Undergraduate and Graduate Student Panel:
Southern Discomfort: Gender Discipline in the Rural Southeast
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
March 25-27, 2010
Deadline: November 1, 2009
The Student Caucus of the Southeastern Womenπs Studies Association invites abstracts to be submitted for consideration as part of a panel embedded in the general conference, dedicated to the theme of: Space and Place or The politics of doing, studying, teaching gender theory in the United States Rural Southeast
How do undergraduate and graduate students in the U.S. Southeast sustain their gendered consciousness inside (teaching and learning) and outside (at home, at work, in their communities) of the classroom/university? Must gender savvy pedagogies, lifestyles and attitudes wait for urban graduate school migration? What are the effects of studying/teaching gender theory in the Rural US SE? How does our discipline position us? And, how are we as learners, scholars, and practitioners disciplined by our spatial situatedness?
Abstracts (300 Words) should be submitted to: Stacey Haney, SEWSA Student Caucus Co-Chair, sewsastudentcaucus@gmail.com

Call for Papers
'Mysterious Things': The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
March 4-6, 2010
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2009
The Executive Committee of the Eleventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce this call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Departmentís Womenís History month celebration, is scheduled for March 4-6, 2010. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of womenís and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of womenís and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium. We are delighted to announce a keynote speaker: Kevin Floyd, Associate Professor of English, Kent State University, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presentersí proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com. The subject line of the email must read 'Attn: Programming Committee.' We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.
For more information, please contact gendersymp@gmail.com .

Call for Proposals
Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics
Postmark Deadline: November 2, 2009
The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University is pleased to announce the competition for the 2009 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. This annual competition is designed to encourage and reward scholars embarking on significant research in the area of women and politics. Numerous proposals from a variety of academic disciplines are received each year. Proposals are blind-reviewed by a faculty committee. The prize includes a $1,000 cash award for each project selected. Honorable mention prizes of $500 per project are sometimes given.
Proposals for the 2009 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics must be postmarked by November 2, 2009. Research projects submitted for prize consideration can address any topic related to women and politics.
Scholars at any level, including graduate students and junior faculty members, can apply.
Four (4) copies of a detailed description (5 to 10 pages) of the research project including a (1) 150-200 word abstract summarizing its purpose and content; (2) discussion of relevant theory, contributions to literature in the field, and methodology; (3) statement about how the Catt Prize will contribute to the research project; and (4) timetable for completion of the project. As the proposals will be blind-reviewed, the author(s) name(s) should not appear in this description.
A detachable cover sheet that lists the name, institutional affiliation, and address (mailing address, telephone, and e-mail for spring 2010) for each author.
A one-page (or less) biographical statement for each author, highlighting her/his research interests, significant publications and/or presentations, and professional interests and experiences related to the project.
Awards will be announced by February 2010. Winners of the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics are to acknowledge their honor when their research results are published and to transmit one copy of each publication for the Centerís archives. Materials should be mailed (not faxed or e-mailed) to the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, 309 Carrie Chapman Catt Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-1305. For more information, contact the Center at
cattcntr@iastate.edu or call 515-294-3181.

Call for Proposals
American Psychological Foundation
Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grants
Deadline: November 2nd, 2009
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) provides financial support of innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come. The Roy Scrivner Research Grants provide graduate student grants (preference given to dissertation candidates) for empirical or applied research that encourages the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender family (LGBT) psychology and LGBT family therapy. Researchers from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences are encouraged to apply.
Amount: One grant for a graduate student of up to $12,000.
Goals: The program seeks to address:

Challenges faced by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people in forming, defining, and maintaining families

Sources of support and resilience for LGBT members of families

Diversity among families led by LGBT people including cultural and racial diversity, socioeconomic diversity, and diversity in family structure

Clinical issues, interventions, and outcomes in LGBT family therapy

All research involving human subjects must have IRB approval.
Eligibility: Applicants must be graduate students and include a letter of support from their supervising professor. Research involving human subjects must have been approved by an IRB from the principal investigatorís institution before funding can be awarded. APF encourages applications from individuals who represent diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation. For submission instructions go here: http://www.apa.org/apf

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.

Call for Submissions
Independent Girls, Inc.
Open Submission deadline
www.independentgirls.org
Independent Girls, Inc. is a new nonprofit organization based in Florida, that aims to provide positive role models for girls, to get them thinking about goal setting and success, and to give them the tools to be self-confident, emotionally grounded, healthy, and independent. Each week the website will feature a different role model for girls as well as an article related to positive, healthy girls' development. The site will send regularly scheduled e-mails to girls and parents who subscribe. Independent Girls' goal is to create a counterbalance to the celebrity-saturated, image-based culture of 9 ñ15 year old girls by providing girls with the strong, positive female role models who are currently missing from teen media and by addressing issues germane to girlsí healthy development. Independent Girls seeks people to write original content for the website and weekly newsletters. Writers will identify, research, and write about topics and trends salient to 9 ñ 15 year old girls, with an emphasis on how to become a healthy, balanced, emotionally grounded, confident girls. Additional emphasis will be placed on understanding popular culture and developing the critical thinking skills necessary to becoming media literate/savvy. Weekly articles should provide girls with information about things that girls deal with between the ages of 9 - 15, for example self-esteem, body image, puberty, bullying/ cyberbullying, healthy relationships, eating disorders, healthy eating/nutrition, exercise, time management/stress management, goal setting, leadership, cliques and popularity, frenemies, peer pressure, financial independence, internet safety, and media awareness. Articles should be between 250-500 words long; some topics may need to be covered in a series of articles. Articles should be informative and easy to read and, most importantly, must engage girls. Articles should answer questions that girls have (and perhaps even answer questions that girls didn't even know that they had). The site will also feature blogs where writers can have on-going editorial columns about different topics. Please contact Julie Simons if you are interested in getting involved with this project: julie@independentgirls.org/561-352-3511. Compensation will be per article published and will be based on both the length of the article and how ready for publication the article is upon receipt by Independent Girls.

Internships and Job Opportunities at the National Organization for Women
With over 500,000 contributing members, NOW is the largest feminist organization in the United States. Since NOW was founded in 1966, we have struggled to end the injustice and inequality women face daily. As an intern with the National NOW Action Center you will be on the front lines of the women's rights movement. An important element of our program is comprehensive leadership training. We hold a series of workshops to empower young feminists and give you the tools and knowledge to become leaders on your campuses and in your communities. You will learn the organizing skills from leaders of the most prestigious feminist organization in the world. Becoming a NOW intern is a commitment to apply the skills learned during the internship and to become, or continue to be, an activist leader. Each semester NOW interns participate in a wide range of activities which distinguish us from other Washington, D.C. based programs. These are just a few of the activities provided for interns each semester: First-hand observation of how a sexist, racist, and classist political system impacts women in this country. Frequent opportunities to organize and attend Congressional and U.S. Supreme Court hearings, press conferences, demonstrations and rallies. Intern Lobby Day which includes a "how to lobby" workshop. Training in our successful, time-honored grassroots organizing including workshops on campus organizing, coalition building and networking. Weekly intern discussion groups and field trips on a wide range of feminist issues which are led by National NOW staff and officers. Please read the application and information. Your assistance in this fight is crucial. We must stop the backlash against women and regain total power and control over our bodies and our lives. Visit: http://www.now.org/organization/work.html

Internship Program
A National Internship Program in Feminism and Public Policy
www.feminist.org/intern
The Feminist Majority and Feminist Majority Foundation seek highly motivated undergraduate students who aspire to become leaders in the feminist movement to serve as interns in our Washington, DC and Los Angeles offices. The Feminist Majority Foundation, one of the nation’s leading research and advocacy organizations for women’s rights, develops creative long-term strategies and permanent solutions for the pervasive social, political, and economic obstacles facing women. Through educational and research projects the Feminist Majority Foundation seeks to transform the public debate on issues of importance to women’s lives. The Foundation also publishes Ms. Magazine in editorial offices in Los Angeles and publishing offices in the greater DC area.
Applications are processed on a rolling basis.
Full details at www.feminist.org/intern

4collegewomen.org
Members of the Brandeis Community want to help inform women everywhere of an ever-developing website that has evolved into a useful resource. The website includes links to other sites that address all aspects of women's health and features spotlight articles researched by Brandeis students. The website is created and maintained by Brandeis University students and is sponsored and overseen by the Former Assistant Surgeon General, Dr. Susan J Blumenthal. This site focuses on women's issues and beyond but specializes in college-aged women.
The website is http://www.4collegewomen.org

http://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. http://scholar.google.com/

Opportunities and Resources

AAUW Campus Action Projects (CAP)
Proposals must be submitted by October 16, 2009.
http://www.aauw.org/education/cap/
Over the past five years, CAP grants of up to $5,000 each, have enabled teams of student leaders and campus faculty nationwide to design and implement programs that address barriers to equity on their campuses or in their communities. This year, CAP projects will address some of the barriers girls and women face entering and staying in the STEM fields, particularly in physics, engineering, and computer science, areas in which the greatest gender disparities exist.

AAUW Fellowships and Grants for U.S. and International Women
Deadlines for this funding are approaching in November and December.
http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellows_directory/index.cfm
One of the world's largest sources of funding for graduate women, AAUW is providing more than $3 million in funding for more than 200 fellowships and grants to outstanding women and nonprofit organizations in the 2009-10 academic year. Deadlines for this funding are approaching in November and December.

Call for Proposals
Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics
Postmark Deadline: November 2, 2009
The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University is pleased to announce the competition for the 2009 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. This annual competition is designed to encourage and reward scholars embarking on significant research in the area of women and politics. Numerous proposals from a variety of academic disciplines are received each year. Proposals are blind-reviewed by a faculty committee. The prize includes a $1,000 cash award for each project selected. Honorable mention prizes of $500 per project are sometimes given.
Proposals for the 2009 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics must be postmarked by November 2, 2009. Research projects submitted for prize consideration can address any topic related to women and politics.
Scholars at any level, including graduate students and junior faculty members, can apply.
Four (4) copies of a detailed description (5 to 10 pages) of the research project including a (1) 150-200 word abstract summarizing its purpose and content; (2) discussion of relevant theory, contributions to literature in the field, and methodology; (3) statement about how the Catt Prize will contribute to the research project; and (4) timetable for completion of the project. As the proposals will be blind-reviewed, the author(s) name(s) should not appear in this description.
A detachable cover sheet that lists the name, institutional affiliation, and address (mailing address, telephone, and e-mail for spring 2010) for each author.
A one-page (or less) biographical statement for each author, highlighting her/his research interests, significant publications and/or presentations, and professional interests and experiences related to the project.
Awards will be announced by February 2010. Winners of the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics are to acknowledge their honor when their research results are published and to transmit one copy of each publication for the Centerís archives. Materials should be mailed (not faxed or e-mailed) to the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, 309 Carrie Chapman Catt Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-1305. For more information, contact the Center at cattcntr@iastate.edu or call 515-294-3181.

Women's Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships
Duke University
Applications (including all letters of recommendations) must be received by November 17, 2009
The Duke University Program in Women's Studies invites applications for two postdoctoral fellows in Interdisciplinary Feminist Studies with a research focus in Human Animal Studies and the Question of Species. We seek candidates with interdisciplinary experience in Women's Studies. We welcome empirical, textual, and theoretical specialization from a diverse array of academic fields, political and cultural contexts, and historical periods. Postdoctoral fellows will participate in a faculty-graduate seminar on these themes and are expected to be in residence for the academic year. Fellows will teach one course related to their scholarship. The fellowship includes a stipend, health insurance, and office space. Applicants should have the PhD in hand by May 2010. Send C.V., 5-page project proposal, writing sample (25 pages), 1-page course proposal (undergraduate), and 3 letters of recommendation to: Ranjana Khanna, Director, Women's Studies, Box 90760, 210 East Duke Building, Durham NC, 27708. Our program information is available at http://www.duke.edu/womstud.

AAUW Community Action Grants
Deadline: January 15, 2010
Community Action grants provide funds to individuals, AAUW branches and AAUW state organizations as well as local community-based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs or non-degree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls.
One-year grants ($2,000-$7,000 over one year)
One-year grants provide seed money for new projects. Topic areas are unrestricted, but should include a clearly defined activity that promotes education and equity for women and girls.
Two-year grants ($5,000-$10,000 over two years)
Two-year grants provide start-up funds for longer-term programs that address the particular needs of the community and develop girls' sense of efficacy through leadership or advocacy opportunities. Topic areas are unrestricted, but should include a clearly defined activity that promotes education and equity for women and girls
Applicants must be women who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Nonprofit organizations must be based in the United States. Grant projects must have direct public impact, be nonpartisan, and take place within the United States or its territories. Special consideration is given to projects focused on K-12 and community college girls' and women's achievements in science, technology, engineering or math. www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/community_action.cfm

National Women's Studies Association Presents
Engaged Scholarship in Theory and Practice ñan Online Seminar
May 14, 4:00ñ5:15 pm
Presented by Irma McClaurin <http://plaza.ufl.edu/mcclauri/>, moderated by Allison Kimmich <http://girlwpen.com/?page_id=1193> , this webinar promises to explore in depth some of the reasons to practice engaged scholarship, some ways to be an engaged scholar, and finally some of the professional pitfalls that may accompany seeking a wider audience for your research. Participants will learn how to define engaged scholarship and discuss it in multiple campus and community settings, how to develop an "engaged" research agenda, how to balance engaged scholarship with tenure and promotion requirements, and tips for translating academic research for wider "publics".î Cost: $45 for NWSA Member. $60 for Non-members. For more information visit: National Women's Studies Association <http://www.nwsa.org/webinars/>

Ben & Jerry's Foundation Social Change Projects
Deadline: Ongoing
Ben & Jerry's Foundation provides support to nonprofit, grassroots organizations throughout the United States that facilitate progressive social change. Grant applicants need to demonstrate that their projects will lead to societal, institutional, and/or environmental change; address the root causes of social or environmental problems; and lead to new ways of thinking and acting. Projects must facilitate leadership development and strengthen the self-empowerment efforts of those who have traditionally been disenfranchised in our society. The Foundation does not make grants to support basic or direct social service programs. Letters of inquiry may be submitted at any time. Visit the website to review the funding guidelines and download the application form. http://www.benjerry.com/foundation/

AAC&U Campus Women Lead
Campus Women Lead (CWL) is an alliance promoting a multicultural women-led agenda for the sustained transformation of higher education for the twenty-first century. An affiliate of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, CWL advances women’s inclusive leadership for excellence through workshops, publications, and a community listserv. CWL includes leaders across all campus levels and divisions, within research centers, and from non-governmental organizations.

Service Learning Opportunities

Feminism in the City: Internship in Womenís Studies
UW-Milwaukee Center for Women's Studies
WOMEN'S STUDIES SEMESTER IN THE CITY PROGRAM
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Center for Women's Studies, in partnership with the UW-System Women's Studies Consortium, invites students from throughout the UW-System to experience a semester in the city. In keeping with UWM's urban mission and commitment to use its metropolitan location to expand the student educational experience by providing more learning opportunities in the community, the UWM Center for Women's Studies offers a seminar-grounded internship course entitled Feminism in the City: Internship in Women's Studies. The internship program is facilitated and taught by the former coordinator of the federally funded "Safe at Home Project" of the Milwaukee Women's Center. Our internship program has enabled students to apply their knowledge of Women's Studies scholarship to the practical experience of working in a local women's organization in the metropolitan area, such as the Milwaukee Womenís Center, the YWCA, and the Women's Fund, among others. Students who enroll in the UWM Women's Studies Semester in the City program are required to enroll in the Women's Studies internship course (Course #958-489; Title: Feminism in the City: Internship in Women's Studies; 4 credits) and must agree to meet its requirements. At this time, the Women's Studies Semester in the City program and the Women's Studies internship course, Feminism in the City: Internship in Women's Studies, will be offered annually during Spring semester only. For more information contact Kathleen Miller-Dillon, Assistant Director, kmdillon@uwm.edu

Wisconsin Campus Compact Office Has Moved To Madison
On July 1, 2009 the WiCC moved it main office from UW-Parkside to Madison.
Updated contact information for the office and the staff can be viewed at:
http://www.wicampuscompact.org/contact.php
There will be an Open House September 21, 2009, 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 432 N Lake St., Madison. New Website for Wisconsin Campus Compact: http://www.wicampuscompact.org

Wisconsin Campus Compact Professional Development Institute To Be Developed Online
Campus Compact's ground-breaking Professional Development Institute for community service and service-learning professionals is moving to an online format. As more campuses institute travel restrictions, and as new technologies make it possible to interact more effectively, Campus Compact is responding by creating a series of webinars geared toward institutionalizing civic engagement and implementing best practices in community service-learning. This new format will allow more participants to connect over a greater period of time, extending the reach of the curriculum while facilitating deeper learning. More information about this series, slated to begin this fall, will be available in the coming months. The in-person Professional Development Institute will not be held in 2009.In addition to the services described above offered by the national Campus Compact office, the Wisconsin Campus Compact (WiCC) staff and the WiCC Consulting Corps are also available for consultation/training on individual member campuses. Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss training needs for your service and service-learning staff and faculty. Contact: Pamela M. Proulx-Curry, Executive Director, Wisconsin Campus Compact, University of Wisconsin Parkside, P.O. Box 2000, 900 Wood Rd., Kenosha, WI 53141-2000, (262) 595-2048, pamela.proulx-curry@uwp.edu, www.wicampuscompact.org

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
October 1-3, 2009
New Orleans, LA
This annual conferences is crucial to the work that Imagining America does. These events allow public scholars in the cultural disciplines to form a network, to share best practices, to visit project sites, and to gain inspiration and motivation for their work. The conferences take place in a workshop format. More information about the conference and registration information can be found at www.imaginingamerica.org/conferences.html

Civic Engagement in the STEM disciplines across UW System Workshop
October 8-9, 2009óWisconsin Dells, WI
Opportunity to discuss common issues in implementing civic engagement in STEM classrooms
Develop assessment strategies to assess learning goals and engagement with science when integrating civic engagement into curriculum
Collaborate on web resource for connecting faculty with each other.
Follow up on SENCER conferences. Many different assignments or activities could be considered civic engagement: working with election results and data in a mathematics class writing informative letters to legislators monitoring local watersheds for a chemistry lab designing playgrounds for local community assessing recycling habits of campus community. If you incorporate these activities or wish to infuse more civic engagement into your Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics courses, you are invited to attend this workshop. Contact Patricia Cleary at cleary@uwp.edu for more information, or register online http://uwp.edu/cgi/remark/3/rws3.pl?FORM=CEI_STEM_Fa09.

3rd Annual Fostering Global Citizenship in Higher Education Conference
October 5-6, 2009
Registration deadline is September 18, 2009.
World Learning/SIT Campus in Brattleboro, VT
Join faculty, staff, administrators and students from academic departments, study abroad/international education offices, service-learning/community service offices, cross-cultural offices, student services, career services, academic affairs and other interested parties to discuss and explore concepts and outcomes of global citizenship; share local and global best practice program models and institutional strategies; and seek new avenues for cross-campus collaboration. To register and view workshop and institute descriptions please visit http://www.vtcampuscompact.org/2009/FGC/FGC09.htm.
This conference is sponsored by World Learning/SIT and Vermont Campus Compact and is co-sponsored by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont.

WAICU All-Sector Meeting
October 19, 2009
Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI
At the suggestion of WAICU presidents, WAICU is organizing an all-sector meeting on community engagement on Monday, October 19 at Alverno College. People from colleges and universities throughout the state (public and private, 2-year and 4-year) who work in community engagement are invited to the meeting, which will begin at 10:00 a.m. and last until 3:00 p.m. The idea is to learn from each other and identify best practices at WAICU members, UW campuses, and technical colleges. Register today at www.waicu.org by clicking on quick link found at the bottom left hand side of the page. The registration fee is a mere $20 to cover the costs of the event.

Jackson State University Service-Learning Institute
October 25-29, 2009
Jackson, MS
Jackson State University's Center for Service and Community Engaged Learning will host a Service-Learning Institute October 25 ñ 29, 2009. Main presenters will be Dr. Thomas Schnaubelt, Executive Director for the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, and Dr. Vincent Illustre, Executive Director for the Tulane Center for Public Service at Tulane University.For more information, contact the Center for Service and Community Engaged Learning at cscel@jsums.edu.

UnitedHealth HEROES Grants
Deadline: October 22
Youth Service America (YSA) and UnitedHealth Group is excited to team up for the second year to offer UnitedHealth HEROES grants to youth-led (5-25 year olds) service-learning projects addressing childhood obesity. Educators, service-learning coordinators, students in the health professions, public health professionals, and community partners are eligible to apply for the UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning project grants. Grant recipients will receive up to $1,000 in support for service-learning projects that focus on childhood obesity, engage youth ages 5-25 in the planning and implementation process, and take place during Semester of Service 2010 (MLK Day, January 18, to Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25). Interested applicants should begin by completing the Eligibility Quiz at http://tinyurl.com/heroesquiz If you are eligible, you will be given access the application materials.

2009 Kentucky Engagement Conference: Engaged to be Educated
November 20, 2009
Northern Kentucky University, Erlanger, KY
The fourth annual Kentucky Engagement Conference is guaranteed to give you tools and ideas to take back to your campus and classroom to encourage civic learning and community engagement. Plenary speakers are: Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Terry Hartle, Senior Vice President, Division of Government and Public Affairs at the American Council on Education, Paul Patton, former Governor of Kentucky and current Chair of CPE, and Robert King, President of CPE (Council on Postsecondary Education). Erlanger is a 10 minute drive from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport. The registration fee is $125. Information by calling 859-572-5600 or emailing connect@nku.edu.

The 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference: Inspire. Imagine. Innovate!
March 24-27, 2010
San Jose, CA
Register before October 30 to take advantage of the early bird rates.
http://nslc.nylc.org/registration/index.php
Online registration is now open for this event, which celebrates service-learning as a force that spans cultural and national boundaries, builds communities, and strengthens young people.
The conference is the largest gathering of youth and practitioners involved in service-learning, drawing approximately 2,500 attendees from across the United States and many other countries each year. Through three days of general sessions, a thought-leader series, service-learning projects, and networking, the conference engages participants in local, national, and global issues that service-learning addresses. Come explore more than 100 exhibits, and nearly 150 hands-on workshops and service-learning projects.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 11th Conference
May 12-15, 2010
Portland, OR
Plan to join Community-Campus Partnerships for Healthís 11th Conference. The conference, Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships" promises to be CCPH's best yet as hundreds of community and campus partners convene for 4 days of skill-building, networking and agenda-setting! Whether you are new to community-based participatory research (CBPR), service-learning or community-academic partnerships and looking for basics to get started, or have been involved for years and seeking more advanced knowledge and connections. The conference call for proposals will be released shortly. Watch the CCPH homepage at www.ccph.info for the latest conference details!

Disability Studies Opportunities

Disability Studies Learning Community:
The Women's Studies Consortium is interested in using its infrastructure to support the development of a Disability Studies Learning Community across the UW System. We are collecting contacts for faculty and academic staff across the UW system with an interest in Disability Studies. Participants who would be interested in starting a list serve, sharing resources, scholarship, and promoting development opportunities around curriculum, scholarship, teaching, and learning are invited to send their contact information, ideas for such a group, and particular interest areas to Helen Klebesadel at hklebesadel@uwsa.edu

New Disability Issues Lecture Series Announced
UW-Eau Claire
First Lecture:
Jonathan Friesen: "Do No Harm: When Good Intentions Have Harmful Results"
Oct. 22, 4:00 PM in Room 100 of Hibbard Hall

The author of a book about growing up with Tourette syndrome will be the first speaker in a new annual lecture series on disability issues at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The Schneider Disability Issues Forum recently was established by Dr. Katherine Schneider, a UW-Eau Claire counselor emerita, through a gift to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation.
Jonathan Friesen, author of "Jerk, California," will discuss his childhood experiences with Tourette syndrome and the harmful and healing power of educators.

Friesen, an award-winning author, speaker and writing coach, received the diagnosis of Tourette syndrome late in life. TS or its symptoms also affect several members of his family. "Jerk, California" was the 2009 winner of the American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award for books dealing with disability issues. Friesen has taught in traditional and special education classrooms and in university settings for the past 15 years. He currently serves on the board of the Minnesota Tourette Syndrome Association and is a national speaker on disability issues.

Schneider ,who wrote her own book relating her experiences as a blind person, "To the Left of Inspiration: Adventures in Living with Disabilities," and who worked in Counseling Services at UW-Eau Claire for 14 years, established the speaker series to help people understand accessibility issues for people who have disabilities. "Establishing this disability issues forum is a way to expand on the educating I was able to do while working at the university," Schneider said."I'm thrilled that we were able to garner an award-winning author for our first speaker." Friesen will visit Eau Claire public schools as part of the Authors in the Schools program Oct. 23 and will speak at the 10th annual Chippewa Valley Book Festival Oct. 24. The lecture is co-sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire's department of education studies, Services for Students with Disabilities and the UW-Eau Claire Foundation. More information about Friesen is available online at www.jonathanfriesen.com. For more information on how to support the lecture series and/or disability services at UW-Eau Claire, call Kimera Way, executive director of UW-Eau Claire Foundation, at 715-835-5180 or visit www@uwec.edu/fndn/disabilities.htm.

Announcing
34th annual interdisciplinary Wisconsin Women's Studies and
5th annual UW System LGBTQ Conference
Leadership and Collaboration in Shaping the Future: The Intersections of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality
April 16-17, 2010
Proposals due October 23, 2009
UW-Whitewater
Bringing together academics, teachers, students, community leaders, activists, and others, the gathering is co-sponsored by the UW-Whitewater Women's Studies Program and three UW System offices: the Women's Studies Consortium; the Institute on Race and Ethnicity; and the Inclusivity Initiative. The conference organizers seek proposals addressing research, scholarship, program development, pedagogy, curriculum, and/or community activism in the fields of Womenís, Racial/Ethnic, and LGBTQ Studies. A general focus on intersecting diversity issues and identities, as well as emerging and effective educational and organizational practices/processes, is encouraged. Best practices and case studies suitable for replication (or to be avoided) are especially welcome, especially as they relate to the educational advancement of our students and to the fields of Women's Studies, Racial/Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ Studies and/or Disability Studies. Presentations that represent approaches to topics which are collaborative, cooperative, diverse, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational are encouraged. Go here for more information: http://www.uww.edu/conteduc/camps/wsc/form.php

Call for Proposals:
The President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Madison, Wisconsin
April 29 - May 1, 2010
Proposals due November 4, 2009

UW System faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for the President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a conference to be held April 29-May 1, 2010, at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison, WI. The Summit is being co-sponsored by the Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), PK-16 Teacher Quality Initiative, Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE), Women & Science Program, Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC), Women’s Studies Consortium (WSC), and the UW System Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rebecca Martin.

The President’s Summit will bring together over 200 faculty and staff across disciplines to demonstrate the UW System’s commitment to excellence in higher education during tough economic times. Replacing or expanding upon several smaller annual spring conferences, the Summit will provide a forum in which to recognize, acknowledge, and share the expertise of faculty and academic staff who excel at teaching, value learning, and are committed to sharing their experience, knowledge, practice, and scholarship. The intentional relationships among teaching, learning, and making excellence inclusive will be highlighted throughout this event.

In addition to keynote addresses by UW System President Kevin Reilly and others, the Summit will feature plenary and concurrent sessions on: curricular transformation and the scholarship of teaching and learning across the disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Global and International Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Professional Studies, Social Sciences and STEM areas. Designed to advance Inclusive Excellence, the UW System’s planning process for greater diversity, equity and inclusion, the Summit will showcase presentations focused on: Inclusive Pedagogies in disability studies, race and ethnic studies, women, gender and sexuality studies, and socioeconomic status across the curriculum; Emerging and Effective Technologies in the classroom; and High Impact Practices, those educationally effective practices that include collaborative assignments and projects, writing-intensive courses, first-year seminars, undergraduate student-faculty research, learning communities, international studies, community-based and service learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects.

Proposals in all these areas are invited from UW System faculty, instructional staff, and students with faculty/staff sponsorship. Presentation formats will include papers, panels, café-style and round table-discussions, workshops, and poster sessions. In addition, the Summit will provide opportunities for working and constituent groups from throughout the UW System to convene, including, for example, the IRE Advisory Committee, SAGLA, Compass Teams, the Women & Science Program, and others.

Please submit your proposal to present or to convene a working group by November 4th, 2009, to: http://www.uwsa.edu/vpacad/summit/proposals.htm Confirmations regarding accepted proposals will be sent by mid-December, 2009.

A Primer on Universal Design (UD) in Education
This is a website maintained by Dr. Dave L. Edyburn of UW-Milwaukee.
http://www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/ud.html
The purpose of this web page is to provide a brief introduction to the applications of universal design in education (also known as: Universal Design for Learning). Links to additional resources are provided for teachers and administators interested in more information.

Call for Proposals for Chapters
Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity
Deadline: November 1, 2009
http://www.aera.net/HREL.htm
Edited by Linda C. Tillman and James Joseph ìJimî Scheurich
Associate Editors: Colleen Capper, James Earl Davis, Andrea Evans, Gerardo Lopez, Sylvia Mendez Morse, and Grayson Noley
Over the last decade, U.S. schools have been called upon to provide an equitable and excellent education for students who traditionally have been marginalized: students of color, students from low-income homes, students with disabilities, LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered) students, students in families in which English is not the dominant language, female students, and so forth. The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity, a project of the American Educational Research Association, will feature chapters that reframe research within the field of educational leadership; a reframing that is consonant with the existing social, cultural, economic, and political contexts of U.S. schools. The goal of the proposed handbook is to present theoretical and empirical scholarship that focuses on socially just educational leadership, particularly with respect to the education of diverse student populations. Additionally, the orientation of the handbook will be assets based; that is, diversity will be viewed as an asset to those individuals living it and to schools and society. The primary audience for the handbook is the research and scholarly community. The handbook is intended to serve as a source of knowledge for the next generation of researchers and to lay the foundation for promising and significant directions for future research on leadership, diversity, equity, and social justice. Developed under the auspices of AERA's books program, this handbook was advanced by the editors as a Division A (Administration, Organization, & Leadership) initiative. Proposals are welcomed and encouraged from scholars with relevant research backgrounds, irrespective of AERA or division memberships.

The Deal With Disability
http://thedealwithdisability.blogspot.com/
This is a new video blog capturing one 26-year-old woman's experience navigating through life with a "severe" physical disability. Eva Sweeney was born with a condition called cerebral palsy, which means that she cannot walk, speak, or use her muscles in conventional ways. She uses a power wheelchair to get around and spells out what she wants to say on a letter board.

LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies Opportuities

Open Position
University Of Wisconsin System
LGBTQ Initiative Coordinator (Institutional Or Senior Institutional Planner)
Madison, WI
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by Friday, October 1, 2009
The University of Wisconsin System Administration (UWSA) Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is seeking candidates to fill the position of Coordinator for the LGBTQ Initiative and other work broadly related to UW System efforts to achieve equity, diversity and inclusion. The mission for the UW Systemís LGBTQ Initiative is to promote the success of all populations of LGBTQ students, and employees. The LGBTQ Initiativeís work involves advocacy and support for the development and dissemination of new knowledge concerning LGTBQ people through advancing LGBTQ educational experiences, supporting LGBTQ scholarship, teaching, advocacy, and student services. The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is a unit within the larger University of Wisconsin System Administration which supports two research universities, eleven comprehensive universities, thirteen two year colleges, and a statewide university extension. This position is located in Madison, WI. Find full description here: http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/employment/announcements/2009083101.pdf

Sharing LGBTQ Best Practices: Curriculum Infusion
(Office of Professional and Instructional Development OPID grant supported workshops)
Professor Lisa Kornetsky, UW-Parkside, and Dr. Liz Cannon, UW-Oshkosh, invite UW System faculty and academic staff to attend two separate, one-day-long workshops to expand our understanding of strategies to infuse our curriculum with materials addressing the lives of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and queer identified people.

1) Learning from One Another: Focusing on Pedagogical Need and Strategies in the Development of LGBTQ Courses and Course Content
Friday, October 2, 2009
10am ñ 4pm, with a continental breakfast beginning at 9:30am.
UW-Parkside
The primary goals of this workshop will be to

Share expertise in pedagogical strategies for addressing diversity in general and specifically for including LGBTQ content in courses that currently meet the university's diversity/ethnic requirement and those with a wider definition of diversity;

Discuss ways in which we can link both content and expertise across the UW System;

Explore some possibilities for a joint SoTL project to explore the relationship between student learning in LGBTQ courses and the rest of their curriculum.

This workshop will focus on developing LGBTQ content only courses and including such content in courses already focused on diversity issues. Discussion will address the relationship between this type of diversity course and broader learning outcomes as well as the ways in which students process their learning in diversity courses and how they relate these courses to their work/study in the major and general education.
To register: Email Lisa Kornetsky at kornetsk@uwp.edu. Put LGBTQ in the subject line. Please provide your name, email address, work phone number, which campus you are from, and your department in the body of the email and we will send you an electronic confirmation

2) Embedding Inclusive Excellence into the Curriculum: Sharing LGBTQ Best Practices
Friday, April 9, 2010
10am ñ 4pm, with a continental breakfast beginning at 9:30am
UW-Oshkosh
The primary goals of the this workshop will be to

Identify ways to embed Inclusive Excellence into the curriculum through LGBTQ content;
Assist faculty in aligning LGBTQ content with Learning Outcomes;
Identify best practices for infusing LGBTQ content;
Exchange discipline based syllabi and assignments.

This workshop, while addressing issues from the first workshop, will focus on curriculum infusion on a wider basis, asking the question of how instructors can include diversity in general and LGBTQ content specifically into their general education and major courses. Discussion will address the challenge of teaching material outside oneís defined field of expertise, pedagogical approaches to teaching diversity effectively to resistant students, and how incorporating LGBTQ content connects to and is consistent with campus-based learning outcomes and the goals of the Inclusive Excellence initiative.
To Register: Email lgbtqcenter@uwosh.edu. Put Embedding Inclusive Excellence in the subject line. Please provide your name, email address, work phone number, which campus you are from, and your department in the body of the email, and we will send you an electronic confirmation.

The two workshops will follow a similar structure. The morning will be devoted to panel members who will share their expertise, and, in the afternoon, participants will be able to engage in discussion and information/syllabi exchange. Panel members for both workshops are

Dr. Joe Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UW-Parkside
Dr. Deb Hoskins, co-chair Womenís, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of WGSS, UW-LaCrosse
Dr. Jordan Landry, Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean, UW-Oshkosh
Dr. Susan Wolfgram, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, UW-Stout.

TO REGISTER: You do not have to register for both conferences to attend, but if you are planning on attending both, please register for each separately. There are no registration fees, and thanks to two OPID grants, lunch and snacks will be provided. Each workshop has a limit of 50, and we will sign people up on a first-come, first-served basis. We will keep a waiting list in case of cancellations.

Call for Papers and Sessions
March 18-20 2010
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Deadline for Proposals has been extended [for everything but Divisions.: September 22, 2009
Those interested in participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them, available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu after October 15, 2009. Deadline to sign up will be November 14, 2009. The deadline for seminar leaders to submit final lists of participants (minimum 8 individuals, in addition to the seminar leader(s)) November 21, 2009.
This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/>, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/submit.
The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Eighth Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, early modern, science technology studies, material culture studies, performance and visual arts studies. All participants in the Eighth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by February 16, 2010, to be listed and participate in the program. See the registration page of this website for details about fees. If you have any questions about procedures for submission or other concerns, please e-mail us at: csaus@pitt.edu. We have extended the deadline for proposals in the following three categories:
1. Individual Papers
2. Pre-Constituted Paper Sessions, Roundtable Sessions, Or Workshop Sessions
3. Seminar Proposals

2nd annual ALLY Conference for Diversity
Noon-6:00 PM, October 24, 2009
UW-Green Bay
The conference is free for UW-Green Bay students. Community members can attend for $25
Pre-registration is required by Wednesday, Sept. 30
Registration is available online at http://www.uwgb.edu/aic/ally
The second annual ALLY Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will seek to empower its participants with the knowledge and enthusiasm to strive for change and allyship through its workshops and keynote speaker, organizers say. The conference emphasizes diversity and accessibility issues within all student populations, and also provides a safe environment to celebrate the diversity and talents of women, people of color, persons with disabilities and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning (LGBTQ) community. Conference participants will also learn how to become an ally, or advocate, for these communities. For more information: http://blog.uwgb.edu/inside/index.php/log-news/headlines/08/06/ally_conference_0914/

Call for Proposals for Chapters
Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity
Deadline: November 1, 2009
http://www.aera.net/HREL.htm
Edited by Linda C. Tillman and James Joseph ìJimî Scheurich
Associate Editors: Colleen Capper, James Earl Davis, Andrea Evans, Gerardo Lopez, Sylvia Mendez Morse, and Grayson Noley
Over the last decade, U.S. schools have been called upon to provide an equitable and excellent education for students who traditionally have been marginalizedóstudents of color, students from low-income homes, students with disabilities, LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered) students, students in families in which English is not the dominant language, female students, and so forth. The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity, a project of the American Educational Research Association, will feature chapters that reframe research within the field of educational leadership, a reframing that is consonant with the existing social, cultural, economic, and political contexts of U.S. schools. The goal of the proposed handbook is to present theoretical and empirical scholarship that focuses on socially just educational leadership, particularly with respect to the education of diverse student populations. Additionally, the orientation of the handbook will be assets based; that is, diversity will be viewed as an asset to those individuals living it and to schools and society. The primary audience for the handbook is the research and scholarly community. The handbook is intended to serve as a source of knowledge for the next generation of researchers and to lay the foundation for promising and significant directions for future research on leadership, diversity, equity, and social justice.
Developed under the auspices of AERAís books program, this handbook was advanced by the editors as a Division A (Administration, Organization, & Leadership) initiative. Proposals are welcomed and encouraged from scholars with relevant research backgrounds, irrespective of AERA or division memberships.

Call for Proposals
American Psychological Foundation
Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grants
Deadline: November 2nd, 2009
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) provides financial support of innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come. The Roy Scrivner Research Grants provide graduate student grants (preference given to dissertation candidates) for empirical or applied research that encourages the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender family (LGBT) psychology and LGBT family therapy. Researchers from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences are encouraged to apply.
Amount: One grant for a graduate student of up to $12,000.
Goals: The program seeks to address:

Challenges faced by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people in forming, defining, and maintaining families
Sources of support and resilience for LGBT members of families
Diversity among families led by LGBT people including cultural and racial diversity, socioeconomic diversity, and diversity in family structure
Clinical issues, interventions, and outcomes in LGBT family therapy

Pieces should be between 750 and 1500 words (approximately 3 to 5 double-spaced pages).
While the deadline for a 2010 publication date has not yet been established, submitting your piece by December 1, 2009 is recommended.
Descriptions of pieces in progress are also welcome
Submissions should be sent as a Microsoft Word document, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman font
Please provide a brief (100 words or less) bio with your submission

Teresa Theophano is a licensed social worker, out queer mental health consumer, and the author of *Queer Quotes* (Beacon Press, 2004). Please send submissions/project descriptions to her at headcase_anthology@yahoo.com

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.

Resource Website
Fair Wisconsin offers information on the Wisconsin Domestic Partnership Registry, partner rights, and how to sign up, here: http://fairwisconsin.blogspot.com/2009/07/domestic-partnerships-reference-guide.html

Resource Website
LGBTQArchitect is a website designed to share resources and documentation of examples of materials for campus administrators working with LGBTQ populations. http://architect.lgbtcampus.org/

New Film resource
Diagnosing Difference is a new film that humanizes the debate around the Gender Identity Disorder diagnosis by valuing personal experience as a vital (and often ignored) form of expertise. Rather than trying to create an exhaustive examination of the diagnosis or offer claims of universal representation, Diagnosing Difference is purposefully personal, seeking to expand the experience of the audience, provoke thought, and create as many questions as it answers. Filmmaker Annalise Ophelian is a queer San Francisco-based clinical psychologist, trans ally, and human sexuality educator. Go here for more information: www.diagnosingdifference.com

Call for Submissions
Best Bi Short Stories
Open submission deadline
http://www.biwriters.org
Seeking stories that illuminate something about the experience of being bi. Stories can focus on relationships, romance, dating and sex, of course but weíd like to see much more than that. All genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, romance, historical, mystery, western, vampires, etc. as well as contemporary fiction are encouraged.

Sustainability Studies Opportunities

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.

Mark Your Calendar

Announce a Special Symposium
Climate Change and Green Jobs: Helping Businesses Prepare for New Expectations and New Rules
Co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Law School, The Business, Environment, and Social Responsibility Program at the Wisconsin School of Business, and the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council together with Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.
Friday, September 18, 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The Edgewater Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin
http://www.law.wisc.edu/clew/seminars/climate_change.html

Resources
The UW-Madison Nelson Institute
The Nelson Institute and its programs conduct a host of community programs that promote a more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable world. Find out more information here: http://www.ies.wisc.edu/community/programs.html

Film Festival
Tales from Planet Earth
Nov. 6-8, 2009
Madison, WI
This free festival in downtown Madison will showcase more than 30 environmental films from around the world and feature lectures and discussions by Majora Carter and Winona LaDuke, several award-winning film makers, and scholars. The inaugural festival, in 2007, attracted more than 3,000 filmgoers.
http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/tales/

Web Resources
Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts
Visit the maps of scientists' recent findings of climate trends and projections in Wisconsin, released on September 14, 2009.
http://www.wicci.wisc.edu/

Call for Submissions
Journal of American Culture
The Greening -- or not -- of America
The deadline for submission is Dec. 31 2010 and the issue will be published in March 2012.
At the focus of this special issue is the global environmental crisis now sometimes being faced and undeniably also sometimes being denied. What are its implications for the culture of the United States of America , because of its position as the worldís dominant military superpower and consumer of resources, occupies a critical role in the environmental crisis. In this special issue the editors seek contributions from a range of interdisciplinary environmental thinkers, dreamers and practitioners. Essays can address an environmental practitioner or thinker, an idea, issue, philosophy or form of activism, historical or current. They can examine explicitly environmental texts, provide new readings of texts not generally understood as ìgreen,î and/or also take the form of a 'manifesto.' They can explore ìgreenî understandings of such basics as birth, food, community, sex, health, sickness, spirituality, and death. They particularly welcome essays based in ecological feminist and transnational perspectives and in awareness of the intersections of environmental devastations with all forms of social injustice. Submissions, generally 15-25 pages in length, are to be original scholarly manuscripts formatted according to MLA style guidelines using in-text citations with author's name and page number. Endnotes and works cited should appear at the end of the paper. In light of space limitations, please avoid excessive use of endnotes. This issue will be edited by Jane Caputi ( jcaputi@fau.edu ) and Suzanne Kelly ( suzmkelly@aol.com ). Direct inquiries to either editor. Send completed manuscripts to The Journal of American Culture at jac@vwc.edu or The Journal of American Culture, Virginia Wesleyan College , 1584 Wesleyan Drive , Norfolk , VA 23502 .

Study Abroad in WS and LGBTQ Studies

New Study Abroad opportunities in LGBTQ and WS are being developed. Check back here for more information about summer study opportunities in 2010 such as:

Culture & Identity Studies: Exploring Gay Paris, offered through UW-LaCrosse
Women’s Experience in Nicaragua, offered through UW-Eau Claire

Study Abroad Opportunities in the University of Wisconsin System

University of Wisconsin System institutions offer students a wide variety of opportunities in all aspects of international education. Study abroad is an integral part of these experiences. Some of these study abroad programs are open to students registered at any accredited post-secondary institution in the United States; others are limited to students registered at the sponsoring UW System institution. Choose one of the two systemwide listing options (by country or by campus) to find a program that interests you, or use HELP OnLine's jumppage with links to the study abroad program website for each campus. http://uwhelp.wisconsin.edu/studentlife/intstudy.asp

Study Abroad in Women’s Studies:

A new resource list on Study Abroad Programs focusing on gender and women's studies has been posted to the NWSA website on the PAD's resource page for programs and individuals that are members of the National Women’s Studies Association. To locate this list go to:

http://nwsa.org/PAD/resources.php and scroll down to the section titled "Students."

School for International Training (SIT) study abroad programs focused on Gender Studies

www.sit.edu/studyabroad/programs.html

The Balkans: Gender, Transformation, and Civil Society

Mali: Gender, Health, and Development

The Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender

Social Justice, Peace & Conflict Studies, Environmental, and Multicultural Studies

SIT Post Baccalaureate Certificate Programs

Launching this September 2009

SIT is offering semester long post baccalaureate certificate programs in Botswana, Chile, India, Oman and Switzerland. These are excellent opportunities to obtain graduate credit, further engagement academically overseas and strong experience to supplement intercultural skills. Please contact SIT Study Abroad at 888-272-7881 and ask for information on our new Post Baccalaureate Certificate programs. You may also check our website at www.sit.edu.

Global Learning Semesters lists 340 opportunities for Study Abroad in Women’s Studies http://www.studyabroad.com/programs/womens_studies

Miscellaneous

Announcing New On-line Journal devoted to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Check out the UW System's "Teaching Forum: A Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" that is now on line at: http://www.uwosh.edu/programs/teachingforum/public_html/ which includes several articles of interest to faculty in Womenís Studies and using feminist pedagogical approaches in their teaching.

Reaching-At-Risk Students website available
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies Holly Hassel and English Lecturer, Joanne Giordano, both of UW-Marathon County, presented an OPID funded conference in June 2009 called Reaching-At-Risk Students. Their website offers information on the conference and will also serve as an ongoing resource for faculty and staff across the state of Wisconsin who work with students who are at-risk of not succeeding academically. Please check it out at http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/rars/index.htm

The 2009 Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute for women-of-color faculty and administrators will take place on December 2-6, 2009, at Coastline Community College in Costa Mesa, California. Please visit www.coastline.edu/divisions/president/kaleidoscope/ for more information.

Ms. in the Classroom
Beginning this fall, Ms. in the Classroom will be available online for your students at a special low rate. For more information including cost, go here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/9823/signUp.jsp?key=4454

The HerStory Scrapbook
http://www.herstoryscrapbook.com
This website focuses on the final four years of the womenís suffrage campaign in the United States as chronicled in the pages of The New York Times. Unlike much of the documentation from the suffragists who emphasized either the National American Woman Suffrage Association or the National Woman's Party, The New York Times reported on the women in both organizations. And, that makes our understanding much richer. Consider including the HerStory Scrapbook as a reference in your women's history or women's studies courses. The HerStory Scrapbook has been recommended by the National Women's History Project.

Gerri Gribi has donated her Women's Center Database to the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), with the stipulation that it will always be available free online. Go here to find it or to update it with new information http://www.nwsa.org/research/centerguide/

Spring 2009 MS Magazine and NWSA launched a Searchable Database Guide to Women's Studies Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD Programs. You can find it here: http://www.nwsa.org/research/theguide/index.php

The Feminist Majority Foundation has a listing of Global Women's Studies Programs:
http://www.feminist.org/Global/globalwst.asp Their listing of Global Women's Studies Programs with the information in local languages can be found at: http://www.feminist.org/global/wstlocal.asp

National Council for Research on Women Presents 2009 Award to New AAC&U Report on Womenís Progress in Higher Education
AAC&U was awarded the National Council for Research on Womenís (NCRW) Research and Scholarship Award for its recent report, A Measure of Equity: Womenís Progress in Higher Education. The award recognized AAC&U for ìoutstanding research and production of knowledge built on theoretical perspectives that advance understanding of the experiences of women and/or girls in society.î A Measure of Equity was written by Judy Touchton, with Caryn McTighe Musil and Kathryn Peltier Campbell. You can purchase a copy of the report on the AAC&U publications page on their website: http://www.aacu.org

Professing History Blog
A new blog on teaching Latin American history to college students, written by Dr. Rosa Maria Pegueros, Associate Professor, Department of History, and Women's Studies
University of Rhode Island
http://professinghistory.blogspot.com/2009/08/august-is-one-long-sunday-night.html

Cycling

Anew blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. re: Cycling is written by members of SMCR about all matters menstrual, especially sociocultural aspects of menstruation and new research about menstruation and women's health. Currently, the bloggersare Chris Bobel, Associate Professor of Women's Studies at University of Massachusetts-Boston; Giovanna Chesler, filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College; Chris Hitchcock, researcher at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research at the University of British Columbia; and Elizabeth Kissling, Professor of Women's Studies and of Communication at Eastern Washington University. The new blog can be found at the SMCR web site, http://www.MenstruationResearch.org/blog.

AAC&U Launches New Blog on Liberal Education
http://blog.aacu.org/
As part of its signature initiative, Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), AAC&U has launched a new multi-authored blog that features postings and perspectives on liberal educationóhow it is changing, why it is so important in today's world, and what people are saying about it around the country and the world. With weekly commentary by Blog Contributing Editor Debra Humphreys, along with guest bloggers representing a variety of perspectives, the forum will introduce readers to issues in the news important to all those who care about liberal education and its future. Visit the blog sign up to receive postings via RSS, and add your perspectives to the expanding national dialogue on the future of higher education.

Liberal Education and America's Promise
Wisconsin Advocacy and Campus Action Initiative
Wisconsin was designated the first official partner state in the LEAP campaign in March 2005. In collaboration with AAC&U, leaders in Wisconsin have piloted a series of campus action and advocacy efforts that champion the value of a liberal education for all college students. An initiative of the University of Wisconsin System, LEAP in Wisconsin seeks to increase understanding of the value and purpose of liberal education for UW System students and Wisconsin citizens. Go here for more information: http://www.aacu.org/leap/wisconsin_initiative.cfm

Wisconsin Women and Economic Opportunity report was released recently by the Women's Council and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).
It was developed following a report released earlier this year by the Institute for Women's Policy Research on the "Best and Worst State Economies for Women". IWPR urged their research partners in states to develop state specific reports and use them to update information on the economic status of women locally and to spread the word about the national findings of the IWPR report.
WWC/COWS report: http://womenscouncil.wi.gov/docview.asp?docid=10734&locid=2
IWPR Report: http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/R334_BWStateEconomies2006.pdf

Deadline For Submissions

Submissions for the next WSC e-bulletin should be submitted by November 1, 2009. To submit announcements for the bulletin, or to get on or be removed from the list, please contact the Women's Studies Consortium Office, 1666 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706. Phone: 608-262-3056 Fax: 608-263-2046, Email: WSCOffice@uwsa.edu.

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