From The Director

As you transition from teaching into summer research please take a moment to check out the opportunities listed in this issue of the WSC E-Bulletin. The spring has been packed with activity for the Wisconsin Women’s Studies community. In April we celebrated our fourth spring Wisconsin Women's Studies Conference (but 32th annual WS conference) and third annual collaboration with the UW System Inclusivity Initiative to offer the UW System LGBTQ Conference. We were delighted at the strength of the program of both events and how well our collaboration works. We especially thank conference co-organizers and professors Alison Gates and Catherine Henze and the Women's Studies Program and LGBTQ Group at UW-Green Bay for their amazing work bringing the Wisconsin Women's Studies and LGBTQ communities together. Further thanks go to Kassie Van Remortel, UWGB Outreach and Extension for her fabulous organizing, as well as Lisa Beckstrand, Coordinator of the Inclusivity Initiative for her great help in organizing the joint events.

Next week the Advisory Council of the UW System Women & Science Program will meet at the annual Spring Conference in Wisconsin Dells. Participants will present on their work developing inclusive pedagogical approaches in STEM and plan for the upcoming year. With the larger purpose of working to attract and retain more women and students of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics these educators work to promote systemic improvement in the ways that STEM education is regarded and carried out within the University of Wisconsin System and beyond. Congratulations to Women & Science Director Susannah Sandrin and her staff on another successful and eventful year for the Women & Science Program.

Women's Studies Consortium Leadership Updates

During the 2007-2008 academic year the Women’s Studies Consortium Advisory Council has been ably chaired by Dianna Hunter, WS Chair, UW-Superior. We thank her for her great leadership. With the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic year, Lauren Smith, WS Chair, UW-Whitewater will become our new WSC Chair. At the WSC spring meeting Kate Thomas, WS Director, UW-Stout, was elected to serve as Chair-elect for next year. She will chair the Council in 2009-2010. We offer our thanks for the ongoing leadership in women's studies they bring to the UW System.

This year we say goodbye to three of our longest serving members of the WSC Advisory Council. Sandi Krajewski, Chair of the UW-LaCrosse Women’s Studies Program, Barbara Werner, Chair of the UW-River Falls Women’s Studies Program and Elizabeth Zanichkowsky, Chair of the UW-Colleges Women’s Studies Program. Sandra, Barbara and Elizabeth have all served on the Council since before I joined the WSC in 2000. I personally will miss their shared leadership on the Council. Sandra established the first student led Women in Learning and Leadership Program (WILL) in Wisconsin and both Elizabeth and Barbara have served as state WS conference chairs, and all have contributed to WSC efforts too numerous to list. They will be missed on the WSC Council but we look forward to their continued wise leadership in the Wisconsin Women’s Studies learning community.

Please join me in welcoming those WS Chairs/Directors who join the WSC Council either this semester or next year, or who have move from an interim appointment. They are: Holly Hassel, UW-Colleges; Nerissa Neilson, UW-Stevens Point; Kate Thomas, UW-Stout; Co-chairs Deb Hoskins, and Jodi Vadenberg-Dave, UW-La Crosse; Christie Launius, UW-Oshkosh, and Michelle Parkinson, UW-River Falls.

2008-2009 Upcoming Events
Academic year 2008-2009 is packed with useful and exciting events in women's studies and women's issues. Put them on your calendars now!

• October 17-18, 2008, Women's Studies Consortium Advisory Council Fall Retreat
• October 22, 2008, Call for Proposals for annual 33rd Wisconsin Women's Studies Conference, and 4th LGBTQ Conference
• October 23-24, 2008, Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL) Conference, Alverno College, Women Moving Forward: Navigating Change http://www.wwhel.org
• April 2, 2009, WSC Advisory Council Spring Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin
  
• April 3-4, 2009, Collaboration, Co-operation, & Cooptation in the academy in Women's Studies and LGBTQ research, scholarship, teaching. and activists, annual joint WS and LGBTQ Conference at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus.
  
• April 4, 2009, 14th Annual Outstanding Women of Color in Education awards and ceremony, UW-Madison, in conjunction with the 33rd annual Wisconsin Women Studies Conference
• May TBA: Women & Science Spring Advisory Board Meeting and Women & Science Spring Conference

Mark your calendars and join us for a year of working together to further the goals of the WSC of promoting shared leadership, expanding the influence and impact of Women's Studies throughout the system, transforming the curriculum and improving the climate for all women at all University of Wisconsin institutions.

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

WSC Announcements

Lecturer: UW-Whitewater

Women, Science and Society-Lecturer

The Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is seeking applicants for a part-time academic staff teaching position. Applicants must possess or be working towards a PhD in History. Successful applicants will teach Women, Science, and Society, a course cross-listed with History and Women’s Studies. Ability to work effectively with students, faculty, and staff with diverse socioeconomic, cultural, racial/ethnic backgrounds, gender identity/expression, sexual preference/orientation, and abilities/disabilities is expected. Please send cover letter, vita, three letters of recommendation and academic transcripts to Lauren Smith, Chair, Women’s Studies Department, UW-Whitewater, Whitewater WI http://www.uww.edu/employment/jobs/Women's_Studies.html

The theme for the joint Wisconsin Women’s Studies and LGBTQ Conferences 2009 will be: Collaboration, Co-operation, & Co-optation in the Academy In Women’s Studies and LGBTQ Research, Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism
Save the Dates April 3-4, 2009
The Pyle Center, UW-Madison
Proposals will be due October 22 for the 33^rd Annual Conference of the University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies Consortium and 4^th Annual UW System LGBTQ Conference will bring together academics, teachers, students, community leaders and activists, and others whose lives have been or could be enriched by Women’s Studies and Gender Studies. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to celebrate, examine, and envision the widest range of Women’s Studies and LGBTQ Issues. Plan to be a part of it!

Watch for details and the CFP for the 2009 conference on the
Women’s Studies Consortium website here:
http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/annualconf.htm
and the
UW System Inclusivity Initiative website here:
http://www.uwsa.edu/acss/LGBTQ/conference.htm

The Women’s Studies Consortium has changed its web address. Please update your links to reflect the change to: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/aboutwsc/director.htm

The Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian has also changed its URL. Please update your links to include http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/n>

Additional UW System Announcements

Please note that the 2008 Wisconsin ESEA Improving Teacher Quality request for proposals and application guidelines are available on-line at http://www.uwsa.edu/acss/esea/rfp.htm.

The University of Wisconsin (UW) System invites nominations and applications for the position of Associate Vice President for Academic and Faculty Programs. Deadline May 30, 2008. You can find the position description here: http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/jobs.htm

An Interim Director of the Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) for up to two years is being recruited by UWSA. Please direct this call to faculty members or administrators who might be well qualified and interested. To ensure full consideration, complete applications must be received by 4:30 p.m. CST, May 30, 2008. However, applications will be accepted until the position has been filled. The announcement can be viewed on-line at http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/jobs.htm.

The University of Wisconsin System Administration (UWSA) Office of Academic and Student Services is seeking outstanding candidates to fill a full-time, twelve-month, Outreach Program Manager III position as Director of the University of Wisconsin System-Institute for Urban Education (UWS-IUE). The “home-base” for this position may be established in either Madison or Milwaukee, WI at the preference of the top candidate. Applications due June 6, 2008. http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/employment/announcements/2008051602.pdf

The University of Wisconsin (UW) System invites applications for the position to fill a full-time System Academic Planner or Senior System Academic Planner position focused on student affairs. ACSS is a unit in the Office of Academic Affairs, located in Madison, WI. One of the primary functions of ACSS is to work with the UW institutions to coordinate academic and student services policies, programs, and initiatives within the UW System (UWS). Apply by June 13, 2008. http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/employment/announcements/2008051601.pdf

Major Responsibilities: Reporting to the Assistant Vice President for Academic and Student Services, the System Academic Planner will be responsible for providing leadership to and coordination of student affairs programs, activities, and issues, including: health and safety, primarily focusing on alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA) issues and sexual violence prevention; academic and career advising; student transfer; and child care programs. The planner will serve as a liaison with Chief Student Affairs Officers, student government representatives and work with the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and other internal and external groups and agencies. The planner will also support the UWS/WTCS Joint Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion (COBE) and coordinate the COBE grant program.

A Director of Student Services is being sought by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Division of Continuing Education, Outreach and E-Learning . The position is open until filled. Seeking ccandidates who can develop and direct highly proactive, engaging and supportive student services, with particular attention paid to recruitment, retention, and student success. In addition to services for adult and nontraditional students, the Director of Student Services oversees the University of Wisconsin Higher Education Location Program (UW HELP), which is a System-wide program to help guide students of all ages, including high school students, who are considering attending a University of Wisconsin campus. This is an opportunity to shape the future and position the division to play a pivotal role in advocating for and meeting the education needs of adult students across the state. As a member of the CEOEL leadership team, the Director of Student Services will work closely and collaboratively across the division, the institution, and the University of Wisconsin System as both a leader and a partner in that team. CEOEL aspires to be a national leader in innovative, engaging, and highly effective student services. The Director of Student Services must be highly knowledgeable about student services with a strong customer-service orientation, have a broad understanding of the ways in which various generations communicate, and know how to make adults feel comfortable and at home in higher education. Detailed position and application information can be found at: http://www.uwex.edu/ce/dss.cfm

Save The Dates

2008 National Women's Music Festival
June 19 – June 22, 2008
Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin
Interested in Attending?
Attendees may register in advance for full or partial festival passes. Volunteer and work-exchange opportunities abound for those who need financial assistance. Go to the website for more information and Register soon!
Want to perform at the 2008 National Women's Music Festival?
They are now accepting artist submissions here: http://www.wiaonline.org/Performerapp.html
Want to:
Present a workshop
Vend in the Marketplace
Present in the Spirituality series
Go to the 2008 National Women's Music Festival web site here: http://www.wiaonline.org/FestivalApplications.htm

National Women’s Studies Association Conference 2008
Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire
Thursday, June 19th - Sunday June 22^nd, Cincinnati OH.
The 2008 NWSA conference will open on Thursday, June 19th with two pre-conferences hosted by the Program Administration and Development and the Women’s Centers Standing Committees. These daylong events offer networking and professional development opportunities for women’s and gender studies and women’s center administrators. The General Conference begins on Thursday evening with our featured speaker Patricia Hill Collins. Collins is a social theorist whose research, scholarship and activism have examined intersecting power relations of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation. Concluding on Sunday afternoon the conference features concurrent breakout sessions, new member events, and professional development sessions for graduate students and junior faculty. Special events will include a Creative Writers Series, a film series, a book exhibition, Critical Issues sessions, Presidential sessions, and area excursions. NWSA is also delighted to announce that the Tribute Panel for 2008, a session format intended to honor past scholarship that has set new directions for the field, will feature a tribute to Black feminist thought. http://www.nwsa.org/nwsaction/?q=node/83

Honoring Our Common Differences: Creating Inclusive Organizations
Continuing Studies at UW-Madison, Professional development and Applied Studies
May 13, 2008
Inclusive organizations are ones where people of diverse social and cultural groups, (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, class, disability, LGBT), all people, experience uncompromising respect and dignity in an atmosphere of non-judgment and genuine acceptance. Inclusive organizations value and actively encourage multiple experiences and perspectives, creating a positive, collaborative environment in which people feel safe to be themselves, and are able to contribute their best work to the organization. The goals of this workshop are to create a safe forum to engage in self-reflection and dialogue with others about inclusivity. Participants will:

• Discover how their life experiences and assumptions affect their understanding of diversity issues and their actions toward inclusivity
• Explore how oppression operates on individual and institutional levels and how they may unintentionally exclude people
• Gain insight into one's privileges and how to use them with integrity to enhance inclusivity
• Assess the differences between non-discriminatory and inclusive behaviors on personal and institutional levels
• Begin to identify actions to create more inclusive organizations

This workshop is facilitated by Kathy Germann. For more information: go on-line to Honoring Our Common Differences or contact Kris Bruns, 608-263-4431, or kbruns@dcs.wisc.edu or Kathy Germann, 608-233-6757, or kathy@kathygermannconsulting.com Register early as enrollment limited to 25 participants.

For Community's Sake: Maximizing the Community Impact of Service Learning
University of Wisconsin-Baraboo
June 6th, 2008, 8:30-4:30
A website will be available soon for more information and registration. Until then see contacts below. The goal is to draft plan to maximize the community impact of service learning in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This gathering will focus on maximizing the community impact of service learning. While our focus is on Wisconsin, the knowledge we intend to build will be relevant to anyone doing service learning anywhere. Our focus will be on the community, not the classroom, and the community resident, not the student. We will have a paper exchange and will create space for some formal presentations, but we are de-emphasizing the usual conference presentation format in place of a more participatory process. We will have two sets of participatory knowledge building sessions where people will come together to collectively develop knowledge around specific questions related to the community impact of service learning. Each of the participatory knowledge building sessions will then bring the ideas they generate to a drafting session at the end of the day. This will be a different kind of gathering, designed to collectively shed light on the long-neglected community side of service learning. Registration will be$20 to cover food costs, and will be open soon.
Contacts: Randy Stoecker, rstoecker@wisc.edu , 608-890-0764 or Charity Schmidt, cschmidt2@wisc.edu
How can you help:
1. Facilitators: do you have experience with community impact of service learning and the skills to draw out the expertise around you? We need eight of you to facilitate participatory knowledge building sessions. The best facilitators are those who don't think they already have the answers and want to find them.
2. Expert sessions: do you have a specific experience you would like to share with others? We are inviting people to offer sessions during an extended lunch break. We will use sign up sheets that day to assign rooms for large groups and suggest informal spaces for smaller groups.
When the registration opens you will be able to sign up for either of these options.
Co-sponsored by University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Rural Sociology and Wisconsin Campus Compact

ACADEMIC ADL CO-LAB LAUNCHES INAUGURAL ACADEMIC FEST
The Academic ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) Co-Laboratory announces the first ever ADL Academic Fest
July 8-9, 2008
Monona Terrace Community Convention Center in Madison, Wisconsin.
Academic Fest is an educational technology symposium that will bring together educational technology specialists, inventors, and researchers from all over the globe. The goal is to provide a platform for presentation and discussion on both formal and informal learning technologies. The conference itself will be a mash-up of traditional conference sessions and less formal “un-conference” sessions. In addition to attending conventional technologies conference plenaries, the attendees themselves will determine other sessions. There will be open slots to discuss whatever is currently of interest, including (but not limited to) core technologies, SCORM, repositories, open source, and mobile learning.
Conference topics include:
* The current state of SCORM and related technologies
* Use of mobile technologies in learning
* The impact of virtual K-12 schools
* Informal learning tools and changes in higher education
* Repositories, registries, and course management systems
* Future directions for content delivery models
* How to plan for Academic IT in an ever-changing environment

The Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab (AADLC) is located in Madison, WI. Founded in 2000 as an independent node in the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADLI), the AADLC is a nexus of learning technology research and development between academia, government, and industry. They have extensive partnerships with academic researchers and accredited institutions involved in learning technology research and development. The vision of the AADLC is to advance sustainable, immersive, distributed learning technology to enable global access to high-quality educational opportunities.

An additional discount is available for anyone planning to also attend the Games, Learning, and Society (GLS) 4.0 conference, July 10-11 also at the Monona Terrace Community Convention Center.
More information is available at http://www.academicfest.org.

From the Office of the Women's Studies Librarian

UW System Women's Studies Librarian's website and Internet Resource:
The UW System Women’s Studies Librarian’s Office has a redesigned website and new web address: http://womenst.library.wisc.edu. The latest table of contents and sample articles from Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources are at http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications/feminist-coll.html.

The video database WAVE: Women’s Audiovisuals in English continues at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WAVE. "Violence against women" is one of the broad headings we offer as a quick search. There are 335 items under that heading. A search of the more specific term "domestic violence" turns up 75 of them.

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 & Science Spring Conference
May 15 –May 16
Wilderness Resort, Wisconsin Dells, WI
This conference is a sharing of best practices in STEM education, with a focus on strategies and programs that increase retention and attraction of women and other underrepresented students in/to STEM majors. Registration form and schedule outline is attached and on our website http://www.uwosh.edu/wis/.

The Women & Science Program has an updated web site.

Check it out here: http://www.uwosh.edu/wis/

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.

Calls For Manuscripts, Articles, Submissions

Call for Research
LGBTQ Youth
Deadline May 30th, 2008
http://www.issuelab.org/call_for_research
During the month of June IssueLab will be focusing on research that addresses issues related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Questioning Youth. This age group is experiencing unprecedented levels of acceptance and expression while at the same time facing ongoing discrimination and isolation. IssueLab is looking for nonprofit produced research on this dynamic topic. If you are a nonprofit and are doing work in the field of LGBTQ youth -- please register at IssueLab today. We are asking that organizations list their research with IssueLab by the last week in May.
Our LGBTQ Youth CloseUp will include research on the following topics:
• LGBTQ Youth cultures
• Cyberworlds and LGBTQ Youth
• LGBTQ Youth resilience
• LGBTQ Youth of color
• LGBTQ Youth in rural environments
• Homelessness among GLBT Youth
• LGBTQ Youth suicide
• Special health issues faced by LGBTQ Youth
• Making schools safe for LGBTQ Youth
Expose Your Work to a Broader Audience in 3 Easy Steps. IssueLab is a free service to all participating nonprofits. The process for listing your research takes about five minutes.
1. Register your nonprofit with IssueLab through our simple web-based form. You will receive an email asking that you verify your registration. Once this is done, you are ready to list research.
2. Log into your account and add as many publications as you would like. Once we have approved a publication your listing will be "live" and available to the public.
3. Edit, hide, delete or add as many listings as you wish. (You can also track the number of users downloading your work and visiting your organizational profile by simply logging into your IssueLab account.) That's it! Adding your research to IssueLab's CloseUp means that it will get featured in next month's eNews, regular RSS feeds and any outreach we do to blogs, journalists and digital librarians. Got Questions? Gabriela Fitz, gabi@issuelab.org 773-649-1790

Call for Submissions:
I Was There: Stories from the Feminist Front Think
Ongoing submissions welcome
Girl, a feminist organization dedicated to informing and empowering women (thinkgirl.net), invites you to contribute to our newest project, I Was There: Stories from the Feminist Front. Executive Director, Sarah Morgan, was inspired to begin this project after reading Susan Brownmiller's description in Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs of her work on reproductive rights during the Roe v Wade fight. Her first person account of rallying, flyering, marching and, finally, celebrating struck a cord with Sarah and had her wanting more. She soon learned about the 1998 book The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation. She wanted to deepen the dialogue on feminism and anti-racism, to cull past and present stories of activism, and to bridge generational divides between feminists.
In this spirit, Think Girl asks women of all ages, races and backgrounds to submit stories of their work as activists for women's issues. (Think: A Radical Chicken Soup for the Feminist Soul.) These first person stories of strength, perseverance and courage will serve as inspiration to women and girls as they continue their work in or enter the movement. Stories will be posted weekly at ThinkGirl.net. We also aim to publish a collection of these stories.
About Think Girl: Think Girl believes in feminist activism that is both global and local. We aim to center women of color in our dialogues and activism, and to represent the ways in which all social justice and environmental movements intersect. Globally, our web site links activists with women's news, educational resources, and personal writings. We hope to help girls and women understand feminism's past and present, and encourage them to contribute to its future. We are co-organizing The Feminist Summit, a national conference coming to Detroit in 2009.
Locally, Think Girl bridges women in Metro Detroit: women of all races and ethnicities, of low- and middle-income, of all body abilities, of spiritual and secular beliefs, and from Detroit and the suburbs. We present educational workshops for preteen girls on media literacy and body image, women's history and feminism, and challenging stereotypes. For more information, or for a flyer, contact Sarah Morgan at thinkgrrl@gmail.com and visit our web site at www.thinkgirl.net.

Call for Submissions
Addressing Diversity Issues within the Writing Classroom
Deadline, May 30, 2008
The editors of a new professional development book under contract with Fountainhead Press are soliciting essay submissions. Addressing Diversity Issues within the Writing Classroom will consist of 15-20 essays that showcase effective pedagogical ideas on bringing diversity into and addressing issues of diversity within the writing classroom. The intended audience consists of graduate students and first time instructors, as well as experienced university, community college, and high school instructors who want to find a place (contact zone) where they can meet their diverse students and then help them make the journey through a composition class.
Each essay should be focused around a specific type of diversity issue or theme and provide examples of how new and experienced teachers can use diversity issues to invigorate their teaching of writing. Essays should be pedagogical in nature; however, a familiarity with how addressing and/or using diversity fits in with current composition models is expected. Essays that include examples of student writing and sample writing assignments are particularly encouraged. We hope to have at least half the essays focused on the experience of new teachers (graduate assistants, high school teachers, or professors new to this pedagogy).
Submissions should not exceed 5000 words and should adhere to the series style guide, which can be viewed at http://www.fountainheadpress.com/english/xseries.html
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, incorporating/ integrating the following in the writing classroom or focusing on the following as writing subject matter: Race, Global Issues, Class, Mental abilities, Gender/ gender roles, Physical abilities, Sexuality, Age, Economics, Religion, Ethnicity, Nationality, Multiculturalism, Physical appearance, Culture, Political affiliation, Language, Dialects, Illness, Regionalism.
Queries can be submitted to Gwendolyn Hale (Haleg@savstate.edu). For full consideration, essays should be submitted in either digital or print form by May 30, 2008 to:

• Gwen Hale, English Department, Savannah State University, 265 Whiting Hall, PO Box 20428, Savannah, GA 31405, haleg@savstate.edu
• T.A. Holmes, English Department, East Tennessee State University, Burleson Hall, PO Box 70683, Johnson City, TN 37601, holmest@etsu.edu
• Mike Mutschelknaus, English Department, Rochester Community and Technical College, 851 30th Av
  

Call for Manuscripts
Transformations, a peer-reviewed journal
Teaching the Body
Deadline: 1 June 2008
The editors of Transformations, a peer-reviewed journal, seek pedagogical articles (5,000 – 10,000 words) and pedagogical media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. – 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore the body in a variety of pedagogical contexts and from diverse disciplinary perspectives—literature, science, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology, sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, cultural studies, working-class studies, ethnic studies, disability studies, age studies, narrative medicine and others.
Topics might include: the body in global and transnational contexts; the culture of self-help; environmental issues; im/migration and transnational labor; body rituals and body modification (from tattooing and piercing to cosmetic surgery); reproductive rights; transgender, intersex, and queer bodies; bodies and sports; bodies and religion; military bodies; disciplining the bodies; imprisoned bodies; body economics; bodily knowledge; the body in virtual spaces; students as bodies; language of genetics in discussion of bodies; bodies as biological entities; bionic bodies; online communities (icons and avatars). Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.): Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to: transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations. Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University. Edvige Giunta, Editor, Transformations egiunta@njcu.edu

Call for Submissions
Invisible Culture: issue 13, Fall 2008
After Postcolonialism?
Guest Editors Maia Dauner and Cynthia Foo, University of Rochester
Deadline for Papers June 1, 2008
This issue of Invisible Culture seeks to explore the limits and possibilities for post-colonial theoretical discourse as it relates to artistic and cultural practice. Art works, performances, films, videos, and other cultural production that engage with issues of global migration and the muddying of identity markers of race and class suggest the importance of doubt when considering history writing and fact-gathering. Performance artists The Yes Men fake their identities and take their practice outside of the gallery in an attempt to chip at the legitimacy of political structures such as the World Trade Organization. Visual artist Ken Lum offers a commentary on how one may understand visual markers of identity. Visual and performance artist Walid Ra'ad's works under the name The Atlas Group suggest the anxiety-producing task of stitching together history from material evidence. La Pocha Nostra's Chica Iranian Project investigates the political dimensions of visual misrecognition in post 9/11 United States. These practices suggest the possibility for identity to be context- and site-specific, and to mobilize identity markers to critically examine practices of authorship, history writing, and institutional practices.

But is identity truly mutable? Can we be in a post-post-colonial era where identity is understood to be contextually informed, partial, and provisional? And if so, what does this look like? Kwame Anthony Appiah argues for the unfixed cosmopolitan in his 2004 monograph Cosmopolitanism, a utopic figure which some critics have suggested presents a re-framed flâneur, able to travel the globe freely with little consideration for the class and political restrictions that impede the movement of those less fortunate. Other writers and theorists have asserted that this is not a post-colonial era; that we are still dealing with colonialization's legacy, whether we call this period post- or neo-colonial. Yet others suggest that post-colonial theory still maintains its position as a vital field of examination when considering visual presentations of identity, providing important tools to critically analyze place, class, race, and practice. What is the place for art and globalization in this context? What possibilities and limitations do various forms of theorization (post-colonial, neo-colonial, Cosmopolitanism, or post-post-colonialism) offer to a consideration of artistic practice concerned with identity and place? What role does the gallery and the site play in this presentation?

We are particularly interested in papers that take into account the multi-faceted experiences of post-colonial thought. Possible methodological frameworks include: interdisciplinary visual culture, gendered experience, inquiries considering notions of class, and/or other streams that may contribute to a rich and nuanced inquiry into the state of post-colonial theory and practice. How is identity represented, performed, interrogated? How do these examinations tie in with post-colonial theoretical discussions? What are the boundaries of post-colonial discussions when dealing with contemporary artistic practice?
Possible topics include:
• Representations of identity in art, video, film, and/or performance which blur the boundaries between self and other;
• The future of post-colonial discourse and practice: current methodological challenges and how to proceed from here;
• Identity politics: dead or alive? Does cultural production involving a claim of identity or lack thereof continue to have political and aesthetic valence?
• Visible minority or visible stereotype? How does one represent an Othered group without calling up its stereotype? What are some alternate ways to address or perform racial identity? Or is race obsolete?
• The New Cosmopolitan: challenges and possibilities in the cultural sphere suggested by Kwame Anthony Appiah and others proposing a cosmopolitan rather than regional approach to ethical race relations;
• Whither whiteness studies? What role do studies of whiteness play into notions of post-colonialism, when racial identities are troubled? What are some methodological tools which whiteness studies offers in a field post- post-colonialism?
• Post-colonialism or Neo-colonialism? Marxist theorists suggest that there has never been a move away from the colonial moment. What are the possibilities and challenges of both methodological premises, particularly in understanding cultural production?
• The museum and the minority. How far have museums come to address issues of equality fought for in since the 1960s? Guillermo Gomez-Peña pointed out in a 1995 essay "From Art-Mageddon to Gringostroika: A Manifesto Against Censorship" (published in Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art Ed. Suzanne Lacy. Seattle, WA: Bay Press), that equality may only be truly measured by the number of minorities who hold administrative positions. How has this wish been realized? Does this wish still hold true? Or does hiring based on minority standing in any form repeat practices of stereotyping?
Please send submissions of 2,500 – 5,000 words and a 500 word abstract to Cynthia Foo (foo.cynthia@gmail.com) AND Maia Dauner (mdauner@mail.rochester.edu)

Call for Papers from Critical Half
Global Women’s Movements in Changing Societies
Deadline for Submissions: June 16, 2008
Women for Women International, a non-profit humanitarian organization, seeks submissions for the Fall 2008 issue of its bi-annual academic journal, Critical Half. This issue will focus on global women’s movements and women’s movements globally in various contexts, including politics, women’s rights, social change, religion, and economic endeavors. Women’s movements may be global in their organization or effects, as in the international feminist movement, or they may be global in their concerns but local or ‘grassroots’ in their organization and immediate impact. Papers might consider the genesis and logistics of women’s movements; the underlying ideological concerns which give rise to and sustain, or counteract, these movements; or the interaction of women’s movements with local, regional, and global organizations, such as religious groups, political parties, or local or international local women’s groups. Papers which address issues of women’s movements in conflict and post-conflict societies, developing countries, and trans-national contexts are particularly encouraged. Articles should be 2,000-2,500 words long. For further information, including topic suggestions, article possibilities, and submission guidelines, please see http://www.womenforwomen.org/cfpapers.htm

Call for Submissions
TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism is now accepting submissions for two issues:
Trivia Issue #7/8, an open double issue:
Deadline June 13, 2008
TRIVIA is a free twice-yearly online literary journal, publishes literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews. We encourage writers to take risks with language and form so as to give their ideas the most original and vital expression possible. TRIVIA's larger purpose is to foster a body of rigorous, creative and independent feminist thought.
See our submission guidelines for details: http://www.triviavoices.net

Trivia Issue #9, *Are lesbians going extinct?*
Deadline December 12, 2008
In an essay written in 1983, Nicole Brossard wrote: “/Une lesbienne qui ne reinvente pas le monde est une lesbienne en voie de disparition./” (A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian going extinct.) At that time, the phrase made very good sense. As writers, thinkers, activists, and in our day-to-day lives we felt (many of us) compelled to reinvent a world in which we were for the most part invisible if not unthinkable, a world whose values we largely rejected. Today, over 20 years later, we are accepted, even embraced, by mainstream culture-- as co-workers, wives, mothers, talk show hosts-- in ways we could not have imagined then. But are we still reinventing the world? Is there still a radical edge to the word “lesbian”? Or are we now, by Brossard’s definition, a disappearing species? We want to hear from young lesbians as well as anyone who ever embraced and/or lived this notion of lesbians as political trailblazers, radical visionaries. If you still identify as lesbian, what does it mean to you to be a lesbian today? In what relationship do your politics stand to your sexuality? Do you still see lesbians as a vanguard? See yourself as reinventing the world? If you no longer identify as lesbian, are there political/cultural reasons for this? Are there aspects of lesbian existence that you miss? Are glad to be free of? Do you still identify as a political trailblazer, a radical visionary? We welcome responses in the form of essays, poems, stories, creative nonfiction, and any in-between genres.
See our submission guidelines for details: http://www.triviavoices.net
TRIVIA : Voices of Feminism is an online relaunch of TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas, an award-winning international feminist literary magazine published from 1982 to 1995. The online journal is a team effort by veteran feminist editors Lise Weil, founding editor of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, and Harriet Ellenberger, founding editor of Sinister Wisdom, the world's longest running lesbian journal, in collaboration with feminist geek web developer Susan Kullmann.

Call for Papers from thirdspace
The Future Landscape of Sexualities
Deadline: June 20, 2008
/thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture/ invites contributions for its forthcoming issue on ‘The Future Landscape of Sexualities.’ Recognizing the central role which discussions of sexuality, identity, and culture have played in recent feminist scholarship, this issue will consider how sexuality informs gendered identities, as well as nodes of power including, race, class, ability, age, culture, nation, and religion. What does the future hold for human sexualities and sexual identities? How might current practices, assumptions, power relations, and identities shape these future sexualities? What new forms might sexualities evolve into in the future? How might these future sexualities transcend/reproduce current definitions of, and ideologies concerning, sexuality and sexual identity?

Possible topics include: future utopic and dystopic sexualities; role(s) of technologies (reproductive, virtual, synthetic) in the evolution and expression of sexuality; the evolution of sex work; queer sexualities; inversions and convergences of sexuality and identity (including female masculinities and male femininities); the future of ‘normative’ masculinities and femininities; sexualities and colour, sexualities and dis/ability, sexualities and age; depictions of future sexualities in fiction, film, music, and art. Papers that ground speculation about the future with historical analyses of past transitions in sexualities are also welcome.
They 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 women’s/gender studies are particularly encouraged. They accept the submission of work from scholars of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from emerging feminist scholars, including graduate students.

All submissions to the journal must be submitted electronically through their online submission process. All submissions are peer-reviewed by established, senior feminist scholars. For more information on our publishing policies see:
http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/about/editorialPolicies
To submit: Please follow our online submission process at http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/about/submissions
For more information, please contact us at info [at] thirdspace.ca

Call for Papers for 2008 Fall and Winter Issues
Asian Women is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural journal, which is published in English by the Research Institute of Asian Women at Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea.
Ongoing and
Deadline June 30th for Fall and September 30th for Winter
Asian Women seeks submission for gender issues. We are accepting the submission for recent gender issues such as women and welfare, women's rights, eco-feminism, health, women and bio-technology, women and history, men's studies and other relevant themes in gender studies. Submissions that are based on collaborative or independent scholarship are welcome. For the information regarding submission guidelines, we will send you the call for papers. Please visit our English homepage in order to get more information about guidelines for contributors. Address: 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea 140-742; Email: asianfem@sm.ac.kr English Homepage: http://riaw.sookmyung.ac.kr

Call for submissions
Queer Excursions: New Directions In Language, Gender And Sexuality Research
Editors: Jenny Davis, Joshua Raclaw, and Lal Zimman (Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Abstracts due June 30, 2008.
First round of full drafts due September 1, 2008.
Submissions are invited for a new edited volume in the field of language, gender, and sexuality that seeks to expand the present scope of these research areas. The volume will showcase work that considers how speakers (re)produce gender and sexuality outside of the traditional dichotomies that have been dominant in both scholarship and popular discourses. Topics of chapters currently under consideration focus on issues of linguistic practice among understudied communities such as female-to-male transsexuals, genderqueer individuals, tomboys and their girlfriends in Indonesia, polyamorists and other non-monogamists, and members of Native American two-spirit groups; additionally, much of this work underscores the theoretical limitations of a sociolinguistics driven by binary categorization. The editors welcome abstracts from scholars working within various disciplinary traditions, including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse and rhetorical analysis, gender and queer studies, and others.

Background: The past two decades have seen a significant rise in what has been termed a poststructuralist sociolinguistics, a shift reflected in the adoption of a wide range of third-wave feminist and queer stances within language, gender and sexuality research. Adopting the trend toward critical examination of the dominant dichotomization of gender and sexuality, researchers within the last decade have considered additional intersections such as class and ethnicity, have deconstructed the traditional primacy assigned to male/female difference, and have established the importance of examining queer subjecthood. Yet research that looks at gender and sexuality as positioned outside of dichotomous categorizations – such as transgenderism and transsexuality, third and fourth gender categories, bisexuality and pansexuality – has been less forthcoming. Indeed, with few exceptions, the field has paid little attention to how social actors might challenge such binary categories through lingu!istic means, or to how speakers enact gendered and sexual identities outside of the dominant categories of male and female, heterosexual and homosexual. Rather than just constituting a simple gap in the literature, such trends potentially contribute to the reinforcement of traditional gender and sexual dichotomies by reinforcing the invisibility of those groups and individuals that remain outside of them (cf. Bing and Bergvall 1996).

Submission Guidelines: Potential contributors should email a 500-1000 word abstract, including a title and a description of the topic of the proposed chapter, theoretical frameworks and methodologies employed, and how this work is situated outside of, or provides new insight into or potential challenges to, the binaries discussed above. Complete manuscripts are also welcome for submission at this time. Please restrict these submissions to a maximum length of 10,000 words and follow the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics (located at http://www.linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs/JournalUnifiedStyleSheet2007.pdf). Please direct all correspondence to the editors at jennifer.davis@colorado.edu, raclaw@colorado.edu, zimman@colorado.edu

Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Special Issue:
Knowledge that Matters: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology and Science Studies
Deadline: September 1st, 2008
http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/frontiers/submit.html
Theme: Gender, race, sexuality, and power are intricately connected to the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge. This special issue of Frontiers will consider emerging scholarship on the topic of feminist epistemology, methodology, and science and technology studies Suggested Topics: How do we do science responsibly after the feminist critique of science? Can science serve social justice in ways that expand democratic participation and empowerment? How do formations of class, gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and differences unspecified determine the social structure of technology and science, the questions considered relevant within it, and the outcomes that emerge from it? What is the convergence between how we think about social reproduction and the gendered/radicalized division of labor within science, and our understanding of why we have the science (and scientists) we have? How can we do better? What are some promising new or emerging methodological strategies that can help us to understand the way science and technology construct and govern subjects? How can we build more sustained relationships between science and technology studies and women and gender studies?
Guidelines: Authors’ names should not appear on the manuscript; please list contact information separately CFP Address: Submissions can be sent by email or on a disc to: Mary Margaret Fonow, Women and Gender Studies Program, Arizona State University, PO Box 873404, Tempe, AZ 85287-2357 Contact: Mary Margaret Fonow campbn2@rpi.edu

The Role of Visual Culture in War: Radical History Review (RHR)
Issue #106: Taking Sides: The Role of Visual Culture in War, Occupation and Resistance
Deadline November 15, 2008
The RHR solicits contributions for a special issue on visual culture in war, occupation and resistance. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 106 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Winter 2009. Please see RHR link for more information on topics. Submissions should be submitted electronically, as an attachment, to rhr@igc.org with "Issue 106 submission" in the subject line. For artwork, send images as high-resolution digital files (each image as a separate file). For preliminary e-mail inquiries, include "Issue 106" in the subject line.

Call for Submissions
Women and Language
A special issue dedicated to “Hip Hop’s Languages of Love”
Deadline no later than January 15, 2009
Women and Language, an international, interdisciplinary research periodical publishing thought provoking essays and inquiries, book reviews, bibliographies, and more, on topics of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in communication, language and gender, will be edited for this special issue by Ebony A. Utley and Brenda J. Allen. The issue will focus on love in hip hop as it relates to language and gender, to be published in the Fall of 2009. Critical examination of hip hop’s languages of love is important because despite its crude stereotypes, hip hop is an often-consulted source on the subject. We intend to expand the definition of love by embracing its complexities. We seek perspectives on love that are not singular and do not polarize. For instance, we welcome manuscripts that address diverse sexual identities and relationships. Moreover, our definition of hip hop extends beyond rap music to embrace an entire culture that includes other forms of music, dance, visual art, comedy, fashion, film, poetry, journalism, literature, scholarship, and politics. The culture’s influences are readily found in media, professional athletics, and religious and educational institutions, just to name a few of the major sites. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
· How is language used to portray intimacy among and between men and women in hip hop?
· What role does the language of passion play in hip hop’s heterosexual and homoerotic spaces?
· What relationships exist among language, love, and the pornographic in hip hop?
· What language patterns and definitions represent commitment (or the lack thereof) in hip hop among individuals, between individuals and the industry, and/ or between individuals and the art of performance?
· In what ways does self-love manifest in hip hop?
· What relationships exist between the love of the divine and the language of hip hop?
· What are the ramifications of conceptualizing hip hop as a love-filled or loveless space?
We invite scholars from diverse disciplines, experiences, and backgrounds to consider such questions in a special issue devoted to hip hop and love. We seek pieces that take theoretical, critical, scientific or creative approaches to developing an understanding of the interactive dynamics of hip hop, love, language, and gender. Submissions can range from theoretical or critical analysis to personal experience, to reports of research, to book or film reviews, book notices, or poetry.
Submissions should be sent as MS Word attachments to Ebony A. Utley at hiphoplove09@gmail.com Author identifications should appear in the body of the email and not with the paper itself. Any material that includes references should be prepared following the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Manual. Preferred maximum length of submissions is 15 pages or 3600 words, but longer articles will be considered. If you would like to discuss your ideas in advance with the editors, please e-mail Ebony A. Utley: hiphoplove09@gmail.com. Any questions related to other issues involving W & L should be directed to Ataylor@gmu.edu.

Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines
Journal of Hate Studies
The Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate* is soliciting submissions for the seventh volume of the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Journal of Hate Studies.
Deadline February 1, 2009
We are interested in papers from various disciplines that address "The Science of Hate." This may include research and knowledge about hate's origins and manifestations seen through the lenses of empirical sciences that rely on experimental, quantifiable data or the scientific method and emphasize reliability and validity. We are also interested in papers that explore solutions and strategies for addressing hate from an empirical perspective, as well as methods and content that may combat the manifestation of hate. A special invitation is extended to scholars from disciplines such as biology, medicine, chemistry, economics, genetics, cybernetic evolution, and the neurosciences. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines.
Submissions should be between 5000-10,000 words. Submissions should include one hard copy and an electronic copy in MS Word format. Please do not submit PDF files. Submissions should be presented in APA format and contain endnotes rather than footnotes.
Address submissions and questions to the Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate, AD Box 43 , 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane WA 99258-0043; email address: againsthate@gonzaga.edu; phone: (509) 323-3665.
The Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate was founded as a positive and enduring vehicle for combating hate and hate crimes on campuses and in communities throughout the nation. The Institute’s primary goal is to focus multi-disciplinary academic resources on the causes and effects of hate as well as potential strategies for combating hate. Please visit us at www.gonzaga.edu./againsthate.

Call for Submissions
“Best Bi Short Stories”
(Open deadline)
http://www.biwriters.org Requirements & Publishing Info: Short stories should be max length 15,000 words/30 pages and preferably in Word. Deadline has not yet been imposed but we can’t wait to see your work! We plan to submit to traditional publishers: therefore we need to gather some material for the proposal. However if all else fails we will self-publish. Title page of manuscript should have in the upper left corner or centered on top: Story title & author\'s pen name (or legal name if the same) on first line, author\'s legal name, email address, street address and phone number. If story has been published anywhere before please state when and where. Contact: Sheela Lambert
E-Mail: info@biwriters.org

Journal of International Women's Studies
(Open 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. JIWS accepts book review submissions that have not been previously published or that are not currently under consideration by other journals or publications. Book review articles may vary and range from 1,000 to 2,500 words. For further information on the style and content required for the books reviews, please see website.
Contact: Suzanne Baker suzbaker@twmi.rr.com

NWSA Journal
(Open deadline)
http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/ The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Women’s 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 Women’s 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. Our current rate of acceptance is 20%.
Suggested Topics:
• Women in international perspectives; e.g. place and diaspora studies, immigration
• Feminist theory and research methodologies, including global feminism
• Women and science
• Women and religion, including fundamentalism
• Women, girls and education
• Ecology, ecofeminism, health and the environment
• Feminist generations: the future of feminism, young feminists, children
• Postcolonial studies
• Women and activism
• Women and the arts
• Women writers: autobiographies and reflexive writings
• Race, class, sexualities, and gender intersections
• Women and the media
• Women and disabilities
• Women’s history
• Feminist pedagogy
Guidelines: Send one e-copy and two print copies of your manuscript (20-30 pages, doubled spaced), with parenthetical notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style
CFP Address: Becky Ropers-Huilman, Editor
NWSA Journal
Louisiana State University
146 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Contact: Managing editor, Brenda Macon nwsaj@lsu.edu

Qui Parle
(Open 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. Guidelines: Please contact the editors if you are interested in submitting an article for Qui Parle or if you have any further questions about the journal. For more information please visit Qui Parle at the Indiana University Press at http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/qui or at http://quiparle.berkeley.edu
CFP Address: Inquiries or submission can be sent in hard copy or electronically to:
Qui Parle
Att: Editors
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2340
Contact: Diana Anders, Nima Bassiri, Michelle Branch, Kelvin Black, Peter Skafish
quiparle@berkeley.edu

Women's Studies International Forum
(Open 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

Conference Announcements

Canadian Women’s Studies Association/L'association Canadienne Des Études Sur Les Femmes (Cwsa/Acef) Penser sans frontières: Thinking Beyond Borders m- Global Ideas: Global Values / Idées mondiales: valeurs mondiales.
June 1st – 3rd, 2008
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
To join, please visit www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef.

Inclusive Science: Articulating Theory, Practice, and Action
Hold the Dates for a Revolutionary Conference!
June 16, 17, 18, 2008
Visit our website www.stkate.edu/inclusive_science

Teaching for a Change: Tradition & Possibility
June 16-18, 2008
Park City, Utah
http://www.teachingforachange.com/

Society for Disability Studies 21st Annual Conference , Cosmopolitan Disability Studies: Crips the City
New York City, June 18-22, 2008
SDS website www.disstudies.org.

NWSA Conference 2008
June 19-22, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire.
Additional information can be found here: http://www.nwsaconference.org/
The National Women's Studies Association 28th annual conference will open with three pre-conferences for Program administration and Development, Women’s Centers, Students. These day-long events (students 1/2 day) offer networking and professional development opportunities for women’s and gender studies and women’s center administrators on Thursday, June 28. Registration available: http://www.nwsa.org/

12th Annual American Indian Studies Summer Institute
June 23-27, 2008 at the Oneida Nation Elementary School, Oneida, WI
More info available soon on www.dpi.state.wi.us/amind
Or contact J P Leary -- jp.leary@dpi.wi.gov

10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women
New Frontiers: Dares and Advancements
Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds 2008 (MMWW08)
'Equality: No Utopia'
University Complutense of Madrid (UCM-Main Campus at Moncloa), Spain
July 3-9, 2008
Women´s Worlds is the most important congress on academic research on gender and women and feminist social movements. It is a major international event with a main goal: to continue the fight against social injustice and gender inequalities. Feminist researchers, specialists, activists and internationally known public figures will use this opportunity to reflect on important contemporary issues that affect women in specific ways. The University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) was elected in Seoul (WW05) to be the home for the 2008 congress edition. Thus, Madrid, the UCM, will welcome thousands of people from around the Globe and from more than a hundred countries for the 10th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women.
For more information, contact:
Contact: Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds, Av. Juan de Herrera s/n, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain, Tel: +34 91 3941027/ +34 91 1171
Fax: +34 91 3941171, Email: mainoffice@mmww08.org, Website: http://www.mmww08.org

The Society for Women and the Civil War presents:
Women at Gettysburg: The 10th Conference on Women and the Civil War
Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
July 25-27, 2008
For more information on speakers, topics, field trips and other conference related events, visit swcw.org or e-mail call2post@gmail.com

Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP) and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN-ISDR)!

Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance
Gender and Climate Change
October 19-22, 2008
Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Women and environment experts have raised concern over the absence of women in the discourse and debate on climate change, a global mainstream issue that is currently impacting the entire world. The involvement of women in areas of environmental management and governance should not be perceived as an afterthought. Women's roles are of considerable importance in the promotion of environmental ethics. The current imperative is for women to understand the phenomenon of climate change and its impacts and implications at the individual, household, community and national levels. Studies show that women have a definite information deficit on climate politics and climate protection. Only with this information can women take their proper, significant and strategic role in the issue of climate change. Invited to this congress are women parliamentarians, women in decision - making and governance, environment organizations, youth Leaders and Media Practitioners

The Congress will have the following objectives:
Overall Purpose: To provide a forum for women legislators, and women in decision making and environment organizations at all levels, in formulating gender-responsive legislation and policies.
Specific Objectives:

a) To understand the phenomenon of climate change, its impacts and implications;

b) to review and examine the gender aspects of climate change and formulate appropriate actions to address such;

c) to define the roles women can play in addressing the issues of climate change at the global, national and sub-national levels; and

d) to identify and define the action agenda for parliamentarians, policy advocates and women leaders to support global and national actions to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Congress Proceedings:
The discussion on gender and climate change will be organized around identifying the challenges to action as well as defining the appropriate responses to effectively address the impacts of climate change. Inputs to the discussion will be collected and organized around: 1) geographic location and 2) types of actions: i.e. preparedness, risk reduction: building community resilience; adaptation; and mitigation. Cross cutting these discussions will be the identification of technologies in aid of responding to climate change. The focus of the discussions will revolve around defining and elaborating actions (i.e. preparedness, disaster risk reduction, adaptation, and mitigation) to cope with climate change and its impacts. Preparedness and disaster risk reduction is about building individual and community capacities to position themselves and their communities so that the likelihood of climate change-induced disasters is reduced; the intensity or adverse impacts of disasters are cushioned and that inhabitants are able to respond promptly, expeditiously and effectively. Adaptation entails actions that moderate harm, or exploit benefits, of climate change. Mitigation entails actions that minimizes or cushions the adverse impacts of climate change. In all of these actions, special attention will be given to defining how women and gender could be mainstreamed. In other words, the Congress should define how women can be given the social space to participate, influence, and benefit from global and local responses to climate change.
The registration fee for the four day congress is One thousand five hundred fifty US Dollars (US$ 1,550.) per person for twin room sharing accommodations (two persons in one room) and one thousand nine hundred fifty US Dollars (US$ 1,950.) per person for single room accommodations (one person in one room). We are sending you the detailed information sheet (which contains the registration form) as an attachment to this email.
The training will be held on Oct 19-22, 2008. However, the participants will be requested to be in Manila the day before, October 18, 2008 and leave Manila only on October 23, 2008. The overnight hotel accommodation on October 18, 2008 is already included in the fee. Participants will be billeted in the Dusit Hotel, the venue of the congress and hotels near the Dusit Hotel, accessible within walking distance. Room accommodations in the Dusit Hotel, the venue of the Congress will be on a first come - first served basis. You can also download the full information sheet and registration form for this Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance from our website,
Importance of the Congress

· Today, on the average, one person out of nineteen in a developing country will be hit by a climate disaster, compared to 1 out of 1,500 in an OECD country. Climate change creates life time traps: in Niger, a child born during a drought is 72 percent more likely to be stunted than a child born during a normal season.
Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance.

• The Theme of “Gender and Climate Change” is the first time this will be discussed in a forum whose objective is to formulate gender responsive legislation and policies for national governments and parliaments.

We truly hope that the environment organizations will find this forum a good opportunity to advocate gender and climate change policies and programs through gender responsive legislation to the women parliamentarians, decision makers, the youth leaders, media and the funding agencies/organizations. Let us join hands in promoting gender responsive governance through transformative leadership and citizenship. We are looking forward to your participation.

Call for Conference Papers and Proposals

Congress on Research on Dance
Dance Studies and Global Feminisms
41st Annual Conference : Hollins University , Roanoke, Virginia
November 14 - 16, 2008
Deadline: May 15, 2008
Keynote speaker: Trihn T. Mihn-Ha, Professor of Women's Studies and Rhetoric (Film) at the University of California, Berkeley. The market forces of globalization tend to flatten the uneven terrain of spaces and map out the world in terms of flow of capital. How, within this context, can we create a resistant feminine space of Dance Studies? What would that space look like, how would it feel? How are feminist concerns constructed within dance studies, and how are they negotiated? How have global feminisms emerged, and what can they do? What can dance studies do in relation to the space of a global feminine? How has "the feminine" survived asymmetrical tensions of market forces? We invite presentations that will speak to the emergence of a global feminine and strategies of resistance, mobilization, and art-making. We are especially interested in presentations that reach outside the traditional realms of research topics: unwieldy locations; impossible subjectivities; anarchic formulations of dance and its study. We are also interested in proposals that focus on the current status of dance studies and the role and function of scholarly organizations to address an increasingly global context for scholarship, research, and practice. See website for details and registration form http://www.cordance.org/

Call for papers, panels and seminars
Lifting the Belly High: A Conference on Women’s Poetry Since 1900
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
September 11, 12 & 13, 2008
Deadline May 16^th, 2008
We invite panel, paper and seminar topic proposals on women’s poetry since 1900, including but not limited to the direction of scholarship about women’s poetry; producing, accessing and editing texts; pedagogical approaches to experimental writing; neglected issues in women’s poetry; the work of individual poets or clusters of poets; spirituality and religion; and the separatist anthology issue.

· Individual paper submissions should be limited to abstracts of 300 words. Please include your name and contact information.

· Panel proposals should include a rationale as well as paper abstracts of no more than 300 words each. Please include the name and contact information of each participant.

· Seminar proposals should name the panel organizer(s), state a rationale for the topic, explain the discussion format plans and specify an ideal number of participants.

Send submissions electronically to womenspoetry@yahoo.com or by mail to: Women Poets, English Department, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15282. Conference Organizers Elisabeth Joyce, Linda Kinnahan, Elizabeth Savage, Ellen McGrath Smith Questions may be directed to womenspoetry@yahoo.com. For more information and guidelines go here: http://www.duq.edu/womenpoets/

Call for Papers
The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 10.2 of the
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Fall/Winter 2008
Mothers and Daughters
Submissions must be received by May 15, 2008
To submit work, one must be a member of ARM
ARM’s first conference in 1997 was on the topic of “Mothers and Daughters”. As well, this topic was a central theme at ARM’s 10th anniversary conference “The Motherlode” in 2006. The ARM journal though has yet to do a journal issue on this important motherhood theme. Consequently, the ARM journal has chosen the topic of “Mothers and Daughters” for the second issue of its 10th volume. We invite submissions on the topic of “Mothers and Daughters” from a variety of perspectives and on a wide range of themes. Submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area are welcome. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged .
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/vol10no2.html
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Articles should be 15 pages (3750 words).
All should be MLA style, in WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.
Please see our style guide for complete details: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html
Please direct your submissions to:
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM), 726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3 Or visit our website at www.yorku.ca/arm

Call for papers
A one-day symposium on the global sexually explicit imagery
September 30, 2008, in Athens, Greece
Deadline May 20^th, 2008
The symposium is intended as a forum that will explore the ways in which the sexually explicit imagery is socialized through technological, political economic, cultural and other processes. The symposium aims at bringing together scholars working on the broader field of pornography in order to explore, analyze and articulate the need to review and revisit academic, political and cultural understandings of pornography and analyze law and policy based responses to its changing nature, as a global media industry, a form of cultural product with global reach and power to shape meaning and values, as well as an actor affecting public policy. The symposium aims to facilitate the possibility for collaborative research agendas and policy analysis and intervention and is organized within the framework of the British Academy funded project, managed by Katharine Sarikakis (University of Leeds) and Liza Tsaliki (University of Athens)
They welcome contributions from scholars from around the world and various backgrounds (political science, media and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies etc.). We are interested in papers that involve theoretical, empirical work or work in progress, comparative or case studies, meta-analytical as well as speculative approaches. Topics can address a number of areas, including:

· socialization of youth through porn and porn-defined popular culture and genres (pornorap; suggestive advertising etc) -political economic dimensions of the global pornography industry: labour conditions,; mergers, new geographies of production and consumption

· intellectual property and control over image/profits related issues

· processes of mainstreaming of pornography: tactics, strategies, channels, profits, connection to mainstream media and culture

· conditions of production and consumption and impact on citizenship and democracy

· links to the broader sex industry: human trafficking, sexual slavery, human vulnerability and prostitution, sex clubs etc

· policies and laws on ANY of the aforementioned issues as linked to the production and consumption of the sexually explicit imagery/pornography in national and global contexts -theoretical/analytical interventions on terms, conceptualization of problematique, frameworks of policy and law