WSC e-bulletin - October 2006

Women's Studies Consortium e-bulletin   WSC e-bulletin October 2006   WSC e-bulletin Volume 6, No. 4   WSC e-bulletin e-mail: WSCOffice@uwsa.edu     WSC e-bulletin is a project of the Women's Studies Consortium (WSC) of the University of Wisconsin System WSC e-bulletin is a statewide women's studies communications project. Please forward this information as you deem appropriate. Women's Studies Administrators, please forward the WSC e-bulletin to your campus list. The WSC e-bulletin features updates on academic and outreach opportunities and issues affecting women's studies faculty and programs in the University of Wisconsin System. Your contributions are invited. Contact the Women's Studies Consortium Office at WSCOffice@uwsa.edu.   In this issue ... DIRECTOR'S REPORT 2006-07 CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS ADDITIONAL UW SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENTS WOMEN'S STUDIES LIBRARIAN WOMEN & SCIENCE PROGRAM CALLS FOR MANUSCRIPTS, ARTICLES CALLS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS SERVICE-LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES MISCELLANEOUS DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS

FROM THE DIRECTOR

October is drawing to a close very quickly. There are a number of local and national events that influence our faculty, students and staff as individuals and academic professionals, including opportunities to come together as an academic community that sees its work related to larger social, economic, and political patterns of change.

Upcoming Conferences, Exhibitions, and Awards
Please note that the November 1 deadline is very near to return proposals for the 31st Annual Women's Studies Conference which will be held April 20-21, 2007 at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus. This year's theme is INTERSECTIONALITIES In Women's Studies: Research, Teaching, and Activism. The annual women's studies conference runs all day Friday and half the day Saturday. The event annually provide forums for the exchange of ideas about the theory and practice of Women's Studies and Gender Studies teaching, scholarship, and activism, and provide the opportunity to make visible the important work that continues to transform higher education in Wisconsin.

This year the UW System Inclusivity Initiative will be sponsoring the second annual LGBTQ Spring Conference:"Scholarship. Community. Activism." which will be held from mid-day April 21 through April 22, also at the Pyle Center. Participants will be able to attend both events for one registration fee or choose daily registrations. Send in your conference proposals to the address listed below by November 1. Watch for registration materials in January.

The 35th anniversary of the Feminist Art Movement is being celebrated in a multi-year national Feminist Art Project http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/ featuring activities and exhibitions that celebrate women's contributions to the arts and the Feminist Art Movement. Feminism has had a significant impact on contemporary art practice internationally. This project aims to document and highlight this influence in the cultural record: past, present, and future. In keeping with the project this year an exhibition of contemporary feminist art is being planned in conjunction with the Women's Studies Consortium co-sponsored events to be hosted at the UW-Madison Pyle Center in April 2007. The exhibition is entitled INTERSECTIONALITIES The Feminist in Art. Submissions are due January 2, 2007 for an exhibition that will run from March 21-April 21, 2007. This exhibition is part of the nation wide effort to acknowledge and commemorate historic anniversaries in the American Women's Art Movement of the 70's and to launch new initiatives that demonstrate the ongoing significance of women's contributions to art. See links below.

This year is the twelfth anniversary of the annual Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards. Campuses are currently identifying the individuals who will receive the 2007 Outstanding Women of Color in Education award. The event will take place Saturday, April 21st at Lowell Hall on the UW-Madison campus. Watch here for updates: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/woc/woc.htm

Also notice the call for proposals listed below for the National Women's Studies Association. It is due November 1st as well. It is always rewarding to meet other Wisconsin scholars, student, teachers, and activists participating in the national Women's Studies community. This year the June conference will be in St. Charles, Illinois. See link below.

Acknowledgements

Those of you who have been involved in the Wisconsin Women's Studies community for any length of time will understand what it means that one of our real leaders has just retired. Dr. Fran Garb is happily adjusting to a life without commuting since her retirement in early October from the UW System Office of Academic and Student Services. Fran's roots are in the science classroom and her commitments have always been profoundly with the students. During her time at UW System as a Senior Academic Planner Fran left her mark in many ways, usually behind the scenes, including working to make the planning for many of our new academic programs stronger. She also served as both the interim director of the Women's Studies Consortium in 1999-2000 and later as the interim director of the Women & Science Program. Women's Studies in Wisconsin would not be as strong as it is without Dr. Fran Garb's unceasing support and leadership. We expect to see her at the spring conference where you can congratulate and thank her in person.

We welcome Dr. Lisa Beckstrand to the UW System Office of Academic and Student Services. In addition to her other duties, Lisa will work with Denise Clark in the coordination of Inclusivity Initiative Activities. Lisa has a background in French and Women and Gender Studies, and has a book on Women of the French revolution coming out next year.

Below are a number of websites for local and national resources:

• Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence - www.wcadv.org
• National Network to End Domestic Violence - www.nnedv.org
• Stop Family Violence www.StopFamilyViolence.org
• Family Violence Prevention Fund - www.endabuse.org
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence http://www.ncadv.org
• National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women - www.vawnet.org/
• Battered Women's Justice Project - http://www.bwjp.org/

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

Finally, we all know that November 7th is a very important date. Remember to VOTE!

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

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2006-2007 CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS IN WISCONSIN

Academic year 2006-2007 is packed with useful and exciting events in women's studies and related issues. Put them on your calendars now!

• November 1, 2006
  Call for Proposals for 31st Annual Wisconsin Women's Studies Conference http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/annualconf.htm
   
• November 1, 2006
  Call for Proposals for 2nd Annual UW System LGBTQ Conference
  http://LGBTQ.uwsa.edu/news_events.htm
   
• November 2-3, 2006
  Women & Science Program Opening Workshop for New STEM faculty
   
• January 2, 2007
  Call for participants due for an exhibition of Feminist Art, in conjunction with the national Feminist Art Project, INTERSECTIONALITIES: The Feminist in Art
  March 21 - April 21, 2007
  Pyle Center, UW-Madison
  http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/conf07/FemArt.htm
   
• April 19, 2007
  Women's Studies Consortium Advisory Council Meeting
   
• April 20-21, 2007
  31st Annual Wisconsin Women's Studies Conference
  http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/annualconf.htm
   
• April 20, 2007
  Reception for the exhibition, INTERSECTIONALITIES: The Feminist in Art.
  http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/conf07/FemArt.htm
   
• April 21, 2007
  12th Annual Outstanding Women of Color in Education awards and ceremony, UW-Madison, in conjunction with the 31st Annual Wisconsin Women Studies Conference
  http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/woc/woc.htm
   
• April 21, 2007
  Second annual UW System Inclusivity Initiative LGBTQ Conference also in conjunction with the annual Wisconsin Women's Studies Conference.
  http://LGBTQ.uwsa.edu/news_events.htm
   
• May 17, 2007
  Women & Science Spring Advisory Board Meeting
   
• May 17-18, 2007
  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, and improving the climate for all women at all University of Wisconsin institutions.

ADDITIONAL UW SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENTS

Study Abroad Opportunity for Women's Studies Students
Tell your students about the upcoming UW-LaCrosse Women's Studies Study tour in Ireland, summer 2007. Course options: Violence Against Women; History of Motherhood; Psychology of Women. Cost approximately $4000, including airfare, lodging, and tuition. Contact Sandi Krajewski for more information at krajewsk.sand@uwlax.edu, http://www.uwlax.edu/WomensStudies/

Feminism in the City: Internship in Women's Studies
Tell your students about the UW-Milwaukee Center for Women's Studies semester long internship program. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Center for Women's Studies. At UWM, the Women's Studies program is built on a wide range of scholarship and instruction that addresses women in all their diversity, including race, class, sexuality, age, and ability. Women's Studies courses offer all students attractive curricular options that allow them to understand their diverse cultural experiences within an intellectual setting that supports their educational success and encourages them to complete their degrees. The 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 Women's 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 program is offered during Spring semester only.

The process for admitting students from other UW campuses into the UWM Women's Studies' Semester in the City program very closely parallels the UW-System's "study abroad" process. Their advisors confirm that the courses will fulfill graduation requirements, that their home institutions will accept credit for the work they do while in residence at UWM. After they have clearance, students who wish to study at UWM for one semester will have to complete a UWM application form. If accepted, they will be admitted to UWM as Special Students. The UWM Center for Women's Studies does not play an active role in the enrollment process, however, the UWM Center for Women's Studies will provide assistance to students whenever possible. Student housing is at a premium on the UWM campus. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that students from other UW campuses who enroll in the Semester in the City program will be able to obtain housing on-campus, however, we will make every effort to help them do so. Students who are interested in participating in the program are encouraged to contact the UWM Center for Women's Studies as early as possible in the previous fall semester to start making their housing arrangements.

CONTACT INFORMATION: Center for Women's Studies, Bolton Hall, Room 735, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, Telephone: 414-229-5918, Fax: 414-229-6855, E-mail: womens@uwm.edu

Institute for Race and Ethnicity Reading Seminars on Racial/Ethnic Topics.
Grant application due November 10, 2006
The IRE Campus Reading Seminar Grants support reading groups and scholarly exchange by making funds available for the purchase of books. They are currently accepting applications for 2006-2007.
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE

Call for Presentations: "Spaces of Civic Engagement"
American Democracy Project North Central Regional Conference, April 12-14, 2007, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Submission deadline November 15, 2006
Civic engagement takes place in many forms. Whether it's designing environmentally friendly buildings, expressing our opinions on blogs, or creating safe climates in the classroom, we make a difference in our respective communities at physical, virtual, and social-psychological levels. This conference invites you to explore the myriad spaces where students, faculty, alumni, staff and local residents can come together to exchange ideas, solve problems, and improve the physical and intellectual environments on college campuses.

Presentations for this conference should relate to one of three conference themes:

• Physical Spaces of Civic Engagement could include such topics as architecture, lighting, classrooms, libraries student centers, coffee houses, outdoor landscapes, campus malls, green building practices and natural habitat areas. Presentations should address how physical spaces can reflect positive and sustainable civic engagement.
• Virtual Spaces of Civic Engagement could include such web-related topics as web-based learning, text messaging, podcasting, blogging, digital imaging, as well as user generated websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Ebay, Craig's List, etc. Presentations should address how virtual spaces can reflect positive and sustainable civic engagement.
• Social-Psychological Spaces of Civic Engagement could include such topics as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and economic class.  Presentations should address how individual and collective states of mind create spaces for positive and sustainable civic engagement.

Please visit http://www.uwrf.edu/dos/adp/proposals.html to download the presentation proposal form.

Teaching Forum
Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Lesson Study
Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2007

Teaching Forum is an on-line biennial publication of the University of Wisconsin System's Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID). It provides a venue for peer-reviewed publication of exemplary "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" work, serving as a change agent to demonstrate the scholarly nature and applied value of SoTL in higher education.

The spring 2007 issue of Teaching Forum will focus on lesson study, a method for improving teaching and a method for conducting scholarly inquiry into teaching and learning. In lesson study a small team of instructors designs, teaches, observes, analyzes, and refines a single class lesson. Although they focus on a single lesson, instructors question, examine, and reflect on the entire teaching and learning process. A lesson study culminates in a well-crafted lesson and a study that explains what and how students learn from the experience and how the lesson could be further improved. Teaching Forum 's Special Issue on Lesson Study invites scholarly work based on lesson studies. Articles may report the results of lesson studies, explore specific teaching and learning issues that arise from lesson study projects, or focus on the process of lesson study as a method for improving teaching and doing the scholarship of teaching and learning. Teaching Forum invites submissions of the following types of work: Lesson Study Report. Documents both the research lesson and the study of the lesson. It fully describes the research lesson, explains student performance, and suggests improvements to the lesson. Teaching & Learning Article. Examines teaching and learning issues, problems, and practices that arise from a lesson study. These may address issues specific to your discipline or apply to teaching and learning more generally.

Examples:

• An article that explains student misconceptions of a key concept and possible ways to improve students' understanding
• An article about instructional exercises, activities, or tools and their effects on student thinking
• An article that explores questions about teaching a specific topic in your discipline
• A case study that examines changes in instructors' teaching practices or views of teaching as a result of participation in lesson study
• An article that explores student learning in your discipline

Lesson Study Methodology Article. Focuses on the theory and practice of lesson study as a method for improving teaching and/or doing the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Examples:

• An article that examines lesson study as a method of professional development
• An article that focuses on strategies and tools for observing research lessons
• An article that examines lesson study as a form of practitioner research

If you want to discuss whether your work is appropriate for the Teaching Forum issue or want to propose an alternative type of article, please contact Bill Cerbin, Teaching Forum Guest Editor, cerbin.will@uwlax.edu or (608) 785-6881.

Submission Guidelines

General Guidelines for All Manuscripts

• Author identification should not be detectable in the manuscript
• Use Word format, 12-point font, double-space

Guidelines for Specific Types of Articles

• Authors who plan to submit a Lesson Study Report must use the established format and submission procedure described at http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=13081219897681
• Articles that focus on teaching and learning issues or lesson study methodology may be empirical or theoretical, but articles that combine theoretical frameworks with empirical work (based in lesson study) are encouraged. Articles may contain research, analysis, and commentary. Use APA format. Your manuscript should include:
  1. Manuscript Cover Page (Use the form as provided in this downloadable Word document)
  2. Abstract (150 word maximum)
  3. Introduction that clearly describes the purpose of the piece and the issues, problems, or thesis.
  4. Body of the article
  5. References

To Submit Your Manuscript Email the Cover Letter and the Manuscript (with the Manuscript Cover Page) as attachments in Word Format to Bill Cerbin, Guest Editor, Teaching Forum, at cerbin.will@uwlax.edu.

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FROM THE OFFICE OF THE WOMEN'S STUDIES LIBRARIAN

UW System Women's Studies Librarian's website and Internet Resource: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/

The latest issue of FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES (vol. 27, no. 2-3, Winter-Spring 2006) includes the following:
From the Editors
Book Reviews
    "Lost and Damaged: The Perilous American Pregnancy," by Claire Wendland (reviews _Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome_, by Janet Golden, Harvard U. P., 2005; _Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America_, by Linda Layne, Routledge, 2003; and _Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America_, by Rayna Rapp, Routledge, 2000)

    "Changing Voices and Struggles of Feminist Activism," by Nancy Worcester (reviews _Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women_, by Maryann Barakso, Cornell U. P., 2004; _Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism_, by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005; _Tales from the Trenches: Politics and Practice in Feminist Service Organizations_, by Diane Kravetz, University Press of America, 2004; and _The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism_, by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin, eds., Anchor Books, 2004.)

Round-Up: Blogging Women's Studies (includes 6 contributions from WMST-Lers: "Assignment: 'What is a Feminist (Blog)?'," by Mary Thompson; "To Join the Feminist Blogosphere, Click Here!," by Natalie Jolly; "The Personal Can Be Feminist: Blogs in a Writing Course," by Caroline J. Smith; "The Study-Abroad Class Blog: Chronicling Students' Experiences and Indian Feminists' Efforts," by Carolyn Bitzer; "Blogging as a Capstone and Continuing Project," by Samantha A. Morgan-Curtis," and "Blogs, Wikis, E-Zines, and Women's Herstory," by Jennifer Nelson)

"Reproductive Rights in the Blogosphere," by Vicki Tobias

"New Reference Works in Women's Studies," by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, with one by Dineen Grow (reviews of books on women Nobel peace prize winners, Black women in America, American women of the nineteenth century, a companion to women's historical writing, women in early America, historical dictionary of lesbian literature, historical dictionary of feminist philosophy,  and Irish women writers

"E-Sources on Women & Gender"
"Zines from the Stacks: Self-Published Tracts from Lady Library Workers," by Alycia Sellie
"Periodical Notes"
"Items of Note"
"Books and Audiovisuals Recently Received"

Sample articles from issues of FEMINIST COLLECTIONS are available free on http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm.

Subscriptions are quite inexpensive, and in our view, worth a lot more to women's studies folks and librarians, who find our publications a major time saver in keeping up with women's and gender studies in all formats. FEMINIST COLLECTIONS subscriptions (4/yr) also include 4 issues of FEMINIST PERIODICALS: A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENTS (scanned tables of content from about 150 periodicals in English from around the world) and 2 issues of NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN & FEMINISM, a subject-arranged and indexed international bibliography of books in English. Individual subs. outside Wisconsin are $30; $55 for institutions (plus postal surcharge for outside the U.S.) There's a subscription form at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/Subscription.pdf.

FEMINIST COLLECTIONS is also in fulltext in GENDERWATCH and somewhat selectively in CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES databases. NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN & FEMINISM is in WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL database.

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WOMEN & SCIENCE PROGRAM

Women & Science Program Opening Workshop for New STEM faculty
November 2-3, 2006
The New Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Educator Opening Workshop, hosted by the UW System Women & Science Program, is designed to address the goals of:

• providing educators with practical information about student-centered pedagogies as they apply to STEM classes,
• introducing new UWSystem educators to resources that support excellence in teaching, and
• fostering communications between participants.

Opening Workshop evaluations consistently include comments such as, "Graduate school did not prepare me to teach, so I really appreciate learning teaching techniques," and "I can't wait to get back to campus on Monday to meet my classes."

Opportunities for Wisconsin Women in Science, Math, Technology & Engineering
Partnering High School Teachers and Counselors Needed!!
Kick-Off Conference, August 6-8, 2007, UW-Oshkosh
This program will discuss pedagogies and programs that can help you to retain and attract more young women to science, math and pre-engineering courses.

• Partners will develop and accomplish:
• A dissemination plan to reach other professionals in your district
• Pedagogy action plan to implement with your students
• A student survey plan to determine impact of program

Partnering High School Teachers and Counselors will receive (free):

• Three graduate credits (Fall 2007)
• Dissemination and survey materials for your colleagues and students
• Lodging and food during kick-off conference
• Access to grant funds for use in your district ($100 - $500)

Women continue to be underrepresented in science, technology and engineering majors and careers in the US. Help more young women realize their potential as a future scientist or engineer.
For more information about this program, contact the UW System Women & Science Program:
was@uwosh.edu; 920-424-7404 or http://www.uwosh.edu/wis/OWWSTE%20Project.htm

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CALLS FOR MANUSCRIPTS, ARTICLES

Feminist Film & Media and Pedagogy Call for Essays
Deadline December 15, 2006
Over the last thirty years, feminism has greatly enriched the field of Film and Media Studies. Feminist film criticism is now canonical, its theories, methodologies, and passions a central (though not unchallenged) component of the discipline. Importantly, its centrality has had a major impact on University curricula. Classes in feminist film theory are a staple of most graduate and undergraduate film programs, and feminist media is regularly featured in film, media, and women's studies courses. Nonetheless, despite the enormous impact feminist film criticism and practice have had on University education, their relationship to the practical and theoretical issues of pedagogy have been ignored. Save a few notable exceptions, little has been written that explores the relationship of feminist media, feminist film theory, and pedagogy. Because teaching is a vital part of our profession, filling in this blind spot in our scholarship is crucial.

This proposed anthology seeks to redress this lack by bringing together a collection of essays that explore the connections between our research and production interests in feminist film and media and our roles as teachers. This anthology will make an important contribution on two fronts. First, it will provide a critical tool for those of us in the field whose primary responsibilities (and perhaps passions) are teaching. Additionally, it will enhance the field itself by asking what we can learn about film/media studies and practice when we see them through the lens of pedagogy.

Essay topics are open, but potential contributors might want to use the following themes as a springboard:

• The philosophy of feminist film/media pedagogy
• Teaching feminist studies and practice and/as activism
• Feminist film/media scholarship and student accessibility
• Strategies for teaching challenging feminist film theories and media
• The classroom usefulness of the feminist film/media canon
• Alternatives to the feminist film theory classroom and canon
• Using interdisciplinary materials to teach feminist film/media studies
• Teaching feminist theory and feminist media interactively
• The effectiveness of teaching manuals and introductory textbooks
• The "art" of teaching feminist film and media
• Models of best practices of teaching
• Combining theory and practice in the classroom
• Teaching feminist media within and beyond the production classroom
• Teaching the work of women filmmakers- Explorations of pedagogical failures, successes, and development
• Analyses of classrooms, assignments, and collaborative teaching
• Teaching feminist media at research universities, liberal arts institutions, comprehensive universities, and two-year colleges

In addition to more traditional essays, case studies are welcome, essays written in the form of letters to students, interviews with successful teachers and students, and "how-to" guides. Scholars and filmmakers from all stages in their careers are also strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Via regular mail or email, please submit a one-page proposal, along with curriculum vitae, to Kelly Hankin, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, University of Redlands, 1200 East Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92373 Kelly_hankin@redlands.edu (909). Please feel free to write with questions.

TRIVIA: VOICES OF FEMINISM is now accepting submissions for a special issue on feminist writers, thinkers, artists, activists, friends who have passed on.
Deadline: December 15, 2006
*The Resurrection Issue*. Many of our most beloved and radical writers, thinkers, activists, creators, friends, are no longer alive. This issue will be dedicated to the lives and work of well-known feminists who are no longer with us-e.g. Andrea Dworkin, Monique Wittig, Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Gloria Anzaldua, Barbara Macdonald, Susan Sontag, Matilda Joslyn Gage-as well as the multitude of women whose life and work were not widely publicized but deeply affected others. We invite passionate, critical, creative responses to them and their work in any and all forms.

TRIVIA, a free twice-yearly online literary journal, publishes feminist writing in the form of literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews. The journal encourages women 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. The fourth issue of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, "*The Wonderful and the Terrible*" --featuring Jane Caputi, Verena Stefan, Priscille Touraille, Rhonda Pettit, Renate Stendhal, Josephine Donovan and Lenore Wilson--is now online. Read it at http://www.triviavoices.net/

Re/constructing Policy in Higher Education: Perspectives from Feminist Poststructural Policy Analysis
Abstracts received by January 05, 2007 will be considered for inclusion.
Elizabeth Allan (University of Maine), Susan Iverson (Kent State University) and Becky Ropers-Huilman (Louisiana State University) invite proposals for chapters to be included in an upcoming volume on the potential of feminist poststructural analysis to enhance our understandings of the assumptions underlying policy construction and implementation in postsecondary education. The volume, in which Routledge has expressed interest during preliminary conversations, will include analyses of higher education policy broadly conceived (including diversity policy, gender equity policy, childcare policy, promotion and tenure policy, state and federal policy, and policy development processes etc.). The book seeks to include research at many institutional types (community colleges, liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities, doctoral universities, on-line universities, etc.), especially as that research has particular implications for policy that affects the experiences of those in postsecondary education. Abstracts of no more than 3-5 pages should include a clear description of the intended chapter and must explicitly articulate how feminist postructuralism informs the analysis or presentation. Full contact information should be included as well.
Please send your abstracts via e-mail to Elizabeth Allan at: elizabeth.allan@umit.maine.edu

Call for Papers: In Honor of Iris Marion Young (1949-2006)
Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2007
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking papers for a Special Issue dedicated to the life and work of Iris Marion Young, to be guest edited by Christina M. Bellon. The aim of the issue is to underscore Young's unique contribution to philosophy, political theory, and feminism, as well as to demonstrate the future development of her work through critique, refinement, and expansion. Papers are invited on any aspect of Young's work.

Possible topics include, but are by no means restricted to:

• Gender and the Phenomenology of Embodiment
• Family and Home
• Participatory Democracy
• Justice
• Politics of Difference, Identity, and Multiculturalism
• Asymmetrical Reciprocity
• Self-Determination and Self-Development
• Faces of Oppression

Authors should be aware that completed papers will be limited to 8,000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, and are to be submitted by 15 June 2007. The selection process begins with extended abstracts of 350-400 words, clearly indicating the thesis and argument anticipated in the completed paper. Abstracts should be prepared for anonymous review and accompanied by a cover letter identifying it as a submission for the Special Issue on Iris Marion Young.

Abstracts should be submitted by electronic attachment in Word or WordPerfect to Christina Bellon at bellon@csus.edu. Authors should follow the Hypatia style guidelines, which can be found at http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/. Please address all correspondence, questions, and suggestions to Christina Bellon at bellon@csus.edu

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Special Issue: Gender and Spirituality
Deadline: June 1, 2007
Although historical and comparative perspectives on women and gender provide a rich and complex vision of spirituality, contemporary feminism often rests on exclusively secular conceptions of justice, equality, and transformation. In this special issue, we are seeking essays that rethink contemporary feminist theory and practice through analysis of various representations and formations of spirituality.  We are particularly interested in essays that engage comparative, interdisciplinary, and international perspectives to focus on spirituality and movements for social justice, feminist critical revisions of religion, alternative responses to religious nationalism and fundamentalism, social and cultural linkages of gender and spirituality in various modes of representation, and intersections of feminist modes of spirituality with
Enlightenment rationality, scientific thought, and post-Enlightenment thought, inquiry, and knowledge.

The special issue editors, Marianne DeKoven (English, Rutgers University) and Leela Fernandes (Political Science, Rutgers University), seek manuscripts that provide new ways of theorizing and analyzing the relationship between women/gender and spirituality.  We are interested in essays that move beyond conventional binary oppositions between the sacred and the secular (which is often itself structured as a religion) by considering the ways in which women's lives, identities, thought, cultural and intellectual practices, activism, and social movements have rested on complex understandings of the relationships among the spiritual, the material, the rational, the scientific, and the secular.
Guidelines for submission are available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/instruct.html

NWSA Journal · Deadline for submission: Rolling
NWSA Journal, the scholarly Publication of the National Women's Studies Association invites submissions in all areas relating to Women's Studies. We are committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. Reports, book reviews, archives, and critical essays that engage in a feminist perspective will also be considered. We seek gender-related topics, such as: Immigration; Feminist theory: including but not limited to global feminism; Women and science; Women and fundamentalism; Women and religion; Ecology, ecofeminism, health and the environment; Feminist generations: the future of feminism, young feminists, children; Post-colonial gender studies; New forms of activism-political strategies; Women and the arts, especially music; Women writers: autobiographies and reflexive writings; Race, class, and gender intersections; Women and the media; Women and disabilities; Women's history--all areas including archives; International reports.
Send three double-spaced copies of your manuscript (20-30 pages), with parenthetical notes and a complete references page formatted according to The Chicago Manual of Style. Send to: Brenda Daly, Editor NWSA Journal; 253 Ross Hall; Iowa State University; Ames, IA 50011 bdaly@iastate.edu

Thirdspace: Online magazine · Deadline for submission: Open · www.thirdspace.ca

Thirdspace online zine is looking for articles, non-fiction essays, review articles, and research notes. We require one electronic copy and one paper copy of your submission. Submissions should be in MLA format, and must include an abstract and a brief biographical note which will be posted in the members' section of the site. Please see http://www.thirdspace.ca/submit.htm for more details. Please send an electronic version of your submission in Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text (rtf) format to: submissions@thirdspace.ca Send one paper copy of your submission to: thirdspace c/o K. Snowden #6 - 2526 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada   V6K 1P6
For more information, please contact us at info@thirdspace.ca. Website: www.thirdspace.ca

Call for papers, reviewers and Editorial-Advisory Board members
Scientific Journals International (SJI)
Every researcher, writer or artist deserves a fair consideration to be published. Scientific Journals International (SJI) provides a one-stop efficient forum for publishing research and creative work from all disciplines. Our open access electronic journals will be available free of charge to over 800 million Internet users from around the world. Unlike other online journals we do not limit access through registration or subscription. There is no other journal in the world that aims to have this scope.

This initiative is driven by an overriding passion to assist researchers, writers and artists to cope with the publish or perish reality that has been created by the policies of the academia and funding agencies. According to several surveys, a large majority of authors and researchers cite slow review process and publication delays in the current system as a major obstacle to their publishing objectives. Many have also expressed concerns about the fairness and integrity of the peer review process in traditional scholarly publishing. Some scholars have argued that there is a need to free the publication process for broader and fairer access.

Scientific Journals International (SJI) is the first global initiative that intends to accomplish this objective. Due to its massive database and electronic archival capacity, SJI will maintain a significantly higher acceptance rate for research papers and creative works. We sincerely believe that researchers, writers and artists who have devoted months or years to a research/creative project, should not be shut out of the publication world simply because they did not follow certain procedural or stylistic rules and guidelines or because their work did not fit in. All traditional journals have very rigid stylistic or procedural policies that unduly create artificial barriers and in effect retard innovation and creativity.

Scientific Journals International (SJI) will maintain minimal procedural and stylistic rules, and will accept papers that follow any style manual such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc. A fair peer-reviewed evaluation system will be used to select papers for publication. SJI will maintain a rapid electronic submission, review and publication process. Additionally, we do not set the same limitations on the length of the article as other traditional and online journals do. Another useful feature of our searchable electronic journals is that readers will be able to search quickly and easily for full-text articles by particular keywords. Our capability for perpetual future accessibility and preservation will also be extremely valuable to both authors and readers.

All accepted and published articles will remain in our databases and archives in perpetuity for worldwide exposure and visibility. Each electronic article will be encoded with html meta-tags which allow for more sophisticated searching techniques. The information which is contained in an article can be intelligently structured for bibliographic access.

For more information visit http://www.scientificjournals.org. If our server is down temporarily, please go to the alternate site http://www.gcchq.com/SJI.

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CALLS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS

National Women's Studies Association 2007 Conference
Past Debates, Present Possibilities, and Future Feminisms: A Women's and Gender Studies Conference Celebrating 30 Years of NWSA
June 28-July 1, 2007, St. Charles, IL
Submission deadline: November 1, 2006
http://www.nwsaconference.org/
Featured Speaker: Sandra Cisneros. NWSA invites submissions that examine the conference theme and its related sub-themes:

• Girls Studies and Activism,
• Performing Feminisms
• Im/Migration and Mobility

We welcome submissions from women's and gender studies practitioners in college and universities, women's center administrators, independent scholars, K-12 educators, artists, and community activists. The Association also welcomes proposals that do not directly address the theme, but are relevant to women's and gender studies today.
Visit: http://www.nwsaconference.org/ for full details.

Call for Proposals;
National Women's Studies Association Women's Centers Pre-Conference
Pre-Conference Theme: "Women's Centers: Paths for the Future
Thursday, June 28, 2007, St. Charles, IL
Deadline: November 1, 2006

The NWSA Women's Centers Committee invites proposals for its Pre-Conference, to be held the day before the NWSA conference. This daylong event offers Women's Centers professionals, student leaders, and Women's Studies faculty an opportunity for professional development as well as a supportive environment in which to explore the successes and challenges of our work.

The theme for this year's WCC Pre-Conference is "Women's Centers: Paths for the Future," which builds on the General Conference theme, "Past Debates, Present Possibilities, Future Feminisms." Proposals should address an issue relevant to a wide range of women's centers, including but not limited to, the following questions:

• How can women's centers plan for a better future for women in higher education?
• How do we understand ourselves as a national committee?
• How can women's centers respond to new trends on their campuses?
• How can women's centers work to promote a better understanding of their mission on campus?

In particular, the committee seeks proposals that connect the content of the proposed session to projects that the Women's Centers Committee is currently pursuing. Those projects are:

• "What Women's Centers Need" document
• National statement of philosophy for women's centers
• Women's Centers Handbook
• Women of Color Leadership Project
• Addressing white privilege and racism in Women's Centers' work and the WCC
• Assessment
• Mentoring

Proposals for sessions that showcase best practices, programs, changing contexts and/or new directions in the above mentioned areas are encouraged, although proposals on other topics will also be considered. Panels and facilitated roundtable discussions welcome. Interactive sessions are especially encouraged. Proposals should be submitted online at: http://www.nwsaconference.org/  There is a $60 registration fee for the Women's Centers Committee Pre-Conference. This fee is in addition to the general conference registration fee, and includes morning coffee/pastries and lunch for those attending the pre-conference.

Call for Proposals
Women's Lives and Literature, Boston April 4-7, 2007
Deadline, November 1, 2006
American Culture Association's "Women's Studies" area and the Popular Culture Association invite abstracts for the Spring 2007 joint ACA/PCA conference. Proposal Additional information about the conference and the associations can be found at http://www.popularculture.org/

Call for Proposals
Creative Forces: Women, Art, Science, March 31, 2007
Deadline, November 1
Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association Conference, Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA. This conference spotlights the dynamic relations and fecund negotiations among the complex and interrelated domains of the arts, the sciences, and gender. Seeking submissions that consider the cultural concept of gender and its uses as a category of inquiry in fields such as (but not limited to):

• The plastic arts such as painting or sculpture
• Theater or performance
• Socio-cultural inflected studies of literature
• History, anthropology, or archaeology
• Sociology or psychology
• Rhetoric and communications media such as Internet-mediated communications or hypertext documents
• Biological sciences
• "Hard" sciences such as physics or mathematics
• Computer sciences and information technology

Submissions that emphasize the permeable boundaries between "science" and "art" are also encouraged, as are submissions that address:

• Pedagogical issues in academic culture
• Feminist praxis in second-language acquisition, faculty mentoring, or seemingly "unrelated" fields

Proposals should be submitted electronically to MAWSA2007@bucks.edu  [Include name, contact information, type of session, and equipment needed in the 1-page proposal.]

Women as Intercultural Leaders: Collaboration at the Crossroads
Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership, Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, Indiana, April 26-28, 2007
Proposal Deadline: November 15, 2006
An interdisciplinary conference exploring the intersections of women's studies, international and multicultural education, and leadership development.

About CWIL: Since 2000 the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership (CWIL) has been fostering the intercultural competence critical for the next generation of women leaders across the Saint Mary's campus, connecting with communities at the local, state, national, and global levels. To promote transformational intercultural engagement, CWIL builds collaborative relationships and encourages partnering across departments, disciplines, and other traditional dividing lines. The Center bridges global and domestic diversity issues, mindful of the distinctions between these but also of their commonalities. It highlights the roles of women and studies the interconnections between gender and culture. CWIL's central goal is to develop women as leaders. Rooted in a developmental approach, the Center challenges and supports individuals and groups to take the next steps toward deeper intercultural experience, more sophisticated grappling with issues of difference such as power and privilege, and greater awareness of their own potential as change agents.

Conference Themes
This interactive conference will celebrate five years of accomplishments and welcome fruitful new collaboration by bringing together theorists, scholars, professionals, educators, community activists, practitioners, and students who are interested in women's intercultural leadership. For three days participants will connect in Indiana, at the 'crossroads of America' networking, sharing best practices, and joining an international conversation about cutting-edge work. The conference will focus on three particular themes and their intersections:

• thinking in new ways about women's leadership and promoting women as change agents
• internationalizing and interculturalizing the college curriculum and co-curriculum
• building reciprocal relationships between colleges and communities across disciplines

Proposals will be selected based on the relevance to the conference theme/s, for content that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and to ensure a balance of appropriate sessions for multiple audiences. Presenters will be notified by January 2007. All proposals are due by November 15, 2006 via email (as an MS Word attachment) to cwil@saintmarys.edu  Visit CWIL's conference website http://www.saintmarys.edu/~cwil/Conference/CFP.php to download the Conference Proposal Form. Additional conference information will be posted on CWIL's Web site as it becomes available.

Call for Papers and Posters
"Women in the World" 23rd Annual All University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education, Texas Tech University, Friday, February 23, 2007
Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday, January 15, 2007
Faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, and community members from all fields of study are invited to submit papers, projects, posters, artistic works, or works-in-progress that highlight research by women, and/or about women and gender. Submissions should be related to the conference theme; however, submissions unrelated to the theme are equally invited for consideration. It is expected that a document, detailing the work, will be submitted with all paper and poster submissions including artwork or other projects. All presenters are expected to register for the conference. For Conference Submission Procedures contact: all.university.conference@ttu.edu

Call for Student Academic Paper/Poster/Project Awards
"Women in the World" 23rd Annual All University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education, Texas Tech University, Friday, February 23, 2007
This year the Conference will again recognize two outstanding student presentations (one undergraduate, one graduate) from those accepted to the conference. Awards candidates must be accepted to the conference and submit their completed paper/poster/project to all.university.conference@ttu.edu by Tuesday, January 30th, 2007. Contact same for submission instructions.

Call for Proposals -- Society for Disability Studies 20th Annual Conference
"Disability & Disability Studies: Works in Progress"
Seattle, May 31-June 2, 2007
Deadline: November 15, 2006  

2007 marks the 25th year of the Society for Disability Studies, and the field has changed dramatically over the last quarter century. As Disability Studies continues to grow, increasing its presence in university departments, cultural criticism, and art and knowledge production, SDS wants to take this anniversary opportunity to reevaluate the discipline and reflect on the state of the field. Current Disability Studies scholarship differs from much of that which precedes it, most notably in its efforts to be more inclusive, offering a more complex conception of what constitutes "disability." Rather than remaining rooted in a particular cultural moment or ideological understanding, Disability Studies is a work in progress.  

In order to encourage this kind of self-reflection, both as a field and an organization, this year's conference addresses the idea of "works in progress," paying particular attention to the following themes:

• DISABILITY IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. What does "progress" mean in terms of disability? How has the notion of "progress" itself been used to justify the oppression of people with disabilities, and how can these histories serve as points of coalition with other peoples marginalized in the name of "progress?" How have ideologies of "progress" been used to create and maintain categories of "disability," and how do these histories inform and inflect histories of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, nation, and religion? How are definitions and representations of disability in progress, shifting according to the needs of capital, policy, and resistance? How are current immigration practices and debates building on existing notions of disability? Are the increases in disabled veterans in the US and its allies, and the massive numbers of peoples injured by occupations, invasions, insurgencies, and other conflicts worldwide, transforming our understandings of "disability" in terms of theoretical analysis or public policy?
  
• DISABILITY STUDIES IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. In its efforts to inform disability policy and understanding, the discipline has too often neglected salient categories of analysis. What issues have been swept under the rug and at what costs? What are the reasons for this lack of critical examination? As Disability Studies has grown, how has it marginalized particular methodologies, theoretical frameworks, or knowledge bases? Will the discipline benefit from a broader, more comprehensive focus, and if so, how? How does current Disability Studies scholarship vary from previous Disability Studies scholarship? At this stage in the field's development, what possibilities for collaboration with other fields and knowledges exist? Where is the discipline headed?
  
• SDS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Consider, for instance, the organization's recent efforts to integrate race and ethnicity. Where are the points of future growth? How might SDS develop an international or transnational focus, more actively engage individuals with intellectual disabilities, facilitate the inclusion of grassroots activists, and encourage academic and/or political involvement with questions of war and immigration? What barriers currently prevent the participation and inclusion of these individuals and concerns? What role, if any, has SDS played in the construction of these barriers? How are artists, scholars, and activists deconstructing them, and what might the organization learn from their efforts?
  
• ACCESS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Often, the tendency at conferences is for participants to present completed work. This can have the effect of the presenter talking at the audience instead of to them. This conference encourages participants to try out innovative forms of access while bearing in mind ways of actively engaging the audience. For example, how can participants share their work in creative, less traditional ways in order to increase access? What can participants do not only to honor but further SDS's access policies? How might conference access itself, and particularly presentation access, be a matter of research and discussion?
  
• "WORK" IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Arguably, barriers often exist between Disability Studies scholarship and disability activism. One aspect of this conference will be to address these barriers through the lens of "work," engaging divides between scholarship and activism in new ways. How might scholars and activists conceptualize their work differently? Are some kinds of work valued more than others? In what ways does each group's work inform the other's? How might insights from disability research translate into community activism, and how might activist projects be translated into research projects? How might the two groups-Disability Studies scholars and disability activists-work collaboratively? What are the benefits in drawing firm lines between these two approaches to disability, and what might be the attendant risks in doing so?

SDS invites activists, artists, and scholars to submit proposals for all work in progress in Disability Studies. Work can be submitted in a variety of formats, including paper presentations, poster sessions, performances, video/DVD recordings, etc. The Program Committee will make every effort to honor participants' requests insofar as presentation format. We ask participants to bear in mind that the committee may reassign participants to other presentation formats, styles, and panels in order to develop the richest program possible.

Accessibility in presentations is central to the philosophy of SDS. Presenters should explore ways to make physical, sensory, and intellectual access a fundamental part of their presentation. All presenters are required to, at minimum, provide e-text versions of papers in advance of the conference (for open captioning), large-print hard copies (18 point font or larger) of all handouts, hard copies or outlines of their talks in 12 point and 18 point fonts, audio description of visual images and charts, and open or closed captioning of films and video clips. Presentations should also be planned so that their delivery will accommodate open-captioning and ASL translation. In order to facilitate ASL interpretation and open captioning, drafts of accepted presentations will be due by 1 May 2007. If you have questions about making your presentation accessible, please contact Chris Bell at christopher.bell@ntu.ac.uk or Alison Kafer at kafera@southwestern.edu.

The deadline for proposals is 15 November 2006. Participants will be notified of their acceptance by 15 February 2007. All abstracts will be reviewed by the conference Program Committee: Chris Bell and Alison Kafer (co-chairs); Patricia Berne, Derek Coates, David Connor, Lara Doan, Kristen Harmon, Petra Kuppers, Dymaneke Mitchell, and Ellen Samuels. Please submit proposals electronically in text and rich text format using the following form. Submit proposals to both Mansha Mirza at mmirza2@uic.edu and Joy Hammel at hammel@uic.edu. Questions about the conference program or submission process should be directed to Chris Bell at christopher.bell@ntu.ac.uk and Alison Kafer at kafera@southwestern.edu. If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals to arrive by 15 November 2006: Mansha Mirza Society for Disability Studies -- Dept. of Disability and Human Development University of Illinois-Chicago 1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. (M/C 626), Chicago, IL 60608-6904 Fax: 312-996-7743

SDS 2007 Submission Form (please include this form with all submissions)
I. Type of Proposal (check one)
      ___ Individual Presentation (15 minutes)
      ___ Panel Presentation (90 minutes, including discussion time)
      ___ Other

II. Format (check one)
      ___ Individual Presentation (15 minutes)
      ___ Poster Session
      ___ Panel (90-minute block with 3-4 presenters)
      ___ Roundtable (90-minute block for informal discussion of ideas)
      ___ Workshop (90-minute program or exercise)
      ___ Arts & Performance (literary reading, art exhibit, theatre, video/DVD/film, etc. Please specify what you need in terms of time and space.)
      ___ Alternative Presentation (specify what you need in terms of time and space)

IV. Abstract(s) (500 - 750 words) An effective abstract will likely include:

• a title
• a narrative description of the work
• an explanation of how the work contributes/critiques/expands the field of Disability Studies
• a discussion of how the work relates to the conference theme
• a description of how the work will be made accessible  

It is not necessary to address the bullet points in order, but please be as specific as possible regarding content and format. Individual, roundtable, and workshop proposals require a 500-750 word abstract. Panel proposals require a 250-word abstract describing the panel as a whole, as well as a 250-word abstract for each participant. Finally, indicate any audiovisual requests (note that we cannot guarantee LCD projection for presenters). Please include information about the accessibility of audiovisual presentations (i.e., captioned films, verbal descriptions of slides or images, etc.).

Call for Proposals
Educating Women/Women's Education In the Post-Secondary Context
Deadline: November 17, 2006
Conference is February 8 - 10, 2007, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mount Saint Vincent University, the host of this conference, has a proud and distinctive history as a leader in innovative and creative learning approaches with an emphasis on women, academic excellence, distinctive programs, and a personal approach to education. "Educating Women/Women's Education" will explore the education of women within the context of twenty-first century post-secondary education in North America and around the world. The conference focus arises out of (but is by no means confined to) questions such as the following:

• After decades of extensive feminist discussion about the heterogeneity of the category "women," is there a need for educational institutions that are primarily or even exclusively for women?
• Is post-secondary education still gendered? Should it be?
• What are the goals of women's post-secondary education?
• What are the goals of educating women?
• What would a post-secondary education of and for women be like?
• Does the sex/gender of role models, mentors, and instructors matter in the post-secondary context?
• Has there been any global warming of chilly university climates? What is the role of Women's Studies in educating women?
• What is the role of feminism in educating women?
• What are the effects and the roles of co-educational institutions in educating women?
• What are the causes, meanings and significance of the "gender gap" created by the greater numbers of women than men students in post-secondary education?

We welcome research papers on women's post-secondary education from the perspectives of history, literature, or the social sciences; more informal workshops and discussions on experiences of women's post-secondary education*whether as student, instructor, administrator, alumna, or member of the support staff; and philosophical and normative reflections and arguments about what post-secondary education by, for, and of women would look like. We are particularly interested in contributions that explore the status, role and outcomes of post-secondary education with respect to race/class/sexuality/ability/age diversity among women. Presentations should be no more than twenty minutes' reading time.

In addition to formal papers, we welcome proposals for alternative formats, including panels, workshops, and media presentations. Conference presentations will be considered for inclusion in a future special issue of Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal. You may send a complete paper, or a long abstract (1000 words, plus a bibliography), or a detailed description (1000 words) of a proposed panel or workshop. Please send hard copies only to Dr. Christine Overall, Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies, ISW 4Mount Saint Vincent University166 Bedford Highway, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6 Inquiries may be directed to Christine Overall at christine.overall@msvu.ca. In your submission, please indicate any special needs you may have.

Call for Papers
WOMEN and CREATIVITY
Deadline: November 30th, 2006 for One-page (up to 250 words) summary
THE MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM announces its twelfth annual conference will be held March 22-24, 2007. Suitable topics for twenty-minute presentations that could involve a multitude of disciplinary perspectives (e.g. historical, literary, artistic, visual, performance, etc.) including, but not necessarily limited to, the following: women as literary, visual, or performance artists; the portrayal of women in literature; women as subjects in visual arts; the stories women tell; ways in which women's art does or does not reflect reality; glimpses of differing reality as illustrated through art; the interaction of women artists; the varying perceptions of women as artists; varying perceptions of women as subjects; women's access to outlets for the various art forms; critical consideration of women artists; etc.
Contact: Diane Long Hoeveler, Women's Studies Coordinator, Department of English, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, Phone: (414)288-3466, Email: diane.hoeveler@marquette.edu, Fax: (414) 288-5433

Call for Proposals
The Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) 20th Annual Conference
Feminism and Popular Culture
Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2006
University of Newcastle, UK, June 29th-July 1st, 2007
The popular straddles disciplines, drawing together research that might otherwise remain discretely sited. This conference will interrogate how the popular and feminism has been understood, articulated and represented both in contemporary cultures and throughout history. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the conference will bring together scholars working in the arts, humanities and social sciences. From molls to grrrls, from blue-stockings to blue movies, abstracts are invited on all aspects of gender, feminism, women and popular culture. We welcome proposals for papers which investigate the representation of feminism in popular culture as well as papers which theorise the relationship between feminism and the popular.
Delegates do not have to be members of the FWSA ( http://www.fwsa.org.uk/ ) to attend the conference; however, FWSA members will be able to take advantage of discounted registration rates.
Please send 300-word abstracts or 1000-word panel proposals to fempopcult@ncl.ac.uk. All enquiries should also be directed to that email address.

Call for Papers 34th Conference on Value Inquiry:
Social Justice and Individual Responsibility
Deadline:January 16, 2007.  Reading time should be about 20 minutes.
April 12-15, 2007. Adrian College, Adrian Michigan
The conference will be interdisciplinary - submissions from all academic disciplines, from professionals at any stage in their career, are welcome. Submissions may be practically or theoretically oriented, and all papers pertaining to issues in ethics or value theory broadly construed will be considered. The theme this year is "Social Justice and Individual Responsibility". Papers relating to this theme, particularly those connecting to practical concerns (including but not limited to the justice of war, business ethics, and medical ethics) are especially welcome. Email papers, proposals, or abstracts by January 16, 2007 in MS Word or rich text format to:  James H. Spence at: 34thVIC@gmail.com

Call for Papers
2007 Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) Conference
Submission deadline: February 28, 2007
The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) invites submissions for the Fall 2007 conference, September 27 - 30, 2007 in Clearwater Beach, Florida.

Submissions must include a paper with a 3,000-word limit and an abstract of 100-250 words. An exact word count of the paper must be provided at the top left-hand corner of the first page of the paper. No paper that omits the word count will be considered, nor will any paper over the 3,000-word limit. Proposals for panels must include abstracts and papers ­with word count ­for each panelist. Proposals for presentations other than papers (e.g., workshops, discussions, etc.) must include detailed descriptions demonstrating that the ideas are as developed as they would be in a paper. Theoretical papers on all topics within the areas of feminist ethics and social theory are welcome.

We especially invite submissions for the following two special panels:

• The "Difficult Conversations" workshop is held as a lunchtime event at each FEAST conference. In 2001 the conversation was about how racism has affected participants' lives, and in 2003 there was a conversation between disabled women and women who care for persons with disabilities. As with the 2005/6 topic, the 2007 topic will be open. Submissions should describe the proposed topic and workshop format, and should name the facilitator and list presenters.
• In addition, FEAST 2007 will honor the life and work of the late Iris Marion Young by dedicating the conference's opening session on Thursday evening to a panel on her work. Alison M. Jaggar and Eva F. Kittay are scheduled to present, but we also solicit submissions of individual papers, including those by her former students.

The program committee aims to create a conference with a diverse group of presenters and a diversity of philosophical topics and styles. FEAST strongly encourages members of groups that are underrepresented in both the discipline of philosophy and at feminist philosophy conferences to send submissions. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed. For more information on FEAST or to see the programs from the 2001, 2003, and 2005/6 conferences, go to: http://www.afeast.org/

Papers and abstracts must include no identifying information. Please include a separate page with the following information: name, institutional affiliation, surface mail address, email address, and phone number. Send four copies of submissions (abstracts and papers), postmarked by February 28, 2007, to: Lynne Arnault, FEAST 2007 Program Committee Chair, Philosophy Department, 1419 Salt Springs Road, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY 13214. Submissions will not be accepted by email or FAX. Questions may be directed to Lynne Arnault: arnaulls@lemoyne.edu

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Southern Connecticut State University Women's Studies Program: The Sixteenth Annual Women's Studies Conference "Women's Health: Colonized, Resisted, Reclaimed" · Southern Connecticut State University · October 27 and 28, 2006

Food & Culture Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (MAPACA) Annual Conference · October 27-29, 2006 · Baltimore, MD · visit http://www.mapacagazette.net/.

15th Women & Society Conference · November 3-4, 2006 · Marist College · Poughkeepsie, New York

Interdisciplinary Conference in Women's Studies · Middle Tennessee State University · February 22-24, 2007, Contact womenstu@mtsu.edu.  

Pornography and Pop Culture: Reframing Theory, Re-thinking Activism
March 23-25, Wheelock College, Boston
The so-called "porn wars" that were fought over the feminist critique of contemporary mass-marketed pornography derailed important academic and activist work. It is time to move on by reframing our thinking on pornography, especially in light of the important changes that have occurred in both technology and pop culture over the past two decades. In the world of the internet, cell phone porn, Howard Stern and "Girls Gone Wild," the central insights of the critical feminist perspective are more important than ever. What was once called soft-core pornography has become the norm in mainstream pop culture, while hard-core porn has become increasingly accepted and increasingly misogynistic. What do such economic and cultural shifts mean for feminist theory and activism, and how can we rebuild a vibrant feminist movement that addresses the harms of misogynist images that help define our culture, our visual landscape and our sexuality? These issues will be addressed at a national conference on March 23-25, 2007, at Wheelock College in Boston. Titled "Pornography and Pop Culture: Reframing Theory, Rethinking Activism," this conference will (1) feature recent feminist theory and research on pornography, prostitution and pop culture, and (2) provide space for collaborative discussion on how we can prepare the ground for building a broad-based, energized and vibrant feminist movement that can address the harms of pornographic images in the context of a more general political and cultural crisis. For a full schedule and registration details, please go to http://www.wheelock.edu/ppc/

Expanding a Legacy of Leadership
2007 AAUW National Convention
Friday, June 29-Monday, July 2, Phoenix, Arizona
http://www.aauw.org/convention/Conv2007/index.cfm

4th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Locating Learning: Integrative Dimensions of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. University of New South Wales in Sydney from July 2 - 5, 2007. www.issotl.org

Second International Doris Lessing Conference
July 6-8, 2007
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Contact name: Susan Watkins s.watkins@leedsmet.ac.uk

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OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES

Maine Women Writers Collection
Research Support Grant Program, 2006-7
Deadline: December 1, 2006

The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England in Portland, Maine, solicits applications for its Research Support Grant Program. These grants are intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires or would benefit from access to the holdings of the Maine Women Writers Collection.

MWWC Research Support Grants will range between $250 and $1000, and may be used for transportation, housing, and research-related expenses. For application instructions and more information about the program and the Collection holdings, please see the MWWC website at http://www.une.edu/mwwc/ and click on "research."

Questions may be directed to Cally Gurley, MWWC Curator, at (207) 221-4324; cgurley@une.edu, or to Jennifer Tuttle, MWWC Faculty Director, at (207) 221-4433; jtuttle@une.edu.

The Maine Women Writers Collection, Abplanalp Library, Westbrook College Campus of the University of New England, is a pre-eminent special collection of published and non-published literary, cultural and social history sources, by and about women authors, either native or residents of Maine.

Women's Human Rights: Building A Peaceful World In An Era Of Globalization
An International Human Rights Education Institute presented by the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Director: Alda Facio.  With Peggy Antrobus, Angela Miles and Monica Muñoz-Vargas
May 22 to June 29, 2007
Part One: May 22 - June 8, 2007: Women's Human Rights Education in the Age of the Market: Challenges and Visions
Part Two: June 11 - 29, 2007: Women's Human Rights Education: Instruments and Activism

• Six-week Institute: Two three-week sessions which can be taken separately.
• Participation in the full Institute is highly recommended. Preference will be given to applications for the full six weeks.
• Classes will normally be held from 10 am to 6 pm five days a week, with some periods for private study. Unless otherwise specified, Alda Facio with Mónica Muñoz-Vargas will lead the sessions.
• APPLICATION DUE DATES and TUITION AMOUNTS:
  
  1. Early Bird: December 1, 2006. Tuition is US/CD$2,000 per session (3 weeks).
  2. Regular One Session: February 15, 2007. Tuition is US$2,250/CD$2,500 per session (3 weeks).
  3. Regular Full Institute: February 15, 2007. Tuition is US$4,000/CD$4,500 for full institute (6 weeks).

The Institute brings feminist perspectives and an activist orientation to the inextricably related issues of peace, human rights and life-sustaining development. Participants will gain an understanding of the global economic, ecological, legal, cultural and political contexts of this work, as well as of the groundbreaking work that is currently being done and has been done over decades by women and men around the world.

Important milestones such as the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, The African Protocol on Women's Rights, the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women, Security Council Resolution 1325, the Beijing Platform for Action, and Women's Action Agenda 21, will be featured. Women's historical struggles for their adoption, their potential as resources for social change, and effective ways of using them as tools for education and practice will be explored.

CONTACTS: Web site:   http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse/humanrights_07.htm
On-line application form:   http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse/appl.php
To receive an application form or further information regarding enrollment, contact us at humanrights@oise.utoronto.ca, Tel. +1(416)923-6641x2204.
For academic information, contact Alda Facio, Director at aldafa@racsa.co.cr  or Angela Miles at amiles@oise.utoronto.ca, Tel +1(416)923-6641 x2344.

SEEKING EXPERT SOURCE VOLUNTEERS The National Women's Studies Association receives many inquiries from journalists on a wide variety of topics, from questions about the frequency of divorce at the beginning of the 20th century to inquiries about representations of women in the media.

If you are willing to have journalists contact you with inquiries directly related to your area of expertise, please send an email to allison.kimmich@nwsa.org with the subject line "Expert Source." Be sure the email lists your areas of expertise and contact information.

If you responded to this inquiry last fall and your contact information has not changed, you do not need to resubmit it.

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS

Call for Student Academic Paper/Poster/Project Awards
"Women in the World" 23rd Annual All University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education, Texas Tech University, Friday, February 23, 2007
This year the Conference will again recognize two outstanding student presentations (one undergraduate, one graduate) from those accepted to the conference. Awards candidates must be accepted to the conference and submit their completed paper/poster/project to all.university.conference@ttu.edu by Tuesday, January 30th, 2007. Contact same for submission instructions.

Transcending silence. An undergraduate e-journal of the University of Albany Women's Studies Program. This electronic journal, which launched its first issue in Spring 2004, publishes works by undergraduate students (both research and creative projects) that focus on feminist and social justice issues. The Spring 2006 issue carries a call for submissions for Spring 2007, with a special theme on "Gender, Place, and Space." Please spread the word and encourage your undergraduate students, who may be looking for publishing opportunities, to submit their work in future. http://www.albany.edu/ws/journal/ 

4College Women a site which focuses on women's issues and beyond, specializing in college-aged women. 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. http://www.4collegewomen.org/

The F-Word is an on-line zone put out by a senior majoring in Women's Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. Submissions welcome. http://www.thef-wordzine.com/

The National Women's Studies Association has a publication called "Graduate Guide to Work in Women's Studies" which is available for purchase via the website at http://www.nwsa.org/publications.php

Listserv for graduate students in women's studies.
WSPHD-L is a listserv for women's studies doctoral students. The listserv provides students a means of posting announcements, news, or requests pertinent to the general membership. M.A. students in women's studies are also welcome, as are recipients of the Women's Studies Ph.D. Participants should be aware, however, that this list will focus on the Ph.D. from students' perspectives. Undergraduates and WS faculty/directors may find another list more tailored to their needs (like the WMST-L, which centers on the teaching of women's studies, or the PALIST, for administrators of women's studies programs and departments). To subscribe, please send a message with the words "subscribe (your full name) WSPHD-L" to carimc@verizon.net. Please also indicate your current status in the body of the message (e.g. student in a WS doctoral program).

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SERVICE-LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

The Wisconsin Campus Compact Update is produced to keep affiliates informed about events, support available, and other current news related to civic engagement and higher education.  You can find current and past Updates at http://www.wicampuscompact.org/.

WiCC Fall Meeting Building and Nurturing Community Partnerships
Friday, November 10
Marion College of Fond du Lac
Registration Deadline November 3.
Faculty, staff, administrators, and community partners are invited to attend this day long event which will feature a keynote address by Dr. Janet Morris, "Building and Nurturing Community Partnerships" as well as workshops on building community partnerships and preparing students for service in the community. http://www.wicampuscompact.org/

Upper Midwest Campus Compact
Student Civic Leadership Fellows Program
The Student Civic Leadership Fellows program exists to support and promote students as powerful citizen leaders.

The New Voters Project
Wisconsin Campus Compact is a partner in the New Voters Project - an effort to increase 18-24 year-old voter participation in the 2004, 2005, and now 2006 elections.

The American Democracy Project
Wisconsin Campus Compact is proud to support the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the New York Times in their efforts to strengthen democracy at public comprehensive campuses through the American Democracy Project. Participating Wisconsin campuses include: UW-Eau Claire, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Parkside, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Stout, and UW-Superior.

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MISCELLANEOUS

Debra Morningstar, an Oneida Storyteller and an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin has presented "Native Story, Song & Spirit" in Wisconsin, Canada and beyond for over 18 years. She is available for Native storytelling programs, lectures and/or workshops in the upcoming months. You can find "testimonials" of very satisfied customers at the Wisconsin's Children's Performers website at: http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/performers.html  Her listing can be found at WISTORY (Storytelling In Wisconsin) http://www.wistory.org/tellers/st_mornd.htm/  She is also a member of the National Storyteller's Network. You can view her listing at: http://www.storynet.org/Directory/view.php?id=1001672
Contact: Debra Morningstar, Oneida Storyteller, "Native Story, Song & Spirit" 920-915-4154, Neenah, Wisconsin, USA  dawest@centurytel.net. http://www.debramorningstar.com/

The American Association of University Women is pleased to announce its
Campus Action Project for 2006-2007, Planning for an Economically Secure Future.
Proposals must be submitted by November 8, 2006 to cap@aauw.org.
This is an excellent opportunity to raise awareness of how workplace equity issues can affect women's economic security.  This initiative continues AAUW's work promoting "Education as the Gateway to Women's Economic Security." 

Proposals are now being accepted from teams of students and faculty or administrators. We expect to fund approximately 10 projects of up to $5000 each.  All teams will receive technical support from AAUW staff and each team must identify and partner with a local AAUW branch member who will serve as a community advisor.  Projects must be implemented during the Spring of 2007 and can include web-based activities, workshops, art exhibits, speaker series and surveys among other activities. We encourage innovative and creative project proposals. Special consideration will be given to proposals from AAUW College/University member institutions.

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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submissions for the next WSC e-bulletin should be submitted by December 1st.
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.