FROM THE DIRECTOR
The new semester is already well underway and the months ahead offer many opportunities to come together in our Women’s Studies Learning Community to advance the academic and activist commitments of our field. Below please note upcoming opportunities to recognize achievement, build community, and advance learning. Please read the materials over carefully and decide where and when you would like to participate.
On April 20-21, 2007 representatives of the fourteen campus Women’s Studies Programs in the UW System as well as the UW-Extension, The Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian and the Women and Science Program will come together at UW-Madison with representatives from the State’s Liberal Arts and Technical Colleges to participate in the 31st annual Wisconsin Women’s Studies conference. This year’s theme is INTERSECTIONALITIES In Women's Studies: Research, Teaching, and Activism. This 31st Annual Conference of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium will bring together over 300 academics, teachers, students, community leaders and activists, and others whose lives have been or could be enriched by Women's Studies to celebrate, examine, and envision the widest range of Women's Studies issues. Register by March 25th for the early bird registration fee. You will find on-line registration materials and a preliminary program schedule here: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/annualconf.htm
This year the UW System Inclusivity Initiative will again be sponsoring the UW System LGBTQ Spring Conference: Scholarship. Community. Advocacy. on Saturday afternoon, April 21 and Sunday, April 22nd, also at the Pyle Center. Registration forms for the LGBTQ Conference and the WS Conference are included in the same registration materials. Participants will be able to attend all of both the conferences for one registration fee, or purchase one-day registrations. For a preliminary program of the LGBTQ Spring Conference go here: http://lgbtq.uwsa.edu/conference.htm
A highlight of the conferences will be the Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Saturday, April 21, when sixteen Women of Color Honorees selected by the UW System, UW-Extension, and UW campuses will be recognized. The event is held in conjunction with the annual Women’s Studies Conference to acknowledge the ties and shared concerns among administrators, faculty, staff and students within Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies. University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium, and the Office of Diversity and Development are pleased to have had this opportunity to recognize sixteen women from around the state for their extensive contributions to their campuses and/or communities. The Women of Color Award Ceremony was initiated in 1994 to acknowledge the ties and shared concerns among administrators, faculty, staff, and students within women’s studies and ethnic studies, and to uphold a continuing commitment to Plan 2008: Educational Quality through Racial and Ethnic Diversity. Each UW System campus was invited to select one woman to receive this recognition. Please join us in recognizing the following award recipients.
UW System Outstanding Women of Color
in Education Honorees for 2007:
Andrea De Palma, UW-Colleges
Kimberly Barrett, UW-Eau Claire
Cheryl Horns, UW-Extension
Melissa Jackson, UW-Green Bay
Jacie Gamroth, UW-La Crosse
Alberta Marie Gloria, UW-Madison
Portia Cobb, UW-Milwaukee
Norlisha Francine Crawford, UW-Oshkosh
Farida Khan, UW-Parkside
Sheng Xiong, UW-Platteville
Lizeht De La Torre, UW-River Falls
Mazie Maichoua Moua, UW-Stevens Point
Mai Kao Xiong, UW-Stout
Nancy Kyle, UW-Superior
Oluwapelumi Adeleke, UW System
Pilar Melero, UW-Whitewater
To make a reservation to attend the luncheon and awards ceremony please go here: https://wisccharge.wisc.edu/uwsa/wsc_reg.htm
This year there is one special event added in the month leading up to the conference weekend. If you are on campus between March 21st and April 21st 2007 please stop by the Pyle Center (702 Langdon Street) and see the art exhibition Intersectionalities: The Feminist In Art. The exhibition will included the visual art of forty seven women artists from Wisconsin and beyond who bring feminist perspectives to their art making. The exhibition is free and open to the public. There will be a reception for the artists and conference goers Friday April 20th. Plan to attend. Watch for more information about the conference, and the list of artists participating here: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/conf07/FemArt.htm This exhibition initiates the Midwestern contribution to the multi-year national Feminist Art Project http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/ featuring activities and exhibitions that celebrate women's contributions to the arts and the Women’s Movement.
If you are a new subscriber, it may be useful to know that the Women’s Studies Consortium works to ensure the continued development of Women's Studies in the UW System, to maintain our current national prominence in the field, and to create a unique inter-institutional model for educational innovation. The Consortium:
- Focuses on initiatives in instruction, research, outreach, library resource development and international programs.
- Encourages all the UW System Women's Studies programs to fulfill central goals of the mission of the University, leading to the continued growth and development of education by, for, and about women in the State of Wisconsin.
- Offers, through its Women's Studies programs, approximately 300 courses to a total of over 8,000 students yearly.
- Promotes communication and collaboration among the System's Women's Studies departments, programs, research centers, faculty members and scholars.
Watch this e-bulletin for announcements about the projects, events, and opportunities that our joint efforts bring to the students, faculty and staff of the UW system. Please take the time to look through this very packed issue of the Women’s Studies E-bulletin. We have something for everyone.
Helen Klebesadel, Director
University of Wisconsin System
Women's Studies Consortium
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WSC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Save The Date:
Classism Videoconference
April 16, 2007
Plan to participate in a videoconference with Betsy Leondar-Wright on "isms" and especially classism (as they relate to first generation college students) in the classroom. Save Noon to
1 p.m. on Monday April 16, 2007 for a systemwide videoconference. Campus locations to be announced soon. The UW-Extension and UW Colleges Status of Women Committee is sponsoring the event, with co-sponsorship provided by the UW System Women's Studies Consortium and the UW System Women and Science Program.
The 31st annual Wisconsin Women's Studies Conference,
Intersectionalities in Women's Studies: Research, Teaching Activism
April 20-21, 2007
Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus.
You will find on-line registration materials and a preliminary program schedule here: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/annualconf.htm
Register by March 25th for the early bird registration fee.
2nd Annual UW System LGBTQ Spring Conference
Scholarship. Community. Advocacy
April 21-22, 2007
For a preliminary program and registration materials go here: http://lgbtq.uwsa.edu/conference.htm
Register by March 25th for the early bird registration fee.
12th Annual Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards and Luncheon
April 21, 2007
The awards ceremony is a part of the shared Women’s Studies and LGBTQ conference schedule and will be from 11:30-1:00 in Lowell Hall, which is within a block of the Pyle Center. Reservations at $10.00 per person must be made by April 6th for participants who have not registered for one of the conferences. (Participation costs are included in the conference registration fees for conference goers). To find out about the recipients of the 2007 awards go here: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/woc/woc.htm
To make a reservation to attend the luncheon and awards ceremony please go here: https://wisccharge.wisc.edu/uwsa/wsc_reg.htm
A Feminist Art Exhibition
Intersectionalities: The Feminist in Art.
March 21st and April 21st 2007
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison
Watch for more information about the conference, and the list of artists participating here: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/conf07/FemArt.htm. This exhibition initiates the Midwestern contribution to the multi-year national Feminist Art Project http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/
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ADDITIONAL UW SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENTS
Statewide Community Service and Service-Learning Conference
Thursday February 22, 2007 – Friday, February 23, 2007
This year the Superintendent’s Institute on Service-Learning and Citizenship is being presented in conjunction with Serve Wisconsin’s Statewide National and Community Service Conference. This event offers educators and students the opportunity to join together with AmeriCorps/VISTA, Senior Corps, and RSVP members to share ideas, best practices and explore challenges related to the successful implementation of service-learning and the Corporation for National and Community Service programs. Conference sessions have been designed to encourage participants to examine civic engagement through the lens of developing a participatory democracy. Registration includes attendance at both conferences. The conferences will take place on at the Marriott Madison West, 1313 John Q. Hammons Drive, Middleton, WI 53562. For more information and to register see http://www.servewisconsin.org/
UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity:
Submit Support Grant Proposals by April 9
The Institute on Race and Ethnicity is making four categories of grant support available for Implementation during the upcoming 2007-08 fiscal year. The categories are:
* Category A – Research: To support scholarly research on racial and ethnic topics with the intention of publication.
* Category B – Curriculum Development: To support the development and teaching of new courses pertaining to racial and ethnic topics.
* Category C – Campus Activities: A miscellaneous category designed to support campus activities, guest lectures, fine arts performances, and/or other events pertaining to race, ethnicity, and diversity.
* Faculty Diversity Research Awards: To provide release time and support for categories of individuals who are tenure-track faculty members for their scholarly research and writing, thus enhancing their opportunities for achieving tenure. To access the call for proposals, visit http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE/grant/. The postmarked deadline for submission of proposals is Monday, April 9. For more information, contact Tom Tonnesen, associate director, at (414) 229-4700 or tonnesen@uwm.edu.
Investing Workshops for Women at UW-Stout
Deadline ASAP
The future is now. Whether you want to do your own investing or have a financial planner, everyone needs some understanding of their options for creating a secure financial future, especially women. University of Wisconsin-Stout Outreach Services is offering eight 3 1/2 workshops for you to learn more about investing: Basic workshops for those with little or no investing experience will be held March 3, 17, 24 and 31 from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. Intermediate workshops for those with some investing experience or those who have taken the basic workshop will be offered March 3, 17, 24 and 31 from 1:30 PM to 5 PM. Please click on the following link for more information:
http://www.uwstout.edu/outreach/conf/pi/
The Registration Site is now OPEN for the
Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL)
Spring 2007 Regional Workshops
Roots of Happiness: Balancing Your Life & Work
Presented by: Dr. Linda DiRaimondo
This workshop will be presented five times around the state and you can choose the location that meets your schedule! The cost is only $35.00 (Lunch & Materials Included).
- Southeast - March 9, 2007 - Cardinal Stritch University
- Southwest - March 16, 2007 - UW-Baraboo
- Northeast - March 23, 2007 - UW-Marinette
- Northwest - April 13, 2007 - Chippewa Valley Technical College
- Central - April 20, 2007 - UW-Marshfield
REGISTER TODAY!! http://www.wwhel.org
OPID Conference Development Grants
Deadline March 9, 2007
The Office of Professional and Instructional Development is pleased to announce that support will again be available for the development and sponsorship of local, regional, and system wide workshops and conferences focused on the improvement of teaching. The Conference Development Grants Program emphasizes collaboration among faculty, staff, departments, and institutions. The program typically funds workshops, seminars, and conferences that bring UW System faculty and staff together to work collaboratively on issues in undergraduate education. The grants are intended to support travel, materials, and some expenses incidental to the event; they are not intended to support conference travel for individual faculty members attending non-OPID-funded events. Grant proposals may request up to $1,000. The deadline for Fall Conference Development Grants is March 9, 2007, for events taking place between July 1 and December 31, 2007. We ask that OPID administrative representatives sign off on proposals submitted by their institutions. Application forms and guidelines are also available on the OPID website at: http://www.uwsa.edu/opid/grants/. For additional information, please contact Donna Silver, Assistant Director of OPID, at 608.262.4337 or dsilver@uwsa.edu.
The UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity, in collaboration with the UWM School of Continuing Education, will sponsor a conference entitled:
"IMMIGRATION: MANY FACES; MANY FACETS"
Thursday-Friday, April 26-27, 2007,in Milwaukee.
Early Registration deadline is March 25.
The conference will take place at the UWM School of Continuing Education located at 161 W. Wisconsin Ave., 7th floor. The interdisciplinary conference will feature presentations on research initiatives, curricular developments, pedagogical practices, outreach activities, policy initiatives, and community involvement on an array of topics dealing with U.S. immigration and the socialization of immigrants into the American cultural, political, and economic milieu. Conference sessions will focus on Latinas/os, Hmong, other Asian groups, etc., as well as on: history; immigrant rights and citizenship; education; employment; family issues; socialization; health; political participation; and literature and art, among others. Presenters and attendees will come from faculty, academic staff, students, and community practitioners. Registration form: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE/ImmigrationConference.pdf
For more information, contact Tom Tonnesen, Associate Director, at (414) 229-4700 or tonnesen@uwm.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. 4) includes the following:
From the Editors Book Reviews:
"Evangelical Feminism"
Evangelical Feminism: A History, by Pamela D.H. Cochran, NYU P., 2005 Living on the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism and the Theological Academy, by Nicola Hoggard Creegan & Christine D. Pohl, InterVarsity P., 2005 (reviewer Nadean Bishop)
"Women in Chinese Television and Film"
Women Through the Lens: Gender and National in a Century of Chinese Cinema, by Shuqin Cui, University of Hawaii P., 2005 Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China, by Rachel De Woskin, Norton, 2005 (reviewer Vicki Tobias)
"New Reference Works in Women's Studies"
Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature By and About Women of Color, ed. by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, 2 v., Greenwood, 2006 (reviewer Tonia N. Sutherland)
Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries, by Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, & Anna Loutfi, Central European University Press, 2006 (reviewer Jill Rosenshield)
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature, by Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Facts on File, 2006 (reviewer Stacy Russo)
Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies, ed. by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans & Judith Lorber, Sage, 2006 (reviewer Erin Gratz)
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, v. 3: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health, ed. by Suad Joseph & Afsaneh Najmabidi, Brill Academic, 2006 (reviewer Trish Iaccarino)
Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. by Vicki L. Ruiz & Virginia Sanchez Korrel, 3 v., Indiana U. P., 2006 (reviewer Sherri L. Barnes)
On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1998-2002, ed. by Betsy Kruger & Catherine Larson, Scarecrow P., 2006 (reviewer Arianne Hartsell)
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, ed. by Rosemary Skinner Keller & Rosemary Radford Ruether, 3 v., Indiana U. P., 2006 (reviewer Jill Rosenshield)
Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women From the Earliest Times to 2004, ed. by Elizabeth Evan, et al., Edinburgh U. P., 22006 (reviewer Nancy McClements)
Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over, by Stephanie Hepburn & Rita J. Simon, Lexington Books, 2006
(Reviewer Linda Krikos)
Columns on new "E-Sources on Women & Gender" (websites, blogs, pdf publications), "Periodical Notes (new periodicals and thematic issues), and miscellaneous "Items of Note"
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 full text in GENDERWATCH and somewhat selectively in CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES databases. NEW BOOKS ON WOMEN & FEMINISM is in WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL database. 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
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
Call for Proposals
Fracturing Binarisms: Gender and Colonialisms in Africa
Proposals due February 18, 2007
Guest Editors Odile Goerg (Paris 7), Marie Rodet (University of Vienna) and Natalya Vince (University of London) of the journal Stichproben, Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien/ Vienna Journal of African Studies would like to invite submissions of proposals for articles, research notes and book reviews for a special issue devoted to exploring Fracturing Binarisms: Gender and Colonialisms in Africa.
In the past ten years, a number of important studies synthesizing scholarship on gender and colonialism have been published, enabling more multilayered insights into power relations between men and women, the colonisers and the colonised, post-independence leaders and post-independence populations – which in turn enable us to have a much more nuanced understanding of such binary oppositions. The title ‘Fracturing Binarisms’ comes from Chilla Bulbeck’s 1998 Re-Orienting Western Feminism: Women’s Diversity in a Postcolonial World (Cambridge: CUP). Using case-study material drawn from India, China and Japan, the author makes a convincing case for exploring the permeability of and interaction between such previously diametrically opposed categories. The comprehensive literature on gender and colonialism has, however, tended to be focused on the Asian subcontinent and British colonial spaces. Far less attention has been paid to how these new ways of thinking might be applied to the African colonial and postcolonial context.
This special issue particularly welcomes contributions based on sources such as oral testimonies, newspaper analyses, court cases and material objects, but is also interested in a renewed critical gendered reading of colonial sources, in order to restore subaltern voices.
Contributions which consider the entire African continent are welcomed. North Africa is often forgotten in collections of essays, which take a largely sub-Saharan definition of Africa. Postgraduate and recent PhD graduates are particularly encouraged to send in article proposals.
Papers could address, but are not limited to, the following issues:
Gender, order and colonial law
Shifting boundaries, hybridity
Gender and marginality in colonial and postcolonial spaces
Masculinities, femininities and the construction of gendered identities
Gender and decolonization
African feminisms
Gender and challenges to postcolonial states
Gender, colonialisms and generations
Please send your proposal of 500 words as an attachment in MS Word or PDF form to the editors by 18 February 2007:
Odile Goerg, odile.goerg@paris7.jussieu.fr, Marie Rodet, marie.rodet@univie.ac.at, Natalya Vince, n.vince@ulip.lon.ac.uk, The deadline for receipt of the final article is 27 May 2007.
Call for Essays
COMPOSING(MEDIA) = COMPOSING(EMBODIMENT)
Deadline: February 28, 2007 500 word Abstracts from authors
Editors: Kristin L. Arola, Washington State University AND Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological University
March 16, 2007 - Abstract Acceptance
August 1, 2007 - Full Manuscripts (20-30pp.)
Trinh Minh-Ha, Julia Kristeva, Howard Cruse, Emily Dickinson, Alison Bechdel, Julie Dash, Carole Maso, and Avital Ronell have each shown us how unexpected potentials of media can intercede in the mixed formations of gender, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and bodily potential. Dickinson was criticized for the unconventional punctuation that is now considered central to her shaping of temporal perception; Minh-Ha breaks cinematic conventions to question ethnographic conventions; Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse draw comics to make visible the layerings of growing up and living gay in the United States. Such compositions visibly question and confront textual norms while constituting identities in and through media.
The editors of this collection believe that as instructors of writing in this time we must encourage not only an expanded notion of what it means to be literate -- moving beyond literacy concerned only with singularly alphabetic texts -- but also must encourage a rich understanding of how identity is constructed and performed by and through the affordances of multimodal texts. We agree with the New London Group that “just as there are multiple layers to everyone’s identity, there are multiple discourses of identity and multiple discourses of recognition to be negotiated.” We believe that we should, along with people in the classes we teach, be addressing and investigating these multiple discourses and how our identities are entangled with and through them.
Broadly, this collection aims to interrogate alternate ways and media for composing -- growing out of or beyond the standard academic alphabetic page -- and the possibilities such compositions have for identity formations. If we accept what Stuart Hall describes, that “identities are… constituted within, not outside, representation,“ how are we to understand and question, along with people in the classes we teach, the roles of production and representation in multimodal texts? And what happens to our pedagogy when we begin to view multimodal texts through theories of difference? How can we open up to classroom discussion and use aspects of media that usually aren’t considered in writing discussion but that are inseparable from performances of gender, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and other embodied potentials? We invite abstracts on how you are using the theoretic frameworks of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, postcolonial theories, and/or theories of new media to engage with the materialities of the texts you are producing or are asking people in the writing classes you teach to produce or analyze.
PLEASE SEND ABSTRACTS TO: Kristin Arola, Washington State University, arola@wsu.edu
Call for Submissions
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
SPECIAL ISSUE: Teaching Material Culture
Deadline: March 1, 2007
A peer reviewed journal. The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 – 10,000 words) and media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. – 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore the significance and uses of material culture in a variety of pedagogical—from the classroom to the museum—and disciplinary contexts—literature, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology, sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, working-class studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, science, and others. Essays should raise questions concerning, for example, authenticity, art, craft, tradition, community, or authority in relationship to the teaching of material culture Multidisciplinary approaches that focus on—or include—discussions of non-Western cultures are especially encouraged. Autobiographical criticism, narrative scholarship, photo-essays, and experimental work are welcome.
Topics might include: teaching material culture in K-12 and higher education; museums and the appropriation and transformation of material culture; gender and technology; the politics and pedagogy of the archive; material culture and folklore; artifacts and identities; material culture and family/domesticity; food rituals/celebrations; the transmission of material culture in diasporic communities; history and interpretation of public spaces; intersections and manifestations of identities; clothes, costumes, fashion, and body politics; religious practices; music and performance; practices and politics of memorializing; the material construction of public events; make-overs and reality television; class and taste; globalization, tourism, and transnationalism.
Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.) and a 250-word abstract to: Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305 OR e-mail submissions and inquiries to: transformations@njcu.edu. E-mail submissions should be sent as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.
Call for Submissions
Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Journal by and for Lesbians
Deadline: March 1, 2007
www.sinisterwisdom.org
Sinister Wisdom #72 Two Spirit Women of First Nations
Guest Editors: Chrystos (Menominee) and Sunny Birdstone (Ktunaxa)
Submissions, inquiries etc should be sent to sbirdstone@hotmail.com or to Chrystos & S. Birdstone, 3250 S 77th #8, Tacoma, WA 98409 USA
Colonialization has marginalized Indigenous women (as well as men), making Native Dykes almost completely invisible. We celebrate the survival of Two Spirit women of First Nations in this issue.
Submissions may be in any format - taped interviews, dialogues, as well as fiction, poetry, etc. Please respect certain definitions, which have often been violated - ie. We ask for work from lesbians who are
Native in this lifetime only, recognized by their tribes or communities (although a BIA number is not required) and willing to use their name rather than a pseudonym (this is to help prevent submissions of non-authentic work). We define Indigenous Dykes as coming from the Americas, as well as the Pacific (Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia), with a land base (ie. reservation, ranchero, etc.) and a tribal affiliation (Maori, Koori, Cree, etc.). Government recognition of tribal status is not necessary (ie. we recognize the Duwamish). We are particularly interested in stories from dykes who were in residential schools, Elders, incarcerated, & in honor of those who have passed on (Barbara Cameron NationShield, Smiley Hillaire).
Call for Papers
Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
The deadline for manuscript submission: March 2, 2007
Issue Two, Spring 2007, “Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship”
The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context invites submissions for its second issue on the subject of “Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship.” Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a “classic” piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain. While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each issue, authors are under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed by that work.
Issue two explores the subject of "Transnational Migration, Race, an Citizenship" with consideration of the chapter "The Shock of Alienation" from Oscar Handlin's ground-breaking The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People. In this chapter, Handlin investigates the relationships between labor, cultural membership, citizenship, and the production of racial difference. Citing violence against Chinese and Filipino immigrants in the early 19th century, he details the ways in which labor tensions in the US were integral to the establishment of federal anti-immigration policy aimed at these "unassimilable" groups. According to Handlin, cultural variation and poverty status became the criteria used to infer an ostensibly inherent racial inferiority that served as the basis for denying Chinese and Filipino immigrants the rights and protections that accompanied citizenship.
While labor, cultural membership, and race remain central components of the current complexities of immigration, new concerns have emerged since the 1951 publication of Handlin's Pulitzer Prize-winning history. On one hand, new signs of deterritorialization—the increasing incidence of dual citizenship, home-country remittances, expatriate involvement in home-country politics, and "diasporic" community-building—have led some to assert the declining relevance of the nation-state as a primary attachment and the declining significance of citizenship itself. On the other, debates and policy developments around immigration and citizenship suggest that the nation-state's power to regulate the movement of labor and capital within and across borders is far from obsolete. In particular, state power continues to have a profound impact on racialized disparities, processes of racialization, and on the burdens and benefits of citizenship. In this new context, we are compelled to reconsider the nature of transnational migration, the nature of citizenship, the link between the two, and the role of race in mediating that link. To this end, the “Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship” issue of Ethnoscapes seeks manuscripts that investigate:
A) Economic Flows, Migration, and Racialized Disparities
How is migration racialized/ethnicized and gendered? What is the relationship between late capitalist economic operations, migration, and racialized disparities in health, education, self-determination and representation, and wealth? In what ways do “citizenship gaps”—spaces in which market participation forecloses political membership—re/produce racialized disparities globally?
B) Borders, Boundaries, and “The Nation.” How is immigration policy racialized? What is/should be the current role of the nation-state in generating policy that regulates the movement of wealth and people across borders and in regulating resultant disparities? What forms of regulation/governance that exceed the nation-state can be conceptualized? What role does cultural nationalism play in political membership? What transnational forms of political and cultural membership are/can be imagined?
C) Processes of Racialization In what ways are immigrant populations affecting domestic racial hierarchies and racial identities? How are transnational cultural flows affecting conceptualizations of race and ethnicity? Their relationship to nation?
Please send submissions to mmaltry@kirwaninstitute.org and editors@kirwaninstitute.org. See http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare your document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.
Call for Submissions
Feminist Pedagogy: New Paradigms, New and Old Places
Deadline: March 12, 2007
Submission address: editorialboard@femtap.com
Format: .doc or .jpg questions: editorialboard@femtap.com or ikerlee@unm.edu
The summer 2007 edition of FemTAP will address the issue of pedagogy for social change. Feminist pedagogy more so than other strategies, traditionally claims to be about intellectual, personal, and political transformation. How does the theory of transformative pedagogy relate to the practice of teaching and communal and/or social change? What theories and strategies are being developed and utilized outside of the classroom and the academic institutional paradigm? We invite essays that address specific settings as well as those that look at administrative strategies and longitudinal affects. Preference will be given to essays that discuss the benefit for learning participants and the communities in which they interact. Essays that address decolonizing practices on a structural and individual level are of particular interest. Essays written from experiences outside of academe or that look at pedagogy in unique settings are strongly encouraged. As always, we are hoping to open spaces for new and emerging scholars but will accept submissions from all scholars (academic and non-academic) interested in these issues. “Traditional” and “experimental” essays as well as creative work welcome. Essays should deal specifically with feminism, be interdisciplinary, and show an understanding of intersectionality. Co- and multi-authored submissions welcome. Please put the edition for which you are writing in the subject line or cover letter.
Other Submission Information:
Please do NOT send bios, CVs, or names at this time, as we will do a blind review. Please do include your rank or position on a separate sheet as final decisions are based on the desire to include a balanced representation of emerging, junior, and senior scholars. Other identifying material will be requested shortly after decisions are made. Please do not submit any articles currently past first review in journals that do not allow multiple publications of your articles, Place the edition for which you wish to be considered in the subject line and/or cover letter. If you have any questions please contact the Editorial Board at: editorialboard@femtap.com. Your questions will be answered based on consensus. Basic answers can be found on the website.
Special Issue Call for Papers
Border Interactions: Immigration-Education-Information
InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education & Information Studies
Deadline: March 15, 2007
Guest Editor: R. Evely Gildersleeve, Ph.D. Iowa State University.
InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies is a peer-reviewed online open-access scholarly journal. InterActions is committed to the promotion of scholarship that examines areas of education and information studies through diverse interdisciplinary and critical frameworks. The journal seeks to link theoretical and practical projects and provide a space to record the voices of practitioners, activists, and both established and emerging scholars. In May 2006, proposed immigration reform legislation galvanized the immigration rights movement to carry out unprecedented public marches, protests, demonstrations, and walk-outs. The altered socio-political landscape of a post-9/11 United States forces us to reexamine existing notions of identity and citizenship, insider and outsider, documented and undocumented, and the meaning applied to the "borderlands." This special issue of InterActions invites authors to view these concerns through the lenses of education and information studies, and to explore the largely unmapped spaces where immigration, education, and information intersect. This issue encourages a closer examination of the roles of both education and information studies in the immigration debates as well as an examination of the legal, social, philosophical, economic, and cultural aspects, which shape these debates. All articles undergo a double-blind peer-review. Please visit the InterActions website (http://interactions.gseis.ucla.edu) for detailed submission guidelines or contact interactions@gseis.ucla.edu for more information.
Call for Submissions
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
Call for Manuscripts
Feminist Teacher issue on Grief and Pedagogy
Deadline July 15, 2007
The journal Feminist Teacher invites manuscripts for a special issue on Grief and Pedagogy. What is the challenge, exactly, that the presence of grief in our lives presents to the continuing enactment of pedagogy? What are the natures of the different sorts of grief that challenge the enactments? What responses have our associated institutions formulated? What obligations are they aware of? Please send articles by July 15 to Gail Cohee, Feminist Teacher, Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Box 1829, Brown University, Providence RI, 02912. Queries may be directed to Gail_Cohee@brown.edu
Call For Papers:
Examining The Lives Of GLBTQ Of Color
The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services: Issues in Practice, Policy & Research
Deadline for submission is July 31, 2007 with a planned publication in 2008.
In recent decades, queer scholarship and scholarship on race have begun to examine what it means to be raced and/or sexed in the U.S. Yet despite this movement, both Queer Studies and Ethnic Studies have often overlooked the existence of gay men and women of color.
This special issue is an attempt to add to the scholarship about lesbians and gay men of color; where lesbians and gay men of color find a "home" and what kind of home they find, what needs are specific to those who are both "raced" and "sexualized" and what are the factors that need to be addressed when working with people marginalized both along racial and sexual lines. Accordingly, the guest editor of the journal invites manuscripts that address issues relevant to GLBTQ persons of color. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Domestic violence against/amongst lesbians and gays of color.
2. HIV/AIDS prevention with gays and lesbians of color.
3. Disability, sexuality, and race.
4. Class issues for lesbians and gays of color.
5. Racism in the gay community.
6. Homophobia in racial/ethnic communities.
7. Negotiating lesbian and gay identities with racial identities.
Manuscripts should be one or more of the following types: empirical (quantitative and qualitative); conceptual, addressing theoretical model development or research methodology needs, strategies, or innovations; reviews of empirically-based knowledge, or theoretical pieces. Exceptional personal essays will also be considered. Papers that explore the experiences of two or more racial groups are especially welcome.
The references and format of the manuscript should follow the style of the American Psychological Association and include an abstract of less than 100 words. Authors should submit three hard copies as well as an electronic copy (either on disc or through e-mail as a word document). Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers and returned with comments
Submissions should be sent to: Chong-suk Han, Guest Editor, Department of Sociology, Temple University, 713 Gladfelter Hall, 1115 West Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122. Further information about the journal may be obtained at www.haworthpress.com or contacting the editor Michael Sullivan, Ph.D. at msulliv3@utk.edu or (901) 448-4475
Call for Papers:
Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities
The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.
Edited by Talia Mae Bettcher and Ann Garry
The recent publication of The Transgender Studies Reader (ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, New York: Routledge, 2006) marks a watershed in the development of trans studies. Arising in the early nineties in close relation to queer theory, trans studies is characterized by the coming-to-voice of trans people, long the theorized and researched objects of sexology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and even feminist theory.
Sandy Stone's groundbreaking "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" sought the end of monolithic accounts of trans people (authored by non-trans) to reveal a multiplicity of trans narratives told by trans people themselves. By recognizing trans people as flesh and blood human beings with particular access to experiences of "transness" and transphobic oppression, as its starting point, trans studies opens up a way of theorizing "transgender"--for trans and non-trans people alike--that ideally resists, rather than reinforces, mechanisms of transphobia. This raises important questions in feminist theory and politics. How can feminist theory best understand transphobia and trans resistance? Where do feminist and trans politics meet? Where are the overlaps and gaps, the points of connection and disconnection?
Hypatia invites submissions to a special issue on transgender studies and feminism, which recognizes the emergence of trans studies. We welcome articles that investigate the relations between feminism and transgender studies. Articles exploring the intersections of multiple oppressions are especially welcome, as are submissions that come from subject-positions outside the United States (and North America more generally). We seek a collection of papers that is international in scope. We also welcome articles that focus on issues specific to trans studies, trans politics, and trans people. This includes (but is hardly limited to) the following: medical regulations of trans bodies; transphobic violence; transphobia in housing, employment, education, medical treatment, and the like; sexual violence against trans people; critiques and concerns about various views within trans studies or politics, tensions between queer theory and trans studies.
Submissions need not be limited to the discipline of philosophy; we encourage interdisciplinary submissions. Regardless of disciplinary orientation, all submissions need to be theoretically sophisticated. Submissions that show a sensitivity to the interrelations among theory, politics, and real impacts upon flesh and blood human beings are especially welcome.
Papers should be no more than 8000 words, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 75 words. Please provide a cover letter identifying your paper as a submission for the special issue "Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities."
Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment in Word to Talia Bettcher at tbettch@calstatela.edu. Submissions should follow Hypatia guidelines (see http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/). Please address all correspondence, questions and suggestions to Talia Bettcher or Ann Garry at agarry@calstatela.edu.
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
Call for Submissions. Deadline for submission: Rolling
Thirdspace: Online magazine · http://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
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CALLS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
Call for Proposals
Working Class Studies Association Conference
Deadline: February 15 2007
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
June 14-17, 2007
For the last twelve years a movement has been growing in higher education, the new field of Working Class Studies. Like Women's Studies, African American or Latino studies, this field gives people from a variety of academic disciplines and activists a place to discuss issues of class in America and the world. It includes people from all academic disciplines; unions; grass roots activists, and other non-academic settings. It also provides a high degree of consciousness about other important social issues and how they interact with class. A few years ago the Working Class Studies Association (WCSA) was founded. This year is the first year the WCSA is putting on "The Conference Formerly Known as Youngstown.” This conference will explore working-class culture in all its forms - activism, oral history, pop culture, literature, the arts, storytelling, and more. Working-class culture can be a source of unity as well as division, and it is constructed in the workplace as well as in the realms of "leisure" and popular culture. At this conference, we hope to explore the various meanings of working class culture: How has working-class culture changed over time? Is there is a diasporic, transnational, and/or global working-class culture? How do working-class people use representations, organizations, and everyday life to resist the dominant culture? How do working-class cultures reflect divisions among working-class people? What makes working class cultures? What are the effects on these cultures by the dominant culture in society? What of relationships between "cultural workers" and their audiences? What about control over the means of cultural production (publishers, music producers, universities, etc.) and the commercialization of working-class culture? And Other Issues! We are eager to provide a venue in which scholars of working-class culture using Humanities, Social Science, grass roots activist lenses can come together with each other, and with creators of working-class culture. As always, proposals for all kinds of papers or presentations related to class will be considered, as well as those specifically related to this conference's theme of working class culture. We invite proposals for presentations, panels, posters, papers, roundtables, and performances. Submit 1-page abstracts with a brief biographical statement to: Peter Rachleff, History Department, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55105 Or by e-mail to rachleff@macalester.edu.
Call for Papers
Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities, and Self-Determinations
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2007
University of Massachusetts Boston Fall Institute
September 12-15, 2007
For more details, visit us online at : http://www.engagingislam.umb.edu
The 2007 Fall Institute at UMass Boston invites proposals that explore critically the relationship between Islam and Feminisms today. It seeks to examine the complex and rich terrain of Islam as a force for understanding global politics, an impetus for political and psychological self-determination, a stimulus for cultural productions, and a foundation for identity. By engaging Islam through a feminist lens, we hope to challenge inadequately interrogated assumptions and modes of thinking that posit secularism and democracy in opposition to religiosity and oppression. The critical perspective of feminist analysis provides a particularly valuable window into the many struggles internal to Islam, its changing dynamics over time, and the intersecting influences of economic/ cultural globalization, imperialism and patriarchal power structures in the lives of individuals, communities, and nations.
Call For Proposals
Borders And Battlefields: Feminist Action Across Boundaries
Proposal Deadline: February 19, 2007
Seventeenth Annual Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association Conference
Students, Teachers and Activists Working Together
Friday, April 13, 2007
California State University, Los Angeles
The theme of this conference is motivated by current domestic and international political crises: the ongoing war in Iraq, the push for homeland security, the tightening of immigration policies, and the increased policing and criminalization of the "other," among other dehumanizing projects and actions. These affect all communities and families, locally and globally, shaping our everyday lives and the spaces in which we live, discouraging human relationship, promoting the unjust distribution of wealth and allocation of resources, and increasing the militarization of society. As feminists seeking to end the subordination of women and all oppressed people, we must challenge our complacency and sense of futility in the face of these multiple "battles" and seek ways to create solidarity across borders and boundaries to work towards change. This conference invites feminist work that examines the constructions of borders, battlegrounds and boundaries (with particular attention to gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation), their connections with local and global power structures, and alternative visions and avenues to change. The PSWSA solicits proposals from students (undergraduate and graduate), faculty, community activists, and independents scholars for papers, panels, workshops, or artistic and multimedia presentations, performances and practical applications from all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, social sciences, humanities, science, and education. Possible topics and areas include, but are not limited to: criminal justice and the prison industrial complex; individual and institutional violence; stereotyping; home, gentrification, and homelessness; religious fundamentalism; immigration and refugees; free trade agreements; attacks on civil liberties; health; education; the politics of fear. We encourage proposals for presentations on the conference theme, however proposals dealing with all areas of feminist research are welcomed.
Proposals should be submitted via e-mail as Word attachments to Ester Hernandez at: eherna17@calstatela.edu
Proposals must include: Title; abstract (100 word maximum); contact person's name, address, e-mail, and phone number; presenter name(s) with academic and/or community affiliation; format (e.g., workshop, panel, roundtable discussion, artistic presentation, or performance), and audio/visual equipment requirements. (Equipment requests must be included with original proposal.)
Conference Registration Is Required For Attendance And Presentation.
Call for Papers
Human Trafficking Conference
Deadline February 20, 2007
South Texas College, McAllen, TX
April 18th -19th
Following the success of our 2006 conference on Women and War, the Women’s Studies committee of South Texas College is organizing our second annual conference, on the topic of Human Trafficking. Our keynote and featured speakers are, Ms.Yanar Mohammed, President, Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), and Mimi Chakarova a photojournalist from U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University. Ms. Mohammed will provide a first-hand account of the rise in sex trafficking in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion and occupation of March 2003, while Ms Chakarova will be depicting the plight of women who are sex trafficked in Eastern Europe and Central America. We invite researchers, faculty, graduate students, journalists and practitioners to present findings and observations on a wide range of issues related to human and sex trafficking. We encourage papers that are broadly themed, as well as those concerned with specific geographic areas or the causes and effects of Sex and Labor Trafficking, Organized Sex Tourism, and Human Trafficking in War Zones. Proposals for papers, panels and roundtables may be sent via e-mail to Ms. Jenny Clark, Chair of the Women’s Studies Committee at: jclark@southtexascollege.edu or Ms Denese McArthur at damcarth@southtexascollege.edu. Please include the term “Human Trafficking Conference” in the subject line.
Call for Submissions
Out There: The 2nd National Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs Personnel Involved in LGBTQ Issues on Catholic Campuses
Submissions deadline: February 26, 2007.
DePaul University, Chicago
19-20 October 2007
For more information or to submit a proposal, please visit the conference website at:
http://condor.depaul.edu/~lgbtq/news/index.html or write to outthereconference@depaul.edu.
GENDER ODYSSEY: FTM 2007
Deadline is midnight on April 1st, 2007
Seattle, WA
Labor Day Weekend, Aug. 31-Sept. 3
Each year, the conference organizers depend upon presenters from a variety of communities across North America to create workshops and bring them to the conference. What discussions do you wish to have? How can you share your knowledge and benefit from the experience of others? Gender Odyssey is committed to offering relevant programming that originates with you.
Gender Odyssey's programming will reflect a balance of three key workshop formats. We are committed to creating a strong environment of inclusivity and encourage workshop submissions that are relevant to a wide range of experiences. We also recognize the importance of narrowing the focus of some sessions to allow for deeper exploration of the unique ways that gender can impact specific lives. Lastly, a select number of workshops/caucuses may be closed to all but a specific group in an effort to create greater intimacy and safety. We feel these three formats (inclusive, narrow in focus, and closed) are all valuable in creating the innovative programming that is part of Gender Odyssey. Evaluations of past conferences have identified some areas in need of development: see the links below for more details. We continue to be open to new ideas about emerging needs as well.
Instructions for submission can be found at:
http://www.transconference.org/details/workshops/workshopsubmission.htm
Call for Papers
17th Annual SCSU Women’s Studies Conference, “Global and Local Women’s Studies: Going on Forty”
DEADLINE: June 11, 2007
Southern Connecticut State University
October 19 & 20, 2007
Women’s Studies as a discipline is going on forty, prompting debate about where the discipline has come from, where it is at the turn of the century, and where it is going. This conference will be a part of that process. We are specifically interested in using the metaphor of family—informed by histories of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation—to explore and explain and document the discipline of Women’s Studies, to consider how we have been written by/written ourselves into this family drama, and to reflect on the impact those decisions have had on feminist & womanist movements inside and outside of the university, locally and globally. We invite individuals, groups, scholars, activists, and artists to submit proposals for panel presentations, round-table discussions, or artistic performances that address the following questions:
What is the relationship between Women’s Studies in the US and abroad—Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, etc.? Is “sisterhood” an adequate concept for theorizing these relationships? What do transnational frameworks offer us for understanding Women’s Studies in the US and abroad? What are the benefits and drawbacks to understanding Women’s Studies as “middle aged”? To describing Women’s Studies in terms of waves/generations? What role do you play in the discipline of Women’s Studies? Are you a founding mother? A rebellious daughter? A prodigal child? How and why? Why/when have there been/not been roles for you in Women’s Studies? What tensions have you experienced between being cast in a role and attempting to write your own role? Where/when/why have you felt or not felt “at home” in Women’s Studies as a discipline? Why has it felt or not felt “like family”? How have you written or rewritten yourself into the story of the discipline over time/through space? How has the concept of “sisterhood” allowed/disallowed your participation in Women’s Studies? What generational tensions and connections have you experienced and how do they inform your work in Women’s Studies? In what ways have you experienced the institutional confinement of Women’s Studies? With what results? To what extent has Women’s Studies challenged and changed courses, programs, departments, disciplines, and administrations in universities here and/or abroad? With what gains and losses for individuals, groups, and institutions? What theories and texts do you see most influential on Women’s Studies scholarship and application? How has Women’s Studies intersected with feminist & womanist movements? With what consequences for each?
We, too, invite your ideas and suggestions. Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geographic perspectives in order to create a living text of feminist cultures, histories, and representations. Expect dinners, celebrations, arguments, and performances. Expect a variety of opportunities to write and be written into the story of the discipline during the conference. In short, expect to join us in a collaboratively produced ethnography of Women’s Studies going on forty.
Send submissions electronically to decrostaa1@southernct.edu please include name, affiliation, E-mail, standard mailing address, and phone number. Proposals should be no longer than one page, with a second page for identification information.
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Interdisciplinary Conference in Women's Studies
Middle Tennessee State University
February 22-24, 2007, Contact womenstu@mtsu.edu.
4th Annual WE LEARN (Net)Working Conference an Women and Literacy
Threads of Experience: Creative Spaces for Women's Learning
March 9-10, 2007
Boston MA at Northeastern University
Registration & Travel details: http://www.litwomen.org/conference.html
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/
White Privilege Conference 8
April 18-21, 2007
Colorado Springs Sheraton
Theme: The Matrix: Examining Intersections, Making Connections, & Building Allies
WPC is committed to a philosophy of “understanding, respecting and connecting.”
More information at: www.whiteprivilegeconference.com
Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion Conference
April 26-28, 2007
Syracuse University
http://thecollege.syr.edu/admin/pcr-conference/index.htm
17th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
June 7 - June 10, 2007
Marcum Conference Center of Miami University of Ohio, in Oxford, Ohio.
http://www.muohio.edu/woolfconference.
Teaching for a Change: A Celebration of Learning
June 18 - 20, 2007
Park City, Utah
http://www.teachingforachange.com
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. http://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
Carleton College
LGBT STUDIES FELLOWSHIP
Deadline: Reviews begin February 12, 2007 and continue until the position is filled.
One-year LGBT Studies teaching fellowship at the pre- or post-doc level, to begin August 31, 2007. Appointment involves teaching two or three courses and residency for the year. The field is open, but we are particularly interested in candidates who work on queer communities of color and/or take an intersectional approach to the study of sexuality. The fellowship is supported by the Academic Programs in LGBT Studies Fund of the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Send letter of application with a description of courses you might like to teach and research plans for the fellowship year, c.v., three recent letters of reference, and graduate transcripts to: Professor Annette Igra, Director, Program in Women's and Gender Studies, Carleton College, One North College Street, Northfield, MN. Carleton is a highly selective liberal arts college with 1850 students located 45 miles south of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Carleton is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and offers domestic partner benefits. We are committed to developing our faculty to better reflect the diversity of our student body and American society. Women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Vermont Studio Center
Next Full Fellowship Deadline: February 15, 2007
The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) offers year-round two–twelve week independent residencies. Residents receive a private studio, room and 3 meals each day plus access to prominent visiting artists and writers who offer slide talks, studio visits, and readings. Low Residency MFA also available.
VSC awards 200 Full Fellowships and 300 partial fellowships annually for four-week Residencies. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and can be downloaded at:
http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org
2007-2008 Visiting Scholar Positions
Mcgill Centre For Research And Teaching On Women
Closing Date: March 2nd 2007
The McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women invites applications for the position of Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies with the Centre. The purpose of these positions is to attract highly qualified researchers working on women's issues. These positions are open to any scholar who wishes to spend three (3) to six (6) months, within the university's academic year, in a university environment in order to carry out research in Women's Studies. The Centre offers office space and support, an ongoing seminar program, contact with other Women's Studies scholars within McGill and in neighbouring universities- all this located at the centre of a stimulating, bilingual, urban environment. Scholars may wish to apply for external grants; limited research funding of $1,000 is available from the Centre. The Visiting Scholar will be asked to present her/his ongoing research in a seminar and to interact with the community of students and colleagues. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a brief outline of the research to be undertaken, a copy of two recent short publications, the dates of the proposed stay and the names of two referees to:
Dr. Shree Mulay, Director,
McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women,
3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor,
Montreal, Qc H3A 1W7
Phone: 514.398.3911
e-mail: nfo.mcrtw@mcgill.ca
Candidates requiring assurance of a position in order to obtain funding elsewhere are invited to apply one year in advance.
Call for Submissions
Annual Fiction Contest
So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art
Deadline: March 15, 2007
It is a $500 and publication to the First Place Winner and publication for two runners up.
Send a short story (under 5,000 words), SASE & $15 entry fee per submission to: So to Speak, George Mason University, MSN 2D6, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030.
To be considered for our annual contests, entrants (Students and faculty welcome) should send their manuscript along with a fifteen dollar entry fee via check or money order made out to George Mason University. PLEASE DO NOT SEND CASH. The entry fees are what make this contest possible. Entrants should send duplicates of their work, one with entrant name and contact information and one without, as the selection process is conducted through blind judging. Please send a cover letter stating that your work is a contest entry, a brief bio, and a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope). Founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University, So to Speak has served as a space for feminist writing and art for thirteen years. So to Speak publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that lives up to a high standard of language, form, and meaning. We look for work that addresses issues of significance to women's lives and movements for women's equality and are especially interested in pieces that explore issues of race, class, and sexuality in relation to gender. For more information go to: www.gmu.edu/org/sts
Call for Submission
The Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations
Graduate Student and New Professionals 2007 Awards Applications
Deadline: April 15th, 2007
The Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations is seeking applicants for TWO awards to be given at the November 2007 NCFR Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Applicants do not need to be members of NCFR, but we welcome new members to our section and organization. The Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective is given in honor of Jessie Bernard. Graduate students and new professionals (with up to five years post-doctoral work) are encouraged to apply for this award of $750 to fund feminist research. Proposals will be reviewed for their potential contribution to feminist scholarship about families and the use of feminist frameworks and methods. Applications should include: a) an abstract of 100 words or less; b) a five page (maximum) proposal (double spaced in 12-size font) outlining the project’s purpose, theoretical foundation, research methods, and potential contribution to feminist scholarship; c) a reference list, and d) a half-page budget. A summary of the recipient’s research results will be published in the Feminism and Family Studies Section Newsletter, and the recipient will be asked to present a report of their project and findings at the 2008 NCFR Annual Conference. The award will be presented at the 2007 meeting; recipients will receive $350 towards their travel.
The Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Paper Award is accompanied by a gift of complimentary books and a $250 cash award. Applications for this award are open to all graduate students and new professionals (with up to five years post-doctoral work). Papers should contribute to feminist scholarship about families and the use of feminist frameworks and methods, and should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 150 words. Applicants should be the sole author or first author of the paper; both published and unpublished papers will be considered, although the paper should be at near-submission status. A summary of the paper will be published in the Feminism and Family Studies Section Newsletter, and the award will be presented at the 2007 NCFR Annual Conference. Recipients will receive $350 towards their travel to the conference.
Authors should identify themselves only in a cover letter so that all entries can be reviewed anonymously – all identifying references should be removed from the paper or proposal submissions. In a cover letter, applicants should indicate whether they are currently a graduate student or when they received their Ph.D. The cover letter should also include the address(es), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es) of all authors. Letters of support are not required. Only one submission per category will be accepted from any applicant. To apply, send one electronic copy (MS Word attachment) of the proposal or paper by April 15th, 2007 to: Áine Humble, Ph.D., FFSS Awards Committee Chair, Dept. of Family Studies and Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University, 166 Bedford Highway, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3M 2J6 E-mail: aine.humble@msvu.ca
Call for Submissions
Gender, Place and Culture Journal
Gender, Place and Culture Award for New and Emerging Scholars
($1000US). For more information about the award please contact Linda Peake, Managing Editor, at lpeake@yorku.ca.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS
Internship Opportunity with Wisconsin Women’s Council
Deadline: ASAP
Christine Lidbury, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Women's Council of the State of Wisconsin is looking for an unpaid student intern. The Wisconsin Women's Council, established in 1983, is state government's statutory commission on the status of women and girls in Wisconsin. The 15-member Council is appointed by the Governor and Legislative Leaders. http://womenscouncil.wi.gov
The project is to update the Women's Council history and research through state Blue Books, etc., to compile a complete list of former Women's Council Board members and staff. Te internship could also involve doing some interviews with former board members and staff. She would work with the student to develop the interview questions and on how to carry out and document the interviews. These materials are being collected in anticipation of the Council's 25th anniversary in 2008. This is a project that could be done remotely and so the student does not necessarily need to be in Madison. She would like the project to be done by the end of summer, so it can either be take up this spring or over the summer. Her requirements are that the student be a self-starter who can work independently, be able to commit to a specific numbers of hours per week to work on the project and have some research skills through previous work or class work for collecting information through library type resources such as state Blue Books, biennial reports, and similar type things. If there is a possibility for the student to receive credit, she would be happy to work with a faculty person to create a project of sufficient substance and oversight. Please share this with any of your colleagues who may have students potentially interested in the project. Call ((608) 266-2219) or e-mail christine.lidbury@wisconsin.gov if you have questions.
Call for Submissions
NWSA 2007 Lesbian Caucus Graduate Student Scholarship Award
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2007 (postmark deadline)
Sponsored by the Lesbian Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association
The purpose of the annual NWSA Lesbian Caucus Award is to provide a $500 research award in recognition of a Master’s Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation research project that resonates with the mission of NWSA and the goals of the Lesbian Caucus. Graduate students embarking on this phase of their academic career are encouraged to submit an award application packet. Membership in NWSA is encouraged but not required. Completed application packets should be sent to: National Women’s Studies Association – Attention: LC Award, University of Maryland, 7100 Baltimore Ave., Suite 502, College Park, MD 20740. The field of the degree is open, but the work should focus on lesbian (defined broadly) lives, identities, or realities and make a contribution to the fields of lesbian and sexuality studies. Award applications (http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/lcguide.php) are evaluated on the basis of: Clarity of project description; Relevance to mission of NWSA, goals of Lesbian Caucus, and field of Women’s and Gender Studies; Engagement of feminist analytical frameworks/ methodologies; and Potential impact on the fields of lesbian/sexuality studies. Announcement of the winning proposal will be made around April 1, 2007. All applicants are encouraged to apply for NWSA Travel Grant Awards if financial assistance is needed to attend the NWSA Annual Conference (a separate application is required so see www.nwsa.org for details). The awardee will be invited (but not required) to attend the Lesbian Caucus Breakfast at NWSA 2007 and to write an article/essay for the Fall 2007 edition of NWSAction.
For further information, contact Lisa Burke at lcchair@lists.nwsa.org.
Call for Nominations
Wanted: Brave LGBTQ Youth! Reward: Ten Thousand Dollars Each!
Deadline for Nominations: March 2, 2007
The Colin Higgins Foundation is requesting nominations for its annual Youth Courage Awards. Each year the Colin Higgins Foundation salutes LGBTQ individuals who demonstrate courage in the face of adversity and discrimination based on gender and/or sexual orientation. Many LGBTQ Youth grow up in family, school and community environments that threaten their well-being. They find themselves ostracized, marginalized, in psychological or even physical danger. Colin Higgins Foundation Youth Courage Award winners rise above such circumstances to inspire others by taking action, rallying support, and working to transform the systems and institutions that impact their lives. This year the Foundation will be awarding $10,000 grants to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Queer and Questioning youth (through age 24) who have bravely stood up to hostility and intolerance based on their gender and/or sexual orientation and triumphed over bigotry through working for LGBTQ rights and social justice. The Foundation encourages all nominations to be made via the online submission tool, which can be found at: http://www.colinhiggins.org/courageawards/nomin_mat.cfm
or http://www.colinhiggins.org
Arizona Game and Fish Summer Student Internship
Application Deadline: March 5
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking students to work during the summer to perform duties in the area of wildlife management. The student must be currently enrolled in a curriculum leading to a Bachelor's or Post-Baccalaureate degree on a substantially full-time basis (usually 12 semester hours) and must be pursuing a major field of study closely related to wildlife biology or wildlife management. Some positions may require a valid driver’s license with no applicable restrictions. Students will perform duties under close supervision. Duties may include: collecting data, tracking, monitoring and counting animals, computer entry, developing educational materials, conducting creel surveys, fish sampling, habitat measurement, fish stocking. Some positions require hiking, camping, swimming or varied hours on some assignments. Assignments will begin on May 21, 2007. All eligible students interested in summer employment must submit a resume, via our recruitment site. The site address is www.azstatejobs.gov key word AGF job announcement for State Intern Program.
Call for Submissions
So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art
Announces Annual Fiction Contest
Deadline: March 15, 2007
$500 and publication to the First Place Winner and publication for two runners up.
Send a short story (under 5,000 words), SASE & $15 entry fee per submission to: So to Speak, George Mason University, MSN 2D6, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030.
To be considered for our annual contests, entrants (Students and faculty welcome) should send their manuscript along with a fifteen-dollar entry fee via check or money order made out to George Mason University. PLEASE DO NOT SEND CASH. The entry fees are what make this contest possible. Entrants should send duplicates of their work, one with entrant name and contact information and one without, as the selection process is conducted through blind judging. Please send a cover letter stating that your work is a contest entry, a brief bio, and a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope). Founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University, So to Speak has served as a space for feminist writing and art for thirteen years. So to Speak publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that lives up to a high standard of language, form, and meaning. We look for work that addresses issues of significance to women's lives and movements for women's equality and are especially interested in pieces that explore issues of race, class, and sexuality in relation to gender. For more information go to: www.gmu.edu/org/sts
National Young Women’s Leadership Conference: From Campus to Congress
Saturday, March 24, 2007 and Sunday, March 25, 2007
*Women’s Equality Summit & Congressional Day of Action
Monday, March 26, 2007 and Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Washington DC
Beginning Saturday, March 24, 2007 young feminists from around the country will come together and network to change the world. The weekend, which includes two conferences, will focus on how young women can have an impact on domestic and global issues such as reproductive rights, sweatshops, big oil and war, the environment, the media, and violence against women. Speakers will include national leaders and experts of all ages to share knowledge, experience, and information with you. http://www.feministcampus.org/leadership/
Call for Submission
The Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations
2007 Awards Applications for Graduate Student and New Professionals
Deadline: April 15th, 2007
The Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations is seeking applicants for TWO awards to be given at the November 2007 NCFR Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Applicants do not need to be members of NCFR, but we welcome new members to our section and organization. The Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective is given in honor of Jessie Bernard. Graduate students and new professionals (with up to five years post-doctoral work) are encouraged to apply for this award of $750 to fund feminist research. Proposals will be reviewed for their potential contribution to feminist scholarship about families and the use of feminist frameworks and methods. Applications should include: a) an abstract of 100 words or less; b) a five page (maximum) proposal (double spaced in 12-size font) outlining the project’s purpose, theoretical foundation, research methods, and potential contribution to feminist scholarship; c) a reference list, and d) a half-page budget. A summary of the recipient’s research results will be published in the Feminism and Family Studies Section Newsletter, and the recipient will be asked to present a report of their project and findings at the 2008 NCFR Annual Conference. The award will be presented at the 2007 meeting; recipients will receive $350 towards their travel.
The Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Paper Award is accompanied by a gift of complimentary books and a $250 cash award. Applications for this award are open to all graduate students and new professionals (with up to five years post-doctoral work). Papers should contribute to feminist scholarship about families and the use of feminist frameworks and methods, and should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 150 words. Applicants should be the sole author or first author of the paper; both published and unpublished papers will be considered, although the paper should be at near-submission status. A summary of the paper will be published in the Feminism and Family Studies Section Newsletter, and the award will be presented at the 2007 NCFR Annual Conference. Recipients will receive $350 towards their travel to the conference.
Authors should identify themselves only in a cover letter so that all entries can be reviewed anonymously – all identifying references should be removed from the paper or proposal submissions. In a cover letter, applicants should indicate whether they are currently a graduate student or when they received their Ph.D. The cover letter should also include the address(es), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es) of all authors. Letters of support are not required. Only one submission per category will be accepted from any applicant. To apply, send one electronic copy (MS Word attachment) of the proposal or paper by April 15th, 2007 to: Áine Humble, Ph.D.. FFSS Awards Committee Chair, Dept. of Family Studies and Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University, 166 Bedford Highway, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3M 2J6 E-mail: aine.humble@msvu.ca
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 is 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
Statewide Community Service And Service-Learning Conference
Thursday February 22, 2007 – Friday, February 23, 2007
This year the Superintendent’s Institute on Service-Learning and Citizenship is being presented in conjunction with Serve Wisconsin’s Statewide National and Community Service Conference. This event offers educators and students the opportunity to join together with AmeriCorps/VISTA, Senior Corps, and RSVP members to share ideas, best practices and explore challenges related to the successful implementation of service-learning and the Corporation for National and Community Service programs. Conference sessions have been designed to encourage participants to examine civic engagement through the lens of developing a participatory democracy. Registration includes attendance at both conferences. The conferences will take place on at the Marriott Madison West, 1313 John Q. Hammons Drive, Middleton, WI 53562. For more information and to register see http://www.servewisconsin.org/
The 18th Annual National Service Learning Conference;
28-31 March 2007
Albuquerque, NM For more information please visit
https://programs.regweb.com/metro/NYLC2007/registration/
Campus Community Partnerships For Health 10th Annual Conference
April 11-14, 2007
Toronto, Canada
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is convening its 10th anniversary conference to nurture a growing network of community-campus partnerships that are striving to achieve the systems and policy changes needed to address the root causes of health, social and economic inequalities. The conference, “Mobilizing Partnerships for Social Change,” seeks to build knowledge, skills and actions for achieving healthy and just societies. The conference aims not only to ask and answer critical questions, but to equip participants with resources they need to act on them. For more information and to register visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-overview.html#Intro
American Democracy Project North Central Regional Conference: "Spaces Of Civic Engagement"
April 12-14, 2007
University Of Wisconsin-River Falls
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. For More Information, visit http://www.uwrf.edu/adp/conference/
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/.
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MISCELLANEOUS
M /E / A/ N /I /N /G Online
February 2007
Feminist Art: A Reassessment. Edited by Susan Bee & Mira Schor.
http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/04/
The feminist movement in America of the late 1960s and early 1970s seems to be a particular contentious and problematic part of our history, even among women. It is forgotten or demonized, and yet there are constant efforts to memorialize, revitalize and continue its legacy within new generations of women. The M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online Forum precisely because of the contradictory aspects of the renewed interest in feminist art. The picture of the art made by women in the 1970s is inevitably partial given the scope of the subject. In proposing this forum to a large spectrum of women artists spanning at least three generations, the organizers wanted to create a situation for reconsideration of 70s feminist art and the 70s in general.
The questions they posed were:
“Which women artists' work were you particularly interested in during the 1970s? What work were you doing? If you have come of age since the 1970s, what works by women artists of that time or of your generation have been influential for you? What are you doing in your own work that you feel relates to the Feminist Art Movement?”
The forum includes writing and images by artists and art historians from three generations, including: Irina Aristarkhova, Susan Bee, Emma Bee Bernstein, Johanna Burton, Ingrid Calame, Maura Coughlin, Bailey Doogan, Johanna Drucker, Carol Duncan, Mary Beth Edelson, Joanna Frueh, Vanalyne Green, Mimi Gross, Susanna Heller, Janet Kaplan, Tom Knechtel, Judith Linhares, Lenore Malen, Ann McCoy, Adelheid Mers, Robin Mitchell, Carrie Moyer, Beverly Naidus, Rachel Owens, Sheila Pepe, Nancy Princenthal, Carolee Schneemann, Mira Schor, Joan Snyder, Anne Swartz, Faith Wilding, and Barbara Zucker. http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/04/
The Feminist Majority Foundation has a listing of Global Women's Studies Programs: http://www.feminist.org/Global/globalwst.asp
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submissions for the next WSC e-bulletin should be submitted by March 15th.
To submit announcements for the bulletin, or to get on or be removed from the list, please contact the Women's Studies Consortium Office, 1666 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706. Phone: 608-262-3056 Fax: 608-263-2046, Email: WSCOffice@uwsa.edu.
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