WSC e-bulletin - October 2007

FROM THE DIRECTOR

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

Upcoming Conferences, Exhibitions, and Awards

Every year the UW System Women’s Studies Consortium sponsors and co-sponsors activities that fit with our mission to work 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. While the WSC office is housed in the office of Academic and Student Services at UW System, its other program offices include of the Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian housed in the Memorial Library on the UW-Madison, and the Women & Science Program hosted by UW-Oshkosh.   In addition the Women’s Studies Consortium serves as the formal organization of the fourteen campus-based Women's Studies programs and UW Extension. It:

• 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.

Annually a number of campus-based and State wide initiatives emerge from our active and activist learning community.   From collaborative efforts sharing information and best practices on such topics as engaged pedagogy, transforming the curriculum, and developing program assessment models that reflect diverse feminist goals, to co-sponsoring or sponsoring learning opportunities for faculty and students that look at the intersection of a range of identity issues, the WSC has an on going commitment to making the UW System a transformed, multicultural, and inclusive educational environment.

Each year a statewide women’s studies conference is organized in collaboration with the WSC office and a campus program. The 2008 conference is being organized and hosted by the UW Green Bay Women’s Studies Program.  This will be the third year that the conference is also co-sponsored and coordinated in collaboration with the UW System Inclusivity Initiative for LGBTQ people.  Our joint themes are:  Women and Environment:  Literary, Scientific and Cultural Perspectives and LGBTQ Environments: Academia and Beyond.

This will be the thirteenth anniversary of the annual Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards which are a highlight of the conference annually.  Campuses are currently identifying the individuals who will receive the 2008 Outstanding Women of Color in Education award. The event will take place Saturday, April 5th at UW-Green Bay. Watch here for updates: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/woc/woc.htm

Beyond Wisconsin the call is out for proposals for the National Women's Studies Association conference June 19-22, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Proposals are due November 1st. [Proposal submission deadline extended to Monday, November 12, 2007 at midnight to accommodate participant demand.] It is always rewarding to meet other Wisconsin scholars, student, teachers, and activists participating in the national Women's Studies community. This year the conference theme is
Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire.  Additional information can be found here: http://www.nwsaconference.org/

Awards and Acknowledgements

There are many leaders in our Women’s Studies learning community who contribute in ways too numerous to identify as much or as often as they deserve.  Recently one of our cohort has received well deserved special recognition.

Dr. Susan Turell, Coordinator of the UW-Eau Claire Women’s Studies Program, and professor of Psychology has been chosen as one of four Women of Distinction for 2007 by the Girl Scouts of Indian Waters Council. She and the other candidates are recognized for their ability to serve as role models for younger women and teen Girl Scouts because of their outstanding achievements and contributions to their communities.  Turell, who joined the UW-Eau Claire faculty in 2002, has worked against sexual violence and domestic abuse for 25 years. Shortly after coming to Eau Claire, she was instrumental in developing the Center for Sexual Assault Awareness on the UW-Eau Claire campus, which is now in its fourth year of collaboration with the Family Support Center in Chippewa Falls. Currently serving her second term as president of the Wisconsin Coalition against Sexual Assault, Turell received a Voices of Courage Award from that organization in 2004 and was named their 2005 Wisconsin Advocate of the Year. She also received a Diversity Teacher/Scholar award from the Office of Student Development and Diversity in 2004 and the UW-Eau Claire Excellence in Service award in 2005. Recently, she has turned her attention to the needs of people experiencing intimate partner violence in same-sex relationships. The Girl Scouts Indian Waters Council has recognized Turell for living her life as a feminist, striving to demonstrate respect for all, and collaborating with others in a commitment to actively challenge oppression of all kinds. Congratulations Susan on a well earned recognition.

Congratulations to Francine Tomkins of UW System’s PK-16 Partnerships and Initiatives Office. She has just been notified of the awarding of a FIPSE grant totaling $600,000 over three years that “will focus on creating common accountability measures in math/science teacher preparation across the UW System in collaboration with Wisconsin’s private/independent colleges.” The bulk of the money will go directly to support campus efforts.

The Feminist Majority Foundation has announced the publication of an updated Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education that should be in all our libraries.  The 2007 Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity through Education, Second Edition updates the Handbook for Achieving Sex Equity through Education (Susan S. Klein, Editor) that was published in 1985 by Johns Hopkins University Press and sponsored and endorsed by the American Educational Research Association. UW-Madison’s Janet Hyde (Women’s Studies and Psychology) contributed to the chapter Facts and Assumptions about the Nature and Value of Gender Equity.  Like the previous Handbook, this new Handbook was developed collaboratively with the help of seven distinguished editors, and over 200 scholars and reviewers.   The creation of this 2007 Handbook has been a major activity of General Handbook Editor, Dr. Sue Klein, Director of the Feminist Majority Foundation Education Equity Program.   This 2007 Handbook will be especially valuable to the increased numbers of researchers, educators and educational activists interested in gender equity.  http://www.feminist.org/education/handbook.asp  There will be a panel on the topic of the role of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies in Advancing Gender Equity, at the 2008 National Women’s Studies Conference.

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

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

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WSC ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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

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SAVE THE DATES

Women & Science Opening Workshop
November 2-3, 2007, UW-Madison

The 32nd Annual Wisconsin Women's Studies Conference, and 
3rd Annual UW System LGBTQ Spring Conference
April 4-5, 2008, UW-Green Bay

13th Annual Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards and Luncheon
April 5, 2008 , UW Green Bay

Women & Science Spring Conference
May 15-16, 2008, Place TBA
Mark your calendars and join us for a year of working together to further the goals of the WSC of promoting shared leadership, expanding the influence and impact of Women's Studies throughout the system, and improving the climate for all women at all University of Wisconsin institutions.

NWSA Conference 2008
Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire
June 19-22, Cincinnati, Ohio
http://www.nwsaconference.org/

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ADDITIONAL UW SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENTS

UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity
Go here: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE to find complete and current information about the IRE and its many programs and grant opportunities as well as links to staff, history, Grant Programs, Conferences and Events, Publications, a Syllabi Bank, and more. The site is equipped with a complete Search engine, and readers are able to learn more about past grant recipients in order to provide ideas for future grant submissions. Go to the IRE web site to find:

• Proposals for Campus reading Seminars.  Due by November 2, 2007, (http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE/grant_programs/reading_seminars.html)
• Videos of Keynote Speakers from the April 2007 conference “Immigration:  Many Faces, Many Facets"
• An invitation to submit syllabi to the IRE Syllabi Bank (or search the bank for topics you would like to expand upon). (http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE/syllabi_bank/index.html)
• OPID and IRE co-sponsored Symposium—“Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum”—(Thurs.-Fri., Apr. 17-18, 2008)  The UW System has had a three-credit, ethnic studies/cultural diversity graduation requirement in place stemming back to the “Design for Diversity” (1988-1998). Understanding the learning outcomes that this requirement fosters, and the types of courses that have been designated to meet the requirement, are worthwhile endeavors.  Plans are still being formulated, but on Thursday-Friday, April 17-18, on the UW-Milwaukee campus, the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity and the UW System Office of Professional and Instructional Development will be collaborating to conduct this symposium on such topics as: student learning goals and outcomes;  course/syllabus development and design; the course approval process; “best practices”; scholarly inquiry on diversity issues; majors/minors/certificate programs; interdisciplinary collaborations; experiential/service learning; cross-campus collaborations; ethnic studies infusion/mainstreaming; nomenclature; “tiered” requirements; and the IRE’s Syllabi Bank/syllabi exchanges.

Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID)
OPID serves as a statewide faculty development resource for University of Wisconsin System institutions.  http://www.uwsa.edu/opid/grants/

• 2008 Lesson Study Training Grants:  Studying Liberal Education Learning Outcomes in Introductory Courses
  Proposal Deadline:  November 2, 2007
  OPID invites applications from UW System faculty and teaching staff for grants of $2,500 to support small teams of instructors to engage in lesson study to focus on the design and study of lessons that address essential liberal education learning outcomes in introductory courses.

• OPID Conference Development (CD) Grant Program - CFP for Spring 2008
  The deadline for Spring CD Grants is November 16, 2007, for events taking place between January 1 and June 30, 2008.
  OPID is pleased to announce a special focus for this spring’s Conference Development Grants.  This round will exclusively support the development and sponsorship of regional and systemwide workshops and conferences for faculty and staff in a specific discipline or set of related disciplines.  The goal of these workshops should be to focus on pedagogical strategies related to the development and/or assessment of student learning outcomes in the discipline. Grant proposals may request up to $2,000. 

Announcing the Third Annual Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship CompetitionSponsored by the University of Wisconsin System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (SAGLA)                                                                                                                                  
UW System Deadline is February 29, 2008, Campus deadlines will be earlier!
This Year’s Topic:  Imagine yourself as a graduating senior with a younger sibling who will be starting college next year.  What advice would you offer to this brother or sister who is setting off on the path of a liberal education?  What experiences should your sibling anticipate—or seek out—that might afford a richer comprehension of liberal education's ideals?
Eligibility:  This competition is open to any UW System undergraduate student with a current GPA of at least 3.4 who is also either:
      A) currently enrolled in the UW Colleges and has completed a minimum of 30 credit hours by the end of the Fall Semester 2007, with at least one semester (Fall 2008) as a full-time student remaining; or
      B) currently enrolled in a UW System comprehensive or doctoral institution and has completed a minimum of 60 credit hours by the end of the Fall Semester 2007, with at least one semester (Fall 2008) as a full-time student remaining. 
Award:  Three scholarships for $2,000 each are available (one to a student from the UW Colleges and two to students from the UW comprehensive and doctoral institutions).
Submission:  All submissions are to be original essays, 1,000-1,250 words in length, double-spaced and type-written.  Each essay must include a title page with the following information:  title of essay, student’s name, major, institution, college and home address, e-mail address, telephone number, and the following statement: “I hereby affirm that this is my own work, an original essay, and agree that it will become the property of the UW System Board of Regents and that it can be reproduced in the public domain.”  Each UW institution will determine its own student essay submission and screening process, including the setting of institutional deadlines for essay submission to the Provost’s Office.  Students are advised to make certain of campus deadlines.
The deadline for submission of finalist essays from the institutions is February 29, 2008.  Each comprehensive and doctoral institution may submit no more than three (3) finalist essays, the UW Colleges may submit up to 13 essays (one per campus).  Please make institutional submissions electronically via e-mail, by the February 29, 2008 deadline, to opid@uwsa.edu
Final selection of winning essays will be determined by a group of judges from the UW System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (SAGLA).  Recipients will be notified in spring 2008.
http://liberaleducation.uwsa.edu/scholarship/

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FROM THE OFFICE OF THE WOMEN'S STUDIES LIBRARIAN

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

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

YouTube Request
The Librarian and her staff would like to include noteworthy YouTube videos on women/gender in WAVE, but need help selecting them. If you use YouTube videos in your women’s studies classes, please send their titles and URLs for inclusion in WAVE to Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women’s Studies Librarian, at wiswsl@library.wisc.edu. If you have a class exercise of analyzing YouTube videos about women -- or would be interested in assigning such an exercise -- Feminist Collections is interested in publishing a write-up of the assignment and the actual student analyses. Please contact Phyllis for more information.

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WOMEN & SCIENCE PROGRAM

The on-line mentoring network MENTORNET, joining students with mentors in Engineering, Science, Math and technology can be available to your student in 2007-2008 for FREE if your UW System campus signs up to take advantage of the opportunity.  If your campus has not signed on contact Susannah Sandrin, Director of the Woman & science program to find out how to enroll.  This is a fabulous opportunity for students to find mentors in the industries they plan enter.  A special website was created by MentorNet for Wisconsin. It is:   www.mentornet.net/wisconsin   They have a Wisconsin Partners section that lists the campuses (directly, it's http://www.mentornet.net/documents/partners/campuses/systemcampuses.aspx?sid=1). 
For campuses that still want to join in you can sign up for this service through this section (direct website is http://www.mentornet.net/wisconsin/partners.aspx).

The Women & Science Program has an updated web site.  Check it out here:  http://www.uwosh.edu/wis/  It includes the program’s mission and goals revised to:

Promoting excellence and diversity in STEM education

We envision a future in which education in the STEM disciplines is accessible and attractive to diverse students resulting in STEM fields enriched by diverse practitioners.

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

In particular, the program seeks to:

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

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CALLS FOR MANUSCRIPTS, ARTICLES

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) ARM Journal Vol. 10.1 "Caregiving and Carework: Theory and Practice"
Abstract Deadline: November 1st, 2007
Full Deadline: April 1st, 2008
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/vol10no1.html  This ARM journal will explore the topic of Caregiving and Carework from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, caregivers, careworkers, mothers and others who work or research in this area. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject. *The ARM journal is a refereed, scholarly publication/double-blind review process.  Suggested Topics: *Caregiving as work *Care and Social Power *Care and Economics: Valuing paid and unpaid carework *Carework: Research objectives and findings *Carework and Social Policy:  Analysis, activism and advocacy *Caring for Children:  Social norms, cultural ideals, feminist discourse, scientific inquiry and expert advice *Framing Carework: Defining the process and practice of care *Mothering and the Politics of Care: Family values, feminism & ethics of care *The Globalization of Care *The Right to Care *Legal questions and solutions *The Work of the Body: Experiences of intimacy and embodiment in caregiving *Writing about care and carework – popular and dissenting discourses *Sharing Care: Progress and resistance to fully-shared parenting for gay, lesbian and heterosexual couples Guidelines: Articles should be 15 pages (3750 words). All should be in MLA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible. Please see our style guide for full information: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html. *One must be a member of ARM to submit - see our website for complete information.
CFP Address: Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Rm 726, ATK, York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3  Contact: Renée Knapp  arm@yorku.ca

NWSA Journal Special Issue
Abstract Deadline: November 1st, 2007
Full Deadline: November 1st, 2007
Theme: We seek contributions from disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives offering feminist analyses of the meanings that New Orleans as a place has assumed in both historical and contemporary contexts. New Orleans has long evoked a unique sense of place, a distinctiveness that was spotlighted in public discourses surrounding Hurricane Katrina. Gender has not played as prominent a role as race or class, despite the fact that gendered ideas about poverty, refugee status, government aid, home and homelessness implicitly inform such debates. We invite scholars as well as artists, writers and poets to submit work that explores the gendered dimensions of the experiences of inhabitants of New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, and other affected regions as it relates to the hurricane. We also welcome contributions that use feminist analyses to illuminate the varied meaning of New Orleans as a place set in historical, comparative, and global contexts. Suggested Topics: Gender, Public Rhetoric And Media Surrounding Hurricane Katrina, Gender-Specific Meanings And Practical Issues Related To Displacement
Nationalism, Regionalism, Public History, Public Art And Heritage In New Orleans
Sexualized And Gendered Associations With New Orleans
Diasporic Politics And Gendered Identities Prompted By Specificities Of Place
Issues Of Ownership, Liability, Responsibility, And Control Over Gendered Space
Gendered And Sacred Meanings Assigned To Place And Religion In New Orleans
Women’s Community Organizing And Activism In New Orleans
Gendered Readiness And Response To Disaster And Crisis
Kinwork, The Labor Of Care, And Gendered Responses To Crisis
The Gendered Meanings Of Home And Homelessness In New Orleans
Gender, Authenticity And Urban/Rural Dichotomizing Of Space In New Orleans
The Meaning Of Public/Private In The Context Of Displacement
Women, Architectural Engineering/Design In New Orleans And The Gulf Region
Public Policy In New Orleans And The Gulf Region
Guidelines: 20-30 pages, doubled spaced with parenthetical notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style  CFP Address: Kathryn Feltey, Department of Sociology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-1905
Contact: Kathryn Feltey  felteyk@uakron.edu  330-972-6877

Call for papers for a special issue of MP: A Feminist Online Journal
http://www.academinist.org/mp/
Back Talk: The Language of Defiance, Denial, Distortion, and Development
Scheduled Publication Date: January 15, 2007
Deadline November 4, 2007.
Imus's use of the power of the language to reduce successful young women to objects of racial epithet got him fired. In a South Philadelphia neighborhood, a cheesesteak restaurant owner becomes the subject of a national debate about whether the language of immigrants is valid and whether it should retain power in the United States, even the simple power to order a sandwich. Meanwhile, America as a whole asks the question on the world stage of whether the power of words is permitted to "enemy combatants", and even to Congress as they attempt to end the war in Iraq. President Bush uses the power of words in the form of signing statements, accompanying each veto of congressional legislation that he sends out. Internationally, the people of war-torn lands such as Darfur struggle to find a voice to ask for aid and the women of many countries cry out for protection against institutionalized rape. Speaking out has been an important concept in feminism from the beginning. Who owns language? Who can use its power? And how is that power used in a modern, technological, global world? How can it be harnessed for good? In this issue of MP Journal, we seek papers that explore language and its power and how that relates to national and international issues.
Submissions:   We accept submissions from all types of writers. In order to be considered, all submissions should:

• be scholarly/academic in nature;
• use MLA format;
• be sent as an attachment (*.doc, *.txt, *.rtf -- no *.pdf, please!);
• include a CV or writing resume and a 50 word bio;
• abide by the copyright and image use information listed on our website.

Send submission to: lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com

2008 Contemplative Practice Fellowship Competition
Now Accepting Applications
Deadline: November 15, 2007
Learn more | Download the application packet | View past recipients
Regular full-time faculty members at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada are eligible to apply for the 2008 Contemplative Practice Fellowships. These fellowships are intended to support scholars for the development of courses that employ contemplative practices to address issues of social conflict and injustice, the amelioration of suffering, and the promotion of peace. Individual scholars, partnerships, or groups of scholars may apply. Approximately ten fellowships will be awarded.
We invite proposals from the full range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Methodologies that include practical and experiential approaches to the subject matter are especially welcome.
If you have questions, please contact Sunanda Markus, Academic Program Coordinator, at fellowships@contemplativemind.org.

Transformations
Abstract Deadline: November 15th, 2007
Full Deadline: November 15th, 2007   
http://web.njcu.edu/sites/transformations/
Theme: 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 city in a variety of pedagogical contexts and disciplinary perspectives — literature, women’s and gender studies, urban studies, architecture, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology, sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, working-class studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, science, music, performance studies, and others. Essays must focus on pedagogical theory and/or praxis. Suggested Topics: Topics might include: teaching the city in K-12 and higher education; defining urban space; gendering the city; the history and interpretation of public space; globalization and the city; the politics of urban education; intersections of race, class, and gender in the city; economics and gentrification; environmental education; greening the city; community and cultural identity in the city; representations of the city in literature, visual, and popular culture; expressive forms and traditions; post-industrial transformations; im/migration and transnational labor; architecture and urban planning; building and re-building cities, public history in/and the city; urban geography; urban sexualities, health and the city.   Guidelines: Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.) Email submissions should be sent as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines see website.
CFP Address: Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors,
Transformations,
New Jersey City University,
Hepburn Hall Room 309,
2039 Kennedy Boulevard,
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Contact: Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta  transformations@njcu.edu

Journal of Lesbian Studies, special issue "In/visible Bodies: Lesbian Sexualities and Sporting Spaces"
Abstract Deadline: November 15th, 2007
Full Deadline: March 1st, 2008
Theme: This Issue takes analytic aim at Lesbian sporting spaces and gives critical attention to wider sociocultural contexts within which Lesbian sexualities and sport comingle under particular relations of power. It's timely to interrogate ranges of sporting spaces available and retrace origins of lesbian sexualities in sporting contexts, including analyses of physical culture, leisure, physical education, youth sport, exercise, and outdoor physical pursuits. Theorizing lesbian sexualities and underpinning categories of sex/race/gender/ability becomes increasingly important given ways in which new articulations of sport, sexuality, and corporeality are occurring in sociocultural contexts. This JLS Issue explores historical, political, and critical relationships between sport and lesbian sexualities. We invite scholarship questioning power relations that (re)produce categories of sexuality making certain bodies in/visible. We’re interested in work illuminating interconnections between sport, physical culture, embodiment, and sexualities, as well as analyses willingly disrupting the impasse of binaries and articulating new analytical perspectives and methodological strategies.
Suggested Topics: Potential topics might include:

Guidelines: Submissions of empirical and theoretical work are welcome from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary viewpoints including but not limited to sociology, cultural studies, queer studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, psychology, geography, history, anthropology, and pedagogy. We also seek scholarship that advances a “trans-“research agenda and articulates sexualities as multiple ruptured norms rendered visible through their sporting embodiments. Please send abstracts of up to 500 words as a .doc file to Kathy Jamieson and Leila Villaverde at invisiblebodies@gmail.com by November 15th, 2007. Final articles due Mach 1st, 2007, 10-15 pages in length.
Contact: Kathy Jamieson and Leila Villaverde  invisiblebodies@gmail.com

Call for manuscripts for a Special Issue
Resources for Feminist Research
Healthy Environments for Women Teachers and Faculty
Deadline for Submission: December 31, 2007
How healthy are schools and universities? What are the characteristics of a healthy or unhealthy educational setting? How healthy are the women who work in these settings? What initiatives would support a healthy physical and social environment for women teachers and faculty?  Historically, empirical studies of occupational health focused on the incidence of illness, injury, absenteeism, and disability. By contrast, a population health approach examines the social, environmental and biophysical factors that support health. Gender, culture, income and social status, social support networks, working conditions, physical environment and other interrelated factors influence the health of individuals and populations. From this perspective, teacher health is not simply a clinical descriptor or the absence of disease. Rather, the health of individual teachers and teachers as a group is an essential social resource. Safeguarding and promoting teacher and faculty health and wellbeing can be achieved by creating and sustaining healthy educational environments. This special issue will explore the health of women teachers and faculty and the educational environments where they work. Invited are articles that explore the complex and varied experiences of women teachers and faculty, the factors that nurture and support their safety, and physical and mental health and well-being, and the processes, interventions, and institutional structures that create and strengthen healthy environments for women teachers and faculty.

Diana L. Gustafson and Roberta F. Hammett are the guest editors of this special issue of the Resources for Feminist Research. We invite submissions of original manuscripts that explore broader theoretical questions as well as those that report on innovative research studies and policy-oriented issues on a range of topics such as:

Manuscripts may be submitted by e-mail to RFR. <mailto:diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca>  Manuscripts should conform to RFR's editorial policy as described at http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/  Contributions must be original research or scholarly articles approximately 6,500-7,500 words, in English or French with a short abstract (75 words) which will be translated into the other official language. Submissions should be double-spaced. All manuscripts are reviewed anonymously by at least three qualified readers.

Please address questions about this special issue to:
Diana L. Gustafson, Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Health
Division of Community Health and Humanities
Faculty of Medicine, HSC 2834
Memorial University
St. John's, NL A1B 3V6
diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca

Critical Half
Abstract Deadline: December 15th, 2007
Full Deadline: December 15th, 2007
http://www.womenforwomen.org/repubbiannual.htm
Theme: Critical Half targets the international development and post-conflict reconstruction community, including government policymakers, the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, U.S. foundations, academics, and philanthropists, as well as our 166,000 grassroots supporters.  This issue of the journal will focus on women’s leadership in various contexts. This can include political, grassroots/activist, organizational, and other roles of leadership that women occupy. We hope to examine women’s leadership strategies and forms of communication, as well as any issues that arise from women occupying leadership roles.
Suggested Topics: • What forms of leadership do women in conflict and post-conflict societies employ? What types of media do they utilize? Consider the expression and dissemination of their ideas through public speeches, songs, poetry, literature, radio, television, film/video, and internet/blogs. What, if any, are the different impacts of the various forms of media?
• If leadership has traditionally been defined in masculine terms, do women leaders emulate men in their leadership styles or are they contributing a newer style of leadership to the agencies and entities they represent? Do they maintain traditionally masculine forms of leadership, embrace more feminine forms of leadership, or try to negotiate and balance both?
• What problems to women leaders encounter with 1) their constituents, 2) male leaders, and/or 3) other female leaders? Are their different expectations for women leaders that may be implicitly or explicitly stated?
• How has female leadership impacted international and global social issues, such as politics, economics, and resources?
Guidelines: Articles should be 2,000-2,500 words long. • Submissions should be sent by e-mail as an attachment, preferably in MS Word for Windows. • In addition to the article, authors must provide a detachable title page that includes the title and author(s), a 200-word abstract of the article, a 50-word biographical profile of the author(s) that includes titles, degrees, academic and professional affiliations, and correspondence information (address, telephone, e-mail, and fax) for the author(s). E-Mail: criticalhalf@womenforwomen.org

Southeastern Women's Studies Association:
Gender-Based Violence and Front-Line/Local Workers   
Abstract Deadline: December 31st, 2007
Full Deadline: December 31st, 2007
Theme: This volume contains three sections that represent three fields of service provision to gender-based violence victims. The first is the medical and/or public health arena, where gender-based violence victims and front line workers direct service providers interact at the level of physician-patient, medical advocate-victim, and mental health counselor-client.
The second point of contact is located in the legal and criminal justice system, where gender-based violence victims encounter lawyers, legal advocates, and law enforcement personnel. The final intersection of analysis is that of the education system. Education systems produce gender-based violence workers in the classroom, via conferences trainings, and through orientation into organizations working to provide services to victims of gender-based violence. In addition, the intersection between the education system and gender-based violence workers serves as a site of examining the creation of public education and awareness regarding gender-based violence and allows an analysis of ways that gender-based violence issues are framed for public consumption.   Suggested Topics: Beginning with an introduction that reviews the Anthropological work focusing on gender-based violence and front line service provision, the volume presents four essays within each of the three sections. Each section contains a summary of the essays and highlights the possibilities for theoretical and practical collaborations. The concluding chapter demonstrates the theoretical and applied benefits of an analysis of structural violence from the vantage point of front-line labor. Contact: Jennifer Wies  wiesj@xavier.edu

Call for Papers: Carver and Feminism
The Raymond Carver Review
Journal, deadline January 2, 2008
The Raymond Carver Review http://dept.kent.edu/english/RCR, a peer-reviewed, electronic annual, hosted by Kent State University and published in cooperation with The International Raymond Carver Society, http://www.internationalraymondcarversociety.org/, is currently accepting submissions for Issue 2, which is devoted to Carver and Feminism. The special issue will be guest edited by Claire Fabre-Clark of the University of Paris XII and Libe García Zarranz of the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Raymond Carver (1938-1988), one of America’s icons of the short story has been systematically approached as a minimalist, a dirty realist, an essentialist, a humanist, etc. And still, was Carver a proto-feminist writer? Does his work reflect a feminist agenda? In the last years, a number of articles have explored the role of women in Carver’s work (Nesset, 1991; Gentry, 1993; Demory, 1999; Kleppe, 2006). Nevertheless, there exists a critical gap regarding the analysis of Carver’s work from a feminist lens. It would be interesting, for example, to study women's voices and their specificity in Carver's short stories. The papers could examine the different narrative strategies used to stage out these voices and how this is related to the general topic of the representation of women, male and female stereotypes or their subversion. Therefore, we invite submissions addressing any aspect of Carver’s fiction, poetry and non-fiction in relation to feminist ideology and thought.

Essays should be approximately 5,000 words and must adhere to the latest MLA Style Manual.  A brief abstract (100 words) should accompany each submission. Electronic submissions via email (as attached Word files) are required (identify “Submission” on the subject line). Because manuscripts submitted to The Raymond Carver Review will be blind judged, the author’s name should not appear on either the manuscript or the abstract. Please provide a separate cover page that includes your name, affiliation, rank, mailing address, e-mail and telephone number. Work accepted for publication in The Raymond Carver Review will need to provide final edited copies in electronic form (Microsoft Word). Please contact the editor(s) with questions (identify “Question” on the subject line).

Send Submissions To: Claire Fabre-Clark, University of Paris XII, France, fabclark@tele2.fror Libe García Zarranz, University of Zaragoza, Spain libegarcia@ya.com

Women and Agriculture: Special Issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Abstract Deadline: May 1st, 2008
Full Deadline: May 1st, 2008
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/home.html                                                             International, transnational, and comparative studies that engage theoretical and historical analyses of women and agriculture; and analyses of racial, ethnic, and gendered dimensions of agriculture.  Suggested Topics: Women and sustainable agriculture; globalization and corporatization of food; genetically engineered food; women in leadership and decision-making positions and in feminist science studies pertaining to women's knowledge and changing agricultural practices.  Guidelines: Submissions should follow the author-date system of documentation as outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.). Maximum length: 10,000 words including notes and references. Include an abstract of no more than 500 words.  Contact: Karen Alexander  kalexander@signs.rutgers.edu

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

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

Journal of International Women's Studies (Open deadline) 
http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/JIWS/  The Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) is currently accepting book reviews for possible publication. JIWS is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. Through its diverse collection, the journal aims to create an opportunity for building bridges across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism; "western" and "third world" feminisms; professionals and students; men and women.  JIWS accepts book review submissions that have not been previously published or that are not currently under consideration by other journals or publications. Book review articles may vary and range from 1,000 to 2,500 words. For further information on the style and content required for the books reviews, please see website. 
Contact: Suzanne Baker  suzbaker@twmi.rr.com

NWSA Journal (Open deadline)                                              http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/    The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Women’s Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Women’s Studies, with emphasis on diversity and internationalism. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective. Our current rate of acceptance is 20%.
Suggested Topics:

Guidelines: Send one e-copy and two print copies of your manuscript (20-30 pages, doubled spaced), with parenthetical notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style
CFP Address: Becky Ropers-Huilman, Editor
NWSA Journal
Louisiana State University
146 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Contact: Managing editor, Brenda Macon  nwsaj@lsu.edu

Qui Parle
(Open deadline)
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/
Qui Parle, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, arts and social sciences, is currently accepting general submissions for upcoming issues. Since its inception in 1986, the print journal has explored questions of language and textuality, theories of subjectivity, aesthetics, gender studies, critical theory and postcolonial theory. In recent years, the journal has expanded upon its original affiliation with literary criticism and Continental philosophy in order to feature articles from the human sciences, including the philosophy of science, anthropology, and sociology. This dilation enables even greater possibilities for comparative examinations of critical questions of concern for the humanities and social sciences alike, including: cultural alterity, the politics of visual culture, secularity and religion, nationalisms, political violence, migration and diaspora, questions of psychological development and trauma, the politics of memory, the historical anthropology of science, and modes of non-European or Anglo-American intelligibility. Guidelines: Please contact the editors if you are interested in submitting an article for Qui Parle or if you have any further questions about the journal. For more information please visit Qui Parle at the Indiana University Press at http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/qui or at http://quiparle.berkeley.edu
CFP Address: Inquiries or submission can be sent in hard copy or electronically to:
Qui Parle
Att: Editors
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2340
Contact: Diana Anders, Nima Bassiri, Michelle Branch, Kelvin Black, Peter Skafish
quiparle@berkeley.edu

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CALLS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PROPOSALS

Call for Proposals NWSA Conference 2008
June 19-22, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire.  Additional information can be found here:  http://www.nwsaconference.org/
Proposal deadline November 1st. [Proposal submission deadline extended to Monday, November 12, 2007 at midnight to accommodate participant demand.]

Call For Proposals
Sewsa 2008 Feminism At Home And Abroad: Multidisciplinary Conference
University of Charlotte, Charlotte, Nc, April 3-5, 2008
Deadline For Submitting Proposals Is Friday, November 2, 2007
Current feminisms challenge us to travel into new territories, both real and theoretical.  In this conference, we encourage scholarship that breaches boundaries, whether those boundaries be geographic, disciplinary, methodological, theoretical or artistic.  We encourage contributions that consider emerging feminisms; describe gender relations between the global ‘south’ and ‘north’; explore feminist questions across ethnic, socio-economic, and gender categories; and examine trans-gendered and trans-sexual identities. 

We welcome papers and panels on a variety of topics, including:   
   How is gender central to processes of globalization and imperialism?  
   What is the future of feminism in a world of “Gender Studies”?  
   How do feminisms travel across ethnic, gender, class, and national boundaries?  
   How do feminist theory and queer theory inform one another?  
   How is feminism transformed by and transforming of new technologies?  
   What are the challenges and victories of feminist pedagogy in your classroom?  
   How do students move across feminist frontiers - points of resonance and points of resistance?  
   How is gender represented in literary and artistic forms?  
   To what extent has feminist scholarship "mainstreamed" scholarship about women?  
   What are the connections between our work as scholars and our commitment to activism?  
   What do emerging gender dynamics of work, family life, and community look like?

Scholars, educators, students (graduate and undergraduate), artists, and community activists are invited to submit proposals for papers, organized sessions, workshops, and roundtables. 

Submission Guidelines All presenters and organizers must register for the conference and be dues-paying members of SEWSA.  All session, workshop, roundtable and paper proposals are due by Friday November 2, 2007.  Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by December 15, 2007. We encourage online submissions.  Alternatively, you may fill out the forms and email them to SEWSAsubmissions@uncc.edu or mail them to:  SEWSA 2008, c/o Women’s Studies Program, UNC Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223

33rd Annual AWP Conference, 2008
Expanding the Boundaries of Feminist Psychology:
San Diego, CA
March 13 - 16, 2008
Proposal Deadline extended to November 5th
The theme of the 2008 AWP conference reflects a matrix at once personal, professional and political, in that it anticipates challenging considerations of feminist psychology's role on the social stage. Welcoming the insights of other disciplines, we broaden questions and answers about our response to women in war, in poverty and in differing sociocultural positions. Expanding the Boundaries of Feminist Psychology: Social Justice, Activism, and Resistance invites an exploration of these issues toward the goal of empowering ourselves and all feminists to act productively in response to the crises of our time. We want to create a space in which we will be inspired by the insights of various disciplines to examine issues of social justice such as Women and War, Immigration, Poverty, Reproductive Justice, Power, Privilege, and Difference. We want to expand the ways in which feminist psychology may contribute to cutting edge action that promotes transformations of social consciousness and empowerment for women all over the world. We envision a space for collaborative conversations and skill building for activism and resistance. What skills might we learn from community activists as well as from academic theorists? What strengths, self-definitions, and perspectives might we contribute? How must we be moved within feminist psychology, and what must we address in our culture in order to empower our voices to social action? We encourage proposals on these and similar topics. Academic papers that present research results or theoretical perspectives, as well as experiential workshops, programs or interventions that incorporate and facilitate Psychology's role in activism and social justice are welcomed.
Fore more information :  http://www.awpsd.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS
Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Conference:  "Privilege & Prejudice"
March 29, 2008
Penn State University, Abington College Abington, PA (near Philadelphia)
Deadline:  November 12, 2007
Featuring keynote address by Peggy McIntosh
Author of "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
In the 20 years since McIntosh's essay first appeared, how far have we come? How do race, gender, class, and other aspects of identity still shape experience?  We welcome papers, workshops, and panels from all disciplines on any aspect of this theme.
Send abstracts to kweekes@psu.edu with subject "MAWSA proposal."

Call for Proposals
Teaching for a Change:  Tradition & Possibility
June 16-18, 2008
Park City, Utah
http://www.teachingforachange.com
Submit your proposal now for a 90-minute session or a round-table
Discounted Registration until November 15, 2007
We invite you to join us for our 18th Teaching for a Change conference, where educators will meet once again in Park City, Utah, to celebrate the art and skill of teaching in higher education.
Conference Highlights
30+ interactive, 90-minute interest sessions on a variety of classroom-tested techniques
Conference Keepsakes - roundtable chats showcasing hot topics and cool exercises
General Session with Gail Mellow and Cynthia Heelan, "Minding the Dream"
Pre-conference opportunity - Living Authentically:  Practicing Wholeness in Life and Work sponsored by the Center for Formation in Higher Education
200 faculty, faculty developers, and administrators from the US and Canada
What you can expect:
A focus on learner-centered training
Lively participant interaction and involvement
Practical information, handouts, and tools to adapt and use in your classroom
A variety of teaching approaches that honor student differences
Participants and presenters representing a broad range of disciplines
Valuable information for faculty, faculty developers, administrators, and those who combine some or all of those roles
Time to refresh and reflect with morning and afternoon hikes through some of the most spectacular fields and trails ever encountered (beginner and intermediate)
Where the conference will be held:
Park City, Utah, combining a magnificent mountain setting with convenient 40-minute assess to Salt Lake City airport
Canyons Grand Summit Hotel and the Sundial Lodge, offering comfortable, spacious conference facilities and a variety of room types beginning as low as $99/night
Beautiful resort area featuring fly fishing, golf, hot air ballooning, white water rafting, horseback riding, hiking and mountain biking
Why you should be a part of Teaching for a Change:
Network with leading-edge faculty and faculty developers
Take away tools to create active learning environments of your own
Develop teaching approaches to meet the needs of diverse learners
Relax and connect with the spirit of your work in a natural environment
Evaluate old traditions and consider new possibilities
How to find out more:
Go to http://wwwteachingforachange.com or call us at 303.296.3798

WE LEARN 5th Annual (Net)Working Gathering & Conference on Women & Literacy Building Alliances / Construyendo Alianzas
March 7- 8, 2008
DEADLINE for Application: Nov. 30, 2007
Fordham Univ. at Lincoln Center in New York City, NY,  Co-Sponsored with WE LEARN by Fordham University Graduate School of Education
Women continue to be separated by culture, language, literacy, geography; our differences are profound. The daily lives of women in adult basic/literacy education remain especially complex due to inequities based on race, class, gender, and other diversities. This year’s conference will explore the differences that divide women and look to ways of building alliances across those differences.  WE LEARN seeks presentation proposals from students (at all levels), teachers, researchers, and community activists addressing related theme issues & topics.
Please apply using the Internet form.
http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2008/props08.html
Sponsorship, advertiser, and exhibitor information also available: http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2008/sponsors.pdf

Call for papers: Global Gender Justice Symposium
Deadline January 15, 2008
The Gender Justice Research Community at George Mason University is sponsoring a one-day Global Gender Justice symposium to be held April 17, 2008 on the Fairfax campus of George Mason University.  The keynote speaker will be poet, essayist, and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín, winner of numerous awards for both her human rights work and her achievements in Latin American literature. We seek proposals for papers and creative works on any topic related to human rights and gender in a global framework, with an eye toward fostering interdisciplinary discussions of issues that might include genocidal rape as a human rights violation, the impact of war on women and children, women and the worldwide peace movement, gender and human rights activism, and others.  We currently envision 15-minute presentations by individual participants, but welcome proposals for other formats, particularly when necessary for collaborative and/or creative presentations.  Further information about this symposium is available at http://ggj.gmu.edu/.
Send 300-word proposals and one-page curriculum vita to Dr. Tamara Harvey (tharvey2@gmu.edu or English Dept., George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., MS 3E4, Fairfax, VA  22030)

CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMANDE DE COMMUNICATIONS
Canadian Women’s Studies Association/L'association   Canadienne Des Études Sur Les Femmes (Cwsa/Acef)
Penser sans frontières: Thinking Beyond Borders m- Global Ideas: Global Values / Idées mondiales: valeurs mondiales.
June 1st – 3rd, 2008
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Deadline:  November 16, 2007. Late submissions and proposals over the stated word limit will not be considered.
The CWSA/ACEF is now seeking proposals, in either French or English, for its annual conference, held in conjunction with the Congress of the CFHSS/FCSH.  Submissions for papers and panels can be made by individuals or groups, and as joint sessions with other associations.  The conference will be structured around two embedded themes in addition to an open call:
Theme 1:  Challenging/Crossing Borders in Women’s Studies:  Present Tensions and Future Possibilities.
This theme encourages presenters to reflect on the current state of the discipline and some of the points of tension and debate in it today as it contemplates its relationships to other forms of knowledge production in academia.  For example:  Are there identities, methodologies, practices, theories, concepts etc. particular to Women’s Studies; how do these shape the parameters of knowledge produced in the field? Is some sense of borders or boundaries important to and for Women’s Studies; under what circumstances?  What is the relationship of Women’s Studies to other new forms of knowledge production such as gender studies, queer studies, trans studies, critical race studies, disability studies etc.?  What are the stakes in making—or not making—these kinds of claims or arguments?  We encourage presenters to think about this topic broadly and welcome submissions that address these debates at the institutional, administrative, intellectual, and pedagogical levels.
Theme 2:  Identities and Globalization: Transnational Feminisms
Of course the most conventional way in which borders are defined is geographically and spatially.  Given the spread of an economic globalization which has had cultural, social, and political impact, the manner in which power circulates between and/or constructs the intersection of gender, sexualities, class, ethnicities, nationalisms, and religions in an increasingly transnational world is of great importance to the field of Women’s Studies.  Are global values, global ideals a useful way of thinking about transnational feminisms?  How do the global and the local meet in Women’s Studies? How does an intersectional analysis deal with incorporating transnational feminisms in our field?  What do we mean by “internationalization” within a transnational framework?  If the clash of civilizations is a problematic way of viewing the tensions created by globalization as defined above, what are some alternative, nuanced ways of analyzing these tensions?  We encourage presenters to think about this topic broadly and welcome submissions that address these debates at the institutional, administrative, intellectual, and pedagogical levels.
Theme 3:  Open Call - Papers which do not address the above themes specifically.
**Please indicate clearly which theme you are submitting to on the proposal form.**
We encourage presentations in a variety of formats, including papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, poster sessions, film and video screenings, performance art pieces, exhibits, and cultural events. If you are proposing a non-traditional presentation, please include a brief write up on any necessary audiovisual, technical, logistical, or room size and location considerations.
HOW TO SUBMIT: 
The proposal form (as a Word document), can be found on the CWSA/ACEF website:  www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef. All submissions must include the proposal from in addition to a maximum 250-word abstract for individual papers and panels. In addition to the 250 word abstract summarizing the panel theme, pre-arranged panel submissions must also include short (50-100 word) abstracts of the individual papers clearly indicating the contributions of each member. All proposals will be anonymously reviewed.
**You must be a current member of CWSA/ACEF to submit an abstract.**
To join, please visit www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef.
Send proposals, by email only, in Word/Wordperfect/RTF, to: Lauren Warbeck, Assistant to Sikata Banerjee, Program Chair, at warbeck@uvic.ca

Call for Papers
The Ohio State University’s Department of Women’s Studies’
Graduate Student Research Conference:  “The ‘F’ Words Of Feminist Scholarship”
Dates: April 4 and 5, 2008
Confirmed Keynote:  Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by December 1, 2007. 
Call for Papers: The phrase, the ‘F’ word, elicits feelings of anxiety and excitement.  As a euphemism for what should not be said, the ‘F’ word characterizes what is taboo or prohibited.  Feminist scholarship has a strong history of challenging the ‘F’ words of disciplinary scholarship- those topics ignored, erased, and/or contested in canonical knowledges.  Certainly, as feminist scholarship develops, new ‘F’ words are being created and contested.  We view this conference as an opportunity to think carefully about feminist scholarship’s ‘F’ words and how an exploration of these topics and the scholarship produced about them (or the absence of such scholarship) might lead to more intimate understandings of feminist research in the academy. To this end, we invite papers, art installations, creative performances, panels, poster presentations, and guided discussions.  We especially encourage graduate students whose research topics and/or methodological approaches embody a contested location in the emerging canon of feminist scholarship.

Please send abstracts to conference organizers Kelly Ball (ball.1824@osu.edu) or Alina Bennett (bennett.520@osu.edu).  Accepted proposals will be announced via email by February 1, 2008.
While we cannot provide travel funds, we will make every effort to provide housing for graduate students participating in or attending the conference.    This conference is organized by the graduate students of the Women’s Studies Department at The Ohio State University and is made possible with the help of generous funding from the department.
Conference Organizers:
Alina Bennett, bennett.520@osu.edu
Kelly Ball, ball.1824@osu.edu

Call for Proposals
Black Power, Black Feminism: Black Women's Activism and Development of Womanist/Feminist Consciousness in the Era Black Power
Tenth Annual Women's History Month Conference
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (15 minutes north of Manhattan)*
Friday–Saturday March 7-8, 2008
Deadline December 1, 2007
Free and open to the public
Keynote Speaker: Chana Kai Lee, author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Traditionally scholarship on the Black Power era has characterized this time of renewed cultural and political nationalism and activism as an almost exclusively male domain.  This has begun to change.  Not only have scholars uncovered a long tradition of black women's activism before and during the Black Power era, but they have begun reevaluating the entire era as a result.  Part and parcel with this period of activism has been the development of a Black feminist consciousness.   If scholars have seen the seeds of this consciousness far earlier, the sixties and seventies were notable for organizing that recognized inextricable and complicated ties between categories of race class and gender.  This conference seeks to sustain and enhance new scholarship that redefines the era, bringing the work and effort of women to the center.

We invite scholars, artists, writers, and activists to submit proposals for papers, readings, workshops, and performances. Proposals for full panels are especially welcomed.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
   - Women's local and national grassroots organizing
   - Women in the Black Arts Movement
   - Women and Nationalism
   - Women's participation in Black Power organizations
   - Revolutionary Black Feminism
   - Coalition building amongst women of color
   - Legacies of Black feminist organizing: third wave and hip hop feminism
Please send a brief abstract and c.v./resume to:  Tara James, Women's History Graduate Program, Sarah* Lawrence College, Bronxville*, NY 10708, Phone: 914-395-2405 Fax: 914-395-2663, Email: tjames@mail.slc.edu (email submissions are preferred)

Call for proposals
Society for Disability Studies 21st Annual Conference
Cosmopolitan Disability Studies:  Crips the City
New York City, June 18-22, 2008
Submission Deadline:  1 December 2007
As Disability Studies becomes more aware of the boundaries of its own discourses, we want to explore critically the lands of its origins, the limits of its imagination, and the challenges of experiencing wider space. Bodies, ideas, and words travel across borders, negotiate restricted space and resistance, and become transformed as they journey. How do notions of disability, Disability Studies, and disability culture shift in these travels? Who participates in these travels and who is denied entrance? How is space produced, enacted, and lived in by disabled people? How are local life worlds configured in space? What is at stake in seeing ourselves as citizens of a more complex world in which multiple, simultaneous identities are engaged in transit and dialogue?

New York, this city of immigrants, is the staging ground for the 2008 SDS conference. Thus, many cherished American ideas are up for grabs: melting pots and assimilation, the energy of new beginnings, the emergence of undergrounds and renaissances, beliefs in rugged individualism and transnational capitalism, mechanisms of control and security, and architectures of access. As we imagine disability and disability studies in this iconic location, we ask, What are our Ellis Islands, our Statues of Liberty, our Grand Central Stations, our Stonewalls? Where are our Christopher Streets, our Broadways, our Greenwich Villages?

How might New York City, a site both global and local, guide our understandings of disability and Disability Studies from international and transnational perspectives? How might such multiple locations in turn illuminate, enrich, and challenge disability experiences and Disability Studies within the United States? What are the assumptions at work in casting New York as a cosmopolitan city, and to what effect? What does it mean to imagine cosmopolitanism /evoking the city without borders, people as citizens of the world/ from disability perspectives? How might notions of the city, cosmopolitanism, and the urban produce Disability Studies scholarship that speaks to applied disciplines and theoretical examinations of identity, citizenship, space, and authenticity?

We invite proposals from any field that examine the ways in which disability and urban issues intersect; engage the mobility of metaphor and the refiguration of space; and/or explore the ways in which Disability Studies shifts and translates in application to specific sites and communities. Potential topics include:
-Public Health
-Violence, War, and Terror
-Mobility and Metaphor
-Housing, Home, and Homelessness
-Access and Spatiality
-Immigration and Translation
-Education
-Globalization and Transnational Critique
-Artistic Practices, Cultural Production, and Crip Culture
-History and Memory
-Categorization and Citizenship
-Public Policy in the Global City
-Bodies and Borders
-Surveillance and Security, Visibility and Invisibility
- Activist Communities, Strategies, and Identities
-Architectural Mappings and Geographical Textures
-Pollution, Garbage, and Environmental Devastation

SDS invites activists, artists, and scholars to submit proposals for all work in progress in Disability Studies. We welcome interdisciplinary proposals that bring together scholars in different fields or using different methodologies, embodying the kinds of translation and movement evoked in this year’s theme. Work can be submitted in a variety of formats, including workshops, paper presentations, poster sessions, performances, video/DVD recordings, etc. For the 2008 conference, we also would like to introduce new seminar slots for the discussion of shared readings, pre-circulated papers, or other focused topics.

Accessibility in presentations is central to the philosophy of SDS. Presenters should explore ways to make physical, sensory, and intellectual access a fundamental part of their presentation. All presenters are required to, at minimum, provide e-text versions of papers in advance of the conference (for open captioning), large-print hard copies (18 point font or larger) of all handouts, hard copies or outlines of their talks in 12 point and 18 point fonts, audio description of visual images, charts, and video/DVDs, and open or closed captioning of films and video clips. Presentations should also be planned so that their delivery will accommodate open-captioning and ASL translation. In order to facilitate ASL interpretation and open captioning, drafts of accepted presentations will be due by 1 May 2008. If you have questions about making your presentation accessible, please contact Alison Kafer at kafera@southwestern.edu or Petra Kuppers at petra@umich.edu. Please note: English and ASL are the two main languages in use at SDS; if you have other language needs, please indicate such on your proposal and we will try to assist you in obtaining accommodations.

For details on submission, please visit the SDS website www.disstudies.org. Questions about the conference program or submission process should be directed to Alison Kafer at
kafera@southwestern.edu or Petra Kuppers at petra@umich.edu.

Call for Proposals:
Panel on Pacific Feminism in the 21st Century for Women's Worlds 2008
Madrid (3-9 July 2008)
Deadline December 7, 2007
How are Pacific women doing feminist work in the 21st Century?  And how is feminism defined in the broad Pacific context or the more specific regional and national contexts?  This panel looks to investigate the diverse ways Pacific women understand, theorize, and practice what is called feminism in the Anglo-American context.  Papers are solicited from a broad engagement with these issues.  The following is a list of suggested topics but it is by no means prescriptive:
- Updates on Pacific conferences addressing women's issues (for example the Fiji conference in the 1988).
- Alternative theoretical woman-oriented models for Pacific women as defined broadly, in the regional contexts (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, for example) or within specific national or communal contexts.
- Women's engagement with political systems as lobbyists, legislatures and leaders as well as within grass roots activism
- Teaching women's studies within this geographic region
- Engagements with Anglo-American feminisms
- Influences of colonialism, imperialism and/or globalization on women’s self-perception, political engagement and agency, and social organization
Please send a 250-word abstract along with a current CV (along with any inquiries) by December 7 to:  Helen Thompson, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Guam, P.O. Box 5319, UOG Station, Mangilao, GU 96923
drhelent@gmail.com

Call for Proposals
Southern Roots and Routes: Origins, Migrations, Transformations
Conference April 18-20, 2008,
Deadline December 15, 2007, for two-page session proposals and/or one-page individual paper abstracts as MS Word attachments
The New Southern Studies is currently revolutionizing the study of the American South by unsettling its histories, blurring once-accepted borders, excavating forgotten stories, foregrounding cultural encounters, and situating a region once designated as anti-modern within the currents of modernity, postmodernity, and globalization. Multicultural observances of Jamestown’s 400th anniversary and the bicentennial of the closing of the slave trade indicate just two new directions explored by the New Southern Studies, and in recognition of these two overlapping commemorations and of the field’s new avenues, the program committee for the 2008 biennial meeting of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature has chosen as its conference theme “Southern Roots and Routes: Origins, Migrations, Transformations,” to be held April 18-20, 2008, at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Please send two-page session proposals and/or one-page individual paper abstracts as MS Word attachments by December 15, 2007, to Susan Donaldson's email address at the College of William and Mary (svdona@wm.edu). Names, institutions, and email addresses should be included at the beginning of all submissions.

Inclusive Science: Articulating Theory, Practice, and Action
Hold the Dates for a Revolutionary Conference!
June 16, 17, 18, 2008
Deadline for submission of proposals is January 15, 2008
During the summer of 2008, the College of St. Catherine, the nation’s largest college for women, will be hosting a national conference in St. Paul, Minnesota on feminism and science.  “Inclusive Science: Articulating Theory, Practice, and Action” will focus on three intersections of science and feminism:
        1)  Multiple Frameworks: critiques of science from multiple perspectives including gender, race and ethnicity, and class;
        2)  Pedagogies that engage women, students of color, and students from a variety of social classes in the sciences, technology,  engineering and mathematics (STEM);
        3)  Transformation: putting theory into action; changing the way we do, learn, and teach about science.
These are areas in which there has been a great deal of scholarly activity, and yet few opportunities to exchange information, assess where we are, and determine where we need to go.  This conference is designed to help scholars in and of the sciences share knowledge and ideas; develop strategies for disseminating their theory, pedagogies, and activism; and discuss ways to go forward (this may include becoming a society with members and annual meetings and maybe even a journal).  We plan to include ample opportunity for dialog through innovative participatory sessions and intentionally scheduled time for informal conversations.  So, put the dates on your calendar and think about networking with colleagues, sharing/discussing your work or hosting a session, and transforming the way we do and think about science.   Visit our website www.stkate.edu/inclusive_science or contact us at: inclusivescience@stkate.edu

Call for proposals:
10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women
New Frontiers: Dares and Advancements
Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds 2008 (MMWW08)
Deadline:  February 28, 2008
University Complutense of Madrid (UCM-Main Campus at Moncloa), Spain
Conference:  July 3-9, 2008
Women’s Worlds is the most important congress on academic research on gender and women and feminist social movements. It is a major international event with a main goal: to continue the fight against social injustice and gender inequalities. Feminist researchers, specialists, activists and internationally known public figures will use this opportunity to reflect on important contemporary issues that affect women in specific ways. The University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) was elected in Seoul (WW05) to be the home for the 2008 congress edition. Thus, Madrid, the UCM, will welcome thousands of people from around the Globe and from more than a hundred countries for the 10th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women.

For more information, contact:
Contact:  Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds, Av. Juan de Herrera s/n, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain, Tel: +34 91 3941027/ +34 91 1171
Fax: +34 91 3941171, Email: mainoffice@mmww08.org, Website: http://www.mmww08.org

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Teaching for a Change:  Tradition & Possibility
June 16-18, 2008
Park City, Utah
http://www.teachingforachange.com/
Submit your proposal now for a 90-minute session or a round-table
Discounted Registration until November 15, 2007
We invite you to join us for our 18th Teaching for a Change conference, where educators will meet once again in Park City, Utah, to celebrate the art and skill of teaching in higher education.
Conference Highlights
30+ interactive, 90-minute interest sessions on a variety of classroom-tested techniques
Conference Keepsakes - roundtable chats showcasing hot topics and cool exercises
General Session with Gail Mellow and Cynthia Heelan, "Minding the Dream"
Pre-conference opportunity - Living Authentically:  Practicing Wholeness in Life and Work sponsored by the Center for Formation in Higher Education
200 faculty, faculty developers, and administrators from the US and Canada
What you can expect:
A focus on learner-centered training
Lively participant interaction and involvement
Practical information, handouts, and tools to adapt and use in your classroom
A variety of teaching approaches that honor student differences
Participants and presenters representing a broad range of disciplines
Valuable information for faculty, faculty developers, administrators, and those who combine some or all of those roles
Time to refresh and reflect with morning and afternoon hikes through some of the most spectacular fields and trails ever encountered (beginner and intermediate)
Where the conference will be held:
Park City, Utah, combining a magnificent mountain setting with convenient 40-minute assess to Salt Lake City airport
Canyons Grand Summit Hotel and the Sundial Lodge, offering comfortable, spacious conference facilities and a variety of room types beginning as low as $99/night
Beautiful resort area featuring fly fishing, golf, hot air ballooning, white water rafting, horseback riding, hiking and mountain biking
Why you should be a part of Teaching for a Change:
Network with leading-edge faculty and faculty developers
Take away tools to create active learning environments of your own
Develop teaching approaches to meet the needs of diverse learners
Relax and connect with the spirit of your work in a natural environment
Evaluate old traditions and consider new possibilities
How to find out more:
Go to http://wwwteachingforachange.com or call us at 303.296.3798

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

The 96th College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference
February 20-23, 2008
Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas
In addition to attending and participating in the wide-ranging panels on art history, studio art, contemporary issues, and professional and educational practices, 2008 conference attendees can look forward to four days of ARTspace programming, events at museums and galleries in Dallas and Fort Worth, and postconference trips to nearby museums and art centers. Convocation, program sessions, the Career Fair, and other events will be held at the Dallas Adam's Mark Hotel. For further information please see our website: www.collegeart.org.

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

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OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES

2008 Contemplative Practice Fellowship Competition
Now Accepting Applications
Deadline: November 15, 2007
Learn more | Download the application packet | View past recipients
Regular full-time faculty members at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada are eligible to apply for the 2008 Contemplative Practice Fellowships. These fellowships are intended to support scholars for the development of courses that employ contemplative practices to address issues of social conflict and injustice, the amelioration of suffering, and the promotion of peace. Individual scholars, partnerships, or groups of scholars may apply. Approximately ten fellowships will be awarded.
We invite proposals from the full range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Methodologies that include practical and experiential approaches to the subject matter are especially welcome.
If you have questions, please contact Sunanda Markus, Academic Program Coordinator, at fellowships@contemplativemind.org.

AAUW Campus Action Project 2007-2008: Behind the Pay Gap 
Proposal Deadline November 28, 2007
The American Association of University Women is pleased to announce its 2007-2008 Campus Action Project, Behind the Pay Gap, based on the AAUW Educational Foundation research report that was released in spring 2007 and examined the gender pay gap for college graduates. The objective of this year’s CAP program is to provide a platform to raise awareness of the inequity in pay between women and men in the workplace.  While several measures of educational achievement show that on average women are faring as well as their male counterparts today, often times these gains do not translate into comparable economic success beyond college. In 2004, college-educated women 25 and older earned 75 percent of what their male peers earned. This pay gap appears within the first year after college – even when women are working full-time in the same fields as men – and widens in the first ten years in the workforce. AAUW Educational Foundation research points to several factors that appear to be pivotal including, the field of study, occupational choice, and family-work balance issues such as time out of the labor force.[1 ]

Students, faculty, and administrators from U.S. colleges and universities are invited to submit a proposal for a campus action project (CAP). They expect to fund 5-10 projects of up to $5,000 each. Each campus selected will form a team composed of students and campus professional, who will serve as the project advisor. Selected teams will implement a project that addresses one or more of the recommendations from Behind the Pay Gap. These include: promote careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to girls and women, encourage women to negotiate for better quality jobs and pay, support mothers in the workplace, and end gender discrimination. Please download a copy of the report from http://www.aauw.org/research/upload/behindPayGap.pdf for a full list of recommendations.

Maine Women Writers Collection Research Support Grant Program, 2007-8
Deadline for receipt of applications:  December 1, 2007
The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England in Portland, Maine, solicits applications for its Research Support Grant Program.  These grants are intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires or would benefit from access to the holdings of the Maine Women Writers Collection.  MWWC Research Support Grants will range between $250 and $1000, and may be used for transportation, housing, and research-related expenses.
For application instructions and more information about the program and the Collection holdings, please see the MWWC website at www.une.edu/mwwc and click on "research."
Questions may be directed to Cally Gurley, MWWC Curator, at (207) 221-4324; cgurley@une.edu.

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

The McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women announces their annual call for Visiting Scholars 2008-2009

• The Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar, McGill Centre For Research And Teaching On Women.  The McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women (MCRTW) invites applications for the position of Senior Visiting Scholar with the centre.  This position is open to feminist scholars who wish to spend a minimum of one academic term at McGill in order to carry out their research. The Centre offers office space and support, an ongoing seminar series, contact with other scholars within McGill and in neighbouring universities - all this located at the centre of a stimulating, bilingual, urban environment. The Scholar will be expected to take an active role in the life of the Centre and to present a paper in the seminar series while in residence at the MCRTW. The award will be in the amount of $5,000.00. If interested, please write and include:  a curriculum vitae, a brief outline of the research to be undertaken, two recent short publications, and the names of two referees.  Send to: Professor Marguerite Deslauriers, Director, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor, Montreal, Qc  H3A 1W7e-mail:   info.mcrtw@mcgill.ca  CLOSING DATE: December 7th 2007 Candidates requiring assurance of a position in order to obtain funding elsewhere are invited to apply one year in advance.
• Visiting Scholar Positions McGill Centre For Research And Teaching On Women  The McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women invites applications for the position of Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies with the Centre. These positions are open to scholars who wish to spend three to six months at McGill, within the university's academic year, in order to carry out research in Women's Studies.  The Centre offers office space and support, an ongoing seminar series, contact with other scholars within McGill and in neighboring universities - all this located at the centre of a stimulating, bilingual, urban environment. Research funding of $1,000 is available from the Centre. The Visiting Scholar will be asked to present a paper in the seminar series while in residence at the MCRTW:  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, the names of two referees.  Send to: Professor Marguerite Deslauriers, Director, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor, Montreal, Qc  H3A e-mail:   info.mcrtw@mcgill.ca  CLOSING DATE: December 7th 2007  Candidates requiring assurance of a position in order to obtain funding elsewhere are invited to apply one year in advance.

CALL FOR ARTISTS:  "Are We There Yet? 30 years of Feminism".
Deadline for Submissions: January 18, 2008
ARC Gallery, a non-profit, alternative space run by a collective of women artists since its inception in 1973, is seeking strong, political, feminist artwork for the March 2008 group exhibition in conjunction with The Feminist Art Project, commemorating 30 years of the Feminist Art Movement.   The exhibition is entitled: "Are We There Yet? 30 years of Feminism".
For Prospectus: http://www.arcgallery.org/exopp.html
ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, 832 W. Superior St., #204, Chicago, IL 60622 (312) 733-2787, www.arcgallery.org   

CALL FOR ARTISTS:  “Feminist Interrogations”
Deadline for Submissions: February 1, 2008.
“Feminism, in most of its forms, proposes or demands a political and/or ethical stance toward cultural experience…” Amelia Jones, 2003
ARC Gallery, a non-profit, alternative space run by a collective of women artists since its inception in 1973, is seeking feminist art works by emerging artists (who are in the first five years of their career) that do not privilege gender, but see it in conversation with questions of social justice in the global age. It is particularly interested in featuring art that utilizes a range of feminist strategies to contest issues such as, but not limited to, censorship, pollution, racism, sexual violence and war, as well as creating sites of resistance.  For Prospectus: http://www.arcgallery.org/exopp.html
ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, 832 W. Superior St., #204, Chicago, IL 60622 (312) 733-2787, www.arcgallery.org   

Women Leadership and Community January Institute
New Delhi, India
January 5-12, 2008
The Institute for Teaching and Research on Women (ITROW), in collaboration with The Hunger Project - India, and the Women's Studies & Development Centre, University of Delhi, is conducting a January Institute titled, Women, Leadership, and Community in New Delhi, India, January 5-12, 2008.  India has an international reputation for localized democracy, as manifested in the breadth and success of its grassroots organizations and the activities of its non-governmental organizations, making this venue an ideal location for addressing issues of women's leadership and activism.  Notable Indian women will be scheduled to present keynote addresses including:  Dr. Madhu Kishwar, editor of the journal, Manushi, Dr. Ratna Kapur from the Center for Feminist Legal Research, Dr. Paula Banerjee of the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Dr. Aruna Chakravarti, author of The Inheritors, Dr. Aparna Basu author of From Independence Towards Freedom, Indian Women since 1947, Ms. Aloka Mitra from Women's Interlink Foundation, Dr. Malashri Lal, Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi, and Former Director of the Women's Studies & Development Centre (WSDC), and Dr. Manjeet Bhatia, also from the WSDC.  

The Institute will be held at the India Habitat Centre (http://www.habitatworld.com).  Spread over nine acres amidst beautifully landscaped environs at the Capital's finest location, India Habitat Centre was design