WSC e-bulletin - 2008 Blog

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

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

Women's Studies Consortium Leadership Updates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lecturer: UW-Whitewater

Women, Science and Society-Lecturer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Women & Science Program has an updated web site.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Possible topics include: future utopic and dystopic sexualities; role(s) of technologies (reproductive, virtual, synthetic) in the evolution and expression of sexuality; the evolution of sex work; queer sexualities; inversions and convergences of sexuality and identity (including female masculinities and male femininities); the future of ‘normative’ masculinities and femininities; sexualities and colour, sexualities and dis/ability, sexualities and age; depictions of future sexualities in fiction, film, music, and art. Papers that ground speculation about the future with historical analyses of past transitions in sexualities are also welcome.
They welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives. Submissions from researchers working within, or among, the disciplines of geography, sociology, literature, area studies, cultural studies, film/media studies, art, history, education, law, and women’s/gender studies are particularly encouraged. They accept the submission of work from scholars of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from emerging feminist scholars, including graduate students.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NWSA Journal
(Open deadline)
http://www.lsu.edu/departments/nwsaj/ The NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Women’s Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue. We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Women’s Studies, with emphasis on diversity and internationalism. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective. Our current rate of acceptance is 20%.
Suggested Topics:
• Women in international perspectives; e.g. place and diaspora studies, immigration
• Feminist theory and research methodologies, including global feminism
• Women and science
• Women and religion, including fundamentalism
• Women, girls and education
• Ecology, ecofeminism, health and the environment
• Feminist generations: the future of feminism, young feminists, children
• Postcolonial studies
• Women and activism
• Women and the arts
• Women writers: autobiographies and reflexive writings
• Race, class, sexualities, and gender intersections
• Women and the media
• Women and disabilities
• Women’s history
• Feminist pedagogy
Guidelines: Send one e-copy and two print copies of your manuscript (20-30 pages, doubled spaced), with parenthetical notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style
CFP Address: Becky Ropers-Huilman, Editor
NWSA Journal
Louisiana State University
146 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Contact: Managing editor, Brenda Macon nwsaj@lsu.edu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

· intellectual property and control over image/profits related issues

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

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

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

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

· possibilities, strategies and practices of resisting the spread, impact and effects of the pornography industry -women's and children's position in the context of global imagery trade; class and gender, technology and power

Please send a 500 word abstract and a short biographical note, accompanied by contact details and affiliation by 20 May 2008 to Dr. KatharineSarikakis, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds (k.sarikakis@leeds.ac.uk ), and Dr Liza Tsaliki, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (etsaliki@media.uoa.gr). There are limited places for attending this symposium. Symposium fees: 80 Euros. The symposium is organized by the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Centre for International Communications Research at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds, UK

Call for Papers and Call for Digital Artwork
The Future of Writing
University of California, Irvine
November 6-7, 2008
Deadline June 1, 2008
Networked communications technologies have become a significant part of American life, resulting in a nearly unprecedented generation of a variety of multimediated texts, many graphically rich and collaboratively written. The Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that “Internet penetration has now reached 73% for all American adults. Internet users note big improvements in their ability to shop and the way they pursue hobbies and personal interests online.” The emergence and growing use of social networking sites have contributed to a significant rise in the production of individual and group Websites through which people and communicates construct, debate, and disseminate online identities, personal ideas, and group values. Again, Pew reports that “Internet users ages 12 to 28 years old have embraced the online applications that enable communicative, creative, and social uses” (http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/2/topics.asp).
“The Future of Writing” is a mini-conference (November 6-7, 2008) designed to bring together scholars across the UC system and a cadre of nationally recognized experts to explore how the new communications technologies, particularly the Internet, are challenging previous conceptions of what “writing” is. Through a range of panels, demonstrations, and an art exhibit, participants will consider the following: How are new communications technologies changing the way people "compose," "write," and "author"? How do collaborative writing spaces and social networking challenge the concepts of “text” and “author”? How are emerging emphases on visual literacies shifting what we think of as writing? And, finally, how do such changes and shifts challenge us as instructors to reconsider and potentially re-conceive educational spaces? We invite proposals for panels (70 mins) and individual presentations (15 mins) that engage the conference themes and that address—theoretically, pedagogically, or both—what the “future of writing” might (or could, or should) be. We also invite proposals for digital art work that addresses the themes of the conference. Please submit a URL (linking to photos of work you wish to present) with an accompanying abstract describing how your piece speaks to the “future of writing.” Please limit your proposal abstract to 300-500 words and submit it via email, by June 1, to Dr. Jonathan Alexander, UC Irvine: jfalexan@uci.edu There will be no conference registration fees. Participants from out of town will be expected to secure their own lodging. This conference is sponsored by UC, Irvine’s HumaniTech and the Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator. For more information, contact Dr. Jonathan Alexander at jfalexan@uci.edu.

Call for Papers
18th Annual SCSU Women’s Studies Conference
“Girls’ Culture & Girls’ Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood”
October 17 & 18, 2008
Deadline: June 12, 2008
What does it mean to be a girl? Who defines girlhood in an age when puberty and sexualization are happening at younger ages? How do girls assert their own identity in an increasingly mediated and consumerist culture which targets girls as a prime audience? Why do U.S. girls who are told that they can do anything feel like they have to do everything, and perfectly? What challenges do girls across races, classes, religions, nations, and cultures face in an ever more globalized world? What is the relationship between girls and feminism? What effect can feminism have on constructions of boyhood and masculinity and how in turn can this effect girls? In the 18th annual SCSU Women’s Studies conference, we will take a close look at girls’ culture and girls’ studies, among the most vibrant areas in women’s studies.

We invite individuals, groups, scholars, activists, artists, girls and all, to submit proposals for panel presentations, round table discussions, or artistic performances. We also invite your ideas and suggestions. Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geopolitical perspectives in order to construct feminist renditions of girls’ cultures, histories, and representations. Expect fun through meals, performance, and poetry slam, with girls and their allies speaking of their struggles and power. Send submissions electronically by June 12, 2008, to womenstudies@southernct.edu. Please include name, affiliation, E-mail, standard mailing address, and phone number. Proposals should be no longer than one page, with a second page for identification information.

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) 2008 National Conference
'FUTURES'
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Panel Proposals due: June 30
Refereed Paper Proposals dues: August 15
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
Cultural studies has historically concerned itself with the cultural practices of the everyday and the now. However, as a politically motivated discipline, cultural studies has an ongoing preoccupation with cultural, economic, and political change, and thus with futures. The 2008 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference will interrogate possible and impossible local, national, regional, and global futures.
Confirmed speakers:

• Judith Halberstam, Professor of English and Gender Studies, Director for the Center of Feminist Research University of Southern California
• Fred Chaney, Order of Australia, Co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, former Deputy Chairman of the Australian Native Title Tribunal
• Kim Scott, Australian novelist, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, WA Premier's Literary Award, and RAKA Kate Challis Award.

Our imaginings of the future shape the lived experience of the present and our cultural memory of the past. These imaginings are usually polarized towards the deeply nihilistic or the jubilantly utopian. This conference will address the spaces between real and fictional futures, and the hopes and anxieties that emerge from those spaces.
Conference themes and topics might include the future of: Landscapes: popular cultural responses to global warming; discourses of evolution; the aesthetics of entropy, erosion, ruins, and wastelands; ghost towns; Urbanscapes: retro and futuristic 'burbscapes and cityscapes; future advertising and graffiti; new soundscapes; liquid architectures (modular, programmable, and nanotech); Movement: the culture of mobile lifestyles (backpackers, tourists, and caravan parks); animal and human migrations; Community: the fate(s) of indigenous and regional communities; future ethnicities and subcultures; ageing and overpopulation; Politics: future social movements; neo-imperialism; post-civil society; the collective commons; utopian and preventative policies; History: (personal and national) collections, museums and archives; the atrophy of language; life stories; the media as a future archive of the present; Bodies: sexualities; genders; virtual; post-human; cyborg; The Child: children's utopias; future parenting and pedagogy; changing cultural constructions of childhood; future infantalism; Technology - new trends in media and entertainment; emerging trends in, and discourses of, game culture; regional engagements with online communities; fringe cyberculture; future ethnographics; Economy - blue sky futures; future food systems; popular representations of gold and instant wealth; trends and discourses of exploration, discovery, and exploitation; Aesthetics - popular imaginings of messianic, apocalyptic and utopian futures; new forms of art and art funding.

The conference will be held in the unique regional environment of Kalgoorlie at Western Australia's School of Mines. Kalgoorlie is the historic centre of mining in Western Australia. The Perth-Kalgoorlie pipeline, completed in 1903, was a contentious development that opened up the goldfields and signified a commitment to the future of WA. The town's growth gave rise to satellite industries such as tourism, beer brewing, and sex work, and today Kalgoorlie is a thriving regional city. However, like any industry centered around natural resources, the mining industry there has a finite future. The choice of Kalgoorlie as a venue therefore not only puts into practice the Association's policy of addressing the needs of regional communities, it emphasizes that the future is a dynamic driven by tensions between development and sustainability. Proposals should be emailed to: l.brennan@curtin.edu.au For all other conference enquiries please contact either Ron Blaber (r.blaber@curtin.edu.au) or Amanda Third (a.third@murdoch.edu.au).

5th A Conference
Prostitution, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking
University Of Toledo
September 18 and 19, 2008
Abstracts due June 30th, 2008
Bringing together researchers and practitioners in an effort to lay the groundwork for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program development. To educate social service, health care, and criminal justice professionals on human trafficking and the needs and risks of those victimized by the commercial sex industry. This conference is open to researchers, practitioners, and workers in the social service, criminal justice, and health care fields. Areas of Interest:

· *Violence and the Sex Trade

· *Children and Teen Victims of Trafficking

· *International Trafficking

· *HIV & other Health Related Risks

· *Programming Models and Funding

· *Domestic Trafficking

· *Personal Experiences in the Sex Trade

· *Drug Addiction and the Sex Trade

· *Men & Boys in the Sex Trade

· *Children of Women in the Sex Industry

· *Neighborhood & Community Responses

· *Emotional Health

· *Target Assessment & Effective Intervention

· *Paradigms, Perspectives & Policies

· *Advocacy & Social Action

· *Survivor Experiences and Stories

· *Law Enforcement Perspectives

· *Coalition building and Consciousness raising

Go here for submission guidelines: http://www.prostitutionconference.com/CallForAbstracts.htm

Call for Proposals
Women & Society Conference
October 24& 25, 2008
Marist College, Poughkeepsie New York
Deadline, postmarked no later than July 11, 2008
Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2008 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studies in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates may attend at no cost. Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com and author of Full Frontal Feminism will be delivering the keynote address. Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio. Papers, workshops, roundtables and panels are welcome, please include abstracts and bios for all participants, with one contact person. Please include all contact information--including home and e-mail addresses for summer correspondence to: Women & Society Conference c/o JoAnne Myers, Fontaine 315 School of Liberal Arts, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, Or submit on line: www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womenstudies/conference.html For more information e-mail: JA.MYERS@MARIST.EDU

Call for Proposals
2008 Women’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference
Women and Power
The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
October 3-4, 2008
Deadline August 1, 2008
The 2008 conference will feature scholarly and creative work that treats questions of power in relation to women: the experiences, creations, theories, and practices of power that define and are defined by women as actors, objects, and modes of performance and being in the world. The conference, among other things, aims to provoke discussion about women in positions of power, the vexatious roads they travel to get there, the barriers they meet, defeat, or submit to along the way, and the humorous, sad, and/or inspiring visions that arise from women’s engagement with powers of all kinds—including the powers they possess themselves. This year’s conference will culminate in the publication of selected scholarly papers and creative works in a special conference issue of The South Dakota Review. We solicit proposals for research presentations, scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, brief dramatic performances, film viewings, and creative readings on any topic that treats the diverse intertwinings of women and power. Please upload your electronic proposal at www.usd.edu/wmst/, e-mail 250-word abstracts to aemerson@usd.edu, or send a hard copy to the following address.

Call for Papers and Proposals
The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Joto Caucus & The California State University, Los Angeles’ Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities presents the 2nd NACCS Joto Caucus Conference
Sacred Space Making: Mapping Queer Scholarship, Activism, and Performance
October 10-12, 2008
California State University , Los Angeles
Submissions due August 1, 2008 to: naccs-joto@naccs.org
OBJECTIVE: On a daily basis queer communities across the globe create sacred spaces to resist the detrimental effects of globalization, capitalism, racism, anti-immigrant sentiments, war, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination. Sacred spaces can be physical, social, political, and/or epistemological sites where queer politics, analyses, identities, and values are respected and cultivated. Sacred spaces work as centers of transformation and healing to end all forms of oppression. In November of 2007, the NACCS Joto Caucus hosted its first conference at the University of Nevada , Las Vegas where we envisioned a queer homeland by bridging communities and resisting hate. This year’s conference envisions praxis of sacred space making, where queer scholarship, activism, and performance is discussed and shared. This conference will bring together various queer scholars, activists, artists, students, and members of the community to create sacred spaces that celebrate and honor the legacy of survival, resilience, and resistance among queer communities. We seek to map how sacred spaces allow dialogue on the evolution and revolution of queer scholarship, activism, and performance. In doing so, we continue to imagine and (re)create a queer homeland. While this conference is being organized by a predominately Joto Chicano caucus, we welcome participation from all queer communities resisting to create spaces of equality, equity, safety, inclusiveness, and empowerment regardless of ethnic background, gender orientation, or nationality.

THEME: In the spirit of the above mentioned objective we invite proposals and/or papers from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, community members, activists, and artists/performers. Rather than fostering a purely academic space, this conference encourages interactive workshops, presentations, and dialogues that encourage self-empowerment among participants. The conference will provide a forum for scholarship, activism, and performance that contributes to and informs (directly and indirectly) Jotería, all of our queer Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. We strongly encourage participation from community organizations and transgender people who would like to present their work as we strive to engage in authentic dialogue between/through activism, performance, and scholarship. Themes or topics may include, but are not limited to the following: Art Interventions Immigration/Migration, HIV/AIDS Education,; Identity Mental Health, Spirituality Indigenisma and Indigenismo; Public Health Queer Youth ; Race, Class, Gender Literature; Safe Sex Practices Community Outreach ; Transnationalism Feminism; Queer Communities Herstory/History ; Transgender rights Queerstory; Film Human/Queer/Women’s Rights; Law LGTBQI Studies ; Postcolonial Studies; Globalization Studies; Mentorship Violence Intervention and Resistance ; Ethnic Studies Women’s Studies
PRESENTATION FORMAT:
Proposals and papers are currently being accepted for:
1) Interactive workshops,
2) Roundtables,
3) Academic paper presentations/panels, and
4) Undergraduate student plenary (limited to undergraduate students only)
Please note that all submissions will be carefully assessed by a team of reviewers. The number of submissions accepted will be limited although we will work towards accommodating as many presentations as the schedule permits. Additionally, please note that all presentations (workshops, roundtable discussions, and academic panels) will be granted one hour of presentation time. Caucus members suggest that all presentations include time for interaction (question and answer) with the participants. A moderator or discussant will be assigned for each panel. Please note that presentations are defined as follows:

· Workshops consist of hands-on group facilitation. We encourage facilitators to develop activities to incorporate the participants into the discussion.

· Roundtables consist of an open discussion on selected topics. We encourage roundtables to include participants into the discussion of the topic(s) selected.

· Panels consist of academic research presentations, reports, scholarly papers, or projects. These can be submitted individually (the program committee will group selected submissions into panels that are closely related). We encourage the submission of collective panels consisting of no more than three panelists.

· The Undergraduate Plenary will be a special session during the program where selected undergraduates will present their research papers to the collective audience. Undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers related to the conference theme or other topics mentioned above.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION
For workshops, roundtables, and panels: Please submit a proposal of 250 words describing the theme, goal, or activity planned. Proposals for panel and paper presentations should include information regarding how these scholarly works are relevant to the conference theme and goal. For submission of panels (of more than one presenter), please include a title for the panel, and individual titles for each presentation.
For the Undergraduate Plenary: (limited to undergraduate students only)
Please submit your academic paper (no more than eight (8) pages in length) with a title, proper citations, and a bibliography. Please indicate in your submission how your paper is relevant to the conference theme and goal.
Please include the following information with your submission:
1) Name(s) of presenter(s),
2) Presentation title(s),
3) University or Organization you represent,
4) City and State,
5) Type of submission (workshop, roundtable, panel, or undergraduate plenary),
6) Type of audio/visual equipment required. Note that limited equipment is available.
Submissions should be sent as word documents to naccs-joto@naccs.org
Proposals accepted into the conference program will be notified by August 15, 2008 via email. If you should have any questions regarding this “Call for Proposals/Papers” please contact us at the email provided above.

THREE DISSERTATION/FIRST BOOK PRISES FROM SUNY PRESSS

SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies
Submission deadline July 1, 2008
SUNY Press is proud to announce a new competition for the best single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of women's and gender studies. We welcome nonfiction manuscripts that exemplify cutting-edge feminist scholarship, whether the area of focus is historical or contemporary. The competition is open to scholars from all disciplinary backgrounds, but we especially encourage work that speaks effectively across disciplines, and projects that offer new perspectives on concerns central to the field of women's and gender studies. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: Feminist knowledge production, Feminist politics, Activism, Intersectionality, Gendered experiences of people of color, Global and transnational feminisms, Institutions and public policies, Women of color feminisms, Theories and practices of coalition, Gender and globalization, Coloniality, postcoloniality and neo-imperialism, Girls studies, Gender and queer sexuality, Transgender studies, Gender and violence, Feminist philosophy and theory, Gender and disability, Gender and militarism, Gender and labor practices, Feminist science and environmental studies, Feminist pedagogy, Cultural production (media, film, music, literature). If a winner of the competition is selected, he or she will receive a publication contract with SUNY Press and a $3,000 advance. Runners up may also be considered for publication with SUNY Press. See below for submission process.

SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies
Deadline July 1, 2008
SUNY Press is proud to announce a new competition for the best single- authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of African American studies. We welcome nonfiction manuscripts that engage any dimension of African American experience, whether historical or contemporary. The competition is open to scholars in all disciplines, but we especially encourage work that speaks effectively across disciplines, and projects that offer new perspectives on concerns central to the field of African American studies. Comparative approaches to the African diaspora are welcome if African American experience is central to the analysis. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: African American families, African American experience in the multiethnic United States, Black queer experience, Black feminist thought, African American cultural production (film, music, literature)
If a winner of the competition is selected, he or she will receive a publication contract with SUNY Press and a $3,000 advance. Runners up may also be considered for publication with SUNY Press. See below for submission process.

SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies
Deadline July 1, 2008
SUNY Press is proud to announce a new competition for the best single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of queer studies. We welcome nonfiction manuscripts that exemplify cutting-edge scholarship that engages issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or other non-heteronormative experience, whether the area of focus is historical or contemporary. The competition is open to scholars from all disciplinary backgrounds, but we especially encourage work that speaks effectively across disciplines, and projects that offer new perspectives on concerns central to the field of queer studies. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: Activism and resistance, Religion, Queer histories and subcultures, Intersectionality, Queer assimilation, Experiences of queer people of color , Health and sexuality, Queer feminisms , Global and transnational queer issues, Sexuality and the law, Institutions and public policies, Queer economics, Sex work, Queer families, Passing and issues of performance , Queer youth and queer aging, Affect, desire and embodiment, Gender and queer sexuality, Transgender studies, Gender and violence, Heterosexism and homophobia , Queerness and disability, Queer pedagogy, Cultural production (media, film, music, literature)

If a winner of the competition is selected, he or she will receive a publication contract with SUNY Press and a $3,000 advance. Runners up may also be considered for publication with SUNY Press. See below for submission process.
All three book competitions require submissions to be postmarked by July 1, 2008, and all should include the following materials:
--C.V.
--Proposal, including a 4-5 page overview of the scope of the project
and analysis of competing titles
--Complete manuscript, at least 150 double spaced pages, 12 pt. Courier font
Please mention the competition in your cover letter, and also indicate if any material from the manuscript has been previously published. The winner will be announced in the Fall of 2008. All submissions must be exclusive submissions to SUNY Press for the duration of the contest, and finalists will be notified by September 1, 2008.
Please direct all questions and submissions to Larin McLaughlin , Acquisitions Editor, SUNY Press , 194 Washington Ave., Ste. 305 , Albany, NY 12210 larin.mclaughlin_at_sunypress.edu

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

Call for Proposals
2008 Women’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference
The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
October 3-4, 2008
Deadline August 1, 2008
The 2008 conference will feature scholarly and creative work that treats questions of power in relation to women: the experiences, creations, theories, and practices of power that define and are defined by women as actors, objects, and modes of performance and being in the world. The conference, among other things, aims to provoke discussion about women in positions of power, the vexatious roads they travel to get there, the barriers they meet, defeat, or submit to along the way, and the humorous, sad, and/or inspiring visions that arise from women’s engagement with powers of all kinds—including the powers they possess themselves. This year’s conference will culminate in the publication of selected scholarly papers and creative works in a special conference issue of The South Dakota Review. We solicit proposals for research presentations, scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, brief dramatic performances, film viewings, and creative readings on any topic that treats the diverse intertwinings of women and power. Please upload your electronic proposal at www.usd.edu/wmst/, e-mail 250-word abstracts to aemerson@usd.edu, or send a hard copy to the following address.

Call for Papers and Proposals
The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Joto Caucus & The California State University, Los Angeles’ Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities presents the 2nd NACCS Joto Caucus Conference
Sacred Space Making: Mapping Queer Scholarship, Activism, and Performance
October 10-12, 2008
California State University , Los Angeles
Submissions due August 1, 2008 to: naccs-joto@naccs.org
OBJECTIVE: On a daily basis queer communities across the globe create sacred spaces to resist the detrimental effects of globalization, capitalism, racism, anti-immigrant sentiments, war, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination. Sacred spaces can be physical, social, political, and/or epistemological sites where queer politics, analyses, identities, and values are respected and cultivated. Sacred spaces work as centers of transformation and healing to end all forms of oppression. In November of 2007, the NACCS Joto Caucus hosted its first conference at the University of Nevada , Las Vegas where we envisioned a queer homeland by bridging communities and resisting hate. This year’s conference envisions praxis of sacred space making, where queer scholarship, activism, and performance is discussed and shared. This conference will bring together various queer scholars, activists, artists, students, and members of the community to create sacred spaces that celebrate and honor the legacy of survival, resilience, and resistance among queer communities. We seek to map how sacred spaces allow dialogue on the evolution and revolution of queer scholarship, activism, and performance. In doing so, we continue to imagine and (re)create a queer homeland. While this conference is being organized by a predominately Joto Chicano caucus, we welcome participation from all queer communities resisting to create spaces of equality, equity, safety, inclusiveness, and empowerment regardless of ethnic background, gender orientation, or nationality.

THEME: In the spirit of the above mentioned objective we invite proposals and/or papers from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, community members, activists, and artists/performers. Rather than fostering a purely academic space, this conference encourages interactive workshops, presentations, and dialogues that encourage self-empowerment among participants. The conference will provide a forum for scholarship, activism, and performance that contributes to and informs (directly and indirectly) Jotería, all of our queer Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. We strongly encourage participation from community organizations and transgender people who would like to present their work as we strive to engage in authentic dialogue between/through activism, performance, and scholarship. Themes or topics may include, but are not limited to the following: Art Interventions Immigration/Migration, HIV/AIDS Education,; Identity Mental Health, Spirituality Indigenisma and Indigenismo; Public Health Queer Youth ; Race, Class, Gender Literature; Safe Sex Practices Community Outreach ; Transnationalism Feminism; Queer Communities Herstory/History ; Transgender rights Queerstory; Film Human/Queer/Women’s Rights; Law LGTBQI Studies ; Postcolonial Studies; Globalization Studies; Mentorship Violence Intervention and Resistance ; Ethnic Studies Women’s Studies
PRESENTATION FORMAT:
Proposals and papers are currently being accepted for:
1) Interactive workshops,
2) Roundtables,
3) Academic paper presentations/panels, and
4) Undergraduate student plenary (limited to undergraduate students only)
Please note that all submissions will be carefully assessed by a team of reviewers. The number of submissions accepted will be limited although we will work towards accommodating as many presentations as the schedule permits. Additionally, please note that all presentations (workshops, roundtable discussions, and academic panels) will be granted one hour of presentation time. Caucus members suggest that all presentations include time for interaction (question and answer) with the participants. A moderator or discussant will be assigned for each panel. Please note that presentations are defined as follows:

· The Undergraduate Plenary will be a special session during the program where selected undergraduates will present their research papers to the collective audience. Undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers related to the conference theme or other topics mentioned above.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION
For the Undergraduate Plenary: (limited to undergraduate students only)
Please submit your academic paper (no more than eight (8) pages in length) with a title, proper citations, and a bibliography. Please indicate in your submission how your paper is relevant to the conference theme and goal. Please include the following information with your submission:
1) Name(s) of presenter(s),
2) Presentation title(s),
3) University or Organization you represent,
4) City and State,
5) Type of submission (workshop, roundtable, panel, or undergraduate plenary),
6) Type of audio/visual equipment required. Note that limited equipment is available.
Submissions should be sent as word documents to naccs-joto@naccs.org
Proposals accepted into the conference program will be notified by August 15, 2008 via email.
If you should have any questions regarding this “Call for Proposals/Papers” please contact us at the email provided above.

A new resource list on Study Abroad Programs focusing on gender and women's studies has been posted to the NWSA website on the Program Administrators and Directors' resource page. To locate this list go to: http://nwsa.org/PAD/resources.php

Guide To Graduate Work In Women's & Gender Studies
The 2006 edition of this valuable resource from the National Women’s Studies Association is now available for free download here: https://www.nwsa.org/students/index.php

Announcing 2008 NWSA Women of Color Caucus/Lambda Letters Foundation
Scholarly Essay Competition
Competition is open to faculty and graduate level students in political science, legal studies, critical race studies, ethnic and/or gender studies, public policy, as well as to law students and professionals in related fields. Essay topic is use of summary judgment motions to prevent academic discrimination cases from going to trial in the U.S., in general, and California, in particular. Essayists should demonstrate knowledge of critical race theory and legal/judicial history & developments regarding academic discrimination claims. Focus should be on prevalence of summary judgment motions in academic discrimination cases, impact on women of color plaintiffs, and legal/constitutional challenges to this practice.
We expect to grant at least one $1,000 award. However, no award will be given if there are no suitable submissions. Award recipient is expected to present winning essay at June 2008 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference and will be given one night's hotel accommodation and assistance with NWSA conference registration fees.
GENERAL MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS
Manuscripts must:
• be original and unpublished
• not exceed 25 pages, excluding bibliography
• be submitted on white, letter quality paper, with clearly legible text (onion skin paper, etc. will not be reviewed).
• be in 12 point font, double-spaced, with 1” margins on all sides and with page numbers centered at the bottom of each page
• include in the upper right corner of the title page only- the writer’s name, temporary and permanent addresses, phone number and email address, college or university affiliation, and academic status (faculty, graduate, academic professional).
Essayists must submit four (4) copies of essay award entries to Dr. Pat Washington, 4537 Alamo Drive, San Diego, CA 92115. Essays will undergo a blind review process. If funds permit, Women of Color Caucus/Lambda Letters Foundation reserves the right to make additional awards.

Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN)
PLEN is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to preparing women for leadership in politics and public policy. PLEN hosts five week- and weekend-long seminar programs that bring young women from all parts of the country to Washington, D.C. in order to learn about the process of forming and influencing public policy. The programs are women-focused and thus highlight the unique challenges and difficulties faced by women in the public arena as well as the successes that women leaders can accomplish. During these seminar sessions, these young women meet with established women leaders in the Congress, courts, executive agencies and nongovernmental advocacy groups. They also tour important Washington organizations and agencies in an effort to understand the true ways in which public policy is formed. In addition to the seminar sessions we hold, PLEN hosts a semester-long internship program in the spring, summer and fall semesters. The PLEN staff will extensively review and edit students’ resumes and cover letters and help to place them in appropriate internships in Washington. Once the students arrive in Washington, PLEN holds weekly seminar sessions for them, introducing them to important women in Washington and instructing them on professional development issues.
Visit the website at www.PLEN.org
Contact Roxanne Stachowski intern@plen.org
Telephone 202.872.1585.

Internships and Job Opportunities at the National Organization for Women
With over 500,000 contributing members, NOW is the largest feminist organization in the United States. Since NOW was founded in 1966, we have struggled to end the injustice and inequality women face daily. As an intern with the National NOW Action Center you will be on the front lines of the women's rights movement.

An important element of our program is comprehensive leadership training. We hold a series of workshops to empower young feminists and give you the tools and knowledge to become leaders on your campuses and in your communities. You will learn the organizing skills from leaders of the most prestigious feminist organization in the world. Becoming a NOW intern is a commitment to apply the skills learned during the internship and to become, or continue to be, an activist leader.

Each semester NOW interns participate in a wide range of activities which distinguish us from other Washington, D.C. based programs. These are just a few of the activities provided for interns each semester: First-hand observation of how a sexist, racist, and classist political system impacts women in this country. Frequent opportunities to organize and attend Congressional and U.S. Supreme Court hearings, press conferences, demonstrations and rallies. Intern Lobby Day which includes a "how to lobby" workshop. Training in our successful, time-honored grassroots organizing including workshops on campus organizing, coalition building and networking. Weekly intern discussion groups and field trips on a wide range of feminist issues which are led by National NOW staff and officers. Please read the application and information. Your assistance in this fight is crucial. We must stop the backlash against women and regain total power and control over our bodies and our lives. Visit: http://www.now.org/organization/work.html

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

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

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

Service Learning Faculty Symposium and Showcase
Marquette University, Alumni Memorial Union, 1442 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI
May 21, 2008
The Service Learning Faculty Symposium and Showcase is a Midwest regional conference for service learning faculty to share and showcase their service learning practice and projects. It is being co-sponsored by Marquette University’s Service Learning Program, Wisconsin Campus Compact, Marquette’s Institute for Urban Life, and the Manresa Project.
Keynote Speaker: Ken Reardon joined the Cornell University faculty after leaving the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For his role there in establishing and directing the University of Illinois’ highly regarded East St. Louis Action Research Project, he was awarded the 2000 American Institute of Certified Planners President’s Award. His research interests focus on community-based planning in severely distressed urban neighborhoods, alternative approaches to community development, urban social movements, and municipal government reform. At Cornell Dr. Reardon is working with the Colleges of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Human Ecology; and Agriculture and Life Sciences to strengthen urban outreach activities in Ithaca, Rochester, and New York City.
Conference Features

♦ Morning Keynote and Faculty-led Workshops

♦ Afternoon Showcase of service learning practice and projects, with cash prizes

♦ Faculty Roundtable with sharing of best practices in service learning
Contact: Bobbi Timberlake at bobbi.timberlake@marquette.edu
Webpage: http://www.marquette.edu/servicelearning/
upcomingevents/symposiumover

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

Campus Compact 2008 Professional Development Institute
Location: Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA
July 28 - August 1, 2008
Website: http://www.compact.org/initiatives/csd_institute/
Four and a half days of must-have knowledge for new community service and service-learning professionals! Designed specifically for professionals in their first five years in the field, this institute offers four and a half days of must-have knowledge, from some of the most respected practitioners in the field. This unique gathering offers participants the chance to learn and understand key information and principles in service, service-learning, and higher education; and allows them to discuss with experienced practitioners the critical questions and skills needed to be successful.

2^nd Annual International Institute on Student-Centered Learning and Engagement
Portland, OR
Date: May 20-23, 2008
Website: http://www.pdx.edu/cae/institute.html
Faculty and administrators from around world will convene to learn the theory and practice of engaged pedagogies from Portland State University’s award-winning faculty. Appropriate for novice and advanced faculty and program/educational leaders, the Institute provides participants opportunities to think deeply, critically, and creatively about building new or enhancing existing courses or community engagement programs.

Call for Proposals
Fall 2008 issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, Vol. 12, #3
Deadline for submission: May 31, 2008 –
Articles on various topics plus special sections.
Service-Learning Feature Editor: Judith Hope Munter, Associate Dean for Research, College of Education, University of Texas at El Paso, E-mail: jmunter@utep.edu
Focus: Service-learning, a community-based approach to teaching and learning provides opportunities for students to discover linkages between theory and practice in authentic settings. Educational research and practice have provided numerous examples of service-learning as a tool for 'expanding the walls' of the traditional classroom, providing opportunities for active and cooperative learning, interdisciplinary projects, and multicultural experiences grounded in local community issues that enliven the teaching/learning processes. Many of the studies on student outcomes indicate that the combination of service with learning enhances student development, multicultural awareness and academic achievement. This special issue invites researchers and practitioners to submit articles and essays on service-learning in higher education with a special focus on the individual and institutional impacts of established service-learning programs. Qualitative and quantitative studies that can contribute to the growing knowledge base on the potential of this teaching/learning strategy are especially welcome. Other issues to be addressed include assessment and evaluation, social justice concerns, and the mission of the university in 21st century society.

Call for Submissions
New Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
Deadline for submission: June 30, 2008
A new on-line refereed journal exploring community engagement and community-based learning experiences, The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education has announced its first call for papers. Sponsored by Indiana State University's Center for Public Service and Community Engagement, this new journal is intended to serve as a forum for the review of research and practice by professionals in higher education in the fields of community engagement and engaged learning practices.

Also Seeking Associate Editors
The journal is also seeking qualified individuals to serve on the editorial board. Responsibilities of the editorial board include: Encourage authors to submit articles and promote JCEHE on her/his campus and through professional networks. Review three to four manuscript reviews per year as assigned by the editor. Provide a detailed written analysis of each manuscript with recommendations regarding publication. Associate editors are not precluded from submitting manuscripts.
Interested individuals should submit an email of interest and an abbreviated copy of their vita to: Nancy Brattain Rogers, JCEHE Editor, nancyrogers@indstate.edu 812-237-2334

Service Learning Grants Available
$5 Million in Grants Available for Student Service and Service-Learning Projects
More than $5 million in Learn and Serve America grant funding will be available to support community service and service-learning through three new grant competitions, the Corporation for National and Community Service The three funding opportunities are:

· 2008 College Student Social Media Initiative: Approximately $2.3 million is available to facilitate better engagement of college students in service through the use of social media such as Facebook, MySpace, Ning, podcasts, blogs and other social media tools. Successful applicants must demonstrate how their program can use these tools to engage increased numbers of college students, especially in partnership with other nonprofit or for-profit entities. An estimated 12 grants will be made for a project period of up to three years. Applications are due at 5 p.m. eastern time, May 7.

· School-Based STEM: Approximately $2 million is available to qualified organizations that will provide financial resources, training, and other assistance to local education agencies to implement service-learning projects as part of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum in grades six through 12. An estimated four grants will be made for a project period of up to three years. Eligible applicants include grant-making entities, which are public or private non-profit organizations that can make subgrants in two or more states. Applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. eastern, April 30.

· Indian Tribes Drug Abuse Prevention Initiative: Approximately $1 million is available to Indian Tribes to implement service-learning programs focusing on drug-abuse prevention, especially methamphetamine. Applicants must propose to work with one or more local schools to support youth conducting service-learning projects, as well as working with their local methamphetamine task force supported by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, so that the youth service is linked with existing local drug abuse prevention efforts and coordinates with other federal funding targeting methamphetamine. An estimated six to eight grants will be awarded for a three-year period. The application deadline is 5 p.m. eastern time, April 30.

For further information and to apply, visit http://www.learnandserve.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa.asp.

The Corporation for National and Community Service improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. Each year we engage 4 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds through our Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs. For more information, visit NationalService.gov.

We the People Challenge Grant Opportunity
As part of its We the People initiative, NEH invites proposals for challenge grants designed to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for humanities activities focused on exploring significant themes and events in American history. NEH is particularly interested in projects that advance knowledge of the founding principles of the United States in their full historical and institutional context. For more information see www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/wtpchallenge.html
Contact: challenge@neh.gov Phone: (202) 606-8309 Deadline: On-going opportunity

The Coca Cola Foundation
The mission of the Coca-Cola Foundation is to improve the quality of life in the community and enhance individual opportunity through education. The foundation supports educational programs primarily within three main areas: higher education, classroom teaching and learning, and international education. For more information see http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/foundation_coke.html
Phone: (404) 676-2568 Deadline: On-going opportunity

Towson University’s Institute on Teaching and Research on Women has available The Handbook on Service Learning in Women’s Studies and the Disciplines. The book brings together educators from several disciplines (English, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Women’s/Gender Studies) who teach a women’s studies service learning course, or a course with significant attention to gender and diversity. This collection of service learning syllabi, assignments, and essays provides the reader with numerous methods and examples of how service learning can be incorporated into a wide array of courses differentially situated within the curriculum of a college or university. For example, teaching a women’s studies course that is also a general education course requires a somewhat different logic and set of practices than an upper level women’s studies course within the major, or a course which serves as a culminating experience for the major. Also addressed is how to transform spring break and internships into service leaning options and how to create a summer camp that serves the community. Guidelines, advice, and lessons learned provide the reader with the information and confidence necessary to initiate a service learning course.
http://www.towson.edu/itrow/2%20-%20Major-Degree%20Requirements/
ITROWServiceLearningHandbook.asp

The Wisconsin Campus Compact AmeriCorps*VISTA Community-Based-Learning Project is funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service and allows 35 AmeriCorps*VISTA members to serve as community-based-learning coordinators throughout Wisconsin. The project goal is to increase the capacity of local community organizations to provide services that will assist members of low-income groups to escape from poverty.
For more information contact:
Francesca Smith
AmeriCorps*VISTA Program Director
(262) 595-2760
smithf@uwp.edu

M3C Fellows AmeriCorps Education Award Program
A nine-state AmeriCorps program designed to improve college student retention by involving them in meaningful community work in cohorts of at least seven.
For more information contact:
Kim White
M3C Fellows Program Director
(262) 595-2514
kim.white@uwp.edu

Student Civic Leadership Institute (SCLI)
SCLI is made possible through a Learn and Serve America grant awarded to Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Campus Compacts. The Fellows program and the SCLI support and promote students as powerful citizen leaders. Fellows network with their peers, apply and further develop their skills, organize civic dialogues to address critical public issues, and work on local and campus initiatives. The SCLI is an intensive retreat that provides students with time and tools to do critical inner reflection on their ideas of leadership, citizenship, and coalition building. Students from colleges and universities throughout the Upper Midwest (Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) identify their own growing edges, learn strategies for institutional change and community organizing, and teach each other through intensive dialogue around issues they have identified. Students leave with an understanding of resources available to support local civic initiatives, with contact information of student leaders across the region and with other print and web resources to aid their work in creating campus and community change.
For more information contact:
Dr. Pamela Proulx-Curry
Wisconsin Campus Compact Executive Director
(262) 595-2048
pamela.proulx-curry@uwp.edup

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence New Orleans Chapter and the New Orleans Women’s Health & Justice Initiative Seeks Books by Women of Color authors for a Radical Women of Color Lending Library Project
The New Orleans Women of Color Resource & Organizing Center (a joint project of the WHJI and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence – New Orleans) will serve as a resource and organizing hub to nurture grassroots organizing and activism to end violence against women of color, linking struggles against the violence of poverty, incarceration, environmental racism, housing discrimination, economic exploitation, and medical experimentation and forced sterilization. The Center will provide a host of movement building and leadership development programs, activities, and resources to end violence againstwomen of color; the Center will also house a radical women of color lending library, a cluster of computers for community use, meeting space, and a comfortable environment for women and girls to hangout. We are currently in the process of establishing a radical women of color lending library.
They are seeking donations of books by women of color authors across genres, topics, interests, and subjects including but not limited to: African Social Movements/Activism-Organizing/ Anti-Oppression/ Arab Feminist Organizing/ Arab Social Movements/ Art & Culture/ Asian Feminist Organizing/ Asian Social Movements / Autonomous Movements/ Black/African Feminist Organizing/ Caribbean Social Movements/ Chicana Feminist Organizing/ Civil/Human Rights/ Colonization/ Community Accountability/ Re-Constructing Masculinity/ Disability Organizing/Rights/ Disasters and Vulnerabilities/ Diaspora Organizing/ Identity/Domestic Workers Organizing/ Economic Justice/ Education/ Radical Teaching/ Environment/Ecological Justice/ Erotic Autonomy/ Feminism/ Gender Theory & Identity/ Gender Justice/ Gender-based Violence/ Genocide/ Globalization/ Healthcare (Access & Disparities)/ Health Justice/ Health & Alternative Therapies/ HIV/AIDS Organizing/ Prevention Justice/ Housing & Community Development/ Human Rights/ Human Trafficking/ Immigrant & Refugee Rights/ Imperialism/ Intersex Identity and Organizing/ Just Sustainabilities and Development/ Juvenile Justice/ Labor Organizing/ Latina Feminist Organizing/ Latin American Social Movements/ Media Justice/ Mental Health and Wellness/ Middle East Organizing/Solidarity/Justice/ Militarism/ Music/ Native American Feminist Organizing/ Native American Social Movements/ Neoliberalism/ Palestine Organizing/Right of Return/ Pan-Asian Organizing/ Policing/ Law Enforcement Violence/ Population & Development/Poverty/Welfare Rights/ Prison Industrial Complex/ Prison Abolition & Prisoners Rights/ Queer Theory/Identity/ Racial Justice/ Radical Parenting/ Radical Women of Color Organizing/ Refugee/ Internally Displaced Persons/ Reproductive Health & Justice/ Sex Work Organizing/Street Economies/ Sexual Health/ Slavery/ Sovereignty & Self Determination/ Spirituality/Healing/ Spoken Word/Performance Poetry/ Trans Justice/ Transnational Organizing/ U.S. Black Social Movements/ War/ War on Drugs/Racial Profiling/ Welfare Reform/ Policies/ Women and War/ Women’s Health & Healing/ Worker’s Rights/ Youth Organizing
All books are welcome—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, zines, articles, resource books, anthologies, photo-documentaries, etc. Videos, documentaries, and music are also welcomed. We are specifically interested in books by African, Arab, Asian, Black, Caribbean, Chicana, Indigenous, Native, and Latina authors. Donations should be mailed to the: New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic c/o WHJI 1406 Esplanade Ave. New Orleans, LA 70116. For more information, please contact them at whji_info@yahoo.com or by phone at 504-524-8626.

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

International Women’s Studies Institute
Travel/study program in Guatemala.
January 10 to 19, 2009
Stay at San Marcos, a village on the shores of Lake Atitlan. The fee of $1,500 (not including airfare to Guatemala) covers housing, breakfasts, many dinners, group excursions, incountry travel and a two-day trip to visit the amazing Mayan ruins at Tikal.
Workshops:

• Women Changing the World: will look at the changing theory and practice of women and development, the lives of Guatemalan women, and the work of women in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who are seeking to empower Guatemalan women and girls. Participants will meet and interact with women in several NGOs in the Antigua and Lake Atitlan areas.

• Sketching Your Travels: aimed at capturing the colors and beauty of Guatemala, does not require experience or talent. We will learn to sketch our travels to better revisit them once we’re back home.

• Women in Community: How We Change the World : is a workshop in which participants are asked to share, in a 10-minute presentation, some way in which they have worked to change the world.

Workshop Center -- workshops will be held at Casa Azul, a yoga center that offers yoga, massage and other healing treatments (small extra charge for services), beautiful grounds and delicious vegetarian meals. We will have breakfast and dinner at Casa Azul– lunch is free time in the village. See www.casa-azul-ecoresort.com. For more information on the program and to register, please go to www.iwsi.org, or call Ellen Boneparth at 707 523-4547 or Lily Cincone at 650 323-2013
PST. RESERVATION AND DEPOSIT: Registration forms are at www.iwsi.org under “Current Program.” Registration fee is $300, and should be mailed to: IWSI, P.O.
Box 1067, Palo Alto, CA 94302. Fee is refundable if cancellation is made before
October 1, 2008.

Media Madness: The Impact if Sex, Violence and Commercial Culture on adults, Children, and Society A Summer Institute for Educators, Students, Human Service Professionals, Activists and Parents
July 8-11, 2008, Wheelock College, Boston.
For the 14th consecutive year, Wheelock College is offering a very popular summer institute on the role that the media (television, magazines, advertising, pornography, video games and music videos) plays in shaping our gender identity, our intimate relationships, our children’s lives, and ultimately our culture. The institute is taught by Dr Gail Dines, author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality, and Dr. Diane Levin, author of the forthcoming book, So Sexy So Soon.
Participants in both tracks will learn:
• How media violence affects behavior and contributes to violence in society
• How media images perpetuate and legitimize sexism, racism, consumerism and economic inequality
• How political and economic forces shape the media
• How media affects children’s ideas about sexual behavior and relationships with others
• How to critically deconstruct media images and develop media literacy skills
• How to become active in advocacy, community building and grass roots organizing
As a way to accommodate the needs of the participants, this year two days of the institute will be split into the following tracks:
1. Fighting the porn culture: how to think about and organize against the increasing pornification of our society. Led by Dr. Gail Dines.
2. Combating the hazards of media culture with children, families and the community. Led by Dr. Diane Levin. Credit Hours: The institute is available as a 3 credit graduate course or a non-credit course. Scholarships are available. For more information, please contact Gail Dines at gdines@wheelock.edu

Tutorials for Change: Gender Schemas and Science Careers
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm
Coordinated by Dr. Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and co-director of the Hunter College Gender Equity Project and funded by NSF. Faculty and students interested in using the materials as supplements in their courses can join an "Affiliations" component.
Gender Tutorial 1: Data on sex disparities in rank and salary http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm#tut1
Gender Tutorial 1 presents data on sex disparities in rank and salary in four professions – sciences, humanities, medicine, and law. The data show that there are only small rank or salary differences between men and women early in their careers in all the disciplines. Gaps emerge, however, as careers progress. Tutorial 1 reviews empirical data in a range of disciplines, demonstrating that sex disparities in advancement and salary exist even when credentials are equivalent for men and women. The tutorial concludes that gender inequities remain despite the improvements in recent years. The notions of "gender schemas" and "accumulation of advantage" are presented as key concepts to understanding the cause of the persisting sex disparities.
Gender Tutorial 2: Gender schemas and evaluations of others http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm#tut2
Gender Tutorial 2 concentrates on the reasons for the sex disparities presented in Tutorial 1, using two key concepts: gender schemas and the accumulation of advantage. Gender schemas are conceptual generalizations about men and women that lead to an unintentional underestimation of women’s professional abilities and to a similar overestimation of men's. The tutorial presents evidence that gender schemas influence both men and women to the same degree when they evaluate others. The many small examples of undervaluation of women accumulate over time to produce sex disparities in achievement and recognition.
Gender Tutorial 3: Gender schemas and our evaluations of ourselves http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm#tut3
Gender Tutorial 3 demonstrates that gender schemas affect not only our evaluations of others but our evaluations of ourselves. Others' expectations of us – formed in part by gender schemas – affect our own expectations of ourselves and our behavior. One consequence is that males act more entitled than females. Empirical data demonstrate the effects of gender schemas on the self.
Gender Tutorial 4: Remedies: What you can do http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm#tut4
Gender Tutorial 4 offers remedies for the sex disparities discussed in the previous tutorials. The tutorial proposes that the information on how gender schemas and the accumulation of advantage work can be used to predict where problems will occur and to plan preventive actions. In a college setting, for example, gender can influence the evaluation of instructors, the quality of letters of recommendation, the likelihood of invitations to present colloquia and talks, and so on. The tutorial offers suggestions for solving those problems.

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

The Grant Institute: Certificate in Professional Program Development and Grant Communication
Northwestern University,
July 9 - 13, 2007
Interested development professionals, researchers, faculty, and graduate students should register as soon as possible, as demand means that seats will fill up quickly. All participants will receive certification in professional grant writing from the Institute, as well as 3.5 CEU units. For more information call (888) 824 - 4424 or visit The Grant Institute at http://www.thegrantinstitute.com

Submissions for the next WSC e-bulletin should be submitted by August 15, 2008. To submit announcements for the bulletin, or to get on or be removed from the list, please contact the Women's Studies Consortium Office, 1666 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706. Phone: 608-262-3056 Fax: 608-263-2046, Email: WSCOffice@uwsa.edu.