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CONFERENCES: OCTOBER - DECEMBER
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Conferences & CFP's: Jan-Mar | April-June | July-Sept | Oct-Dec
Journals and Publications CFP's

LIST REFLECTS SUBMISSION DEADLINE : CONFERENCE DATE

OCTOBER (jump)

1. Women Mobilizing for Change: Past, Present, Future (July 1st, 2009 : October 2nd, 2009)

2. Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s): ‘Enabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetorics’ (February 1st, 2009 : October 7th, 2009)

3. The APT Conference 2009 (February 15th, 2009 : October 22nd, 2009)

4. Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built (March 1st, 2009 : October 22nd, 2009)

5. A (M)otherworld is Possible: Three Feminist Visions The Motherhood Movement, Matriarchal Studies, and The Gift Economy (March 1st, 2009 : October 22nd, 2009)

6. Diversity Challenge 2009: ( : October 23rd, 2009)

NOVEMBER (jump)

1. The marginalisation of nurses and clients within the healthcare service and nursing profession. (February 1st, 2009 : November 12th, 2009)

2. DIFFICULT DIALOGUES (February 15th, 2009 : November 12th, 2009)

DECEMBER (jump)

OCTOBER

1. Women Mobilizing for Change: Past, Present, Future

Organizers: Judy A. Hayden, PhD, and Jan Roberts, for Florida Consortium of Women's and Gender Studies
Location:
University of Tampa Tampa, Florida

Conference Date(s):
October 2nd, 2009 - October 4th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
July 1st, 2009

Conference URL:
http://web1.cas.usf.edu/wst/fcws/

Keynotes/Speakers:
Sonia Fuentes

Theme:
The breadth of this conference allows for research in a wide historical area, allowing for papers which: a) revisit and reexamine well-known historical landmarks for women to explore their legacies for the present and the future; b) investigate contemporary interaction of women’s movements with local, regional, and global communities, organizations, and institutions; c) demonstrate efforts of women to influence and change existing political, economic, education and community culture and structures to improve the lives of women and children; d) look to the future to explore how underlying ideological concerns today will impact women’s roles tomorrow.

Suggested Topics:
Individual papers, panels and roundtables or workshops are welcome. We encourage a broad range of theoretical and methodological avenues of approach and welcome innovative presentational formats.

Areas in which women mobilize for change incorporate a wide range, including, for example:

- corporate culture
- access to economic, political, and civil leadership and power
- gay/lesbian/queer culture
- women’s participation in the sciences
- civil rights
- literature and cultural/intellectual exchange
- domestic violence/sexual assault
- fine arts and performing arts
- women and mass media
- women and the environment
- women’s health and/or women healers
- feminism and race, ethnicity, class, and age
- gender and work
- gender and education
- women and technology
- consumerism
- fine and performing arts
- first, second, and/or third wave feminist movements

CFP Address:
Judy A. Hayden, PhD
Director of Women's Studies
University of Tampa
401 West Kennedy Boulevard
Tampa, Florida 33606-1490

CFP Email Address: judyahayden@gmail.com

Contact: Judy A.Hayden

E-Mail: judyahayden@gmail.com

Alternate E-Mail: Jan@EarthCharterUS.org

Telephone: Judy A. Hayden, PhD 813-253-3333, ext. 3535

 


2. Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s): ‘Enabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetorics’

Organizers: Malea Powell, Nancy DeJoy, Rhea Lathan, and the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition and hosted by the Rhetoric & Writing program at Michigan State University.
Location:
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI

Conference Date(s):
October 7th, 2009 - October 10th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
February 1st, 2009

Conference URL:
http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/

Keynotes/Speakers:

Theme:
We invite proposals that:

*reflect the complexity and diversity of who ‘we’ are as a scholarly community;
*make manifest the deep structure of the connections, intersections, and overlaps that actually make us a community;
*help articulate who ‘we’ are as a deliberate community of scholars, and what that means about our responsibilities and relationships to one another across scholarly areas and institutional positions;
*highlight scholarly and teacherly activities that deliberately create space for more complex notions of scholarship and teaching within the discipline of Rhet/Comp;
*include and significantly engage communities outside of the academy;
*focus on antiracist pedagogies and scholarship; present interdisciplinary scholarship in Afrafeminist Rhetorics; American Indian Rhetorics, Chicana Rhetorics, Asian American Rhetorics, post/neo-colonial rhetorics;
*highlight the intellectual traditions of women?s communities, especially communities constellated around specific identity markers such as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation issues, geographic origins; and other topics that address the connections in the conference theme.

Suggested Topics:

CFP Address:

CFP Email Address: caldwell@msu.edu

Contact: Bets Caldwell, caldwell@msu.edu

E-Mail: caldwell@msu.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


3. The APT Conference 2009

Organizers: Association for Political Theory
Location:
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Conference Date(s):
October 22nd, 2009 - October 24th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
February 15th, 2009

Conference URL:
http://apt.coloradocollege.edu/

Keynotes/Speakers:

Theme:
The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals for its
seventh annual conference to be held October 22–24, 2009 at Texas A&M
University in College Station, Texas. The APT is an interdisciplinary
organization devoted to supporting political theory and political
philosophy. We recognize that scholars in a range of disciplines are
doing important critical work on social and political questions. We
welcome their participation in this conference. The APT Conference
provides a collegial setting for scholars of various professional ranks,
institutional affiliations and theoretical approaches to engage one
another in fruitful discussions of their work. To learn more about the
Association and its annual conference, please visit the APT Gateway
website .

Suggested Topics:

CFP Address:

CFP Email Address:

Contact: For more information about the 2009 conference, please contact the Program Committee Co-Chairs, Amy McCready and Maurice Meilleur . If you have trouble submitting your proposal, please contact the APT webmast

E-Mail: meilleur@illinois.edu

Alternate E-Mail: mccready@bucknell.edu

Telephone:

 


4. Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built

Organizers: Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Location:
York University, Toronto, Canada

Conference Date(s):
October 22nd, 2009 - October 25th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
March 1st, 2009

Conference URL:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm

Keynotes/Speakers:
Invited Keynote Speakers TBC: Dr. Vandana Shiva, Author; Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology Dr. Sherilyn MacGregor, Author; Lecturer, Keele University

Theme:
This is ARM's 13th annual conference. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, environmental agencies and workers, environmental educators, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural,historical and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats.

Suggested Topics:
maternal health and the environment; creating and maintaining sustainable family systems; public/private spaces and the pregnant body; procreation and fertility; disability, environments and the maternal body; mothers, cancer and pollution; mothering and HIV/AIDS, breastfeeding and environmental toxins; mothering, environments, sustainability and technology; women, children and “nature”; the philosophy of nature and its relation to the feminine; nature and culture as gendered concepts; environmental theory and mothering; feminist philosophy of natural science; essentialism and motherhood; Indigenous theories of mothering; mother environmental movements and maternal activism; ecofeminism, maternal environmental activism and global citizenship; environmental activism through the arts; ; mothering in public space and private space; the maternal in architecture; modernist architecture as a symptom of patriarchy (phallic skyscrapers); disability, environments and the maternal body; Internal environments (mothering the self; internal/personal landscapes of mothers); commercialization of nature; consumerism food, farming and the nurturer; GMOs ;The role of mothers in creating food sovereignty

CFP Address:
Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University,
4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3

CFP Email Address: arm@yorku.ca

Contact: Renee Knapp

E-Mail: arm@yorku.ca

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Renee Knapp 416-736-2100 x 60366

 


5. A (M)otherworld is Possible: Three Feminist Visions The Motherhood Movement, Matriarchal Studies, and The Gift Economy

Organizers: Association for Research on Mothering (ARM, International Academy HAGIA, the Gift Economy Network, the Motherhood Foundation, and the International Mothers Network
Location:
York University, Toronto, Canada

Conference Date(s):
October 22nd, 2009 - October 25th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
March 1st, 2009

Conference URL:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm

Keynotes/Speakers:
Prof. Barbara Mann (Bear Clan of the Seneca, Iroquois) Pilwha Chang (S.Korea) Wahu Kaara (Kenya) Rauna Kuokkanen (Samiland/Canada) Prof. Andrea O’Reilly (Canada) Genevieve Vaughan (Italy) Prof. Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany)

Theme:
This is the embedded conference for ARM's 13th annual academic conference, this year on the topic of Mothering and the Environment, The Social, The Natural, The Built. We welcome submissions from indigenous and non indigenous scholars, students, activists, agencies and workers, educators, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats.

Suggested Topics:
Motherhood movements across the globe/ throughout history; motherhood and maternal politics; mothers in and as politicians; maternal activism and agency, maternal resistance; empowered/feminist mothering; motherlove as healing and resistance, mothering and work; mothering as work; maternal thinking, ethics of care, empowering mothers; Indigenous matriarchal societies/ their traditional cultures and situation today; resistance of indigenous matriarchal societies against patriarchal conquest and domination; hidden matriarchal elements in patriarchal European, American, Asian, African societies; significance of matriarchal perspectives/politics for building communities/networks/societies for the future; Matriarchal studies and feminism. The Gift Economy in indigenous societies and Matriarchies; mothering as gift economy work; gift versus exchange; the exploitation of the Gift Economy by Capitalism/Patriarchy; the Gift Economy and the environment, peace, and social change; gift perspective versus malestream academia: linguistics, philosophy, ethics science; practical transitions toward the Gift Economy; the Gift Economy as a maternal economy; the Gift Economy and Feminism; the Gift Paradigm

CFP Address:
Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University,
4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3

CFP Email Address: arm@yorku.ca

Contact: Renee Knapp

E-Mail: arm@yorku.ca

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Renee Knapp 416-736-2100 x 60366

 


6. Diversity Challenge 2009:

Organizers: Janet Helms, PhD Guerda Nicolas, PhD
Location:
Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA

Conference Date(s):
October 23rd, 2009 - October 24th, 2009
CFP Deadline:


Conference URL:
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/isprc/

Keynotes/Speakers:
Janet Helms, PhD ISPRC Director Augustus Long Professor of Counseling Psychology

Theme:
Racial Identity and Cultural Factors in Treatment, Research, and Policy

Suggested Topics:
We invite proposals that reflect some aspect of your experiences in teaching, studying, intervening, or applying racial identity theory to understand how race and culture influence the lives of individuals. Although the proposals may focus on any aspect of racial identity, all proposals should demonstrate a clear integration of race and culture. Presentations should focus on community activities and activism, developments in research, professional practice, education, and/or social justice
initiatives as they pertain to race, culture, and racial identity. Topics may include, but are not limited to, applications of theory, community and school initiatives, activism, as well as current research and practice related to (a) understanding racial identity development amongst diverse racial and ethnic cultural age groups in the United States, (b) improving the quality of life for children, adolescents, adults and families in schools and communities (c) implementing and evaluating innovative and culturally competent interventions in traditional and nontraditional environments. Strongest consideration will be given to proposals that deal directly with the 2009 Diversity Challenge theme, Racial Identity and Cultural Factors in Treatment, Research, and Policy.

CFP Address:
Boston College
ISPRC
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02457

CFP Email Address: diversity.challenge@bc.edu.

Contact: Kathy Flaherty

E-Mail: isprc@bc.edu

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: 617-552-2482

 


NOVEMBER

1. The marginalisation of nurses and clients within the healthcare service and nursing profession.

Organizers: NWSA 2009 Conference -"Difficult Dialogues"
Location:
Atlanta

Conference Date(s):
November 12th, 2009 - November 15th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
February 1st, 2009

Conference URL:
http://www.nwsaconference.org

Keynotes/Speakers:
Angela Davis, Civil Rights Activist

Theme:
The marginalisation of nurses and clients within the healthcare service and nursing profession. This paper investigates ways inwhich two black bodies, a black nurse who occupies a privilleged seat,experiences both racism from her fellow colleagues and disempowerment. At the same time she explores the interaction of a client, a recipient of the healthcare system, is marginalised within the same system she felt would help her. The engaging of these different women hold many similarities-they occupy visible and invisible marginalized spaces, within a profession who itself is marginalised within the global market. This paper uses the lived experiences of both lives to unravel the complexities of speaking and acting aross the multiple margins that exist within the marginalised space of nursing

Suggested Topics:
I am a student looking for colaborators for a panel on this theme

CFP Address:
16 Saint Ives Court, Woodbridge. L4L 4E6, Ontario, Canada

CFP Email Address: nprendergast@oise.utoronto.ca

Contact:

E-Mail:

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Robert Prendergast 905 265 9676

 


2. DIFFICULT DIALOGUES

Organizers: National Women's Studies Association Program Co-Chairs: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, NWSA President and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies, Spelman College; Vivian M. May, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Syracuse University
Location:
Atlanta, GA

Conference Date(s):
November 12th, 2009 - November 15th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
February 15th, 2009

Conference URL:
http://www.nwsaconference.org

Keynotes/Speakers:
Angela Y. Davis

Theme:
Difficult Dialogues: NWSA 2009 will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly or implicitly) as superseding or transcending the politics of race, sexuality, social class, nation, and disability.

Suggested Topics:
NWSA 2009 identifies several thematic areas in which ongoing and new difficult dialogues across differences are urgently needed but frequently avoided, consciously or unconsciously:

* Thinking, Speaking, and Working Margin to Margin;
* Intersectionality as Theory, Method, and Politics;
* Reconceptualizing Women’s Studies within the Transnational;
* Negotiating the Politics of Memory; and
* Women’s Studies 40 Years Later: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?

CFP Address:
See website: Online submission ONLY

CFP Email Address:

Contact: Natasha Waples

E-Mail: natasha.waples@nwsa.org

Alternate E-Mail: nwsaoffice@nwsa.org

Telephone: (301)403-0407

 


DECEMBER
National Women's Studies Association
7100 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 203, College Park MD 20740
(301) 403-0407 • nwsaoffice@nwsa.org