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| Overview of upcoming Conference and CFP's
that have a student focus or theme: Ordered by deadline: date January - March:(Jump)1. 3rd Annual Oklahoma Gender and Women's Studies Workshop: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Reproductive & Sexual Health ( : January 21st, 2011) 2. WWW.World Wide Women - Globalization, genders and languages (September 15th, 2010 : February 10th, 2011) 3. The 36th Annual Association for Women in Psychology Conference--Generating Feminisms: Building Partnerships, Recognizing Continuity, and Growing Community Across the Feminist Generation(s) ( : March 3rd, 2011) 4. Black and Brown Feminisms in Hip Hop Media (November 15th, 2010 : March 4th, 2011) 5. Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA) Theme: The Transformative Power of the Social Sciences ( : March 16th, 2011) 6. Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s and Gender Studies: Global Discourses (November 1st, 2010 : March 24th, 2011) April -June:(Jump)1. "Music, Gender, and Globalization" conference (January 7th, 2011 : April 1st, 2011) 2. Women's & Gender Studies, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (April 22nd, 2010 : April 7th, 2011) 3. Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (September 30th, 2010 : April 7th, 2011) 4. 42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (September 30th, 2010 : April 7th, 2011) 5. 42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Panel: The Loudest Voice: Jewish American Women's Literature (September 30th, 2010 : April 7th, 2011) 6. Women Writers and Psychoanalysis Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (September 30th, 2010 : April 7th, 2011) 7. 2011 National Conference for Media Reform (September 10th, 2010 : April 8th, 2011) July -September:(Jump)1. Iris Murdoch International Conference (May 30th, 2010 : September 10th, 2010) 2. The Question of Rights (March 15th, 2010 : September 16th, 2010) 3. GEMELA 2010: Making Connections (May 1st, 2010 : September 23rd, 2010) 4. Women as Intercultural Leaders: Imagination, Innovation, Integrity (March 20th, 2010 : September 30th, 2010) 5. The Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking. (April 15th, 2010 : September 30th, 2010) October -December:(Jump)1. Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering (July 1st, 2010 : October 21st, 2010) 2. WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE: OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE STATUS QUO ( : October 21st, 2010) 3. Women's Studies at MAPACA Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference Alexandria,VA 10/28/10-10/31/10 (June 15th, 2010 : October 28th, 2010) 4. Trafficking Humans: An Interdisciplinary Approach Addressing Sex & Labor Exploitation (September 1st, 2010 : October 30th, 2010) 5. SAMLA Panel: Problematizing Oratory Rhetoric in the Streets and in the Pulpit (June 21st, 2010 : November 5th, 2010) 6. “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”: Four Musical Sistas of “Otherness” Within Colorism (March 1st, 2010 : November 11th, 2010) 7. Queer Leadership and Scholastic Development Conference (August 1st, 2010 : November 13th, 2010) 8. Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies (January 15th, 2010 : November 19th, 2010) 9. Bodies of Art (September 10th, 2010 : December 2nd, 2010) |
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1. 3rd Annual Oklahoma Gender and Women's Studies Workshop: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Reproductive & Sexual Health Organizers: Gender and Women's Studies at Oklahoma State University Keynotes/Speakers: Elaine Tyler May, author of America and the Pill Theme: This is a day-long, regional workshop for feminist students, faculty, and advocates that provides contexts for reproductive and sexual politics in red states. Especially geared for feminist undergraduate students from conservative mid-America states who seek camaraderie and intellectual support for understanding current debates and advocating for reproductive justice and sexual rights. In the evening there will be a lecture featuring Elaine Tyler May, author of America and The Pill, that is open to the public. Suggested Topics: This is not a call for papers. The program will consist of local and national leaders (scholars and activists) contributing to panel dicussions. See website for details as we line up our speakers. CFP Address: not applicable CFP Email Address: not applicable Contact: Carol Mason Telephone: 405.744.5545
2. WWW.World Wide Women - Globalization, genders and languages Organizers: CIRSDe - Research Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: The conference, organised by the Research Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (CIRSDe), aims to promote cultural exchanges among researchers interested in the gender perspectives in their work. At the same time, it’s an occasion to relaunch the debate on how Women’s and Gender studies can be integrated into traditional academic approaches. Suggested Topics: globalization, cultural exchanges, transculturality, migrations, languages, economic development and the decline in importance of national boundaries CFP Address: CFP Email Address: cirsde@unito.it Contact: Rachele Raus Telephone:
3. The 36th Annual Association for Women in Psychology Conference--Generating Feminisms: Building Partnerships, Recognizing Continuity, and Growing Community Across the Feminist Generation(s) Organizers: Lauri Hyers and Ellie Brown, West Chester University Keynotes/Speakers: tba Theme: The conference theme is Generating Feminisms: Building Partnerships, Recognizing Continuity, and Growing Community Across the Feminist Generation(s) Suggested Topics: tba CFP Address: tba CFP Email Address: tba Contact: Interested volunteers, please email ebrown@wcupa.edu; for general conference questions, please email lhyers@wcupa.edu or call 610-436-2925.
Telephone: Lauri Hyers; call 610-436-2925.
4. Black and Brown Feminisms in Hip Hop Media Organizers: Kinitra D. Brooks, Asst. Professor of English
Marco Cervantes, Asst. Professor of BBL
UTSA Women's Studies Institute Keynotes/Speakers: TBA Theme: This interdisciplinary conference will feature unpublished work on women in Hip Hop to exchange ideas, share research, and initiate a sustained conversation by and about Black and Brown women in Hip Hop media. Vital to this discussion is attention to the blurring lines between Black and Latina feminist studies and a dialogue that attempts to understand an interweaving history of objectification, struggle, and potential for agency. How do we read Black and Brown women in Hip Hop culture? What readings of Black and Brown women other than conventional black feminist readings and Latina feminist analyses are cogent? What theories enable those readings?
Suggested Topics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Race in Hip Hop
CFP Address: blackandbrownfeminisms@gmail.com CFP Email Address: blackandbrownfeminisms@gmail.com Contact: Kinitra Brooks and/or Marco Cervantes Telephone: Carolyn Motley, carolyn.motley@utsa.edu, 210.458.6277
5. Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA) Theme: The Transformative Power of the Social Sciences Organizers: Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: The Transformative Power of the Social Sciences Suggested Topics: This is a call for sessions for the Gender and Women's Studies section of the conference. Please indicate if your session will be cross-listed with another area. The deadline for session proposals will be on Friday September 10th. We realize how little notice this is, however the deadline for papers has been moved up significantly from past years to October 15th. Once your session has been approved, you will be responsible for organizing the session. This means that your contact information will be included in the Call For Papers that will go out as soon as we can organize the sessions and that you will be asked to do minor formatting of paper titles, etc so that it can easily be merged into the overall program information. CFP Address: CFP Email Address: dietert1@ct.tamus.edu Contact: If you are interested in chairing a session, submit session title/proposal with your contact information to:
Michelle Dietert, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Texas A & M University –Central Texas
1901 S. Clear Creek Road
Killeen, Texas 76549 Telephone:
6. Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s and Gender Studies: Global Discourses Organizers: Women's and Gender Studies Program, Middle Tennessee State University Keynotes/Speakers: Somaly Mam Theme: Feminist perspectives of the influence of global forces on women’s and/or gendered experience or that examine connections between local/national and global issues related to gendered existence. The keynote speaker is a noted Cambodian sex slave trade survivor & anti-human-trafficking activist. Suggested Topics: We welcome any topic on women’s and/or gender issues and debates from scholars, activists, non-profit professionals, and graduate students in all scholarly fields and disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, sciences, education, arts, design, business, and sports. CFP Address: Email submissions only CFP Email Address: womenstu@mtsu.edu Contact: Dr. Tina Johnson, Director Women's and Gender Studies, MTSU Telephone: Dr. Tina Johnson or Ms. Marie Harrell at 615-898-5910
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1. "Music, Gender, and Globalization" conference Organizers: Samuel Dwinell and Anaar Desai-Stephens Keynotes/Speakers: --Olivia Bloechl (Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles)
--Tejaswini Niranjana (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore)
--Tavia Nyong’o (Department of Performance Studies, New York University) Theme: What is the relationship between music, gender, and globalization? The recent “transnational turn” in both feminist and queer studies makes the case for thinking about gender and sexuality globally: of describing processes of globalization in ways that account for its fluxes, not only of capital, goods, and people, but also of categories of gender and sexuality.
Suggested Topics: Please see conference website for detailed, suggested areas of inquiry. CFP Address: Submit online via website Contact: Samuel Dwinell Telephone:
2. Women's & Gender Studies, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Organizers: Sophie Lavin, Ellen Dolgin Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: Eco-feminism, Feminist Literary Theory,Gender in Literature or Film, Girl Studies/Boy Studies, Globalized Gender, Men’s Studies, Motherhood, Multi-ethnic Literatures, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Transnational Women’s Writing, Women’s Studies & Authors Suggested Topics: There will also be a themed series of sessions on Transnational Women's Writing (please identify on proposal) CFP Address: CFP Email Address: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2011/proposal_form.html Contact: Sophie Lavin Telephone:
3. Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Organizers: Hosted by Rutger's University Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: Women's & Gender Studies Suggested Topics: CFP Address: Contact: Sophie Lavin Telephone:
4. 42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Organizers: Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: Suggested Topics: CFP Address: Contact: Telephone:
5. 42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Panel: The Loudest Voice: Jewish American Women's Literature Organizers: Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: Is there a common, traceable voice in the writing of Jewish American women writers? This panel seeks papers that explore Jewish American women’s writing from the early 20th century to now and may include poets, fiction and non-fiction authors, and comic writers/artists. Papers can address individual authors, comparisons of works by several women, or comparisons across generations. What does this writing tell us about how Jewish identity has been conceived over the past century? Send 250-500 word abstracts to Tahneer Oksman, toksman@hotmail.com.
Suggested Topics: CFP Address: CFP Email Address: toksman@hotmail.com Contact: Telephone:
6. Women Writers and Psychoanalysis Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference Organizers: Northeast Modern Language Association, Rutgers University Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: The conference offers 350 sessions, which represent all areas of the modern languages and literatures. Suggested Topics: I'm seeking submissions for a panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. The focus will be on American women writers’ responses to Freud.
CFP Address: CFP Email Address: KristinaMarieDarling@yahoo.com Contact: Kristina Marie Darling Telephone:
7. 2011 National Conference for Media Reform Organizers: Free Press organizes the conference. We are a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media and involve the public in media policymaking. Through research, education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media owner Keynotes/Speakers: We’re working on an exciting lineup of speakers and expect to announce the lineup this coming winter. Speakers will include activists, policymakers, media makers, journalists, celebrities and representatives from allied organizations. Theme: We are looking for session proposals on topics related to media reform, media activism and media policy. Suggested Topics: Sessions should fit into one of our themed tracks for the conference: Policy and Politics, Social Justice and Movement Building, Journalism and Public Media, Media Makers, Culture and the Arts, Technology and Innovation, Workshops and Trainings. Descriptions of the tracks can be found on our conference website. CFP Address: To submit a suggestion, please visit our online submission forms at http://www.freepress.net/call-for-suggestions Contact: Mary Alice Crim Telephone: 413-585-1533 x 202
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1. Iris Murdoch International Conference Organizers: Dr Anne Rowe and Dr Sara Upstone Keynotes/Speakers: Professor Robert Eaglestone, Peter J Conradi, David Morgan Theme: 5th international Iris Murdoch conference. This year's theme is 'Murdoch on the Margins'. Suggested Topics: We are interested in how Murdoch’s literature and/or philosophy engages with what it means to live on the margins in terms of issues such as – but not limited to – sexuality, gender, race, class, national identity and religion. We would also encourage papers that consider Murdoch’s place in the English canon: how she has been conceived as a ‘marginal’ writer; how interest in her work has been renewed by changes in critical thinking, philosophy, and literary studies; how considering her work alongside that of other authors allows us to reappraise her contemporary significance and, finally, how she herself took the status as an outsider or critic in order to further her philosophical interests and/or define her literary position.
CFP Address: Dr Sara Upstone, Kingston University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, England, KT1 2 EE CFP Email Address: s.upstone@kingston.ac.uk Contact: Anne Rowe Telephone: Anne Rowe Tel: +44 (0)208 417 9000
2. The Question of Rights Organizers: Chris Waldrep, Barbara Loomis, James Martel, Eva Sheppard Wolf, Paul Longmore, John Logan, Jillian Sandell, Julietta Hua Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: San Francisco State University will host a conference September 16-17, 2010 exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, and society.Rights, both individual and collective, have long been a theme in American society, often seen in conflict with state power. Our goal is to bring together a wide variety of people from a range of academic, activist, legal, and community spaces to examine the place of rights within the context of American society (as situated within a boarder global political community). To that end, we welcome participation from historians, both senior and junior scholars, graduate students, community advocates, archivists, and lawyers. We invite proposals for individual papers, panels, or roundtables. Suggested Topics: We welcome papers on assertions of rights by insurgent groups, resistance to rights claims, and governmental efforts to suppress or promote rights, in areas including but not limited to: civil liberties; disability rights; labor and economic rights; feminism and antiracism; immigration; environmental justice; access to
CFP Address: Christopher Waldrep
CFP Email Address: cwaldrep@sfsu.edu Contact: Christopher Waldrep Telephone:
3. GEMELA 2010: Making Connections Organizers: Nieves Romero-Diaz, Bonnie Gasior, Sarah Owens Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: The conference will focus on women’s cultural production in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America. Papers or sessions that focus on making connections between geographical spaces, or between disciplines will be highly appreciated. We also welcome suggestions for discussion papers and/or workshops on theory, pedagogy, and other related topics. Papers may
Suggested Topics: CFP Address: http://gemela.org/conference.html Contact: Sarah Owens Telephone:
4. Women as Intercultural Leaders: Imagination, Innovation, Integrity Organizers: Saint Mary's College Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: This interactive conference will celebrate ten years of accomplishments and welcome fruitful new collaboration by bringing together theorists, scholars, professionals, educators, community activists, practitioners, and students who are interested in women's intercultural leadership. For three days participants will imagine and innovate while networking, sharing best practices, and joining a national conversation about cutting-edge work. Suggested Topics: The conference will focus on five particular themes and their intersections:
CFP Address: CFP Email Address: cwil@saintmarys.edu Contact: Mana Derakhshani Telephone: Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership (574) 284-4051
5. The Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking. Organizers: University of Nebraska-Lincoln (College of Business Administration, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Journalism, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, College of Law, College of Education and Human Sciences, and the office of the Vice-Chancell Keynotes/Speakers: E. Benjamin Skinner. Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the author of "A Crime So Monstrous: Face‐to‐Face with Modern Day Slavery (New York: Free Press, 2008). Theme: This conference provides a forum for presentation and discussion of research, professional work (NGOs, governmental and international agencies), and funding opportunities on human trafficking in the U.S. and other regions of the World. Suggested Topics: •For scholars, any research and/or methodologies, study & teaching the problems surrounding human trafficking;
CFP Address: Abstract submission website: https://secure.unl.edu/ht/Abstract.aspx CFP Email Address: Please use the abstract submission site above. Contact: Dr. Dwayne Ball and Anchalee (Joy) Panigabutra-Roberts Telephone: Dr. Dwayne Ball. Tel. (402) 472-2381; Anchalee (Joy) Panigabutra-Roberts. Tel. (402) 472-3948
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1. Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering Organizers: Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) Keynotes/Speakers: Dr. Martha Albertson Fineman
Ann Crittenden
Dr. Eva Feder Kittay
Dr. Nancy Folbre
Dr. Marilyn Waring
Theme: This is the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)'s 37th conference on the topic of Mothers and the Economy and the Economics of Mothering. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, and workers, 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. Please email your 250 word abstract and 50 word bio to arm@yorku.ca by July 1, 2010. Suggested Topics: the economics of maintaining sustainable family systems; mothering, appropriate technology and economics; mothering and microcredit; mothering and economic activism; social and economic supports for mothering; mothering within the neoliberal context; motherwork and valuation of motherwork, mothering and the economics of unpaid labour; mothers-as-providers, mother-led cooperatives; the effects of privatization/commodification on women; mothering and the economics of raising children with disabilities; the “selling” of mothering and the economics of consumerism; consumption and the marketing of mothering; the economics of reproductive technologies and surrogacy; the financial implications for mothers of family law reforms and welfare state developments; quantifications of mothering/caregiving/parenting as a part of the base structure of the economic productivity of society; the actual value of domestic/unpaid labour; motherhood and the gender pay gap, mothering and the feminization of poverty; the impacts of economic globalization on mothering and kinship networks; the economics of caregiving/parenting in nontraditional households and more. CFP Address: Association for Research on Mothering
CFP Email Address: arm@yorku.ca Contact: Renée Knapp Telephone: Renée Knapp, The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) 416-736-2100 ext 60366. Email correspondence preferred.
2. WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE: OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE STATUS QUO Organizers: Susan Stein/Angela Shaw-Thornburg Keynotes/Speakers: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, President, NWSA
Rose Goldemberg, author Theme: We are soliciting one-page abstracts that examine the degree to which contemporary popular culture serves as a site of containment or resistance for the agendas of women interested in promoting and advancing social justice and equality; concomitantly, this entails the ongoing critique and deconstruction of persistent ideologies, agendas, cultural vehicles, etc., which continue both implicitly and explicitly to base women's value (or lack of value) on their appearance or sex appeal.
Suggested Topics: SUGGESTED TOPICS (Please feel free to propose papers or panels on other topics of interest):
CFP Address: sstein@scsu.edu CFP Email Address: sstein@scsu.edu Contact: Dr. Susan Stein Telephone:
3. Women's Studies at MAPACA Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference Alexandria,VA 10/28/10-10/31/10 Organizers: Keynotes/Speakers: Theme: Women’s Studies is celebrating its 41st year of existence as a discipline in the United States. As such, there is a wealth of material that acknowledges the interdisciplinary nature of the discipline. The Women\'s Studies section of MAPACA seeks papers, panels and roundtables that investigate and discuss any of the many overlaps between gender and popular culture. Furthermore, MAPACA supports all approaches; one goal of this conference is to create interdisciplinary exchange, and the Women\'s Studies area therefore seeks papers by scholars from all fields of study. Students, both graduate and undergraduate, are encouraged to apply. Please submit 250 word abstracts. Suggested Topics: women and the media
, women and law (such as recent developments in intersectionality theory as it intersects with popular culture), women and politics (such as past or current women in the space of the White House can be examined; i.e., Michelle Obama’s legacy as professional, mother, and first lady, women and popularized normative reproductive values (for instance,recent HPV vaccination campaigns), women and body or beauty norms, women and advertisements, women and sensationalized domestic violence (i.e., the case of singers,Rihanna and Chris Brown), portrayals of motherhood
, working women
, women and religion
, women writers, written women
CFP Address: Batten Arts & Letters Bdlg. Rm. 3044, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23505. CFP Email Address: atait@odu.edu Contact: Althea Tait Telephone:
4. Trafficking Humans: An Interdisciplinary Approach Addressing Sex & Labor Exploitation Organizers: Leah Knowles and Ebony McClease - Graduate Assistants in Women's Studies - Southern Connecticut State University (Under Dr. Yi-Chun Tricia Lin) Keynotes/Speakers: Sister Rose Bernadette Gallagher of the Maryknoll Sisters in NY.
Sister Rose serves with others as a Maryknoll Sister, with NGO status at the United Nations. Her focus is the empowerment of women in all phases of life; protection for the girl-child against all forms of violence; and importantly, today's modern form of slavery- Human Trafficking. Theme: Interdisciplinary approach to combat the worldwide trafficking of humans for labor and sex Suggested Topics: History of Trafficking Philosophy of Human Trafficking
CFP Address: CFP Email Address: leah-knowles@hotmail.com Contact: Leah Knowles or Ebony McClease Telephone: Leah Knowles or Ebony McClease (203) 392-6133
5. SAMLA Panel: Problematizing Oratory Rhetoric in the Streets and in the Pulpit Organizers: SAMLA Panel Co-Chairs: Lynee Lewis Gaillet, Georgia State University and Amanda Mills, Georgia State University Keynotes/Speakers: unknown to poster (panel co-chair) Theme: This session seeks submissions that examine the relationships and intersections of rhetoric, religion, and oppression. Topics include, but are not limited to historical analysis of religious rhetoric development; methodology; religion, rhetoric and space; intersections of race, class and gender; language and practice; and controversies within the field. We are particularly interested in proposals that skirt or problematize traditional interpretations of religious oratory rhetoric. Suggested Topics: Gender, Religion, and Language
CFP Address: Amanda Mills, Georgia State University, Department of English, P.O. Box 3968, Atlanta, GA 30303-3968.
CFP Email Address: amills8@student.gsu.edu Contact: Amanda Mills Telephone: (404) 413-5816
6. “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”: Four Musical Sistas of “Otherness” Within Colorism Organizers: Loretta Green-Williams Keynotes/Speakers: Loretta Green-Williams Theme: The purpose of this presentation is to consider intersects of intracommunity and institutional racisms through generations of black music. Using the theoretical constructs of black feminism and postcolonial anthropology, the visualization of these four dark-skinned women will consider the exploitation of sex, race, and labor. Suggested Topics: black feminism, black music, jazz, blues, contemporary, Rap, Hip-Hop, Nina Simone, Foxy Brown, Sarah Vaughn, Bessie Smith, postcolonial anthropology CFP Address: 6 Dew Drop Circle, Pittsburg, CA 94565 CFP Email Address: loretta.green@hotmail.com Contact: Loretta Green-Williams Telephone: Loretta Green-Williams, 925-458-7647
7. Queer Leadership and Scholastic Development Conference Organizers: University of Texas at El Paso's Rainbow Miner Initiative Keynotes/Speakers: TBA Theme: The Queer Leadership and Scholastic Development Conference is a venue for dialogue about LGBTQI issues via academic scholarship and theoretically grounded activism. This forum will allow students to share methods and ideas for researching Queer issues across various disciplines. The aim is to address issues of gender and sexuality both inside and outside of academia. Suggested Topics: We invite submissions for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions that examine LGBTQI issues. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to:
CFP Address:
CFP Email Address: rmi@utep.edu Contact: Jesus Smith
Sarah Ryan
Edith Fernandez Telephone: Jesus Smith 915-747-5080
8. Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies Organizers: Sarah Brophy, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Janice Hladki, Associate Professor, School of the Arts, McMaster University Keynotes/Speakers: *Rebecca Belmore,* internationally recognized Anishinabekwe artist, Vancouver; *Lisa Cartwright,* Professor of Communication and Science Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Gender Studies, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego; *Robert McRuer,* Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of English, George Washington University, Washington, DC; *Ato Quayson,* Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto Theme: This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore how visual cultural practices image and imagine unruly bodies and, in so doing, respond to Patricia Zimmermann's call for “radical media democracies that animate contentious public spheres” (2000, p. xx). Our aim is to explore how health, disability, and the body are theorized, materialized, and politicized in forms of visual culture including photography, video art, graphic memoir, film, body art and performance, and digital media. Accordingly, we invite proposals for individual papers and roundtables that consider how contemporary visual culture makes bodies political in ways that matter for the future of democracy. Proposals may draw on fields such as: visual culture, critical theory, disability studies, health studies, science studies, autobiography studies, indigenous studies, feminisms, queer studies, and globalization/ transnationalism. Suggested Topics: POSSIBLE THEMATICS INCLUDE: technologies, cultural production, disability, and affect.
CFP Address: If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals to arrive by January 15, 2010.
CFP Email Address: viscult@mcmaster.ca Contact: Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki Telephone: Sarah Brophy 905-525-9140 ext. 22243
9. Bodies of Art Organizers: CALL FOR PAPERS
The Center for Body, Mind and Culture and the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Florida Atlantic University
Bodies of Art
Featured Speakers:
Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art
Institute o Keynotes/Speakers: Linda Nochlin,Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Orlan, Artist
Orlan, Artist Theme: Conference themes, with a focus on art and visual culture, may include: the embodied artist, concerning issues of maker and material, inscriptions of the self, or the somatic experience of the creative process; the body in pieces (pace Nochlin), considering the fragment, the crop, dismemberment, or erasure; the en-gendered object, how gender and sexuality are expressed, represented or suppressed; the corpus, or other bodily metaphors for the œuvre, canon or process of creation; and finally the body as art, in all its manifestations. Suggested Topics: Conference themes, with a focus on art and visual culture, may include: the embodied artist, concerning issues of maker and material, inscriptions of the self, or the somatic experience of the creative process; the body in pieces (pace Nochlin), considering the fragment, the crop, dismemberment, or erasure; the en-gendered object, how gender and sexuality are expressed, represented or suppressed; the corpus, or other bodily metaphors for the œuvre, canon or process of creation; and finally the body as art, in all its manifestations. CFP Address: Please send 250 world abstract and a C. V. CFP Email Address: bodymindculture@fau.edu Contact: Richard Shusterman, bodymindculture@fau.edu
Karen Leader
Jane Caputi Telephone: kleader@fau.edu
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