Dolores' List of CFPs

Please respond directly to John C. Hawley, Chair of the English
Department, Santa Clara University 408 554 4956 jhawley@scu.edu

I am editing a three-volume 600,000 word encyclopedia for Greenwood
Press, entitled LGBTQ America Today. The book is well-advanced, and I
have received 525 entries. With such a large endeavor, however, it is
not surprising that various writers who have committed to the project
find that personal matters sometimes intercede and make it impossible
for them to complete their writing for the book in time for our
contractual obligations to the press. The following topics, therefore,
have become available. You will see that many of them are extremely
important. If you are able to commit to completing any of these by the
end of October (a firm deadline: do not accept an assignment unless you
are committed to its completion by that date, or sometime sooner),
please let me know immediately and I will let you know whether or not it
still remains available. When you express interest in a particular
topic, I'll send more details of the project. Thanks. -John C. Hawley,
Chair of the English Department, Santa Clara University 408 554 4956
jhawley@scu.edu

Adrienne Rich 1000 words
African American Interface with LGBTQ Movement and Issues 3,000 words
Alison Bechdel 250
Art and Photography, Intro essay 1500
Asian American Feminism 1200
Barbara Seyda 300
Bertha Harris 350
Butch-Femme 1000
Camille Paglia 300
Canonical Issues (the incorporation of gay topics into the elementary
and secondary school classroom, etc) 1500
Christopher Isherwood 750
CLAGS 1500
Coming of Age Fiction 1500
Conrad Susa 250
David Zamora Casas 300
Doris Grumbach 300
Down Low, The 500
Ethan Mordden 300
Fat Acceptance 500 words
Feliz Gonzalez-Torres 300
Gay Ghettoes 750
George Segal 300
GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders) 750
Health and Health Care Law and Policy 3000
Isabel Miller 300
Jennifer Levin 300
Joan Snyder 300
Joe Goode 500
Katherine V. Forrest 500
Larry Kramer 500
Leo F. Cabranes-Grant 300
Lesbian 1500
Linda Besemer 300
Lisa Alther 300
Margaret Randall 300
Mark Doty 500
May Sarton 500
Michiyo Fukaya 300
Midwest (GLBT life in) 400
Mixed-Orientation Marriages (gay/straight) 1250
Monogamy, Non-Monogramy, and Promiscuity 2500
Muriel Rukeyser 500
NAMES Project 2000
Online Hook-ups, Phone Sex, Queers in Cyberspace, Sex on Camming 2500
Paul Monette 1250
Politicians (including Barney Frank, James Hormel, et al) 1,000
Privacy and Privacy Rights 2900
Provincetown 500
Reinaldo Arenas 750
Ricardo Bracho 250
Robert Rauschenberg 400
Ross Bleckner 300
Ruth Geller 300
San Francisco Bay Area poets (Blaser, Robin; Broughton, James;
Duncan, Robert; Ginsberg, Allen; Gunn, Thom; Spicer, Jack; Wieners,
John) 1,700
Susan Stinson 300
Sylvester 500
Tony Kushner 750
Trailblazing Artists and Photographers (Abbott, Berenice,Bernhard,
Ruth; Brooks, Romaine; Cadmus, Paul; Eakins, Thomas; French, Jared;
Hartley, Marsden; Touko Laaksonen, Leyendecker, J. C.; Lynes, George
Platt; Mars, Ethel; Bob Mizer; Parsons, Betty; Squire, Maude; White,
Minor) 2,500
Transgender Health Issues 2000
Truman Capote 1000
Wayne Koestenbaum 300
Women's and Gender Studies in Universities 2500
Women's Music and Festivals 1500

I invite abstracts for the Spring 2008 joint ACA/PCA conference to
be held in San Francisco March 19th to the 22nd. Additional information about the
the associations are available at www.popularculture.org
And more specific conference information will be available soon at
http://www.pcaaca.org

Please send abstracts to me by 11-1-07 via e-mail.

PCA and ACA are interdisciplinary organizations that give us a great opportunity to work against the usual academic borders and have fun in the process.

Linda S. Coleman
Professor of English and Women’s Studies
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, Illinois 61920
lscoleman@eiu.edu
217-581-5015

National Women's Studies Association (10/19/07; 6/19-22/08)
Guaranteed Panel (Aging and Ageism Caucus)

Life writing is full of visible and invisible connections to people's ideas
about aging and old age. When younger people do creative pieces about their
own lives' futures, they often kill themselves off before they have to
imagine what being old is like. Many of the life writing projects created
for multigenerational collaboraton are life review studies, as if the past
was the main part of an old person's life worth considering and the future
was not going to be as interesting. How can feminist aging studies
positively affect these experiences? Panel presentations might consider, but
are not limited to, questions such as these:
-What is feminist life writing, inside and outside of academia?
- How might assignments channel the ideas of traditional-aged student or
returning students to reconsider ageist stereotypes?
- How might service learning projects incorporate such reconceptions?
- What is the value of doing revisiting our ideas of aging and old age via
course assignments and our own work, and what is the value of asking people
to bring feminist Aging and Age Studies concepts to focus on life review?

Queries and 1-page abstracts arriving by October 19, 2007 to
Leni Marshall
leni@agingstudies.edu

Email submissions preferred, but hard copies may be addressed to
Leni Marshall
Department of English
Century College
3300 Century Avenue
White Bear Lake, MN 55110

Electronic Commerce Research: Special Issue Call Reminder

Deadline: 1st December 2007

For more information please visit:
http://www.ebusiness-newcastle.com/news/article.php?id=40

I HAVE AN AVATAR THEREFORE I EXIST: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN
METAVERSES

Millions of users from around the globe participate in massive multiplayer
online role playing games (MMORPG), such as Second Life and World of
Warcraft, 3D worlds that are often considered the next generation Web. With
their user base growing at an exponential rate we are already experiencing
the development of a phenomenon that may be as significant as the Web
itself. The rapid development of MMORPGs and metaverses is likely to bring
about significant business as well as social, legal, policy, methodological
and technological opportunities and challenges.

This special issue aims to explore these and contribute to this rapidly
expanding field by focusing on issues relevant to electronic business and
management. Academics and practitioners are invited to submit conceptually
and empirically based original papers addressing areas such as those listed
below:

Business opportunities and challenges
Marketing implications
Identity management issues
Virtual economies and economic policies
Virtual entrepreneurship and metaverse ebusiness models
Developing MMORPGs and related strategies and ebusiness models
Real money trading Consumer and business ethics in metaverses
Case studies (e.g. Second Life, World of Warcraft etc)
Human-computer interaction issues in metaverses
Psychological aspects of participating in metaverses
Legal issues (e.g. copyright and ownership of virtual property)

The above areas are just indicative and this special issue would welcome
papers discussing other relevant topics. For the manuscripts guidelines
please visit the journal's web site. All papers, accompanied by a short
biographical note for each author (approximately 200-250 words per author),
should be submitted as an email attachment to the Guest Editors (Email:
savvas.papagiannidis@ncl.ac.uk). All papers will be double blind refereed.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Libraries & the Cultural Record – Special issue on Women in Information Science

GUEST EDITORS

Diane Barlow and Trudi Bellardo Hahn
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
dbarlow@umd.edu, thahn@umd.edu

ISSUE FOCUS

This special issue will spotlight the lives and contributions of remarkable women pioneers in information science. Papers may be about women whose field of specialty and accomplishments fall in a wide variety of areas—documentation, classification, standards, information retrieval, library technologies, LIS education, social epistemology, information use, information policy, STI, or other. A paper may address a subject’s leadership, innovation, advocacy, research, or other significant contributions, and should place the subject historically in her social, cultural, and professional context. Further, bios should show the relationship of her particular specialty to the larger discipline.

Possible subjects for bios are Jean Antes, Henrietta Avram, Marcia Bates, Helen Brownson, Elfreda Chatman, Pauline Atherton Cochrane, Diana Crane, Susan Crawford, Edith Ditmas, Margaret Egan, Madeline (Berry) Henderson, Mary Herner, Karen Sparck-Jones, Barbara Kyle, Lotsee Patterson, Phyllis Richmond, Jane Robbins, Claire Schultz, Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, Winifred Sewell, and Martha Williams. These individuals are named as examples. We welcome papers on other women pioneers in information science as well.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please submit the name of the individual you wish to write on and a brief outline of your paper by October 7, 2007. Authors will be selected by October 19. Submit full papers (4,000-8,000 words) by March 15, 2008. Authors will receive reviews by May 1. Final papers will be due by June 15, 2008.

ANTICIPATED PUBLICATION: spring 2009

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Libraries & the Cultural Record is an interdisciplinary journal that explores the significance of collections of recorded knowledge--their creation, organization, preservation, and utilization--in the context of cultural and social history, unlimited as to time and place. It is the only journal that covers the broad history of the related disciplines and professions of the emerging Information Domain. For more information, see: www.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr.

Research Support Grant Program, 2007-8

The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England in Portland, Maine, solicits applications for its Research Support Grant Program. These grants are intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires or would benefit from access to the holdings of the Maine Women Writers Collection.

MWWC Research Support Grants will range between $250 and $1000, and may be used for transportation, housing, and research-related expenses.

For application instructions and more information about the program and the Collection holdings, please see the MWWC website at www.une.edu/mwwc and click on "research."

Questions may be directed to Cally Gurley, MWWC Curator, at (207) 221-4324; cgurley@une.edu.

Deadline for receipt of applications: December 1, 2007.

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

Call for Papers
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Dayton will sponsor
the 33rd Richard R. Baker Colloquium in Philosophy
March 6-8, 2008 on Building Coalitions Across Difference.

Invited Guest Speakers are Sally Haslanger [Professor of Philosophy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Author of: Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (with
Charlotte Witt), Theorizing Feminisms (with Elizabeth Hackett,) and
Persistence (with Roxanne Marie Kurtz)] and Tommie Shelby [John L. Loeb
Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and African American Studies,
Harvard University. Author of: We Who Are Dark, and Hip Hop and
Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (with Derrick Darby)]

The focus of the colloquium is on the intersection of race and gender in
contemporary philosophical reflection. Papers that approach the topic
from a wide range of philosophical perspectives are welcome.

Papers might address questions such as: Is solidarity based on group
membership still a valuable practice or concept? What aspects of race
theory and feminist theory are supportive of, or prevent, coalition
building? How can we learn from the past, making use of what is
valuable, without being tainted by what is harmful? How should we think
about ideology and how ideologies function in the construction of race
and gender? What would count as an ethics of the oppressed? How should
oppressed groups respond to each other? How should they respond to
oppressors?

Papers should be no more than 3,000 words, double-spaced, with a maximum
reading time of 25 minutes. Include an abstract of no more than 250
words. Submission deadline is October 30, 2007.

Papers should be submitted to: Patricia A. Johnson, Professor of
Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
45469-1546. Electronic submissions in MS-Word are welcome. Send these
to patricia.johnson@notes.udayton.edu

Perspectives on Gender and Technology: An interdisciplinary conference
sponsored by The University of Texas Center for Women's and Gender Studies

April 11, 2008

8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The University of Texas at Austin

Purpose: To look at the interaction of gender and technology in the
contemporary world from three perspectives: ways of knowing, ways of doing,
and ways of changing.

* Ways of knowing - These papers will consider how technology
mediates/facilitates/responds to cultural and social realities, especially
those related to gender.

* Ways of doing - These papers will explore gendered constructs of "doing"
technology. (E.g., norms related to technological expertise, the impact of
gender on growth/advancement/entrance into technologically-oriented careers,
etc.)

* Ways of changing - These papers will consider the intersection of women
and technology in the developing world, especially the use of technology as
a tool for positive social change.

Who is invited: Because some of the most fruitful studies of gender and
technology are interdisciplinary, all methodologies and approaches are
welcome, from ethnographic studies to feminist theorizing to quantitative
empirical studies (and all points in between). We hope to attract a broad
representation of scholars and practitioners.

How to submit a proposal: PROPOSALS (500 WORDS) ARE DUE DEC 1, 2007.

Email proposals to Hillary Hart: hart@mail.utexas.edu. Please use MSWord
2003 (or earlier) or PDF for file formats, or embed the proposal in the
e-mail message.

Accepted proposals will be notified by DEC. 15, 2007; full manuscripts will
be due MARCH 15. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the
conference proceedings. NOTE: Editors of the following journals have
expressed specific interest in considering appropriate papers from this
conference for publication: Journal of Strategic Information Systems,
Science Communication, Journal of Technology in Human Services.

Featured Keynote Speakers:

Lucy Suchman, Professor & Co-director, Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster
University. Suchman joined the faculty at Lancaster after twenty years as a
researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. She researches the
relationship of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design.
Her 1987 book, Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine
Communication, is a watershed work in the field of human-computer
interaction. Among many other awards, in 2005, she won the Outstanding
Contribution to Research Award from the Communication and Information
Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association.

Rachael Muir, Founder and Executive Director of Girlstart. Girlstart is a
non-profit organization founded in Austin, Texas in 1997 to empower girls in
math, science, engineering and technology. Girlstart's programs have been
featured on the Today show, the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, and in Glamour,
Texas Monthly, Fast Company, and CosmoGIRL magazines.

September 27, 2007

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of the Conference Committee, I am pleased to announce a call for papers for a multidisciplinary conference, The Art of Gender in Everyday Life V, to take place at Idaho State University (ISU), March 6 & 7, 2008. In addition to sessions, the conference will include: a keynote, "No More Tears: On the Persistence of Melodrama in Representing Women's Lives," by Dr. Tania Modleski, Florence R. Scott Professor of English at the University of Southern California, on the evening of Thursday, March 6; a Friday, March 7, lunchtime talk, “Mind-Body Equality” by ISU faculty member, athlete and businesswoman, Dr. Lori Head; and a screening of LUNAFEST on Friday evening.

The Conference Committee invites abstracts from university faculty and staff as well as from graduate and advanced undergraduate students. ALL submissions related to the art of living gendered lives will be considered. This year, given our speakers, we are especially interested in submissions that address gender and the arts (including the presentation of gendered performances, films, etc., as well as academic papers) gender and popular culture, and gender and the body. Abstracts must be postmarked by November 5, 2007.

This conference is an occasion to showcase current work being done in the area of gender studies. Participants from past years have consistently commented on the friendly atmosphere at The Art of Gender in Everyday Life conferences, and it is our principal mission to continue our tradition of creating a collegial, supportive and nurturing environment for the discussion of gender issues across the disciplines.

The Art of Gender in Everyday Life V is a special opportunity to network with colleagues in the relaxed setting of Pocatello, Idaho, nestled in the picturesque Bannock Range of the Rocky Mountains. We are pleased to announce that this year, for the first time in the history of the conference, participants will have the opportunity to register for a day trip to near-by Lava Hot Springs. Those taking part in the trip will experience a day of relaxation in the naturally-occurring mineral hot springs, the temperatures of which range from 102-112 degrees. More information about Lava Hot Springs is available at
.

Getting to Pocatello is easy! Delta flies to the Pocatello Regional Airport, and ground shuttles are available from the Salt Lake City International Airport to Pocatello through Salt Lake Express .

Please find attached a formal call for papers, an announcement of our student paper competition, and a registration form. Should you prefer not to open an attachment, these documents can also be found on our website at <http://www.isu.edu/andersoncenter>. On behalf of the entire Conference Committee, I invite you to join us for this important event.

Kind regards,

Rebecca Morrow, Ph.D.
Director
Anderson Gender Resource Center

To learn more, visit our website:
www.isu.edu/andersoncenter

Call for papers for a special issue of MP: A Feminist Online Journal

http://www.academinist.org/mp/

Back Talk: The Language of Defiance, Denial, Distortion, and Development
Scheduled Publication Date: January 15, 2007

Imus's use of the power of the language to reduce successful young women to objects of racial epithet got him fired. In a South Philadelphia neighborhood, a cheesesteak restaurant owner becomes the subject of a national debate about whether the language of immigrants is valid and whether it should retain power in the United States, even the simple power to order a sandwich. Meanwhile, America as a whole asks the question on the world stage of whether the power of words is permitted to "enemy combatants", and even to Congress as they attempt to end the war in Iraq. President Bush uses the power of words in the form of signing statements, accompanying each veto of congressional legislation that he sends out. Internationally, the people of war-torn lands such as Darfur struggle to find a voice to ask for aid and the women of many countries cry out for protection against institutionalized rape. Speaking out has been an important concept in feminism from the beginning. Who owns language? Who can use its power? And how is that power used in a modern, technological, global world? How can it be harnessed for good? In this issue of MP Journal, we seek papers that explore language and its power and how that relates to national and international issues.

Submissions

We accept submissions from all types of writers. In order to be considered, all submissions should:

be scholarly/academic in nature;
use MLA format;
be sent as an attachment (*.doc, *.txt, *.rtf -- no *.pdf, please!);
include a CV or writing resume and a 50 word bio;
abide by the copyright and image use information listed on our website.
Send submission to: lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com by November 4, 2007.

Empire: Migrations, Diasporas, Networks

Continuing a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation about empire, California State University Stanislaus will host a third conference on Empire in March 2008, this time exploring Migrations, Diasporas, and Networks.

Date:
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 13-15 March 2008.

Plenary Speakers:

Mikhail Alexseev-- Mikhail A. Alexseev is an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. A former Kremlin correspondent of the News from Ukraine weekly, Alexseev was the first Soviet citizen to receive a Reuters’ Fellowship at the University of Oxford and the NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowship in 1990. He is the author of Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle (1997) and the editor of Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (1999). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, newspapers, and magazines, including Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Political Communication, The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and The Seattle Times.

Katynka Martinez-- Recent USC Annenberg Fellow, now Assistant Professor of Raza Studies at San Francisco State University. She has published in numerous anthologies including "The Deterritorialized Telenovela in a Neo-network Era: Finding an online home for MyNetwork Soaps" in Millennial TV: Media Convergence, Viral Networking, and a Wired Audience; "Digital Media and New Technology" and "Quinceañera" in Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia; "Monolingualism, Biculturalism, and Cable TV: HBO Latino and the Promise of the Multiplex" in Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting. Her work has also appeared in Latino Studies, Communication Review, and in The Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture in the United States.

Scope:

We seek papers, panels, workshops, and artistic works that examine the connections/disconnections between enactments and perceptions of empire with migrations, diasporas and/or networks. We hope that participants will address the issues of empire from antiquity to postmodernity, on every continent and from many cultures. We also hope to look at a variety of empires such as national, media, corporate, and technological. To situate these topics in as broad a context as possible, we seek presentations by scholars working in such disciplines as Anthropology, Architecture & Art History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Computing, Economics, Education, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Film Studies, Geography, History, Literature, New Media, Philosophy, Politics & Public Policy, and the Natural and Physical Sciences.

Please use the link to the upper left to submit a single paper. We also welcome panel proposals which should a title, and include abstracts for all papers; these maybe emailed directly to Kim De Vries. If you wish to solicit proposals for a panel through our website, please contact Kim at the email address given on the left; we are happy to add sub-calls to our pages. We also welcome submission of creative work; for information on submitting sample images, video, etc, again please contact Kim De Vries.

Themes
Suggested topics might include, but are by no means limited to, the following:
Diasporas and Migrations: geographic, cultural, ideological, rhetorical, technological or other.
Sustainability & the Political Ecology of diasporic communities, migrations, and networks.
Reverse Colonization of place, of media, of technologies.
Imperial Borders & Language: Dominance, Discrimination, & Assimilation.
Images of Empire in Popular Culture.
Teaching/Subverting Imperial Ideology: Empire, Education, & Resistant Pedagogy.
Borders and "Borders" -- Theorizing Cultural Connection, Separation, and Entanglement.
>From Hollywood and Microsoft to DIY Videos and the Open Source Movement: Media Empires, Rebellions, and Collaborations.
Home: Migration, Place, & Identity.
Constructing/Constricting Identities.
Imperialism & Visual and Musical Culture.
Theories of Empire: the Political, Historical, Erotic, & Aesthetic.
The Imperial In-Between in Drama, Fiction, Film, & Poetry.
Networks of Resistance: Feminist, Ecological, Ethnic, Technological, etc.
Dialectism & Resistance: Black English, Chicanismo, & Linguistic Minorities.
Technological Migrations: Empire, Film, TV, and the Web.
Gender & Migration, Diaspora, and/or Networks.
Cosmopolitanism: World Culture vs. Local Identity.
Imperialism, Philanthropy, & Aid.

For more information and proposal submissions, visit http://web.csustan.edu/CHSS/Empire/

Betsy Eudey, PhD
Director/Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies
California State University Stanislaus
801 W Monte Vista Ave
Turlock, CA 95382
BEudey@csustan.edu
209.664.6673

The Graduate Student Caucus is seeking submissions from
faculty and graduate students for a sponsored panel, workshop, or roundtable geared
toward graduate students at the 2008 NWSA Annual Meeting, dealing with issues
of professional development, academic environments, and/or faculty-student relations. Possible topics could include (but are not
limited to)

What do I do with a Women’s Studies or Gender Studies graduate degree?How
NWSA works (geared specifically toward students)Applying,
Surviving, and Thriving in Graduate
SchoolNavigating
the Academy for Students of ColorNavigating
the Academic Job MarketInterviewing
in the Academic Job MarketCreating
a Curriculum VitaFinding
a Faculty MentorChoosing
Graduate SchoolsIntergenerational
conflict among academic feministsResearch
funding opportunitiesInternships,
study abroad, and international exchanges in Women’s Studies

Submissions and inquiries should be sent via email to
Adriane Brown (brown.2997@osu.edu) by October
29. Complete panels, workshops, and
roundtables are preferred.

Call for Papers

"Libraries from Human Rights Perspective"
International Conference
Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS)
Ramallah (Palestine)
31 March - 2 April 2008

Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS) in
cooperation with IFLA will arrange an international
conference on Libraries from Human Rights Perspective in
Ramallah 31 March - 2 April 2008. The Center invites
interested writers and researchers to submit abstracts for
their papers in either English or Arabic in the following
topics:

Libraries and Human Rights:
- Relationship between libraries and human rights
- Violations in human rights in library environment
- Libraries and rights of less advantaged groups
- Women and children rights related to library work
- Minorities and libraries from human rights perspective
- Disabled
- Cultural rights and libraries

Libraries and freedom of expression, freedom of access to
information, academic freedom and libraries/ academic
libraries:
- Freedom of expression/ role of libraries in forming people's opinions
- Freedom of access to information
- Introduction to IFLA/ FAIFE
- Academic freedom
- Right to information
- Governance and libraries
- E-publishing and right to information
- Freedom of expression in digital age
- Case studies

Libraries and diversity, libraries and tolerance/ acceptance
of the other:
- Diversity and libraries (collections, librarians and
thoughts)
- Tolerance in library environment (religious, cultural,
political and ideology-based tolerance)
- Acceptance of the other in library environment
- Model libraries for all
- Case studies from other countries
- Case studies in violations and intolerance in library
environment

Abstracts are due by 30/11/2007. The Center will notify
researchers whose papers have been accepted by 10/1/2008;
full papers are due by 1/3/2008. The center will cover
participation expenses of researchers whose papers are
accepted with a symbolic cash award, in addition to
publishing all papers in Arabic and English in the
conference proceedings book.

Contact:
Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies
P.O Box 2425 Ramallah, Palestine
Ramallah
Palestine
Tel: +970 2 2423001
Fax: +970 2 2413002
Email: dweikat@rchrs.org
Web: http://www.rchrs.ps/aboutC.html

Toni Samek, PhD
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator
School of Library & Information Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
-- Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Mailing Address: SLIS, 3-15 Rutherford South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA T6G 2J4
Phone: (780) 492-0179
Fax: (780) 492-2430
E-mail: toni.samek@ualberta.ca
Web: http://www.ualberta.ca/~asamek/toni.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Conference, March 29, 2008
Penn State University, Abington College
Abington, PA (near Philadelphia)

"Privilege & Prejudice"

Featuring keynote address by
Peggy McIntosh
Author of "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"

In the 20 years since McIntosh's essay first appeared, how far have we come? How do race, gender, class, and other aspects of identity still shape experience? We welcome papers, workshops, and panels from all disciplines on any aspect of this theme.

Deadline: November 12, 2007
Send abstracts to kweekes@psu.edu with subject "MAWSA proposal."

Or send hardcopy submissions to:
Dr. Karen Weekes
Associate Prof, English & Women's Studies
Penn State University, Abington College
1600 Woodland Rd.
Abington, PA 19001

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MAWSA 2008 Student Essay Contest

The Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association is pleased to announce the seventh annual Student Prize for Scholarly Excellence in Women's Studies.

Two awards, underwritten by the Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association and the Susquehanna University Honors Program, are given annually to one undergraduate and one graduate student who submit the best previously unpublished essays on any aspect of women's studies scholarship. Writers of the winning essays will each receive a $50 cash award and be recognized at the 2008 MAWSA conference at Penn State University, Abington College.

Submissions must be received by November 12, 2007.

Applicants should indicate graduate or undergraduate status and submit three
(3) copies of the essay in MLA or Chicago style.

Other criteria include the following:

* Papers should be no more than 20 pages (including notes).

* Papers should be in English.

* Papers may be submitted by e-mail to hill@susqu.edu

* Papers may also be submitted via postal mail to:

Dr. Simona Hill
c/o Mrs. Wendy Davis, Honors Program Secretary
Susquehanna University
514 University Avenue
Selinsgrove, PA 17870

Lesbian Lives XV: Friday 15 - Saturday 16 Feb 2008
Writing Lesbian Culture: Theories and Praxis’

A 2-Day, International, Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC), School of
Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Speakers

KATE BORNSTEIN is an author, playwright and performance artist.
Adrienne Rich. Kate's published works include the books Gender Outlaw:
On Men, Women and the Rest of Us; My Gender Workbook; and the cyber-
romance-action novel, Nearly Roadkill with co-author Caitlin Sullivan.
Kate's plays and performance pieces include Strangers in Paradox,
Hidden: A Gender, The Opposite Sex Is Neither, Virtually Yours, and
y2kate: gender virus 2000.

BARBARA CARRELLAS is an author, sex educator, and theatre artist. Her
most recent books are Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First
Century and Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and
Pleasure. Barbara's pioneering Urban Tantra® workshops were named best
in New York City by TimeOut / New York magazine. She frequently
collaborates with her partner, Kate Bornstein, with whom she performs
and tours their sex positive, gender-bending lecture/performance piece
Too Tall Blondes Do Sex, Death & Gender.

Call for Papers

Proposals are welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the
following:

Lesbian Cultures, Literature, biographies, histories, sexualities,
gender performances, lesbian activisms, alliances and ruptures, radical
feminisms, identities, ethnicities, historical literature, Motherhood,
Worldwide Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements, Community and Social
Activisms, Histories of Sexualities, Queer Readings of Literature And
Histories,

E-mail proposals to lesbian.lives@ucd.ie or post them to:

Lesbian Lives XV: ‘Writing Lesbian Culture: Theories and Praxis’
Women's Education Research and Resource Centre (WERRC),
School of Social Justice,
Hannah Sheehy Skeffington Building,
University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.

For further information see our website at www.ucd.ie/werrc or
telephone +353 1 7168572

The closing date for the submission of proposals is Friday Dec. 14th
2007

Dr. Mary McAuliffe
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre(WERRC)
School of Social Justice,
Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington Building,
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 7168572
Fax: +353-1-7161195
Web: www.ucd.ie/werrc

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

LIBERATING TRADITIONS: ESSAYS IN FEMINIST COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY

Edited by: Ashby Butnor and Jen McWeeny

Abstract Deadline (500 words): March 1, 2008

Completed Paper Deadline: July 1, 2008

Preliminary selection based on abstracts. Final selection based on
completed papers (20-25 pgs. total).

E-mail submissions and inquiries to both ashby.butnor@gmail.com and
jmcweeny@jcu.edu.

FEMINIST COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY is the practice of integrating feminist and
non-Western philosophical traditions in an innovative way, while still being
mindful of the unique particularity of each, in order to envision and enact
a more liberatory world. East-West comparative philosophy and feminist
philosophy already share much in terms of methodology: a hermeneutic of
openness and respect for difference, a crossing of philosophical boundaries
and traditions, a rejection of the dichotomy of theory and practice, and the
pursuit of new ways of looking at the world. In this volume, we seek to
show how bringing diverse philosophical traditions into dialogue with each
other can provide fresh insights on questions of specific interest to
feminists and global theorists generally.

Comparative themes may include, but are by no means limited to:

Theories of Embodiment, Gender, or Personhood

The Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural/Cross-World Dialogue

Philosophical Practice & Marginalization

The Phenomenology of Liberatory and/or Spiritual Practice

Philosophical Responses to Globalization, Imperialism, and
De-Colonization

Intersectional Selves: Culture, Race, Tradition, Sexuality, etc.

Embodied Epistemologies

Conceptions of Moral Agents & Actions

Theories of Emotion

Persons, Communities, and the State

Liberatory Aesthetics

Comparative Metaphysics

Pathways to Liberation

We seek any philosophical papers that engage the intersection of feminist
and non-Western philosophies. Although the collection will primarily
consist of comparative essays involving Asian traditions, such as Indian
philosophy, Chinese philosophy, or Japanese philosophy, we also invite
submissions that address North/South comparative philosophy, including
African, Latin American, and indigenous philosophies.

Abstract Deadline (500 words): March 1, 2008

Completed Paper Deadline: July 1, 2008

Preliminary selection based on abstracts. Final selection based on
completed papers (20-25 pgs. total).

E-mail submissions and inquiries to both ashby.butnor@gmail.com and
jmcweeny@jcu.edu.

/TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism/ is now accepting submissions for issue #7, an open issue: deadline January 15, 2008.* */TRIVIA,/ 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 : //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.

The current issue of /TRIVIA, / « The Art of the Possible, » can be seen online at http://www.triviavoices.net. Come with us as contributors practice the art of the possible by leaping across time and space, refusing false choices, and expanding the limits of the real.

· Susan Hawthorne-- The Aerial Lesbian Body: The Politics of Physical Expression

· Elliott Femynye batTzedek-- Wanting a Gun

· Mary Saracino -- Red Poppies Among the Ruins

· Hye Sook Hwang-- Returning Home with Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia

· Ellen Taylor -- Noah's Wife

· Marguerite Rigoglioso-- Reclaiming the Spooky: Matilda Joslyn Gage and Mary Daly as Radical Pioneers of the Esoteric

· Elizabeth Alexander-- Grand Right & Left

Fellowships Now Available

The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recruiting a select group of doctoral students interested in pursuing the study of information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Your interests may lie in any part of the emerging field of information studies, such as practices of information organization, library history, the political economy of information, or community information systems; your academic background may be in library and information science, history, law, communications or other fields—as long as you share our commitment to engaging deeply with the processes that structure information in society. Fellowship recipients should be seeking to prepare for careers as faculty members in schools of library and information science.
Apply by January 1, 2008 to begin study in Fall 2008

Contact: Professor and Associate Dean Linda C. Smith:
(217) 333-7742 |
Email: lcsmith@uiuc.edu

Visit the website at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/phd/

The 25th Annual International
Social Philosophy Conference
Sponsored by the
North American Society for Social Philosophy
July 17-19, 2008
at the University of Portland (Oregon)
Special attention will be devoted to the theme
Gender, Inequality, and Social Justice
but proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome
The Program Committee will be chaired by:
Professor Jordy Rocheleau
of Austin Peay State University and
Professor Richard Buck
of Mount Saint Mary's University
A 300-500 word abstract should be sent to the program chairs.
Individuals who wish to be considered for the award for best graduate student paper should submit their entire paper and abstract. Electronic Submissions welcomed and encouraged.

Jordy Rocheleau
Department of Philosophy
Austin Peay State University
Box 4486
Clarksville, TN 37044
tel. 931-221-7925
rocheleauj@apsu.edu
Richard Buck
Department of Philosophy
Mount Saint Mary's University
16300 Old Emmitsburg Rd
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
tel. 301-447-5368
buck@msmary.edu
The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2008
or, for those living outside the
United States and Canada, January 15, 2008
_________________________________________________________________

Ms. magazine is looking for groundbreaking, quantitative feminist research
for coverage in the "How We're Doing" section of our Winter 2008 issue.

Ideally, we're looking for studies that will be published mid-January to
March 2008, the shelf-life of the Winter 08 issue, but will consider studies
released in Fall 2007. Because we have limited space, we're particularly
interested in study results that can be expressed in simple graphs. We will
be sure to credit the authors and journal, if applicable.

Any suggestions (in the form of published articles or early drafts of
soon-to-be-published articles) would be much appreciated! You can send them
to jstites@msmagazine.com.

The Ohio State University’s Department of Women’s Studies’

Graduate Student Research Conference:
“The ‘F’ Words of Feminist Scholarship”
futures, feminisms, fat, functionality, freak, fresh, family, fetish, fixity, fore, f*cking, fleshy, foul, field, fear, finish, foundations, failure, fertility, figures, fundamentals, fragment, findings, fold, flow, fathers, follow, fire, friendship, fight, female, fascism, feminine, fanaticism fundraising, fun, fierce, focus, finitude…

Dates: April 4 and 5, 2008
Confirmed Keynote: Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Call for Papers: The phrase, the ‘F’ word, elicits feelings of anxiety and excitement. As a euphemism for what should not be said, the ‘F’ word characterizes what is taboo or prohibited. Feminist scholarship has a strong history of challenging the ‘F’ words of disciplinary scholarship- those topics ignored, erased, and/or contested in canonical knowledges. Certainly, as feminist scholarship develops, new ‘F’ words are being created and contested. We view this conference as an opportunity to think carefully about feminist scholarship’s ‘F’ words and how an exploration of these topics and the scholarship produced about them (or the absence of such scholarship) might lead to more intimate understandings of feminist research in the academy. To this end, we invite papers, art installations, creative performances, panels, poster presentations, and workshops.
We especially encourage graduate students whose research topics and/or methodological approaches embody a contested location in the emerging canon of feminist scholarship.

Possible topics may include:
How do different disciplines create and/or control ‘F words’?
In what ways are ‘F words’ negotiated across disciplines?
What are the potential benefits and/or risks of studying ‘F words’?
How do ‘F words’ influence the future of feminist scholarship?
What is feminist about feminist scholarship?
Additional topics are very welcome!

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by December 1, 2007. Please send abstracts to Kelly Ball (ball.1824@osu.edu).
Include your name, university affiliation, email, and presentation title. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously.
Accepted proposals will be announced via email February 1, 2008.

While we cannot provide travel funds, we will make every effort to provide housing for graduate students participating in the conference.

This conference is organized by the graduate students of the Women’s Studies Department at The Ohio State University and is made possible with the help of generous funding from the department.

Conference Organizers:
Alina Bennett, bennett.520@osu.edu
Kelly Ball, ball.1824@osu.edu

WE LEARN 5th Annual (Net)Working Gathering & Conference on Women &
Literacy
Building Alliances / Construyendo Alianzas

March 7- 8, 2008
Fordham Univ. at Lincoln Center
in New York City, NY

Co-Sponsored with WE LEARN by Fordham University Graduate School of
Education

Women continue to be separated by culture, language, literacy,
geography; our differences are profound. The daily lives of women in
adult basic/literacy education remain especially complex due to
inequities based on race, class, gender, and other diversities. This
year’s conference will explore the differences that divide women and
look to ways of building alliances across those differences.

WE LEARN seeks presentation proposals from students (at all levels),
teachers, researchers, and community activists addressing related
theme issues & topics.

DEADLINE for Application: Nov. 30, 2007
Please apply using the Internet form.
http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2008/props08.html

Sponsorship, advertiser, and exhibitor information also available:
http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2008/sponsors.pdf

Thanks.

Mev Miller, Ed.D., Director

WE LEARN
Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network
www.litwomen.org/welearn.html

182 Riverside Ave.
Cranston, RI 02910
401-383-4374
welearn@litwomen.org

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections: Feminist Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice

A conference
sponsored by the
Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

April 11 - 13 2008

Keynote Speaker:
Dr Marsha Hanen
former President of the University of Winnipeg, and pioneer in the development of interdisciplinary studies in Canada.

The host of this conference, the Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies, was endowed by well-known Toronto-based feminist and philanthropist Nancy Ruth, to raise awareness of women's issues by bringing to campus distinguished scholars in women's studies and activists who have contributed to the advancement of women.

Mount Saint Vincent University, the home of the Nancy's Chair, has a proud history as a leader in innovative and creative learning approaches with an emphasis on women, academic excellence, distinctive programs, and a personal approach to education.

Women's studies and feminist theory are boldly, creatively interdisciplinary in establishing strong connections between scholarly inquiry and women's lives. They are reconfiguring disciplinary boundaries and academic structures while honouring scholarly integrity and activist commitments in universities and other post-secondary institutions, and in the world outside the academy. Feminist scholars and activists have developed innovative ways of navigating within traditional academic disciplines and institutional structures, and drawing on the resources of multiple, often diverse, disciplines, practices, and ways of knowing.

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections will explore the promise and the challenges of interdisciplinarity in feminist and women's studies, and in the activism it informs and is informed by at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in Canada and internationally. We welcome contributions that present interdisciplinarity at work in diverse formats and modes of address, critical reflections on interdisciplinarity as such, performance, video and narrative presentations, workshops, roundtables and panels, and contributions that attest to the prospects and productive collaborations interdisciplinary commitments can animate.

Proposals might:

* celebrate some of the successes - the triumphs - of interdisciplinary work, showing by example how it can be greater than the sum of its parts

* show by example how the very idea of interdisciplinarity reconfigures fixed conceptions of "expertise"

* illustrate how new forms of interdisciplinarity have succeeded in bringing together the "two cultures": the sciences and the humanities

* present possibilities for combining insights and issues derived from several disciplines

* contrast interdisciplinarity that derives from group connections and interdisciplinary work engaged individually

* consider how interdisciplinary inquiry helps to cross an (imaginary) divide between the university or college and the community

* present research that has developed out of inquiry that crosses two or more disciplines

In short, we welcome contributions that demonstrate the creative potential of interdisciplinary work, that show how interdisciplinarity counteracts the narrowness that can result from over-specialization in the academy and in professional schools, and/or that explore interdisciplinarity in public responses to research and practice. And we welcome proposals that expand on, challenge, or depart from the possibilities outlined here. Given the nature of this theme, we particularly welcome panel presentations or poster sessions that pose questions for discussion, mini-workshops, and mixed-media presentations.
Single papers will be allocated a maximum of 25 minutes' reading time.
Panels may be allocated a longer presentation time.

Conference presentations may be considered for publication in
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal.

Submission deadline: Friday, January 04, 2008

Submission format: Please submit either a complete paper (not to exceed 3000 words), a long abstract (1000 words), or a 1000-word detailed description of a panel or workshop, listing participants and indicating any special presentation requirements.

Submit paper copies only to:

Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies
ISW 4, Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Highway
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6

Please direct all inquiries to Dr. Lorraine Code at lorraine.code@msvu.ca

This conference will be preceded by a one-day conference, Epistemic
Bridges: Interdisciplinarity in the Academy, at Dalhousie University, on April 10, 2008, organized by the Interdisciplinary PhD Students'
Society. Inquiries about this one-day conference should be directed to Nancy Salmon at nsalmon@dal.ca

http://www.scar.toronto.edu/~socsci/sever/journal/contents3.2.html

Papers are invited for a Special Issue on "Drug use and the health consequences for urban women", edited by Dr. Diana L. Gustafson, Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Donna Bulman, Faculty of Nursing, Memorial University.

Manuscripts may address the full range of health issues of the journal as they relate to drug use (see below). Particularly welcome are papers that address the social determinants of health for women who inject drugs or for the women who care for those who do. Also welcome are manuscripts that address issues relating to public education, healthy public policy, and health care programs and services that meet the specific needs of diverse groups of women living and working in urban areas.

Deadline for submission is Feb 1, 2008.

The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in November 2008.

For more information or to submit a manuscript, send an e-copy followed by four copies of your manuscript to:

Dr. Diana L. Gustafson
Associate Professor of Social Science and Health
Division of Community Health and Humanities
HSC 2834, Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University
St. John's, NL A1B 3V6
e-mail: diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca


Women's Health &Urban Life http://www.scar.toronto.edu/~socsci/sever/journal/contents3.2.html is located at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. The journal addresses a plethora of topics relating to women's and girls' health from an international and interdisciplinary perspective and link health to globalization and urbanization issues. General topics include but are not limited to: Women's health in general; Health related to reproduction; Health related to sexuality; Health related to paid or unpaid labour; Health related to parenthood; Health and the environment; Health and social policy; and Health related to urbanization and globalization issues. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. Both qualitative and quantitative manuscripts, and theoretical or empirical works are welcome. Papers should not exceed 30 pages including all references, tables and appendices. All submissions will be peer reviewed by anonymous reviewers.

For more details about the goals, substantive basis and submission guidelines of this journal, please contact:

Professor Aysan Sev'er, General Editor
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Scarborough
Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4
Fax: 416-287-7296; e-mail: sever@utsc.utoronto.ca
or visit: http://utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/sever http://mail.arts.ryerson.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://utsc.utoronto.ca/%7Esocsci/sever

As Virginia Woolf observed in her time that it was only a matter of time before women would take an equal role with men in society, we continue to see growth and change to that end. Women’s Studies departments are appearing and growing on more college campuses each year, and their work is building more bridges with other areas of study, from literature and education to psychology and anthropology and just about everything in between. Their studies continue to raise important questions, such as the possibility of a link between the low standing of Education departments on campus and the fact that teaching has been a traditionally “female” vocation, or the creation of “Women’s Literature” courses is necessary to offer students the opportunity to be exposed to writings by women in the classroom because those authors are still largely neglected in typical Literature courses. What is the current “place” for women in academia, particularly in Literature and Education, and what are!
the goals for the future? What milestones have been accomplished by women in the past that remain hidden in the shadows of history?

Editors of River Walk Journal online bi-monthly are seeking abstracts on the previous topics, 500 words or less. Finished papers should be 8000 words or less. Initial submissions of abstracts only will be accepted until January 31st, 2008, tentative publication date is set for the May/June Anniversary issue of the journal. Submissions with full contact information, CV, and cover letter should be sent to publisher_at_riverwalkjournal.org, with “Women in Lit CFP” in the subject line ­ rtf and doc format file attachments only.

The Pennsylvania State University

Women’s Studies Graduate Organization (WSGO)

7th Annual Graduate Conference

Saturday, March 1, 2008

“Violence and Terror: Domestic and Global Spaces” is an
interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together faculty and
students from across campus and the community to engage in
research, art, discussion, and activism concerning issues of
violence, gender, terror, and politics encompassing the public,
private, domestic, and global.

Keynote Speaker: Mary Hawkesworth
Mary Hawkesworth, Chair and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
and a member of the graduate faculty in political science at
Rutgers Univeristy. Dr. Hawkseworth is also currently the editor
of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2005-2010 and is
the editor of War & Terror: Feminist Perspectives which will be
published in spring 2008. Her teaching and research interests
include feminist theory, women and politics, contemporary political
philosophy, philosophy of science, and social policy.

Performance Artist: Ben Atherton-Zeman
Mr. Atherton-Zeman has 15 years’ experience as a prevention
educator for domestic and sexual violence centers and is currently
a spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against
Sexism. His one-man show, titled: “Voices of Men”, is an
educational comedy that addresses men’s roles in ending male
violence and abuse against women. The “Voices of Men” performance
is highly acclaimed by universities as well as domestic and sexual
violence centers across the country.

Proposals are invited from scholars, artists, and activists in any
field related to gender, sex, and feminism. Proposals can be for a
paper, a panel, a poster, an art exhibit/installation, interactive
discussion, or a performance. Interdisciplinary, multinational,
and experimental panels are welcome. Panel and performance
proposals should include a 250 word abstract; individual papers
should include a 500 word abstract. Proposals for performance/ artwork need to specify space and time requirements. Paper
presentations will be limited to 15 minutes. Please also include
name(s) of presenter(s), affiliations, any equipment needed, and
any accommodations you require. The deadline for submissions is
January 31, 2008.

Please submit your proposal via email to: haj120@psu.edu

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

FIVE COLLEGE WOMEN’S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER
A collaborative project of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and
Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Center invites applications for its RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIPS for 2008-2009 from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational system, as well as from artists, community organizers and political activists, both local and international. Associates are provided with offices in our spacious facility, library privileges, and the collegiality of a diverse community of feminists. Research Associate applications are accepted for either a semester or the academic year. The Center supports projects in all disciplines so long as they focus centrally on women or gender. Regular Research Associateships are non-stipendiary. We accept about 15-18 Research Associates per year.

Applicants should submit a project proposal (up to 4 pages), curriculum vitae, two letters of reference, and application cover sheet. Submit all applications to: Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075-6406. Deadline is February 11, 2008. For further information, contact the Center at TEL 413.538.2275, FAX 413.538.3121, email fcwsrc@fivecolleges.edu, website: http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/fcwsrc

Thanks to all who sent me suggestions of YouTube videos for inclusion in WAVE: WOMEN'S AUDIOVISUALS IN ENGLISH database maintained by my office (mounted at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WAVE). Some suggestions came in after I sent a combined list last week, and I've appended those below. But my main reason for this posting is that we would like to publish a round-up of reports about how instructors are using YouTube (and other short videos) in women's studies classes in our periodical FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES. We would be interested in write-ups about exercises analyzing/critiquing videos, etc. Librarians are also encouraged to submit proposals if they use women-focused YouTube videos or clips when doing bibliographic instruction, for women's studies or other classes.

Submissions should be up to 500
words, with a due date of March 1, 2008. If you are interested, please email me (pweisbard@library.wisc.edu) outlining your proposed submission. For an idea of what we're looking for, see another round-up we've published on use of new technologies in women's studies classes, "Blogging Women's Studies," at http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/fc/BlogRoundup.pdf. Our next issue (v. 28, no. 4, Summer-Fall 2007) will include a round-up on social networking.

Here are the additional YouTube suggestions received (and it's fine to send me more at ANY time...):

Guerrilla Girls On Tour has two short videos on You Tube. One is entitled "Feminists Are Funny" and is also the opening of our performance by the same name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjbW5NSDr-Q

The other is a video of the first Women's Arts International Festival that we were a part of in Kendall, UK last May:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDJOoGq0dS0

The 24th Annual All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in
Higher Education at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, invites
submission of papers, projects, posters, artistic works, and
works-in-progress that highlight research by women and/or about women's
or gendered issues. Submissions from all fields of study are invited.
The conference will be held on February 29, 2008. Invited speakers
include Dr. Alice Hogan, National Science Foundation, and Dr. Kimberlee
Kearfott, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan.
Registration is required of all presenters: the fee is $10 for students
and $45 for faculty, staff, administrators, and professionals, and lunch
is included with paid registration. Proposals should include a cover
page with name and contact information, an abstract not exceeding 100
words, and a summary of 1000 words, sent as an attachment via e-mail to
all.university.conference@ttu.edu; type "WS Submission" in the subject
line. Cash awards for best student papers. Deadline for submissions is
January 14, 2008. If you have questions, please contact Texas Tech's
Women's Studies Program, 806-742-4335.

Men can’t really imagine how hard it is to tie your sneakers when you’re nine months pregnant. Or concentrate in a meeting when a hot flash strikes and all you feel like doing is standing in front of an open freezer door. You just have to be a woman. We discovered that when we started eating lunch together.

Bouncing from shop talk to husbands to aging parents, we always ended up at menopause, and that was when the laughter started. We finally decided that we were having too much fun to keep the conversation to ourselves. So if you’re a woman pushing 50 (or 60 or 70 or beyond) who has traded in her tampons for calcium pills and fiber supplements, we want to hear your stories and share them with others.

We want to hear it all: inspirational, funny, freaky, sad, or sublime, stories about
your experiences. Tell us about

Physical changes--mirror, mirror, who is that person looking back?
Relationships--parents, friends, lovers, husbands, in-laws, children, grandchildren, pets
Doctors and other strangers
Sex, exercise, and mood rings
Food--gooey or good for you
Money--you can’t take it with you
Risk-taking--what you can and still can’t afford to lose
Hobbies from arts and crafts to exotic dancing
Aging with style (and tummy tucks)
Survival Strategies (I went through menopause and lived to tell about it!)
Advice (only if you’ve already taken it)

or stories about other things that you’d like to share (like the day I had to work all afternoon without underwear!)

Please send your stories to MENOPLUS@psu.edu. Our sources will remain anonymous, but please send contact information so we can get in touch with you to let you know well be printing your story.

Ruth Pflueger and Terri Caruso
Department of English
Penn State Behrend

CALL FOR ESSAYS

--Do you have something to say about being bisexual?
--Do you have a story about coming out as bi?
--Do you feel you could identify as bisexual but choose not to?
--Do you find connections (or conflicts) between your bisexuality and other parts of your identity or life?
--Do you have something to say about desire? About relationships? About religion? About community? About politics? About the position of bisexuals in the place or community you call home?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, we want to publish you!

_We seek short personal essays or poems (200-1000 words) by bisexuals from Central or South America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, or Africa. We seek Muslim voices from anywhere in the world. _

If you don't want your name in print, you can write under a pseudonym. If you think you're not a "real" writer and would like to be included in this anthology, we want you. If you're not comfortable writing, we can interview you. If you are not comfortable writing in English, write in your native language and we will translate your essay.

Essays will be published in the second edition of Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. The new anthology will be published in 2009, in dual editions (English and Spanish).

The first (2005) edition includes personal narratives by people from 32 different countries, on 6 continents, ranging in age from 15-79. Please help us make this amazing collection even broader in scope!

Send submissions to Robyn Ochs (robyn@robynochs.com) by June 30, 2008.

Thank you!

Robyn Ochs (www.robynochs.com) & Sarah E. Rowley, Editors

Getting Bi is one of the most important recent contributions to the global struggle for human rights. By enriching our understanding of bisexuality within so many cultural and geographic contexts, this anthology serves as a magnificent tool for building support and respect for the sexual rights of each one of us.
-- Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Call for papers for a volume on Ottoman Women's Movements and Print Cultures

We are soliciting papers on the relationship between the development of women's
movements and the expansion of print culture in the Ottoman Empire from the
Tanzimat period to the early years of the Turkish republic, with a particular
focus on the Ottoman women's movement(s) from the period of Tanzimat to the
1908 constitutional reform, the 1909 Adana massacre, to the 1911 loss in the
Balkan wars and its continuation in 1912-1913, the 1915 Metz Yerghern/
Genocide, the formative period that led to the 1923 Republic of Turkey [with a
loss of plural vision...].

Given the multi-ethnic and multi-religious heritage of the Ottoman Empire, the
proposed collection aims to highlight women's movements and print cultures in
the diverse religious and linguistic communities or Millets of the Ottoman
Empire including the Ottoman Greek, Armenian, Jewish, Kurdish, Arab and Turkish
communities.

We hope that these articles will analyze aspects of the social, economic,
cultural and political contexts in which Ottoman women engaged in cultural
production and participated in public life.

The collection aims to stimulate discussion on the impact of changing
ideologies and political circumstances on the women's movements within the
Empire. We would also welcome comparative studies of women
and women's organizations among the Ottoman Millets.

Suggested topics or questions might include, but are not limited to, the
following:

* The relationship between print culture, Ottoman women's writing and the
development of women's movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

* The conditions and institutions which facilitated or hindered Ottoman women's
access to print culture. Women's attitudes to writing. Was writing viewed as a
means of advancing a cause or as a source of employment? Were women restricted
in terms of content or genre?

*Did Ottoman women form alliances or organizations across communal lines? Is
there evidence that women of the different communities were aware of each
other's activities and writing?

* Transformations in women's movements and print cultures at the end of the
Ottoman Empire and in the first decade of the Turkish Republic.

* The changing ideologies within the late Ottoman Empire and platforms of
women's movements within the Empire and its millets.

Please submit a 200 word proposal by January 31, 2008 to the co-editors:
Dr. Sima Aprahamian Dr. Victoria Rowe
aprhsma@alcor.concordia.ca vrowe@fps.chuo-u.ac.jp

Authors of selected proposals for inclusion in the up-coming publication will
be contacted in mid-February. Final papers need to be submitted by June 1,
2008.
The Publishers, University of Texas Press, require the final papers to be 40
pages maximum double spaced, typed in Times Roman font size 12, following the
citation guide of the Chicago Manual of style for manuscripts.

Madrid (3-9 July 2008

How are Pacific women doing feminist work in the 21st Century? And how is
feminism defined in the broad Pacific context or the more specific regional
and national contexts? This panel looks to investigate the diverse ways
Pacific women understand, theorize, and practice what is called feminism in
the Anglo-American context. Papers are solicited from a broad engagement
with these issues. The following is a list of suggested topics but it is by
no means prescriptive:

- Updates on Pacific conferences addressing women's issues (for
example the Fiji conference in the 1988).

- Alternative theoretical woman-oriented models for Pacific women as
defined broadly, in the regional contexts (Melanesia, Polynesia, and
Micronesia, for example) or within specific national or communal contexts.

- Women's engagement with political systems as lobbyists, legislatures
and leaders as well as within grass roots activism

- Teaching women's studies within this geographic region

- Engagements with Anglo-American feminisms

- Influences of colonialism, imperialism and/or globalization on
women's self-perception, political engagement and agency, and social
organization

Please send a 250-word abstract along with a current CV (along with any
inquiries) by December 15 to:

Helen Thompson, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies
University of Guam
P.O. Box 5319
UOG Station
Mangilao, GU 96923
drhelent@gmail.com

April 11 - 13 2008

Keynote Speaker:
Dr Marsha Hanen
former President of the University of Winnipeg, and pioneer in the development of interdisciplinary studies in Canada.

The host of this conference, the Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies, was endowed by well-known Toronto-based feminist and philanthropist Nancy Ruth, to raise awareness of women's issues by bringing to campus distinguished scholars in women's studies and activists who have contributed to the advancement of women.

Mount Saint Vincent University, the home of the Nancy's Chair, has a proud history as a leader in innovative and creative learning approaches with an emphasis on women, academic excellence, distinctive programs, and a personal approach to education.

Women's studies and feminist theory are boldly, creatively interdisciplinary in establishing strong connections between scholarly inquiry and women's lives. They are reconfiguring disciplinary boundaries and academic structures while honouring scholarly integrity and activist commitments in universities and other post-secondary institutions, and in the world outside the academy. Feminist scholars and activists have developed innovative ways of navigating within traditional academic disciplines and institutional structures, and drawing on the resources of multiple, often diverse, disciplines, practices, and ways of knowing.

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections will explore the promise and the challenges of interdisciplinarity in feminist and women's studies, and in the activism it informs and is informed by at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in Canada and internationally. We welcome contributions that present interdisciplinarity at work in diverse formats and modes of address, critical reflections on interdisciplinarity as such, performance, video and narrative presentations, workshops, roundtables and panels, and contributions that attest to the prospects and productive collaborations interdisciplinary commitments can animate.

Proposals might:

* celebrate some of the successes - the triumphs - of interdisciplinary work, showing by example how it can be greater than the sum of its parts

* show by example how the very idea of interdisciplinarity reconfigures fixed conceptions of "expertise"

* illustrate how new forms of interdisciplinarity have succeeded in bringing together the "two cultures": the sciences and the humanities

* present possibilities for combining insights and issues derived from several disciplines

* contrast interdisciplinarity that derives from group connections and interdisciplinary work engaged individually

* consider how interdisciplinary inquiry helps to cross an (imaginary) divide between the university or college and the community

* present research that has developed out of inquiry that crosses two or more disciplines

In short, we welcome contributions that demonstrate the creative potential of interdisciplinary work, that show how interdisciplinarity counteracts the narrowness that can result from over-specialization in the academy and in professional schools, and/or that explore interdisciplinarity in public responses to research and practice. And we welcome proposals that expand on, challenge, or depart from the possibilities outlined here. Given the nature of this theme, we particularly welcome panel presentations or poster sessions that pose questions for discussion, mini-workshops, and mixed-media presentations.
Single papers will be allocated a maximum of 25 minutes' reading time.
Panels may be allocated a longer presentation time.

Conference presentations may be considered for publication in
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal.

Submission deadline: Friday, January 04, 2008

Submission format: Please submit either a complete paper (not to exceed 3000 words), a long abstract (1000 words), or a 1000-word detailed description of a panel or workshop, listing participants and indicating any special presentation requirements.

Submit paper copies only to:

Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies
ISW 4, Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Highway
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6

Please direct all inquiries to Dr. Lorraine Code at :lorraine.code@msvu.ca

This conference will be preceded by a one-day conference, Epistemic
Bridges: Interdisciplinarity in the Academy, at Dalhousie University, on April 10, 2008, organized by the Interdisciplinary PhD Students' Society. Inquiries about this one-day conference should be directed to Nancy Salmon at nsalmon@dal.ca

May 16-28, 2008

2nd Annual Women's Symposium and Study Program OUR VISION FOR WOMEN IN A
GLOBAL SOCIETY Shanghai, Sias International University, Zhengzhou, and Henan Province

Call for Papers Deadline: January 7th for U.S. Papers/December 14 for Chinese Papers

TOPICS
Transitioning to Womenhood
Women's Health
Women and Leadership
Working Women
The Evolution of Life Skills
Women in a Global Society

Visiting and interacting with women in Urban, University and Rural China

For details on submitting a paper or registering go to our website at
http://www.globalinteractions.org.

Jerrie Ueberle, President
Global Interactions Inc.
jerrie@globalinteractions.org
602-906-8886

April 10-11, 2008
Denver, Colorado

hosted by

University of Colorado Denver Department of Philosophy with support from University of Colorado President's Fund for the Humanities and University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities

"Mind, Brain, and Experience: At the Intersections of Philosophy, Science,
and Medicine" is a two-day, interdisciplinary conference intended to bring
together scholars, researchers, medical practitioners, and professionals
from various disciplines for the purpose of exploring the relation between
mind and brain, the manifestation of this relation in experience, and the
implications of respective views of this relation for medical practice,
social policy, and the future of our culture more generally. We encourage
submissions from all related fields including but not limited to philosophy,
psychology, psychiatry, neurochemistry, neurobiology, neurology, general
medical practice, cognitive science, computer science, and artificial
intelligence.

Keynote addresses will be given by Richard Grandy, Ph.D., Carolyn and Fred
McManis Professor of Philosophy at Rice University and Mark Johnson, Ph.D.,
Knight Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of
Oregon.

Substantial abstracts (500-800 words) of presentations or papers of
approximately 20 minute reading or presentation length are requested by
January 21, 2008. Papers and presentations should be accessible by a broad
scholarly audience. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review. Please
include one file including title and author information, titled "AUTHOR
INFORMATION," and one file including the title and anonymous abstract,
titled "ABSTRACT." Submissions should be saved in Word format (.doc),
rich text format (.rtf), or Adobe format (.pdf). Please place "MIND
SUBMISSION" in the subject line of your message.

Email submissions by January 21, 2008, to: kim.garchar@cudenver.edu

Email inquiries to: candice.shelby@cudenver.edu

Conference coordinators:

Candice Shelby, Ph.D. and Kim Garchar, Ph.D.

Department of Philosophy

University of Colorado Denver

P.O. Box 173364, Campus Box 179

Denver, CO 80217-3364

303.556.4868

Proposals relating to gender, women's literature, and/or feminism
especially welcome. . .

The Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature invites proposals
for our session(s) at the American Literature Association meeting, San
Francisco, May 22-25. This year's subject is Teaching Class Through
(in, by, despite, around) Literature. Please send proposals ASAP, but
no later than 20 January, to Paul Lauter at Trinity College (Hartford)
paul.lauter@trincoll.edu and Christie Launius claunius@aug.edu

---------------------------------
Christie Launius, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Director, Women's Studies Program
Augusta State University
2500 Walton Way
Augusta, GA 30904
706 667-4430

Dear Colleague,

The International Conference on the Arts in Society is pleased to announce its 3rd annual Conference, to be held at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, UK, 28-31 July 2008.

This year's Arts Conference will feature arts educators, artists, practitioners, researchers and theorists in all forms of disciplinary practice through paper presentations, workshops and colloquia. Submissions are invited for papers, workshops and alternative presentation formats for consideration in the Conference program. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of Journal. While submissions in all areas of the arts will be considered, we especially welcome presentations in keeping with this year's conference theme: Art and Communication.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 14 February 2008. Proposals are reviewed within three weeks of submission.

Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website -
http://www.Arts-Conference.com

Yours Sincerely,

Prof. Mario Minichiello
Head of Department and Chair of Visual Communications
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Birmingham City University
United Kingdom

Call for Panelist, Performing Feminist Motherhood:
Outlaw Mothers in Music, Media, Arts and Cultural Expression
May 16, 2008 in New York City

We have two papers, seeking a third.

In exploring change and continuity in women's communities, it is essential
to explore and interrogate the world of the internet. The emerging
scholarship thus far has privileged blogs over online communities. Our
papers deal with groups of women in various phases of motherhood on the
internet. One paper explores the use of the internet by expectant mothers
by following a group of women on the public website babycenter.com. The
second paper suggests a new way to understand motherhood culture, one that
recognizes the strong role of the internet in certain women's everyday lives
while concurrently recognizing the role of friendship in the experience of
motherhood. I will introduce one small, private, group of online friends and
mothers and discuss how, for this group, motherhood is a lived experience
not only in real-life interactions between mothers and their children, but
also, intriguingly, between online friends.

We are seeking a third paper that explores other uses of internet
communities by mothers.

Interested panelists should contact mmoravec@rosemont.edu by February 1.
The CFP deadline is 2/15.

Michelle Moravec, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Rosemont College
Sarah Leavitt, Ph.D.
Project Director, House and Home
National Building Museum

For more information about the conference, see
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/PerformingFeministMotherhood.html

Michelle Moravec, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Rosemont College
1400 Montgomery Avenue
Rosemont, PA 19010
mmoravec@rosemont.edu

CALL FOR BOOK VOLUME PROPOSALS:

ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS (AKCSN) BOOK SERIES
http://www.igi-global.com/bookseries

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Hakikur Rahman
PUBLISHER: IGI Global < http://www.igi-global.com >

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

The AKCSN is an international book series that publishes high-quality original research about knowledge communities and social networks. This book series calls for a knowledge based perspective adopting concepts belonging to advancement on information science, knowledge communication and knowledge management pertaining to multi-disciplinary aspects. This series will cover, but not limited to knowledge management, knowledge communications, knowledge economy, information society, information dynamics, information processing, information retrieval, digital divide, grass-roots communities, developing countries, mobile computing, e-governance, e-commerce, e-society and e-applications.

To improvise the effects of information revolution and reach out to the general community, this book series will try to establish innovative model of approaches in understanding the dynamics of knowledge communication, drawing upon knowledge gains from the various branches of information science and the cognitive arena. The book series will try to provide an analytical approach to the holistic situation of the newly emerged knowledge perspectives featuring innovative models of technology transfer focusing upon the concepts of knowledge communication processes. When knowledge is a good to exchange through technological communication, then understanding of the dynamics influencing knowledge intelligibly become the premier issue to initiate high-end researches. In this context, the book series will aim to investigate which functions the knowledge-intensive services will form a major research area within the process of knowledge communication. It will also promote a systemic focus on the communication process underlying knowledge transmission, within the broader framework of the knowledge-based economy.

By becoming a contributor to the Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series, you will be granted an opportunity that a few have ever gained. Your work will be showcased in a collection that finds wide acceptance by both libraries and international indexes, and a diverse international editorial advisory board will support it. As major audience of books under this book series will be comprised of academics, scientists, technologists, and policy makers, it is highly likely that your edited book will be used as guide in the national and regional development processes reinforcing different tiers of knowledge implementations. I welcome you to consider submitting your research to this series in hopes of providing the field of E-Government with collections of pivotal applications, methods and technologies.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD:

Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series

Editor-in-Chief: Hakikur Rahman, ICMS, Bangladesh

Associate Editors:
Baanda A. Salim, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
A.V.Senthil Kumar, CMS College of Science and Commerce, India
Yanbo J. Wang, The University of Liverpool, UK


International Editorial Advisory Board:
Anne-Marie Oostveen, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
James Piecowye, Zayed University, Dubai
Ali Serhan Koyuncugil, Capital Markets Board of Turkey, Turkey
Robert A. Cropf, Saint Louis University, USA
Arla Juntunen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Deborah L. Wheeler, United States Naval Academy, USA
Vincenzo Ambriola, University of Pisa, Italy
Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Alemayehu Molla, RMIT University, Australia
Subhajit Basu, Queen's University, UK
Claude Ghaoui, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Teresa Sancho Vinuesa, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Lucas Walsh, Deakin University, Australia
Agusti Cerrillo Martinez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

NEXT SUBMISSION DUE DATE: FEBRUARY 15, 2008

MISSION OF AKCSN:
The Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series is a multi-disciplinary international book series that aims to publish high-quality, original research about knowledge management. The AKCSN will provide an analytical approach to the holistic situation of the newly emerging knowledge dynamics featuring innovation in knowledge acquisition, knowledge communication and knowledge management focusing upon the concepts of the knowledge communities and social networks.

COVERAGE of AKCSN:
The coverage of AKCSN Book Series is international and focused on original research in knowledge communications, applications, management, policies and implications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

· Knowledge Management and Business Improvement
· Knowledge as Capacity for Action
· Knowledge as a Symbol/Model of Development
· Knowledge as an Empirical Problem Solving Tool
· Agent-mediated Knowledge Management
· The Framework of a Pragmatic Conception of Knowledge
· Knowledge as a Competitive Force
· Flourishing Knowledge Creation Environments
· Measuring and Evaluating Knowledge Assets
· Technology Orientation and Capitalization of Knowledge
· Current State and Future Development of the Institutional Knowledge Management
· Knowledge Management Practices and Future Perspectives
· Challenges of Knowledge Management
· Methods, Measures and Instruments of Knowledge Management
· Conceptual Role of ICTs in Knowledge Communication and Management
· Organizational Knowledge Communication and Knowledge Transfer as the Focal Point of Knowledge Management
· Distributed Knowledge Management Business Cases and Experiences
· Knowledge Management System Architectures, Infrastructure and Middleware
· Strategic Management and Business Process Analysis
· Networks as Institutionalized Intermediaries of KC
· Organizational Knowledge Communication
· Communication of Knowledge in Organizations
· Knowledge Communication and the Role of Communities and Social Networks
· General Importance and Role of Knowledge Communities
· Importance and Role of Knowledge Communities in R&D and Innovative Knowledge Creation
· Supporting Virtual Communities of Practice and Interest Networks
· Methodologies to Analyze, Design and Deploy Distributed Knowledge Management Solutions
· Social Models to Design and Support Knowledge Intensive Collaborative Processes
· Meta-data Representation and Management (e.g., semantic-based coordination mechanisms, use of ontologies, etc.)
· Knowledge Acquisition Systems and Networks
· Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Deployed Systems
· Networks and Knowledge Communication in R&D Environments
· Communication and Management of Knowledge in R&D Networks
· Application of Social Network Analysis as a Knowledge Management Tool
· Leveraging Knowledge Communication Networks – Approaches to Interpretations and Interventions
· Whole-Network Properties and Knowledge Communication
· Knowledge Communication and Impact of Network Structures
· Roles and Positional Models of Knowledge Communication Networks
· Leveraging Knowledge Communication in Social Networks
· Epistemology of Knowledge Society
· Citizens’ eParticipation in Local Decision-Making Processes
· eCapacity Building Programmes to Ensure Digital Cohesion and Improved eGovernment Performance at Local Level
· Broadband Infrastructure and the New Wireless Network Solutions
· Local eGovernment Interoperability and security
· Generation of Municipal Services in Multi-Channel Environments
· Introduction to Mobile Computing
· Business Process Modeling
· Information and Data Management
· Communication and Agent Technology
· Best Practices for Mobile Computing
· Information Policy Overview
· Communications and the Internet
· Knowledge Chains
· Community Practices
· Learning Utilities
· Advanced Researches in Knowledge Communities


SUBMITTING TO AKCSN:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews and assessment of the publisher, IGI Global. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to email@hakik.org by ****** NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 15, 2008 ******

PROSPECTUS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Your 5-10 page (not including your CV) book prospectus should contain the following information:

1. 3-5 SUGGESTED TITLES for your proposed publication
2. A SYNOPSIS of your proposed publication, including a concise DEFINITION of the subject area
3. INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT AREA
4. 5-10 INDEXING KEYWORDS for your proposed subject area
5. Overall OBJECTIVES AND MISSION of your proposed publication
6. SCHOLARLY VALUE AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION to information science, technology and management literature
7. PURPOSE AND POTENTIAL IMPACT on your field of research
8. UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS of your proposed publication
9. PROSPECTIVE AUDIENCE for such a publication
10. POTENTIAL BENEFITS readers will gain from your proposed publication
11. EXISTING COMPETING PUBLICATIONS and their advantages and disadvantages in comparison to your proposed publication
12. TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
13. PROJECTED TOTAL PAGE/WORD COUNT for proposed publication
14. TENTATIVE TIMETABLE for the entire project
15. POTENTIAL CHANNELS OF CALL DISTRIBUTION for the procurement of submissions and contacts (List-Servs, Universities, etc.)
16. COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS, phone, fax and e-mail information FOR EACH EDITOR/AUTHOR
17. A COPY OF YOUR VITAE, listing education and publication records FOR EACH EDITOR/AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER:
The Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series is published by IGI Global, publisher of the “IGI Publishing,” “Information Science Publishing,” “IRM Press,” “CyberTech Publishing” and “Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Please forward proposals and submission inquiries to:
Hakikur Rahman
Editor-in-Chief
Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series
http://www.igi-global.com/bookseries
Direct link:
www.igi-global.com/akcsn
Email: email@hakik.org

The Midwest Modern Language Association conference will be held
November 13-16, 2008 in Minneapolis. The Women's Caucus invites 250
word abstracts on the following topic:
"Feminist Pedagogy: Transforming Silence Into Action." The question
here is how do we as feminist teachers, especially teachers of
language and literature, engage our students in the rich and
meaningful relationship between theory and practice, teaching and
activism? We invite papers that explore strategies for achieving
this goal, for example service learning, teaching language as
activism, community research, and campus organizing.

Please send abstracts to me privately, via email at the address
below, by April 15, 2008. Additional information about the
conference can be found at
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/

Linda S. Coleman
Professor of English and Women’s Studies
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, Illinois 61920
lscoleman@eiu.edu
217-581-5015

Papers are invited for a Special Issue on "Drug use and the health consequences for urban women", edited by Dr. Diana L. Gustafson, Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Donna Bulman, Faculty of Nursing both of Memorial University. Manuscripts may address the full range of health issues of the journal as they relate to drug use (see below). Particularly welcome are papers that address the social determinants of health for women who inject drugs or for the women who care for those who do. Also welcome are manuscripts that address issues relating to public education, healthy public policy, and health care programs and services that meet the specific needs of diverse groups of women living and working in urban areas.

The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in November 2008.

For more information or to submit a manuscript, send an e-copy followed by four copies of your manuscript to:

Dr. Diana L. Gustafson
Associate Professor of Social Science and Health
Division of Community Health and Humanities
HSC 2834, Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University
St. John's, NL A1B 3V6
e-mail: diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca

Women's Health &Urban Life is located at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. The journal addresses a plethora of topics relating to women's and girls' health from an international and interdisciplinary perspective and link health to globalization and urbanization issues. General topics include but are not limited to: Women's health in general; Health related to reproduction; Health related to sexuality; Health related to paid or unpaid labour; Health related to parenthood; Health and the environment; Health and social policy; and Health related to urbanization and globalization issues. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. Both qualitative and quantitative manuscripts, and theoretical or empirical works are welcome. Papers should not exceed 30 pages including all references, tables and appendices. All submissions will be peer reviewed by anonymous reviewers. For more details about the goals, substantive basis and submission guidelines of this journal, please contact:

Professor Aysan Sev'er, General Editor
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Scarborough
Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4
Fax: 416-287-7296; e-mail: sever@utsc.utoronto.ca

or visit: http://utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/sever

A conference sponsored by the Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

April 11 - 13 2008

Keynote Speaker:
Dr Marsha Hanen
former President of the University of Winnipeg,and pioneer in the development of interdisciplinary studies in Canada.

The host of this conference, the Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies, was endowed by well-known Toronto-based feminist and philanthropist Nancy Ruth, to raise awareness of women's issues by bringing to campus distinguished scholars in women's studies and activists who have contributed to the advancement of women.

Mount Saint Vincent University, the home of the Nancy's Chair, has a proud history as a leader in innovative and creative learning approaches with an emphasis on women, academic excellence, distinctive programs, and a personal approach to education.

Women's studies and feminist theory are boldly, creatively interdisciplinary in establishing strong connections between scholarly inquiry and women's lives. They are reconfiguring disciplinary boundaries and academic structures while honouring scholarly integrity and activist commitments in universities and other post-secondary institutions, and in the world outside the academy. Feminist scholars and activists have developed innovative ways of navigating within traditional academic disciplines and institutional structures, and drawing on the resources of multiple, often diverse, disciplines, practices, and ways of knowing.

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections will explore the promise and the challenges of interdisciplinarity in feminist and women's studies, and in the activism it informs and is informed by at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in Canada and internationally. We welcome contributions that present interdisciplinarity at work in diverse formats and modes of address, critical reflections on interdisciplinarity as such, performance, video and narrative presentations, workshops, roundtables and panels, and contributions that attest to the prospects and productive collaborations interdisciplinary commitments can animate.

Proposals might:

* celebrate some of the successes - the triumphs - of interdisciplinary work, showing by example how it can be greater than the sum of its parts

* show by example how the very idea of interdisciplinarity reconfigures fixed conceptions of "expertise"

* illustrate how new forms of interdisciplinarity have succeeded in bringing together the "two cultures": the sciences and the humanities

* present possibilities for combining insights and issues derived from several disciplines

* contrast interdisciplinarity that derives from group connections and interdisciplinary work engaged individually

* consider how interdisciplinary inquiry helps to cross an (imaginary) divide between the university or college and the community

* present research that has developed out of inquiry that crosses two or more disciplines

In short, we welcome contributions that demonstrate the creative potential of interdisciplinary work, that show how interdisciplinarity counteracts the narrowness that can result from over-specialization in the academy and in professional schools, and/or that explore interdisciplinarity in public responses to research and practice. And we welcome proposals that expand on, challenge, or depart from the possibilities outlined here. Given the nature of this theme, we particularly welcome panel presentations or poster sessions that pose questions for discussion, mini-workshops, and mixed-media presentations.
Single papers will be allocated a maximum of 25 minutes' reading time.
Panels may be allocated a longer presentation time.

Conference presentations may be considered for publication in
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal.

Submission deadline: Friday, January 25, 2008

Submission format: Please submit either a complete paper (not to exceed 3000 words), a long abstract (1000 words), or a 1000-word detailed description of a panel or workshop, listing participants and indicating any special presentation requirements.

Submit paper copies only to:

Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies
ISW 4, Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Highway
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6

Please direct all inquiries to Dr. Lorraine Code at :lorraine.code@msvu.ca

This conference will be preceded by a one-day conference, Epistemic
Bridges: Interdisciplinarity in the Academy, at Dalhousie University, on April 10, 2008, organized by the Interdisciplinary PhD Students' Society. Inquiries about this one-day conference should be directed to Nancy Salmon at nsalmon@dal.ca

INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (ISC) ISSN 1364-694X

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Summer 2009 issue of the online journal Information for Social Change (ISC) will focus on the theme of SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOR UTOPIAS.

This issue of ISC aims to document 21st century science and technology initiatives designed for utopian societies. The intended audience is hands-on Utopian makers, as well as those individuals and groups who share in the vision of Utopian futures.

ISC seeks submissions in the following two areas aimed at encouraging adaptations, constructive intercultural dialogue, and international participation:

1) General action research, development based participatory action research, case studies, and DIY (do-it-yourself) aspects of creating low cost, long term science and technology solutions to our present ecological mess, which also make for viable long term social justice (e.g., ethical aid, alternative transportation, living labs, green housing, and slow food movements) and the role of library and information workers and work therein.

2) Thoughts on information ecology, sharing, and recycling as they relate to the production of human and natural resources and how best to achieve egalitarian societies in which there is free flow of information (e.g., social, cultural, communication, and information systems which combine ICT within egalitarian decision making processes in the context of non-proprietary systems and free information movements).

Anyone interested in contributing work related to the above expressed theme is invited to share their ideas with issue co-editors Martyn Lowe (martynlowe@usa.net) & Toni Samek (toni.samek@ualberta.ca).

Whilst encouraging rigorous debate, the journal exists primarily for workers and practitioners, so simple and clear English is preferable. Articles should, where possible, be between 500 and 2500 words. This is to ensure a wide coverage of topics in each issue. However, longer articles may be excerpted in the journal and the full text made available from the author(s), if you wish. As well as articles we are also interested in shorter pieces (including letters, review articles, and poems).

The closing date for final submission is December 10 (HUMAN RIGHTS DAY), 2008.

For more information about ISC, see: http://libr.org/isc/

TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism is now accepting submissions for two issues:

issue #7/8, an open double issue: deadline June 13, 2008.
see our submission guidelines at http://www.triviavoices.net

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.

TRIVIA, 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 : 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.

The Women's Studies Section will hold its first annual Research Poster Session during our General Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, Saturday, June 28, 2008, 4:00-5:30 p.m. The forum seeks to provide beginning and established researchers and librarians an opportunity to present research or work in progress, and receive collaborative feedback and recommendations for future publishing and/or new initiatives.

The potential scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, teaching methods, instruction, information technology, collection development, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration with academic faculty. For research ideas, see the Women’s Studies Research Agenda.(http://www.libr.org/wss/committees/research/resagenda.html)

Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in related issues and trends in the profession.

The committee will use a blind review process.

Selection criteria:

1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women’s Studies Section members and/or women’s studies topics.

2. Originality of the project.

Proposal submission instructions:

1. Proposals should include:
Title of the proposal
Proposal narrative (no more than 2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt. font)
Name of applicant(s)
Affiliation
Applicant address(es), Phone number(s), Email address(es), Fax number(s)

Are you a member of Women’s Studies Section? ___Yes ___ No
If you would like to become a member, go to: http://www.libr.org/wss/join.html

2. Submission deadline: March 15, 2008

3. Proposals should be emailed to: Cindy Ingold. Chair, Research Committee
(cingold@uiuc.edu)

4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 15, 2008.

Our call for proposals is still open and we are inviting proposals for performances, papers, workshops and presentations from persons of all disciplines and backgrounds (academics, performers, activists, youth media workers, and others) who would like to share content and spark discussion relating to the conference theme of humor and politics.
Please feel free to spread this email widely to your various colleagues and networks.
Thank you for your kind attention.The graduate student conference organizing team"

The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies is pleased to announce its 2008 conference!

Find below the call for proposals as well as brief highlights from the conference schedule. More information is available online: http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_Conference_08/index_Intro08.html

**Call for Proposals**

Who's Laughing?: The Power of Humor
April 4-5, 2008
at the Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

The February 15 proposal deadline for performances, papers, and presentations is quickly approaching. A preliminary list of conference event highlights is below. Don't miss out on the chance to present at this cutting-edge gender studies conference!

We invite proposals for presentations on humor as a political tool or subversive strategy. Graduate students, advanced undergraduates, performers, practitioners, artists, and activists are encouraged to examine, reflect upon, or demonstrate the uses of jokes, irony, satire, parody, and performance from a literary, theatrical, multimedia, historical, scientific, sociological, anthropological, or interdisciplinary perspective. Hands-on workshop and performance proposals also accepted.
250 word proposal abstracts are due on February 15, 2008
We encourage submissions that represent cross-disciplinary exploration in content, concept, and structure

**Conference Highlights**

**Calling all comedians, performance artists, cabaret actors, spoken word artists and more! On Friday, 4/4, we will host a performance showcase. Submit a 200-word description by 2/15 to be considered for selection in the line-up (and be sure to detail your space and AV needs.)

** Come to the conference early on 4/5 for Saturday Morning Cartoons! Join us from 9-11 AM for cartoons, pop-tarts, and feminist critique in this kick-off discussion and networking event.

**Join presenters S. Bear Bergman and Glenda Carpio on Saturday, 4/5, for a keynote performance, presentation, and Q&A discussion.

S. Bear Bergman is a writer, a theater artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian. Ze is also the author of Butch is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006) and three award-winning solo performnaces, as well as a frequent contributor to anthologies on all manner of topics. Bear is also a frequent lecturer at colleges and universities regarding issues relating to gender and sexuality, and has advised the staff of numerous institutions on their policies regarding transgendered and transsexual students.

Glenda Carpio is Assistant Professor of African and African American Sutdies and of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. Professor Carpio focuses on African American literature and culture, literature of the African Diaspora, and Anglophone Caribbean Literature. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled, "Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery," and her writings and presentations include analysis of the works of Gayl Jones, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Derek Walcott. She is also co-editing an anthology of Caribbean women writers.

Read the full Call for Proposals online for more information and submission requirements:
http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_Conference_08/CFP08.html

Questions?
Contact gcws@mit.edu

Call for Papers
The Avant-Garde as Critical Practice
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Deadline: 15 August 2008

In this special issue, we are looking for contributions that acknowledge the legacies of various avant-garde movements as they have affected the genre known, for better or worse, as "criticism." From Walter Benjamin's use of montage effects in The Arcades Project, to Roland Barthes' radical experiments with form in his post-semiotic work, to Jacques Derrida's exploration of a "science of chance" in his use of the signature in works like Glas and Signsponge, there has been an ongoing, if intermittent, tradition of exploring the idea that the historical avant-garde's interest in art as a form of knowledge and research, its dedication to using methods whose outcomes are unpredictable in advance (Surrealist games, Oulipian constraints), its openness to the utopian potentials of new communications technologies (particularly photography and cinema), all have the potential to not only become an object of criticism, but to challenge the very division between artistic production and critical discourse. Likewise, artists have responded to the demands of criticism in their own right by transforming them into manifestos and artist's statements which challenge genre on a textual level, by creating hybrid forms such as the essay film, and by making use of both language and image in the forms of video art, installations, and a proliferation of cyber-art genres.

This special issue of Reconstruction seeks to engage this tradition and its proliferations both geographical (where else has the avant-garde destabilized the binary between art and criticism) and conceptual (the combinations of "theory" and art in Language poetry, feminist explorations of autobiographical inquiry as a research strategy, to name just two prominent examples) on the level of practice. While there has been much discussion of how various philosophers and cultural critics have broken the frames of their respective disciplines, academia has been relatively slow to take their experiments seriously enough to allow a proliferation of such research practices and potential variants. With a few notable exceptions, the Enlightenment binary between "knowledge" and "art" has held fast.

We therefore invite submissions that engage the legacies of the "critical avant-garde" on the level of practice, that are willing to take chances with genre. Submissions that combine text and image in new ways are especially welcome from both "artists" and "critics," as are contributions that take seriously the possibilities that come with combining poetic, expository, and narrative modes of discourse. We are looking for art that is critical, criticism that is revelatory, caprice that is methodical and method that is "more or less capricious." Since this special issue seeks to encourage the critical avant-garde on the level of performance, there are no constraints as to subject matter. The "objects" of criticism may come from any discipline or, as Gregory Ulmer has encouraged, the "object" of criticism itself may be put into question.

Please send proposals, abstracts, completed essays, multimedial performances, etc. to Alan Clinton (alanclinton_at_earthlink.net) and John Sundholm (john.sundholm_at_kau.se) by August 15, 2008. Publication is expected in the second quarter of 2009.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture http://reconstruction.eserver.org (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes one open issue and three themed issues quarterly. Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

The Gender and Sexualities Taskforce (GST) plans to sponsor one or more organized panels at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 53rd annual meeting to be held October 25-28, 2008, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

Interested scholars should submit proposals directly to the GST that relate both to the GST's mission and the conference themes (see below); we seek both
(1) organized panels of three or four papers
(2) individual papers that we can group into organized panels

SEM's submission deadline is March 15, 2008; in order to meet that submission deadline, GST should receive proposals for GST-sponsored panels by March 1, 2008. Please email your proposals to Henry Spiller (hjspiller@ucdavis.edu).

The Gender and Sexualities Taskforce is an SEM Section devoted to encouraging the study of music, gender, and sexuality, and to exploring issues of gender and sexuality as they impact the professional lives of ethnomusicologists. We welcome the participation of scholars conducting research in music and sexualities cross-culturally as well as within their own societies. Our goals include promoting communication and diversity within SEM with special
regard to the concerns of scholars, students, and public sector advocates identifying variously as, but not limited to: lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirited, homosexual, and transgendered. We are concerned about widely diverse issues, including increased life chances and professional advancement, for members of these constituencies across lines of nation, religion, gender, race, class, and ethnicity. For more information, see the GST's website at
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/music/SEM/SEM_Home.html

The conference theme for the 2008 meeting will be "Ethnomusicology
Beyond Disciplines." Specific themes are:

Ethnomusicology and Advocacy
Musical Innovation and Experimentation
De-Centering the Western Art Music Canon
The Ethnomusicology of Film
Music and Spirituality
Overlooked Musical Traditions

The conference themes intersect well with GST's interests; topics for GST-sponsored panels might include
- advocating for gender/sexualities justice
- queer composers as Others
- gay/lesbian musical subcultures

Abstracts should conform to SEM's guidelines (one paragraph of no more than 250 words, devoid of names or other identifying information).

SEM's complete call for papers and submission instructions and guidelines are available at
http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic/documents/SEM2008_call_for_presentations_12_19_07.pdf

April 19, 2008
San Diego State University, San Diego
Call for Proposals

Revolutions have come to signify a myriad of different resistances to power formations throughout history. They have morphed and adapted to fit the diverse needs of people of different races, classes, genders and sexualities in distinctive geo-political locations. Feminism and Queer Theory have themselves contributed to new faces of revolution and new methods of reclamation. This conference is dedicated to exploring how the "faces" of revolution themselves have adapted to these changes and are continuing to adapt in this era of globalization. We solicit proposals from students (undergraduate and graduate), faculty members, community activists, and independent scholars for workshops, panels, roundtable discussions, individual
presentations, artistic and multimedia presentations, performances, and practical applications.

In this re-conceptualization of revolution, we will take into account new technologies, scientific discoveries and discourses; (post)-colonialism and imperialism; art, literature, popular culture
and new medias; and language, philosophy, and education with a focus on the lives and bodies of women and queers, who have historically been marginalized within discussions of reclamation and revolution. While we encourage presentations on the conference theme, proposals dealing with all areas of Women's Studies research are welcomed.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail, preferably as Word attachments, to: PSWSA08@gmail.com

Proposals must include: Title; abstract (100 word maximum); contact person's name, address, e-mail, and phone number; presenter name(s) with academic and/or community affiliation; format (e.g., workshop, panel, roundtable discussion, artistic presentation, or performance),
and audio/visual equipment requirements. (Equipment requests must be included with original proposal.)

Proposal Deadline: Friday, February 29, 2008.

For more information, visit http://pswsa.nwsa.org or contact Monica
Bradley at PSWSA08@gmail.com or (813) 361-2777.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION

Indiana University of Pennsylvania
110 Leonard Hall
Indiana, PA 15705-1094
website: http://www.english.iup.edu/publications/works&days/
phone: (724) 357-6486

Works & Days

Special Issue Call For Papers:
Invisible Battlegrounds: Feminist Resistance in the Global Age of War and Imperialism

In the contemporary global era of capitalism, as imperialism and war have emerged as dominant geopolitical forces, feminist analysis is, more than ever, urgently needed. Women's lives are affected disproportionately by violently imposed global restructuring, even as feminist attempts to create alternatives to exploitative and environmentally destructive forms of capitalist accumulation are largely neglected by dominant institutions and representations. Feminist critique of contemporary capitalism has, in fact, developed diverse approaches and strategies, among which notably include feminist theorizing within the areas of postcolonial, transnational, Marxist, and environmental thought. Feminist writers and thinkers working in these areas provide an invaluable analysis of the inherent connections among capitalism, war, and imperialism, and of the repressions of race, class, and gender that are required by capitalism to maintain unjust divisions of labor and resources. Also, their work provides vital oppositional images, identities, and narratives, ones attuned to mutual interdependency and the principles of social justice, sustainability, and radical democracy. This issue of Works & Days seeks to bring together theoretical work and cultural critique of anti-war feminist scholars and activists from across social locations and disciplines. This Special Issue invites papers that will:

•Explore how contemporary feminist theory and literature construct critique and opposition to prevailing patriarchal formations of race, gender, and class, particularly in connection with escalating violence against women and exploitation of labor and land.

•Investigate the ways civil wars and conflicts can be traced to earlier eras of capitalist and imperialist restructuring that reinforced, if not created, reifying divisions and hierarchies of race, ethnicity, and religion.

•Reflect on the ways that capitalism and imperialism reinforced, and often reinvented, patriarchal formations of the family and state. Now often referred to as client or peripheral states of imperialist centers, state power also sometimes relies on paternalistic forms of nationalism that imply polarized patriarchal gender identities, class power, and often elite claims of ethnicity and religion. This state power has taken the form of extreme militarism as well.

•Examine the profound changes in patriarchal orders as a result of war and occupation that organize the meanings of gender, especially of heavily gendered spaces, objects, or processes, such as the boundaries between home and street, private and public, friend and stranger, nature and culture.

•Consider how many contemporary social contradictions coalesce around heavily loaded metaphors, images, narratives, or signs of gender in transnational contexts—such as the veil, female genital mutilation, and so on.

•Theorize intensified commodification and privatization which aggravate contradictions between classes and locations and, especially, between women in different classes.

•Critique theories of imperialism, especially the powerfully influential Leninist notion that “imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism” but also Hardt & Negri's theory of Empire and David Harvey's of New Imperialism.

It is hoped that this Special Issue will generate insight into the “mine-field” of overlapping, sometimes reinforcing, sometimes contradictory, patriarchal formations of the family, state, and imperialism under contemporary capitalism.

Please send abstracts or proposals of 250-500 words for articles by August 1, 2008 via email to scomfort@iup.edu or by regular mail to Susan Comfort, Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705. Notification of acceptance will be forthcoming no later than October 1, 2008. The deadline for completion of articles is June 30, 2009.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE
Teaching the Body

The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 ­ 10,000 words) and media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. ­ 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore the body in a variety of pedagogical contexts and disciplinary perspectives­literature, 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.

Deadline: 31 March 2008

Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University

Edvige Giunta
Editor, Transformations
Department of English
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07305

201-200-3086 (English Department)
201-200-3071 (Transformations)
201-200-3051 (Fax, Transformations)

egiunta@njcu.edu

http://faculty.njcu.edu/egiunta
http://web.njcu.edu/sites/transformations/

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*THEME: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS

DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2008

Prizes of $500 for 1st place, $300 for 2nd place, and $200 for 3rd place, will
be awarded for poems, creative non-fiction, and photography on the theme of
Mother and Daughters. The winning works in all categories, as well as a
selection of honorable mention contest entries, will be published in JARM,
Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering, special issue on Mother
and Daughters in October 2008. All works will be considered for publication in
the journal and subsequently in a literary anthology to be published by Demeter
Press in honor of Mother’s Day, May 2009. Prizes in each category will be
announced in August 2008 and awarded at the ARM Conference, October 24-26,
2008.

Poets whose works are included in the issue will celebrate the launch of the
issue with readings at a Literary Gala Event as part of the conference.

Guidelines:

Poetry: Submit up to three unpublished poems with $20.00 CAD entry fee ($3 for
each additional poem).

<>Creative Non-Fiction: Entries should be short literary memoir, autobiography,
lyric essay 300-1,000 words max. One submission only with $20.00 ($3 for each
additional entry).
Photography: Black and white photographs should be submitted as 8” x 10” prints
and mailed in hard copy to the ARM/Demeter Press office. *Contest participants
outside of Canada and the U.S may email an electronic photo submission to
arm@yorku.ca. Please be sure to include all required information with your
submission. Submit up to three submissions ($3.00 for each additional entry).

Do not include name or identification on entries; this information should be
provided on the entry form. Send entries for poetry and creative non-fiction by
email to arm@yorku.ca. Photography submissions should be sent be regular mail to
the ARM/Demeter Press office (address and payment information below). Clearly
identify your entry with a subject heading: Poetry Contest or Creative
Non-Fiction Contest or Photography Contest. All submissions (Poetry, Creative
Non-Fiction, Photography) must be accompanied by an entry form. For prose and
poetry entries, send in one word attachment. Entries that include separate
files for each poem or prose entry will not be considered. Once your payment
and entry has been filed, acknowledgment of your contest entry will be made by
email.

Deadline:

Deadline: May 15, 2008 Judges TBA

Additional Photo Contest Rules and Regulations:

*By submitting the photo(s) you confirm that you are the exclusive rights holder
of the photo(s). Model releases (i.e., permission of people in the photograph)
are the responsibility of the entrant and must be available in the event that
the photo is a winner.

Photographers of selected photos will retain their rights after publication with
the understanding that ARM and Demeter Press can reprint in future publications
without payment or royalty fees. ARM/Demeter Press will hold first time North
American publication rights. Selected photos may be included in a future
ARM/Demeter Press publication, promotional materials, and/or exhibitions.

Photos that have been previously published or won an award are not eligible.

Submitted photos and entries cannot be returned.

Demeter Press and ARM are not responsible for lost or delayed entries, or
entries damaged in transit.

Photographs will be judged on creativity and excellence and how they best
capture the contest theme. Judging decisions are final.
Payment Information:

Payment can be made by credit card (Visa or Mastercard) using forms available on
our website at: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/creditcard.html

Please fax form to 416-736-5766 or email to arm@yorku.ca.

Alternately you can send your forms and payment by cheque or money order to our
offices at

ARM/Demeter Press
Rm 726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3.

**Entry form and payment must accompany all submissions.

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Demeter Press
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON,
Canada, M3J 1P3
416-736-2100 x60366 (fax) 416-736-5766
arm@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm

Transnational Dialogues:
De-centering the Academic Debate on Global Feminisms

September 26-28, 2008
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

The internationalization of local feminisms has significantly impacted how, in recent years, research agendas are structured in the U.S. and elsewhere. Feminists from all over the globe are addressing how globalization brings about new forms of gender inequality that, in many cases, are rooted in older histories of colonialism and racism. These transnational approaches move across national boundaries to assess political, economical, and cultural shifts affecting women’s lives, and emphasize connections without necessarily creating similarities. Within the U.S., feminists of color who had experienced first hand race and class biases were the first ones to create a network that included new social movements and transnational alliances. The exclusion that women of color from different racial, ethnic, physical, national, or sexual identities experienced created the conditions that generated novel coalitional movements.

Academic debates have tended to ignore other overarching issues that have produced their internationalization. Local feminisms went global during the 1990s, and produced contentious debates over the goals and strategies of feminist politics. These transnational dialogues resist essentialism and universalism and propose theories and methods that go beyond the exclusive focus on gender to make visible other forms of oppression where issues of race, class, culture, and sexual orientation intersect.

This conference seeks to engage scholars from various areas of the globe in a dialogue to challenge exclusions and omissions of these debates in mainstream academia and college curricula. Papers, panels, and workshops may be on, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:

• Theories, Methods and Challenges of Transnational Feminisms
• The Politics of the Global / Local Dynamic in Women’s Literary and / or Artistic Productions
• Feminist Geographies and Transnational Flows: Globalization, Immigration, and Displacement
• Politics of Sexualities
• Women’s Movements, State Building, and the Growth of Civil Society
• Community Building through Technology
• Building Academic Alliances Within and Beyond Women’s and Gender Studies Programs

All individual papers should be limited to 20 minutes reading time. Proposals for panel discussion and teaching workshops will receive priority. Papers in languages other than English will be considered. Selected proceedings will be considered for publication.

Undergraduate research (papers or poster sessions) encouraged, faculty approval of final paper is required to assure students’ participation. Students must submit an abstract by Feb. 29 and paper by May 30th.

Send a one­page abstract (300 words) submission by February 29, 2008 to:
Prof. Clara Román-Odio and Prof. Marta Sierra at tnr.callforpapers@kenyon.edu.

Call for papers for an “Age Studies Tomorrow: Future Scholarship” panel at the Modern Language Association conference. Submissions welcome on new avenues for exploration, new arenas in which the concepts can be applied, and the future of the field. One-page abstracts by 15 March to leni@agingstudies.org.

Call for papers for an “Age Studies Internationally” panel at the Modern Language Association conference. Age Studies Internationally. Submissions welcome on contemporary age studies applications and theories around the globe and/or across political, geographic, and cultural borders. One-page abstracts by 15 March to leni@agingstudies.org.

October 17 & 18, 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, roundtable discussions, or artistic performances that address topics including the following:

Girls and Pop Culture
Construction of Girlhood Media and Girls' Culture
Girls & Cutting/Self-Mutilation Politics of Girls Studies
Girls & Leadership Women's Studies & Girls' Studies
Girls & Child Labor Race & Class in Girls' Studies
Girls & Performance Coming of Age Glocally
Gender Research & Girls Body Image and Girls
Girls & Disabilities Girls & Sexuality
Girls & Ink. Human Trafficking & Girls
Girls & Religion Indigenous Women and Girls
Human Rights of Girls Chick Lit
Globalization and Girlhood Girls & Sports Construction of Tween Agers/Girls Girls & Resistance
Girls & Gangs Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Girls Studies
Transnational Adoption of Girls Violence against Girls & Women
Girl Power & Feminism/Anti-Feminism Girl Power and Politics
American Girls and Beyond Girls' Studies in Academe
Girls and Grassroots Activism Reviving Ophelia, Surviving Ophelia, Resisting Ophelia Growing up Incarcerated Girls across/between Worlds Parenting/Raising Girls Representations of Girls
Girls as Parents

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.

Women's Studies undergraduate e-journal, "transcending silence..." to receive submissions from undergraduate students. The deadline this year is March 17, 2008.

If you have any students who have completed compelling research projects
or creative works, especially digital work, please let them know about
this call-for-submissions.

For more information, please visit the website:
http://www.albany.edu/ws/journal/

I have been asked to serve as General Editor for the first ever encyclopedia on
motherhood (700 entries/3 volumes) to be published by Sage Press in 2010.

I am currently looking for topics/authors for the encyclopedia.

If you are interested in writing on a topic PLEASE SEND TOPIC SUGGESTION, YOUR
NAME, EMAIL, BRIEF BIO IN ONE ATTACHMENT TO aoreilly@yorku.ca

Also, if you have ideas for topics please send in email text to
aoreilly@yorku.ca

thanks

Andrea

Dr. Andrea O'Reilly,
Associate Professor,
School of Women's Studies,
Director: Association for Research on Mothering,
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Demeter Press,
York University,
Toronto, Ont.,
M3J 1P3
416 736 2100;60366
aoreilly@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm

Two CFPs for MLA Special Session panels about online course management:

1. Course Management: Friend or Foe? What courses benefit from using online components to supplement in-person instruction, and in what courses do such “enhancements” detract from student learning experiences? Two-page abstracts by March 1. Julie McFadden: jmcfadde@carleton.edu.

2. Babel Bytes. How (well) do Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT, and other course management systems work when teaching non-Latinate languages? Which systems and kinds of instruction work best for online environments? Two-page abstracts by March 1. Julie McFadden: jmcfadde@carleton.edu.

Call for Submissions for

Rebel Girl, Rebel Worlds: An Anthology of International Grrrl Zines

By Elke Zobl (Austria) with Red Chidgey (UK),
Sonja Eismann (Germany/Austria) and Haydeé Jiménez (Mexico/USA)

DO YOU PUBLISH A ZINE WITH A FEMINIST TAKE AND WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO
AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF GRRRL ZINES?

We are zine activists who believe that the cut'n'paste revolution is an
important part of contemporary movements for social change ­ whether it's
talking about messed up beauty standards, how to change rape culture, or
how to fix the wheels on your bike, zines are crucial documents for
everyday change, empowerment, and education.

To create a living archive of feminist zines from across the globe, we are
working on an overview of the international Grrrl Zine Network; bringing
together primary documents on a wide range of topics with analyses of the
strengths and challenges of the Third Wave feminist movement. Based on
Elke's web site GRRRL ZINE NETWORK - A resource site for international
grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines, distros and DIY projects
(http://grrrlzines.net), we are compiling this anthology to document the
variety and fierceness of pro-girl zinesters' voices and are looking for
your contributions!

The Book
Part grassroots history, part activist anthology, Rebel Girl, Rebel Worlds
is a pioneering text, consisting of a mix of essays, interviews with
zinesters, visual examples from zines, documentation of zine events, scene
reports from various countries, resource guides and manifestos - all from
a global viewpoint. We believe that zines are a vital form of alternative
media that provide stories, art, critiques and reportage lacking from the
corporate-run, male-dominated presses. Zines help us to resist the status
quo, engage with our feminism, and make a difference. This book hopes to
provide a comprehensive overview of this culture in order to introduce
zine-making to a broader audience, and to collect together some of the
most inspiring writing from grrrls and their allies today.

Aims
This non-profit book hopes to represent a wide range of voices and
experiences from the grrrl zine community. We do not strive for uniformity
of opinion, but hope to build a picture of dissent, skill-sharing,
collaboration and network building. This book will illustrate that grrrl
and ladies in many countries are working on zines and keep the feminist
movement alive and well! It is our aim that young women, feminists,
trans-folk and their allies across the world will gain a sense of personal
and political empowerment from reading this book, when they discover that
they too can take the tools of cultural resistance into their own hands
and contribute to the global feminist effort of dismantling patriarchy and
effecting social change.

Please submit!
We are eager for this project to be as collaborative as possible. Please
send us your zine, contact us if you know a cool zine you’d like to see
included, let us know if you’d like to do an interview or are just curious
about the project! We are open to suggestions and ideas! Submissions are
welcomed from feminist zine producers, editors and distributors from all
parts of the world (covering zines from 1980 to the present day).

Potential contributors could submit:
* Feminist zines (electronic or print) via email or postal mail
* Digital images from feminist zines (images, covers, photos,
illustrations, comics etc.) via email
* Interviews with grrrl zinesters
* Essays on the grrrl zine community and Third Wave feminism
* Scene reports - what is the history of grrrl/feminist zines in your
country?
* Comixs on third wave feminism/riot grrrl/girl zine culture

The call includes, but is not limited to, zines which address the
following topics:
- The personal is political
- Let's smash patriarchy! Riot Grrrl, Feminism and Activism
- DIY revolution! Music, art, pop culture, and comics
- Ethnicity, race, colonialism
- Gender identities
- Women’s Bodies and Health, disabilities
- Zinemamas: Motherhood and alternative views of parenting
- The Beauty Myth: Body image and self-esteem
- Sex and Sexualities
- Survivor Culture: Abuse, Violence against women, self-defense
- Class, work and education
- Travel and leisure
- Religion and beliefs
- Environment and animal rights
- Protest, Dreams and Utopias

All submitted zines will be listed at www.grrrlzines.net. A selection of
zine articles, interviews, essays and scene reports will be chosen to
feature in the anthology.

Submissions:
Please include, a short biography, full contact details, date of birth and
nationality.

Zines should be submitted to elke@grassrootsfeminism.net or via postal
Mail to: Elke Zobl, Roemerweg 22, 5061 Elsbethen, Austria (Europe).

by Monday, March 31, 2008. Many thanks!

We expect to complete the book by June 30, 2008. (The book proposal will be
submitted to a feminist publisher in the USA)

Biographical notes on editors

Elke Zobl, Austria (*1975) created the online resource site Grrrl Zine
Network (www.grrrlzines.net) in 2001 and has been part of the Grrrl Zines
A-Go-Go collective conducting zine workshops with girls and young women in
San Diego, USA (www.gzagg.org). Since her return to Austria for research
projects on feminism and alternative media, she has conducted many zine
workshops and exhibits. She is currently working on a comprehensive web
site on Grassroots Feminism: An archive and resource platform of the
feminist movement today, www.grassrootsfeminism.net (up soon).

Red Chidgey, UK (*1979) has been involved in zine cultures for the past
ten years, including running the pro-girl zine resource fingerbang distro.
She received her MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex,
where she re-trained as a Life History researcher. She curated last year's
ZineFest! at the Women's Library, London, and recently published a chapter
on riot grrrl writing in Riot Girl: Revolution Grrrl Style Now! (Blackdog,
2007). www.redchidgey.net

Sonja Eismann, Germany/Austria (*1973) works as a pop culture journalist and
academic. She was a founding member of femzine nylon in Vienna and is
writing on feminism and pop culture (www.plastikmaedchen.net). Recently,
she published the anthology Hot Topic: Popfeminismus heute (2007).

Haydeé Jiménez , US/Mexico (*1981), grew up in Tijuana, Mexico. She studied
International Relations with a focus on Latin America and is interested in
issues such as human rights, gender issues, environment, and migration.
When she is not working with Elke on grrrlzines.net, she puts out her own
electronic music projects (www.myspace.com/hidhawk, http://umor-rex.com).

Call for Applications

Penn State Harrisburg has established a new grant program to
support visiting scholars and graduate students who need to use
materials held by Archives and Special Collections in the Penn
State Harrisburg Library.

The travel and research grant program encourages scholarly use
of the repository's premier collection, the Alice K. Marshall
Women's History Collection, considered to be one of the largest
privately-compiled research collections on women's history in
the United States.

One or more grants will be awarded with stipends between $500
and $3,000 to cover travel, overnight accommodations, and other
research-related expenses. Research topics are not limited to
women's history, but they must require significant use of the
repository's holdings.

DEADLINE FOR THE RECEIPT OF 2008-2009 APPLICATIONS: MAY 1,
2008. Recipients will be notified by late May 2008.

For more information and to access the grant guidelines and an
application form, please visit
http://www.hbg.psu.edu/library/speccoll/grant.html, or contact
Heidi N. Abbey, Humanities Reference Librarian and Archivist,
via email at heidi.abbey@psu.edu, or by phone at 717-948-6056.

Seeking Submissions from U.S. Writers for 3 Proposed Books*

(The first 2 guidelines are posted in part at http://www.encirclepub.com/poetry/aurorean/announcements; the 3rd at www.rachaelhanel.com)

Women & Poetry: Tips on Writing, Publishing and Teaching
from American Women Poets

Foreword by Robin Merrill, Maine Poets Society President 2006-2007. M.F.A. Stonecoast. With hundreds of poems published, some from her chapbook Laundry & Stories (Moon Pie Press) were featured on Garrison Keillor's "Writers' Almanac." http://www.robinmerrill.com

Afterword by the editors of Iris Magazine, an award-winning publication of 27 years celebrating and empowering young women through provocative articles, essays, and fiction pieces that are uplifting, inclusive, and literate. http://womenscenter.virginia.edu/coreprograms/iris.html

Markets for women, why women write, time management, using life experience, women's magazines, critique groups, networking, blogs, unique issues women must overcome, lesbian and bisexual writing, formal education, queries and proposals, conference participation, family scheduling, feminist writing, self-publishing, teaching tips, are just a few areas women poets are interested.

Practical, concise, how-to articles with bullets/headings have proven the most helpful. Please avoid writing about "me" and concentrate on what will most help the reader.

Milestones for American Women: Our Defining Passages

Foreword by Carolyn Lesser, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, nonfiction writing faculty; natural science children's books published by Harcourt, Alfred A. Knopf; essayist, poet, photographer, keynote speaker, artist.

Afterword by Dr. Loriene Roy, 2007-2008 President of the American Library Association. Professor, University of Texas at Austin, founder of "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything," a national reading club for Native American children.

Please consider sharing the important milestones, life changing events, transitions in your life--material that would broadly fit the "Women's Studies" genre that is highly readable, moving and relatable. There are the passages that occur to us (for example, losing a loved one, having to relocate) and then the passages we choose (such as getting a degree in mid-life, adopting a child). Please focus on those pivotal moments and why they were milestones for you.

This book celebrates our passages as women, from one moment into another, from one door to the next. Often it is after the navigation, that in reflection, we see that some of the most difficult are the ones we have learned the most and have had lasting effects as well on those around us.

Guidelines for Women and Poetry
and/or Milestones for American Women:

Step 1: send your proposed topics before writing articles to avoid duplication; proposed topics must be accompanied by a 65-70 word bio with your present position, location, relevant publications, career highlights for the contributor page; please use POETS or MILESTONES as the subject line to smallwood@tm.net

Step 2:(if your topics are approved): deadline for submissions (by e-mail only) is March 30, 2008. Again, please use POETS or MILESTONES in the subject line; send to either Cynthia at brackett-vincent@encirclepub.com; or Carol at
smallwood@tm.net in a Word document (.doc format only) using 12-point Times New Roman font.

Article specifics: word total for 1-2 articles based on your experience: 1,900 minimum; maximum 2,100. Two articles preferred. If submitting two articles, please break them up fairly evenly in word count.

No previously published or simultaneously submitted material. Contributors must be reside in the U.S. Books such as this can typically take up to a year to compile. Contributors receive a complimentary copy and contributor's discount on additional copies.

Co-editor Cynthia Brackett-Vincent is publisher/editor of the esteemed Aurorean poetry journal; poetry instructor; award-winning poet; author of The 95 Poems chapbook (2005) and contributor to Educators as Writers: Publishing for Personal and Professional Development. In 2007, her poems received a citation, honorable mention and second place in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, New England Writers and Maine Poets Society competitions. View Cynthia's background http://www.encirclepub.com/poetry/aurorean/editor

Co-editor, Carol Smallwood has written, co-authored, and edited 18 books such as Michigan Authors, for Scarecrow, Libraries Unlimited. An award-winning writer, her work has appeared in English Journal, Clackamas Literary Review, Phoebe, The Writer's Chronicle, and several others including anthologies; Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women. A chapbook is forthcoming from Pudding House. Her recent book
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=68601&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1

3.

Women Writing on Family: Writing, Publishing, and Teaching Tips by U.S. Women Writers

Foreword: Robbi Hess, Journalist, co-author, Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names (Penguin Books); Editor, Byline Magazine

Afterword: Suzanne Bunkers, Professor of English, Minnesota State University, editor of Diaries of Girls and Women: a Midwestern American Sampler (University of Wisconsin Press).

This is a book not just on writing but tips for women writing about family. Possible subject areas you might address include: markets; why women write about family; using life experience; critique groups; networking; blogs; unique issues women must overcome; formal education; queries and proposals; conference participation; family scheduling; self-publishing; teaching tips; family in creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, novels.

Practical, concise, how-to articles with bullets/headings have proven the most helpful to readers. Please avoid writing about "me" and concentrate on what will help the reader.

Word total for 1-2 articles based on your experience:
1,900 minimum; maximum 2,100. Two articles preferred.
If submitting 2, please break them up fairly evenly in word count.

No previously published or simultaneously submitted material, please.

Deadline: March 30, 2008

Contributors receive a complimentary copy and contributor's discount on additional copies. It is common for compilation of an anthology to take upwards of a year, but we will be in touch with updates on securing a publisher.

Co-Editor Rachael Hanel is a freelance writer and college instructor in Madison Lake, MN. The first chapter of her memoir was named runner-up for the 2006 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction at the Bellingham Review and appears in the Spring 2007 issue. The chapter was also a semifinalist for the 2006 Gulf Coast Creative Nonfiction Award. She teaches personal essay and editing. Her website is www.rachaelhanel.com

Co-Editor Carol Smallwood has written, co-authored, and edited 19 books such as Michigan Authors, for Scarecrow, Libraries Unlimited. Her work has appeared in English Journal, Clackamas Literary Review, Phoebe, The Writer's Chronicle, The Detroit News, several others including anthologies; she's in Who's Who of American Women. A chapbook is forthcoming from Pudding House; a co-edited anthology is with an agent. A recent book is
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=68601&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1

Please send your topics first before writing (to avoid possible duplication) along with brief descriptions and 65-70 word bio with your present position, relevant publications, awards or honors. Use FAMILY for the subject line and submit to Rachael at rachael_hanel@yahoo.com

*In our experience, most publishers return rights to individual contributors variously after publication. However, because we are still seeking a publisher, we cannot speak to those rights specifically at this time. Contributors will be asked to sign a release form from the publisher and therefore will be have the opportunity to agree to the details of the contract or withdraw one's work at that time.

The Women's Studies Section will hold its first annual Research Poster Session during our General Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, Saturday, June 28, 2008, 4:00-5:30 p.m. The forum seeks to provide beginning and established researchers and librarians an opportunity to present research or work in progress, and receive collaborative feedback and recommendations for future publishing and/or new initiatives.

The potential scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, teaching methods, instruction, information technology, collection development, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration with academic faculty. For research ideas, see the Women’s Studies Research Agenda.(http://www.libr.org/wss/committees/research/resagenda.html)

Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in related issues and trends in the profession.

The committee will use a blind review process.

Selection criteria:

1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women’s Studies Section members and/or women’s studies topics.

2. Originality of the project.

Proposal submission instructions:

1. Proposals should include:
Title of the proposal
Proposal narrative (no more than 2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt. font)
Name of applicant(s)
Affiliation
Applicant address(es), Phone number(s), Email address(es), Fax number(s)

Are you a member of Women’s Studies Section? ___Yes ___ No
If you would like to become a member, go to: http://www.libr.org/wss/join.html

2. Submission deadline: March 31, 2008

3. Proposals should be emailed to: Cindy Ingold. Chair, Research Committee
(cingold@uiuc.edu)

4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 15, 2008.

THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES
Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-18 July 2008
http://www.HumanitiesConference.com

The Humanities Conference and its associated Journal provides a space
for dialogue and for the publication of new knowledge which builds on
the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda
for their future.

Main speakers include Alparslan Acikgenc, Fatih University, Istanbul;
Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge; Alice Craven, American
University of Paris; Talat Halman, Bilkent University; and Ilber
Ortayli, President of the Topkapi Palace Museum. The Conference will
also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by
practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to
invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may
choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed
International Journal of New Directions in the Humanities. If you are
unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are
also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and
possible publication the Journal, as well as access to the electronic
version of the Conference proceedings.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and
short abstract) is 31 March 2008. Proposals are reviewed within four
weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online
proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website -
http://www.HumanitiesConference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to
join us in Istanbul in July 2008.

Yours Sincerely,
Vassil Anastassov
Department of English Language and Literature
Fatih University
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on New Directions in
the Humanities

Call for Papers:

Brunel University's Centre for American, Transatlantic and Caribbean History (CATCH) is organising a one-day conference on 7th June 2008 to discuss transatlantic perspectives on American women's history. The conference will reflect on the contours of American's women's history research today, particularly amongst scholars and postgraduates working and studying in the UK, although papers are also welcome from those researching in the United States and elsewhere. The conference will include two plenaries. One will be given by Professor Jay Kleinberg, Director of CATCH and an editor of the recently published: The Practice of US Women's History: Narratives, Intersections and Dialogues, who will address US women's history practice and practitioners in the UK. Professor of Women's and American Studies at the University of Kansas, Ann Schofield, will discuss transatlantic approaches to American women's and gender history.

The conference will consist of discussion panels, chaired by historians such as Dr. Inge Dornan (Brunel), where panellists will summarise the arguments of their pre-circulated papers and questions will follow. There will also be poster sessions where postgraduates and others can outline their research projects. The conference organisers are aware of the need for greater discussion of American women's history within the United Kingdom where innovative research is taking place. It is hoped that the papers will be published and that a network and an annual conference will be established as outcomes of this conference.

Themes of the conference could include but are not limited to:

Ethnicity and Race,

Class and Labour,

Sexuality,

Life cycles: Aging and Family,

Growing Up Female,

Social Movements,

Gender vs. Women's History,

Feminist History and Activism,

Women and Education,

Female Occupations,

Women and War.

Papers are welcome from established academics, early career scholars and postgraduates. There will be no charge for the conference which will be held at Brunel University in Uxbridge, Middlesex. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please submit a 300 word abstract by April 15th to the conference secretary, Rachel Cohen, at Rachel.Cohen@brunel.ac.uk.

On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, we would like to inform you of the:

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES
Monash University Centre, Prato, Tuscany, Italy, 22-25 July 2008
http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com

The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences examines the nature of disciplinary practices, and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of 'real world' applications. It also interrogates what constitutes 'science' in a social context, and the connections between the social and other sciences.

Main speakers include Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Constantine Skordoulis, Professor of Physics and Epistemology of Natural Sciences in the Department of Education at the University of Athens, Greece. The Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 31 March 2008. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Prato in July 2008.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Norma Burgess
Dean, College for Graduate Studies
Chatham University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
We are now accepting submissions for our April screening of
Threat Level.
If you identify yourself or your work as somehow queer, then you
and your work belong. This series is a venue for the great work
being made by queers everywhere as well as creating a vibrant
and supportive space for community building.
In order to continue the representation of the diversity of queer
voices, queer and trans filmmakers of color are strongly encouraged
to submit their work.

*Submissions must be received by April 3rd*.
We will not review late submissions for the April screening;
but, we will include them for review in the June screening.

Please send all submissions to:

"Threat Level"
c/o Feder/Rosskam
1265 W. Early Ave #2
Chicago, IL.
60660

Please send only NTSC, DVD's in english or with english subtitles.
Be sure to include: a short description of the work, contact info
for the filmmaker and your mailing address.

As this is an on-going screening series, if you can not make the first
deadline, please send your submission after that date to be considered
for a future screening.

Check out our myspace page:
myspace.com/threatlevelqueershorts

Co-editors: Brigitte Bechtold (Central Michigan University; becht1bh@cmich.edu
) and Donna Cooper Graves (University of Tennessee at
Martin; dgraves@utm.edu ).

This one-volume specialized encyclopedia, to be published by the Edwin Mellen Press,
will be devoted to the topic of infanticide across human history and in its worldwide context. While remaining accessible to the general public, this interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be aimed primarily at college students, scholars in related fields, and professionals. It will include entries of various lengths, and longer contributions on broad geographic areas. All will be signed by their authors, who will also receive individual bylines in the volume.

* Identify the entries you are interested in submitting via email to both
co-editors by June 15, 2008
* Include an attachment in Windows XP of your 2-page CV, with your academic
affiliation, and areas of research and teaching
* Completed short entries (250, 500, 750 words) will be due September 15, 2008
* Completed long entries (1000 or 2,500 words) will be due December 15, 2008
* The maximum number of references per entry is as follows: 3 for entries of 250
words; 4 for entries of 500 words; 5 for entries of 750 words, 7 for entries of 1000
words, and 10 for the 2,500 word essays. Only one internet source should be included
per entry. In their introductory overview, the co-editors will include a list of
resources

Geographic areas

We are looking for several substantive submissions of 2500 words, covering the large
geographic areas listed below. For these, the following topics must be addressed:
poverty, infanticide rationale, sex selection, midwifery, abandonment, urban-rural
patterns, criminalization, forensics, legislation, high-profile cases.

Africa; Arab world; Australia; Caribbean, Central and Latin America; China; Europe
(Continental); India; Japan and Korea; United Kingdom and the Commonwealth; United
States

For the following entries, the recommended number of words is in parentheses.
Suggestions for additional entries will be given due consideration. If your term is
one included in the substantive geographic areas listed above, your entry should
focus only on the definitional character of the term.

A Abandonment (250); Aboriginal (250); Abortion (500); Accusation (250); Antiquity
(500)

B Baby farms (1000); Birth defects (250); Birth order (500)

C Cannibalism (250); Case study (250); Census (750); Child murder (250);
Colonialism (1000); Commission of violence (1000); Concealment of birth (750);
Coroners (750); Criminalization (1000)

D Demography (1000); Dowry (250)

E Ellenborough Act (250); Environment (500)

F Fairy tales (500); Feral children (250); Filicide (250); Forensics (1000);
Foundling homes (750); Foucault, Michel (250); Freud, Sigmund (250)

G Goebbels, Magda (250)

H High-profile cases (750); Honor Killing (250); Hugo, Victor (250); Hydrostatic
lung test (500)

I Illegitimacy (500); Incest (750); Infant depositories (750); Industrialization;
(1000); Inheritance (500)

L Langer, William L. (250); Lawmakers (250); Legislation (250); Literary fiction
(1000)

M Mal de mâchoire (250); Medea (250); Medieval period (750); Methodology (1000);
Midwifery (500); Mythology (500)

N Neonaticide (250); Nineteenth Century (500); Nomadism (500)

O Omission of care (500); One-child policy (500); Overlaying (250)

P Pacific Islands (500); Paternal recognition (250); Patriarchy (750); Poor farms
(500); Post-partum depression (750); Post-traumatic stress (250); Poverty (500);
Pre-history (1000); Puerperal fever (500)

R Rape (250); Religion (500); Rural (250); Roe v. Wade (250)

S Sen, A. K. (250); Servitude (1000); Sex ratio (500) ; Sex selection (250);
Slavery (1000); Statute, 1624, James I (250); Stigma (250)

T Tours d'abandon (500); Twinship (500)

U Urban (500)

V Villermé (250)

W Wetnursing (750); Women's shelters (500); Women's studies (250); World Health
Organization (500)

New Journal for 2008 | Call for Papers

The editors of Emotion, Space and Society invite submissions from across the full spectrum of the social sciences and humanities.

Research articles and opinion pieces should investigate the multiplicity of spaces and places that produce and are produced by emotional and affective life. We encourage a broad range of
theoretical and methodological engagements with emotion as a social, cultural and spatial phenomenon, and welcome innovative presentational formats.

To submit your article online, go to: http://ees.elsevier.com/emospa/

For more information on Emotion, Space and Society, please email one of the Editors named below, or visit us online at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/locate/emospa

EDITORS, Emotion, Space and Society
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Dr. Joyce Davidson, Queen's University, Canada
joyce.davidson@queensu.ca

Dr. Liz Bondi, University of Edinburgh, UK
liz.bondi@ed.ac.uk

Dr. Elspeth Probyn, The University of Sydney, Australia
elspeth.probyn@arts.usyd.edu.au

Dr. Mick Smith, Queen's University, Canada
ms24@post.queensu.ca

For queries about book reviews and review articles, please contact:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Bettina van Hoven, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
b.van.hoven@frw.rug.nl

Deborah Thien, California State University, USA
dthien@csulb.edu

MP Journal is accepting submissions for its 2008 summer issue. We are
accepting papers on any feminist theme for a general issue. Submissions
can be of two types: (1) academic articles on feminist issues. (2)
creative pieces (prose or poetry) on feminist themes/issues. Submissions
will not be accepted any later than May 5, 2008.

In order to be considered, all submissions should:

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

Send submission to: lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com

Copyright Information

In order to assure the widest possible audience for the work published in
MP, that work is added, by contractual agreement, to one or more EBSCO
Publishing databases. The users of those databases have access and limited
copying privileges with respect to work appearing in MP. Your submission
indicates that this arrangement is acceptable to you and that upon
acceptance you agree to license your work to MP Journal and to its
sub-licensor, EBSCO Publishing. You further confirm that the work has not
been published prior to its appearance in MP. In addition, you confirm it
is original work that abides by all copyright rules and regulations. You
understand that, upon publication, all rights to this work will revert to
you, the author. However, you also understand that MP reserves the right
to publish this work (in part or in its entirety) in electronic form on
its website and/or on electronic information databases published by
others.

Image Use

All images used in MP comply with US copyright law and are either in the
public domain or are used with written permission of the copyright holder.

As part of our October conference on Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War and
Social Justice, ARM will host an EMBEDDED CONFERENCE ON THE MOTHERHOOD
MOVEMENT for Saturday, October 25, 2008 (This embedded conference will relate
to the Social Justice stream of the larger conference).

ARM WILL BE INVITING SPEAKERS FROM ALL THE MOTHERHOOD ORGANIZATIONS;
NAMC, MOTHERS AND MORE, MOTHERS ACTING UP, MOMS RISING, MOTHERHOOD
PROJECT ETC.* IN addition to the panels, roundtables by the leaders of
the motherhood movement.... WE HOPE TO HAVE A FULL LINE OF PAPERS ON THE TOPIC
OF THE MOTHERHOOD MOVEMENT.

The conference is tentatively entitled: "YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION:
THE MOTHERHOOD MOVEMENT OF THE 21st CENTURY"

***IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PRESENTING A PAPER, AT THIS POINT ALL WE
NEED FROM YOU IS***

1) TITLE OF PAPER
2) SHORT BIO
3) FULL CONTACT INFO

BUT WE NEED BY APRIL 20!!! Please email this information to arm@yorku.ca
asap so we can include your presentation in our grant application due at
the end of April 08.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORK AND GET YOUR TITLE/BIO/CONTACT INFO IN BY APRIL 20TH.

THIS WILL TRULY BE A LANDMARK EVENT AND AND IMPORTANT PART OF OUR LARGER
CONFERENCE

Dr. Andrea O'Reilly,
Associate Professor,
School of Women's Studies,
Director: Association for Research on Mothering,
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Demeter Press,
York University,
Toronto, Ont.,
M3J 1P3
416 736 2100;60366
aoreilly@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm

CALL FOR PAPERS

Latina/Chicana Mothering

The topic of Latina/Chicana Mothering is an important emerging motherhood theme. I invite submissions on this topic from a wide variety of perspectives and themes to include in an upcoming book. Submissions from scholars, graduate students, activists, mothers, and researchers in this field are welcome. Historical, comparative, and inter-disciplinary work is also encouraged.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should be original and previously unpublished. In addition, they should be 15-25 pages and sent as attachments in MS Word or WordPerfect format. All submitted papers will be blind-reviewed by the editor. Your paper should therefore include your name and contact information only on a separate cover page, which should also have a brief biography. The deadline is June 15, 2008.

Send submissions or inquiries to: Editor at latinachicanamothering@
yahoo.com

October 24 & 25, 2008
Marist College, Poughkeepsie New York

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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 studied 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

Proposals must be postmarked no later than July 11, 2008

Editors: Jenny Davis, Joshua Raclaw, and Lal Zimman (Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder)

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 linguistic 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).

Abstracts due June 30, 2008.
First round of full drafts due September 1, 2008.

Please direct all correspondence to the editors at jennifer.davis@colorado.edu, raclaw@colorado.edu, zimman@colorado.edu

I am currently compiling a co-edited volume for the University Press of Kentucky examining voices of political dissent in popular culture. UPK is a peer reviewed, university press, and we have received initial acceptance for submitting detailed abstracts for this publication. My co-editor is Joseph Foy (editor of the forthcoming Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture, University of Kentucky Press). Ideally, we are looking for a paper related to gender and popular culture that would fit into the broad theme of the book whose working title is The Revolution is Being Televised: Voices of Dissent in Popular Culture. The core argument that unifies the text is that there is a transformative power in elements of popular culture that enables voices of dissent to be expressed, become organized, and affect mainstream political discussion -- transforming peripheral voices to voices of currency. We are broadly targeting the content of the book, predicting that the text will appeal to both academic and mainstream audiences. Your help is appreciated!"

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Dr. Tim Dale
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina, Upstate
Library, Room 241
800 University Way
Spartanburg, SC 29303
Phone: 864-503-5261

Please respond to him at tdale@uscupstate.edu

The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, invites proposals for its 2008 Women’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference.

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 by August 1, 2008.

Women’s Studies
The University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069

Women and Language calls for submissions to a special issue dedicated to Hip Hop's Languages of Love. The issue will focus on love in hip hop as it relates to language and gender. It will 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.comno later than January 15, 2009. 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.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. Any questions related to other issues involving W& L should be directed to Ataylor@gmu.edu.

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ebony a. utley, ph.d.
http://www.csulb.edu/~eutley

CCCCs Feminist Panel; San Francisco, March 11-14th 2009

Description of Workshop:

The 2002 anthology Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic
Discourse suggests that the divide that has persisted in feminist
scholarship between activism and intellectualism results from divergent ways
of defining change-- change as something to be debated or shaped. These
discussions have often highlighted the disjuncture between various feminist
groups and forms of feminism within the academy, as well as the uneasy
relationship between academics and activism. Such disjunctures, however, are
also productive and can signal the ways in which academia and the community
might continue to dialogue. This workshop seeks to analyze these
disjunctures as productive difference and to interrogate their implications
in the creation of feminist coalitions, pedagogies, and mentorships. We
would like to address the theoretical and practical roles of feminists in
the academic community in shaping feminism's dedication to change-- as a
movement and a discourse-- that crosses and negotiates the currents of
difference.

Additionally, this workshop asks participants to frame and respond to
questions such as the following:

- What are the bases for coalitions between academic feminists and feminist
community activists, artists, or workers?
- What coalitions seem to be lacking in academic feminist communities?
- What are the effects of conflicts within feminist academic
communities--i.e. the Andrea Smith tenure case at Michigan--on feminism as a
social movement?
- How do conflicts or coalitions within online communities affect the "real
world" structures of feminism, in the academy or in other contexts?
- What political issues not historically identified with feminism--i.e.
immigration, security issues, environmentalism--have feminists been
contributing to in productive ways?
- In what ways have these movements offered alternative models for
coalition-building?
- Which issues are feminist communities overlooking or not doing enough to
address?
- Is feminist pedagogy a form of feminist activism?
- If feminist pedagogy is a form of activism, what kinds of practices do
people use in their classrooms or in their writing?
- How can feminist mentorship facilitate feminist coalitions and activism?

This workshop will be divided into three interconnected parts.

Part One: Currents
Part One will explore the work of women of color and academic-activists
working in our current political climate. This panel will feature the voices
of academics and activists, discussing feminist-activist research and
methods, activist projects, and collaborative community and coalition work.
This portion will involve interactive discussion and multimedia
presentations.

Part Two: Pedagogies
Part Two will be an interactive portion as well, where participants will
share feminist knowledges and pedagogies. This part will consist of brief
presentations by participants, who will discuss their classroom practices
and rationales specifically. Every participant will bring handouts on
syllabi, activities, and assignments. All workshop participants will
brainstorm pedagogical choices and methods. Some activities in this portion
will be roundtable discussions and some large group discussions. Multimedia
and creative presentation formats are highly encouraged.
We will collaborate on creating an online archive resource for these
materials, from which there will be a publishing opportunity in a
peer-reviewed pedagogy journal.

Part Three: Coalitions
Part Three will discuss coalitions and mentorship in academia and in the
community, particularly for underrepresented groups. This interactive
portion will involve prominent academic-activists discussing successful
examples of coalition building and mentorship. All speakers and participants
will explore advantages and obstacles to mentorship in large and small group
discussions, as well as brainstorm techniques for successful local and
national, feminist coalition building.

Publication:
As was outlined briefly in Part Two, there will be opportunities to publish
the pedagogical materials submitted, brainstormed, and collaboratively
created in this workshop to an online archive and/or a special issue of a
peer-reviewed pedagogy journal.

Requirements/Submission Guidelines:
We invite proposals for brief presentations (6-9 minutes), to be included in
Part One or Part Two. Presentations outside of the traditional paper format
(multimedia, performative reading, interactive, etc.) are especially
welcome. Please submit abstracts of no more than one double-spaced page to
4Cfeministworkshop@gmail.com by *April 30, 2008*.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite papers for a one-day symposium on the global sexually explicit
imagery on 30 September 2008, in Athens.

The symposium is intended as a forum that will explore the ways in which the
sexually explicit imagery is socialised 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, analyse and articulate the need to review and revisit academic,
political and cultural understandings of pornography and analyse 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 organised within the framework of the
British Academy funded project, managed by Katharine Sarikakis (University
of Leeds) and Liza Tsaliki (University of Athens).

We 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:

-socialisation 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. Katharine
Sarikakis, 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 this symposium.

Symposium fees: 80 Euros.

The symposium is organised 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

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

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Expanding Literacy Studies is an International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students to be held April 3-5, 2009, at The Ohio State University.

Literacy Studies is a recent construct. At the same time, it addresses long-standing questions and concerns within and across disciplines. But what is literacy? Who is studying it? And how is it being studied?

Literacy is traditionally defined as reading and writing. Contemporary constructs, however, include everything from cyber and health literacy to mathematical and visual literacy. The potential advance this broadened view might represent is complicated by historical myths about literacy, persistent fears about declines in literacy, and failure to connect literacy research across disciplines.

Addressing the need for an expanded conversation about literacy that exceeds disciplinary boundaries, this conference is a space for graduate and professional students from all fields to ask questions, consider directions, examine representations, make connections, and share investigations of literacy, broadly defined. This conference aims to expand the dialogue and explore the landscape and intersections of literacy studies as a framework of critical investigation. This approach is meant to do the double work of expanding the field while critiquing the expansion. To that end, we invite proposals from graduate and professional students in ALL fields.

POSSIBLE TOPICS AND POINTS OF ENTRY:

health literacy
literacy and technology
visual literacy
representations of literacy
definitions of literacy
law and literacy
art literacy
uses and abuses of literacy
motivations for literacy
symbol systems
the sociology of literacy
the teaching of literacy
reading and writing
literacy and science
performances of literacy
literacy and popular culture
the future of literacy
histories of literacy
intersections of literacy
production and consumption of texts
multiple literacies
the literacy myth
literacy and social change
sites of literacy
literacy in communities
work literacy

WAYS TO PARTICIPATE:

Facilitate a Roundtable Conversation
Lead an Interactive Workshop
Present a Creative Performance or Work of Art
Participate on a Panel (present a paper or discuss a poster)
Serve as a Discussant on a Panel of Presentations
Share and Discuss Your Research in a Dissertation Workshop

WAYS TO COLLABORATE:

To facilitate cross-discipline and cross-institutional collaboration on proposals, we will begin posting requests for collaborators on the conference website immediately. Visit the site to connect with people who have submitted requests and/or submit your own request for collaborators. Please include a description of the topic and format (presentation, performance, workshop, etc.) you are interested in collaborating on, along with your contact information.

CONFERENCE SPECIAL FEATURES:

Keynote Panel: “Responses to The Literacy Myth: 30 Years Later”
In honor of the 30th Anniversary of the publication of The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century, author Harvey J. Graff will discuss "the literacy myth" past, present, and future with a panel of graduate students from various disciplines. Graff is currently Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor of English and History at The Ohio State University.
Other Plenary Sessions To Be Announced

DEADLINE:

We will begin reviewing conference proposals September 1, 2008.

Proposals will not be accepted after October 15, 2008.

To learn more about the conference and to submit proposals, please go to http://literacystudies.osu.edu/conference.

This conference is sponsored by Literacy Studies @ The Ohio State University.

(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 ofpast transitions in sexualities are also welcome.

We 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.

We 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 our 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

** Deadline: June 20, 2008 **

For more information, please contact us at info [at] thirdspace.ca

Cheers,
Jenea Tallentire
Chief co-editor, /thirdspace/
www.thirdspace.ca

The Gender Issues SIG of ALISE is accepting proposals for the ALISE 2009 conference. The theme of the Gender Issues SIG’s program will be “Gender Issues in the Digital Age.” Please send a 300 word abstract of your proposed paper to Kay Cassell, SCILS, Rutgers University.

Your proposal should include a cover sheet with the paper’s title and author and contact information and a second page with the abstract that does not show your name or contact information. The proposals will be refereed by the program committee. Submissions should be sent in electronic format to Kay Cassell (kcassell@scils.rutgers.edu). Deadline: June 15, 2008.

*** Call for Writings from ABE Practitioners ***
What's your experience of working with women in ABE/ESOL? We'd like
to know....

Empowering Women through Literacy: Views from Experience
Edited by Mev Miller, Ed.D. and Kathleen King, Ed.D.
We invite practitioners working in adult basic/literacy education --
classroom teachers, educators, tutors, administrators, and
researchers -- to make a proposal for what you'd like to contribute
to a book of writings and artwork by adult basic education teachers/ educators addressing women's literacy issues.

We are very interested in receiving personal stories and reflections
(or community stories and solutions). Though we will include
scholarly writing, our goal is to make this a collection of
teachers' voices in all sorts of expressions.

Topics Explored: Barriers and Challenges to Discussing Women's Issues
in Literacy Classes or Addressing Them in Programs; Experiences
Empowering Women in Literacy; Contextual Approaches for Empowering
Women in Literacy

Deadline for Proposals: May 30, 2008 For more details and form,
please visit: http://www.litwomen.org/educators/newbook.html

Looking for papers, poetry, panel proposals and/or other proposals for our upcoming conference.

The conference will be held Sept 19, 20, and 21, 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

We invite work in all areas relating to feminism and feminist practices; anti-racist theory/practice; political theory and ethics; metaphysics and epistemology as well as papers, panels, and performances that engage feminist anti-racist praxis and theorizing more broadly.

Midwest SWIP is an interdisciplinary conference with a particular emphasis on troubling the discipline of philosophy and the theory/practice dichotomy.

Queries and submissions should be sent via email to each of the following:

Tinola Mayfield-Guerrero at tinolam@yahoo.com
and
Chris Gallagher at cgallag3@utnet.utoledo.edu

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 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/xseries.htm.

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

CALL FOR PAPERS for panel entitled, "Gaming our Future? Time-Politics-Security in a Virtual World"

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, New York, USA, February 15th through the 18th of 2009

The space that digital games occupy in many people's lives has grown exponentially. Research on the socio-political ramifications of digital games has not, however, and is only now beginning to catch up. This panel seeks to redress the theoretical gap between this world and a growing number of virtual worlds and welcomes therefore papers that explore the relationship between digital games and questions of time, politics/political agency, and security using insights gained from the Social Sciences as well as the Humanities.

If you would be interested in presenting a paper, please send us an abstract of no more than 500 words by Friday, May 23. Do not forget to include a title for your abstract, your name, your affiliation, and your contact information.

Please contact the panel organizers if you would like more information:
Please contact the panel organizers if you would like more information:
Stephanie Buus,
Research Fellow, Swedish Institute of International Affairs Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: stephanie.buus@ui.se

Maria Stern
Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Development Research Gothenburg University, Sweden
E-mail: maria.stern@globalstudies.gu.se

The general call for ISA proposals can be viewed at:
http://www.isanet.org/newyork2009/

Deadline for submission June 15, 2008

Gender and Society: Explorations, Discoveries, and Revelations in a Gendered World
Call for Papers: Great Lakes History Conference
October 17th and 18th, 2008

The 33rd annual Great Lakes History Conference, sponsored by Grand
Valley State University, will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan on
October 17th and 18th, 2008. All fields of history as well as other
disciplines are invited to submit proposals related to this year’s
theme: Gender and Society: Explorations, Discoveries, and Revelations in
a Gendered World. We invite scholars from a wide range of fields and
disciplines to exchange ideas and research on this topic. We also
welcome panels on innovative ways of teaching this year's theme to
students at every level.

We are pleased to announce two very distinguished keynote speakers for
this year's conference, both of whom have authored numerous significant
publications in the field of gender history. Judith P. Zinsser is a
Professor in Women's Studies at Miami University, a former President of
the World History Association, and representative at the United Nations
World Councils. Her most recent book is La Dame d’Esprit: a Biography
of the Marquise Du Châtelet (Viking 2006). Our second keynote speaker
is Bonnie S. Anderson, who is Broeklundian Professor of History at
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Her most recent book, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's
Movement 1830-1860 (Oxford UP, 2000), demonstrates how early radical
feminists in Britain, France, German and the USA came together to form
the world's first international women's movement. Judith Zinsser and
Bonnie Anderson co-authored the 1988 classic A History of Their Own:
Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, a publication whose
twentieth anniversary will be celebrated and recognized at this year's
Great Lakes History Conference.

We welcome individual papers and arranged panels addressing this year's
topic. We encourage comparative work across regions and chronological
boundaries. The conference will be organized around themes that have
dominated recent scholarship. If you are interested in presenting a
paper, please send an abstract of approximately 200 words and a
curriculum vitae by June 15, 2008. Please include your address, email,
and phone number. Those interested in commenting on a session should
send a CV and indicate areas of expertise. Papers must take no longer
than 30 minutes in a 2-paper session or 20 minutes in a 3-paper session.
Sessions will last 90 minutes.

Conference headquarters will be at the L.V. Eberhard Center of Grand
Valley State University in downtown Grand Rapids. Hotel accommodations
will be available at the Days Hotel of Grand Rapids, which is across the
street from the Eberhard Center. The conference is within easy walking
distance of museums and restaurants. Grand Rapids is served by most
major and regional airlines.

Please address all inquiries and abstracts to:
Dr. Craig Benjamin or Dr. Scott Stabler
benjamic@gvsu.edu Stablers@gvsu.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS Note deadline extended to June 20, 2008

We invite papers for a one-day symposium on the global sexually explicit
imagery on 30 September 2008, in Athens.

The symposium is intended as a forum that will explore the ways in which the
sexually explicit imagery is socialised 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, analyse and articulate the need to review and revisit academic,
political and cultural understandings of pornography and analyse 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 organised within the framework of the
British Academy funded project, managed by Katharine Sarikakis (University
of Leeds) and Liza Tsaliki (University of Athens).

We 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:

-socialisation 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 June 2008 to Dr. Katharine
Sarikakis, 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 this symposium.

Symposium fees: 80 Euros.

The symposium is organised 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

HeartTech 08

http://hearttech08.unitec.ac.nz/

Papers due 19th July 08

Beyond Sustainability : A conference for people interested in technologies and education to improve the environment, humanity and equity.

This conference is for those who believe that we need to make serious changes in what we value and how we measure and call “ Success” “ Advanced” or “ Developed Society”. Its aim is to share with and support people who care about our footprint on this earth.

If your field touches on: Computing, Development, Ethics, Morality, Business, Technology, Education or Philosophy ….. and you are active in increasing global consciousness on human impact and responsibility on this earth , then please visit the website and consider contributing to this conference. We can no longer be content with sustaining the environment, our technologies and living philosophies must be focussed on IMPROVING it.

Conference Philosophy

This conference is one where people who are prepared to think and act outside the normal doctrines of first world prevalence can come and safely share their thoughts, work and experiences.

It is being held in Thailand near the Laos border because this region is predominantly Buddhist where the importance of spirituality and connectedness with nature form the foundations of all practices, including those of teaching technology at tertiary level.

This conference is a chance to make links with a wonderfully peaceful people from a unique part of the world. It is an opportunity to give and to receive and to share. Our hope is part of your heart will stay here and part of the experience will travel with you always.

Bring your research, your case studies, your desire to learn and share, your humbleness and love and hope of providing a safer cleaner world for our children and future generations.

http://hearttech08.unitec.ac.nz/

Papers will all be blind peer reviewed and selected papers published in the ACM SIGCAS special edition in early 2009 and/or the Journal of the Asia Pacific Technology Management for Sustainability Assoc.

Papers due 19th July 08

Want to help or become part of the Heart Tech move then contact us hearttech08@unitec.ac.nz or lmuller@unitec.ac.nz

Call for Papers:
The Power of Marginal Spaces in the Works of Carmen Martín Gaite

Deadline: September 15, 2008

Location/Date:
40th Anniversary Convention,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Description:
Seeking papers for a roundtable on the theme of marginal spaces in the
works of Carmen Martín Gaite. How does marginality empower or
debilitate? How does it figure in Martín Gaite’s ideas about history and
feminism, aesthetics and politics? How does it link her to a feminist
canon from which she has been mostly excluded? How can Martín Gaite’s
works be repositioned within the Women’s Studies canon, graduate and
undergraduate? Range of critical/theoretical approaches welcome. Send
abstracts (500 word limit) for 15 minute papers to
Elizabeth.Huergo@montgomerycollege.edu. (Requests for a more detailed
description are also welcome.)

Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The complete Call for Papers for the 2009 Convention will be posted in
June: www.nemla.org.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel;
however, panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants
may present a paper at a panel or seminar and also present at a creative
session or participate in a roundtable.

INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE WORKCFP Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 12, 2008 The 18th Annual Women's Studies Conference "Girls' Culture & Girls' Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood" To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University Friday and Saturday, October 17 and 18, 2008 The 18th Annual Women's Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University explores girlhood. 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 medicated and consumerist culture which targets girls as a prime audience? Why are U.S. girls preoccupied with perfection? 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 affect 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. The Conference Committee invites individuals, groups, scholars, feminists, activists, girls and all to
submit proposals that address topics related to all aspects of girlhood. Proposal Format: Faculty, students, staff, administrators, community activists from all disciplines and fields are invited to submit proposals for individual papers, complete sessions, panels, or round tables. Poster sessions, performance pieces, video recordings, and other creative works are also encouraged. For individual papers, please submit a one-page abstract. For complete panels, submit a one-page abstract for each presentation plus an overview on the relationship among individual components. For the poster sessions and art work, submit a one-page overview. All proposals must include speakers' name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information (address, E-mail, and telephone number). Please also indicate preference for Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, or Saturday afternoon; all attempts will be made to honor schedule requests. Panels: Each 75 minute session usually includes three presenters and a session moderator, but individual presenters may request an entire session for a more substantial paper or presentation. Presenters are encouraged, though not required, to form their own panels. The conference committee will group individual proposals into panels and assign a moderator. Please indicate in your contact information if you are willing to serve as a moderator. Posters, Art Displays, and Slide Presentations: A poster presentation consists of an exhibit of materials that report research activities or informational resources in visual and summary form. An art display consists of a depiction of feminist concerns in an artistic medium. Both types of presentations provide a unique platform that facilitates personal discussion of work with interested colleagues and allows meeting attendees to browse through highlights of current research. Please indicate in your proposal your anticipated needs in terms of space, etc. In keeping with the conference theme, suggested topics include but are not limited to: Girls and Pop Culture Construction of Girlhood Media and Girls' Culture Girls & Cutting/Self-Mutilation Politics of Girls' Studies Girls & Leadership Women's Studies & Girls' Studies Girls & Child Labor Race & Class in Girls' Studies Girls & Performance Coming of Age Globally Gender Research & Girls Body Image and Girls Girls & Disabilities Girls & Sexuality Girls & Ink. Human Trafficking & Girls Girls & Religion Indigenous Women and Girls Human Rights of Girls Girls & Sports Chick Lit Girls & Resistance Globalization and Girlhood Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Girls' Studies Construction of "Tween" Agers/Girls Violence against Girls & Women Girls and Gangs Girl Power and Politics Transnational Adoption of Girls Girls' Studies in Academe Girl Power and Feminism/Anti-Feminism Growing up Incarcerated Girls and Grassroots Activism Girls across/between Worlds Parenting/Raising Girls American Girls and Beyond Girls as Parents Reviving Ophelia, Surviving Ophelia, Resisting Ophelia Representations of Girls 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. Please submit proposals and supporting materials to: Women's Studies Conference Committee Women's Studies Program, EN B 229 Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent Street New Haven, CT 06515 Or via email to: womenstudies@southernct.edu with attention to Conference Committee. If you have any questions, please call the Women's Studies office at (203) 392-6133. The Annual Women's Studies Conference at SCSU is self-supporting; all presenters can pre-register at the discounted presenter's fee, not exceeding $110.00 for both days, $60.00 for one day. The fee includes all costs for supporting materials, entrance to keynote events, and all meals and beverage breaks. Submission Deadline: Postmarked by Thursday, June 12, 2008 Notification of Committee Decision: Mailed by Friday, July 18, 2008 ********************************************************************** Yi-Chun Tricia Lin Director/Associate Professor, Women's Studies Program Vice President, National Women's Studies Association Past President, Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Southern Connecticut State University E-mail: liny4@southernct.edu Office: (203) 392-6133; (203) 392-6864 Fax: (203) 392-6723 www.southernct.edu/womensstudies ***********************************************************************

Special Issue edited by Psyche Williams-Forson, University of Maryland College Park

Food Studies explores all aspects of relationships between food, culture, and society. The movement of people and capital around the world necessitates that we explore the ways in which women interact with food through varying enterprises. Many of these activities are considered off the books or part of a shadow or underground economy. This alternative economic space usually involves otherwise law-abiding citizens who seek to provide for their families in ways that fall outside the formal economy. These women and men may be avoiding taxes or simply choosing to render services without acquiring the proper licenses or food sanitation permits. Whether they are bootleggers from the early twentieth-century, housewives who make tortillas at home and sell them to neighbors, women and women who sell home-cooked meals from non-authorized street stands, waitresses who underreport the night's tips, or undocumented immigrants working in the food sector, these people engage in a vital and sophisticated—aalbeit illegal—set of practices.
Submissions on women and/or men working in the underground food economy are sought for a special issue of Food and Foodways guest edited by Psyche Williams-Forson. We seek previously unpublished essays from all fields of the humanities and social sciences consisting of original scholarship on women who work with food in shadow economies. We especially favor research that speaks to an interdisciplinary audience and that presents arguments based on examination of data.

Papers should be twenty-five to thirty pages including references, word-processed double spaced, with pages numbered consecutively and margins of at least one inch on all sides. Papers should be written in clear, accessible prose, cite relevant literature, and include an abstract of no more than 150 words.

Submissions are due January 31, 2009 by email (attached as a Word document) to pwforson@umd.edu. If you would prefer to send by snail mail, please send to: Psyche Williams-Forson, Ph.D., Department of American Studies, University of Maryland College Park, 2103 Holzapfel Hall, College Park, Maryland 20742. Feel free to contact me for further information or with questions regarding ideas for submissions.

Editor bio: Psyche Williams-Forson is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. She is Humanities Book Review Editor for Food and Foodways, a refereed, interdisciplinary, and international journal devoted to publishing original scholarly articles on the history and culture, and the author of Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power. She is currently at work on a book project involving African American women who worked in unofficial food economies from the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Hello,

I am chairing a roundtable on the topic of Being A Mother in Academe for the
40th anniversary conference of the NeMLA in Boston, Feb 26-March 1, 2009
(abstract of session is below).

If you are interested in being part of the roundtable please send a 250 word
abstract and 50 word bio to Andrea O'Reilly aoreilly@yorku.ca by September 1,
2008.

Thank you,

Andrea O'Reilly
Director, ARM
aoreilly@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm
---
The Maternal Wall in Academe: Academic Mothers and Strategies of Resistance and
Empowerment

In Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It
Joan Williams argues that paid work in Western capitalist societies is
organized by the concept of the "ideal worker". This ideal worker, Williams
writes, "works full time and overtime and takes little or no time off for
childbearing or rearing" (1). When work is structured this way, Williams
continues, "caregivers often can not perform as ideal workers" (1). The
worker-caregiver dichotomy is, of course, gender codified: "men 'naturally'
belong in the market because they are competitive and aggressive; women belong
in the home because of their 'natural' focus on relationships and an ethic of
care" (1). Over the last three decades as female paid labor participation
increased, women, --at least the 90 plus percent who are mothers-- are expected
be perform as "ideal workers" in the workplace while simultaneously fulfilling
the carework responsibilities of the home. With women still doing the bulk of
household management - to include domestic labor, childcare, and the emotional
and organizational work of creating and maintaining home, family and community,
most mothers are unable to put in the extensive overtime hours that are required
for advancement and success in most professions. Mothers thus find themselves
"mommy tracked" making sixty cents for every dollar earned by full-time fathers
(Williams, 2000, 2). Indeed, today the pay gap between mothers and non mothers
under thirty-five years is now larger than the wage gap between young men and
women (Crittenden, 94). And while the "glass ceiling" and the "sticky floor"
are still to be found in the corporate structure, it is the maternal wall, most
scholars argue, that impede and hinder most women's progress in the workplace
today.
William's concept of a wall is an apt metaphor to describe the specific
experiences of mothers in the workplace in that many women today, particularly
those that are college educated, middle-class and professional, may not
encounter gender discrimination until they become mothers and hit full throttle
the maternal wall that blocks and blindsides them in their attempts at
advancement. "Many childless women under the age of thirty five", as Crittenden
writes, "believe that all the feminist battles have been won" (88) But, as
Crittenden continues, "once a woman has a baby, the egalitarian office party is
over" (88).
The aim of this session is to explore the various strategies used by academic
mothers as they encounter the maternal wall in academe.

INFO on NeMLA:

Northeast Modern Language Association 2009 Annual Convention
Boston, Massachusetts -- February 26 - March 1, 2009
Celebrating 40 years! A regional MLA, NeMLA offers a vibrant yet more intimate
conference experience. The 2008 Convention in Buffalo features more than 230
panels, covering all aspects of scholarship and teaching in the modern
languages and literatures.

Dr. Andrea O'Reilly,
Associate Professor,
School of Women's Studies,
Director: Association for Research on Mothering,
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Demeter Press,
York University,
Toronto, Ont.,
M3J 1P3
416 736 2100;60366
aoreilly@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm

As Area Chair for the American Culture Association's "Women's Studies"
area and the Popular Culture Association's "Women's Lives and Literature" area, I invite abstracts for the Spring 2009 joint ACA/PCA conference to be held in New Orleans April 8-11, 2009.

Additional information about the the association and conference is available at
http://pcaaca.org/conference/national.php

Please send 250 word abstracts to me by 11-15--08 via e-mail.

PCA and ACA are interdisciplinary organizations that give us a great opportunity to work across the usual academic borders and have fun in the process.

Linda S. Coleman
Professor of English and Women’s Studies
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, Illinois 61920
lscoleman@eiu.edu
217-581-5015

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
November 15, 2008

Abstracts Due: August 30, 2008

The 2008 Feminism in Practice Conference, hosted by Lehigh
University’s Women’s Center and Office of Graduate Student Life,
invites submissions for roundtable discussions, panels, research and/ or poster presentations, and scholarly papers.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together activists,
academics, graduate students, community professionals, and other
interested parties to discuss feminist practices in their work and
daily lives. Submissions for this interdisciplinary conference may be
practically or theoretically oriented.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

Intersections between Theory and Practice

Women in Science

Activism and the Community

Feminism and Pedagogy

Family and Feminism

Friendship and Networking

Women and Culture

Feminism and Politics/Political Feminism

Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words to
infemcon@lehigh.edu by August 30, 2008.

Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009

Expected plenary speakers include:
Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University
Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University
Orit Halpern, New School for Social Research
Michele Janette, Kansas State University
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
Karim Murji, Open University (U.K.)
Cary Nelson, University of Illinois
Amit Rai, Florida State University
Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
Maria Josefina Saldaña-Porillo, New York University
Jeff Williams, Carnegie Mellon University

Also, the popular Journal Salon feature will continue. Journals expected
are:
Cultural Critique
Cultural Studies/ Critical Methodologies
Dialectical Anthropology
Flow
Genders
Mediations

Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2008.
This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public
Knowledge Project http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ , enables participants to submit
abstracts online at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/submit.php?cf=5. The
website for submissions will open August 15, 2008.

Call for Papers and Sessions

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Seventh
Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural
Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology,
geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory,
queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial
studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and
visual arts studies.

All participants in the Sixth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by
March 16, 2009, to be listed and participate in the program. See the
registration page of this website for details about fees.
**If you have any questions about procedures for submission or other
concerns, please e-mail us at: csaus@pitt.edu. We welcome proposals in the
following four categories:

1. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Proposals for individual papers are due September 15, 2008.

Successful papers will reach several constituencies of the organization and
will connect analysis to social, political, economic, or ethical questions.

They should be submitted online on the conference website. Successful
submission will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an acknowledgment
within 24 hours, please resubmit. The acknowledgment will say that your
proposal has been ''successfully submitted,'' which does NOT mean your
proposal has been accepted.

All paper proposals require:

a. The name, email address, department and institutional affiliation of the
author, entered on the website.
b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper entered on the website.
c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted following the abstract in
that space on the site.

2. PRE-CONSTITUTED PAPER SESSIONS, ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS, OR WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Proposals for pre-constituted sessions are due September 15, 2008.

Roundtables are sessions in which panelists offer brief remarks, but the
bulk of the session is devoted to discussion among the panelists and
audience members. Workshops are similarly devoted primarily to discussion,
but they focus on practical problems in such areas as teaching, research, or
activism. No paper titles may be included for roundtables or workshops.

Pre-constituted sessions should NOT be submitted on the website, but should
be sent to csaus@pitt.edu with the words ''Session Proposal'' in the subject
line. All proposals will be acknowledged, but please allow at least two
business days before inquiring.

All session proposals require:

a. The name, email address, phone number, and department and institutional
affiliation of the proposer.
b. The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations
of each participant.
c. A 500-word overview of the session, including identifying the type of
session (panel, roundtable, workshop) proposed. For paper sessions, also
include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers. Paper sessions should have
three or four papers.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal.

3. DIVISION SESSIONS
Division sessions are due September 15, 2008.

A list of divisions is available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu site for papers and procedures for submission to division sessions or handle
the creation of their two division sessions by other means. Division chairs
will submit their two panels/workshops/roundtables directly to the program
committee by September 15, 2008 (directions will be sent to the division
chairs). Proposals for divisions should NOT be submitted on the website or
to csaus@pitt.edu.

4. SEMINAR PROPOSALS
Proposals for seminars are due September 15, 2008.

Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for
which participants prepare in advance of the conference. In previous years,
preparation has involved shared readings, pre-circulated ''position papers''
by seminar leaders and/or participants, and other forms of pre-conference
collaboration. We particularly invite proposals for seminars designed to
advance emerging lines of inquiry and research/teaching initiatives within
Cultural Studies broadly construed. We also invite seminars designed to
generate future collaborations among conference attendees. Once a limited
number of seminar topics and leaders are chosen, the seminars will be
announced through the CSA's various public e-mail lists. Participants will
contact the seminar leader(s) directly who will then inform the Program
Committee who will participate in the seminar. Seminars will be marked in
the conference programs as either closed to non-participants or open to
other conference attendees as auditors (or in other roles). Examples of
successful seminar proposals from previous years are linked in here (if you
are reading this on the website).

All seminar proposals require:
a. A 500-word overview of the topic designed to attract participants and
clear instructions about how the seminar will work, including details about
what advanced preparation will be required of seminar participants.
b. The name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and departmental
and institutional affiliation of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
c. A brief bio or one page CV of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal. Since seminars typically involve discussion of
previously circulated papers, such requests must be explained.

Seminar proposals should be sent to:
Bruce Burgett, Professor and Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
burgett@u.washington.edu
and
Colin Danby, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences,
University of Washington Bothell
danby@u.washington.edu
Those interested in participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should
consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them,
available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu after
October 15, 2008. Deadline to sign up will be November 14, 2008. Deadline
for seminar leaders to submit final lists of participants (minimum 8
individuals, in addition to the seminar leader or leaders) will be November
21, 2008.

University of South Carolina Women’s and Gender Studies Conference
March 19-21, 2009
In conjunction with the Association of
Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies

FEMMSS 3: The Politics of Knowledge

Call for abstracts for individual papers or panels

FEMMSS 3 seeks to deepen the understanding of the politics of knowledge in
light of the increasing pressures of globalization, neoliberal
restructuring, and militarization. Calling an array of theoretical
frameworks including transnational feminism, post-colonial theory, cultural
studies, epistemologies of ignorance, feminist epistemologies, and feminist
science studies, this conference works to understand the ways in which
knowledge is politically constituted and its material affects on people’s
lives. The politics of knowledge can be discerned through the allocation
and the appropriation of intellectual and natural resources, through the
allocation of research funding, the control and commodification of the
health sciences and health care by multinational corporations, and the
dominance of Western knowledge over that of the Two-Thirds world.
Furthermore, the politics of knowledge can be seen in the way groups and
communities actively resist troubling affects of knowledge production
through grass-roots organizations such as the Third World Network,
community action groups, the citizens’ science movement, environmental justice
groups, and the various women’s health movements.

FEMMSS continues to be concerned about the importance and difficulty of
translating knowledge into action and practice. Ours is a highly
interdisciplinary group of feminist scholars who pursue knowledge questions
at the interstices of epistemology, methodology, metaphysics, ontology, and
science and technology studies. Themes for the conference include, but are
not limited to:

Whose Knowledge Matters?
• How do class, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, sexuality, and
other formations of difference shape what counts as expertise, what questions are
considered relevant, and which outcomes emerge from clashes and
negotiations between different forms of expertise?
• How have epistemologies of ignorance emerged as important conceptual and
political approaches to not only reveal patterns of active unknowing, but
also to point to strategies for resistance?
• How do the material conditions of people’s lives, such as access to
water,
food, computers, information, and health care, enable or disable their
ability to live well, produce knowledge, and engage in resistance?
Science, Knowledge and the State
• What has been the role of science and technology in fostering
militarization, or in intervening in the militarization of subjectivity?
• What is the role of science in constructing historical knowledges that
underpin the nation-state and justify the subordination of indigenous
and/or colonized peoples?
• What is the role of cultural production and new media in expanding
democratic participation and empowerment? In constructing, controlling, and
regulating populations?
• How has “certainty” been constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed in
the face of technoscientific uncertainty?
Knowledges of Resistance
• What are some of the promising community-based research strategies that
can help us to understand the effects that corporate control of health and
health care is having?
• How do local and globally connected citizens’ groups work to reveal and
resist environmental racism, globalization, and gender injustice that are
generated and perhaps obscured by the production of knowledge?
• How can Western feminists and feminists from the Two-Thirds World
establish symmetrical relationships that don’t replicate the patterns of
colonial epistemology?
• How can we best create robust links with activists, advocates, and
policy-makers?
• What are some strategies for bringing policy concerns to the work of
FEMMSS and the work of FEMMSS to policy-makers?

You are invited to submit abstracts (500-word maximum) for individual
presentations or panels relevant to the conference theme as well as to
other issues in women’s and gender studies. Please submit the abstract of your
paper or panel proposal by September 15, 2008 to:
http://www.cas.sc.edu/wost/conference.html

Call for Papers: MOTHER

Guest Editors: Nicole Cooley and Pamela Stone

We have entered a motherhood moment--from celebrity mom baby-bump sightings
to recent televised debates between "stay at home moms" and "working
moms," from "welfare mothers" to "Alpha moms," images of motherhood are
circulating in our culture as never before.

Motherhood demands a new look. As women push motherhood later and later, as
a larger share forego it entirely, and as mothering itself takes up a
smaller fraction of women's lives, why is the fascination with all things
"mother" at an all-time high? What does it mean to be a mother when
motherhood is increasingly decoupled from biology? At a time when women's
reproductive rights are vulnerable and the pro-choice movement on the
defensive, why is so much of the discussion about mothering framed in the
rhetoric of choice and agency? As the majority of mothers pursue both
family and paid employment, the "cultural contradictions" of intensive
mothering that sociologist Sharon Hays first identified over a decade ago do
indeed seem, to paraphrase writer/journalist Judith Warner, an ever more
"[im]perfect madness."

This *WSQ* special issue invites feminist work that speaks to our current
historical moment in an effort to try to begin to construct a comprehensive
and critical overview of mothers, mothering, and motherhood. We welcome
academic papers from a variety of perspectives in all disciplines, from
theory, qualitative research, and empirical studies to literary studies. We
would also be interested in memoir and first-person essays, fiction, poetry,
art, and writing which blurs boundaries and crosses genres in its
exploration of mothering.

Topics to be explored include:

· Discourses around motherhood and how they are shaped by race,
ethnicity, immigrant status and sexuality

· Mothers in the workplace: The price of motherhood, "mommy
tracking" and "maternal wall," "opting out"

· The "mommy wars": Stay-at-home moms vs. working moms

· The paid and unpaid work of mothering and caregiving; the "second
shift"

· Motherhood, loss and grief: Infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth
and infant and child death

· Motherhood and disability/special needs

· Intensive mothering: Ideologies and practices around co-sleeping,
breastfeeding, homeschooling and unschooling, toilet-training, tutoring

· Mothers as consumers: The marketing of motherhood

· Pregnancy: The medicalization of and birthing practices,
representations of the mother's body, assisted reproductive technologies
(ART), surrogacy, abortion and reproductive choice

· New models of motherhood: LGBT moms, young moms, single mothers,
stepmothers and blended families

· Men as moms: Stay-at-home dads, coparenting, single fathers

· Immigration and motherhood; global labor chains

· Childcare and domestic labor: Practices, issues and politics

· Motherhood and ecofeminism, explorations of "mother nature"

· Mommy lit as its own brand of chick-lit and the new "dad" books

· Mothers and digital media: The role of mommy blogs, list-servs,
message boards and social networking sites

· Adoption: Transnational and domestic, transracial

· Motherhood and public policy: From debates about FMLA to activist
groups such as MomsRising

· Mothering older children, mothering adult children, grandmothering

· Motherhood and Third Wave Feminism

· The experiences of women who choose not to mother

· Mothering in comparative, global and transnational contexts

If submitting academic work, please send abstracts by September 30, 2008 to
the guest editors Pamela Stone and Nicole Cooley at:
WSQMotherIssue@gmail.com. If accepted:
Full papers should be no longer than 22 pages, and will be due by January 1,
2009.

Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at
ossipk@aol.com, by January 1, 2009.

Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's
fiction/nonfiction editor, Susan Daitch, at sdaitch@hunter.cuny.edu by
January 1, 2009.

Art submissions should be sent to WSQMotherIssue@gmail.com by January 1,
2009. Please keep in mind that after art is reviewed and accepted, accepted
art must be sent to the journal's managing editor on a CD that includes all
artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These
files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS.

--
Stacie McCormick
Administrative Associate
WSQ
at the Feminist Press
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New York, NY 10016
212.817.7926
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