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