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

3 to 9 July 2008
Madrid, madrid, Spain

Website: http://www.mmww08.org

10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women THEME: New Frontiers:
Dares and Advancements The experience of dislocation whether physical or
conceptual affects women in specific ways. Congress is open to proposals in
ALL fields.

Organized by: University Complutense of Madrid
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 4 February 2008
(Check the event website for latest details.)

Mundos de Mujeres / Women's Worlds 2008 is open to proposals in ALL fields and themes related to women, gender and sexuality in contemporary societies, as well as historically. However, we have established some thematic guidelines to facilitate classification of proposals for the congress final program. We are placing a special emphasis on two central themes: violence and migrations, but these themes are by no means the only ones to be addressed at the conference. MMWW08 organizers will like to receive a wide variety of proposals in ALL fields of knowledge and working areas.

New Frontiers: Dares and Advancements
The experience of dislocation whether physical, conceptual or symbolic, affects women in specific ways. We have chosen three concepts to encompass the general theme of the congress: frontiers, dares and advancements, in order to address a wide range of themes, issues and disciplines that ought to be taken into account for a better understanding of the present world. On the one hand, the congress theme refers to physical dislocations as having to do with migration, illegal trafficking of women for sexual exploitation and slavery, cheap labour, racism, xenophobia and all forms of physical violence against women and those who are "in transit". On the other hand, it refers to imaginary and conceptual forms of dislocations and frontiers as having to do with survival mechanisms that women in extreme situations develop, many forms of conceptual dislocation and imaginary borders, "other worlds", the Internet and scientific revolutions that we are experiencing in the 21st century, new venues and ties among people who are fighting for gender equality and social justice around the World, new time/space frames, new feminist theoretical proposals, etc.

MMWW08 will be the ground for a deep and constructive analysis and an optimistic outlook at all the issues that affect women and have to do with feminist enterprises today.

Resources for Feminist Research
Call for manuscripts for a Special Issue

Healthy Environments for Women Teachers and Faculty

Deadline for Submission: December 31, 2007

How healthy are schools and universities? What are the characteristics of a healthy or unhealthy educational setting? How healthy are the women who work in these settings? What initiatives would support a healthy physical and social environment for women teachers and faculty?

Historically, empirical studies of occupational health focused on the incidence of illness, injury, absenteeism, and disability. By contrast, a population health approach examines the social, environmental and biophysical factors that support health. Gender, culture, income and social status, social support networks, working conditions, physical environment and other interrelated factors influence the health of individuals and populations. From this perspective, teacher health is not simply a clinical descriptor or the absence of disease. Rather, the health of individual teachers and teachers as a group is an essential social resource. Safeguarding and promoting teacher and faculty health and wellbeing can be achieved by creating and sustaining healthy educational environments.

This special issue will explore the health of women teachers and faculty and the educational environments where they work. Invited are articles that explore the complex and varied experiences of women teachers and faculty, the factors that nurture and support their safety, and physical and mental health and well-being, and the processes, interventions, and institutional structures that create and strengthen healthy environments for women teachers and faculty.

Diana L. Gustafson and Roberta F. Hammett are the guest editors of this special issue of the Resources for Feminist Research. We invite submissions of original manuscripts that explore broader theoretical questions as well as those that report on innovative research studies and policy-oriented issues on a range of topics such as:
* Social well-being in rural, northern and isolated community schools
* Homophobia and chilly classroom climates
* The healthy communities movement in the educational context
* Healthy or health-related institutional policies and initiatives
* Promotion and tenure anxiety among visible minority women
* Women teachers' mental health issues
* The production and mediation of women faculty's occupational stress
* The control and surveillance of women's bodies in schools and universities
* Safety and risk for women working in unsafe physical spaces
* Women teachers' perspectives on health hazards
* Incentive programs for teachers' healthy lifestyle choices
Manuscripts may be submitted by e-mail to RFR. Manuscripts should conform to RFR's editorial policy as described at www.oise.utoronto.ca Contributions must be original research or scholarly articles approximately 6,500-7,500 words, in English or French with a short abstract (75 words) which will be translated into the other official language. Submissions should be double-spaced. All manuscripts are reviewed anonymously by at least three qualified readers.

Please address questions about this special issue to:

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



Respectfully

Diana L. Gustafson RN BA MEd PhD
Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Health
Graduate Program Coordinator
Division of Community Health and Humanities
Faculty of Medicine HSC 2834
Memorial University
St. John's, NL A1B 3V6
tel: +1-709-777-6720
fax:+1-709-777-7382
diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca
www.med.mun.ca/comhealth/CV/cv_gustafson.htm

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

In recognition of the central place of
“intersectionality” in contemporary Women’s Studies—a
widespread disciplinary commitment to analyzing race,
class, and gender as powerful interlocking principles
by which people are organized globally and locally—the
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association is building a
Women of Color caucus. The objectives of the group
will be to provide a strong network for support and
the sharing of scholarly and pedagogical ideas around
issues of race throughout the region.

As a first step towards establishing this network of
scholars, activists, and students, and in celebration
of our keynote speaker, bell hooks, the Women of Color
caucus of SEWSA calls for papers that explore the
production of Black feminist knowledge in the U.S.
Southeast, to be presented at the SEWSA 2008
conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, in connection
with the conference theme, “Frontiers of Feminism at
Home and Abroad.”

TOPIC: STILL TALKING BACK—BLACK FEMINISM IN THE U.S.
SOUTHEAST
In her oft-cited essay, “Talking Back,” bell hooks
describes the punishments she received as a child for
talking back to authority figures. “I was taught that
it was important to speak but to talk a talk that was
in itself a silence,” she writes. “Taught to speak
and yet beware of the betrayal of too much heard
speech, I experienced intense confusion and deep
anxiety in my efforts to speak and write.” The
problem of developing and sustaining a progressive
Black feminist voice in the U.S. southeast could be
framed in similar terms, given the obstacles to
antiracist education faced by professors and scholars
of this field, ranging from student resistance to
faculty isolation and tokenism to what Patricia Hill
Collins calls “the new racism,” a post-Civil Rights
cultural belief that racism is a thing of the past.

In this call for papers, the Women of Color caucus of
SEWSA seeks treatments of race in the context of this
region. What are the obstacles and punishments—and
the rewards and necessities—for “talking back” about
race in the new millennial U.S. southeast? What are
the methodologies and pedagogies and theoretical
possibilities of Black feminism as a discourse of
resistance and social transformation? How can we
counter the problems of old racism, new racism, and
internalized racism in the production of knowledge as
teachers and scholars of Black feminism? What is at
stake? How can we generate a voice that not only
speaks but is heard? Why/how/and to what effect are
we “still talking back”?

Abstracts due by: Oct. 15, 2007. Send to Dr. Merri
Lisa Johnson (mjohnson@uscupstate.edu)

Panelists will be selected by Oct. 30, and the panel
will be submitted to SEWSA by the conference deadline
of Nov. 2.

If the paper is not selected as part of this panel, it
will be considered automatically for inclusion in the
conference as an individual paper submission.

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.

Society for Disability Studies 21st Annual Conference
New York City, June 18-22, 2008
?Cosmopolitan? Disability Studies Crips the City?
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2007

As Disability Studies becomes more aware of the boundaries of its own
discourses, we want to explore critically the lands of its origins,
the limits of its imagination, and the challenges of experiencing
wider space. Bodies, ideas, and words travel across borders, negotiate
restricted space and resistance, and become transformed as they
journey. How do notions of disability, Disability Studies, and
disability culture shift in these travels? Who participates in these
travels and who is denied entrance? How is space produced, enacted,
and lived in by disabled people? How are local life worlds configured
in space? What is at stake in seeing ourselves as citizens of a more
complex world in which multiple, simultaneous identities are engaged
in transit and dialogue?

New York, this city of immigrants, is the staging ground for the 2008
SDS conference. Thus, many cherished American ideas are up for grabs:
melting pots and assimilation, the energy of new beginnings, the
emergence of undergrounds and renaissances, beliefs in rugged
individualism and transnational capitalism, mechanisms of control and
security, and architectures of access. As we imagine disability and
disability studies in this iconic location, we ask, What are our Ellis
Islands, our Statues of Liberty, our Grand Central Stations, our
Stonewalls? Where are our Christopher Streets, our Broadways, our
Greenwich Villages?

How might New York City, a site both global and local, guide our
understandings of disability and Disability Studies from international
and transnational perspectives? How might such multiple locations in
turn illuminate, enrich, and challenge disability experiences and
Disability Studies within the United States? What are the assumptions
at work in casting New York as a cosmopolitan city, and to what
effect? What does it mean to imagine cosmopolitanism?evoking the city
without borders, people as citizens of the world?from disability
perspectives? How might notions of the city, cosmopolitanism, and the
urban produce Disability Studies scholarship that speaks to applied
disciplines and theoretical examinations of identity, citizenship,
space, and authenticity?

We invite proposals from any field that examine the ways in which
disability and urban issues intersect; engage the mobility of metaphor
and the refiguration of space; and/or explore the ways in which
Disability Studies shifts and translates in application to specific
sites and communities. Potential topics include:

? Public Health
? Violence, War, and Terror
? Mobility and Metaphor
? Housing, Home, and Homelessness
? Access and Spatiality
? Immigration and Translation
? Education
? Globalization and Transnational Critique
? Artistic Practices, Cultural Production, and Crip Culture
? History and Memory
? Categorization and Citizenship
? Public Policy in the Global City
? Bodies and Borders
? Surveillance and Security, Visibility and Invisibility
? Activist Communities, Strategies, and Identities
? Architectural Mappings and Geographical Textures
? Pollution, Garbage, and Environmental Devastation

SDS invites activists, artists, and scholars to submit proposals for
all work in progress in Disability Studies. We welcome
interdisciplinary proposals that bring together scholars in different
fields or using different methodologies, embodying the kinds of
translation and movement evoked in this year?s theme. Work can be
submitted in a variety of formats, including workshops, paper
presentations, poster sessions, performances, video/DVD recordings,
etc. For the 2008 conference, we also would like to introduce new
seminar slots for the discussion of shared readings, pre-circulated
papers, or other focused topics.

Accessibility in presentations is central to the philosophy of SDS.
Presenters should explore ways to make physical, sensory, and
intellectual access a fundamental part of their presentation. All
presenters are required to, at minimum, provide e-text versions of
papers in advance of the conference (for open captioning), large-print
hard copies (18 point font or larger) of all handouts, hard copies or
outlines of their talks in 12 point and 18 point fonts, audio
description of visual images, charts, and video/DVDs, and open or
closed captioning of films and video clips. Presentations should also
be planned so that their delivery will accommodate open-captioning and
ASL translation. In order to facilitate ASL interpretation and open
captioning, drafts of accepted presentations will be due by 1 May
2008. If you have questions about making your presentation accessible,
please contact Alison Kafer at kafera@southwestern.edu or Petra
Kuppers at petra@umich.edu. Please note: English and ASL are the two
main languages in use at SDS; if you have other language needs, please
indicate such on your proposal and we will try to assist you in
obtaining accommodations.

For details on submission, please visit the SDS website
www.disstudies.org. Questions about the conference program or
submission process should be directed to Alison Kafer at
kafera@southwestern.edu or Petra Kuppers at petra@umich.edu.

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

CONFERENCE ­ LAW, POVERTY AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
Valparaiso University School of Law
April 3-4, 2008

The acceleration of economic globalization over the past few decades engendered
initial excitement about the possibilities it could generate, but this excitement has
been replaced by more cautionary sentiments, as increasingly economic inequalities and poverty have become one of globalization's defining features. The ravages of poverty and economic inequality are most pronounced in less affluent countries, particularly those in Africa, but also are present in the Americas, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Even affluent northern countries like the United States have not been able to entirely avoid some of the adverse consequences of globalization, including the widespread loss of jobs, diminishing of labor rights, depressed wages, and pervasive privatization of governmental functions, leading to a concentration of economic power in the private sector and greater resulting disparities of resources.

Poverty and persistent economic inequalities have differing consequences but often overlapping impacts on a broad range of constituencies such as children, racial and ethnic minorities, indigenous communities, immigrants, refugees, women, and the elderly.

Valparaiso University School of Law will host a conference on April 3 and 4, 2008 to investigate these issues in a local and global context. The conference hopes to raise the fundamental question about what the law and legal institutions can do to alleviate poverty and economic inequality. The conference will explore contemporary constitutional strategies, such as the incorporation of economic, social and cultural rights in constitutions (as evidenced by the South African experience), among other formal legal strategies, in relation to grassroots anti-poverty campaigns, such as the poor people’s economic and human rights campaign in the United States and the homeless and landless people’s federation in Asia and elsewhere. This investigation will also examine the limitation of legal strategies in the face of entrenched economic and social structural impediments to equality.

Valparaiso is 40 miles south of Chicago, with easy access to Chicago O’Hare and Midway airports.

The accommodation costs and meals of presenters will be covered, and there is some funds available for travel. Please indicate in your abstract whether your institution will pay your travel costs, or whether you will require funding.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a one-paragraph abstract by November 1, to:
Professor Penelope (Penny) Andrews
Visiting Professor of Law
Valparaiso University School of Law
656 S. Greenwich Street
Valparaiso IN 46383
Ph: 219-465-7972
e-mail: penelope.andrews@valpo.edu.

Call for Papers

25 Years of Care Ethics: Resisting Hegemonies in Moral Theory

The publication of Carol Gilligan's In A Different Voice in 1982 and Nel Noddings' Caring in 1984 marked the beginning of a significant feminist challenge to liberal ethics. In the ensuing quarter century, volumes were written about this revolutionary approach to morality that emphasizes relationships, context, and emotion over traditional rules of adjudication. To mark this anniversary, we are proposing an interdisciplinary session of papers that address the history, impact, status, and potential of feminist care ethics for the 2008 National Women's Studies Conference in Cincinnati, OH, June 19-22, 2008. Papers for this session should be 10-12 minutes long. Proposals are welcome from any discipline. Any topic addressing care ethics is also welcome although papers that discuss the history, impact, status, or future of care ethics are encouraged. Please send paper proposals to Maurice Hamington before October 21 at hamington@earthlink.net
This session is sponsored by Maurice Hamington, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Metropolitan State College of Denver and Dorothy C. Miller, Clnical Associate Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western University.

Maurice Hamington hamington@earthlink.net

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

Call for Papers

Caregiving and Carework: Theory and Practice

Deadline: November 1, 2007

The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 10.1 of the Journal
of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) to be published in
Spring/Summer 2008. The journal will explore the topic of Caregiving and
Carework from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Topics can
include (but are not limited to):

*Caregiving as work *Care and Social Power *Care and Economics:
Valuing paid and unpaid carework *Carework: Research objectives and
findings *Carework and Social Policy:Analysis, activism and advocacy
*Caring for Children:Social norms, cultural ideals, feminist discourse,
scientific inquiry and expert advice *Framing Carework: Defining the
process and practice of care *Mothering and the Politics of Care: Family
values, feminism & ethics of care *The Globalization of Care *The Right
to Care *Legal questions and solutions *The Work of the Body:
Experiences of intimacy and embodiment in caregiving *Writing about
care and carework - popular and dissenting discourses *Sharing Care:
Progress and resistance to fully-shared parenting for gay, lesbian and
heterosexual couples

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists,
caregivers, careworkers, mothers and others who work or research in this
area. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short
stories, and artwork on the subject.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Articles should be 15 pages (3750 words). All
should be in APA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.
Please see our style guide:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html for complete details.

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY November 1, 2007

** TO SUBMIT WORK ONE MUST BE A MEMBER OF ARM **

Please direct your submissions to:
Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: 416-736-2100 X60366
Email: arm@yorku.ca

--

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
American Literature Association 19th Annual Conference

Dates: May 22-25, 2008

Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94111

Deadline for Proposals: January 30, 2008

Proposals from individuals and program information from author societies should be sent to Professor Maria Karafilis via email (mkarafi@calstatela.edu)
by January 30, 2008 according to the instructions at www.americanliterature.org

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