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2012 CFLE's National Sex Ed conference, being held on November 28-30, 2012 in Somerset, NJ. This year's conference is shaping up to be an extra exciting year - we have Dr. Joycelyn Elders joining us as one of our keynote speakers, as well as an exciting line up of other noted presenters including: Barbara Huberman, Deborah Roffman, Dr. MaryJo Podgurski, Al Vernacchio, Dr. Sheri Winston, Dr. Eric Schoenberg, Sue Montfort, Dr. Sue Milstein & Bill Taverner!  

We are currently seeking proposals for workshops for the general workshops. Proposals are due on May 15th, and presenters will receive a discount on their conference registration.  To find out more about the conference, and to submit your proposal, visit:  www.sexedconference.com  

Engaged Black Leadership in 2012: Activism, Organization and Empowerment

You are cordially invited to participate in the 2012 REACH Project Black Leadership Summit on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Temple University in the Howard Gittis Student Center. The Summit will explore current activities to improve the Black community, from service-learning and student activism to mentoring and family involvement.

After hosting summits in 2009 and 2010, REACH returns to fulfill its mission of facilitating collaborations between between Black student organizations and local community-based organizations in the Philadelphia region. At the 2010 Summit over 230 students, educators, entrepreneurs, and community leaders met to explore the condition of the Black community in Philadelphia and nationally. 

 

We are seeking proposals that address the conference theme, Engaged Black Leadership in 2012: Activism, Organization and Empowerment.  Proposed sessions should be informative and relevant, engaging and interactive, theoretically grounded and practice oriented.  Session themes can include, but are not limited to: activism, leadership models/development, family involvement, community service/service-learning, and mentoring. 

During the Summit, we would like to highlight students' involvement in community service and service-learning projects.  REACH 2012 will feature a poster session to present the wide range of student-community engagement across the Delaware Valley area. 

 

The deadline for all proposals is Friday, January 27, 2012.  Proposal submission descriptions and process is located at the REACH website: www.thereachproject.net

CALL FOR PAPERS

Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality Symposium:

"Critiquing Culture, Working for Change"

Friday, February 24, 2012

Wright State University

Dayton, Ohio

Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to propose
papers, panels, workshops, and performances as part of a day-long series
of conversations about intersectional knowledge production and community
engagement.  The 2012 theme, "Critiquing Culture, Working for Change,"
explores the tensions in contemporary rhetoric, politics, media,
scholarship, and activism relative to advancing social justice.

Successful proposals will engage the intersections of
race/gender/class/sexuality *and/or* the conference theme. Recognizing
that social change often begins with critical analysis of culture and
the status quo, this symposium offers opportunities for sharing diverse
scholarship and models of activism and community engagement. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the possibilities
and challenges of sisterhood and coalition-building; the politics of
language; sexual and reproductive rights and justice; explorations of
feminist, gender, critical race, and queer theories; media and literary
explorations of race/gender/class/sexuality; economic crisis and
marginalized populations; the future of interdisciplinary studies in the
academy; politics and grassroots organizing; anti-violence work;
critiques and analyses of the "Occupy"/indignés/indignados/Arab Spring
movements; backlash against those who work for social justice;
comparative and international topics related to
race/gender/class/sexuality; and transgender issues and concerns.

Please submit a 250 word abstract of your proposed presentation or
session to Amber Vlasnik at amber.vlasnik@wright.edu
<mailto:amber.vlasnik@wright.edu>by *Tuesday,* *January 17, 2012*.  
Include name and contact information for all participants in your panel,
workshop, or performance.  For more information, contact Amber Vlasnik
at amber.vlasnik@wright.edu <mailto:amber.vlasnik@wright.edu>.

"SlutWalks and SisterTalk: When 'Pro-Sex' Met Black Feminist Critique"

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Kimberly Springer

Dr. Kimberly Springer is associate professor of Women's, Gender, &
Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She earned a B.A. in
Women's Studies and Sociology from the University of Michigan and a
doctorate in Women's Studies from Emory University. Dr. Springer has
written extensively on gender, race, sexuality, and digital culture for
academic and popular press outlets, including Flow TV; /Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society/; /Meridians: feminism, race, and
transnationalism/; /Cercles: revue pluridisciplinaire du monde
Anglophone/; /Ms. Magazine/; and the /Journal of Women's History/. Her
monographs and anthologies include /Stories of O: The Oprahfication of
American Culture/, co-edited with Trystan Cotten (University Press of
Mississippi, 2009); /Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist
Organizations, 1968-1980/ (Duke University Press, 2005); and /Still
Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women's
Activism/, editor (New York University Press, 1999). Dr. Springer's
writings on black feminism, film, and sexuality appear in a number of
edited volumes, including /Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual
Power and a World Without Rape/; /Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and
the Politics of Contemporary Culture/; /Feminist Television Reader: A
Reader/; /Black Power Studies: Rethinking the Civil Rights and Black
Power Eras/; and /Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film/.

/Presented by Wright State University Women's Center, Women's Studies
Program, and African & African American Studies Program, in coalition
with the Miami University Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
and Women's Center. /

Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

*CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*

Ignited by the Arab Spring, uprisings in Greece and Spain, and protests in Wisconsin, Occupy Wall Street has brought corporate greed and structural inequality into the spotlight while claiming public space and refusing hierarchical models of resistance. "We are the 99%," the central slogan of the Occupy movement, has been crucial in rallying mass support. And yet, this slogan invokes a vision of sameness that stands in stark contrast to a queer analysis that foregrounds, cultivates, and nurtures difference. From Mortville, the queer camp at Occupy Baltimore, to the Feminists and Queers Against Capitalism bloc at the Oakland general strike, queers are playing central roles in Occupy spaces. But, what would it mean to bring a queer analysis to the forefront, going beyond the politics of inclusion to question the very terms of the debate?

For the first time in decades, perhaps there's a possibility for a mass movement demanding radical social change in the US. Still, most Occupy spaces remain straight, white, and male-dominated: how do we prevent the power imbalances intrinsic to previous movements? What about accountability within the 99%? How have Occupy spaces addressed (and failed to address) homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, racism, ableism, imperialism/patriotism, police brutality, anti-homeless territorialism, sexual assault, and other issues of structural, personal, and intimate violence? As struggles emerge to confront the colonial rhetoric of "occupying" indigenous land (and to address this history), what can a queer analysis bring to this challenge? What do queer struggles have to learn from Occupy/Decolonize movements, and what can Occupy/Decolonize movements learn from queer struggles?

I'm interested in missives from queers involved in Occupy/Decolonize movements, as well as from those veering between skeptical and inspired. I would love to hear about queer challenges within Occupy encampments large and small, across the country and around the world. Bring me your explosive analysis, your rants, your manifestoes, your journal entries, your rage and rigor and hope and heartbreak. In addition to written nonfiction work, I'm also interested in art, photography, posters, flyers, and other forms of visual documentation queering the Occupy movement - its goals and aspirations, its impact, its perils and possibilities.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the editor of five nonfiction anthologies, most recently Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press 2012), and the author of two novels, most recently So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 2008). More info on Mattilda at mattildabernsteinsycamore.com.

Please send essays or written materials of up to 5000 words, as Word or text file attachments only, to nobodypasses@gmail.com. Include a brief bio. Please send a query before submitting visual work. The deadline is March 20, 2012, although the earlier the better. Any questions, send them my way!

 

Date: April 12 & 13, 2012

Location: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Memorial Union Building (MUB) 

 

Transecting Society is a two-day symposium dedicated to exploring controversial political topics related to transsexual/transgender identities in contemporary U.S. culture.  We welcome scholars, activists, artists, lawyers, performers, writers, non-profit workers and others who are interested in exploring the oppression of trans people in our society, and strategies for promoting our collective liberation and civil rights.

 

We are currently seeking abstracts on any of the following topics:

 

Trans Identities and Feminism: histories of inclusion/exclusion, trans feminist theory and activism, trans feminist controversies, transphobia in radical feminism and anti-pornography movement, coalition-building in trans and feminist communities

 

Trans Identities in Lesbian/Gay/Queer Communities: Gay, Inc., LGBT as coalition, LGBT non-profits and political organizations, gay transphobia, trans-exclusive legislation, ENDA, "coming out" as heterosexual after transition

 

Trans Identities and [Pseudo]Science: GID reform, transvestic disorder, DSD, autogynephilia/homosexual transsexualism, the sexualization of trans women In pseudo-scientific literature, The Bailey-Dreger controversy, psychological/psychiatric gate-keeping, trans-"reparative" therapies for youth and adults

 

Trans Terminologies: Debates on terms, labels, identities, language, e.g. transgender as an umbrella term, transsexualism as a medical condition, reclaiming the term "tranny", usefulness of "cisgender" etc.

 

Trans Media and Media Defamation : The Jerry Springer Show, "she-male" pornography, comedy skits, Ticked Off Trannies with Kinives criticism and activism, journalistic accounts of anti-trans hate crimes, misgendering in the press, trans-produced film, photography and media with a radical agenda, trans in high fashion as the latest "trend" in capitalist entertainment

 

Trans Blogosphere and New Media: Blogs, Blogging and Blog wars, Vlogs, internet radio, digital video, Youtube channels, digital activism, social networking, web sites, Second Life etc.

 

Trans Identities and Race: Race, ethnicity, trans people of color, racism, white privilege, whiteness, racial conflict and division in trans communities

 

Trans Activism in the Past, Present and Future: Stonewall, Compton's Riots, Dewey's Riots, Trans Pioneers, Sylvia Rivera, Marsha Johnson, Christine Jorgensen, gay historical imperialism, trans militancy, etc.

 

Trans People in/and Electoral Politics: Trans folks and voting, trans people running for office, trans delegates, trans people in state politics, anti-trans campaigns at the state and national level, the so-called "bathroom bill" and political fear-mongering, etc.

 

Critical Trans Politics and Social Movement Coalitions: racial and economic justice, disability rights, global and transnational issues, sex worker rights, elders, youth movements, adultism and ageism, fat liberation, prisoner rights

 

Please submit a 300-word abstract in which you clearly describe your research paper and how it relates to the themes of the conference.  Up to two submissions per person are allowed. Please send as a MS Word Attachment by February 1, 2012 to transecting.society@gmail.com and include the following info as well: paper/presentation title, name, address, phone, email, institutional affiliation, and a brief bio.  Feel free to send queries to the above email as well.  Sponsored by TransGender-UNH and the UNH Women's Studies and Queer Studies Programs.

 

Additional information about the conference will soon appear at: http://www.tgnh.org/id13.html   

 

Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Archival Education and Human Rights

InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies

In a recent article in American Archivist, a group of some two-dozen archival faculty and doctoral students from programs around the world called on archival educators to develop a new educational framework that both reflects and reflects upon pluralist approaches to archival theory and practice.1 This article added to an ongoing conversation in archival education regarding the ethical imperative of faculty to engage students with culturally sensitive curricula and to promote a social justice agenda in and outside the classroom. At the same time, a growing body of archival studies literature has addressed the intersection of archives and human rights, interrogating the role of records and recordkeeping institutions in both facilitating human rights violations and holding oppressive regimes legally and historically accountable for such violations.

This special issue of InterActions seeks to bring together these two streams of archival thought in hopes of explicating the role of human rights and social justice in archival education. How are we to conceive of human rights at the nexus of archival education, research, and action? What ethical responsibilities do archival educators have in addressing human rights concerns in the classroom? What pedagogical strategies might educators employ in order to include discussions about human rights and archives within the context of professional training and practices, and the theories that undergird them? InterActions seeks to include a range of submissions, including (but not limited to) research articles, literature reviews, book reviews, exhibition reviews, featured commentaries, and position pieces. Submissions should incorporate critical perspectives that aim to bridge multiple discourses around the theme of the issue. All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer-review and authors are expected to adhere to the deadlines to ensure the timely publication of the special issue.

Possible research questions:
- How might "human rights" be defined in the context of archival education? What are the opportunities and difficulties of adopting an orientation toward human rights in archival education?
- What is the relationship between a social justice agenda and a human rights framework in the archival classroom? What roles might information technologies play in working toward classroom agendas for extending and supporting human rights?
- What theoretical positions might be taken up when considering the current and future state of research in the domains of human rights and archival education?
- What philosophical, pedagogical, political, and/or ethical questions are at play that might provide opportunities for strategic action?
- How might archival educators incorporate human rights genealogies and/or frameworks?
- What are the implications of globalization on discourses on human rights in archival education?
- How might archival education and/or human rights intersect with the roles and responsibilities of educational institutions within the public sector?


Timeline:
- Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2012
- Tentative deadline for peer reviews of submitted manuscripts: March 15, 2012
- Tentative deadline for revisions to submitted manuscript: April 30, 2012
- Publication date for the Special Issue on Human Rights: Early June 2012


Please submit manuscripts at http://escholarship.org/uc/gseis_interactions or directly to the email addresses below. Any questions or inquiries about the special issue may be directed to:
- Andrew J Lau (UCLA; Information Studies Editor for InterActions):
andrewjlau@ucla.edu
- Michelle Caswell (University of Wisconsin, Madison; Guest Editor):
mcaswell@wisc.edu
- InterActions: interactions@gseis.ucla.edu

InterActions is a peer-reviewed on-line journal committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary and critical scholarship. Edited by students in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, the journal brings together senior and emerging scholars, activists, and professionals whose work covers a broad range of theory and practice. InterActions is published twice yearly with funding provided by the UCLA Graduate Students Association and the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

 

For more information, please visit http://escholarship.org/uc/gseis_interactions.

A multidisciplinary conference, The Art of Gender in Everyday Life IX, will take place at Idaho State University on Wednesday, March 7 through Friday, March 9, 2012. 

 

Gender is not a given. Its meaning and significance are constantly in flux.

This conference will explore the various ways in which gender is crafted, celebrated, endured, deciphered, expressed or, in short, the art of how it is lived on a daily basis.

 

The conference will include, in addition to other gender-related events and workshops: a keynote address on Friday evening by Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies at The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA; a Friday lunchtime talk by an ISU faculty member; and a screening of LUNAFEST. 

 

A formal call for papers, an announcement of our student paper competition, and a registration form can be found on our website at http://www.isu.edu/andersoncenter. Abstracts must be postmarked by Tuesday, November 1, 2011.

SEXUAL CULTURES: THEORY, PRACTICE, RESEARCH

 

 

This conference, co-hosted by the Onscenity Research Network and the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University, will take place on April 20-22 2012 at Brunel University, London, UK.

 

http://www.onscenity.org/conf1/

 

 

Our keynote speakers are:

 

 

Martin Barker, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK

 

Violet Blue, blogger, columnist, sex educator, and author, US

 

Judith Halberstam, Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender Studies, University of Southern California, US

 

Katrien Jacobs, Associate Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Fiona Patten, Australian Sex Party

 

 

The key themes of the conference are:

 

 

Sex and technology

 

Technologies of all kinds have been central to the ways in which sex is understood and experienced in contemporary societies. We are interested in papers that explore evolving technologies in the presentation of sex through print, photography, film and video to todays online and mobile media; the ways that technologies are increasingly integrated into everyday sex lives; the expansion of sex technologies in toy, doll, machine and robot manufacture, the marketing of drugs such as Viagra and cosmetic technologies such as body modification and genital surgery for enhancing sex; the expansion of sex work and recreation online; sex 2.0 practices, regimes and environments such as porn tubes, sex chat rooms and worlds like Second Life; and the shifting relations between bodies and machines in the present and in predictions of futuresex.

 

 

The regulation of sex

 

Papers in this strand of the conference will examine how sexuality and the ways in which it is represented are the focus of government policy and subject to various forms of regulation. In democratic societies, sexuality is generally thought to be the domain of the private and personal, outside the ambit of the law whose function in this sphere is simply to maintain public decency. Yet vast amounts of institutional effort and resources are invested in what has come to be called moral regulation, in which self-governance and moral discourse are generally preferred to coercive forms of regulation. At the same time, governments continue to make certain forms of sexual practice and representation illegal. What are the limits of the legally possible today, both in terms of sexual behaviour and representation, and what are the various means employed to encourage us to behave properly in the sexual domain?

 

 

Working sex

 

In recent years sex work has become a potent site for the discussion of labour, commerce and sexual ethics, attracting increased academic attention and public concern. Papers in this strand of the conference will seek to develop our understanding of commercial sex, focus on conceptualizing emerging types of sexual labour, and explore the place of sex work of all kinds in contemporary society. They will ask how an investigation of contemporary forms of sex work and sex as work may shed new light on the study of cultural production, industry, commerce, and notions of commodification and labour. We are also seeking papers which are interested in exploring the connections between work and leisure, work and pleasure, sex work as forms of body and affective labour, and the ethics and politics of sexual labour.

 

 

Researching everyday sex

 

Research into sexuality can often be caught in a politics of anxiety where it is constructed as something that needs to be managed, protected and even guarded against. Sexuality is also understood as absolutely intrinsic to our sense of identity, an important indicator of mental and emotional health and a form of intimate communication and individual fulfillment, as well as an important site of pleasure and play. Papers in this strand of the conference will take as their focus the diverse sexual identities, practices, representations, values and experiences that make up the mundane and spectacular elements of everyday sexual life. We seek papers that examine the politics and/or ethics of researching everyday sexualities, as well as the lived realities of sex in the quotidian.

 

 

We invite proposals for the following:

 

Panels and roundtable discussions of up to four speakers

 

Papers (20 minutes)

 

Short Ignite papers (5 minutes/20 slides)

 

Posters

 

 

Deadline for the submission of proposals is October 31 2011.

 

 

For all individual papers please submit a 150 word abstract and 150 word biographical note.

 

Please indicate which key theme of the conference your paper belongs to.

 

 

For panels and roundtable sessions please submit a 600-800 overview and set of abstracts with 150 word biographical notes.

 

Please indicate which key theme of the conference your paper belongs to.

 

 

Please submit your proposals to conference@onscenity.org<mailto:conference@onscenity.org>

 

 

Onscenity is funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council and draws together international experts in order to respond to the new visibility or onscenity of sex in commerce, culture and everyday life. The network is committed to working towards developing new approaches to the relationships between sex, commerce, media and technology. Drawing on the work of leading scholars from around the world, it aims to map a transformed landscape of sexual practices and co-ordinate a new wave of research.

 

 

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 15 to 18, 2012

Rochester, NY



Deadline:  September 30, 2011

http://www.nemla.org/community/caucuses/womens.html

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/41605



With comic books becoming more mainstream, thanks to numerous summer
blockbuster films focusing on superheroes--2011 bringing audiences *Super*, *
Thor*, *The Green Hornet*, *Captain America*, *X-Men:  First Class*, and *Green
Lantern*--this session welcomes all papers looking at ongoing portrayals of
masculinity in works about superheroes.  Submissions may focus the adherence
or the subversion of masculine archetypes in superhero comic books, graphic
novels, films, plays, and other works in popular culture.  Submit 250- to
500-word proposals to Derek McGrath (derek.mcgrath@stonybrook.edu).



Please include with your abstract the following:  Name, affiliation, email
address, and A/V requirements if any ($10 handling fee with registration).



Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session;
however, panelists may only present one paper (panel or seminar).  Convention
participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative
session or participate in a roundtable.   For more information, visit the
NEMLA online at http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Journal of Science Policy and Governance is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks high-quality submissions on emerging or continuing policy debates. Current students (undergraduate or graduate) and recent graduates within three years of earning a degree (bachelors, masters, or doctoral) are eligible to submit. We seek to publish articles on a variety of policy areas including: scientific research, engineering, innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, bio-medicine, drug development, energy, the environment, climate change, the application of technology in developing countries, STEM education, and space exploration. Submissions on other topics are also welcome as long as they relate to the theme of science policy and governance. The Journal strives to publish articles in a timely manner to ensure that publications can be considered in the context of current policy debates.

Submission Guidelines
 
Policy Memos:

• Maximum of four pages or 2000 words
• 1-paragraph executive summary
• Must be directed to an individual or organization

Policy Analyses:

• Maximum of 30 pages
• Must include a one page executive summary
• Must include policy recommendations

Technology Assessments:

• Maximum of 35 pages
• Must include a one page executive summary
• Must examine the policy and governance implications of technology in question
• May include policy recommendations

Op-Ed:

• Maximum of 1000 words
• Must include policy or governance implications

Other styles of articles are also welcome as long as they relate to the theme of science policy and governance. Submissions must include all authors and institutional affiliations. Articles selected for publication will be edited and reviewed by two Associate Editors and the Editor-in-Chief. Prior to publication, authors will be required to submit a one paragraph biographical statement and complete a copyright transfer statement.
 
Submissions should be in Word or Word compatible format. All submissions should be double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman or 11 point Calibri font with 1" margins and page numbers. The primary authors' last name should be on every page as a right-aligned footer. Citations may be submitted in any standard format (MLA, APA, etc.), but may require reformatting upon publication.
 
For questions regarding submissions email jofspg@gmail.com.
 
SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 28, 2011.