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Call for Papers: Women’s & Gender Studies, 2011 NeMLA

Robert — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:17:23 +0000

42nd Annual Convention
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, New Jersey

The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can 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.

Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2010

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead conference

Robert — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:41:17 +0000

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead

September 24–26, 2010

Join hundreds of women for a weekend of celebration and conversation guaranteed to wake up your inner leader and leave you brimming with renewed purpose. Omega’s annual Women & Power conference is one of the most celebrated women’s gatherings in the world, unique in its rich diversity of speakers, performers, and participants.

Featuring Gail Collins, Ani DiFranco, Elizabeth Lesser, Sharon Salzberg, Jennifer Buffett, Mae Jemison, Zainab Salbi and more.

This year, the conference is a call-out to women of all ages and backgrounds to become the leaders we have been waiting for. Whether you are a professional, activist, volunteer, student, artist, mother, spiritual seeker, or social visionary, it is time to dig deep, retrieve your authentic voice and values, and lead with courage and heart—at home, work, and in the world.

Hope to see you there. Thank you for forwarding to your networks.

Omega is located at 150 Lake Drive, Rhinebeck, NY 12572-3252.

Temple University Women’s Studies Program Job Search

Robert — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:29:17 +0000

The Women’s Studies Program at Temple University invites applications for a non-tenure track, one-year appointment with possibility of renewal–beginning Fall 2010. Special consideration will be given to candidates whose area of specialization is at the intersections of race, gender and/or sexuality. The position carries a 3 / 4 teaching load for a total of seven courses per year. The successful candidate will teach the undergraduate research seminar and direct undergraduate field work along with a combination of some of the following core courses in the program: “Critical Race Theory and Feminist Implications,” “Foundations in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies,” “Border Crossings: Gendered Dimensions of Globalization” and “Living for Change: Autobiographies of Women in Radical Social Movements.” An elective course in the candidate’s area of specialization might be substituted for one of these core courses. The position includes undergraduate advising duties in the major. Ph.D. needs to be in hand by August 1, 2010; significant teaching experience strongly preferred.

For full details go to: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=40230

Call for Papers/Demande de Communications: Canadian Women’s Studies Association/L’Association des Études Sur les Femmes (CWSA/ACEF)

Robert — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:55 +0000

DATE: May 29 to May 31, 2010

LOCATION: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

For more information, please visit the CWSA/ACEF website.

The CWSA/ACEF is now seeking proposals, in either French or English, for its annual conference, held in conjunction with the Congress of the CFHSS/FCSH. Submissions for papers and panels can be made by individuals or groups, and as joint sessions with other associations. Please identify the specific theme to which you are submitting application in your proposal.

Theme 1: Connected Understanding/Le Savoir Branché

Responses are invited from scholars who wish to take up representational and communications issues in Women’s/and Gender Studies. This theme also provides an open call for new work that supports emerging branches of gender and diversity-sensitive knowledge.

The theme, “Connected Understanding/Le Savoir Branché,” is proposed by CFHSS/FCSH as a way to explore the multiple linkages that branch across the disciplines along emergent lines of inquiry, the impact of digital communications technologies on how research is conducted and communicated, and the connections between research and the publics and counter publics that are impacted and constructed by knowledge creation projects locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Women‚s/and Gender Studies scholars and feminist activists in Canada and elsewhere engage with and challenge the assumptions informing this theme in multiple ways, recognizing that communication technologies divide as well as connect, obscure even as they communicate, and that local, regional, national and international agenda-staging mechanisms can be as destructive as well-intentioned.

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

How do local and transnational feminists use communications technologies in transformative political projects?
How is interdisciplinary feminist research facilitated and frustrated by communications issues within and beyond the field?

Theme 2: Women’s/and Gender Studies and Intersectionality/Études des femmes et intersectionalité

How is critical intersectional theory imagined and practiced in Women‚s/and Gender Studies scholarship, teaching and politics? In what ways do efforts to take up the challenges posed to the field by critical race, queer and transnational feminisms fall short in current research and pedagogical practices? Given the contemporary neo-liberal context, and the persistent effects of colonialisms and neo-colonialisms, how has Women‚s/and Gender Studies in Canada held itself accountable to the project of intersectional gender-based analysis, and how might that project as it has been enacted to date be revised, revisioned, reinvigorated, critiqued?

Theme 3: Bodies/Embodiment/Corps, incorporations et performativité

Contributors to this theme are invited to consider practices and projects that shape bodies and experiences of embodiment. As the seat of perception, position and relatedness – relentlessly targeted by multiple regulatory forces – embodiment continues to function as contested terrain. What contributions can Women’s/and Gender Studies bring to engagement in and analysis of political projects within and beyond the many communities and feminisms that seek to trouble femininities, masculinities, genders, constructions of abilities, racializations, sexualities, and the performative scripts and audiences that attend upon bodies and embodiment?

HOW TO SUBMIT:

We encourage presentations in a variety of formats, including papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, poster sessions, film and video screenings, performance art pieces, exhibits, and cultural events. If you are proposing a non-traditional presentation, please include a brief write up on any necessary audiovisual, technical, logistical, or room size and location considerations.

The proposal form (Word document) can be found on the CWSA/ACEF website: www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef.

All submissions must include a maximum 250-word abstract for individual papers and panels. Panel submissions must also add short (50-100 word) abstracts of the individual papers, and all submissions should indicate the theme for which the proposal is to be considered.

Panel sessions and workshops are typically scheduled to be 75 minutes in length, and papers are expected to be approximately 8 – 10 pages, or 15 – 20 minutes, for individual submissions. If you are proposing a workshop, please indicate expected time frame if different from typical scheduling. All proposals will be anonymously reviewed.

**You must be a current member of CWSA/ACEF to submit an abstract.**

To join, please visit www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef.

Send proposals by email only, in Word or RTF, to: cwsaacef2010@gmail.com, c/o Erica Van Driel, Assistant to Ann Braithwaite and Marie Lovrod, Program Co-Chairs

Deadline: December 10, 2009. No late proposals will be accepted.

The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy

Robert — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:45:22 +0000

The Feminist Studies Group at the CUNY Graduate Center is holding the Third Feminist Pedagogy Conference on November 6, 2009.

Friday, November 6, 2009
8:30AM-6:30PM

CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Opening Remarks: 9:15 AM Skylight Room, 9th Floor
VICTORIA PITTS-TAYLOR
Sociology, Queens College and The Graduate Center

Keynote Address: 4:00 PM, Segal Theatre
MICHELLE FINE
Distinguished Professor, Psychology, The Graduate Center
Slanted practices of inquiry and pedagogy

Breakout Sessions: 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM 9th Floor

The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation concerning the present state of feminist pedagogy both within and beyond the academy. Building on previous work, this is a forum to share pedagogical methods and ideas for teaching in women’s and gender studies and/or feminist approaches to learning and classroom strategies. Through the conference we aim to create a space were people can discuss the politics, problems, and transformative potential of feminist pedagogical practices in classrooms and community settings.

For Registration and Conference information, go to http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/wgp/archive.html

or email Pamela Burger and Jennifer Sugg

Co-Sponsored by the Doctoral Student’s Council, The Women’s Studies Certificate Program, The Feminist Press, Center for Humanities, CUNY Anthropology PhD Program, CLAGS

This Conference is Free and Open to the Public

Laura Auricchio discusses her new book, Adelaide Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution

Robert — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:56:36 +0000

Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), a remarkable portraitist, was among the small number of women ever granted membership in the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Her work was sought out by such diverse figures as the aunts of Louis XVI and the future American president Thomas Jefferson. She remained in France during the Revolution and participated in the reinvention of the country, its art, and its women. Tracing the fascinating story of her rise and fall in the context of her tumultuous times, Laura Auricchio fills major gaps in the scholarship on art in the age of the French Revolution, on women artists, and particularly on the intriguing figure of Labille-Guiard herself.

Laura Auricchio, Assistant Professor of Art History at Parsons The New School for Design,  discusses her new book:

ADÉLAIDE LABILLE-GUIARD:  ARTIST IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION

Monday, October 12th from 12-2 PM

80 5th Ave, Room 802

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Presented by the New School Gender Studies Program, History at Eugene Lang College, the Committee on Historical Studies at New School for Social Research, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

“There You Go Again:” Republicans Condemn Sex, Slash Education Budget

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:05:51 +0000

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Claire Potter

Arguably, it was Ronald Reagan shaking his head in the middle of a presidential debate with Jimmy Carter as he chuckled ruefully, “There you go again,” that created an emotional turning point in the 1980 campaign. It’s what we remember, anyway, that and the explosive, derisive response from the audience as Carter stood there unable to respond. This moment became symbolic of what many voters, not just right-wing voters, had come to think of Democratic governance: that the same old strategies, strategies that had not yet resolved a single social problem, were being presented as if they were new and innovative.

Well, it looks like no one is immune from regurgitating old, tired solutions to economic malaise. Having, for almost three decades, tried to deflect attention from the damage their economic policies have had on the vast majority of Americans, Republicans are once again turning to the vilification of gay sex, and knowledge about gay sex, to divert us from their past and present incompetence. I predict that future historians will find documented proof that such attacks are cynically intended to deflect the public view from the real consequences that cuts in public spending will have on education more generally. And just to give you some perspective, dear reader: for the price of incarcerating twenty undocumented immigrants for a year, you could probably fund four women’s studies programs granting the BA.

Attacks on women’s studies, sexuality studies and queer studies in the Georgia public university system are but one example of an urgent issue that few journalists, politicians or academics, for that matter, seem to care about yet. In the face of declining state revenues, right wingers are once again “Mapplethorping” the public. They are shilling their ideologically rigid view that even more school privatization, and deep cuts in higher education, are an appropriate fix for a plunging economy that has been jointly devastated by pirate capitalists, corporate lobbyists, and decades of neoliberal fiscal policies. How can the dismantling of higher education be turned into a happy thing, you might ask? Because you can get rid of fields of knowledge that students don’t need to know, and that might even harm them, like queer and feminist studies, while preserving the teaching of “universal values.” And by doing this, you can divert attention from the real consequences to real people of policies that are turning our public universities into a simulacrum of the wretched, privatized Postal Service .

Read the full story at Tenured Radical.