NIU Women's Studies Electronic Bulletin Board

Anthropology Talks of Interest

2012-02-16T09:51:00.002-06:00

February 22nd, 7 p.m., DuSable Hall, Room 240

Conflictive Trade Along the Margins: Value and Power Relations Between Foragers, Tribal Swiddeners, and Lowland Polities in the Prehispanic and Recent Philippines.

February 23, 11:00 a.m.-12:30p.m., Art Building, Room 110.

Women as Wealth, Women as Labor, and Women of Innovation: The Archaeology of Slave-Raiding in the Prehispanic Philippines

Sponsors: Department of Anthropology and Graduate Colloquium Committee

"Cultivating Hope" Film Series

2012-01-18T10:35:00.000-06:00

The Unitarian Univeralist Fellowship Church at 158 N. Fourth St., in DeKalb, IL is hosting a film series titled "Cultivating Hope: Economic Justice." A group discussion follows each film screening.

Film Schedule:

"Capitalism: A Love Story," Friday, Feb. 3 (7:30 p.m.); Sunday, Feb. 5 (3:00 p.m.)
"I Am: The Shift is About to Hit the Fan," Friday, Feb. 17 (7: 30 p.m.); Sunday, Feb. 19 (3:00 p.m.)
"America: Freedom to Fascism," Friday, March 2 (7:30 p.m.); Sunday, March 4 (3:00 p.m.)
"Thrive: What on Earth Will It Take?," Friday, March 30 (7:30 p.m.); Sunday, April 1 (3:00 p.m.)
"Freakonomics," Friday, April 20 (7:30 p.m.); Sunday, April 22 (3:00 p.m.)
"The End of Poverty? Think Again," Friday, May 4 (7:30 p.m.); Sunday, May 6 (3:00 p.m.)
"Economics of Happiness," Friday, May 18 (7:30 p.m.); Sunday, May 20 (3:00 p.m.)

Re-Examining the New Art Examiner Exhibition & Symposium

2012-01-18T09:24:00.001-06:00

The School of Art and College of Visual and Performing Arts at NIU invite you to participate in the Re-Examining the New Art Examiner symposium on January 28, 2012, NIU's Music Building, Boutell Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public!

What difference did the New Art Examiner make to the history of art in Chicago? What difference does it make to the practice of art in Chicago now that it's gone? Engage these questions in conversation with New Art Examiner co-founding editor Derek Guthrie, and with editors and authors from all three decades of the magazine's run--many of whom are feature in The Essential New Art Examiner, an anthology of essays edited by Terri Griffith, Kathryn Born, and Janet Koplos and published November 2011 by Northern Illinois University Press.

10:00-10:15 a.m. Welcome: "Redefining Regionalism," Barbara Jaffee
10:15-10:45 a.m. The Essential New Art Examiner, Kathryn Born
10:45-12:00 noon Derek Guthrie and Joshua Kind, in conversation with Buzz Spector
1:30-2:45 p.m. Janet Koplos, Paul Krainak, Alice Thorson, Richard Siegesmund (moderator)
3:00-4:15 p.m. Michael Bulka, Jennie Klein, Susan Snodgrass, Lynne Warren, Richard Siegesmund (moderator)
4:30-5:00 p.m. The New Art Examiner: Chicago's "Independent Voice of the Visual Arts," 1973-2002, mini-reception, NIU Art Museum Hall Case Gallery, West End of Altgeld Hall (the Castle)

Exhibition continues through March 10, 2012; catalogue and essay by Barbara Jaffee. Directions and maps are available at www.niu.edu/visit/maps/index.shtml. Free parking is available on both the south and north sides of the Music Building as well as on Gilbert Drive just to the West.

CFP: Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research

2012-01-18T09:11:00.000-06:00

Submit an abstract to the conference Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research, to be held October 29-31, 2012, hosted by The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Gender and Health.

Researchers, policy-makers, health care providers and students interested in gender, sex and health will meet in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The conference will explore advances in our understandings of how sex and gender influence health. It will also showcase excellence across the full scope of health research, from cell to society, and will feature research on the health of women, men and people of diverse gender identities. This conference represents a unique opportunity to share new discoveries and advances in theories, methods, interventions and knowledge translation across disciplines and subject areas.

The abstract submission deadline is February 15, 2012. All information on the conference can be found at http://www.genderandhealthconference.com/.

Women & Public Policy Summer Internship (deadline: Jan. 31, 2012)

2012-01-09T11:40:00.000-06:00

Women & Public Policy Summer Internship

The Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) is the place to be if you’re a college woman interested in a career in public policy. PLEN is unique: nowhere else in Washington, DC can students learn how Washington really works from a faculty comprised exclusively of women leaders who make and influence public policy every day. These women are members of Congress, major judicial figures, presidential advisors, senior government leaders, veteran nonprofit advocates and corporate lobbyists.

Internship Dates: May 21 – July 27, 2012

An internship in Washington is the best way to learn how public policy is made and whether it’s a career you want.

Through PLEN, you’ll secure an internship directed at your specific interests. PLEN helps you focus on what organizations will give you the best experience, help you develop a resume and land the spot you want, and coach you through the application process.

Once in Washington, you’ll meet at least weekly with PLEN and other PLEN interns to process your experience, expand your contacts by meeting with women leaders, and exchange information and impressions with other interns.

You’ll also participate in PLEN skill-building sessions to begin developing important career-related expertise in areas like networking, job interviewing, and salary negotiations.

Registration Deadline EXTENDED
January 31, 2012 (postmarked by this date)
http://plen.org/programs/summer-internship

Other upcoming programs…

Women & Congress Seminar
http://plen.org/programs/seminars/congress/

Watch Congress at work and learn about the role of women in the lawmaking process.

Seminar Dates: Session I: March 12-16, 2012; Session II: March 19-23, 2012
Need Based Scholarship Application Deadline: Feb 10, 2012
Registration Deadline Feb 24, 2012 (for both sessions)
Women & International Policy Seminarhttp://plen.org/programs/seminars/international/

Explore foreign policy issues with women decision makers in world affairs and learn about public policy career opportunities in international relations.

Seminar Dates: May 21-25, 2012

Need Based Scholarship Application Deadline: April 20, 2012

Registration Deadline: May 4, 2012

Pamela O'Leary
Executive Director

Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN)
1001 Connecticut Ave., NW, #900
Washington, D.C. 20036
phone: 202-872-1585
fax: 202-872-0141
http://www.plen.org/
Preparing Women to Lead!

Using Social Media for Multi-Generational Communication: For business and personal use

2012-01-09T11:36:00.000-06:00

The NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women and the Women’s Resource Center cordially invite you to a Networking Luncheon on Friday, January 27th, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., with the presentation beginning at noon. Our speaker will be Amada Carrier. Amanda is a marketing specialist at the NIU College of Engineering and EngineeringTechnology.
The presentation is entitled, "Using Social Media for Multi-Generational Communication: For Business and Personal Use."
The luncheon will be held in Adams Hall, Chandelier Room. Reservations are required and need to be placed by Tuesday morning, January 17th, by email (pcsw@niu.edu). Please respond early to reserve your place for this outstanding presentation! Lunch is provided by the PCSW.
All NIU community members are invited to gather informally over lunch. This is a chance to see new people and gain the support that a network of contacts can provide. Please join us for good talk, good food, and good company. For more information, contact PCSW at pcsw@niu.edu.
Hope to see you there!

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women

Get Hired! @ NIU's 2012 Spring Career Fairs

2011-12-07T16:28:00.000-06:00

Get Noticed! Get Hired! @ NIU's 2012 Spring Career Fairs

For more information on these events, contact Career Services
CLB, Room 220

Main Office
Reception Desk
Career Counselors
815-753-1641
careerservices@niu.edu

Internship Fair
Date: Feb. 21
Times: 10AM until 3PM
Location: Convocation Center
Cost: NIU Students: Free
Did you know? Employers are using internships increasingly as a primary source for identifying future employees. Get noticed by future employers and get experience before you graduate.

Full-Time Job Fair (for Seniors & NIU alumni)
Date: Feb. 22
Times: 10AM until 3PM
Location: Convocation Center
Cost: NIU Students: Free; NIU Alumni: $5; Non-NIU Students: $10
Mid-America Educators' Job Fair*
Date: Feb. 27
Times for NIU student & alumni: Open Session 9AM until Noon; Scheduled interviews by invitation only 1PM until 3PM.
Times for Non-NIU students: Open Session 10AM until Noon; Scheduled interviews by invitation only 1PM until 3PM. Location: Convocation Center
Cost: NIU Students: FREE; NIU Alumni: FREE; All Other Candidates: $10
Every spring at NIU, school districts participate in the Mid-America Educators' Job Fair. This fair is open to all qualified candidates, regardless of university affiliation.
*Candidates available for August 2012 employment
Retail Leadership Expo
Date: March 29
Times: 5PM until 8PM
Location: Duke Ellington Ballroom, Holmes Students Center
Cost: This event is free. Pre-registration is required (will be open February 15, 2012).
These are not your cash register/stockroom retail jobs. One in five Americans has a career in retail Merchandising, Operations, Marketing, Logistics, Loss Prevention, IT, Inventory Management, Human Resources, e-Commerce , Finance, Graphic Design, or Product Development.

Course of possible interest to WOMS grad students

2011-12-07T15:27:00.000-06:00

POLS 619 Topics in Public Law:

Judicial Policymaking and U.S. Legal Institutions in Comparative Perspective

Spring 2012 Wednesdays 3:30-6:10 pm

Professor Brendon Swedlow, PhD, JD

Seminar Overview

In this seminar, we will study cause-based, high impact, public interest litigation - including suits to advance civil liberties, women’s rights, labor rights, gay marriage, and environmental and health protection - and attempt to identify the conditions for successful and unsuccessful litigation campaigns. We will also attempt to understand the distinctive features of the U.S. legal system that give courts, lawyers, and litigation a uniquely prominent role in shaping public policy by comparing our civil, criminal, and regulatory systems to those found in Britain, Germany, France, and Japan.

Brendon Swedlow

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

Northern Illinois University

DeKalb, IL 60115-2887

bswedlow@niu.edu

815.753.7061 office

815.753.6302 fax

NIU Queer Lit Symposium

2011-12-05T09:49:00.000-06:00

The students of ENGL 707 invite you to

The NIU Queer Lit Symposium
Tuesday Dec. 6
DuSable 270 at 6:00 p.m.

Cameron Orr, "Two Worlds, Two Closets: Sexual Identity and Secrets in Palimpsest"

Andrea Fryling, "Octavia Butler's Fledgling: A Novel: Closeting the Other, Othering the Closet."

Please attend and please spread the word!

Campus Event: Transgender Day of Remembrance

2011-11-11T08:59:00.001-06:00

The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is an annual event set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder cases — has yet to be solved.

Although not every person represented during the Day of Remembrance self-identified as transgender — that is, as a transsexual, crossdresser, or otherwise gender-variant — each was a victim of violence based on bias against transgender people.

Northern Illinois University will be commemorating TDoR 2011 with its first officially sponsored memorial event. The memorial will take place on Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Beginning at 12:00PM in the Diversions Lounge in the Holmes Student Center, there will be a Trans 101 program, giving a basic introduction to the terminology and background of transgender identity. This program will last for roughly one hour, and include a question and answer session.

Later that evening at 5:00PM, there will be a candlelight vigil and memorial held in the MLK Commons. The memorial will include a reciting of the names of those individuals being memorialized from this year, and should last roughly half an hour. Immediately following the vigil, we will reconvene in the Illinois Room in the Holmes Student Center for a reception and open mic event. The microphone will be open to any individual wishing to share a personal narrative, or story or poem relating to acceptance, or the overcoming of adversity, discrimination, or hatred. This open mic event will go from approximately 5:45PM through 7:00PM.

This event is free and open to the public. We invite everyone to attend and help us remember and memorialize those who are no longer with us, as well as help us hope and strive for a better future.
For information:
LGBT Resource Center
Holmes Student Center, 7th Floor
Northern Illinois University
Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management
DeKalb, IL 60115
815-753-5428 lgbt@niu.edu

www.niu.edu/lgbt/resourcecenter

Adjunct Lecturer Needed for Spring 2012

2011-11-11T08:48:00.000-06:00

The Justice Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University is looking to hire an adjunct lecturer for the Spring 2012 semester, which commences on January 9 and runs through May 8, to teach the following course:

JUST 328: Social Justice and LGBTQ Issues (elective course)

This course explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer social justice issues. Students will study LGBTQ issues and theories in the context of social justice practice both historic and contemporary. This will include an examination of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in LGBTQ communities, along with a discussion of legal, social, and political steps taken and contemplated to end the oppression of LGBTQ people.

Time: Wednesdays, 7:05 – 9:45 p.m.

Location: Main Campus

Department Mission Statement

In Justice Studies we seek to discover the social and historical roots of justice and injustice and examine how popular understandings of these shape public policies, including those of the criminal justice system. We study systematic explanations for the failure (or triumph) of justice in society and explore the potential for transformative justice. Through critical inquiry, social science investigation, and experiential learning, students develop an understanding of social and economic justice issues and critical criminology. We study the structural roots of crime and take up the legal and social concerns of socially disenfranchised communities whose members are often clients of the criminal justice system, including the poor, people of color, women, prisoners, immigrants, and refugees.

The Justice Studies major prepares students for human and social service work, research or advocacy positions, law school or graduate school. Criminal justice practitioners who wish to develop a comprehensive understanding of social justice and social policy will find the program well-suited to their needs.
Individuals interested in applying to teach this course should email a cover letter indicating their interest and a current curriculum vitae to:

Dr. Cris Toffolo
Professor & Chair
Justice Studies Department
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
LWH 4062
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
c-toffolo@neiu.edu

Campus Event: Crafty Women Holiday Arts & Crafts Sale

2011-11-09T15:08:00.000-06:00

Wednesday & Thursday, November 16 & 17
8:30 a.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Reavis Hall, Room 103

All proceeds from the sale with benefit the Mothers Memorial Scholarship, Austin Sawicki Scholarship and Women's Studies Foundation funds.

Middle Tennessee State University Underrepresented Minority Visiting Professor Program

2011-11-04T13:27:00.000-05:00

Middle Tennessee State University announces the availability of the Underrepresented Minority Visiting Professor Program. The purpose of the Underrepresented Minority Visiting Professor Program is to enhance diversity in research, teaching, and service at MTSU through the recruitment of qualified minority professors from across the country. Visiting professors will teach at least one course per semester in an area related to their academic preparation and with a corresponding need of the department hosting the professor. Professors will also work with faculty members in the department and will be involved with co-curricular activities including the university's cultural diversity initiatives. Visiting professors will receive academic year faculty appointments and will be eligible for benefits including health insurance. Salary is negotiable. Scholars must be eligible for employment. Additionally, visiting professors will receive support for research, professional travel, and other related expenses. It is expected that professors will not be employed outsdie of the University or receive additional fellowships, grants or awards during the visiting period unless approved by the University. Excellence in teaching, research/creative activity and service is expected. MTSU seeks candidates committed to using integrative technologies in teaching.

For more information and to apply, visit https://mtsujobs.mtsu.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1200320079583 (Click on "Faculty Job Openings" to find posting.

Middle Tennessee State University Underrepresented Minority Dissertation Fellowship

2011-11-04T13:15:00.000-05:00

Middle Tennessee State University announces the availability of the Underrepresented Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program. The purpose of the Underrepresented Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program is to enhance diversity in research, teaching, and service at MTSU through the recruitment of underrepresented minority graduate students from across the country who are completing dissertation research. Fellows will teach one course each semester in an area related to their academic preparation and a need of the department hosting the fellow. Fellows will be expected to devote significant time to the completion of the dissertation. Fellows will also work with a faculty mentor and will be involved with co-curricular activities including the university's cultural diversity initiatives. Fellows will receive fiiscal year faculty appointments (August 1 - July 31) and will be eligible for benefits including health insurance. Salary is $30,000. Fellows must be dissertation stage doctoral degree candidates studying in a field taught at MTSU.
URL: https://mtsujobs.mtsu.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1200320079583 (Click on "Faculty Job Openings" to find posting.

CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference on Sex Trafficking in the United States: Researching Vulnerable Populations

2011-10-26T08:19:00.000-05:00

Oregon State University’s 2012 Interdisciplinary Conference on Sex Trafficking in the United States: Researching Vulnerable Populations, February 16-18, 2012, at LaSells Stewart Center, OSU campus, Corvallis, Oregon.

Theme:
The conference theme, “Vulnerable Populations,” focuses our attention those who are at most risk for sex trafficking. We are especially interested in research that examines risks, experiences, consequences, and interventions of sex trafficking across differences of race/ethnicity, nation of origin, socioeconomic class, sexual and gender identities, ability, and age.

In particular, we encourage submissions that examine issues of trafficking of ethnic minority women in the United States and trafficking of rural women and/or in rural areas. We are also interested in proposals that examine methodological and ethical issues of research on trafficking.

Edited Volume:
The conference will result in an edited volume of selected papers on the topic. The text will be an expansion on the existing scholarship on sex trafficking because it seeks to focus on underrepresented populations and on domestic sex trafficking in the US. More information will be forthcoming on this publication.

Background:
Sex trafficking within the U.S. is legally defined as commercial sex acts induced by force, fraud, or coercion or commercial sex acts in which the individual induced to perform commercial sex has not attained 18 years of age. In May 2010 Portland, Oregon was named “pornland” by Dan Rather in a television report that brought national attention to sex trafficking in the Pacific NW. It was precipitated by two FBI Innocence Lost project stings in cities across the US in 2008 and 2009 that identified both Portland and Seattle as hubs for sex trafficking. In January 2009, the NW Coalition Against Trafficking (NWCAT) held its first conference to raise awareness in Portland and has done so annually each year since. As academics working in the Pacific NW, we began to ask ourselves, what we could do to help NWCAT in its work and what role research plays in preventing sex trafficking in our state and region. Our path towards making a connection between theory and practice became clear after the 2010 NWCAT conference was derided by some local politicians and national scholars for hyping the numbers of potential and actual victims of sex trafficking in Oregon and about domestic sex trafficking in the US in general.

Federal immigration and criminal justice, in addition to local, state, and other federal law enforcement agencies, along with national victim-based advocacy groups, have participated in joint task forces that share their respective expertise and resources to research domestic sex trafficking and distribute their research findings. In addition, the Human Smuggling Trafficking Center (HSTC) formed in 2004 serves as a hub for sex trafficking information and brings together analysts, investigators, officers, and experts from various agencies, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), FBI, CIA, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security to study the incidence and circumstances surrounding sex trafficking. Also, with Bureau of Justice Assistance funding, many states, including Oregon, have developed human trafficking task forces to combat the problem at the local level. Activist, academic, and governmental organizations produce data on sex trafficking but the results have been weak. Many of the findings have been called into account for failing to have conducted the research according to accepted methods. It has been argued that both the criminal justice professionals and victim advocates have political stakes in the numbers that can make their data more guess work than reliable statistics. Even the US General Accounting Office states, "The U.S. government estimates that 600,000 to 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders annually. However, such estimates of global human trafficking are questionable. The accuracy of the estimates is in doubt because of methodological weaknesses, gaps in data, and numerical discrepancies. For example, the U.S. government's estimate was developed by one person who did not document all his work, so the estimate may not be replicable, casting doubt on its reliability. Moreover, country data are not available, reliable, or comparable. There is also a considerable discrepancy between the numbers of observed and estimated victims of human trafficking. The U.S. government has not yet established an effective mechanism for estimating the number of victims or for conducting ongoing analysis of trafficking related data that resides within government entities."

Human Trafficking: Better Data, Strategy, and Reporting Needed to Enhance U.S. Anti-trafficking Efforts Abroad GAO-06-825 July 18, 2006. http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-06-825

Scholars argue the difficulty in producing accurate data on a reportedly illegal and covert phenomenon happening in the shadow economy. Sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues of the overall sex industry, including residential brothels, hostess clubs, online escort services, brothels disguised as massage parlors, strip clubs, and street prostitution. In most of these businesses the owners, employees, and customers all seek anonymity for a variety of reasons, some of which involve criminal behavior in general and sex trafficking specifically.

Who should attend?
This conference seeks to bring together experts for a cross-disciplinary discussion about the research challenges involved in studying vulnerable populations enmeshed in sex trafficking in the United States. It is formatted for those who have research results or ideas, who wish to inform their peers of the work of their non-governmental or governmental organization, or who wish to fund anti-trafficking efforts and research.

We seek to include:
• Scholars and graduate students (with complete or near complete projects) with an interest in providing knowledge and methodologies to study the problems surrounding sex trafficking in the United States. Scholars and graduate students from all academic disciplines, including but not limited to: psychology, criminal justice, law, political science, women’s and gender studies, public policy, public health, anthropology, ethnic studies, Native American studies, rural studies, urban studies and others are invited to submit their work.
• Undergraduate and graduate students seeking feedback, please note a special student session has been created for those who wish advice on honors thesis, MA thesis, or PhD dissertation on sex trafficking.
• Relevant governmental agencies and NGOs are also invited to apply. Practitioners from law enforcement, social service agencies, and others who see the effects of trafficking in their work, and can report their findings about the efficacy of methods to combat and prevent sex trafficking.
• Foundations and others who will fund knowledge-creation, programs and program evaluation, and methodology-creation and who wish to speak about their work and their priorities

Inquiries:
The aim of the conference is to facilitate the exchange of expert knowledge about the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of sex trafficking and vulnerable communities to better understand its complex patterns and begin a comprehensive discussion of causes, consequences, and possible solutions that research can provide. Our goal is to explore the following questions from an interdisciplinary perspective:

• What is a vulnerable population in sex trafficking (e.g. age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, etc.)?
• How does migration further complicate sex trafficking research?
• How are research methods stratified within the academy and how does this impact which sex trafficking data is deemed “good” and which is considered “bad.”
• How do attitudes and beliefs about prostitution on the local, state, and national level impact “counting” in shadow economies with vulnerable populations?
• How can academic research provide a basis for evidence-based policy making that leads to prevention and rehabilitation?

Prospective Submission Themes:
Themes for conference (edited volume) submissions might include following:
• Getting access—what does ethnicity have to do with sex trafficking research into vulnerable populations with in the Native, Latina/o, African, and Asian American communities?
• If traditional punishment of child/teen prostitutes has yielded poor results, can new approaches that reframe the prostitute as a victim of sex trafficking prove more successful?
• Does trauma like physical assault, robbery, rape, gang rape, torture, HIV/STD infection, death threats, sexual violence, and physical bondage impact decision-making of sex trafficking victims?
• Can victims of sex trafficking develop similar patterns as domestic violence victims (battered wife syndrome) or hostage victims (Stockholm syndrome) or war veterans/prisoners (PTSD)?
• Special vulnerable populations—throw-away, run-away, and homeless boys/teen males and sex trafficking– which research methods work and why?
• The pimp, the gang, the criminal enterprise— how to safely research dangerous populations in the shadow economy.
• Attitudes and belief of criminal justice and human services professionals –do they impact research results in ways that favor accuracy—or obfuscate certainty?
• Rural to urban, state to state, reservation to reservation—how does movement, location, and migration impact research on sex trafficking?
• Working with sex trafficking victims—how can researchers minimize the psychological and emotional harm of data gathering and help avoid mental, emotional, and physical health disorders?
• Supply and demand—who should researchers be targeting for their investigations? Why are there so many consumers, especially men, with sexual neurosis who want to have sex with children and teens? How do we study them?
• Policy, law, and regulation—best methods for analysis that can further understanding of sex trafficking and its prevention?
• Popular culture and pornography—can research into the impact of commercialized sex help explicate the rise in “desire” for underage sex partners?
• Can partnerships be formed with medical professionals, similar to domestic violence identification, to gather stronger data on sex trafficking—screening youths for physical signs of abuse such as cigarette burns, bruises, blunt trauma, multiple bone fractures in different phases of healing, brands on the skin, scars that may indicate “ownership,” needle marks along veins, and malnourishment?
• Foundations and corporations—how can these important funders become more educated consumers of research proposals on sex trafficking?

Instructions for submitting a proposal:
Submit an abstract of up to 300 words (no more) to conference web site or email by November 30, 2011. Acceptance notifications will be made by December 15, 2011. Below are the possible formats, please select the one that best fits your work. Please note that we have allocated 50 minutes total for each presentation type. Please note that in cases where audience participation is part of the arrangement this means 40 minutes to present with 10 remaining for Q & A from the participants.

•Paper Presentations: Paper proposals are submitted individually and arranged into sessions by the Conference Committee. In paper sessions, two scholars are partnered each making a 20 minute presentation. Time: 40 minutes with 10 minutes of Q and A.
• Panels: Panels consist of 3 people (including the chair). A panel presents its views on a common theme, issue, or question. The panel will also discuss the presentation with the audience and approach pertinent topics from a variety of viewpoints. The chair of the panel must provide an abstract that includes the following: (1) introduction of the panel topic that includes its importance, originality, focus, and timeliness (2) expertise of the proposed panelists, panelists’ perspective titles, the organization he/she represents, and order of presentation and (3) the potential for informative and controversial discussion. Time: 40 minutes with 10 minutes of Q and A.
• Demonstration Projects: This format would be most appropriate for practitioners who see the effects of trafficking in their work, and can report their findings about the efficacy of methods to combat and prevent sex trafficking. Presentations that show a specific practice related to aspects of the conference theme are encouraged. After a brief description of the underlying theory, the demonstration session should show ways the theory is used in practice. Presenters are encouraged to use materials that actively involve participants. Time: 50 minutes.
• Poster Sessions: This format is an effective forum for the exchange of information and a means to communicate ideas, research, and programs. Poster sessions may present any of the following: a description of an innovative program, an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort, a report of a research study. Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams, and narrative text on 4' x 8' boards. Participants informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Time: 50 min.
• Student Feedback Session: There will be a special session for students who wish to receive feedback on papers, theses, and dissertations that are proposed or in progress. Time: 50 min.

Conference Committee:
-Joslyn Baker, collaboration specialist for the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice
-Norma L. Cardenas, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies
-Allison Davis-White Eyes, Director of the Office of American Indian Initiatives
-Erin Dubyak, graduate instructor in Women Studies
-Karen Mills, administrative assistant for the School of Language, Culture, and Society
-Susana Rivera-Mills, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts,
-Sarina Rodrigues Saturn, Assistant Professor of Psychology
-Tonia St. Germain, J.D., Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Eastern Oregon University
-Susan M. Shaw, Professor of Women Studies and Transitional Director of the School of Language, Culture, and Society
-Rita Snyder, graduate instructor in Women Studies

For more information:
Web site: http://oregonstate.edu/conferences/event/sextrafficking2012/
email: osusextraffickingconference@gmail.com

Sponsored by Women Studies, the School of Language, Culture, and Society, the CLA Dean’s Office, and the OSU Research Office

Susan M. Shaw, Ph.D.
Professor of Women Studies
Transitional Director of the School of Language, Culture, and Society
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
541-737-3082

Campus Event: STEMfest

2011-10-17T09:26:00.002-05:00

Saturday, October 22
10:00 a.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
NIU Convocation Center

Stop by the WOMS table to learn more about women in science, technology, engineering and math. This event is organized by NIU's STEM outreach.

Announcement

2011-10-14T08:30:00.000-05:00

Due to personnel changes in the WOMS office, the EBB may not be updated as regularly for a while.

Campus Event: Shots Seen Around the World: Contemporary News Photographs That Changed Public Opinion

2011-10-10T10:19:00.002-05:00

Shots Seen Around the World: Contemporary News Photographs That Changed
Public Opinion
Friday, October 21
5:00 p.m.
DuSable 148

Christopher Birks will discuss the role photojournalism has played in shaping public opinion. Professor Birks has a B.S. from Central Michigan University and an M.A. in Communications from Northern Illinois University. He is currently a faculty member at Benedictine University. Professor Birks is the recipient of more than 30 statewide and national journalism awards,
including awards from the Associated Press and the National Press
Photographers Association.

CFP: "Sexy Feminists, Militant Sluts, Ride or Die Chicks Single Ladies”: New Ways of Being “Feminist” in the Post (----) Era

2011-10-07T08:47:00.002-05:00

Call for Papers
SEWSA Student Caucus Panel
March 29-31, 2012
George Mason University
Deadline: November 1, 2011
When NBC announced they would broadcast “The Playboy Club” as part of their fall lineup, the network received quite a bit of scrutiny. In broadcasting a show that features women in the infamous “bunny suit,” many have suggested that the show exploits women and introduces a new generation to the idea of sexism. Yet, several of the cast members have claimed that the women who worked at the Playboy Club were empowered by the economic resources that their positions brought them. As the slogan for NBC admonished, “Men held the key but women run the show.” Ironically, this idea was previously echoed by Beyonce in her seminal hit, “Girls (Run the World)” as she too dressed in scantily clothed couture gyrated and sang about the power of the V. This new “Enlightened Sexism,” a term employed by Susan J. Douglas “sexism sells the line that it is precisely through women's calculated deployment of their faces, bodies, attire and sexuality that they gain and enjoy true power, power that is fun, and power that men not only will not resent, but also will embrace”. In other words, this new sexism is sexy and consumable. While the reappropriation of an image or a word is nothing new, it has in this past year created numerous conversations concerning the plight of women’s empowerment and the future of feminism. Are there new ways of carrying out the Feminist Agenda? For instance, groups like the Crunk Feminist Collective are creating nuanced ways of understanding intersectionality and make feminism accessible to people within and outside of the Ivory Tower. Is this new type of activism becoming more relevant in the age of Facebook, Youtube and Twitter? Are slut walks and Grrrl Power only relevant for white feminists? Is labeling yourself a Slut and Feminists an oxymoron? Can black girls participate in a slut walk and not carry the baggage of the Jezzebel stereotype? How does the process of reclamation remove or reinforce stereotypes? Is reclamation of used language a good idea? Should it be looked at from more than the perspective of power?
In this session, we are seeking papers that will critically explore what happens when Popular Culture, Feminism and Mainstream Society collide.
Submit abstract (no more than 250 words) to Aretina Hamilton, Student Caucus Representative, University of Kentucky, at aretina.hamilton@uky.edu by November 1, 2011.

CFP: Violent Women in 19th Century England

2011-10-07T08:46:00.002-05:00

The number of women who are victims of crime has always been higher than the number of women partaking as offenders. However, women were very often involved with crime- not always petty in nature. Previous research in women and crime in 19th century England has focused attention on the lives of women who committed crimes such as infanticide, or the social and economic situations that led to their working in the sex industry, and in doing so have explored the lives and times of women in 19th century England. This collection aims to write more women back into the criminal record by focusing on those women who committed violent crimes during this period. This collection asks what narratives were created about these women (and possibly their femininity), what were societal and cultural responses to these women and crimes, and what methodologies are employed by scholars to reveal the stories about women who have, until now, been ignored or overlooked?
Possible topics (but by no means limited to this list):
- Treatment of violent women by the courts early, mid- and late nineteenth century (changes to the punishment of violent offenders, perceptions in the courtroom of violent offenders)
- New methodologies by which we could study violent female criminals in the nineteenth century
- Possible crimes these violent women partook in: women who were part of street gangs; women involved in violent robberies; women who murdered for commission, revenge or jealousy; women who were involved in abductions, blackmail or extortion; women who were serial killers
- Violent women from the working vs middle or upper classes (outside of the traditional Madeline Smith; Constance Kent and Florence Maybrick cases): representations, responses to them
- Narratives from the offenders themselves and how they saw their place in English society, the significance of their crime, how they saw themselves as women etc.
- Newspaper narrative creation about violent female offenders
- Social changes that women’s crimes were in answer to
Entries to this collection will be in the range of 7,000-9,000 words due in early June 2012.
Please send abstracts (250 words) and short bio by 12th November 2011 to vicnagy AT gmail.com

CFP: Graduate Conference on the History of the Body

2011-10-07T08:29:00.000-05:00

Graduate Conference on the History of the Body
October 20th- October 22nd, 2011
Washington University in St. Louis, Danforth Campus
The Graduate History Association at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce the inaugural Graduate Conference on the History of the Body, to be held October 20-22 on the Danforth Campus in St. Louis.
In 2001, Roy Porter remarked that body history had become the "historiographical dish of the day." Ten years on, histories of the body continue to flourish. Often working at the interstices of a number of methods and approaches, the field has produced innovative and compelling articulations of the body as a category of historical analysis. As thinking about bodies has occasioned ongoing encounters, clashes, and border-crossings between a variety of disciplines, this conference aims to promote conversations across scholarly divides by showcasing and reflecting on graduate-level scholarship on the history of the body, in all periods and regions, and from a variety of methodological approaches. The keynote address will open the conference at 4:00 on Thursday, October 20, and panels will be delivered on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22. Please see the attached program for full details.
Professor Mary Fissell, renowned historian of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the Keynote Address in conjunction with the Washington University in St. Louis Department of History Colloquium Series: “Blood Will Out: Kinship, The Body, and Popular Medicine, 1750-1860,” at 4 pm in Busch Hall Room 100 on the Danforth Campus. Please join us for an open reception immediately following in Busch 18.
There are no registration fees for this conference, but pre-registration is available through our website: www.history.artsci.wustl.edu/GHA/Conference

Campus Event: Work It! Career Fair Success for Women

2011-10-05T14:55:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, October 12
6:00 p.m.
Holmes Student Center, Lincoln Room

Join NIU Women's Studies Program, Career Services, and the Women's Resource Center for this interactive job search workshop for women, presented by Teri Schmidgall. What you say, what you ask, and feeling good in what you wear are important factors in success at a Career Fair. Walk away with the confidence to present your unique story and know how to work it!

Campus Event: Clothing Swap

2011-10-04T07:52:00.000-05:00

Women's Resource Center
Clothing Swap

Need a new wardrobe?
Looking for professional clothes to wear to the Job or Internship Fair?
Go Shopping without spending any money at the WRC Clothing Swap!

October 6 from 3-5 PM
Gallery Lounge in the
Holmes Student Center

How to Donate Your Old Clothes
Please take your clean, gently used clothing to one of the WRC's donation boxes. Donation boxes are located at:
Women's Resource Center
Graham Hall
DuSable Hall

How to choose new clothes
For each item of clothing that you donate, you will take one ticket. Bring your tickets to the WRC Clothing Swap. Each ticket entitles you to choose one item of clothing at the Clothing Swap.

If you have any questions, please call the Women's Resource Center at 815-753-0320.

Campus Event: Robyn Ochs, Bisexual Activist

2011-10-03T15:38:00.000-05:00

Thursday, October 6th
Holmes Student Center Room 405
8pm

Robyn Ochs is a professional speaker and workshop leader, award-winning activist, and author. An advocate for the rights of people of ALL orientations and genders. Robyn's work focuses on increasing awareness and understanding of complex identities, and mobilizing people to be powerful allies to one another within and across identities and social movements. Don't miss this dynamic presentation highlighting the often misunderstood "B" in LGBTQ where Robyn speaks about the myths and realities of bisexuality and sexual fluidity.

Co-sponsored with: PRISM, and several others.

Campus Event: HopeLine Project

2011-10-03T15:29:00.000-05:00

Monday, October 3rd -- Friday, October 28
8:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. -- 4.30 p.m.
Reavis Hall, Room 103

Drop off your used cell phones to help survivors of domestic violence. The Women's Resource Center has partnered with Verizon Wireless to bring the HopeLine Project to NIU.

Campus Event: Prism Bake Sale

2011-10-03T15:28:00.000-05:00

Thursday, October 6th
Holmes Student Center
near Diversions
9am - 2pm

Come support Safe Passage and their mission by buying some baked goodies provided by NIU Prism! All proceeds will be donated to Safe Passage in DeKalb.

Campus Event: Trans 101

2011-10-03T15:27:00.002-05:00

Tuesday, October 4th
Holmes Student Center
Room 506
7pm to 8pm

Join the LGBT Resource Center as we explore identities in the transgender spectrum. Learn about experiences, terminology, and what it means to be trans.

Local Event: Society of Women Engineers hosts: Invent it. Build it.

2011-09-30T08:25:00.000-05:00

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Girl Scouts, WGBH'S Design Squad Nation, and The ExxonMobil Foundation Have teamed up for the second annual Invent It. Build It. Invent It. Build It. is a hands-on workshop open to all middle school girls. The event is a day to explore the creative and innovative sides of engineering and meet women engineers and technologists from around the world.
Event Details:Location: McCormick Place as part of the SWE Annual Conference
2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60616
Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011
Time: 10:00am - 3:30 pm (Lunch will be served)
Target Audience: Girls in Grades 6-8, parents and educators
Registration: http://register.girlscoutsgcnwi.org/ and enter CODE 32112
NOTE: You do not have to be a Girl Scout to register.
For more information contact: Vicky Caluen (vcaluen@girlscoutsgcnwi.org).
There will also be a separate, parallel program for parents and educators. Registration for both programs can be found at http://register.girlscoutsgcnwi.org/ (enter CODE 32112). Registration is $15.00/girl and includes lunch. There is no additional charge to take part in the Parent/Educator program.
Click here to find our promotional flyer and more event details. Feel free to post this information in your school, share it electronically with colleagues and announce this opportunity on your PA system.
Registration is limited and will be accepted on a first come first serve basis.

Society of Women Engineers
203 N. LaSalle St. #1675
Chicago, IL 60601

CFP: Women's Organizations and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War

2011-09-29T09:07:00.000-05:00

Call for papers.
Women’s Organisations and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War:
Moving Across Borders.
An interdisciplinary, international conference to be held at Hamline University, St Paul, Minnesota, USA
Memorial Day Weekend: 26th to 28th May 2012
Recent developments in the social and cultural history of modern warfare have done much to shed new light on the experience of the First World War, and in particular how that experience was communicated in popular and high culture, and in acts of remembrance and commemoration after 1918. The post-war period (ca 1918-1923) is distinctive, both within individual nations and as a point of international comparison. It is characterised by the often troubled transition from a wartime to a peacetime society, continued conflicts over the repatriation of refugees and POWs; revolutionary and counter- revolutionary violence in parts of central Europe; and new ethnic and national conflicts arising from the collapse of the former Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires, and the cultural anxieties that surrounded these events. Within this context, the role of organised women's movements and female activists in the post-war period takes on a new importance.
The aim of this conference is to explore major comparative themes such as citizenship, suffrage, nationalism, and women's desire to respond to extremes of need in the post-war era (dislocation, internment, violence and hunger) from a national, international and transnational perspective. It will examine the work of organisations and individuals able to move across international borders, such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) or the journalist Eleanor Franklin Egan, who reported on social conditions throughout post-war Europe. The role of such women and organisations in bringing about reconciliation and facilitating cooperation between former enemy nations (cultural demobilisation, ‘the dismantlement of the mindsets and values of wartime’—John Horne) will also be examined, as will the role of nationalist women's organisations in perpetuating discourses of war and in facilitating the rise of new forms of ethno-nationalism and racial intolerance (‘cultural remobilisation’) during the period 1918-1923. This conference is the third in a series. The first conference, The Gentler Sex: Responses of the Women’s Movement to the First World War, 1914-1919, London, held in 2005, was followed in 2008 with Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists 1918-1923, Leeds. Publications arising from the earlier conferences include special issues of Minerva: Journal of Women and War and two edited volumes: Fell, A.S. and Sharp, I.E. (eds) (2007) The Women's Movement in Wartime. International Perspectives 1914-1919. Palgrave Macmillan and Sharp, I.E and Stibbe, M (eds) (2011) Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923 (Brill).
The Hamline Conference builds on this work and is supported by a network grant from the UK-based Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). It will be followed by a fourth international conference in Budapest, Hungary with an emphasis on Eastern and Central Europe. Two special issues of a peer-reviewed journal and a volume of comparative essays are planned for 2014.
Attendees will be invited to visit sites and events of interest, including Victory Memorial Parkway in Minneapolis (a boulevard and collection of monuments dedicated in 1921 to the servicemen and nurses of Hennepin County who died in the First World War) and the Memorial Day Program at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
Confirmed speakers include:
Keynote speaker: Susan R. Grayzel, Professor of History and Interim Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Missisippi. Author of Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), which won the British Council Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies in 2000, and Women and the First World War (Longman, 2002), a global history. She has two forthcoming books: At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz. (Cambridge) and The First World War: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford St. Martins) Dr Erica Kuhlmann, Director Women’s Studies Program, Idaho State University, author of Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War New York University Press (forthcoming 2012); Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War. Women, Gender and Postwar Reconciliation, Palgrave Macmillan 2008; Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate over War, 1895-1919, Greenwood Press 1997 and co-editor (with Kimberley Jensen) of Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective Dordrecht, Republic of Letters, 2010
Dr Kimberley Jensen, History and Gender Studies Program, Western Oregon, Co-editor (with Erica Kuhlman) of Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective Dordrecht, Republic of Letters, 2010 and author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War University of Illinois Press 2008
Professor Matthew Stibbe, author of Germany 1914-33: Politics, Society and Culture Longman 2010; British Civilian Internees in Germany: The Ruhleben Camp Manchester University Press 1914-1918 and Co-editor (with Ingrid Sharp) Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923 Brill, 2011
Dr Judit Acsády (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest); Professor Gabriella Hauch (University of Linz, Austria); Ms Ingrid Sharp (Leeds, UK); Professor Olga Shyrnova (Ivanonvo State University, Russia); Dr David Hudson (Hamline University, US); Dr Nikolai Vukov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia).
Proposals for papers and/or panels that deal with the work of women’s organisations or female activists during the period under investigation are invited, with particular interest in the following areas:
• cultural demobilisation and remobilisation;
• transnational organisations and activities, transcending the nation state;
• peace-building and reconstruction: a discourse of human rights
• on-going campaigns for suffrage and women’s organisations post-suffrage;
• revolutionary and counter-revolutionary violence;
• dislocation, disability, internment, social instability and poverty;
• cultural reflections of post-war society in art, literature and film (NB: these may appear at a later date than the period under investigation)
Contributions are welcome from any field or discipline, including literary and cultural studies, sociology and social anthropology, women’s and gender studies, peace and war studies, as well as history itself.
Please send abstracts (500 words) to Ms Ingrid Sharp i.e.sharp@leeds.ac.uk and Dr David Hudson, dhudson@gw.hamline.edu by December 15.

CFP: Gendered Borders and Queer Frontiers

2011-09-29T09:06:00.000-05:00

March 16th-17th, 2012
Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin Madison

Call For Papers

The fields of Gender and Women’s studies have long offered spaces for conceptual exploration and innovation in history, the social sciences, cultural and literary studies. But what does it mean to “do” gender studies in this age of queering and intersectionality? What are the limits of current scholarship and how can we push beyond them? Are some conceptual boundaries productive? In what new directions can gender scholars take the study of history? Concurrently, what does the field of history have to offer queer studies?

We envision this conference as bringing together scholars from many disciplines, time periods, and regional focii in order to have conversations about the future of the fields of gender history and gender studies. For this reason we welcome graduate students whose focus is neither the United States nor the 20th century.
We hope to build an interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue in the space of this conference. Although this conference is hosted by the Program in Gender and Women’s History, we hope to see presentations by graduate students from many fields, including (but not limited to) cultural studies, American studies, area studies, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, history of science, legal studies, literature, the social sciences, media and communication, borderlands, and of course, history.
Potential topics include:
reproduction/motherhood/family
cultural history/popular culture
space and migrations
criminalization/criminality
pedagogy
race/ethnicity
identities and change
methodology

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief bio of no more than 100 words to jlholland26@gmail.com by November 14, 2011. We welcome submissions from individuals as well as panels. Conference applicants will be notified in early January.

CFP: Gender & History Special Issue: Gender and Religion

2011-09-29T09:05:00.000-05:00

_Gender & History_ Special Issue 25.3 (2013):‘Gender and Religion’ – CFP

Issue editors: Joanna DeGroot (University of York) and Sue Morgan (University of Chichester)

From medieval female spirituality to modern Hindu or Muslim ‘fundamentalisms’, from Buddhist saints and African healers to nineteenth-century muscular Christianity, histories of gender and religion have attracted increasing attention from scholars over the last two decades. This special issue will highlight the rich diversity of ongoing historical work in this field and provide an opportunity to critically reflect upon contemporary theoretical, methodological and historiographical debates and issues within this burgeoning area of gender history.

The term ‘religion’ is both fluid and capacious in its meaning including, *inter alia*, an intellectual belief system, an interior source of personal motivation or mystical experience, an influential public cultural discourse, a platform for political action, a series of ritual performances or an organisational worship structure. Working with this ‘inclusivist’ notion of religion we are interested in proposals which explore any of these aspects, whether in so-called ‘world’ or ‘major’ religions, or in less well known or large scale areas of religious practice. We have no prescriptive definition of the boundaries between the ‘religious’ and the ‘non-religious’; indeed, the question of how such boundaries have operated, as and when they are thought to have existed, and their shifting and permeable nature is an open one with major implications for the gendered study of histories of religion and secularisation; we warmly welcome proposals dealing with such conceptual themes.

We are particularly interested in producing a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary volume which includes scholarship on a wide range of periods, places, and cultures, and in which anthropological, literary, political, theological or artistic approaches are brought to bear on historical treatments of gender and religion. We welcome proposals using these approaches or others and also encourage transnational comparative studies and work on premodern and nonwestern cultures. Other issues might include religious affiliation and gender as markers of difference and/or inequity; the primacy or otherwise of gender in religious identity formations; the (re)periodisation of conventional religious narratives and the historical intersections between confessional or denominational loyalties, race, class and sexuality. In summary this special issue of *Gender & History* will critically examine the significance of gender as a methodological tool in eliciting news ways of reading the spiritual and the secular.

We plan to approach the creation of this volume via a colloquium to be held 17-18 September 2012 at the University of York (UK). Paper proposals (500-750 words maximum) are to be submitted by 31 October 2011 and invitations to present at the colloquium will be issued by January 2012. Papers must be submitted for pre-circulation to the editors by 15 July 2012 as a condition of participation. After the colloquium the editors will select papers for publication, and those accepted for publication will be expected to submit their revised text by 31 December 2012. This will allow the editors to work with authors to produce the final text of the issue by July 2013 for publication in November 2013 (which our UK colleagues will note falls within the REF timetable !!).

Send paper proposals to joanna.degroot@york.ac.uk AND s.morgan@chi.ac.uk by *31 October 2011.*

Local Event: An Evening with Sara Paretsky

2011-09-27T10:48:00.000-05:00

Monday, October 03, 2011
7:00 - 9:00 PM

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Sara Paretsky is coming to town at the Barsema Alumni & Visitor's Center! She will be presenting “Women as Hard Boiled Detectives” in today’s mystery fiction world. There will be a chance for questions at the end of her presentation and she will be available for book signing. This event is free and open to the public. Free copies of The Maltese Falcon will be distributed at this event and at all Big Read programs.

Barsema Alumni & Visitor's Center is located on 231 N. Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb.

For more information:

815-756-9568 x 260

edithc@dkpl.org

http://bavc.niu.edu/alumni/bavc/index.asp

CFP: Biennial conference on Women and Mythology

2011-09-27T09:58:00.000-05:00

Advancing scholarship about women and mythology involves the evolution and refinement of scholarly methods. Suggested topics for this symposium might include, but are not limited to, the following:

What are new paths for the field of women’s spirituality? What new models and methods support scholarly inquiry? How shall new methods be evaluated? What are criteria for solid scholarship using these new models? What are the complexities around issues of cultural appropriation? How can scholars understand and address the tensions around rootedness and local culture on the one hand, and issues of lineage and history on the other?

Proposals for papers, panels, and workshops addressing these topics will be given preference, but other subjects will be considered. Papers should be 20 minutes; up to four papers on a related topic may be proposed together. Workshops (limited to 90 minutes) should be organized to provide audience interaction and must clearly address theme. Presenters from all disciplines are welcome, as well as creative artists and practitioners who engage mythic themes in a scholarly manner in their work. Presenters must become members of ASWM prior to conference. Send 250-word abstract (for panels, 200 word abstract plus up to 150 words per paper) to aswmsubmissions@gmail.com by December 15, 2012. Include bio of up to 70 words for each presenter, as well as contact information including surface address and email. See www.womenandmyth.org.

Patricia Monaghan
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
DePaul University
4 East Jackson
Chicago IL 60604
Phone: 312-476-3073
Fax: 708-633-9091
Email: pmonagha@depaul.edu
Visit the website at http://www.womenandmyth.org

Job Opportunity: Indiana University - Bloomington

2011-09-27T09:56:00.000-05:00

Department of Gender Studies

Indiana University- Bloomington

The Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University Bloomington seeks to appoint an assistant professor in the area of gender and science beginning in the 2012-13 academic year. We invite applications from scholars whose work demonstrates a serious commitment to bridging intellectual and methodological divides between the natural, physical, behavioral, or social sciences and the humanities, from a feminist or queer perspective. Applications are encouraged from scholars whose work engages creatively with one or more of the following areas of expertise: sexuality, race andracialization, ethnicity, class and socio-economic inequality, or bodies and embodiment. For additional information go to http://www.iub.edu/~gender/

Salary, fringe benefits, research and teaching opportunities are consistent with peer Research One institutions. Completed applications received by October 31th willbe assured full consideration. Must have a PhD in hand no later than August 1, 2012.

To apply, submit: 1) a letter of application detailing how your research agenda, teaching experience, and philosophy fit with the job description and department; 2) curriculum vitae; and 3) name/contact information for three referees via e-mail to kbrand@indiana.edu or hard copy to: Kristin Brand, Administrator, Department of Gender Studies; Memorial Hall E 130; Indiana University; Bloomington, IN 47405. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer committed to excellence through diversity.

Job Opportunity: Northeastern University

2011-09-27T09:53:00.002-05:00

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston (www.northeastern.edu/womensstudies) invites nominations and applications for Director and Advanced Associate or Full Professor, with tenure, starting July 1, 2012. Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies is a University-wide interdisciplinary program which offers an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate, works closely with student organizations, and benefits from the participation of faculty from across the University. In addition to our existing strengths, developing emphases include joint majors, global feminisms, and lesbian, gay, and queer studies. The Program participates actively in the Boston-based Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies that offers team-taught graduate courses and opportunities for collaboration. The Director will work with an executive and advisory board and will have primary responsibility for program development, with teaching in the Program as well as in the disciplinary locus of tenure.

Applications are invited from any field that contributes to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Candidates must have a terminal degree, an established record of scholarship and teaching, relevant experience in academic leadership, and a commitment to diversity. The Director will be appointed in a related department in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Northeastern is a nationally ranked research university that provides experiential learning opportunities for its 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students, a strong urban mission, a global perspective, and an emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship. The Director will have the opportunity to help build and expand a vibrant program at the center of the mission of the new College of Social Sciences and Humanities. We especially seek candidates with interest and skills in innovative, collaborative development; interdisciplinarity; and a vision for the future of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University. Northeastern University particularly welcomes applications from minorities, women and persons with disabilities. Northeastern University is an E-Verify Employer.

To apply, please visit the College of Social Sciences and Humanities website, http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/, and click on the Faculty Positions link. If you are viewing this posting through a Northeastern University website, simply click the button below. Applicants should upload a letter of application, CV, a statement of current and future research interests, and contact information for four references. Review of applications will begin October 20, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. Questions about the position may be directed to Professor Carla Kaplan, Search Committee Chair, 617-373-4937.

Job Opportunity: University of Nevada - Reno

2011-09-27T09:52:00.000-05:00

The Gender, Race, and Identity Program at the University of Nevada, Reno announces an opening for an Assistant Professor. This is a tenure-track position to begin Fall 2012. The position will be a joint appointment in Women’s Studies and in a humanities department in the College of Liberal Arts. The successful candidate will have a strong background in interdisciplinary feminist approaches and must have research and teaching interests in intersections of gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality or related areas. Engagement with theories of race, identity, or difference desired. Research or teaching intersection with another area of GRI and expertise that fills a relevant need in the humanities department preferred.

The GRI program offers a major in Women’s Studies, minors in Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies, and Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies, and a graduate certificate in Gender, Race and Identity Studies. The successful candidate should expect to teach introductory and advanced undergraduate courses as well as graduate courses in Women’s Studies and the department of joint appointment.

A strong record of research is expected in addition to experience and promise as an excellent teacher.Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and/or Gender Studies or Ph.D. in a humanities field with an emphasis on women and/or gender must be completed by July 1, 2012.

The University of Nevada requires that applications be submitted electronically athttps://www.unrsearch.com/postings/9714

To apply, complete the brief form and submit letter of application, C.V. with reference contact information, dissertation abstract, and writing sample of fewer than 26 pages. All applications must be submitted electronically no later than October 28, 2011. An unofficial transcript and dossier with recommendation letters may be requested later.

HR will attempt to verify academic credentials upon receipt of hiring documents. If the academic credentials cannot be verified, HR will notify the faculty member that an official transcript of their highest degree must be submitted within thirty days of the faculty member’s first day of employment.

AA/EEO Women and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

Kathy Stanfield
judyk@unr.edu

Job Opportunity: Washington University, St. Louis

2011-09-27T09:50:00.003-05:00

The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis seeks to fill a two-year post-doctoral appointment in masculinities and queer theory, to begin in the 2012-13 academic year. We are particularly interested in candidates from disciplines or interdisciplinary programs in the social sciences and humanities. Special consideration will be given to those whose research explores transnational and/or intersectional issues and masculinities, as well as queer theory. The responsibilities of this appointment include course teaching and research.

Applicants should send a letter of interest explaining research and scholarly interests; current curriculum vitae; a five-page description of current research project(s); a published article or dissertation chapter; and three (3) letters of recommendation, including one from the dissertation advisor.

Washington University especially encourages applications from women, members of ethnic minority groups, and disabled individuals. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States and have received the doctorate after July 1, 2009 and before July 1, 2012.

Applications should be sent to Linda Nicholson, Interim Director, WGSSSearch Committee, Campus Box 1078, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130. The committee will review applications until the position is filled, but priority will be given to those received by January 17th, 2012.

Job Opportunity: Williams College

2011-09-27T09:50:00.000-05:00

The Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Williams College invites applications for a tenure-track, assistant professor position in Transnational/Global Sexualities and Queer Studies to begin in Fall 2012. We seek a social scientist (or training in a related field) whose research and teaching utilizes qualitative and/or quantitative methods. The successful candidate will teach a 2/2 load and a short January term course every other year. Courses will include introductory classes in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, queer theory, and cross-cultural/transnational sexualities, in addition to courses in the faculty member's specific area of research. Competitive applicants will have demonstrated teaching ability, a commitment to undergraduate liberal arts education, and an active research program. Our program is interdisciplinary and draws a diverse group of students to its courses and major. Ideally, candidates will have received their PhD before beginning the position.

Please send a cover letter including a statement of teaching and research interests, CV, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation postmarked no later than November 1, 2011, to Professor Kathryn R. Kent, Chair, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, c/o Robin Keller,Schapiro Hall, 24 Hopkins Hall Drive, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267. Beyond meeting fully its legal obligations for non-discrimination, Williams College is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community where members from all backgrounds can live, learn, and thrive.

Professor Katie R. Kent, Chair, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
c/o Robin Keller
Schapiro Hall
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267

Campus Event: The Women's Resource Center Hot Topics Tuesdays

2011-09-27T09:47:00.000-05:00

The Women's Resource Center
Hot Topics Tuesdays
Let's get together & talk about it.

What Hot Topics are you interested in talking about?
Tuesdays: September 27, 2011, October 25, 2011, November 29, 2011.
Please call in your HOT TOPIC to 815-753-0320

The Hot Topics discussions will be in the Fireside Lounge in Neptune from noon to 1 o'clock.

Campus Event: Society of Women Engineers STEM Brown Bag Lunch

2011-09-27T09:15:00.000-05:00

NIU‑SWE would like to invite you to our first monthly STEM Brown Bag lunch. At our first brown bag lunch, we will be discussing the future brown bag events and looking for individuals (students and faculty) who would be interested in presenting at the lunches. Please do come! We are intending this to be an opportunity for the different STEM areas to get together to discuss academic and non‑academic issues, as well as for providing a networking opportunity.

The first STEM brown bag lunch is being held on Oct. 5th at 12pm in the Engineering Building, Rm 358.

Pizza slices and donuts for $1 will also be available. Our next brown bag lunch will be on Oct. 26th in the Engineering Building in Rm 358. We will skip November and December, due to the holidays, and continue in January.

The Brown Bag lunches will be every last Wed. of the month.

If you have any questions, please let me know. If you can not make this meeting, but would like to participate, please let me know. Thanks so much!

Please RSVP by Monday, Oct. 3rd.

Amanda Emrich

niu.swe@gmail.com

CFP: 31st Annual Gender Studies Symposium

2011-09-26T10:02:00.000-05:00

31st Annual Gender Studies Symposium
March 14-16, 2012

Objection!
Gender, Sex, Law, & Social Change

We are accepting proposals for individual papers, workshops, readings, roundtable discussions, artistic productions, or media presentations.

Proposals must be received by Wednesday, October 26, 2011.

For submission guidelines and other symposium information, to to:
http://go.lclark.edu/gender/call

Campus Opportunity: Volunteer for STEMFest

2011-09-22T15:17:00.000-05:00

STEMFest is looking for volunteers on October 22 at the NIU Convocation center.

This is a great opportunity to interact with elementary and middle-school aged visitors and experience the enthusiasm of children engaged in STEM activities.

You can get more information about STEMFest and volunteering at:
http://registeruo.niu.edu/iebms/wbe/wbe_p1_main.aspx?oc=40&cc=WBE4011969

CFP: Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies

2011-09-21T09:14:00.002-05:00

HOME/LAND: WOMEN, CITIZENSHIP, PHOTOGRAPHIES
5-7 July 2012
The School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK

Home/Land is an interdisciplinary conference that asks what dialogues might be engendered, globally and locally, around concepts of citizenship and belonging by engaging with women’s photographic practices. In the terms of this conference, ‘photographic practices’ may include both historical and contemporary work, still and/or moving image, derived from fine art and social science contexts and embracing genres such as portraiture, landscape, documentary and installation.

We invite papers and presentations from theoreticians, historians and/or practising artists on the issues raised by this theme, which may include:

■ how questions of sexual and other forms of difference impact upon the geopolitics of citizenship

■ how the imaged communities formed through multiple modes of photographic practice inform, unform or reform notions of ‘home’

■ how women’s photographies redefine personal and communal identities in relation to the politics of ‘land’

Abstracts of no more than 300 words accompanied by a brief biographical statement
(150 words maximum) should be sent to Marion Arnold (M.Arnold@lboro.ac.uk) and Marsha Meskimmon (M.G.Meskimmon@lboro.ac.uk) by 11th November 2011.

Where presentations are focused upon artists’ work or practice-led research, please include no more than 10 low-res images or a small quick-time file – maximum file size of total: 2MB.

Job Opportunity: Colby College

2011-09-20T09:31:00.000-05:00

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program (WGSS) at Colby College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship beginning September 1, 2012. We seek an individual with evidence of advanced training in women’s, gender, and/or sexuality studies and social science methods whose work focuses on areas and/or populations outside the U.S. The position carries a five-course load and includes classes in the program’s core curriculum and electives in the candidate’s area of specialization Ph.D. in hand by September 1, 2012.

Submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, writing sample and statement addressing teaching philosophy, research agenda and commitment to program development within a liberal arts environment to: wgsssearch@colby.edu. For full consideration, please submit materials by 10/1/11. We expect to interview candidates at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in Atlanta.

Colby is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, committed to excellence through diversity, and strongly encourages applications and nominations of persons of color, women, and members of other under-represented groups. For more information about the College, please visit the Colby web site: www.colby.edu.

Job Opportunity: Providence College

2011-09-20T09:29:00.003-05:00

The Department of Sociology and the Women’s Studies Program at Providence College invite applications for a joint tenure-track assistant professorship beginning August 2012. Successful applicants must possess a Ph.D. in Sociology from an accredited institution and have graduate credentials in Women’s Studies, specific specialization open. In addition, candidates should demonstrate excellence in undergraduate teaching, the ability to establish a scholarly research program, and a willingness to be active in service to the college and community. Successful candidate will teach a total of four courses per year in the Sociology department, Women’s Studies program, and the College’s Western Civilization program.

Applicants should submit an on-line cover letter, a statement outlining the candidate’s vision for Women Studies program leadership, curriculum vitae, writing sample, graduate transcripts, and the names and email addresses of three people who will submit letters of recommendation, at least two of which should address teaching ability.

Deadline for submission of applications is October 15, 2011. Application instructions are available at the College web site at:http://providence.edu/About+PC/Employment+Opportunities/

Providence College is a Roman Catholic four-year liberal arts institution conducted under the auspices of the Dominican Friars and seeks candidates who can affirm and contribute to its Mission. An AA/EOE, the College especially encourages applications from women and persons of color.

Job Opportunity: University of Iowa

2011-09-20T09:29:00.000-05:00

The Department of History at The University of Iowa invites applications for a historian of Women. The search is open at the rank of Associate Professor or full Professor. Teaching duties for this position will include graduate/undergraduate courses in the successful candidate’s area of expertise, as well as core courses in the department--such as U.S. history survey.

Applications must be submitted online at http://jobs.uiowa.edu/(refer to requisition #59991). Candidates must have their PhD by August 2012 in History or related field. Electronic attachments to online applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information for three letters of recommendation. We require a hard copy of the entire dissertation or book, if available, or completed book chapters (and other publications, if desired). Evaluation of written work plays a major role in hiring decisions. Send directly to the Women’s History Search Committee, Department of History, 280 Schaeffer Hall, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1409. Direct letters of reference to the same address. Screening of applications begins October 15, 2011, and will be considered until the appointment is made.

The Department of History and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are strongly committed to gender, sexual, and ethnic diversity, and the strategic plans of the University, College and Department reflect this commitment. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Iowa is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

Job Opportunity: University of Wisconsin Green Bay

2011-09-20T09:27:00.002-05:00

Assistant Professor, Gender and the Law (Democracy and Justice Studies)

Assistant Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies (Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, Women’s Studies, or related field). We seek candidates with specialization in gender and the law. The new faculty member will be expected to teach Law and Society, Gender and the Law, as well as other lower- and upper-level courses in their area of specialty. Will perform scholarly activities consistent with rank, advise students, perform institutional service, and contribute to the ongoing development of the department.

Required:

Doctorate in Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, Women’s Studies, or a related field from an accredited institution; will consider ABD candidates with the expectation that the degree is completed by the end of the first-year contract period
Ability to teach Law and Society, and Gender and the Law, and other courses within specialization
Demonstrated potential for excellence in teaching and scholarship
Commitment to undergraduate education
Communication and interpersonal skills sufficient to work effectively with a diverse array of students and colleagues

Preferred:

Doctorate in Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, Women’s Studies, or a related field from an accredited institution by the beginning date of the appointment

Starting date: August 27, 2012. Position is an academic year tenure-track appointment. Applicants must be considered for tenure and promotion in six years although tenure decisions may be considered at any time. Promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor is simultaneous with tenure. Excellence in teaching, sustained scholarly activity and institutional service required for retention and promotion. Official transcripts of the highest degree achieved will be required of finalist(s). A criminal conviction investigation will be conducted on the finalist(s). In compliance with the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act, the university does not discriminate on the basis of arrest or conviction record.

Submit a letter of application that specifically addresses qualifications for the essential job functions listed above, course evaluations if available, curriculum vitae, unofficial transcripts of graduate work and three letters of recommendation.

Completed materials should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments. If you are unable to submit materials electronically in this format please call or email for special arrangements. To ensure consideration, please submit material by November 4, 2011. Files must be complete to be considered. For further information, see: http://www.uwgb.edu/hr/jobs/position657.html.

Submit application materials to:

Professor Kim Nielsen
Democracy and Justice Studies
Phone: (920) 465-2487
DJS@uwgb.edu

CFP: Gender, Race, and Education in a Global Society: Second Annual Women's Conference at South Caroline State University

2011-09-20T09:20:00.002-05:00

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DARLENE CLARK HINE (MSU, NORTHWESTERN)

Is the Global Society producing revolutions in gender and race identities? This conference will seek to interrogate the social organization and cultural production of diverse gendered and/or racial identities, roles, objects of study, expectations and positionings within contemporary educational contexts. The conference will also seek to examine how the current economic crisis, the restructuring of educational institutions, the changing curriculum and the role of the federal government in education impact gender and race. Many critics of "late modernity" or the culture of globalized capitalism maintain that the current economic order maintains the social order which is as strongly delineated along gendered and racial lines as ever: in the US, for example, is a transformation and diversification of cultural institutions--especially educational institutions--occurring, or are we as restricted along class, gender and racial lines as ever?

Papers presented at the conference will be held to a strict 20-minute time limit.

Registration fee: $105.00 (includes Thursday lunch and Friday night banquet)

SUGGESTED TOPICS

• Poverty, Race and Education
• Illegal Immigrant Legislation and Higher Ed
• Minority Males: Prison versus Education
• Black Male Students
• Gender Hierarchies in Higher Ed
• Race, Gender and Administration in Higher Ed
• Standardized Testing and Race
• No Child Left Behind: Bush's Legacy
• Women and Authority in Higher Ed
• Language and Identity
• Femininity, Masculinity and Education
• Gender Theory and Education
• Popular Culture, Gender Identity and Education
• College in the Closet: Support Systems for GLBT Students
• "Poisonous Pedagogies" and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies among Minority Students
• Bullying and Sexual Identity in School
• Geneva Smitherman and the Politics of AAL (African American Language)
• Ebonics/AAL and Education
• Widening Access: For Whom?
• Sexual Harassment and Education
• Single-Sex versus Coeducation Institutions
• The Legacy of HBCUs
• Increasing Diversity at HBCUs
• First Nations Colleges
• The Ivy League, Homogeneity and Diversity
• Diversity, Democracy and Education
• Is Multicultural Education a Cliché?
• Racism and/or Sexism in Education

One-page abstracts due by January 15, 2012. Speakers will present on Thursday and Friday.
Accepted speakers notified by January 20.
Registration fee due on or before February 15.

CFP: Maternal Hauntings: Feminine Spectral Identities and Ghosts in Asian American Literature

2011-09-20T09:19:00.002-05:00

Call for papers:
43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, NY

Maternal Hauntings: Feminine Spectral Identities and Ghosts in Asian American Literature

Avery Gordon in Ghostly Matters claims, “The way of the ghost is haunting, and haunting is a particular way of knowing what has happened or is happening. Being haunted draws us affectively, sometimes against our will and always a bit magically, into the structure of feeling we come to experience, not as cold knowledge, but as a transformative recognition.”
Asian American literature is abundant with representations of hauntings, ghosts, and feminine spectral identities. Authors such as ChangRae Lee, Amy Tan, Nora Okja Keller, Theresa Hak Kyung Ja, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Suki Kim, Susana Choi, Bharati Mukherjee, Carlos Bulosan, Jessica Hagedorn, Frank Chin, Hisaye Yamamoto, and others utilize these hauntings and ghost figures to demonstrate what “has happened or is happening” to, perhaps, provide “transformative recognition” of trauma, memory, and historical discontinuities.

This panel seeks to investigate these representations and consider the following:
Are these representations vehicles through/by which postcolonial and diasporic trauma is articulated?
What are the haunted histories and locations of the Asian American experience in the literary field and in the American field of cultural production?
Are these ghosts redemptive figures?
Are hauntings the vehicle by which the politics of the body and interracial explorations are negotiated?
How is the folklore oral tradition distinctive from literary representations? How are modern writers negotiating this tradition? What are the implications of the haunting on/of the mother-daughter continuum?
What are the limits of Western critical approaches to literary representations of ghostly figures?

This panel seeks to theorize the maternal haunting, feminine spectral identities, and ghost figures in Asian American literature. Topics or critical paradigms can include, but are not limited to: memory, rape, trauma, the abject, silence, transnationalism, eroticism, materiality, femininity, miscegenation, consumption, loss, reception theory, and reader-response. Send a 1-page abstract and brief bio as a Word attachment to Jina Lee, JinaLeeCFP@gmail.com, with NEMLA in the subject line.

Deadline: September 30, 2011

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2012 Convention will be posted at: www.nemla.org.

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. Do not accept a slot if you may cancel to present on another session.

CFP: The Art of Gender in Everyday Life

2011-09-20T09:18:00.002-05:00

Call for Papers for THE ART OF GENDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE IX

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.

For further information, please contact the Anderson Center via phone (208-282-2805) or email gndrctr@isu.edu.

Best regards,
Rebecca Morrow, Ph.D.
Director, Anderson Gender Resource Center
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID

CFP: University of Maryland Libraries Symposium: "Women and the Civil War"

2011-09-20T09:17:00.000-05:00

Call for Papers - University of Maryland Libraries Symposium:
“Women & the Civil War”

Paper proposals are invited for a half-day symposium entitled “Women and the Civil War,” to be held April 27, 2012, at the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium in being organized in connection with an exhibit at the university’s Hornbake Library, "Women on the Border: Maryland Perspectives of the Civil War," which draws on materials in the University Libraries’ Special Collections. The symposium will provide a forum for discussing the multitude of roles women played in the war and the many ways in which the war affected them. The keynote speaker will be Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Duke University.

The symposium committee is especially interested in scholarship relating to Maryland women and the Civil War or to women’s experiences in the border states. Proposals relating to these topics will be given preference, but proposals relating to other aspects of the topic of women and the Civil War will also be considered. The committee welcomes proposals from graduate students as well as more experienced scholars. Papers should be no longer than twenty minutes when delivered.

Paper proposals (500 words or less) and brief presenter bios should be e-mailed to Elizabeth Novara at enovara@umd.edu.

Submissions deadline is November 15, 2011, and the program committee expects to notify successful applicants by December 15, 2011.

Symposium Program Committee:
Elizabeth A. Novara, Curator, Historical Manuscripts, University of Maryland Libraries
Leslie S. Rowland, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, and Editor of Freedmen and Southern Society Project Lauren Brown, Special Collections Curator, University of Maryland Libraries
Eric N. Lindquist, History Subject Specialist, University of Maryland Libraries

Elizabeth Novara
Curator, Historical Manuscripts
2208C Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-314-2712

Email: enovara@umd.edu
Visit the website at http://www.lib.umd.edu/mdrm/gallery/index.html

Campus Event: WOMS Pizza Party!

2011-09-19T14:53:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, September 26
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Reavis Hall, Room 103

Women's Studies students and anyone wanting to learn more about the program are invited to our pizza party.

Campus Event: Exploring Majors Fair

2011-09-19T14:45:00.000-05:00

Monday, September 26
11:00 a.m. -- 3:00 p.m.
Holmes Student Center, Duke Ellington Ballroom

Stop by our table at the Exploring Majors Fair and learn more about the Women's Studies minor and contract major! We will be giving away some goodies, too!

Job Opportunity: Court Watch Project Coordinator

2011-09-19T09:22:00.001-05:00

ChicagoMetropolitan Battered Women’s Network

Court Watch Project Coordinator

Background

The Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network (CMBWN) was formed in1980 by a small group of women from agencies that provided services to domestic violence survivors and has grown into a coalition of more than 100 providers. CMBWN is a collaborative membership organization dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by domestic violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and the connection of community members to direct service providers. We envision an end to our society’s tolerance of domestic violence.

Primary role

Coordinate the development and implementation of cmbwn’s Court Watch Project.Responsibilities

Identify growth opportunities for the Court Watch Project and work towards their implementation.
Develop and maintain existing strategic relationships with local universities, volunteer centers, law schools, law firms and other potential volunteer pools.
Maintain relationship with research partner for the Court Watch Project.
Integrate feedback from court personnel, volunteers, advocacy community and others into the operation of the Court Watch Project.
In collaboration with the Development Coordinator and the Executive Director contribute to writing and submitting grant proposals and grant reports on a timely basis to Court Watch funders and prospects in accordance with set procedures and deadlines.
Manage the full-time AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteer position.
Ensure that all Court Watch volunteer contact information is up-to-date and that volunteer hours are kept up-to-date throughout the year.
Ensure that the Court Watch Advisory Council is kept abreast of Project activities.
Represent CMBWN at outside events as needed.
Serve as staff liaison to CMBWN committee(s) as assigned.
Perform special projects at the direction of the ED.
Participate in regular staff meetings.
Word processing, spreadsheets, database management, and desktop publishing skills required (Microsoft Word, Access, Excel and Publisher).
Minimum 3 years of progressively responsible professional development experience with a focus on court experience.
Demonstrated commitment to social change, preferably in the area of violence against women.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills; presentation skills; leadership skills; interpersonal skills and multi-tasking skills.
Undergraduate Degree required.
40-Hour Domestic Violence Training (must have within 6 months of hire).

Qualifications

Supervision

Executive Director

email resumes to ddalton@batteredwomensnetwork.org

Opportunity: Ms. at 40 Essay Contest

2011-09-15T11:33:00.000-05:00

Over the past forty years Ms. magazine has offered feminist reporting and perspectives on topics ranging from Marilyn Monroe to childbirth, from breast cancer to domestic violence. A group of Stanford faculty and editors of Ms. have selected forty Ms. covers from the magazine's inaugural freestanding issue in 1972 to today. We invite you to submit a 150-word essay about one of these covers.

Ten $100 cash prizes will be awarded for the best short essays. Entries will be judged on originality, vision, awareness of feminist issues and quality of expression. Winning entries will be displayed alongside the Ms. covers on the Stanford campus in January 2012.

Contest will run from August 1, 2011 - October 15, 2011.

More information available: http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/msat40/essaycontest.html

Event: The Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender: "Indian Women, Agrarian Villages, and Landscapes of Violence"

2011-09-15T11:32:00.000-05:00

Indian Women, Agrarian Villages, and Landscapes of Violence Susan Sleeper- Smith, Michigan State University

This paper examines the agrarian village world created by Indian women in the Ohio River valley, villages that have been conspicuously invisible in the historical record. In 1791, they posed a serious barrier to U.S. expansion and President Washington ordered a U.S. army attack on these villages. The villages and fields were burned and ninety Indian women and children were kidnapped and imprisoned at Fort Washington (Cincinnati). The federal government destabilized this agrarian landscape, dismissed all Indians as warlike, and consigned this agrarian landscape to invisibility. This paper explores both the agrarian world created by Indian women and exposes the federal actions that destroyed this world.

Commentator: Brenda Child, University of Minnesota

All papers are pre-circulated electronically to those who plan to attend the seminar in person. For a copy of the paper, e-mail Carmen Jaramillo at jaramilloc@newberry.org. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.

Scholl Center for American History and Culture
The Newberry
60 W. Walton
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 255-3602
Email: scholl@newberry.org
Visit the website at http://www.newberry.org/scholl/schollhome.html

CFP: Indecency: A Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History

2011-09-15T11:30:00.002-05:00

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's & Gender History Presents:
INDECENCY
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 1-3, 2012

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The Executive Committee of the Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 1-3, 2012. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline on any topic in the field of women's and gender history. Papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium.

The history of gender and sexuality is in many ways the history of indecency—of bodies, acts, and attachments that were deemed indecent by culture or legal code, and of the various ways subjects questioned, resisted, or embraced that label. Indeed, indecency has long functioned as a pivot upon which concepts and experiences of inclusion and exclusion depend, and thus it offers us a valuable way of exploring both dominant paradigms and their undoing.

The theme is meant to be open-ended—provocative rather than prescriptive—and papers need not take up the question of indecency in any direct or obvious way. In gathering together what we hope will be a geographically, temporally, and disciplinarily diverse body of papers, the conference will create opportunities for dialogue and discussion across these different fields. To that end, successful proposals might focus on topics such as: the construction of indecency; immigration, hygiene, and public health; prostitution and “indecent” labor; religion and decency; obscenity, censorship, and the law; disgust and desire; material cultures of indecency; sensory perception and offense; propriety and literary form; menstruation; family structures; the grotesque in travel accounts; pornography; gossip as a historical force or source; the history of scandal; the moral economy of decency; responses to matter out of place; and alternative archives for exploring indecency. As always, we welcome proposals that surprise us by taking the theme in unexpected (or perhaps even indecent) directions.

For the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in her work:

• Judith Surkis, Scholar with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Author of Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell University Press, 2006), Surkis is currently at work on a project titled Scandalous Subjects: Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830-1930.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method): please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to:

Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
MC - 466

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs Ashley Hetrick and Derek Attig at gendersymp@gmail.com

CFP: Edited collection on Caribbean Women's Literature

2011-09-15T11:29:00.005-05:00

We are seeking submissions for an edited collection on Caribbean women's literature, entitled Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing. This collection will explore a broadened view of the theme of motherhood as it pertains by women writers of the Caribbean region. We request abstracts of 250 words sent directly to the editors: Cristina Herrera

(cherrera@csufresno.edu) and Paula Sanmartin

(psanmartin@csufresno.edu). Deadline is January 15, 2012. Please see website for further details:

http://demeterpress.org/caribbeanmothertexts.pdf

CFP: Feminism as a Human Rights Issue (African Literature Association 2012)

2011-09-15T11:29:00.002-05:00

In the context of the 38th African Literature Association conference theme, “Human Rights, Literature, and the Visual Arts in Africa and the Diaspora,” we solicit papers that explore feminist/queer/gender issues as moral or human rights issues. Authors to be explored include, but not limited to, the present generation of African and African diaspora writers: Lola Shoneyin, Petina Gappah, Doreen Baingana, Sarah Oladipo Manyika, Unoma Azuah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nnedi Okorafor, Sefi Atta, Patricia Jabbeh Wesle, etc. We welcome especially papers that engage the works of these authors against the backdrop of theoretical works such as those of Oyeronke Oyewumi, Ifi Amadiume, Molara Ogundipe, etc. In what ways do these 21st century authors challenge, or enter into dialogue with the 20th century writers and scholars?

Abstract and Bio Deadline: November 15, 2011. Send to Chielozona Eze: Chieloz@gmail.com or C-eze@neiu.edu

ALA Conference date: April 11-15, 2012
Place: Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

CFP: History of Women's Health Conference

2011-09-15T11:28:00.000-05:00

The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, will host its seventh annual History of Women’s Health Conference on Wednesday, April 18, 2011 (keynote speaker TBD). We invite interested persons to send a one to two page proposal or abstract of your topic by Friday, November 4, 2011 for consideration. The History of Women’s Health Conference focuses on women’s health issues from the late 18th century to the present. This conference encourages interdisciplinary work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, obstetric and gynecology issues (fertility, infertility, birth control methods, menopause), adolescence (health, cultural influences, body image, puberty, eating disorders), mental health topics, geriatric concerns, overall women’s health, access to health care, minority health, nursing, midwifery, female healers, and more.

The History of Women’s Health Conference began in 2006 as part of the Pennsylvania Hospital’s celebration of co-founder Benjamin Franklin’s tercentenary. Each year since, scholars from the humanities and health care professionals gather to discuss the past, present, and future state of women’s health. The conference is jointly sponsored by the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department and the Pennsylvania Hospital Historic Collection.

Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation’s first hospital, is a 515-bed acute care facility that provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic medical services and functions as a major teaching and clinical research institution. For more information please visit our web site at http://pennhealth.com/pahosp/ For more on our collections or the history of Pennsylvania Hospital, please visit http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/

Please e-mail your one to two page proposals to:

Stacey C Peeples, Curator-Lead Archivist, Pennsylvania Hospital peepless@pahosp.com

Please call (215-829-5434) or e-mail with any questions or for more information.

CFP: Contemporary Latin American Women Directors and Corporeal Aesthetics

2011-09-15T11:26:00.002-05:00

In the past fifteen years, Latin American cinema has witnessed the emergence of a new generation of women filmmakers, among whom Lucrecia Martel and Claudia Llosa, who have known great popular and critical successes. This panel will examine the work of any contemporary Latin American female director, with a special interest in submissions that explore questions related to aesthetics and embodiment. Please submit 250-300 word abstracts to Caroline Godart at godart@eden.rutgers.edu.

Deadline: September 30

43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 15-18, 2012

Rochester, New York

CFP: Forbidden Places and Prohibited Spaces in English Women's Writing (1640-1740)

2011-09-15T11:24:00.002-05:00

In early modern England, travel has the disruptive potential to alter the female traveler as well as to question, defy, and change the shape, rules, and parameters of her social space. Physical journeys open up opportunities for more impalpable travel, including but not limited to social, political, and internal journeys. As Rosi Braidotti has said, “some of the greatest trips can take place without physically moving from one’s habitat. It’s the subversion of set conventions that defines the nomadic state, not the literal act of traveling” (Nomadic Subjects, 5). This panel seeks to draw a connection between the physical act of traveling itself and the variety of figurative journeys that ensue because of a woman’s movement in the world. We will discuss travel as including the more subtle movements through immaterial social and hierarchical boundaries. Early modern texts are full of narratives, both fictional and real, of these journeys into prohibited places and spaces. This panel will explore the transformative effects of travel on women. In what ways does physical movement permit other immaterial types of movement and create a space for subversion? How does movement within society, across its social and hierarchical boundaries, challenge existing beliefs and practices? How do intangible journeys alter the landscape of power in which women operate? Please send 300 word abstracts to Andrea Fabrizio or Ruth Garcia at FabrizioGarciaabstracts@gmail.com by September 30, 2011.

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

43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad

The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester, New York at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.

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. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html

Campus Event: Herding Cats for Fun and Profit:Editing Creative Nonfiction for Popular Cultural Matierials

2011-09-14T14:42:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, September 21
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Holmes Student Center, Blackhawk Annex

Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections Lynne M. Thomas discusses the editorial process for popular culture nonfiction anthologies, including the Hugo-Nominated Chicks Dig Time Lords, Whedonistas and the forthcoming Chick Dig Comics. This event is co-sponsored by Rare Books and Special Collections.

Campus Event: Kathy Kelly

2011-09-12T13:36:00.000-05:00

Thursday, September 22nd
7:15 p.m.
Lincoln Room
Holmes Student Center

Kathy Kelly
"The Cost of Warn, the Price of Peace: Report Back from Afghanistan"

International peace activist tells of her travels to Afghanistan, Pakistan, & Gaza. First hand accounts of what is happening in these war areas.

Sponsors: DeKalb Interfaith & NIU History Department

Job Opportunity: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

2011-09-12T09:17:00.000-05:00

The Women's and Gender Studies Program (an interdisciplinary program housed in the Department of Sociology) at Virginia Tech invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position, beginning August 2012. We seek an Assistant Professor at an advanced level with an emphasis in Gender, Bodies & Technology. The candidate will help build this unique initiative and increase the visibility of the nexus of interdisciplinary expertise for which WGS at Virginia Tech is nationally known. Courses to teach include gender and science, gender and biology, and others. Specific areas of research are open, but we look for a scholar and teacher who uses feminist approaches to embodiment and technology; an expertise in sexuality is a plus. The candidate must have a strong record of scholarship and teaching excellence, and an interest in administering programs. A Ph.D. in Women's and Gender Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, or another interdisciplinary degree is required and must be in hand at the time of appointment. The Department of Sociology offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, and includes the Women's and Gender Studies, Africana Studies, and American Indian Studies programs, each of which offer their own minors, degree options, and graduate-degree emphases. We also have two departmental centers, the Center for Race and Public Policy and the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention. A Research I university located in the mountains of Blacksburg, Virginia, Virginia Tech is the largest state-supported university in Virginia. Blacksburg was voted by Outside Magazine as one of the ten best places to live in the United States. Please complete an online application at www.jobs.vt.edu. Please upload a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests (use research statement field) and sample of written work (use other doc field). Have three letters of recommendation sent (they cannot be uploaded) to Women's and Gender Studies Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, 560 McBryde Hall (0137), Blacksburg VA 24061. Any additional material that cannot be submitted online should also be sent to the same address. Review of materials will begin on October 14, and the position will remain open until filled. If you have questions about this position contact Professor Katrina Powell, Director of the WGS Program, kmpowell@vt.edu. Virginia Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and Encourages applications from women, people of color, veterans, and people with disabilities. www.wgs.clahs.vt.edu and www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/

CFP: Mother/Nature Conference

2011-09-07T09:49:00.002-05:00

March 16-18, 2012
Thad Cochran Center
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. BARBARA GATES
PLENARY SPEAKERS: JANISSE RAY AND DR. CATHERINE ROACH

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
John Muir

We live in a time of crisis in our homes and in our natural environment. From hurricanes to oil spills, we are linked to each other through the loss and degradation of regional and national habitats. Our selfhoods and the place we make for ourselves in the world are ultimately rooted in both our biological and ecological families.

The theme for this conference, Mother/Nature, seeks to discover interconnectedness and meaning through a study of shifting influences on the changing definition of motherhood. We welcome submissions that consider the conceptions of the intersection of motherhood and the natural world. Interdisciplinary approaches to motherhood and nature, especially interactions between the humanities and sciences, are invited. We encourage scholars to think creatively about this conference theme and invite papers and panel proposals that consider topics including but not limited to:

THE SCIENCE OF MOTHERHOOD
-Theories of childbirth in the United States
-Psychologizing nature: nature deficit disorders
-Health and motherhood

CONTEMPORARY SUSTAINABILITY
-Finding balance in the modern world
-Conceiving renewable energy
-Domesticated landscapes

THE NATURE OF MOTHERHOOD
-Nature vs. nurture
-Biological determinism
-Single parenting

NON-BIOLOGICAL MOTHERHOOD
-Foster/adoptive parenting
-Masculinity and motherhood
-Educators as “mothers”

INTERROGATING CONSERVATION
-Parenting the natural world
-Protecting endangered species and landscapes
-The birth of the modern environmental movement

MOTHER/NATURE IN LITERATURE
-Literary Darwinism
-Defining women’s health through ecocriticism
-Representations of mother/nature in children’s literature

MODERN MOTHERHOOD
-Redefining motherhood in pop culture
-Representing mother/nature in film

We welcome oral papers and poster presentations from faculty members and graduate students. Strong undergraduate submissions will also be considered. Please send abstracts (250-300 words) and a brief biography (100 words) tomothernatureconference@gmail.com by October 15, 2011. In the biography, please indicate your current academic status and affiliation, as well as what type of presentation you are proposing (paper, oral, or poster). Include abstracts and biographies in the main text of the email and attach as an .rtf or .doc file. Also indicate whether you have any technology needs. Individual sessions will last 15-20 minutes.

We also welcome the submission of creative works (a selection of 3-5 poems or 3,000 words for fiction or creative non-fiction). Please submit these works following the above guidelines by October 15, 2011.

A $150 prize will be offered to the best student paper, as well as publication in Synergy, the interdisciplinary graduate student journal of the University of Southern Mississippi. To be considered for this award, please submit the full copy of your paper by February 1, 2012.

Registration fee: none.

For more information, please visit our website:http://www.usm.edu/english/mothernature.html.

CFP: Gender in a Postnational Context

2011-09-07T09:16:00.002-05:00

Gender in a Postnational Context

43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Gender in a Postnational Context: This panel aims to discuss how contemporary authors figure gender in a postnational context. Recent discussions across scholarly disciplines have begun to question the suitability of national affiliation in the wake of globalization, mass migration and transnational networking that have led to alternative definitions and strategies of community formation, international advocacy, and global feminisms. This panel investigates the ways in which writers are able to negotiate and construct gendered identities in this postnational era, as well as how these texts might work to undermine or redefine the national space through the lens of gender. Papers might consider the global activism by writers such as Eve Ensler and Lynn Nottage or the postcolonial feminisms of Ama Ata Aidoo, Esmerelda Santiago, Igiaba Scego and others. Papers on other writers or genres are most welcome. Send abstracts to Johanna Rossi Wagner at jrwagnerpsu@gmail.com.

Deadline: September 30, 2011
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester, New York at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.

Building upon the excellence of past NeMLA conferences, the association continues to grow as a vibrant community of scholars, thanks to the wide array of intellectual and cultural opportunities at every venue. Compact yet diverse, Rochester also boasts important historical connections; it is the site of the home, publication operations, and orations of Frederick Douglass, where he edited the North Star, as well as his eponymous periodical, and delivered the speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. Visitors can explore the houses of abolitionist, suffragette, and reformer Susan B. Anthony and the inventor of devices popularizing photography, George Eastman, as well as shopping and eateries; attendees will also be within reach of the beautiful Finger Lakes region, known for its local wineries.

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. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.htmlJohanna Rossi Wagner

Email: jrwagnerpsu@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp_womensstudies.html

CFP: Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture special issue on Feminism

2011-09-07T09:15:00.000-05:00

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture will devote a special issue on feminism. The editorial board is seeking to publish essays that contribute to a feminist critique of society. We are open both to works in feminist theory and feminist readings of philosophical and other texts as well as to discussions on the current state of feminist debates and feminist analyses of current issues.

The following are suggested topics for the Special Issue on Feminism [16, 1 (2012)]:

- feminist readings of philosophical texts
- theoretical approaches to feminism; feminist theory
- feminism in the Philippines; feminist concerns; state of debate and feminist practice in the Philippines
- local feminisms; e.g., feminist concerns and debates in Asia, Southeast Asia, or other local communities
- feminism, race, and culture
- feminism and ethical theories, e.g., feminism and the capabilities approach
- feminism and religion; religion, politics and gender
- medical ethics and feminist issues; e.g., gendered division of care labor, feminism and reproductive health
- gender, migration, and transnationalism
- global care networks
- feminism and the arts; feminist aesthetics
- feminism and psychoanalysis
- environment and gender issues; e.g., women and disaster risk reduction
- gender and leadership studies
- women and the media
- women and the economy; e.g., feminization of global labor markets, women in microfinance and micro-entrepreneurship
- women and history; gender and historiography
- maternity
- ethical issues surrounding surrogacy and adoption

*Manuscript Preparation*

Articles should be about 6,000 to 10,000 words long, including notes and references. The manuscript should include an abstract of no more than 200 words.

Manuscripts should be submitted as MS Word files in .doc format (not .docx), double-spaced. Citations should follow the notes and bibliography system (not the author-date system) of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review. The article itself should contain no reference to the author’s identity. In a separate file, please submit an author sheet with the following information: title of submission, name of author, affiliation, contact information, e-mail address, abstract (no longer than 200 words), and five key words.

Please send submissions and inquiries to the following e-mail address: budhi@admu.edu.ph.

Deadline: December 1, 2011

*About Budhi*

Budhi is an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy that seeks to encourage creative and critical contemporary interpretations and appropriations of the history of ideas as well as theoretical constructions addressing contemporary culture and society.

The journal is devoted to the practice of philosophy in its interdisciplinary engagements with art, culture, history, religion, technology, and the social sciences. It seeks to provide an arena for exchanges between mainstream traditions and work from the geopolitical margins, particularly from the local history and culture of the Philippines. Budhi therefore crosses geographical borders as well as intellectual boundaries within philosophy and within the humanities and the social sciences.

Budhi is published by the Ateneo de Manila University.

Jean P. Tan
Incoming Editor
Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
Philippines 1108
(+632) 426 6001 ext. 5360/5361
Email: budhi@admu.edu.ph

CFP: 2nd Global Conference:Femininities & Masculinities

2011-09-07T09:14:00.000-05:00

2nd Global Conference
Femininities & Masculinities

Thursday 3rd May – Saturday 5th May 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers: Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic study on the issues of gender in its social and cultural contexts. Since its emergence from feminism, gender studies have become one of the most deliberated disciplines. The following project aims at an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and perspectives on the issues of femininity and masculinity in the 21st century. It invites ground-breaking research on a plethora of topics connected with gender, to propose an interdisciplinary view of the frontiers and to stake out new territories in the study of femininity and masculinity.

Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:

1. Representations of Femininity and Masculinity
~ Femininity and masculinity in history and the history of gender
~ The representation of gender in culture, art, film, literature
~ The representation of gender in popular culture and media
~ Gender in the relation to politics, law and social studies

2. Gender Borders and Transgressions
~ Performativity of gender
~Female masculinities / male femininities
~ Androgyny
~ Transgender issues
~ The body and its transgressions

3. New Directions in Femininity and Masculinity Studies
~ New perspectives in masculinity and boyhood studies
~ Men in feminism
~ Third wave feminism, womanism
~ Postfeminism, post-feminism and postfemininity
~ Lesbian feminism
~ Eco-feminism
~ Cyberfeminism
~ Individual feminism
~ Feminist disability studies

4. Global and Regional Perspectives on Gender
~ Gender and race
~ Gender and nationality
~ Gender and (post)colonialism
~ Case studies of gender issues in local/regional/national perspectives
~ Global masculinity/ femininity

5. Gender in Relationships
~ Motherhood/fatherhood
~ Gender and family
~ Matriarchy/ patriarchy
~ Sororophobia and matrophobia
~ Misogyny and misandry
~ Female genealogy
~ Gender and maturity

6. Gender in Experience
~ gender in visual and performance arts
~ gender in advertisement
~ gender mainstreaming
~ gender in psychotherapy
~ gender equality education
~ gender in religion
~ gender and NGOs

Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th November 2011. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 9th March 2012.

300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 key words E-mails should be entitled: FM Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:
Barbara Braid
English Department,
University of Szczecin,
Szczecin, Poland
Email: barbara.braid@gmail.com

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
Email: fm2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/femininity-and-masculinity/

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/femininity-and-masculinity/call-for-papers/

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: fm2@inter-disciplinary.net
Visit the website at http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/femininity-and-masculinity/call-for-papers/

CFP: 4th Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine

2011-09-07T09:13:00.000-05:00

4th Global Conference
Evil, Women and the Feminine

Sunday 6th May – Tuesday 8th May 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers: This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine issues surrounding the conjunction between evil and the feminine. In many cultures women have been long suspected as the source of sundry human miseries, however basic to society they may be. At the same time as ideals of purity and dedication to family have been exalted and feminine beauty lauded, women have been viewed as embodying sinister forces of evil. Mistrusted as seductive and beguiling, women are also often thought of as vengeful, manipulative and even malevolent. In grappling with our understanding of what it is to be ‘evil’, the project aims to shine a spotlight on this dark area of the human condition and explore the possible sources of the fear and resentment of women.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to the following themes:

~ Evil Women and Feminine Evil
~ Representing and Misrepresenting the Female
~ Motherhood; Monstrous Motherhood
~ Monstrous Births and Infanticide
~ Matriarchy / Matricide
~ Devious Sexuality and Feminine Perversions
~ Women and the Abject
~ Menstruation, Castration
~ Fears and Myths: Feminine Blood
~ Anthropological Perspectives
~ Historical Perspectives
~ The Evil Woman in Literature
~ Psychoanalytic perspectives: “Vagina Dentata” etc
~ Sexualizing the Female or Evil Objectification
~ Jezebel, Delilah, Lilith, Harpies and the Femme Fatale
~ The Bitch
~ Women and Power
~ Beauty as threatening or evil
~ Portrayals of Evil Women
~ Fantasy
~ Mythology
~ Vampires, Witches and Sirens
~ Case Studies

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th November 2011 If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 9th March 2012.

300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: EWF4 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:

* Natalia Kaloh Vid
University of Maribor, Slovenia
Email: nkv@inter-disciplinary.net

* Stephen Morris
Hub Leader, Independent Scholar, New York USA
Email: smmorris58@yahoo.com

* Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader,Inter-Disciplinary.Net,Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Email: ewf4@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: ewf4@inter-disciplinary.net
Visit the website at http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/

CFP: International Conference "The First World War in a Gender Context -- Topics and Perspectives"

2011-09-07T09:11:00.000-05:00

Time: Do, 29.9. bis Sa, 1.10.2011
Venue: Seminarraum Alte Kapelle, Campus der Universität Wien,
Spitalgasse 2–4, 1090 Wien
Registration required until 15 Sept. 2011:
neuverortung.geschlechtergeschichte@univie.ac.at

This international conference intends to reflect on the necessity and potential of a gendered history of the First World War, focusing on five selected topics that appear to be constitutive for the field: the complex relationship between home front and front line, experiences of violence, forms of visualization of the war, peace efforts, and the impact of war on concepts of citizenship.

It takes the upcoming centenary of 2014 as an occasion for in-depth discussion, reviews of previous studies, and conceptualizations of future research perspectives. The conference is specifically interested in strengthening comparative and transnational approaches. In bringing together scholars from various academic backgrounds it aims at reframing the catastrophe of mass mobilization and mass killing in the years 1914–1918 in a gender context.

Concept by

Christa Hämmerle (Universität Wien), Birgitta Bader-Zaar (Universität Wien), Oswald Überegger (Universität Hildesheim) / Forschungsplattform "Neuverortung der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte" (Universität Wien) in Kooperation mit dem Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung

PROGRAM

Thursday, September 29, 2011, 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Welcome and Introduction

Heinz W. Engl (Rector des.) Michael Viktor Schwarz (Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies Karl Vocelka (Chair of the Department of History)

Christa Hämmerle, Birgitta Bader-Zaar, Oswald Überegger (Concept)

PANEL I: Home Front

Manon Pignot (Amiens/France): French Boys and Girls in the Great War: Use of Gender for a History of Childhood Experiences of the First World War

Silke Fehlemann (Düsseldorf/Germany): "Mobilization of Mothers": German Mothers of Soldiers during World War I

Claudia Siebrecht (Dublin/Ireland): The Female Mourner Alison S. Fell (Leeds/UK): The Afterlives of French and British First World War Heroines Commentator: Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Innsbruck/Austria) Moderator: Birgitta Bader-Zaar (Vienna/Austria) Thursday, September 29, 2011, 2:30 PM – 6:00 PM

PANEL II: Front

Marco Mondini (Trento/Italy): The Construction of a Masculine Warrior Ideal in the Letters from the Front: an Italian Case

Matteo Ermacora (Venice/Italy): Women behind the Lines: The Friuli Region as a Case Study of Total Mobilisation 1915–1917

Susan Grayzel (Oxford, MS/USA): The Baby in the Gas Mask: Air Power, Chemical Warfare, and the Gendered Division between the Fronts during the First World War and Its Aftermath

Jason Crouthamel (Allendale, MI/USA): “We Need Real Men”: The Impact of the First World War on Germany’s Sexual Reform Movement

Commentator: Christa Hämmerle (Vienna/Austria) Moderator: Peter Becker (Vienna/Austria)

Friday, September 30, 2011, 9:30 AM – 12:00 noon

PANEL III: Violence

Dorothee Wierling (Hamburg/Germany): Communicating War Violence: Imaginations and Descriptions in the Writings of a Berlin Family during the Great War

Gabriela Dudeková (Bratislava/Slovakia): Suffering and Catharsis: Gendered Perceptions of Violence during the Great War and its Aftermath

Marie-Emmanuelle Reytier (Hamburg/Germany) / Dorota Kurpiers (Opole/Poland): Rape Victims and Rapists: an Introduction to Sexual Crimes Committed by German, Austro-Hungarian and French troops during and after the First World War, 1914–1925

Commentator: Michael Geyer (Chicago, IL/USA) Moderator: Oswald Überegger (Hildesheim/Germany)

Friday, September 30, 2011, 1:30 PM – 3:45 PM

PANEL IV: Visualization

Beatriz Pichel (Madrid/Spain): Photography and Masculinity during the First World War in France

Joëlle Beurier (Paris/France): Women, Photographs and Non-Fighting Men: A Redefinition of Masculinity in Wartime

Julia Köhne (Vienna/Austria): Visualizing War Hysterics: Strategies of Feminization and Re-Masculinization in Scientific Cinematography, 1916–1918

Commentator: Monika Bernold (Vienna/Austria) Moderator: Nina Verheyen (Cologne/Germany)

Friday, September 30, 2011, 4:15 PM – 6:30 PM

PANEL V: Peace

Bruna Bianchi (Venice/Italy): Towards a New Internationalism: Pacifist Journals edited by Women (1914-1919)

Ingrid Sharp (Leeds/UK): "A Foolish Dream of Sisterhood": Anti-Pacifist Debates in the German Women’s Movement 1914–1919

Thomas F. Schneider (Osnabrück/Germany): "Then Horror Came Into Her Eyes …": (De-)Constructions of Masculinity in German Anti-War Texts on World War I, 1914–1918

Commentator: Laurie Cohen (Innsbruck/Austria) Moderator: Karin M. Schmidlechner (Graz/Austria)

Saturday, October 1, 2011, 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM

PANEL VI: Citizenship

Nikolai Vukov (Sofia/Bulgaria): Women’s Public Responses to War and Issues of Citizenship in Bulgaria during World War I

Virginija Jureniene (Kaunas/Lithuania): Lithuanian Women during World War I: Activities and Aspirations

Tina Bahovec (Klagenfurt/Austria): Of Women’s Armies, Heroic Mothers and Insane Men. Strategies and Discourses of the National and Political Mobilisation of Carinthian Slovene Women from 1917 to 1920

Allison Scardino Belzer (Savannah, GA/USA): Making Women into Citizens: The Great War in Italy

Commentator: Birgitta Bader-Zaar (Vienna/Austria) Moderator: Christa Hämmerle (Vienna/Austria) Organisation: Michaela Hafner (University of Vienna, Austria)

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Sponsored by: Forschungsplattform Neuverortung der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte der Universität Wien Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Wien Institut für Geschichte der Universität Wien Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung

Christ Ehrmann-Hämmerle and Birgitta Bader-Zaar
Department of History
University of Vienna
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1
1010 Vienna, Austria
Phone: 0043-(0)1-4277-408 13 (Michaela Hafner, Admin.)
Email: neuverortung.geschlechtergeschichte@univie.ac.at
Visit the website at http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/Neuverortung-Geschlechtergeschichte/

CFP: Contemporary Women's Writing: (Wo)Man and the Body

2011-09-07T09:09:00.000-05:00

The Fourth Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women’s
Writing Association

Contemporary Women’s Writing: (Wo)Man and the Body 11-13 July 2012
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

‘Bodies have all the explanatory power of minds. Indeed, for feminist purposes, the focus on bodies, bodies in their concrete specificities, has the added bonus of inevitably raising the question of sexual difference that mind does not’ – Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism (1994) It is in order to raise the question of sexual difference that women must construct a textual space to allow their bodies to be heard. Textual representations of corporeal specificities and the various inscriptions on raced, classed, gendered and sexualised bodies have always been central to women’s writing. The study of bodily discourses and the affective responses of the body to physical environments and societal mandates are also central to feminist literary scholarship. In view of the significance of corporeality in women’s textual productions, the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association and Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan invite submissions of papers on the theme of ‘(Wo)Man and the Body’ for the fourth international conference on contemporary women’s writing, to be held in Taipei from 11th to 13th July 2012.
Papers and panels in English are sought on all genres of literary and popular writing since the 1970s, including fiction, poetry, plays, autobiography, travel writing, graphic novels etc. in any language. Papers and panels are also sought on the relation of this writing to theory, criticism and teaching. Please note that all presenters are required to be members of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (http://www.the-cwwa.org/). Possible topics might include: bodies and bio-politics; bodies and environment; bodies and identities; bodies and migration; bodies and sexualities; bodies and space; bodies and spirituality; bodies and textuality; bodies and work; the medicalisation of bodies; (post)human bodies.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing (an AHCI journal published by Oxford University Press)

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS OR PANEL PROPOSALS
E-mail the conference contact person (below) with the following information:
Your full name as you would like it to appear in the conference booklet
Contact information (e-mail and mailing address)
A short biography including academic affiliation and area(s) of study
A 250-word abstract in MS Word (doc or docx) format
Any audiovisual equipment required

DEADLINES
Applications and abstracts: 20 September 2011 (a newly extended deadline)
Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2011
CONTACT PERSON:
Dr. Pin-chia Feng Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures National Chiao Tung University Hsin-chu, Taiwan
E-mail: cww2012.taiwan@gmail.com
CONFERENCE VENUE: International Conference Hall of Center for Condensed Matter Sciences National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan

For young international scholars: dorm-rate accommodations available.

Dr. Pin-chia Feng Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures National Chiao Tung University Hsin-chu, Taiwan
Email: cww2012.taiwan@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.the-cwwa.org/

CFP: Transnational Literatures, Gender, and State Power

2011-09-06T14:57:00.002-05:00

Call for Papers: Transnational Literatures, Gender, and State Power

43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit From the Goon Squad

Seeking papers on the convergence of transnational literatures, gender, and state power.

Particularly interested in:

*How literature and contemporary or historical world affairs influence one another.
*Whether the special qualities of transnational literature such as border crossing, hybridity, code-switching, and/or the erosion of cultural barriers situate it to confront political injustice.
*The roles of literature (broadly defined) and gender with regard to the 2011 Arab uprisings, major world elections, state repression, or specific human rights violations.
*(Gendered) confrontations between the author and the state.

Deadline: September 30, 2011

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

Please send 250-500 word abstracts or questions to:
Joan Conwell, East Carolina University
Email: joanie.conwell@gmail.com
Visit the website at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html

Campus Event: Tonight! LGBT Studies and SOUP Meet-and-Greet

2011-09-06T08:35:00.000-05:00

The LGBT Studies program and SOUP are having a welcome back party to NIU! Please join them as they bring in a new school year and celebrate the LGBT Studies Certificate! There will be fun games, good eats and sweet drinks! Please bring smiles and stories from over the summer. This is an open and free event for all to come and enjoy!

Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Time: 6:00 p.m. -- 8:00 p.m.
Location: Welsh Park on the corner of Russel and Crane

Questions: contact Dennis or Sarah at dcorbin1@niu.edu or shanson3@niu.edu

Campus Event: Teaching Support Expo

2011-09-03T14:27:00.001-05:00

Wednesday, September 7
11:00 a.m. -- 1:00 p.m.
Holmes Student Center, Duke Ellington Ballroom

Where can you go for teaching-related help? Which offices on campus can assist you with research-related needs? What services are available for personal and professional development? Come to the University Support Expo to find out the answers! At the expo, you can meet everyone from various programs and support units, view displays, network with colleagues, and gather information that can help with your teaching, research, and other needs, all in one convenient location. All NIU current and new faculty, instructors, staff, graduate assistants, and administrators are welcome to attend.

Job Opportunity: Emory University

2011-08-22T09:36:00.002-05:00

U.S. History, Women, Gender and Sexuality, pre-1900

The Department of History at Emory University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of U.S. history with expertise in the history of women, gender and sexuality. Chronological interest could range from the colonial era to 1900. The department is particularly interested in candidates whose work intersects with the department’s strengths in the history of race, slavery, the American South, and religion. Ph.D. and strong credentials in teaching and scholarship required. Ability to contribute to both the undergraduate and graduate programs in U.S. history is essential. Letter of application, c.v., and three confidential letters of recommendation should be sent to: U.S. Search Committee, Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. Review of applications will begin October 15, 2011. Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the AHA. Emory University is an AA/EOE.

Job Opportunity: Registered Nurse

2011-08-19T09:12:00.002-05:00

Seeking Registered Nurse, Part time, 2 half days a week, No Weekends. Bonus for Spanish fluency. Fax resume to: Northern Illinois Women's Center:
815‑963‑6122. or Call: 815‑963‑4101.

Internship Opportunity: Development Intern

2011-08-19T09:11:00.002-05:00

Development Intern

The Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL) Development Department is comprised of six staff members who raise contributed revenue in support of the mission and services for PPIL. As a statewide organization with 17 health centers, the Development Department uses many strategies to engage donors and raise revenue, including direct mail, foundations, planned giving, and special events. Major gifts, which include single gifts of $10,000 or more, are responsible for raising significant revenue to reach overall fundraising goals and are the focus of this internship.

The Development Intern will work with the Manager of Individual Giving to enrich the electronic records of our top tier of donors. The Development intern will create a portfolio of rich records, pulling from a variety of resources, both internal and external. The intern will gain a significant knowledge of prospecting, data mining, and how information is used to increase fundraising.

Additionally, the Development Intern will provide significant behind-the-scenes support in organizing and executing end-of-year cultivation and solicitation of major donors. Tasks such as recording interactions with prospects, revising and sending letters, and tracking stewardship activities will be assigned. The intern will gain substantial experience in planning and executing a major gifts appeal in a medium-sized shop.

Internship Highlights: • Assist in planning, organizing and preparing a major gifts appeal • Help maintain and update electronic database of donors and giving history • Learn about the philanthropic climate of Chicago and reproductive healthcare

What We Ask:

• Belief in and support of the Planned Parenthood mission • Interest and/or experience with non-profit fundraising • Superior organizational and communication skills • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team • Willingness to help where needed • Commitment of at least 10 hours a week through the fall semester

Location PPIL Administrative Office 18 South Michigan Ave, 6th Floor Chicago, IL 60603

Hours Shifts available Monday through Friday, 9 am – 5 pm

apply online at www.ppil.org

Internship Opportunity: Marketing Intern

2011-08-19T09:10:00.000-05:00

Marketing Intern

What We Offer

The Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL) Marketing Department works to increase public awareness of Planned Parenthood’s services and our programs through a variety of mediums. Our goal is to educate the public about PPIL and in turn, increase PPIL’s patient base across the state.

This Marketing Intern position is focused on implementing a comprehensive referral system to be used across Illinois. The purpose of the referral system is to develop contacts in PPIL’s markets that can refer potential patients to Planned Parenthood for high quality health care. The intern will be responsible for researching contacts, including schools, local organizations, and individuals who could partner with Planned Parenthood. The intern will then be responsible for reaching out to these contacts and coordinating all logistics necessary to confirm partnership. In addition to this project, the intern will have the opportunity to assist with other marketing projects such as researching advertising rates and other marketing opportunities on an as-needed basis.

Internship highlights: • Work closely with the marketing staff to learn more about Planned Parenthood and marketing efforts across the state. • Develop a thorough understanding of the field of marketing at a non-profit healthcare organization. • Gain valuable marketing skills, including research, analytical, and project management skills.

What We Ask

• Belief in and support of the Planned Parenthood mission • Interest and / or experience in marketing • Commitment to professionalism • Superior research and analytical skills • Proficiency in Microsoft Office • Commitment of 10-15 hours per week

Locations

PPIL Administrative Office 18 South Michigan Ave. 6th Floor Chicago, IL 60603

Hours

Hours are flexible, with shifts available Monday through Friday 9 am to 5 pm

apply online at www.ppil.org

Internship Opportunity: Story Project Coordinator

2011-08-19T09:09:00.000-05:00

Story Project Coordinator

What We Offer The Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL) Public Policy department promotes public policies that safeguard the rights of individuals to freely make private, responsible choices about when or whether to have children and secure access to services needed to implement those decisions. In order to demonstrate the personal stories behind reproductive health decision making, the Public Policy department is currently working on developing a story project.

The Story Project Coordinator will work with the Director of Field Operations to compile personal stories collected in the field from volunteers and activists. The Story Project Coordinator will be responsible for compiling digital voice files, pictures, and written stories into several different presentation formats for distribution to various decision makers and community groups.

Internship highlights: • Gain experience in grassroots organizing • Learn more about the impacts of reproductive health policy • Give power to the voice of Illinois residents

What We Ask

• Belief in and support of the Planned Parenthood mission • Interest in public policy and advocacy work • Proficiency in digital voice editing software • Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop • Commitment of at least 10 hours per week for the fall semester

Location

PPIL Administrative Offices 18 South Michigan Ave, 6th Floor Chicago, IL 60603

Hours Shifts available Monday through Friday, 9 am – 5 pm. Occasional evening and weekend hours may be required

apply online at www.ppil.org

Internship Opportunity: Special Events Intern

2011-08-19T09:08:00.000-05:00

Special Events Intern

The Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL) Development Department works to raise contributed revenue in support of the mission and services for PPIL. As a statewide organization with 17 health centers, the Development Department uses many strategies to engage donors and raise revenue, including direct mail, foundations, planned giving, and special events. Special events are responsible for raising significant revenue to reach overall fundraising goals, and are held in different areas throughout the state, including Chicago, Champaign, Springfield and Peoria.

The Special Event Intern will work with the Manager of Individual Giving, and will organize, summarize and analyze event archives of previous special events. Information will be summarized along key progress indicators and significant details, which will in turn be analyzed in order to highlight trends in fundraising and event logistics and concepts. The intern will gain a significant knowledge of past events at PPIL, as well as how historic information is used to make vital fundraising decisions for the future.

Additionally, the Special Events Intern will use this information to provide significant support in organizing and staging a number of small events, as well as assisting in concept development and leadership-building for two larger events that will take place in 2012. Tasks such as scouting locations, organizing meetings, and tracking volunteer commitments will be assigned. The intern will gain substantial experience in planning and executing small and large non-profit fundraising events.

Internship Highlights: • Help maintain and update database of donors and event history • Learn how special events integrates with all development activities • Work with staff to gain valuable non-profit fundraising experience

What We Ask:

• Belief in and support of the Planned Parenthood mission • Interest and/or experience with fundraising and/or special events • Superior organizational and communication skills • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team • Willingness to help where needed • Commitment of at least 15 hours a week through the fall semester

Location PPIL Administrative Office 18 South Michigan Ave, 6th Floor Chicago, IL 60603

Hours Shifts available Monday through Friday, 9 am – 5 pm. Occasional evening and weekend hours may be required.
apply online at www.ppil.org

CFP: Race and Gender in Pageantry and Festival in the West Panel at the Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference

2011-08-19T09:07:00.000-05:00

Greetings,

We are looking for a third panelist and a chair and commentator for the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) Annual Conference in Berkeley on May 3-5, 2012. (For more information please see: http://www.wawh.org/conferences/2012/index.html). In particular, we are seeking out participants whose work explores issues of race and/or gender within pageantry, festivals, and performances in the American West.

Both of us, Sarah McCormick and Chelsea Vaughn, are currently PhD students in Public History at the University of California, Riverside. Sarah's paper, "'The Women Have Turned this Desert Community into a Harem:' Gendered Arabian Fantasies at Indio's National Date Festival" draws upon her research on the Date Festival, where since 1921, locals and tourists to Indio, California have been "Playing Arab." Through costume, architecture, parades, and pageants, the fair's craze for all things "Middle Eastern" reflected a troubled notion of the Middle East that experienced dramatic change over time. Images of harems and powerful sheiks shaped this imagined Arabia of the fair as women's bodies highlighted the intersections of race, gender, and performance in this desert community. Chelsea’s paper, “Feminizing the West: Placing the Performance of Conquest into Familiar Forms,” examines the interplay of race and gender within historical pageantry in the West. Reaching the height of their popularity in the early twentieth century, many of these shows celebrated the conquest of the continent through the artistic tradition of rendering the colonial process within feminized forms. Through such familiar tropes as white women as markers of civilization and women of color as representations of conquered lands, pageant makers created easily recognizable allegorical imagery that had limited dependence upon the spoken word.

If you are working on similar themes and would like to be a part of the panel please let us know as soon as possible as the deadline is quickly approaching! Please send an abstract and contact information to both Sarah (mccormicksarahanne@gmail.com) and Chelsea (chelseakristen@gmail.com) no later than September 5, 2011.

Sincerely,
Sarah McCormick (mccormicksarahanne@gmail.com)
Chelsea Vaughn (chelseakristen@gmail.com)

CFP: Gender, Bodies, & Technology

2011-08-18T13:50:00.000-05:00

Proposals are invited for our second, biannual interdisciplinary conference:

“Gender, Bodies and Technology: (Dis)Integrating Frames”

April 26-28, 2012 Roanoke, Virginia

Sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech

Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2011

We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore the intersections of gender, bodies and technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the internet. In keeping with the conference theme, we are asking contributors to include specific reference to the ways in which their own particular disciplinary frameworks shape their approach to their sites of research.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Dr. Judith Halberstam

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

Dr. Judy Wajcman

Head of Department of Sociology, London School of Economics & Political Science

Dr. Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone

Professor of New Media and Performance Studies at EGS

Professor of Digital Arts and New Media Production in the ACTLab at University of Texas at Austin

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Gender and the technologies of the workplace, education, and public/private spaces

• Disability and technologies of intervention

• Feminist theorizing of intersections between technology and constructions of embodiment, identity, selves

• Performance, new media and other creative expressions: engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions

of embodiment and technology

• Gendered innovations in technology: gendered objects, design, pasts/futures

• Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies

• Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing

• New Media, digital representation and virtual gendered environments

• Medicalized bodies: reproduction, disease, bioethics, body constructions

• Performing/transgressing gender and sexuality

• Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism

• Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship

As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome innovative uses of technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive presentations, as well as traditional paper presentations. We are committed to the integration of scholarship from the Arts as well as more traditional forms of scholarship and we welcome early contact by email if space and/or technology requirements might present logistical challenges. Proposals will be reviewed and notification will be made by October 15, 2011. Final drafts of papers received before April 26, 2012 will be considered for possible publication. The Gender, Bodies & Technology website, online submission form, as well as the full program from the 2010 conference can be viewed at: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/

For more information or if you would like to join our growing listserv of scholars and artists working at this intersection, please contact: Sharon Elber GBT Coordinator selber@vt.edu

Opportunity: Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN)

2011-08-17T16:29:00.000-05:00

If you know a college woman interested in politics or public policy, please encourage her to attend a career training in DC hosted by the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN)! PLEN is the only national organization whose sole focus is preparing college women for leadership in the public policy arena. Thank you for helping us spread the word!

Check out: http://plen.org/programs/

PLEN’s 2011-2012 Washington, DC Program Schedule

Three-day Seminars

( http://plen.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/PLEN-Programs-10-11-final.png )Women, Law & Public Policy ( http://plen.org/programs/seminars/law/ ) November 11 – 13, 2011

Learn from women working at the Supreme Court, Congress, government agencies, advocacy groups and public interest law firms, and get advice on the realities of preparing for law school.

Five-day Seminars

Women & Science/Technology Policy ( http://plen.org/seminars/programs/science ) January 3 – 7, 2012

Discuss cutting-edge issues and connect with women leaders from a variety of key government agencies and nonprofit science organizations.

Women & Public Policy ( http://plen.org/seminars/programs/public-policy ) January 9 – 13, 2012

Discuss how to be a part of the policy-making process and meet women leaders who influence national priorities.

Women & Congress ( http://plen.org/seminars/programs/congress ) March 12– 16, 2012 (Session I)

March 19–23, 2012 (Session II)

Watch Congress at work and learn from women Members of Congress, professional staff of congressional committees and advocacy organizations.

Women & International Policy ( http://plen.org/seminars/programs/international ) May 21– 25, 2012

Learn from women shaping policies affecting the global sphere in government and NGO organizations.

Summer Internship

Women & Public Policy Internship ( http://plen.org/seminars/programs/summer-internship ) May 21 – July 27, 2012

The only Washington internship program devoted exclusively to women and public policy, PLEN places students in organizations tailored to their specific interests.

PLEN’s for you if …You want to spend a few days learning how Washington ( http://plen.org/programs/washington ) really works.You want to spend a summer doing Washington work.You want connections to women leaders who’ll help you get a job here.

At a short seminar or through an internship, you’ll learn how to turn your passion into a career in public policy making.

It’ll be a fun, exciting experience that leaves you with a real feel for whether this is a career you’d like — and practical information about how to create one.

Savvy women policy makers “teach” you – Members of Congress, presidential advisors, major judicial officials, corporate lobbyists, and leaders of national nonprofit organizations.

Only PLEN offers college women intense, specialized seminars where you’ll experience the excitement of a public policy career, discover how you can have one, and network with women who can help you build one – all in 3 to 5 days! No other organization in Washington offers short programs that expose students to public policy making.

If you want deeper involvement, PLEN offers internships customized to your interests that include weekly sessions to help you get the most out of your Washington stay – all at three to five times less money than other Washington internship programs. Weekly sessions range from meetings with women Members of Congress to coaching in resume writing, networking, interviewing, and other critical job skills.

PLEN program alumnae never leave the PLEN family ( http://plen.org/alumnae/ ). Seven out of 10 alumnae report that PLEN somehow factored in securing their first job. An even larger number say that they used skills learned through PLEN programs in their first job.

Regional Event: The OpEd Project

2011-08-17T16:10:00.000-05:00

Want to change the world?

The OpEd Project invites you to participate in an innovative program to change the world's conversation, increase the visibility of women and other under-represented thought leaders in the public sphere – and increase your influence and impact in the world.

Hosted by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University ( http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ )

Date: October 1, 2011

Time: 10am-5pm (followed by a happy hour immediately after, at Elephant & Castle)

Cost: Super early registration (ends September 1): $295

Early registration (ends September 25): $345

Regular Registration: $425;

Or see our “Pay in Words” scholarship option ( http://www.theopedproject.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174&Itemid=117 )

Location: Medill School at Northwestern University
105 West Adams, Suite 200
Chicago, Illinois 60603

( http://goog_2079608946/ )REGISTER HERE! ( http://www.theopedproject.org/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=73&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=64&vmcchk=1&Itemid=64 )

Influence, Contribution, Thought Leadership

This highly interactive day-long seminar (which also grants one year of access to our national network of high-level media mentors) is based on experimental learning around thought leadership. High stakes scenarios, interactive exercises, thought games and Socratic dialogue are employed to provoke and challenge participants to think more carefully and more expansively about their knowledge and experience, and their potential value in the world. We explore the source of credibility and how to establish it; the patterns and elements of powerful argument; the difference between being “right” and being effective; how to preach beyond the choir, and how to think bigger about what you know—to have more influence and impact in the world. Participants emerge with concrete results (op-ed draft or other form of concrete thought leadership), and access to our high-level media mentoring team.

Why this matters: The voices and opinions we hear from in the world come come from a tiny fraction and extremely narrow range of the population: mostly white, privileged and overwhelmingly (85)% male. What could we accomplish if we invested in all our missing brain power?

This seminar is open to all – including men – but our main focus is on under-represented voices, especially women. It is equally suitable for those with or without publishing or professional writing experience. If you are a man and would like to attend, or if you’d like to bring The OpEd Project to your university or organization, contact us ( mailto:danielle@theopedproject.org ).)

The OpEd Project—featured by The New York Times, Katie Couric and The San Francisco Chronicle—is a social venture founded to enrich public knowledge and discourse by increasing the range of voices we hear from in the world. Partnering with top universities, think tanks, nonprofits, corporations and community organizations across the nation, we scout and train women and other under-represented experts to take thought leadership positions in their fields; we connect them with our national network of high-level media mentors, and we vet and channel the best ideas and experts to media gatekeepers in all platforms. Read more: www.theopedproject.org

The OpEd Project works with universities such as Stanford, MIT and Yale; think tanks and nonprofits including the ACLU, the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Global Fund for Women; F500 companies including Google, Yahoo!, Time Warner, PWC and Merril Lynch, and community groups across the nation, including social entrepreneurs in New Orleans, and a women’s prison reentry program.

Participants publish or appear regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, NPR, Salon.com, Slate, PBS, NPR, Huffington Post, and one piece that was #2 on Google news and had 20,000 hits in the first hour.

Interested? Register here ( http://www.theopedproject.org/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=73&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=64&vmcchk=1&Itemid=64 )

Questions? Contact Senka at senka@theopedproject.org ( mailto:Danielle@theopedproject.org )

THE OP-ED PROJECT—featured by the New York Times ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/arts/15oped.html? ), Katie Couric on her CBS Notebook series ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLC5VkBHSzU ) and The San Francisco Chronicle ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/01/DDVO11EUA8.DTL )—is a social venture founded to enrich and expand our world's conversation, by increasing the range of voices we hear from--especially women's voices. Working with top universities, think tanks, nonprofits, corporations and community organizations across the nation, we scout and train women and other under-represented experts to talk thought leadership positions in their fields (through op-eds and more); we connect them with our national network of high-level media mentors; and we vet and channel the best ideas directly to media gatekeepers in print, online, radio, television and other venues. See testimonials ( http://theopedproject.org/content/view/3/2/ ), sign up for upcoming public seminars ( http://www.theopedproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=76 ), or contact us ( mailto:danielle@theopedproject.org ) to schedule a seminar or keynote for your organization.

Campus Opportunity: Phi Beta Delta Photo Contest

2011-08-17T16:03:00.002-05:00

Greetings from International Programs and Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society!

We are putting out a call for photo contest submissions for the annual Phi Beta Delta calendar. This year's theme is "International Cuisine in Culture." Did you take photographs of all the delicious food you came across in your travels? If so, we encourage you to submit photos that fall in the realm of this theme. Your photograph can be of something you ate or drank while traveling, a beautiful pile of colorful chiles, gorgeous baked goods you saw in a shop window, a food market selling various types of fruits, vegetables, meats -- even someone making cheese or selling fish! Get creative!

Please submit photo entries to niuabroad@niu.edu by August 25, 2011. When submitting your photos please give a short description of the photo, as well as where it was taken, i.e. Fruit Stand in Costa Rica.

Those who have their photos chosen to be part of the 2012 calendar will be notified via email and will receive a complimentary calendar. So, hurry and submit your photo contest entries for the "International Cuisine in Culture" calendar...we can't wait to see the wonderful photos you've taken.

If you have questions, please contact Pamela Rosenberg at prosenberg@niu.edu or 815-753-9530.

Kind Regards,

The 2012 Phi Beta Delta Calendar Committee

Campus Event: WOMS Welcome Back Open House

2011-08-17T14:27:00.003-05:00

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 23 and 24
8:30 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m.
Reavis Hall, Room 103

Stop in the Women's Studies office for a snack and learn more about how you can get involved with the program. Check out our library; discover how to earn a minor or graduate certificate in Women's Studies; learn about our student organizations; find out about volunteer opportunities; and, meet great people!

CFP: Proposals for the Trans Literary Reader

2011-08-17T10:58:00.003-05:00

We invite an edited collection of essays that will approach literary texts (broadly conceived) from a trans-theoretical lens.

We are interested in essays that attend to the slippages, the connects and the disconnects, between trans experience and theories and trans literary readings and essays that take up tensions and productive links between queer and trans and feminist approaches to literature. We are interested in the affects and rhetorics of embodied possibility within and across various generic, national, and temporal categories and in what a trans-theoretical frame might offer to literary critical readings of representations of political and politicized bodies. We are particularly interested in essays that practice intersectional readings, looking at, for example, the confluence of ability, class, ethnicity, gender, and race.

Interested scholars should submit a current cv and 250- to 400-word abstract of the proposed essay by October 15, 2011. Scholars will be notified of the status of their proposal by December 1, 2011. Completed essays based on accepted proposals must be submitted by May 1, 2012.

Please send your MS Word compatible proposals (abstract and cv) to Rebekah Edwards, Kirsten Saxton, and Ajuan Mance (transreader@mills.edu).

CFP: Psychology of Sexualities Review

2011-08-17T10:34:00.003-05:00

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUALITIES REVIEW
* CALL FOR PAPERS *

The Psychology of Sexualities Review, formerly known as the Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review, is an international peer-reviewed publication. The rebranded journal is published twice a year (in the Spring and Autumn) by the British Psychological Society (BPS).

The Psychology of Sexualities Review encourages the submission of manuscripts for peer-review and publication that cover a wide range of perspectives on the psychology of sexualities. The following types of submissions are encouraged:

• Empirical, theoretical and review articles on any aspect of the psychology of sexualities
• Reflective clinical pieces and case-studies
• Book reviews
• Bibliographic articles
• Short articles on relevant research papers, conference reports
• Short reports, commentaries and opinion pieces
• Notices of events and activities of likely interest to members of the BPS Psychology of Sexualities Section

All submissions should be sent electronically to The Editor at: kristoffbonello@hotmail.com

CFP: Women's Studies Area of the popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

2011-08-17T10:34:00.000-05:00

The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association invites submissions for individual papers, and for complete panels, for its Women’s Studies area for its forthcoming national conference, to be held in Boston between April 11-14, 2012.
We welcome papers and panels on any facet of popular culture relating to the study of women and gender, including, not by no means limited to:
•Women’s participation in, and creation of, literary works and print culture
•Women’s involvement as consumers and producers of film and television culture, and representations of women within television and film
•Women as the subjects of, audiences for, and responders to advertising
•Women’s engagement with popular music, as artists, consumers, and fans
•Women’s engagement with social media and their work as bloggers and cultural critics
For more information on the PCA-ACA and our national conference, please see http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php
The deadline for paper and panel proposals is December 15, 2011.
Please send all queries and submissions to Holly Kent, at hkent3@uis.edu.

CFP: Queering Fat Embodiment

2011-08-17T10:31:00.000-05:00

Call for Papers
Tentative title: Queering Fat Embodiment

Type: Edited book
Submission deadline: January 15th, 2012

Contacts and editors:
Samantha Murray - Samantha.murray@mq.edu.au (Main contact)
Cat Pausé - c.pause@massey.ac.nz
Jackie Wykes - wykesj@unimelb.edu.au

Scope:
Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation and pathologisation of fatness, the field of Fat Studies has emerged in recent years to offer an interdisciplinary critical interrogation of the dominant medical models of health, to give voice to the lived experience of fat bodies, and to offer critical insights into, and investigations of, the ethico-political implications of the cultural meanings that have come to be attached to fat bodies. This focus on the regulation, discipline and representation of fat bodies make it critically invaluable to the advancement of scholarship on embodiment.

This edited collection seeks to publish recent scholarship that embraces ‘queering’ as a mode of critical engagement in examining fat embodiment. Queer is a heterogeneous and multidisciplinary practice aimed at ‘bringing forth’ and thus denaturalising the taken for granted, the invisible, the normalized. This collection seeks to challenge and destabilise existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment both outside of and within the emerging field of Fat Studies. This volume will bring together scholarship from various disciplines in order to examine the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts. In queering established ideas about fat bodies, and presenting challenging inquiries/inqueeries into these notions, this collection will represent an innovative and critically invaluable contribution to the advancement of scholarship on fatness, and indeed on embodiment more generally.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• fat activism and embodiment
• fat mental and physical health
• queer(y)ing ‘hard data’ on fatness/obesity science
• queer(y)ing health policies related to fat
• cross-cultural or global constructions of fat bodies
• cultural, historical, or philosophical meanings of fat and fat bodies
• fat embodiment in literature, film, music, nonfiction, and the visual arts
• fat as queering sex, beauty, gender, and other embodied performances
• fat sexuality
• fat materialities
• fat and space
• fat and biopolitics
• fat and citizenship
• fat and neoliberalism
• fatness and consumption

Please note that we are already in the process of completing a proposal to submit to publishers, which we will complete based on the submissions we receive. We have had some preliminary interest from publishers, but as yet, we have not secured a contract.

Full paper submissions are due January 15, 2012. Articles should range between 15 and 20 double-spaced pages. Please send submissions, along with an abstract of your paper and a brief biographical sketch, directly to Samantha.murray@mq.edu.au.

CFP: Constructing and Locating Women Warriors in Medieval Euasia

2011-08-17T10:29:00.000-05:00

47th International Medieval Congress
Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 10-13, 2012

The construction and historicization of the Amazonian type women warriors have generated a long legacy in both Western and Eastern cultures.The ancient world’s literary impulse to construct and the geographical impulse to locate the women warriors and women's kingdoms continued in the Middle Ages. Examples can be found in the writings of Boccaccio, Chaucer, De Pizan, and travel writings of Mandeville and Marco Polo. In the East, “women’s kingdom” continued to evolve in Chinese literature and historiography.
We invite papers that explore the appropriation and transformation of these cultural impulses of constructing and locating the women warriors in medieval Eurasia.

lais@gvsu.edu

CFP: Issues of mobility and Confinement in Women's Literature

2011-08-17T10:27:00.002-05:00

43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad

ISSUES OF MOBILITY AND CONFINEMENT IN WOMEN'S LITERATURE: This panel seeks papers dealing with issues of women’s confinement and mobility. We welcome papers from any literary genre and/or historical period. In particular, we encourage submissions addressing the following questions: In what ways do women (female authors and/or characters) work against constraints and expectations of confinement to create pathways to freedom? How are women defined by spatial divisions, and how might they counter such definitions? What does it mean for a woman to be mobile? Please send abstracts to Abigail J. Aldrich at aja205@lehigh.edu.

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2011
Along with your abstract, please include:
Name and Affiliation
Email Address
Postal Address
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester, New York at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.

Building upon the excellence of past NeMLA conferences, the association continues to grow as a vibrant community of scholars, thanks to the wide array of intellectual and cultural opportunities at every venue. Compact yet diverse, Rochester also boasts important historical connections; it is the site of the home, publication operations, and orations of Frederick Douglass, where he edited the North Star, as well as his eponymous periodical, and delivered the speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. Visitors can explore the houses of abolitionist, suffragette, and reformer Susan B. Anthony and the inventor of devices popularizing photography, George Eastman, as well as shopping and eateries; attendees will also be within reach of the beautiful Finger Lakes region, known for its local wineries.

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.http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html

CFP: Teaching Prospects: Young Women as Educators in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

2011-08-17T10:26:00.002-05:00

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, Berkeley, CA, April 12-15, 2012

Teaching Prospects: Young Women as Educators in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Building upon this year's C19 conference theme, "Prospects: A New Century," this panel will explore representations of young adult women as educators in nineteenth-century American novels, short stories, and/or autobiographies. We envision a panel that explores the broad concept of educational and professional “prospects” as they became increasingly available to women across social, economic, and racial borders, while attending as well to how those prospects were shaped, constrained, experienced, and represented. We are especially interested in paper proposals on the role of the governess figure in nineteenth-century American literature but welcome a variety of other approaches to the topic that will help us consider how female educators, as portrayed in both fictional and non-fictional texts, not only influenced the future "prospects" of their young pupils, but were also, as the result of their positions, exposed to new experiences, ideas, people and opportunities. Possible topics and approaches include the following, among others:

- The figure of the governess in the literary imagination.
- Narratives of women, education and reform (e.g. female educators in the anti-slavery movement, the Temple School, and rural freedman’s schools in the post-Civil War South).
- Young women teachers in the “school story.”
- The role of the child in the governess narrative.
- Representations and/or intersections of race, gender, sexuality and class in narratives of female educators.
- Children's perspectives on and responses to female educators.
- Scenes of educational instruction in women’s slave narratives.
- Sentimentalism and women in the classroom.
- Women's rights and the female educator.
- Discipline and pedagogy at home and school.
- Female educators and the gothic and/or sentimental novel.
- European governesses in the American imagination.

By Sept 1, 2011, please send 200 word abstracts + CVs to both Kristen Proehl, Clemson University and Alison Tracy Hale, University of Puget Sound: kproehl_at_clemson.edu and ajtracy_at_pugetsound.edu If you have any questions, please email kproehl_at_clemson.edu

CFP: Revenge of the Queers: Ethics and the Politics of Resentment

2011-08-17T10:23:00.000-05:00

From Diane DiMassa’s caffeinated homicidal heroine in Hothead Paisan to Lee Edelman’s sinthomosexual who “chooses not to choose the Child,” revenge – if only phantasmatic – invigorates queer narratives, theory, even politics. And given that oppression breeds resentment, it is no intellectual leap to consider why revenge becomes a popular trope. But is there something inherently queer about revenge? Could we envision distinctly queer forms of revenge? Or is such an essentialist application of “queer” its very antithesis?

In an effort to address these questions, this panel invites papers that put queer theory, ethics, and revenge into conversation. To do so, this panel investigates the recent development in the so-called “new ethics” and how discussions of queerness and revenge might bring ethics, new or otherwise, to its limit. How might queer revenge deconstruct the ethics of intimacy (e.g., Sedwick, Bersani, Warner)? Or confound the ethics of alterity (e.g., Levinas, Lacan, Edelman)? What theoretical frameworks might afford new insights not only in relation to queer revenge but in regards to ethics as well?

Finally, this panel also explores alternatives to vengeance. If, as Judith Butler suggests, the turn from revenge requires one “to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability,” might we consider from what revenge protects us? Or might “mournfulness and vulnerability” be an ultimately untenable position for the queer?

Please send abstracts (250 word maximum), short CVs, and contact information (current institutional affiliation and e-mail address) toEmily.King@tufts.edu by September 30, 2011 for the 2012 NEMLA conference in Rochester, March 15-18th.

CFP: SCMS Boston 2012 Media Paratexts and Gendered Marketing

2011-08-17T10:20:00.000-05:00

Media paratexts: magazine cover shoots, television promos, interviews, Rotten Tomato aggregates, Roger Ebert tweets, theatrical trailers, leaked photos, gossip mags, Happy Meal toys, soundtrack music videos, official websites, DVD box sets, SNL parodies.

Media paratexts, as conceptualized by Jonathan Gray, are the materials that surround a media text (e.g. a film or TV show), but they are more than marketing campaigns and bonus features; “they create texts, they manage them, and they fill them with many of the meanings that we associate with them” (Gray 2010, 06). Paratexts bind the target text by way of repetitive explanation or contextualization (howsoever homologous or seemingly polysemous), enveloping target spectators within an info-sphere of predetermined, “correct” meanings and interpretations. Through the process of creating packaged meaning in media packaging, paratexts “tell us how producers or distributors would prefer for us to interpret a text, which audience demographics they feel they are addressing, and how they want us to make sense of their character and plots” (72). Although many paratexts are created and repurposed by spectators themselves—fans and detractors alike—those produced within and approved by the industry do the most work to align texts with safe images and interpretations designed for successful mass marketing. Safe, of course, refers to meanings shaped by and molded to dominant social norms, ideologies, and power structures; constructs that do not challenge patterns of normative social dominance and are as such those most profitable for the industry.

Analysis of paratexts, as Gray suggests, allows us insight to the mechanics of industry created sociocultural demographics—the manufacture and maintenance of group taste derived from the illusion of tailored market niches. This panel is concerned with the particular intersection of marketing paratexts and gender. First and
foremost, our panel acknowledges the tremendous economic power female audiences possess. Their economic potential is of great interest to media industries and we see evidence of increased efforts to target female audiences and their economic capital. From media remixes of “Girl Power” and the postfeminist sexuality of popstars (Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry) and chick flicks (Sex and the City, Bridesmaids) to the Twilight franchise and the rise of tween primetime programming (the CW lineup, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance) female audiences are rapidly outnumbering and outpurchasing their male counterparts thanks to the proliferation of media specifically targeting their presumed needs and desires.

We ask: How do paratexts conceptualize and shape female audiences? What do paratexts reveal about contemporary constructs of gender? How do paratexts imagine or create gendered tastes and desires? What role do female audiences have in the maintenance or rejection of these constructs? What are female audiences buying into (or not) and how?

Sources
Gray, Jonathan. 2010. Show Sold Seperately: Promos, Spoilers, and
Other Media Paratexts. New York and London: New York University Press.

Colleen A. Laird
Lecturer
Japanese Studies
Department of Language, Literature, and Culture
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

CFP: International Eating: Women's Global Food Stories

2011-08-17T10:14:00.000-05:00

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Area: Women’s and Gender Studies

International Eating: Women’s Global Food Stories

Of late, many women food writers are recording their global food stories, whether they are making sense divergent cultural identities at home or recording their culinary adventures abroad. This panel centers on women’s food writing, looking specifically at stories that emphasize women’s international food experiences. Papers should focus on women’s global food stories, and they may explore different kinds of food writing (fiction, memoir, cookbooks, etc.).

Please send abstracts of 250-500 words to Caroline Smith atcjsmith7@gwu.edu no later than September 30, 2011.

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

For more information on the convention, please see the website:http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/.

CFP: Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference

2011-08-17T10:12:00.000-05:00

The WAWH invites faculty members, graduate students, independent scholars and others for a collegial, stimulating, and professional weekend of history and networking.

The program committee welcomes proposals for panels or single papers on any historical subject, time period, or region. All fields and periods of history are welcome, as are workshops or roundtables on issues of interest to the historical profession. Proposals for complete panels preferred, but individual papers also welcome. Please use submission forms and guidelines at www.wawh.org

Proposals must be postmarked by September 15, 2011

WAWH offers a prize for the best conference paper presented by a graduate student.

Current (2011-2012) WAWH membership and 2012 conference pre-registration are required of all program participants. Panel organizers should communicate this requirement when asking panelists to participate. WAWH Membership runs from conference to conference.

The Western Association of Women Historians was founded in 1969. Drawing scholars from the Western states, the WAWH is the largest of the regional women's historical associations in the United States. Membership is open to all.

Patricia A. Schechter, Portland State University
2012 Program Committee Chair
Email: wawhconference2012@wawh.org
Visit the website at http://www.wawh.org

CFP: Masculinities between the National and the Transnational, 1980 to the Present

2011-08-17T10:09:00.000-05:00

The organizers of this international conference, which will feature speakers from five different countries, believe that masculinities should be examined at a number of different analytic levels, ranging from the most location-oriented and culturally specific, to the national, to the transnational. In this context, this conference will focus on the articulation of masculinities over the last three decades in Britain and the U.S. What lines of exchange and influence in the cultural and literary imagining of masculinity can be traced between Britain and the U.S. during the last thirty years? How do recent articulations of masculinity reimagine established understandings of gender? How should we understand the ways in which relations between hegemonic and counterhegemonic masculinities operate both similarly and differently in these two locations?

Kent State University
August 5-7, 2011
Kent Student Center, Room 306AB
Free and open to the public

CFP: Fictions of Reproduction: Representations of Contraception and Abortion in Film and Television

2011-08-17T10:02:00.002-05:00

This panel is organized around film and television programs that treat the issues of contraception and/or abortion in some facet. The texts in question might address conception, pregnancy, and/or childbirth in the absence or contraception, or it/they may be more invested in presenting measures for or concern with the prevention of pregnancy. Films/programs may range from educational to fictional, and may be generically diverse (melodrama, comedy, film noir, etc.). They may also vary in terms of national origin and time period. Here are some potential topics/questions:

-To what extent is contraception/abortion politicized? In what way(s)? To what end(s)?
-How do generic concerns affect how the topics are presented?
-What is the relationship between contraception/abortion and censorship? First wave feminism? The birth control movement? Various social or religious groups, such as the Catholic Church or social conservatives? Women's agency? Eugenics? World War? The economy?
-What similarities/differences do you notice between the earlier birth control films and contemporary treatments of contraception/abortion in film/television? What accounts for these similarities/differences?
-How does national sociohistorical context affect the treatment of these topics? How does this vary between different national traditions?
-What formal innovations do you find to be associated with contraception/abortion?

If you are interested in this panel, please send a cv an abstract of 250 words to Megan Minarich at megan.l.minarich@vanderbilt.edu by 20 August 2011.

NB: All inquiries are welcome, although submissions from members of the professoriate are particularly desired at this time.