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Conference Alerts
Website at http://www.conferencealerts.com/women.htm provides information about upcoming conferences related to women’s studies.
II Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2008 will be held 23 - 29 March 2008 in Mexico City.
Paper and panel proposals: 500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organizing committee in English, Castilian, German or French by 15 November 2007.
Conference website: http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/qses/intro_en.htm
American Men’s Studies Association
The 2008 conference will take place on 4 - 6 April 2008 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Theme: "Masculinities and Institutions: Mapping the Connections." Abstracts of 350-500 words are due 1 December 2007.
AMSA website, including conference details: www.mensstudies.org
Canadian Women's Studies Association:
The conference will take place on June 1st - 3rd, 2008 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. The CWSA/ACEF is seeking proposals, in either French or English for its annual conference, held in conjunction with the Congress of CFHSS/FCSH from individuals or groups, and as joint sessions with other associations. The conference will be structured around two embedded themes in addition to an open call. For more information, click here. The proposal form can be found at www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef. All submissions must include the proposal form in addition to a maximum of 250-word abstract summarizing individual papers and panel theme.. In addition to this, pre-arranged panel submissions must also include a short (50-100 word) abstracts of individual papers clearly indicating contributions of each member.
Send proposals by email only, in Word/WordPerfect/RTF, to: Lauren Warbeck, Assistant to Sikata Banerjee, Program Chair, at warbeck@uvic.ca.
Deadline: November 16, 2007. Late submissions will not be considered.
The Art of Gender in Everyday Life
The fifth annual conference will take place at Idaho State University , 6-7 March 2008. In addition to sessions, the conference will include a keynote, "No More Tears: On the Persistence of Melodrama in Representing Women's Lives," by Dr. Tania Modleski, Florence R. Scott Professor of English at the University of Southern California , on the evening of 6 March. The Conference Committee invites abstracts from university faculty and staff as well as from graduate and advanced undergraduate students. ALL submissions related to the art of living gendered lives will be considered. This year’s conference is especially interested in submissions that address gender and the arts (including the presentation of gendered performances, films, etc., as well as academic papers) gender and popular culture, and gender and the body. The formal call for papers, announcement of student paper competition, and registration form may be found at http://www.isu.edu/andersoncenter.
Abstracts must be postmarked by 5 November 2007.
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
The next "Big Berks" meeting will be held on 12 - 15 June 2008 in Minneapolis.This conference takes place once every three years; proposal deadline was 9 February 2007.
Conference website: http://www.berksconference.org/
Console-ing Passions: A Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism
The conference will take place 24-26 April 2008 in Santa Barbara , California . We invite paper proposals that consider, but are not limited to the following: gender, media and presidential politics; history and theory of television; women, race, and the Don Imus effect; feminism and the blogosphere; YouTube and social networking; gender, 'nature' and media; experimental media histories and criticism; women in media industries; gender and media spaces; media and reproductive politics; media and gay/lesbian politics; reality TV; second life, gaming, virtual reality online; religion and media; gender and technology; gender and violence; militarism; mobile media activism; theories of post-television; theorizing TV in the age of Tivo; gender, media and globalization. For more information, including guidelines for proposal submissions, visit http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/cptv/cptv.html.
Submit all proposals to cptvconference@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu.
Direct all questions about the conference and the submission process to cptvconference@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu.
Deadline for proposing panels, workshops, screenings, and individual papers: 1 November 2007
Cultural Studies Association, Visual Culture Division
The Visual Culture Division’s theme for the 2008 meeting is "Feminist Art." The conference will take place on the campus of NYU in Greenwich Village, in New York City , 22-24 May 2008. For more information visit http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm.
Please submit via email a 500-word abstract of a 15-20 minute paper proposal, including name, department, and institutional affiliation, email address, and brief CV by October 22 to Kelly Dennis, Chair, CSA Visual Culture Division, Department of Art and Art History, 830 Bolton Rd U-1099, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1099, kelly.dennis@uconn.edu.
Deadline: 22 October 2007
International Federation for Research in Women's History Conference
The next IFRWH conference will be held in Amsterdam in 2010. Details are not yet available, but check the organization's website, http://www.ifrwh.com, for updates.
Mundos de Mujeres/Women's Worlds 2008: 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women will be held in Madrid, Spain, at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 3-9 July 2008.
Conference themes: New Frontiers: Dares and Advancements.
Deadline for proposals for individual presentations, entire sessions, performances, films, roundtables, workshops, or conversations: 28 February 2008.
Conference website: www.mmww08.org/index.cfm?idioma=eng
National Women’s Studies Association
The 2008 conference will take place on 19-22 June 2008 in Cincinnati , Ohio . Theme: "Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire." Proposals for panels, papers, workshops, and performances are due 1 November 2007.
Conference website, including facilities for online proposal submission: www.nwsaconference.org.
Southwestern Women’s and Gender Studies Association
Information on next conference not yet posted, but check for updates on Google.
2007 conference was held on 14 - 17 March 2007;
Conference website: http://www.tcnj.edu/~swwgsa/
Thinking Gender, 18th annual graduate student research conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the USC Center for Feminist Research. Conference will be held 1 February 2008; Call for papers will go out September 2007.
Conference website: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html
Women's History Month Conference
The tenth annual conference will be held at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY on March 7-8, 2008. It is free and open to the public. The committee invites scholars, artists, writers, and activists to submit proposals for papers, readings, workshops, and performances. Proposals for full panels are especially welcomed.
The theme is "Black Power/BlackFeminism: Black Women's Activism and Development of Womanist/Feminist Consiousness in the Era Black Power". The keynote speaker is Chana Kai Lee, the author of "For Freedom's Sake: Life of Fannie Lou Hamer". This conference seeks to sustain and enhance new scholarship that redefines the era, bringing the work and effort of women to the center. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Women's local and national grassroots organizing
- Women in the Black Arts Movement
- Women and Nationalism
- Women's participation in Black Power organizations
- Revolutionary Black Feminism
- Coalition building amongst women of color
- Legacies of Black feminist organizing: third wave and hip hop
feminismSend CV and a brief abstract to:
Tara James
Women's History Graduate Program
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY 10708
Phone: 914-395-2405 Fax: 914-395-2663
Email: tjames@mail.slc.edu (email submissions are preferred)
Deadline: December 1, 2007
Women and the Silent Screen Conference
2008 conference will be held in Stockholm , Sweden , 11-13 June 2008. Abstracts (200 – 300 words) together with a paper title and a two-line biographical statement should be submitted by December 15, 2007, to wss@mail.film.su.se.
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