Women's Studies Conferences/Call for Papers

February 2012 Deadline


Portland State University
North West Women's Studies Association Annual Conference
Igniting Feminism: Theory <-> Action
Call for Papers Deadline: February 3, 2012
Conference Date: April 20, 2012

Proposals can be for 15-20 minute individual presentations; 60-minute panels of presenters; 60-minute roundtable discussions; or 60-minute facilitated workshops.

Provide the following information:
  1. Title of your talk/panel/roundtable/workshop
  2. Name, Institutional Affiliation. brief bio statement, and contact information for each participant
  3. Indicate the track you've selected and a brief explanation of how your work relates to the track (Track Info)
  4. What will be covered in your presentations/panel/roundtable/workshop (250-500 words)
  5. List any presentation mandatory technical needs (AV, etc)


Full explanation of Tracks
Tracks:
1. Gender & The Politics of Interpersonal Violence Activism
2. Social Justice Education and Feminist Pedagogy: Doing our Best work
3. Queer Theory: Work It! . . . into Feminist Praxis!




 Send Proposals to: nwwsa(@)pdx.edu
For more information, contact Sally McWilliams, s.mcwilliams@pdx.edu or Sally Eck, ecks@pdx.edu.




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Brandeis 
English Department Graduate Conference
Rated X: Perversion and Exclusion
Call for Papers Deadline: Feb 5
Conference Date: March 30




In celebration of the 36th anniversary of the initial publication of Foucault’s first volume of The History of Sexuality, the 6th Annual Brandeis Graduate student conference will explore the ins and outs of various forms of an X-Rating. Being Rated-X implies being marked as other/as outside/as unacceptable as well as being marked as desirable/as visible/as exceptional. Rated-X implies the nakedness of porn and the openness that comes with that. For some there is liberation in this openness. For others there is only exposure. This necessitates the question of whether certain populations are made disposable through exile or instead through visibility; through the erasure or marking of bodies as other. We would like to use this conference to explore some slippage—between these two (and more) types of identification with otherness: the transgression that empowers and enables pleasure versus the polarizing otherness that disenfranchises and dehumanizes. Relevant questions include: Who is doing the marking? Who draws the boundary lines? Does an “X” marking/rating make the bodies of those so-rated untouchable or excessively available for use; or does an “X” rating elevate a body to exceptional status or release it from the strictures of its prescribed social identities? Thus, we will be accepting papers about the exiled body, porn, and anything in between.

Round Table
This round table discussion will consider a study of what is rated-x in academia. What is not worthy of study? What is shameful? What are the margins of acceptability in the academy? We are accepting abstracts for participation in a round table discussion that explores these boundaries and the means by which they are established.

This past year, the question of what is acceptable in the academy was brought to a head when a psychology professor at Northwestern University’s job was threatened after he allowed a live sex act on his stage after class. This is one of many instances that highlights the urgency of a self-reflexive study of censorship.

Participants will submit 5 minute papers on this topic for circulation, addressing any of the following concerns or other related questions: What are the limits of what is an acceptable object of study? What is the expected object of study? What is exposed to observation in academia? What words can or cannot be used? What images can or cannot be shown in professional scholarship or in the classroom? What methodologies are supported or excluded by institutional practices? Please feel free to submit to the Round Table discussion panel in addition to submitting a paper to present.
Abstracts for round table: February 5, 2011
Papers submitted for pre-circulation: March 1, 2012

Creative Arts Panel
We will be accepting submissions for a creative arts panel in order to allow critical discussions to engage with artistic practice. This panel will allow us to further explore disciplinary boundaries and the possibility of interdisciplinary and cross-media discussion. We will accept paintings, poetry, stories, videos/DVDs, and any other media. Please submit a 250 word abstract via email/mail and relevant slides/images on CD or DVD via mail.

Suggested List of Topics
-Citizenship/Exile
-Immigration
-Fantasy/Desire/Pleasure
-Porn/Anti-Porn
-Erotica
-Kinks
-Censorship
-Genres of Smut
-Porn and Race
-Histories of Sexuality
-Sex and Madness/Pathology
-Punishment/Violence/Gore
-Unwritten/Unspeakable
-X as a variable
-Slippage
-Feminist approaches
-Queer approaches
-The problem of academic “sexiness”
-Eco-porn
-Pornographic gaze in science
-GPS tracking of bodies for surveillance, for pleasure, etc.






Submit abstracts via email:
brandeis.grad.conference@gmail.com

For questions please write to:
brandeis.grad.conference@gmail.com 


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Penn State University 
Graduate Research Conference
This is what Feminist Research Looks Like
Call for Papers Deadline: Feb 15, 2012
Conference Date: March 24, 2012


The Women’s Studies Graduate Organization at The Pennsylvania State University seeks submissions regarding work on any aspect of Feminist Research. As we think about and inquire what Feminist Research looks like, we hope that diverse ways of asking and answering feminist questions will come together and form a collective voice in not only written and spoken languages but also through languages an expressions of art, poetry, photography, performances, collaborative efforts, and alternative media presentations (please let us know of any resources necessary for accommodating your project). We encourage graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines to share papers, proposals, reviews, critiques, ideas and projects, which might address and ask questions of any gender and power issues, but are not limited to:

~ Identity & Representation
~ Using Feminist Theories and Methodologies in your discipline
~ Sexualities
~ Queer Theory
~ Masculinities & Men's Studies
~ Girlhood Studies
~ (Dis)ability
~ Fat Studies
~ Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms
~ Environmental issues & Ecofeminism

If you are interested in having your work considered for this
conference, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words toWSGO.officers@gmail.com by February 15, 2012.
We also welcome submissions of complete sessions of 3-4 papers on a common theme, panel discussions, or other formats. If you have questions regarding the conference, please contact us at:WSGO.officers@gmail.com.




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National Women's Studies Association
Annual Conference
Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future
Call for Papers Deadline: Feb 20th
Conference Date: November 8-11

This conference has a very detailed call for proposals out so I recommend going directly to their website to read further into it. CFP Link



March 2012 Deadline


University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Power, Politics & Performance
in Women's Studies and LGBTQ Studies

Call for Papers Deadline: March 1, 2012
Conference Date: October 5-6, 2012

Share your experience and expertise in women's, gender, LGBTQ and sexuality studies. We are currently seeking proposals from across disciplines that address the following topics:
  • research
  • scholarship
  • curriculum or program development
  • pedagogy
  • campus programming
  • community activism
Students, staff, faculty, community members and activists are all encouraged to submit proposals. We are especially interested in presentations that discuss how these topics intersect with ethnic, disability and sustainability studies.

Guidelines for Proposals

Proposals may be for presentations in one of three forms:
  • Individual paper
  • Panel session or workshop, featuring multiple presenters, proposing jointly
  • Performance, reading, or screening of a creative work
Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until March 1, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be sent electronically by mid-April.




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Texas Tech University
28th Annual All - University Conference on the
Advancement of Women in Higher Education
Call for Papers Deadline: March 2, 2012
Conference Date: April 13, 2012 (Friday!)

Proposals in the form of research findings, group or single-author projects, and works-in-progress in multiple media are welcome. The following are types of proposals that will be accepted:
  • Individual paper proposals are submitted individually and arranged into session by the review committee. In paper sessions, authors present 10-12 minute papers followed by audience discussion.
  • Panels provide an opportunity for examining specific problems or topics from a variety of perspectives given that they include 3-4 participants.
  • Roundtables typically include a moderator and 4-6 presenters who make brief, informal remarks about a specific idea or project. They allow for extensive discussion and audience participation.
  • Workshops provide an opportunity to exchange information or work on a common problem, project, or shared interest. Workshops are typically experientially oriented, grounded in some sort of women’s and gender studies research agenda, and include brief presentations that allow adequate time for reflective discussion and interaction.
We invite papers and panel proposals highlighting feminist research, in progress or completed. This year, we especially welcome feminist research on:
* gender and media
* regional feminist issues and concerns on the South Plains
* the environment (e.g., ecofeminism, indigenista, urban planning, architecture)
* political activism (e.g., government, war/peace)
* embodiment (e.g., ability, genetics, inscribing)
* cultural constructions of gender
* psychology of sex roles
* social constructs of gender relations
* science and technology
* feminist visual culture (art and art criticism)




July
Marist College
21st Women & Society Conference

Call for Papers Deadline: July 15, 2012
Conference Date: October 19-20, 2012


Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2012 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates may attend at no cost.

Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio. Papers, workshops, roundtables and panels are welcome; please include abstracts and bios for all participants, with one contact person. Please include all contact information--including home and e-mail addresses for summer correspondence to:

Women & Society Conference c/o Shannon Roper
Lowell Thomas 219
School of Communication & the Arts
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
OR
Submit a Proposal Online

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