[Discussion] CFP: Graduate Women's Studies Student Association Symposium (2/21/05; 4/13/05-4/14/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call For Abstracts

Graduate Women's Studies Student Association Symposium
York University
April 13-14, 2005

The Graduate Women's Studies Student Association (GWSSA) invites
feminist academics, artists, and activists to the second annual GWSSA
Symposium. Participation can take the form of panel presentation, round
table or creative submission. The Committee also welcomes submissions
from groups organized as panels or roundtables.

Focusing primarily on expanding the borders and boundaries within
women's studies, this year's conference welcomes academic, creative and
activist submissions relating to any of the themes/topics outlined
below, or more generally addressing feminist perspectives.

Possible themes might include:
- critical engagement with the development of Women's Studies as an
inter/discipline
- the challenges (methodological, theoretical, political) of engaging in
feminist research, policy
development and/or activism
- social movements
- sexuality and the body
- feminist theorizations of violence
- theorizing sex work
- relationships between Women's Studies and feminist activism
- the fight for institutional space
- Women's Studies and privilege
- Women's Studies and/as transnationalism
- Women's Studies/feminist pedagogy
- feminism and/in popular culture


Abstracts should not exceed 250 words, and should include clearly
identifiable keywords.  Other guidelines and application forms are
available on our website: www.yorku.ca/gwssa/symposium.html

Submissions should be emailed to gwssa_symposium@yahoo.ca

The deadline for abstracts is Monday, February 21, 2005.
Successful applicants will be notified by Monday March 4, 2005.

Event Co-Sponsors:
Centre for Feminist Research, York University
Graduate Program in Women's Studies, York University
School of Women's Studies, York University

Please Post and Circulate Widely. Thanks!

-- 
Jennifer Musial
School of Women's Studies - Graduate Programme
York University, Toronto, ON


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