[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts (grad) (3/27/06; 5/24/06-5/26/06)]

Thu Mar 16 17:20:59 EET 2006

Deadline Extended to March 27th for Proposals on
Interdisciplinary Scholarly and Creative Work

Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Conference:
Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist 
Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts.

University of Maryland
May 24-26, 2006

Website: www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference

Featuring plenary sessions and workshops by feminist educator 
Dr. Peggy McIintosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr. 
Sangeeta Ray, feminist sociologist Dr. Karen Rosenblum, and 
Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall.

Interdisciplinary scholars are courageous risk-takers; they 
often conduct their research and teaching in .dangerous 
places. in which their work is undervalued, misunderstood 
and/or not supported. Young scholars are particularly 
vulnerable to the ramifications that can result from pushing 
boundaries and working at the margins of their academic 
locations. In response to this ongoing challenge to our 
scholarship and/or research and teaching endeavors, this 
conference will highlight and celebrate the scholarship of 
graduate students working in the areas of women.s, gender 
and/or feminist studies, sexuality studies, cultural studies, 
and other interdisciplinary academic locations having as 
their central locus progressive politics and intersectional 
theoretical and methodological approaches.

As signaled by its title, the conference identifies and will 
provide a forum for discussing compelling intellectual issues 
currently driving feminist/critical politics and will bring 
together graduate students in related interdisciplinary 
academic locations who are working to transcend divides, 
dichotomies and boundaries of all sorts in their activisms, 
research, and teaching. 

Call for Proposals
As a .potential space. for making professional, intellectual 
and/or activist connections among and between graduate 
students and established scholars working on similar issues, 
the conference will be divided into four thematic seminars in 
which the customary division between audience and presenter 
is collapsed. Each seminar will feature interactive working 
sessions co-facilitated by one invited senior scholar and one 
graduate student whose own research, teaching and/or 
activisms fit within the rubric of that seminar.s thematic 
mandate. Participants . including the senior scholar . will 
each be asked to prepare and present short position papers (3-
4 pages each) in which they address some key issues, debates 
and conversations of the seminar as outlined below. Following 
these presentations, the moderators will facilitate 
discussion and/or activities among the session participants 
designed to draw out common themes and controversial issues 
that participants identify as having significant potential 
for future work in the area under discussion.

All proposals should be related to the study of gender as it 
intersects with other dimensions of identity (such as 
religion, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national 
origin, mental, emotional, and/or physical ability, etc.). 
Graduate students committed to interdisciplinarity, 
intersectional approaches and whose work addresses 
feminist/critical politics should send a 200-word abstract 
via e-mail by March 1, 2006 indicating in which of the 
following seminars they.d like to participate:

1.	Building Community and Making Intellectual Connections
Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Plenary Speaker and Seminar Scholar-
Participant

Concerned with strengthening the connections between 
intellectual communities, this seminar invites submissions 
from scholar-activists whose research, teaching, and/or 
activism consciously utilizes multiple critical perspectives 
and approaches from a variety of academic locations to 
transcend epistemological and/or disciplinary divides, 
dichotomies and boundaries to create that which could not 
have been otherwise. Topics to be considered include but are 
certainly not limited to:
.	How to navigate an interdisciplinary graduate program 
when your professors are trained in specific disciplines
.	How to do social justice work within the university 
and across various academic locations
.	The difference between and practical applications of 
multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary methodologies and 
approaches
.	Being an advocate of feminism and other 
critical/oppositional politics within .traditional. 
disciplines
Abstracts for this seminar should be submitted by March 27, 
2006 to Robyn Epstein at HTUrepstein at umd.eduUTH.

2.	Transforming Structures of Oppression
Dr. Karen Rosenblum, Plenary Speaker and Seminar Scholar-
Participant

This seminar invites works that engage oppression and 
resistance at a structural level. Participants will explore a 
broad range of topics pivoting on the connections between 
systemic oppression and structures and individual people.s 
lives and experiences. Questions include, but are not limited 
to:

.	How do institutions reproduce and maintain oppressive 
systems (such as racisms, white supremacy, classisms, 
heteropatriarchy, able-bodied normativity, among others)?  
.	How do public health institutions produce normative 
meanings for bodies?  
.	How does the state determine gender, race, and class 
differences and maintain them?  
.	How is the prison-industrial complex situated within 
a racialized social order?  
.	What does heterosexism and homophobia in the state 
look like today?  
.	How do public transportation systems produce 
normative assumptions about the public as able-bodied?  
.	How is the state and/or other institutions 
responsible for hate crime legislation that address trans-
identity expressions?  

Abstracts for this seminar should be submitted by March 27, 
2006 to Laura Logie at llogie at umd.edu.

3.	Globalization and Transnational Feminisms
Dr. Sangeeta Ray, Plenary Speaker and Seminar Scholar-
Participant

This seminar will explore gendered processes within a 
transnational framework.  How do global economic, political 
and cultural processes impact the lives of gendered subjects 
differentially across the globe?  How do they (re)
construct/deconstruct particular kinds of gendered 
relations?  How are gendered relations associated with 
shifting racial, sexual, national, cultural and other 
processes?  Within this transnational framework, how do local 
groups resist?  How do they connect with each other across 
borders?  What are the power relations inherent in these 
kinds of feminist and other activisms across borders?  As 
part of this larger theme, topics can include but are not 
limited to: 
.	Transnational feminist theory and transnational 
feminist interventions in various disciplines across the 
academy
.	Local activisms and transnational feminist connections
.	New (and historical) intersections of gender, race, 
ethnicity, culture, nation and sexuality in a global frame
.	The politics of gendered symbol systems
Abstracts for this seminar should be submitted by March 27, 
2006 to Vrushali Patil at vpatil at umd.edu.

4.	Women.s Studies in Translation: Accessing .Feminist 
Education. across the Spectrum of Difference
Dr. Peggy McIntosh, Plenary Speaker and Seminar Scholar-
Participant

Women.s studies has developed into a thriving academic field 
of inquiry within the academy, and more and more women.s 
studies educators are being innovative how they develop and 
share feminist knowledge inside and outside of the academy. 
This seminar will support a conversation on these innovations 
in teaching, with a particular focus on how women.s studies 
practitioners interpret what counts as .feminist education,. 
and how they translate that knowledge to different kinds of 
learners across a variety of learning settings.  Papers may 
address (but are not limited to) the following topics: 

.	Innovative approaches in undergraduate and graduate 
teaching
.	Teaching women.s studies in non-women.s studies 
disciplines and working in interdisciplinary spaces
.	Activist orientations toward the classroom; social 
justice teaching
.	Feminist education and women.s liberation organizing
.	.Special. strategies for addressing .special. needs
.	Women.s studies in elementary and secondary school 
settings
.	Community education and popular education
.	The women.s studies Ph.D. (e.g., curriculum, 
pedagogy, process, politics)
.	Accessing feminist education across race, class, age 
and geography (e.g., girls, young women who don.t attend 
college, and incarcerated women)
.	Teaching .different. feminisms and feminisms of 
difference (e.g., black feminism, feminisms of disability)
.	Translating feminisms across multiple literacies 
(e.g., visual literacy, multimedia education)
.	Working collaboratively across and within 
disciplinary fields of specialization
.	Scholarship of teaching and learning within women.s 
studies
.	Feminist pedagogies

Abstracts for this seminar should be submitted by March 27, 
2006 to Nikki Stewart at nstewart at umd.edu.

Artwork and Multimedia submissions are encouraged
Conference organizers are also soliciting non-text-based 
contributions from scholars, activists, theorists, and 
artists working in the areas of performance and fine art. 
Submissions meeting the above criteria for intersectional and 
interdisciplinary study which take the form of short 
plays/performance scripts (or digital recordings of those 
short performances), paintings or other types of visual or 
technology-based art forms, are encouraged. Please contact 
Kristen Williams at kwilli14 at umd.edu.

Submit Your Abstract
Please submit your 200-word abstract as an attachment to the 
following person(s) as appropriate by March 27, 2006:

.	For Seminar #1, .Building Community and Making 
Intellectual Connections.: Robyn Epstein at repstein at umd.edu
.	For Seminar #2, .Transforming Structures of 
Oppression.: Laura Logie at llogie at umd.edu
.	For Seminar #3, .Globalization and Transnational 
Feminisms.: Vrushali Patil at vpatil at umd.edu
.	For Seminar #4, .Women.s Studies in Translation: 
Accessing .Feminist Education. across the Spectrum of 
Difference.: Nikki Stewart at nstewart at umd.edu
.	To submit proposals for artwork, performances, and 
multimedia: Kristen Williams at kwilli14 at umd.edu

In addition, include a brief (3-5 sentence) bio of yourself 
with your abstract along with your preferred method of 
contact (email/phone/mailbox). You will be notified by April 
15th along with more information on paper guidelines.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

_______________________________________
Kimberly A. Williams
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Women's Studies
University of Maryland, College Park

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