[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Women as Intercultural Leaders (11/15/06; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call for Proposals

Proposal Deadline: November 15, 2006

Women as Intercultural Leaders:
Collaboration at the Crossroads

An interdisciplinary conference exploring the intersections of women's
studies, international and multicultural education, and leadership
development hosted by

Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, Indiana
April 26-28, 2007

About CWIL
Since 2000 the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership (CWIL) has
been fostering the intercultural competence critical for the next
generation of women leaders across the Saint Mary’s campus, connecting
with communities at the local, state, national, and global levels. To
promote transformational intercultural engagement, CWIL builds
collaborative relationships and encourages partnering across
departments, disciplines, and other traditional dividing lines. The
Center bridges global and domestic diversity issues, mindful of the
distinctions between these but also of their commonalities. It
highlights the roles of women and studies the interconnections between
gender and culture. CWIL’s central goal is to develop women as leaders.
Rooted in a developmental approach, the Center challenges and supports
individuals and groups to take the next steps toward deeper
intercultural experience, more sophisticated grappling with issues of
difference such as power and privilege, and greater awareness of their
own potential as change agents.

Conference Themes
This interactive conference will celebrate five years of accomplishments
and welcome fruitful new collaboration by bringing together theorists,
scholars, professionals, educators, community activists, practitioners,
and students who are interested in women’s intercultural leadership.
For three days participants will connect in Indiana, at the “crossroads
of America” networking, sharing best practices, and joining an
international conversation about cutting-edge work.  The conference will
focus on three particular themes and their intersections:

     * thinking in new ways about women's leadership and promoting women
as change agents
     * internationalizing and interculturalizing the college curriculum
and co-curriculum
     * building reciprocal relationships between colleges and
communities across disciplines

Submission Guidelines
CWIL welcomes proposals for panels, individual papers, interactive
workshops, roundtables, and posters that explore the three conference
themes and the intersections between them.

Description of types of sessions:

     * Panel - presentations and/or discussions by three people with
contrasting or complementary points of view.
     * Interactive Workshop - a demonstration rooted in audience
participation and active learning.
     * Roundtable -10-15 minute presentation followed by a facilitated
discussion with session attendees.
     * Poster -a visual display of a program, paper, or project that is
set up in an exhibit space and staffed by the creator(s) during a
designated time.

Each session will be 75 minutes in length and proposals for 20-minute
individual papers will be grouped with two other papers to form complete
panels.

All session proposals must follow the CWIL Conference Proposal Form.
Proposals must include a brief abstract (not to exceed 50 words), which
will be used for the conference program, as well as a longer description
(not to exceed 500 words) that indicates your intended audience, how
your session is relevant to one or more of the conference themes, if
your session crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, and the expected
outcomes for the audience.

Proposals will be selected based on the relevance to the conference
theme/s, for content that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and to ensure
a balance of appropriate sessions for multiple audiences.  Presenters
will be notified by January 2007.  All proposals are due by November 15,
2006 via email (as an MS Word attachment) to cwil at saintmarys.edu
Visit CWIL’s conference website
http://www.saintmarys.edu/~cwil/Conference/CFP.php
  to download the Conference Proposal Form. Additional conference
information will be posted on CWIL’s Web site as it becomes available.


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