[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Global & Local Women's Studies: Going on Forty (6/11/07; 10/19/07-10/20/07)

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   Southern Connecticut State University
   Women?s Studies Program

   Presents

   The Seventeenth Annual Women?s Studies Conference

   Global & Local Women?s Studies:
   Going on Forty
   To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University
   Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2007



   invitation for proposals on interdisciplinary scholarly and  creative
work
   Women?s Studies as a discipline is going on forty, prompting debate
about where the discipline has come from, where it is at the turn of the
century, and where it is going.  This conference will be a part of that
process. We are specifically interested in using the metaphor of
family?informed by histories and the intersectionality of race, class,
gender, sexuality, and nation?to explore and explain and document the
discipline of women?s studies, to consider how we have been written
by/written ourselves into this family drama, and to reflect on the
impact those decisions have had on feminist & womanist movements inside
and outside of the university, locally and globally.  Conference
sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geographic
perspectives in order to create a living text of feminist cultures,
histories, and representations.  The Conference Committee invites
academics, feminists, and activists from all disciplines, institutions,
and organizations to
  submit proposals for ?Global and Local Women?s Studies: Going on Forty.?

   Proposal Format: Faculty, students, staff, administrators, and
community activists from all disciplines and fields are invited to
submit proposals for individual papers, complete sessions, panels, or
round tables.  Poster sessions, performance pieces, video recordings,
and other creative works are also encouraged.  For individual papers,
please submit a one-page abstract.  For complete panels, submit a
one-page abstract for each presentation plus an overview on the
relationship among individual components.  For the poster sessions and
art work, submit a one-page overview.  All proposals must include
speaker?s/speakers? name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information
(address, E-mail, & telephone number).  Please also indicate preference
for Friday afternoon, Saturday morning or Saturday afternoon; all
attempts will be made to honor schedule requests.

   Panels: Each 75 minute session usually includes three presenters and
a session moderator, but individual presenters may request an entire
session for a more substantial paper or presentation.  Presenters are
encouraged, though not required, to form their own panels.  The
conference committee will group individual proposals into panels and
assign a moderator.   Please indicate in your contact information if you
are willing to serve as a moderator.

   Posters, Art Displays, and Slide Presentations: A poster presentation
consists of an exhibit of materials that report research activities or
informational resources in visual & summary form.  An art display
consists of a depiction of feminist concerns in an artistic medium.
Both types of presentations provide a unique platform that facilitates
personal discussion of work with interested colleagues & allows meeting
attendees to browse through highlights of current research.  Please
indicate in your proposal your anticipated needs in terms of space, etc.


   We invite individuals, groups, scholars, activists, and artists to
submit proposals for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, or
artistic performances that address the following questions:


    What is the relationship between women?s studies in the US and
women?s Studies abroad?Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, etc.?  Is
?sisterhood? an adequate concept for theorizing these relationships?
What do transnational frameworks offer us for understanding women?s
studies in the US and abroad?
    What are the benefits and drawbacks to understanding women?s studies
as ?middle aged?? To describing Women?s Studies in terms of
waves/generations?
    What role do you play in the discipline of women?s studies? Are you
a founding mother? A rebellious daughter? A prodigal child? How and why?
    Why/when have there been/not been roles for you in women?s studies?
What tensions have you experienced between being cast in a role and
attempting to write your own role?
    Where/when/why have you felt or not felt ?at home? in women?s
studies as a discipline? Why has it felt or not felt ?like family?? How
have you written or rewritten yourself into the story of the discipline
over time/through space?
    How has the concept of ?sisterhood? allowed/disallowed your
participation in women?s studies?
    What generational tensions and connections have you experienced and
how do they inform your work in women?s studies?
    In what ways have you experienced the institutional confinement of
women?s studies? With what results?
    To what extent has women?s studies challenged and changed courses,
programs, departments, disciplines, and administrations in universities
here and/or abroad? With what gains and losses for individuals, groups,
and institutions?
    What theories and texts do you see most influential on women?s
studies scholarship and application?
    How has women?s studies intersected with feminist & womanist
movements? With what consequences for each?

   Please submit proposals and supporting materials to:

   Women?s Studies Conference Committee
   Women?s Studies Program, EN B 229
   501 Crescent Street
   New Haven, CT 06515

   Or via email to: decrostaa1 at southernct.edu, with attention to
Conference Committee

   The Annual Women?s Studies Conference at SCSU is self-supporting; all
presenters can pre-register at the discounted presenter?s fee, not
exceeding $110.00 for both days, $60.00 for one day.  The fee includes
all costs for supporting materials, entrance to keynote events, and all
meals and beverage breaks.

   Submission Deadline:
Postmarked by Monday, June 11, 2007
   Notification of Committee Decision:                     Postmarked by
Monday, July 16, 2007



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Yi-Chun Tricia Lin
   Director/Associate Professor, Women's Studies Program
   Vice President, National Women's Studies Association
Southern Connecticut State University
   E-mail: liny4 at southernct.edu
Office: (203) 392-6133; (203) 392-6864   Fax:    (203) 392-6723
www.southernct.edu/womensstudies
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