[UPDATE] GENDER, RACE, AND TRANSFORMATION, Oct 30th to Nov 1st, 2015, Pacific University, Oregon
SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 31ST
Friday, October 30th to Sunday, November 1st, 2015
Pacific University
Hillsboro, Oregon
http://www.pacificu.edu/about-us/centers/center-gender-equity
Our speakers are renowned philosopher, Dr. Lewis Gordon and award-winning poet, Jericho Brown (see more below).
Pacific University's Center for Gender Equity and the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program invite you to submit a proposal for our second biennial conference on Gender and Sexuality Studies. Our conference theme this year is "Gender, Race, and Transformation" and we encourage proposals in a variety of formats that explore the interactions between these concepts, especially as they relate to power and oppression, individual and communal identity, and social empowerment, social justice and social change. We welcome both critical analysis and creative work as well as multimodal approaches to presentations.
Please send submissions to Dr. Martha Rampton, Director of the Center of Gender Equity and Professor of History at Pacific University, at Rampton@pacificu.edu by July 23rd, 2015.
Specific topics/themes may include any of the following:
· How individuals conform to or contest dominant social
norms around gender, race, and ethnicity
· Language and discourse on gender, race, ethnicity,
decolonization, and/or diversity
· Virtual representations of gender, race, and ethnicity
· Current controversies involving marginalization,
decolonization, and concerns surrounding globalization.
. The impact of media on perceptions of gender, race, and ethnicity
· The historically and cross-culturally variable ways
that gender, race, and ethnicity are shaped by
discursive power
· Gender, race, ethnicity, and revolution within
specific settings and contexts
· Intersectional work that highlights the relationship
between gender, race, and ethnicity with sexuality,
ability, class, and/or age
Type of presentations:
The conference is aimed at the presentation of empirical research, contemporary discussions, creative interpretations, or current debates on the conference theme. You may submit your proposal in the form of a poster, single paper, symposia or panel discussion, workshop, or other event (e.g., media presentation, structured discussion). We encourage interdisciplinary approaches and collaborations.
· Poster Session (90 minute sessions). Presentations of completed work that allows presenters to interact one on one with interested others. Posters will be presented using bulletin-board displays of text, graphs, tables, pictures, etc. Presenters must be available for discussion of their work at poster location and should have materials for distribution.
· Individual Paper (15 minutes). Formal presentation of theoretical issues, research data, clinical case material, treatment methods, program descriptions, etc. Papers are grouped together by the program review committee around similar themes. Presenters are encouraged to have copies of papers available for distribution. Symposium Proposals are expected to include chairs and discussants.
· Workshop (90 minutes). These sessions are designed to share skills, knowledge, and/or experience in research, issue-oriented, or learning-practice areas.
· Structured Discussion (90 minutes). These sessions are meant to bring together individuals interested in discussing a specific topic in a more informal atmosphere. Speakers present their ideas and facilitate group discussion with other interested colleagues for the purpose of discussing new ideas, sharing resources, or engaging in problem solving.
· Media Presentation (90 minutes). Films, poetry or prose reading, dramatic presentations, etc.
. Faculty-Undergraduate Collaboration (90 minutes). Faculty members and undergraduates engaged in robust collaboration are invited to present their research. The faculty member and the undergraduate student will present original work (10 minutes each) that has emerged out of their collaboration, and that forms two coherent pieces of their shared project.
Who may submit proposals:
We invite junior and senior faculty and graduate students of all disciplines to submit proposals. We also accept submissions from undergraduates and faculty members working in collaboration.