gender studies and sexuality

Call for Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Renaissance Hotel Downtown
Atlanta, GA
November 9 - 11, 2007

Session: "Queer Stages: Theater, Performativity, and Sexuality"

One-page abstracts are being sought for papers that explore and critique
the various roles that sexualities play (and have played) in American
and international drama. Of particular interest will be papers which
offer unique queer readings of canonical plays, as well as those that
introduce conference participants to lesser-known texts.

2nd and Final Call for Papers
Lesbian Lives XIV: Thursday 14 - Saturday 16 June 2007

Lesbian Existence and The Lesbian Continuum. CPF Deadline Extended to
05/11/07

A 3-Day, International, Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC), School of
Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Speakers

Call for Papers: LGBT/Gender Studies

The LGBT/Gender Studies Area Chair of the Northeast Popular/American
Culture Association (NEPCA) seeks individual-paper proposals for
presentation at NEPCA's annual meeting, which will be held at Clark
University (Worcester, Massachusetts) October 26-27, 2007.

The multidisciplinary online journal "gender forum"
(http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de) is seeking one more article for
the completion of a special issue on "Gender & Work." We welcome
contributions both from the social sciences and the humanities which
explore, for example, occupational segregation (traditionally male vs.
traditionally female jobs), (in)equality and discrimination in the
workplace, male/female strategies of coping with unemployment, the
(in)compatibility of family and career, or the rendering of such issues
and questions in literature and film.

Due to *multiple* requests, we have extended our deadline an additional week
until April 27, 2007. :) Please feel free to forward this to anyone who
might be interested.

Please email with questions--Barbara L'Eplattenier, bleplatt_at_ualr.edu

Call for Papers

The 2007 Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) conference invites proposals on civic
discourse, feminisms, and rhetorics. The conference draws inspiration from
the 50th anniversary of Little Rock's Central High School integration, the
Clinton Presidential Library, Heifer Project International & the Clinton
School for Public Service.

    Call for Papers
  Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Event and Academic Conference
  July 6-8, 2007
  Kansas City, MO
   
  Submission deadline extended to May 15, 2007
   

    Call for Papers
  Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Event and Academic Conference
  July 6-8, 2007
  Kansas City, MO
   
  Submission deadline extended to May 15, 2007
   

As recent work in transgender studies by scholars such as Judith
Halberstam (Female Masculinity and In a Queer Time and Place) and Jay
Prosser (Second Skins) has shown, the category of gender has become
especially productive for queer scholarship on early twentieth-century
literature. While Diana Fuss (Identification Papers) and others have
explored the way in which identification, understood in psychoanalytic
terms, confounds the project of staking claim to identities, there has
been little work in queer theory that has sought to understand the
difficulties that desire poses for that same project. Accustomed to
thinking of the subject in a Freudian manner—as formed by the history of

Proposals are invited for a special session exploring the
intersections of Feminism and Writing Program Administration.
Presentations may draw from broad definitions of Feminism and may
include, among others, examples and discussions of First-Year
Writing, Writing Centers, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Graduate
Writing Programs.

Please send 250-word abstracts with name, phone number, email,
mailing address, and institutional affiliation to Letizia Guglielmo,
Dept. of English #2701, Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain Rd.,
Kennesaw, GA 30144 or email (attach Word document or RTF) to
lgugliel_at_kennesaw.edu.

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: POSITIONING CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S WRITING

INAUGURAL POSTGRADUATE CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S WRITING NETWORK (PGCWWN)
CONFERENCE University of Warwick, Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June 2007

Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Mary Eagleton and Ali Smith

Apologies for cross-postings, but we're trying to reach as great a
number of scholars as possible at this time.

The editors of /thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture/
invite you to submit your work for our next 'open topic' issues: July
2007 and January 2008.

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/thirdspace/ is a peer-reviewed journal, offering work in English and
French, that aims to present the best in scholarship on feminist theory
and culture.

CCCC 2008
Feminist Workshop

(Post) Institutionalized Feminism: Defining the ?F-word?

Stuart Hall warned against the institutionalization of feminism saying
that once incorporated into the institution it would lose its vibrant
social and political activism. bell hooks ostensibly agrees with
Hall?s assessment in the 2004 film, ?Is Feminism Dead?? This workshop
seeks to interrogate the supposed ?death? of feminism in our cultural
moment, in which both Women?s Studies departments and ?I am not a
Feminist, but. . .? figure largely. We intend to strategizing
locations for political action from academic and social perspectives
and plot a course to reinvigorate the usefulness of The F-Word.

call for papers for MSA 9 in Long Beach, California 1-4 November 2007
 
Modernist Misogynies
 
This panel will address the various roles misogyny plays in the formation of
modernism, in particular texts, in the broader cultural movement, and in
subsequent canon-formation.
 
Possible topics might include:
-What forms does misogyny take in work by modernist writers, particularly or
generally, and how does misogyny during the modernist period differ from
that expressed in other historical periods?
-How have and how should feminists respond to or redefine the modernist
canon?
-Are there modernist masculinities that do NOT depend on renouncing or
otherwise vilifying the feminine?

Lesbian Lives XIV: Thursday 14 - Saturday 16 June 2007

Lesbian Existence and The Lesbian Continuum.

A 3-Day, International, Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC), School of
Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Speakers