gender studies and sexuality

 
Announcing: A Conference on "Feminism and War"
October 20-22, 2006, at Syracuse University

Call for Proposals

(DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION) _ <http://womens-studies.syr.edu/FeminismAndWar_Call.pdf>

"Boys, Girls, Birds and Beasts: Gender Construction and Animals in
Children's literature"
2006 MLA Convention
Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006

This special session will examine how the companionship of animals
guides and influences and/or determines children's socialization and
emotional and sexual development in literature for children and young
adults.

Please send abstracts electronically by March 30th to:

Ms. Tali Noimann
tnoimann_at_honorscollege.cuny.edu

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Ms. Chamutal Noimann
CUNY Graduate School & University Center
Honors College
365 Fifth Ave.
NYC, NY 10016
(718)768-4752
tnoimann_at_honorscollege.cuny.edu

Please note that the deadline for submitting articles to Professional Studies Review on the theme of Women in the Profession has been extended to April 15.
 
For information about the journal, manuscript submission guidelines, or possible approaches to the topic, please contact Joseph Marotta at marottaj_at_stjohns.edu.

"Female Novelists Constructing Masculinities"

Irish Feminist Futures Postgraduate Conference
27th May 2006
University College Cork
Deadline for Abstracts: 28th April 2006
Contact: susan.cahill_at_ucd.ie <mailto:susan.cahill_at_ucd.ie> and
claire.bracken_at_ucd.ie <mailto:claire.bracken_at_ucd.ie>

Who will shape the future of Irish women's studies? What possibilities does
this future hold?

_'Queering Migrations on Screen'_

A one-day conference, to be held at the Institute of Germanic & Romance
Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

*Date: **Friday 13 October 2006***

The aim of this conference is to look at the phenomenon of migration in
a range of national cinemas from the perspective of queer theory.

Women Prophets, Revolutionary Politics

CFP for MLA 2006, Philadelphia
  
  EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 15
  
  Pregnant Bodies and Other Mothers in the Academy -
  
  Chair, Cynthia Tompkins
  Papers addressing the full range of mothering: women of color, mommy
  queers, white, adoptive and mentor mothers; explorations of biological,
  cultural, economic, and institutional expectations and experiences.
  Abstracts by 15 March; to Cynthia Tompkins, cynthia.tompkins_at_asu.edu.

"In the gloating, enormous strangeness and solitude of the real world, where I am so often inconsolable, marooned, utterly dizzied -- all I need do is pick up a pen and begin to write -- safe in the shelter of the alphabet."
~Carole Maso

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.

Call for Papers for an edited collection: Mothering as/in Text

The editors of a new collection are looking for submissions that
explore the ways that motherhood—as a practice, a set of beliefs, a
political and cultural category—gets written and distributed through a
wide variety of texts.

The collection will feature a variety of disciplinary perspectives and
methodological approaches to this topic, and "text" should be
understood broadly here. For example, submissions might include studies
of

CFP: "Latin American Gay protagonists in Literature and Film".
(deadline for proposals March 15; MLA conference 27-30 December:
Philadelphia)
 
I would like to put together a Special Session at the December 2006 MLA
convention, in Philadelphia. I am looking for papers that address Latin
American Gay protagonists in literature and/or film and notions of
exile, identity, and community. I am specifically looking for papers
that use Benedict Anderson's model of community as nation, but am open
to other theoretical structures of analysis as well.
If you are interested, please send me a brief 1-2 page abstract by
March 15th @ miguelm_at_dcccd.edu.
 
Chair
Miguel Marrero

CFP
The Nellie Tree: Reflections on the Life of Nellie Y. McKay

Recently, one of the central figures in African-American and Black Women¹s
literary studies, Nellie Y. McKay, passed away. Over the course of her
nearly forty years as an academic, she was one of the premier champions of
African-American literature, particularly the role of its women, as part of
the American canon.

Call For Papers: Gay & Lesbian Studies (5/15/06; PAMLA 11/10-11, 2006)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference 2006 November
10-11, 2006 University of California, Riverside Riverside, California

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2006

Paper proposals are requested for a standing panel of the PAMLA conference.

While the panel is open to any topic in Gay & Lesbian Studies, I am
particularly interested in papers that address the following areas:

-Queer community formation/dissolution

-The role of Gay/Lesbian/Queer Theory in a Democracy

-Lesbian/Gay/Queer citizenship

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary
culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention
to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting,
embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special
considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality,
representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women,
mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women
writers, the literary marketplace.