gender studies and sexuality

Writing Across the Gender Boundary: SAMLA Women=92s Studies Panel

Throughout literary history writers have explored the perspectives of=20
genders other than their own. This panel will explore works by both=20
male and female writers who choose to cross the gender boundary in=20
their writing and the effects of such border crossings. Writers might=20=

be viewed as crossing gender boundaries when they construct first=20
person narratives of genders other than their own or when they focus on=20=

Note corrected email addresses:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

This is a call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.
 
We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public spheres.
 
Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:
 
religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family

CALL FOR PAPERS: ASECS (Atlanta 22-25 March 2007; abstracts due 30
January 2007)

Due to the withdrawal of a panelist, a replacement participant is needed for:

"Gender and the Irish Eighteenth Century"

Now soliciting offers via 500-word abstract for a collection of essays entitled Women's Literature and the Holocaust. Electronic submission preferred in Word document to E.M. Clark, billiesblues82_at_yahoo.com by March 1, 2007.
   
  Selected authors will be notified by March 15, 2007, upon which a 20-25 page publication length article will be requested by July 1, 2007.
   
  Queries may be directed to E.M. Clark, email noted above.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

What is a gay/lesbian novel? How is this defined? Is it more useful to use the term "queer," or does this erase the constructed identity that gay/lesbian implies? This call for papers is for academic work that explores these questions or others that center on what labels a book gay and/or lesbian and why.

CFP: Feminism Reframed: Reflections on Art and Difference

Additional 6,000-word contributions are sought for an already formed
edited collection on contemporary feminist approaches to art history
and visual culture. The collection will be published by Cambridge
Scholars Press within 2007.

Art historians, practicing artists, and scholars in visual/cultural
theory are invited to submit abstracts of approx. 500 words and a short
biography to the editor Alexandra Kokoli ( a.kokoli_at_sussex.ac.uk ), by
16th February 2007.

Completed essays will be due in April 2007.

Feminism and Psychoanalysis in 20th Century Literature

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
Malappropriation Nation, the University of California, Riverside's
fourteenth annual graduate humanities conference on April 6-7, 2007.

Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association=20

Calgary, Alberta=20

4-6 October 2007

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This special session invites papers on any aspect of popular women's =
fiction-American, British, or Canadian-of the eighteenth and nineteenth =
centuries. Abstracts and papers should be in English.

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Send 1-page abstracts by email to jvoss2_at_utk.edu or by mail to Julie =
R. Voss, Department of English, 301 McClung Tower, University of =
Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996-0430. Deadline for abstracts is 1 March =
2007.

WisCon 31 - May 25 - 28 2007: Call for Paper Proposals for Academic Track

Please note the extended deadline

Women and War in 20th Century Literature
  
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions2007: Malappropriation Nation at
the University of California Riverside's 14th Annual
Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7, 2007.

(dis)junctions is now proud to welcome our two
speakers. On Friday, April 6th, Dr. Bonnie Zimmerman
of SDSU will be joining us. Dr. Karen Tongson, USC,
will be speaking on Saturday, April 7th.

UPDATE

Society for Human Values and Universal Responsibilities, New Delhi & =
Faculty of Social Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi

Theme : Ageing: Approaches and Challenges

2-3rd. March, 2007=20

In view of delayed announcement from us we have decided to accept all =
proposed papers to facilitate funding procedure for desirous scholars.

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations by Feb. 10, 2007

Topics might include but not limited to the following :

Family and Society

Socio-cultural implications of age and ageing

Woman and Old Age or Gender and ageing

Health & Medical Assistance

Socio-Economic Dimensions of Ageing