gender studies and sexuality

Call for Papers:

The Intimate and the Extimate: Violence and Gender in the Globalized World

Ed., Sanja Bahun-Radunovi? and V.G. Julie Rajan, Rutgers University

Panel proposal for the 14th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British
Women Writers Conference, "(Re)Collecting British Women Writers, March 23-26,
2006, The University of Florida, Gainesville.

In recent years, several academic texts have been published on queer representation on television including Steven Capsuto's Alternate Channels, Larry Gross' Up From Invisibility and Stephen Tropiano's The Prime Time Closet. Many of these studies focus largely, or at times exclusively, on gay men, and almost all focus solely on American examples. With the ongoing expansion in terms of both the volume and quality of representation of lesbian and bisexual women on television, the time has now come for an academic anthology that focuses on the representation of queer women on television internationally.

Potential thematics could include but are not limited to an analysis of:

Northeast Modern Language Association: 2-5 March 2006 in Philadelphia

I am now seeking papers for the following panel; please note the deadline has now changed to 23 September 2005.

We invite papers on literature written by and/or about women for the Womens
Connection segment of the College English Association's 37th annual conference
meeting, 6-8 April 2006, San Antonio, Texas. Paper proposals should address
this year's conference theme: Regions (including but not limited to:
geographical regions, temporal regions, imaginary regions, political regions, cultural
regions, pedagogical regions).
 
Proposals should include the following information:
Name
Institutional Affiliation (if applicable)
Mailing Address (including zip code)
Phone number
Email address
Title for the proposed presentation
Abstract of no more than 500 words
A-V needs, if any

The deadline for interdisciplinary workshop proposals for "Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men" has been extended to October 6, 2005. We hope you are drafting a proposal!

While the keynote address and plenary speakers will concentrate on what
scholars of early modern women can learn from considering men and
masculinity, workshops may consider masculinity or CONTINUE PAST CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WOMEN AND GENDER. Workshops should, however, focus
on one of the plenary topics themselves: theorizing gender, childhood,
violence, and pedagogies.

Proposals should be postmarked OCTOBER 6, 2005. The conference convenes in College Park, MD, November 9-11, 2006.

Please note: the deadline for receipt of proposals for the follwoing anthology
has been extended to 14 October 2005.

(Un)Making the Cut: Feminism, Filmmaking, Fluidity
Edited by Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer

Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Lads in popular fiction: a colloquium on contemporary masculinity
Saturday 18th February 2006
Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Call for Papers

Women, Gender, Pedagogy: Conference on Feminist Pedagogy

Friday, February 24, 2006

CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2005

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Call for Abstracts, Kalamazoo 2006

"Sexual Education in Medieval Literature"

Updated Submission Deadline: September 15, 2005
CFP: Black & South Asian British Women's Comedies

Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, 2006
Philadelphia, PA
2-5 March 2006
Convention information: www.nemla.org
(Panelists must be members of NEMLA)

The William Dean Howells Society invites paper proposals that examine
Howells's relationships with women, broadly defined. Possible paper
topics may include Howells's own personal life, his fiction and
criticism, literary friendships, writings on marriage and sexuality, or
editorial work.

Please send by January 8, 2006 paper proposals no longer than 500 words
and copy of cv to Claudia Stokes at Claudia.stokes_at_trinity.edu or by
post to Claudia Stokes, Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity
Place, San Antonio, TX 78212.

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Dr. Claudia Stokes

Assistant Professor of English

Co-Director, Women's and Gender Studies

Trinity University

"Women's Autobiography: Private Memories, Public Voices." Panel for Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Philadelphia, March 2-5, 2006.

This panel will examine critical questions about women's autobiographical writing, a topic which has generated wide interest over the past three decades. Looking at women's writing in this genre from historical and theoretical perspectives complicates the issues raised in discussions of autobiographical writing and identifies the use of strategies such as imitation, masquerade, subversion, and disruption of conventions. Papers may focus on different types of autobiographical writing by women in different historical time periods and cultures.

Looking Backwards: Re-reading Hollywood's Queer Images, 1969 – 1985

At last year's NEMLA, the GLBT caucus sponsored an engaging panel on the relevance of Vito Russo's landmark study of Hollywood cinema, The Celluloid Closet; this panel seeks to continue the discussion by focusing on Hollywood products from the years 1969 – 1985.