Conference on the Experiences of Rural Women, Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Assoc.
The Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association Conference will be held Sat., February 21, 2004 at Susquehanna University. The theme of the conference is life of rural women.
To submit: Proposals should include the name of contact person, mailing address, email address, a one-page description/abstract, the type of session, equipment required, and the names, addresses, emails, and a 50-word biography of all presenters.
Submit by Oct. 3, 2003 to:
Simona Hill
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Susquehanna University
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
hill@susqu.edu
Fax: (579)372-2870

Lewis & Clark College 23rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium: Gender in Conflict
The Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium invites proposals for presentations that address historical and/or contemporary issues of gender, race, sexuality, and class in relation to conflict. Individual papers will be limited to fifteen minutes and will be scheduled for presentation on panels that emphasize similar themes.
To submit: Proposals must include a working title; a 2-3 page double-spaced abstract; your name, address, phone number, and email address.
Submit by Oct. 29, 2003 to:
Sharon Barnes, Gener Studies Symposium Coordinator
Campus Box 62, Lewis & Clark College
615 S. W. Palantine Hill Rd.
Portland, Oregon 97219
Fax: (503) 768-7379
For more information call Sharon Barnes (503) 768-7378

Conference on Women and Creativity, Marquette University
The Marquette University Women's Studies Program announces its tenth annual conference to be held March 25-27, 2004. The theme for the conference will be "Women and Creativity."
To submit: One page (no more then 250 words) summary of a topic for a 20-minute presentation.
Submit by Nov. 30, 2003 to:
Diane Long Hoeveler, Women's Studies Coordinator
Department of English, Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
diane.hoeverler@marquette.edu

Thinking Gender: The 14th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
A public conference highlighting feminist research by graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, arts, law, education, public health, and public policy. The UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the USC Center for Feminist Research invites graduate students to present their research on women and/or gender.
To submit: An abstract and a CV (each two pages maximum).
Submit by Dec. 5, 2003 to:
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
288 Kinsey Hall
415 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1504
(310) 829-0590
women@women.ucla.edu

National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference:
"Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections"
The National Women's Studies Association seeks proposals for sessions, creative writing series, and the women's centers pre-conference. The Association particularly welcomes proposals that address coalition building, collaboration, and connectivity, particularly across barriers that have proved significant in feminism's past, such as those of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, age, sexual identity, and religion. The conference will be hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on June 17-20, 2004.
To submit: All proposal descriptions should be 1-2 pages and attached to official cover sheet.
Submit by Dec. 9, 2003
For more information and to obtain official cover sheet: www.uwm.edu/Dept/CWS/nwsa/

Fifth Annual Student Achievement Awards for Excellence in Feminist/Multicultural Scholarship
The New Jersey Project is pleased to announce its 15th annual awards competition open to undergraduate students currently enrolled at two- and four-year colleges and universities in the State. These awards will recognize student achievement in feminist and multicultual scholarship and will be presented at a Student Awards Reception in May 2004 at Drew University. The Project will make awards of $300 to each of up to ten winners whose work (in any academic discipline) examines its subject using the lenses of race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and culture. Interdisciplinary approaches and work that seeks to understand or explores its subject with the clear assumption of the interrelatedness, even inseparability, of race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and culture are particularly encouraged.
To submit: Research papers, essays (academic and personal), and other written work from all courses at all undergraduate levels may be submitted. Poetry, visual arts, and architectural plans, computer programs, and statistical or laboratory work should be accompanied by an interpretative essay. It is essential that submission guidelines - contact www.wpunj.edu/icip/njp/ - be followed exactly.
Submit by Feb. 2, 2004 to:
The New Jersey Project
300 Pompton Road
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ 07470

Keeping Our Faculties III: Recruiting, Retaining, and Advancing Faculty of Color
This symposium celebrates past experiences and new research taht focuses on recruiting, retaining, and advancing faculty of color. Proposals for sessions that provide strategies and examples of the following themes are encouraged: successful strategies and their impact; the challenges in science, technology, engineering, and business for faculty of color; and building institutional capacity to develop a racially and ethnically diverse professoriate. Related topics also welcome.
Submit by May 14, 2004 to:
www.cce.umn.edu/KOF

The International Psychology Program
International Psychology, Division 52 of the American Psychological Association, invites quality submissions. Posters, papers, and symposia on international or cross cultural research, theory, assessment, therapy, consulting, teaching, social issues, and gender are welcome. We also encourage proposals for sessions on International Women's Issues, International Assessment, and Working Across Borders.
For information: http://www.apa.org
Submissions should be sent to:
Lynn H. Collins, Ph.D., Div. 52 Program Chair
Department of Psychology, La Salle University
1900 West Olney Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19141
no submissions will be accepted via fax or email

Book on Women's Daily Lives
Editors for a book on the subject of women in transition is soliciting papers (narratives, case studies and research) on the common areas in a woman's life. Topics include but are not limited to Marriage, becoming a mother, career changes, divorce, socioeconomic shifts, empty nest syndrome, menopause, retirement, widow hood.
For more information: myrnahant@aol.com
Myrna Hant, Ph.D.
Research Scholar
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
288 Kinsey Hall
Box 951504
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1504

Women's Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin
The 28th Annual Conference of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium will bring together academics, teachers, students, community leaders and activists, and other whose lives have been enriched by Women's Studies to celebrate, examine, and envision the past, present, and future of Women's Studies. We are seeking presentations which relate to how feminism, post-feminism, anti-feminism and all the rest have refashioned our perception of women's spaces, friends, food, family, home, traditional arts, and images. We particularly encourage panels which represent a diversity of experiences, perspectives, interdisciplinary or intergenerational approaches to topics.
To submit: send a proposal to:
Janet Polansky
143 Harvey Hall
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Menomonie, WI 54751
polanskyj@uwstout.edu

Announcing a New Journal - seeking submissions for first volume
Postcolonial Text is a peer reviewed open access journal which invites article and reviews as well as poetry and fiction on postcolonial, transnational, and indigenous themes. It is one of a new generation of electronic journals committed to publishing critical and creative voices.
For more information: http://pkp.ubc.ca/pocol

 

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