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NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Full Details Available and Submit Proposals Online:
www.nwsaconference.org 
<http://www.nwsaconference.org/> 

Conference Dates and Location: June 19-22, 2008 in Cincinnati, OH

Deadline to Submit Proposals: November 1, 2007

 

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The National Women's Studies Association leads the field of women's
studies
in educational and social transformation.  Established in 1977, NWSA
has
more than 2,000 members worldwide.  Our annual conference regularly
draws
more than 1,200 attendees and is the only annual meeting in the US
exclusively dedicated to showcasing the latest feminist scholarship.  

 

The 2008 conference will open on Thursday, June 19th with two
pre-conferences hosted by the Program Administration and Development
and the
Women's Centers Standing Committees.  These daylong events offer
networking
and professional development opportunities for women's and gender
studies
and women's center administrators.

 

THEME: Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation,
Region,
Empire

This Call situates race and sexual politics in relation to nation,
region,
and empire in recognition of the importance of contemporary
postcolonial and
transnational feminist inquiry to such examinations.  For example,
feminist
inquiry can focus on the structural building blocks of empire, namely
regional integration projects that support neoliberal globalization
while
militarizing borders to keep migrants out.  Likewise queer scholarship
helps
identify heteronormative policies as methods by which exclusionist
nationalist and hegemonic imperial projects are carried out. And
putting
feminist area studies in conversation with feminist ethnic/diaspora
studies
in conversation also enable us to make the connections necessary to
resist
empire "at home" and "abroad."  Finally, these foci can also extend to
the
arena of electoral politics in this presidential election year, where
race
and gender issues will play a critical role.

 

The overall theme of "resisting hegemonies" is broad enough to invite
various forms of interdisciplinary and disciplinary feminist inquiry as
well
as the full array of feminist pedagogical, activist, cultural, and
spiritual
work. 

 

Possible proposal topics from interdisciplinary or disciplinary
perspectives
in contemporary or historical contexts could include but are not
limited to:

*       Theorizing race and racism across national boundaries
*       Queering women's and gender studies
*       Regionally specific approaches to feminist activism
*       Women resisting empire through the arts
*       Black feminist thought and politics
*       Revisiting Collins' "matrix of domination"
*       The cultural work of empire in popular discourses
*       Postcolonial sexuality studies
*       Feminist critiques of militarization
*       Feminist politics and women in politics
*       Comparing the political work of feminist counter cultures to
feminist direct action
*       Anti-racist and anti-homophobic work in women's centers
*       From Katrina to Lebanon to Iraq: the politics of displacements,
migrations, and movements
*       Global perspectives on girlhood
*       Transnational perspectives on transgender identities
*       Women's movements in/side and outside the lines of
imperialisms,
fundamentalisms, and terrorisms 
*       Empire building and the politics of feminist alliances
*       Internships, study abroad, and international exchanges in
women's
studies
*       Women's and gender studies on the academic job market
*       Transnational consortia of national women's studies
organizations

 

NWSA invites all of those interested to submit proposals for panels,
papers,
workshops, and performances that represent the wide rage of
anti-hegemonic
scholarship in the US and beyond.  The Association also welcomes
proposals
that do not directly address the theme, but are relevant to women's
and
gender studies today.

 

 

Allison Kimmich, Executive Director
National Women's Studies Association
7100 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 502
College Park, MD  20740-3627
(301) 403-0525
 <http://www.nwsa.org> www.nwsa.org 
 <http://www.nwsaconference.org> www.nwsaconference.org 


"It's so liberating and important for men to understand that they can
actually be friendly to women instead of playing some gender-specific
role, and that women are in most ways the same as they are. I think that
lots of women already know that, but not so many guys do."  -my dad
8/3/07
 
Juliette Grimmett, MPH
Rape Prevention Education Coordinator
NC State University
Women's Center
3120 Talley Student Center
Campus BOX 7306
Raleigh, NC 27695-7306
Office: (919) 513-3232
24 Hour Sexual Violence Hotline: (919)618-RAPE (7273)
Fax: (919) 515-1066
email: 

website: http://www.ncsu.edu/womens_center