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August 8-10, Detroit - National Men and Masculinity Conference

From: Ben Atherton-Zeman <>
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Subject: August 8-10, Detroit - National Men and Masculinity Conference
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:44:08 -0400

Good morning, friends! I am excited to attend this year’s Men and Masculinity conference in Detroit, August 8-10. I wanted to share the Call for Workshop Proposals from Cristy Cardinal, who is organizing the conference along with the other amazing prevention staff at HAVEN. - Ben

Dear Colleagues and Friends:

HAVEN, Oakland County’s center for the treatment and prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault, in partnership with the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, is seeking workshop proposals for the 38th National Conference on Men and Masculinity, “Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities (assembly required).” The conference will beAugust 8-10, 2013 in Detroit, MI.

The theme of this conference is understanding men’s violence against women as a social justice issue. We are committed to providing conference offerings that will address a broad range of issues pertaining to men and masculinity, and addressing men’s violence against women. Our emphasis will be on social justice, so we encourage all social justice advocates to submit workshop proposals, with attention paid to applying traditional social justice activisms to the work to end men’s violence against women.

We are seeking workshops and presenters that will address the interrelated factors that influence, foster and support gender-based violence, the development and implementation of effective programs, and current research in gender-based violence. Workshops should take into consideration that audience members will have a broad range of knowledge and skills, and should be designed to meet people where they are at in their activism and advocacy. Workshop proposals should reflect the conference theme.

Some ideas for topics:

• academic research on relevant topics, including any of the below suggestions

• social justice activism

• self-care

• feminism

• community building

• media literacy

• anti-racist work

• queer issues and scholarship

• pro-feminist men and men’s issues

• trauma informed care,

• gender-based violence prevention

• femicide

• men and masculinity

• faith and social justice

• intersecting identities

• art as a tool for healing

• films

• poetry as a tool for change

• technology and feminism

• building online communities for social justice

• labor issues and feminism

• other issues as they relate to social justice, feminism and violence against women

We invite you to submit a workshop that will be of interest to advocates, researchers and/or activists.

Please submit your proposal on or beforeApril 30, 2013 at 5 p.m. You can submit your proposal here {link}. If you are unable to submit electronically, please contact Cristy Cardinal at or248-334-1284 x360 for a paper submission form.

The Conference Planning Committee will consider these proposals and notify you if your proposal is accepted by June 1, 2013. Please note that workshops that are not in line with either NOMAS or HAVEN guiding principles will not be accepted, these guidelines are available on our websites.

If you have questions or need more information, please contact Cristy Cardinal, Director of Prevention Education at or 28-334-1284 x360.

Sincerely,

HAVEN, Inc. Prevention Education Team

NOMAS

Thanks!

Cristy S. Cardinal

Director of Prevention Education

HAVEN

PO Box 431045

Pontiac, MI 48343-1045

248.334.1284 x360 voice

248.334.3161 fax