[Fwd: ] [Conference. Call for Papers]

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Carrol

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• To: femecon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
• From: "Dr. Viki Soady" <vsoady@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:45:02 -0500

 

CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Conference

 March 1- 3, 2001

 Valdosta, Georgia

 

 CONFERENCE TITLE: "Safe Places, Risky Spaces"

 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

 Christina Garcia

 Peggy McIntosh

 Margaret Herrick Cathy Woolard

 Carmen Knudson-Martin

 

 With a Special Appearance by

 Fredonia Woolf

 

 Historically, women have been "situated" by others for the sake of their safety, production and reproduction. At the same time, and often in opposition, women have created their own places and spaces with perhaps similar goals in mind, but with much greater freedom of self-_expression_. Such safe places include university and community Women's Centers, shelters, religious and therapeutic groups, and organizations such as NOW, NWSA, and Third Wave. By various strategies women are finding Woolf's "room of one's own" - a space that can be actual or metaphorical, but inevitably "risky".

 Scholars, educators, students (graduate and undergraduate), directors of Women's Centers and Shelters, community activists, theorists and all proponents of social change are invited to submit proposals for papers, workshops, roundtables, complete panels (3-4 papers), and performances examining women's places and spaces: both actual and metaphorical.

 Please note that topics are not limited to academic presentations only. Creative submissions in various media are encouraged. Complete performance pieces (short stories, poetry, dramatic and artistic presentations) and 200 - word abstracts for academic papers must be postmarked by Friday, December 1, 2000.

 E-mail submissions are encouraged. All submissions will be refereed and decisions made by December 15, 2000.

 Ideas for consideration include:

· historical or recent changes in the depiction and creation of women's places and spaces

· theoretical and literary considerations of women's places and spaces

· religious communities as sites of both safety and risk

· university and community Women's Centers as places of both safety and risk

· shelters, advocacy groups, and therapeutic services as places of transition to safety

· the growing global polyvocality within women's spaces

· the impact of new ideas of "personhood", subjectivity and ethnicity on shared spaces and places

· postcolonialism and postmodernism as places for research about women's spaces

· economic, social, and political spaces and places

. the feminization of the professions-business, law, medicine, nursing, and science

· safety and risk in Third Wave feminism.

 

Please send one copy of a 200-word proposal for academic papers or a copy of complete performance pieces (short stories, poetry, dramatic presentations, etc.) postmarked by Friday, December 1, 2000, to Dr. Viki Soady, Women's Studies Program, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA 31698. E-mail: vsoady@xxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: 229-293-6300 Phone: 229-249-4842

 The conference website will appear soon at http://www.valdosta.edu/women/conf2001.html

Dr. A.V. (Viki) Soady

Director of Women's Studies/Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Valdosta State University

Valdosta, Georgia 31698

FAX: 912-293-6300

912-249-4842

 

Amor vincit omnia, nos cedamus amori.

Vergil

http://www.valdosta.edu/women/conf2000/ 

 

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