Professionals from a variety of academic disciplines examining issues and concerns relevant to physical education and kinesiology are encouraged to share their expertise and interests at the 2013 WSPECW Conference at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA (November 21-24). You may do so by submitting a proposal for a presentation. Proposals may include original data-based research, scholarly inquiries, theoretical examinations, teaching strategies, or other creative contributions. Completed projects or works-in-progress are acceptable.

Professional Awards nominations are being sought for: 1) Emerging Professional Award; President’s Educational Equity Scholarship;
Professional Development Award.

For further details, please visit our website: www.wspecw.org, or email cmw9@stmarys-ca.edu.

Dates: November 21-24, 2013
Location: Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California

Claire Williams
Department of Kinesiology
St. Mary’s College of California
PO Box 4500, Moraga, CA 94575
Phone: (925) 631-4812
Email: cmw9@stmarys-ca.edu
Visit the website at http://www.wspecw.org/index.php

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Special Issue: Call for Submissions

Issue Guest Editor: Rizvana Bradley (Assistant Professor, WGSS, Emory University)

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2013

Women and Performance invites submissions for a special issue, “The Haptic: Thinking Through Texture.” We welcome scholarly articles and performative texts that directly take up and theorize the ways in which haptic negotiations like touching, folding, fingering, or tracing the texture of an object, offer themselves as feminist techniques of knowing in art and performance. We seek articles, texts and projects that are directly concerned with thinking about the texturized quality of performances which touch upon the specific feel and consistency of cultural practices, as well as the production and reproduction of daily life, broadly speaking.

Critical scholarship within media and film studies has stressed the ways in which the haptic denotes the tactile as a category of experience that provokes the sensorial conventions and conjunctions of touch, taste, smell and sight. This issue seeks to develop and expand the critical parameters as well as the lexicon of the haptic further. By de-instrumentalizing the haptic and its association with media and visual consumption, this special issue opens a discussion of the haptic to alternative archives of aesthetic and cultural production, including but not limited to art, poetry, and literature, in relation to Black studies, feminist, queer, and gender studies, disability studies, food studies, and sound studies. We are interested in artistic and intellectual projects that highlight performative experiments with objects, media, narratives and poetics that may be mapped and felt in excess of a phenomenology of experience, which maintains a certain equipoise between the object of perception and the subject of experience.

Some questions contributors might consider: How do the objects, sounds and substances we engage with, and/or the surfaces that both appear or do not appear to us, push back on us, and compel us to take on their particular texture or feel? How do these objects, sounds and substances ultimately provoke the limits of our engagements with them? How do these texturized, haptic dimensions challenge our physical comportment, as well as our conscious or unconscious interaction with objects and substances? Does haptic contact mark our vulnerability to a material world we presumably locate outside ourselves? Are these haptic intervals pursued as spaces of fugitivity or fugitive discovery for what some have called black study? Are the tentative avenues of sensing, touching and feeling opened up by the haptic intensified by an experimental black ontology that moves through and includes other bodies, forms and formations? Does starting from the haptic, produce alternative ways of knowing race, sex, and materiality, potentially enabling us to remap and relocate power and agency in something other than subjectivity?

We welcome essays, experimental writings, poetry or performances that mark haptic life as an avenue of discovery for black, feminist, queer, trans, or other epistemologies. Contributions that explore the haptic through forms of relational, non-normative, black, feminine and/or queer sense are especially of interest. We ask for work that explores the production and reproduction of historically specific somatic imaginations that make possible forms of knowledge and desire that were and perhaps still are inadmissible, impossible or illegible under the rubric of neoliberal subjectivity.

Potential topics/possible intersections including but not limited to:

Haptic Bodies: Queer, Black, Trans, Feminine and Disabled Bodies in Performance, Experimental Theater, Live Art and Dance
The Haptic as a means of theorizing Resistance, Fugitivity and Anti-Normativity
The Haptic in Black Aesthetics and Performance
Texture in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
Food Studies
Sound Studies
Queer Sound
Poetry and Performance
Sound and Poetry
Disability Studies and the Haptic
Affect Studies
Theories of Touch
Theories of Embodiment
Non-Cognitive Modes of Expression
Surface and Surface Readings
New Materialisms and Object-Oriented Ontology
Post-Identity Subjectivity
Marxism and Materiality/Haptic Consumption, Production, Reproduction and Labor
Haptic Temporalities, Duration, Endurance, Exhaustion
Article submissions should be 6-8,000 words in length and adhere to the current Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), author-date format. Performative texts should be 2-3,000 words and in any style the author chooses (same CMS style as above if using citations). Photo essays are welcome. Questions and abstracts for review are welcome before the final deadline.

Complete essays and texts for consideration must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST, December 1, 2013.

Please send all work to the editor via email (MSWord attachment): hapticissue@gmail.com. AND Please submit manuscripts electronically, as Microsoft Word attachments, to Managing Editor Summer Kim Lee at managingeditor@womenandperformance.org.

Further submission guidelines may be found below. Women and Performance is a peer reviewed journal published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

General Submission Guidelines

The Editorial Collective of Women & Performance invites submissions of scholarly essays on performance, visual and sound art, theater, dance, ritual, political manifestations, film, new media, and the performance of everyday life from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives. We also welcome performative texts; interviews; book, performance and film reviews; and photo essays and images that advance critical dialogues on gender and performance. Women & Performance accepts proposals for themed issues from guest editors. We publish scholarship that is interdisciplinary and provocative in method and form.

Please submit manuscripts electronically, as Microsoft Word attachments, to Managing Editor Summer Kim Lee at managingeditor@womenandperformance.org.

All work should be double spaced, with 1-inch margins, in 12-point Times font.
Scholarly essays should not exceed 10,000 words; reviews should be approximately 1,000 words.
Writers should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. All manuscripts must be submitted with a cover document – including author’s name, address, email, phone number; a brief bio, indicating affiliation, recent publications; a 200 word abstract; and a word count of the manuscript. To protect the anonymity of the submission process, please avoid listing your name anywhere in the body of the manuscript.
Please title your attachment with your last name, for example: title the manuscript as YourLastName.doc, and any images as YourLastNameImage1.pdf and YourLastNameImage2.pfd and so on. You are welcome to submit images along with your manuscript; however, please ensure that you have (or will) secure copyright protection for all images. Women and Performance cannot aid in, or financially contribute to, the procuring of copyright.
We will send you an acknowledgment of receipt once your submission is processed. The Editorial Collective vets all submissions before they are sent out for external, anonymous peer review. We provide reader comments, and may ask you to revise and resubmit your work. The journal makes very effort to respond to submissions within three to six months.

Book reviews of no more than 1,500 words may be sent to managingeditor@womenandperformance.org.

Performance reviews of current exhibitions, films, parades, performance art, dance and theatre may be sent to managingeditor@womenandperformance.org.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Women in Classical Antiquity: Between Image and Lived Realities

Chairs: Dr. Diana Rodríguez-Pérez (Edinburgh-FECYT) and Dr. Glenys Davies (Edinburgh)

We invite offers of papers to form a conference panel at the 8th Celtic Conference in Classics, to be held at the University of Edinburgh from 25-28 June, 2014.

The panel seeks to explore women, their images and realia in the classical cultures including those of Greece, Rome, Etruria, Persia, and contemporary indigenous societies such as the Iberian. It will pivot on visual culture and archaeology, including all forms of artistic representation, with special attention to the problems and methodologies involved.

The aim of the panel is twofold: to study the images of women and the archaeological evidence regarding them from varied points of view and methodologies (art-history, iconography, post structuralism… ), and to address the question of how images can contribute to our understanding (or misunderstanding) of the lived realities of women in the ancient world.

Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to:

– Scenes or images of women in their sociopolitical context
– Images abroad. Women in the export market
– Images, symbols, metaphors
– How (not) to paint a woman
– Women and death
– Grave goods and gender identity
– Women’s pots: only for women?
– Colonial contacts and women
– Cosmetics
– Clothing and hairstyle
– The beautiful woman
– Divine models

We welcome proposals for papers of 20 minutes on any of the above (or related) topics. Please, send abstracts of a maximum of 300 words to diana.rodperez@gmail.com and/or g.m.davies@ed.ac.uk by 1st November, 2013.
Please, note that the Celtic Conference is self-funding and all speakers must arrange and bear the cost of their own accommodation, subsistence and conference fee.

The languages of the Celtic Conference in Classics are English and French.

Call for Papers
Women as Wives and Workers: Marking Fifty Years of The Feminine Mystique
Saturday 30th November 2013 at Royal Holloway University of London

2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Feminine Mystique’s publication.  From the outset, Betty Friedan’s text had an enormous influence on academic and popular audiences, selling millions and shaping
feminist discourse about the housewife throughout the Western world.  Yet at the same time, full-time housewifery was becoming both a less common experience and a cultural battlefield.  Since the 1950s, levels of employment amongst married women (notably white women) have risen enormously.  Women have increasingly been confronted with the ‘superwoman’ paradox, which Friedan herself encapsulated: writing about ‘the zombie housewife’ and ‘the problem that has no name’ whilst being a working wife and mother.  Many other women likewise negotiated domesticity and paid work, but their experiences were by no means uniform and were shaped by various other factors including race, age, sexuality and socio-economic status.

This conference aims to draw these themes together by offering an opportunity to explore The Feminine Mystique alongside discussions of women and employment.  Areas of consideration may include but are not limited to:

*Women’s paid employment
*The Feminine Mystique, its impact and critiques, for example with regards to race
*The international impact of The Feminine Mystique
*Domesticity and the figure of the housewife: experiences, rights, cultural portrayals
*Discourses of motherhood and fatherhood
*Evolving notions of family
*Gender and education
*Notions of ‘having it all’ and being ‘Superwoman’
*The National Organization for Women: its impact, legacy and critics
*The development of women’s organisations and networks since the 1960s

We invite papers that address these topics either broadly or specifically.
While papers with a particular emphasis on mid-twentieth century America
may be given priority, we also encourage scholars to present work with a
comparative perspective (across time and/or space) or looking at other
geographical areas. Panel submissions are also welcome.  A special issue
of History of Women in the Americas based on the conference papers is
planned, subject to the usual peer review procedure.

‘Women as Wives and Workers: Marking Fifty Years of The Feminine Mystique’
is the sixth annual conference of the Society for the History of Women in
the Americas (SHAW) and is being co-organized with The Bedford Centre for
the History of Women at Royal Holloway University of London.  The
conference organisers are Helen Glew (University of Westminster), Jane
Hamlett (RHUL), Sinead McEneaney (St. Mary’s University College) and
Rachel Ritchie (Brunel University).

A 250-word abstract and a short biography should be emailed to
thefemininemystiqueat50@gmail.com by Monday 14th October 2013.  Please use
the same email address for any other enquiries about the event.

ABC-CLIO is seeking scholars to write entries for a new four-volume Woman in American History: An Encyclopedia. Entries will range between 750 and 1500 words and may include a related primary document. Compensation will vary according to article length. The more than 700 entries vary from Abigail Adams to the Ziegfeld Follies, inclusive of social reform movements, popular culture, art, science, law and more. Interested parties should reach the co-editors via email: Dr. Rosanne Welch (rmwelch@csupomona.edu) and Dr. Peg Lamphier (plamphier@csupomona.edu)–for a list of available entries and further information. To your email please attach a brief résumé, C. V. or biography.

Call for Papers

Poetics of Resistance: Women between Aesthetics and Politics

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Increasing confrontations with totalitarian regimes in the Middle East and Africa have prompted women to find new ways to cope with political and national disenchantment. The dynamics in these movements are complex and sometimes paradoxical. While revolutionary rhetoric celebrates women’s agency, post-revolutionary discourses often instrumentalize them as the bearers of national identity. On the one hand, women find new ways of becoming the subjects of their own history, on the other hand they are summoned to fulfill specific roles in the nation, such as reproduction and the protection of traditional (national) values. This panel proposes to reflect primarily on Arab and African women’s aesthetic and artistic forms of resistance, and to expand our understanding of the contemporary means of protest they deploy to subvert social constructions and barriers. The symposium also proposes to discuss the gender/feminist artistic and aesthetic strategies that advocate for new relational possibilities between genders, between citizens and the state, and across ethnic, classes, space and national divides.
We invite the submission of proposals that express the diverse and complex nature of women’s relationship to art and aesthetics in the midst of political and national turmoil.
Specific topics may include, but are not limited to:
Aesthetic Articulation of Protest
Art and Feminism
Politics and Gender
Women’s Rights: Universalism and Cultural Relativism
Western Ethnocentrism and Arab Women/ Third Worldism
Renegotiating Female ‘Public/Private’ Space
The Secular and the Religious Visual Protests: Photography & Documentaries
Transnational/transversal Feminist Networks

Please send a 150-word abstract in French or English to Névine El Nossery : elnossery@ wisc.edu

Deadline: September 30, 2013
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 2014 NeMLA convention continues the Association’s tradition of sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. This capitol city set on the Susquehanna River is known for its vibrant restaurant scene, historical sites, the National Civil War museum, and nearby Amish Country, antique shops and Hershey Park. NeMLA has arranged low hotel rates of $104-$124.

The 2014 event will include guest speakers, literary readings, professional events, and workshops. A reading by George Saunders will open the Convention. His 2013 collection of short fiction, The Tenth of December, has been acclaimed by the New York Times as “the best book you’ll read this year.” The Keynote speaker will be David Staller of Project Shaw.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2014/cfp.html

Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Award 2013
The Coordinating Council for Women in History

Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Award is an annual $1000 prize that recognizes the best first article published in the field of history by a CCWH member. Named to honor long-time CCWH board member and former executive director and co-president from 1995-1998 Nupur Chaudhuri, the winning article for 2013 must be published in a refereed journal in either 2011 or 2012. An article may only be submitted once. All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly apparatus. The deadline for the award is 15 September 2013. Please go to www.theccwh.org for membership and application details.