The Association for Women in Slavic Studies invites nominations for the 2013 Competition for the Heldt Prizes, awarded for works of scholarship. To be eligible for nomination, all books and articles for the first three prize categories must be published between 15 April 2012 and 15 April 2013. The publication dates for the translation prize, which is offered every other year, are 15 April 2011 to 15 April 2013. Nominations for the 2013 prizes will be accepted for the following categories:

1. Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women’s studies;
2. Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women’s studies;
3. Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies.
4. Best translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women’s studies.

One may nominate individual books for more than one category, and more than one item for each category. Articles included in collections as well as journals are eligible for the “best article” prize, but they must be nominated individually. The prizes will be awarded at the AWSS meeting at the ASEEES National Convention in Boston, MA, in November, 2013.

To nominate any work, please send or request that the publisher send one copy to each of the four members of the Prize committee by 15 May 2013:

Choi Chatterjee, Heldt Prize Committee chairperson
Professor of History
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032

Yana Hashamova
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Ohio State University
303 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Ave. 303 Oxley Hall
Columbus, OH 43210

Martha Lampland
Associate Professor, Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
2648 Luna Avenue
San Diego, CA 92117-2410

Cristina Vatulescu
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Russian & Slavic Studies
Department of Comparative Literature
New York University
19 University Place, 3rd Fl.
New York, NY 10003

An interdisciplinary conference to be held October 25th-27th, 2013 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, co-sponsored by Cornell University (Africana Studies) and Syracuse University (Women’s and Gender Studies)

Conference website: http://cornellmagazinesconference.wordpress.com/

In June of 2012, scholars and magazine professionals from all over the world, and from a wide array of disciplines met at the “Women in Magazine’s” conference at Kingston University in London. “Gender, Race, and Representation in Magazines and New Media” seeks to continue the discussions of the “Women in Magazines” conference and extend them to a closer consideration of race in magazines, as well as the impact of new media and technology on magazines and raced and gendered representations. This conference hopes to broaden the scope of what is traditionally considered a magazine from the bound paper journal, to virtual magazines published digitally.

Magazines have long played a key role in the everyday lives of people of all classes, races, and genders and are a fertile space for the expression of social and political philosophies. The forms such publications have taken are staggeringly diverse—mass market publications, Xeroxed fanzines, cheap weeklies for the working class, so-called “smart set,” guides for the home economist, specialized trade publications, political mouthpieces and popular tabloids—magazines have served an astonishing array of audiences and purposes. In short, magazines are a particularly rich and potent sight for research as they so often serve as important outlets for identity formation, defining what it means to be a part of a certain community, class, or even generation through both image and text.

Now, with the increased availability of magazines to scholars through digitization initiatives, as well as the explosion of blogs, tumbler sites, and online magazines that at times enhance print versions of magazines, and at other times replace them entirely, the time is ripe for examining the role, meaning and place of magazines as sites to be mined for representations of gender and race.

Keynote Speakers include:

Kimberly Foster, founder and editor of “For Harriet” http://www.forharriet.com/

Ellen Garvey, professor in English and Women and Gender Studies at New Jersey City University. http://web.njcu.edu/faculty/egarvey/Content/default.asp

We seek papers covering any geographical region or time period and any kind of magazine/new media platform (blog, Tumblr, Pinterest, digital magazines) on topics including, but not limited to:
• Methods and Methodology—Various approaches to using magazines as source material
• Design and magazines, magazines and visual culture
• Themes and conversations within magazines and new media (e.g. class, aspirations, celebrity culture, relationships, entertainment and gossip, politics and citizenship, beauty and fashion, the home, work and career)
• Representations of disease, health and wellness:
• The magazine industry (e.g. editors, journalists, designers, photographers, illustrators)
• Historical perspectives on changing technology
• The ways that new media is changing magazine studies
• The ways that different business models affect the politics and representation in magazines and new media?

Submission Guidelines:
At this time we are requesting abstracts that are no longer than 400 words; due by May 1, 2013 and should be submitted electronically as an attachment to cornellmagazinesconference@gmail.com.

Individual and panel proposals will be accepted. Presenters will be notified by June 1, 2013 whether their submissions have been accepted.

Abstracts will be selected based on best fit with the themes of the conference outlined in the CFP.

PHI Spring 2013 Conference: “Women, Religion, and Empowerment”
April 12 and 13 – Regis College, Weston, MA.

Religion provides individuals with not only spiritual guidance, but also serves a source of strength and empowerment. While both men and women embrace religion, their roles are often different; whether in regard to religious history, philosophy, rituals, or leadership opportunities, women are often forced to find their own way and redefine the religious experience.

The Sisters of St. Joseph, founders of Regis College are the source of inspiration for this conference. They have been a source of empowerment for women, both academically and spiritually, and exemplify this theme. Our keynote speaker will be Kathleen Kautzer. Author of The Underground Church: Nonviolent Resistance to the Vatican Empire, Dr. Kautzer has written extensively on women and feminism in the Catholic Church.

Paper, panel, and performance proposals from every discipline are welcome. Please send abstracts (250 words maximum) and a one page CV to katina.fontes@regiscollege.edu by March 15, 2013. For more information on the conference, proposal submissions, or registration, please visit the conference website: http://publicheritage.wordpress.com/

Upcoming at the OAH Meeting in San Francisco

Courtesy Co.Design, http://www.fastcodesign.com/

The Women and Social Movements websites are sponsoring a luncheon and
slide talk at the upcoming annual meeting of the Organization of American
Historians in San Francisco.  Co-editors Kitty Sklar and Tom Dublin will
discuss new developments in the two databases—scholarly essays recently
posted on Women and Social Movements, International and the upcoming
launching of the Black Suffragists database as part of Women and Social
Movements in the United States.

The luncheon will be held at noon on Saturday, April 13 in the Mason Room
in the Hilton San Francisco hotel. The luncheon is free, but those
planning to attend need to make a reservation as space is limited.  Email
tdublin@binghamton.edu to reserve a place. If you are not attending the
San Francisco meeting but would like information on new developments with
the two databases, send an email requesting to be added to our email
newsletter mailing list and you’ll receive periodic updates.

Kitty Sklar & Tom Dublin
Co-Editors, Women and Social Movements

The Habits of Living Conference is coming up this March 21-3.  As well as a fabulous group of speakers on formal panels (please see the bottom of this message) + a keynote by RAQS on “The Taste of Nowhere,” there will be three FEMTECH sponsored “Dialogues on
Feminism and Technology,” featuring:

Sexuality (Kara Keeling, Faith Wilding): Friday, 1-2:20
Machines (Wendy Chun, Kelly Dobson): Saturday, 12-1:15
Race (Maria Fernandez, Lisa Nakamura): Saturday, 1:15-2:30

–all facilitated by the fabulouse Anne Balsamo and videotaped for
presentation as part of the learning experiment called: DOCC 2013
(Distributed Open Collaborative Course).

Please come join us!  We’ll also be taping these to use as part of the
course next fall. I know Radhika Gajjala (my inspiration)—who is
teaching the pilot course right now—will be there.

Here’s more on the conference:

What:           HABITS OF LIVING KEYNOTE: “The Taste of Nowhere”
Where:  Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center
When:   Thurs, March 21, 7:30-9:15 pm (reception to follow)
Who:    Raqs Media Collective—one of the most important collectives
working in the fields of contemporary art + new media (based in New
Delhi)

What:           SCRAPYARD CHALLENGE: How to Build Circuits from Trash
Where:  RISD CIT BUILDING, 169 WEYBOSSET ST.
When:   Thurs, March 21, 1-5 pm
Limited to 15 participants.  Please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/a/brown.edu/document/d/1x4_LPL9bc9jEo2etgeQo-BkAzweM2Qhppi_t-pW35zc/edit#heading=h.oewmsq3qn5o

What:           AFFECT + DEBT: THE ONTOLOGY OF NETWORKS?
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Friday, March 22, 9-10:20 am
Who:    Nishant Shah (Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore) and
Nicholas Mirzoeff (MCC, NYU),

What:           SEX + CAPITALISM + HUMANITARIANISM = DO NO EVIL?
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Friday, March 22, 10:30-11:50 am
Who:    Elizabeth Bernstein (Sociology, Columbia) and Didier Fassin
(School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton),
moderator: Sherine Hamdy (Anthropology, Brown)

***UNCONFERENCES—IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU: 1-2:20***

What:           BEWARE OF CARE
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Friday, March 22, 2:30-3:50 pm
Who:    Kalindi Vora (Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego) and Kelly Dobson
(D+M, RISD), moderator: Deborah Weinstein (Gender and Sexuality
Studies, Brown)

What:           ARCHIVING THE REVOLUTION
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Friday, March 22, 4-5:20 pm
Who:    Ariella Azoualy (MCM, Comparative Literature, Brown) and Elias
Muhanna (Comparative Literature, Brown), moderator: Lynne Joyrich
(MCM, Brown)

What:           LIKING / FEAR, AFTER NEW MEDIA
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Saturday, March 23, 9-10:20 am
Who:    Tiziana Terranova (Sociology of Communications, Università degli
Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’) and Ravi Sundaram (SARAI), moderator:
Joshua Neves (MCM, Brown)

What:           MAPPING INCARCERATION, IMAGINING ANOTHER FUTURE
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Saturday, March 23, 10:30-11:50 am
Who:    Kara Keeling (Critical Studies and African American Studies,
University of Southern California) and Laura Kurgan (Architecture,
Columbia), moderator: Rebecca Schneider (TAPS, Brown)

***UNCONFERENCES—IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU: 1-2:20***

What:           THINKING INFRASTRUCTURE
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Saturday, March 23, 2:30-3:50 pm
Who:    Lisa Parks (Film and Media, UC Santa Barbara) and Ganaele
Langlois (Communication, University of Ontario Institute of
Technology), moderator: Warren Sack (Film and Media, UC Santa Cruz)

What:           APHORISMS AND SCI FI REALISM: ANONYMOUS + NANOTECH
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Saturday, March 23, 4-5:20 pm
Who:    Gabriella Coleman (Art History and Communciations, McGill) and
Colin Milburn (English, UC Davis), moderator: Andrew Lison (MCM,
Brown)

—
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Professor and Chair, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

WOMEN IN MOTION: Australian Women’s History Network Symposium 2013

University of Wollongong
Wednesday 10 July 2013

Keynote Speaker
Professor Francisca de Haan
Central European University

The Australian Women’s History Network Symposium this year will focus on
‘Women in Motion’, in association with the Australian Historical
Association (AHA) conference theme of ‘Mobilities and Mobilisations’, and
with the support of the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the
University of Wollongong. We invite paper and panel proposals which
consider the theme of ‘mobility’ from a gendered perspective.

Papers and panels may address (but are not limited to) the themes of
women’s participation in and gendered perspectives on:

•       Political mobilisation
•       National mobilisation
•       Migration
•       Transnational lives
•       Boundary crossing
•       Regional mobilities
•       Social mobility
•       Emotion

Please submit abstracts of 200 words by 15 March 2013 via the AHA
conference website, selecting the ‘Women in Motion’ stream:
www.theaha.org.au/Mobilities

For further information, please contact Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
sharoncd@uow.edu.au and Vera Mackie vera@uow.edu.au.

2nd Annual South Bay Womyn’s Conference, Weaving Our Wisdom: from Roots to Wings

Courtesy Book Printing World, http://www.bookprintingworld.com/

San José, CA – We are proud to announce the 2nd Annual South Bay Womyn’s Conference, Weaving our Wisdom: from Roots to Wings on Saturday, March 9th from 8:30am to 6:00pm inside the San José State University Student Union. This event is open to male, female, and transgender identified students and community members. General admission will be $13.00 and $15.00 at the door. To register visit http://www.southbaywc.org/registration/.

Weaving Our Wisdom seeks to celebrate, learn, and reflect upon the herstory of womyn warriors working in our community, while engaging the concerns faced by today’s generation of womyn. Throughout the day there will be artists, vendors, presenters, and panelists encouraging inclusivity and empowerment using various forms of expression.

Panels- The conference will host two panels featuring: Olga Talamante, Executive Director of the Chicana/Latina Foundation; Steeda McGruder, Founder of Sisters That Been There; Founder and Co-Chair of the Regional Coalition for Equal Pay Joan Goddard; Associate Vice President of Instruction at De Anza College, Rowena Tomaneng; Deepa Sharma, Campaign Manager of the Jim Beall for State Senate race; ‘Mother of South Bay Hip Hop,’ Aiko Shirakawa; Conservation and Development Manager of the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter, Megan Fluke Medeiros; and Shahin Gerami, Director of the San José State University Women’s Studies Department.

Workshops- There will be three workshop sessions throughout the conference. Session I Honoring Herstory (10:50am ) seeks to look at past and current social justice movements within our community. Session II Health, Wellness & Healing (1:25pm) explores the practice of self-care, spiritually and physically. Session III Facing Forward (2:50pm) will be centered on learning from the past and facing our futures. Attendees will have the freedom to choose which workshops they take part in.

The South Bay Womyn’s Conference strives to create a safe space and environment that promotes learning, expression, and education. By focusing on local womyn’s intersections and commonalities, the SBWC hopes to unite individuals of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds. This event is wheelchair accessible and we strongly encourage those with mobility, visual, or hearing impairment to email info@southbaywc.org for reserved seating.

Contact: Samantha Pedrosa
Phone: (408) 320-5569

email: info@southbaywc.org
Visit the website at http://www.southbaywc.org