UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN announces
THINKING GENDER 2014
24th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, gender and/or sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods, including future ones. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels on any topic pertaining to women, gender, and/or sexuality. This year, we especially welcome feminist research on: privacy, diversity, and/or demographics in the age of big data; appetites (pleasure, food, electronics); gender, sexuality, and the new brain sciences (cognitive sciences, psychobiology); the perils of “post-feminism” (feminism backlash, hypo/hypersexualities, redefining feminist activism); gender, sex, and criminality; pleasure and ethics (media and advertising, sexuality); gendered spaces (spatial theories, urban planning, domesticity); and self-staging in public discourse (reality TV, user forums, “selfies”/self-narration and “autographies”).

CSW accepts submissions for both individual papers and pre-constituted panels from all active graduate students. In order to give everyone an opportunity to present, we do not accept submissions from people who presented at Thinking Gender in the previous year. Also no previously published material is eligible.

Students proposing individual papers are to submit a cover page (provided on our website), an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (3-5 sources), for consideration. All components are to be delivered in one document and labeled according to the submission guidelines found on the CSW website. For panels, a 250-word description of the panel topic is required, in addition to the materials that must be provided for individual paper submissions.

Please visit our website for submission guidelines: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/conferences/thinking-gender/thinking-gender-2014

Send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu Deadline for submissions: Monday, October 14th, 2013 by 12 noon.

Conference is to be held on Friday, February 7, 2014, at the UCLA Faculty Center.

Event is free and open to the public, but please be aware that there will be a $35 registration fee for presenters, which will cover the cost of conference materials and lunch at the Faculty Center.

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
1500 Public Affairs Building/Box 957222
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
310 825 0590
www.csw.ucla.edu
Email: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu

Abstracts are sought for the stream “Gender and Labour in New Times” for the Gender, Work and Organization Conference 2014.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, considerations of:
• The financialization of women’s work (both paid and unpaid)
• The shifting temporal dimensions of women’s labour
• New forms of the productivity of women’s labour
• The measurement and valuation of women’s labour in post-Fordism • women’s work in a time of austerity
• indebted labour and social provisioning
• the limits of current feminist engagements with labour regulation • the rationales and boundaries of legal engagements with emerging processes of value creation
• socio-legal theories of social reproduction.
• the role of legal technicalities in laboring processes
• the entanglement of non-human actors in labour regulation
• the enrolment of forms of labour regulation in the production of value.

Prospective presenters should refer to the full call for papers available on the web. Abstracts of approximately 500 words (ONE page, Word document NOT PDF, single spaced, excluding references, no header, footers or track changes) are invited by 1st November 2013 with decisions on acceptance to be made by stream leaders within one month.

All abstracts will be peer reviewed. New and young scholars with ‘work in progress’ papers are welcomed. Papers can be theoretical or theoretically informed empirical work. In the case of co-authored papers, ONE person should be identified as the corresponding author. Due to restrictions of space on the conference schedule, multiple submissions by the same author will not be timetabled.

Abstracts should be emailed to: lisa.adkins@newcastle.edu.au
Abstracts should include FULL contact details, including your name, department, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. State the title of the stream to which you are submitting your abstract. Note that no funding, fee waiver, travel or other bursaries are offered for attendance at GWO2014.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=206355

QUEER NOW AND THEN

In Autumn 2013, the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture at the University of Manchester holds the ‘Queer Now and Then’ seminar series. Overseen by Professor Laura Doan, this set of events welcomes a number of scholars in order to explore queerness in relation to time and history.

Public Events – All Welcome

Wednesday 16 October, 5pm (Venue TBC) (co-sponsored with EAC)

Susan Lanser, Brandeis University

‘How to Do the Sexuality of History’

Tuesday 19 November, 5pm (Venue TBC)

Jackie Stacey, University of Manchester (EAC)

‘Embodying Queer Temporalities: The Future Perfect of Peggy Shaw’s Butch Noir’

Tuesday 10 December, 5pm (Venue TBC)

Hal Gladfelder, David Matthews and Kaye Mitchell, University of Manchester (EAC)

‘Porn Now and Then: A ROUNDTABLE’

Further details on the scheduled events, including confirmed venues, will be released in the near future.

Autumn 2013: ‘Queer Now and Then’, New Seminar Series at the University of Manchester

On Saturday, October 26, 2013, the American Association of University Women (www.aauw.org) is hosting the first national gathering of people interested in seeing women’s and gender studies offered in high school, the AAUW Gender Studies Symposium, Creating Classrooms of Justice: Teaching Gender Studies in School (www.aauw.org/gender-studies/). Featuring high school teacher and esteemed activist Ileana Jiménez (Feminist Teacher, www.feministteacher.com) and an exciting array of panel discussions, this one-day event at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, is open to attendees from across the country.

Sessions will focus on providing educators who want to introduce women’s and gender studies into their schools’ curricula with guidance on how to do so. In addition, the event will offer a platform for school administrators, academics, and activists to connect with teachers to generate ways to collaborate.

We are very pleased to invite you to join the conversation, learn, and share your vision for bringing women’s and gender studies to today’s classrooms. Each panel session will have time set aside for participants to engage in exciting dialogue with women’s studies teachers and professors as well as activists. There will also be a networking lunch and an afternoon session on creating collaborative partnerships.

For more information, see our agenda (www.aauw.org/gender-studies/symposium-schedule/) and list of speakers (www.aauw.org/gender-studies/speakers/)

Register (https://svc.aauw.org/eReg/index_GSC2013_reg.cfml) to attend by October 5, 2013.

Cost
The $25 registration fee includes a full day of sessions, breakfast, and a networking lunch.

Travel
The closest airport is the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Ground transportation is available from there, including rental cars, taxis, and light rail, which has a line that runs from the airport to campus.

Lodging
There are several affordable hotels near the campus. E-mail Holly Kearl at hollykearl@yahoo.com if you would like help finding a roommate to share hotel costs or have any questions about the event.

We look forward to you joining us for this historic day!

Ann-Marie Delgado, M. Ed., JD
Buhach Colony High School
Atwater, CA 95301

Suffragette Legacy
How does the History of Feminism Inspire Current Thinking in Manchester?
Saturday 8 March 2014

Call for Papers
From The Village and David Bowie’s Suffragette City to Femen activists and Pussy Riot, the suffragette legacy is everywhere in modern culture.

As part of the Manchester Wonder Women events celebrating International Women’s Day 2014, this one-day conference seeks to bring together academics, artists, politicians and activists to present and speak about how their work is affected by the suffragette legacy of feminism.

Welcoming academic papers, feminist theory, dance, music or other, this one-day conference wishes to bring together different people to reflect on the important, but often complex, legacy of the suffragettes. Within an interdisciplinary context we wish to explore if, how and why the movement still matters in politics, academia, the arts and other aspects of modern Manchester.

Papers or submissions are welcome from any background, but special consideration will be given to anyone who directly engages with the Manchester history of the women’s movement.

Send your proposed paper, project or idea to suffragetteevent@gmail.com by 15 October 2013 at 12pm. We will let you know if you have been successful by 1st November.

If your work has a particularly visual or performance element, do send us lots of details about it. We are hoping to display related materials, objects and artworks, so any visual output is welcome in the planning stages.

Deadline: 15 October 2013 at 12pm
Contact info: suffragetteevent@gmail.com
Venue: People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER
Directions: http://www.phm.org.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/
Fee: £25/ £15 (concessions, students or unwaged – proof required) bursaries may be available in the Autumn

Twitter: @wonderwomenmcr
Wonder Women: http://www.creativetourist.com/festivals-and-events/wonderwomen/
Blog: http://wonderwomenmcr.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205667

Women, Gender, and Sexuality,
Southwest Popular Culture Conference
Feb. 19-22, 2014
Proposals Nov. 1, 2013

Proposals are welcomed on any aspect of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Popular/American Culture. Topics which address the conference theme of “Popular and American Culture Studies: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” are especially invited. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Television, Film, & Fictional Depictions of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Western & Non-Western Queer Identities
• Polyamorous /Polyandrous, GQ, and/or Transsexual Subjectivities
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Folk Culture, Art, History
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Politics, Business, or Industry

Submit your proposal directly into the conference database at: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205649

Writing Women’s Lives: Auto/Biography, Life Narratives, Myths and Historiography Symposium.
Yeditepe University, Istanbul.
April 19 – 20, 2014.

The symposium calls for papers from a broad, interdisciplinary field of women’s life writing including biography and autobiography, letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories and other ways in which women’s lives have been recorded. The call is open to various genres and national, regional and global cultural traditions of women’s life writings as well as to papers on the related areas of women’s oral traditions, oral history research, testimonies, and the representation of women’s lives in all possible verbal and non-verbal art forms, such as documentaries, video, art, etc.

We welcome proposals for individual papers, roundtables, workshops, films and other presentations. The abstracts should be sent in English, but the presentations might be either in English or in Turkish. The maximum time allowed for any presentation will be 20 minutes. The organizing committee is working to provide simultaneous translation during the symposium. Abstracts of papers should be 250-500 words in length (in English only) and must include “the name of the writer and the affiliation”, a “short biodata” and the “contact addresses” (e-mail, postal address, phone and fax number). All documents must be submitted electronically via email to symposium@kadineserleri.org.

Selected papers will be published in the symposium proceedings.

Organized by Women’s Library and Information Center Foundation and Yeditepe University, Department of History, Istanbul.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2013.

For further information: http://www.kadineserleri.org/download/duyuru/CALL_FOR_PAPERS_19-20_April_2014.pdf