*Feral Feminisms CFP ISSUE 3 – Feminine Feelers Deadline – 15 March 2014*

*Feral Feminisms,* a new independent, inter-media, peer reviewed, open access online journal, invites submissions for a special issue entitled “Feminine Feelers,” guest edited by Zorianna Zurba. Submitted contributions
may include full-length academic essays (about 5000 – 7000 words), shorter creative pieces, cultural commentaries, or personal narratives (about 500 – 2500 words), poetry, photo-essays, short films/video (uploaded to Vimeo), visual and sound art (jpeg Max 1MB), or a combination of these.
*Please direct inquiries and submissions to Guest Editor, Zorianna Zurba.*

Prior to the recent Affective Turn in critical and cultural theory,
feminist theory and philosophy had already been critiquing the role of
rationality and the exclusion of emotion in Western thought. Elspeth Probyn
(1993) argued for the inclusion of experiential accounts in understanding
the relationship between feminist epistemology and ontology; and, Alison
Jaggar (1989) worked to restore inquiry as the wisdom of love to Western
epistemology by validating emotional acumen as a highly developed skill.
For Jaggar, the one who feels different is an emotional outlaw. Emotional
outlaws are a kind of precursor, grandmother or godmother, to Ahmed’s
(2010) affect aliens: the feminist killjoy, who is angered by the sexist
joke, or the melancholic migrant, who longs for something lost, or the
unhappy queer, whose happiness is already impossible. Claire Hemmings
(2012) has argued that being outside of emotional norms can offer a kind
of unification, where affective dissonance is a starting point for
feminist politics and can encourage affective solidarity.

But what of a return to previous conceptualizations of feeling in
understanding the feminine and feminism? Luce Irigaray (1991), for example,
writes of the erasure of the figure of the female lover and the
simultaneous loss of the expression of feminine carnality, female divinity,
and the representation of the female body. In light of these and other
recent works (Cvetkovich, 2012; Grosz, 2011), how might we consider moving
forward by taking into consideration feminine feelings?

Feminine Feelers are flustered, fraught, and feral. Feminine Feelers recall
feminine modalities of feeling that have gone otherwise. Feminine Feelers
ponder the position of emotional misfits such as female mystics, poets,
artist, grandmothers, godmothers, cyborgs, golems, lovers, and Other(ed)
figures. Feminine Feelers also highlight moments in feminist thought which
illuminate the role of feelings and accounts of the body. What challenges
does the turn to affect pose to feminist theory? How might we cultivate the
sensory in order to tune into what is going on? Is the female an outsider,
or is the feminist the outsider? How does outsider status offer a critical
distance from cultural and emotional hegemonies? Must this distance be
maintained in order to preserve difference?

This special issue of *Feral Feminisms* seeks to bring together scholars,
activists, and artists to think through and feel through categories.
Submitted contributions may include papers, visual art, film, poetry and
literary pieces. Submissions are encouraged to address, but are not limited to, the
following topics:

● Cults of the feminine
● Indigenous femininities
● Figures and examples: emotional outlaws, affect aliens, fantastic feelers
● Vocabularies of feeling
● Feminine and feminist genealogies
● Theoretical and methodological disjunctures within feminist and queer
phenomenology, affect studies,
cultural emotion studies, cultural anthropology
● Art and literature movements and their relationship to affects: the new
sincerity, Remodernism, etc.
● Edges, excesses, and limits of Feminine Feelers and feminine feelers
● Animality, feelings, and non-human animals

For submission guidelines, please see:
http://feralfeminisms.com/submission-guidelines/

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9th EDC – Education and Development Conference 2014
5-7 March 2014, Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand

Join us for our 9th Annual Education and Development Conference, an
innovative and exciting opportunity for individuals interested in education
and development Learn, share and network with prominent scholars and
professionals in the field.

Inquiries: contact@tomorrowpeople.org
Web address: http://www.ed-conference.org
Sponsored by: Tomorrow People Organization

Dear Scholars, Students, NGO and governmental representatives:

We are happy to announce EDC 2014, hosted by Tomorrow People Organization.
This highly exciting and challenging international Conference is intended to
be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers,
professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry
representatives, advanced students, and others interested in Education.

More specifically, it targets:

Scholars: Share your research, learn some new approaches, hear about others’
experiences and pass on your knowledge and experience.

Government officials and policy makers: Learn about the best practices,
educational development strategies and educational systems around the world;
network with other policy makers and NGOs working in the field of supporting
educational development.

NGOs: Network with other international NGOs, possible donors and colleagues
from around the world and share your achievements and strategies with
others.

Graduate students: Meet your colleagues from around the world, make new
friends, and improve your knowledge and communication skills.

Company representatives: This is a chance to improve your leadership skills,
learn more about the importance of permanent education in achieving the high
performances of your organization, meet your colleagues, exchange ideas and
establish new connections and partnerships.

Others: Anyone who is interested in making some positive changes around them
and gaining new knowledge, skills and friends and becoming more useful to
their own communities.

Education and Development Conference 2014 will provide unlimited resources
and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the field of
education and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and
professionals.

We welcome: ORAL, POSTER and VIRTUAL presentations. Early submissions are
strongly encouraged due to limited space in the venue, as applications are
reviewed on a rolling admission basis – as long as space is available.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Adult Education, Arts
Education, Anthropology and Education, Curriculum, Early Childhood
Education, Educational Systems and Policy, Educational Psychology,
Environmental Education, Gender and Education, Guidance and Counseling,
Health Education, Higher Education, History of Education, IT and Education,
Language Education and Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Mathematics Education,
Mentoring and Coaching, Multicultural Issues in Education, Philosophy of
Education, Physical Education, Primary Education, Quality in Education,
Race, Ethnicity and Education, Research and Development, Rural Education,
Science Education, Secondary Education, Sociology of Education, Special and
Inclusive Education, Teacher Education, Values and Education, Vocational
Education and Training, Other areas of Education.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in a dedicated ISBN
publication of EDC2014 Conference Proceedings.

We look forward to seeing you in Bangkok in March 2014, as one of our
participants, coming from over 60 countries worldwide!

Sincerely,

EDC 2014 Organizing Committee
Email: contact@tomorrowpeople.org

Flying: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kate Millett

30 May 2014
School of Arts
Birkbeck, University of London
Supported by Feminist Review Trust

Keynote: Victoria Hesford (SUNY Stony Brook University), author of Feeling
Women’s Liberation (Duke UP, 2013)

Papers are invited for an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the work of Kate Millett. Millett became an iconic figure of second wave
feminism after the publication of Sexual Politics in 1970. As one of the
first pieces of academic feminism to come out of the American academy,
Sexual Politics was a handbook of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Moreover, after appearing on the cover of Time Magazine in the same year as
Sexual Politics was published, Millett became one of the Movement’s most
recognizable faces. However, arguably, Millett has since largely
disappeared from both the public eye and contemporary feminism, despite the
fact that she has continued to publish (Flying [1974], The Prostitution
Papers [1975], The Loony-Bin Trip [1990], Sita [2000], and Mother Millet
[2001]), make films (Three Lives [1971], Not a Love Story [1981], The Real
Yoko Ono [2001]), and sculpt.

In aiming to reflect on/account for/address/redress some of this silence,
this conference is compelled on the one hand, by recent calls in feminism
to re-engage with the second wave (see Hemmings’ Why Stories Matter, Duke,
2011) and to re-visit foundational feminist texts (see Merck and Sanford’s
Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex, Palgrave, 2010). Moreover, it
is also influenced by Victoria Hesford’s recent Feeling Women’s Liberation
(Duke, 2013), which places Millett as a central figure in the production
and remembrance of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Hesford’s publication
signals that now is perhaps a timely moment to create a larger dialogue
about Millett; to ask questions about Millett’s role in feminist history;
and to discuss how her work is situated in and amongst more contemporary
feminist concerns. The conference thus aims to: consider new frameworks for
approaching Millett’s past or ongoing work; interrogate the politics and
possibilities of the second wave; explore the politics of memory,
forgetting, and citation in feminism; critically reflect on the potential
difficulties of some of Millett’s past work travelling into the present;
and to consider whether and how (despite her ongoing feminist work) Millett
might be produced as ‘untimely’ in the feminist present. Topics might
include, but are not limited to:

Affect and the second wave
Feminism and autobiographical writing
Feminism and forgetting
Feminist film-making
Generational politics or the politics of mother/daughter relationships
Lesbian politics and the Women’s Liberation Movement
Narrating mental illness
Non-monogamy as feminist politics
Race and feminism
Sexuality and the second wave
Sexual Politics and feminist literary criticism
The media and the second wave
The Women’s Liberation Movement

The conference invites proposals for individual papers, panels, or artistic
responses from any discipline and theoretical perspective. Submissions are
welcome from students, activists, artists, academics, and unaffiliated
researchers. Please send a title and 300 word abstract for a 20 minute
paper along with your name, affiliation (if applicable), and 100 word
bibliography to s.mcbean@bbk.ac.uk by 28 February 2013.

The conference is organized by Dr Sam McBean (Birkbeck, University of
London) and is being supported by the Feminist Review Trust.

Select papers will be sought for publication as part of an edited
collection. For further information please email Sam at s.mcbean@bbk.ac.uk

Conference website: flyingkatemillettconference.wordpress.com

The Sophia Smith Collection and the Smith College Archives at Smith College are pleased to offer four annual research support programs: the Margaret Storrs Grierson Scholars-in-Residence Awards, the Caroline D. Bain Scholars-in-Residence Awards, the Friends of the Smith College Library (FSCL) Scholars-in-Residence Awards, and the Travel-to-Collections Fund. Grierson, Bain, and FSCL Scholars will receive awards of $2500, intended to support research visits of four to six weeks. For smaller projects, researchers should apply for Travel-to-Collection funds.

We welcome applications from faculty members, independent scholars, and graduate students who live at least 50 miles from Northampton, Massachusetts, and whose research interests and objectives would be significantly advanced by extended research in the holdings of either the Sophia Smith Collection or the Smith College Archives.

Bain, Grierson, and FSCL scholars will be expected to give a work-in-progress colloquium to the Smith College community during their residency. It is expected that at some later time they will send the Sophia Smith Collection and the College Archives a copy of the final results of their research, whether in published or unpublished form.

We encourage potential applicants to contact our reference archivists to inquire about the relevance of our collections for their projects before submitting their proposals. Reference queries can be made online or by calling (413) 585-2970.

Applications for the Bain, Grierson, or FSCL Scholars-in-Residence Fellowships should include six copies * of the following: 1) the completed cover sheet (print out the cover sheet page and complete it by hand); 2) a proposal not exceeding six double-spaced pages, in 12-pitch font; and 3) a curriculum vitae. The proposal should describe the research to be undertaken and its relationship to current research in the field, the holdings to be consulted and their significance to the work, and the current status of the project as well as your plans and schedule for completing it. Two letters of recommendation (one copy of each), clearly indicating the applicant’s name and project title, should be sent under separate cover.

All applicants will be considered for the Bain, Grierson, and FSCL fellowships; you need only submit one application.

Applications must be postmarked by February 15th. Awards will be announced April 1st.

Travel-to-Collections funds are available to offset travel expenses of researchers engaged in a study that would benefit from access to the holdings at Smith College. We also welcome and encourage requests from researchers at the pre-proposal stage who would like to survey our holdings as they formulate their research agendas. We review applications for these funds once each year. Applications should be postmarked by February 15th. Awards will be announced April 1st.

Applicants for Travel-to-Collections funds should submit six copies * of the following: 1) a curriculum vita; 2) a letter outlining their research interests and needs; and 3) a proposed budget (not to exceed $1000) for travel and accommodations. We do not cover costs for meals, photocopies or other research-related costs. Graduate students should also arrange for two letters of recommendation (one copy of each, to be sent either with the application or separately) that speak to their scholarly experience, ability and promise.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=208682

The Journal of Educational Policies and Current Practices (JEPCP)  is an international peer-reviewed journal, published semi-annually. The Institute of Language and Communications Studies and the Macro World Publishing jointly edit the journal.
The Journal of Educational Policies and Current Practices (JEPCP) is a refereed journal aims to shape an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and seek innovative research issues related to language, education, applied linguistics, language teaching, language learning. Particularly, it focuses on enriching language and educational policy knowledge base and practicing them at different levels. Moreover, it centers on their consequences for the theory, policy and practice of a variety of fields such as education, economy, sociology, and all other related fields. Therefore we seeks scholars, students, specialists, policy-makers and individuals from each field that use qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method in their articles and book reviews on language and educational policy related to a variety of disciplines and educational settings. The Journal advocates bringing together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to enhance ideas and practices in learning and teaching.

Individuals are encouraged to submit papers in the following areas but not limited to:
educational policies and approaches
literacy policies,
linguistic and cultural socialization and schooling;
educational policies and practices;
educational practices
the role of ideologies in educational language policies.
development, implementation and effects of language policies
Submissions of paper proposals should be made to web: www.inlcs.org/journals

JEPCP Editorial Office
jepcp@inlcs.org

Submission and Publication Information:
Submission deadline: 14 February 2014
First round decisions announced: 7 March 2014
Authors submit revised manuscripts: 23 May  2014
Final decisions reached: 13 June 2014
Approximate date of publication: July, 2014
Number of papers: 5 to 7 papers

Editor-In-Chief
Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell
Louisiana State University, USA
ISSN: 2147-3501
Publication Frequency: Semi-annual

Australian Women’s History Network Symposium, Tuesday, 8 July 2014

The Australian Women’s History Network Symposium this year will focus on paper and paper-work in history from a gendered perspective. Proposed papers or panels should respond to, but not be limited by, the following themes relating to gendering the archive:

• Colonial history and the power of paper
• Newspapers, politics and activism
• Official papers: census, royal commissions, maps, surveys, legislation
• Letters, photos, telegrams, posters
• Changing technologies and paper communication
• Paper trails/ephemera/memory and loss
• Paper making
• Missing papers
• Reading sexuality in the archive
• Papering over the cracks?

Our symposium will take place during the AHA 2014 Conference ‘Conflict in History’ to be held at the University of Queensland in Brisbane from 7 to 9 July. Our dedicated AWHN sessions on Tuesday 8 July will be followed by a special public lecture event presented by Prof Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina), and then the AWHN reception and dinner (rsvp details below).

The Annual General Meeting of the AWHN will be held at lunchtime, venue TBA.

Submitting your Proposal

The Call for Papers is now open on the AHA Conference website at http://sapmea.asn.au/conventions/aha2014/.

Please submit your AWHN abstract via that website before 15 March 2014. Select the ‘Paper-work’ option in the drop-down menu when you submit your proposal. The AHA Conference email address for all enquiries is aha2014@sapmea.asn.au.

Papers will be 20 mins followed by 10 mins for questions. Panels will be 90 mins.

More details at: http://www.auswhn.org.au/2014-symposium

Canadian Scholars’ Press/Women’s Press is seeking book proposals in the field of gender and women’s studies. We encourage high quality submissions from both established scholars and early career academics.

Women’s Press is Canada’s oldest English-language feminist publisher. It was founded under collective ownership in 1972 and became an imprint of Canadian Scholars’ Press in 2000. CSPI is an independent and socially progressive press with a commitment to high-quality feminist writing that contributes to the cultural and social identity of Canada. At this time, we are specifically looking for books that are appropriate for use in college or university classrooms.

Please contact:
Laura Godsoe
laura.godsoe@cspi.org
Acquisitions Editor, CSPI/Women’s Press
425 Adelaide Street West, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3C1
416.929.2774 x 227

For more information visit our website:

www.cspi.org
www.womenspress.ca

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Caroline D. Bain Fellowship,
Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowships,
Friends of the Smith College Library (FSCL) Fellowship,
and Travel to Collections Funds

The Sophia Smith Collection and the Smith College Archives at Smith College are pleased to offer four annual research support programs: the Margaret
Storrs Grierson Scholars-in-Residence Awards, the Caroline D. Bain
Scholars-in-Residence Awards, the Friends of the Smith College Library
(FSCL) Scholars-in-Residence Awards, and the Travel-to-Collections Fund.
Grierson, Bain, and FSCL Scholars will receive awards of $2500, intended to
support research visits of four to six weeks. For smaller projects,
researchers should apply for Travel-to-Collection funds.

We welcome applications from faculty members, independent scholars, and
graduate students who live at least 50 miles from Northampton,
Massachusetts, and whose research interests and objectives would be
significantly advanced by extended research in the holdings of either the
Sophia Smith Collection or the Smith College Archives

Bain, Grierson, and FSCL scholars will be expected to give a
work-in-progress colloquium to the Smith College community during their
residency. It is expected that at some later time they will send the Sophia
Smith Collection and the College Archives a copy of the final results of
their research, whether in published or unpublished form.

We encourage potential applicants to contact our reference archivists to
inquire about the relevance of our collections for their projects before
submitting their proposals. Reference queries can be made online at
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/emailform.html or by calling
(413) 585-2970.

Applications for the Bain, Grierson, or FSCL Scholars-in-Residence
Fellowships should include six copies * of the following: 1) the completed
cover sheet (print out the cover sheet page and complete it by hand); 2) a
proposal not exceeding six double-spaced pages, in 12-pitch font; and 3) a
curriculum vitae. The proposal should describe the research to be
undertaken and its relationship to current research in the field, the
holdings to be consulted and their significance to the work, and the
current status of the project as well as your plans and schedule for
completing it. Two letters of recommendation (one copy of each), clearly
indicating the applicant’s name and project title, should be sent under
separate cover.

All applicants will be considered for the Bain, Grierson, and FSCL
fellowships; you need only submit one application.

Applications must be postmarked by February 15th. Awards will be
announced April 1st. Applicants should address their materials to: Research
Support Program, Sophia Smith Collection and Smith College Archives,
Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063.

Travel-to-Collections funds are available to offset travel expenses of
researchers engaged in a study that would benefit from access to the
holdings at Smith College. We also welcome and encourage requests from
researchers at the pre-proposal stage who would like to survey our holdings
as they formulate their research agendas. We review applications for these
funds once each year. Applications should be postmarked by February 15th.
Awards will be announced April 1st.

Applicants for Travel-to-Collections funds should submit six copies * of
the following: 1) a curriculum vita; 2) a letter outlining their research
interests and needs; and 3) a proposed budget (not to exceed $1000) for
travel and accommodations. We do not cover costs for meals, photocopies or
other research-related costs. Graduate students should also arrange for two
letters of recommendation (one copy of each, to be sent either with the
application or separately) that speak to their scholarly experience,
ability and promise.

For further information contact:

Amy Hague
Research Support Program
Sophia Smith Collection and College Archives
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
Phone: 413-585-2970  e-mail: ahague@smith.edu

University of Warwick, UK. 11th January 2014.

Keynote Speakers: Professor David Arnold (University of Warwick) and Dr Caroline Jordan (La Trobe University)

In recent years scholars working in the field of British art history have increasingly broadened their approach to include transnational and imperial topics. Despite such interest, however, little attention has been paid to the gendered nature of such artistic productions. The majority of research on Anglo-Indian visual culture for example, has focused upon work created by men and as yet little research has considered the role of women in the creation and dissemination of visual and material culture. “Visualising and Materialising Colonial Spaces: Female Responses to Empire” demonstrates the significance of women’s cultural productions upon ideas of empire at home and abroad by examining the rich visual and archival sources created by British women in imperial spaces. It examines the paintings, sketches, writings, collections, and objects that women created to capture and record their experiences of empire. In doing so it questions the role women played in constructing particular understandings of and narratives about imperial experiences in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Email: rosemarie.dias@warwick.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/news/colonialspaces/