Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

The second-annual Washington University in St. Louis Graduate History
Conference: The History of the Body

October 26-27, 2012 at Washington University in St. Louis

Keynote speaker: Professor Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt University

The Graduate Conference Committee of the History Department at Washington
University in St. Louis invites graduate students to submit proposals for
its second annual Graduate Conference.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions for this broadly conceived topic,
and are excited to see in what new and creative directions participants
will take this theme. For example, the “History of the Body” might include
bodies used for political and religious expression, gender and the body,
sexualities, the body politic, the transgression of boundaries, the
movement of people, changing ideas of “good” and “bad” bodies over time,
and the idea of bodies in the formation and appropriation of personal and
impersonal spaces. Very literal uses of the “body” as well as more
representational and less-direct approaches are equally welcome.

The Graduate History Conference chooses a biennial rotating theme, allowing
for deeper examination of historical problems and questions over a period
of time. This year will be the second year to explore the “History of the
Body,” and we are eager to see how this provocative topic will develop in
the concluding installment of the conference.

Deadline for submission of proposals: June 1, 2012

Proposals for papers should be between 200-300 words. Final papers should
be approximately 20 minutes in length. Individual papers as well as
proposals for panels will be considered. We welcome new as well as
returning presenters. Please submit proposals to the conference website,
http://history.artsci.wustl.edu/GHA/Conference/Submissions.  For any
questions please contact Ethan Bennett at ethanrbennett@gmail.com.

LGBTQI Graduate Students and Academia
Deadline: March 10, 2012

The Graduate Student Caucus, an affiliate organization of the MLA, invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2013 MLA annual meeting (Boston, Jan. 3-6, 2013). Please send abstracts (ca. 250 words) to Ervin Malakaj (emalakaj@wustl.edu) by March 10.

LGBTQI graduate students encounter a variety of barriers – structural, institutional, covert, implicit – as they prepare to enter the profession, which remains an unchanged challenge for many young scholars. We invite scholars from all stages of their academic career to submit proposals for papers that call attention to areas where higher education is falling short of its commitment to equality, diversity, accessibility, visibility, and integration. We welcome papers that would contribute to a larger discussion about how these barriers can be identified and suggestions for how they can be overcome.

Ervin Malakaj
First Vice-President
Graduate Student Caucus of the Modern Language Association
Email: emalakaj@wustl.edu

Registration for (Dis)locating Justice, the 2012 CWGS Graduate Student Conference is now open! This year’s conference will be held on March 29-30, 2012 at the Student Activity Center. The conference is free and open to the public but seating is limited. Lunch will be provided for those attendees who RSVP by Monday, March 26, 2012.

We have a dynamic program of events designed to energize and inspire the UT community with new knowledge and productive tools to augment their current and future projects. The CWGS student-run conference provides graduate students and select undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin and other universities the opportunity to share their research highlighting issues in women’s, gender, and/or sexuality studies with the UT-Austin community at large and CWGS community partners. This year’s theme is “Gender and Justice.” Given the multiple meanings of justice, we have especially designed this year’s conference to engage in dialogs across disciplines and colleges.

We have invited Dr. Radhika Balakrishnan, current Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, to deliver our keynote address on Friday evening.  She will share anecdotes of her research and advocacy experiences on examining economic, social and women’s human rights. She will also share how this experience has been productive in generating collaborative research between disciplines, the academy, and the community. If you would like to only attend the keynote and closing reception, please select the ticket designated “Balakrishnan Keynote & Reception.”

The planning committee has worked hard to create a dynamic event for the entire UT community and we hope to see you there.

Register online today at http://utwgsconference.eventbrite.com.

UT Community Engagement Center
Social Justice Institute: Activist Research Grant Initiative

Summer 2011

The Social Justice Institute (SJI) of the UT Community Engagement Center seeks applicants for the Activist Research Grant Initiative. This is a summer research grant awarded to fulltime UT graduate students whose research projects serve as direct political engagement. Activist Research is here defined as a scholarly project that advances social justice in collaboration with a community-based partner (organizations, coalitions or other community-based entities). For the purpose of this grant, such collaborations may be carried out locally, nationally or internationally. Applicants from all fields of study may apply.

The Activist Research Grant Initiative is funded through a consortium of the SJI, the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin America, the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Center for Gender and Women’s Studies. As such, priority will be given to research that addresses the thematic concerns of one or more of these centers.

Grant recipients will be asked to participate in at least one SJI event during the Fall 2011 semester, as well as offer a presentation on their research finding during the annual UT Activist Scholarship Conference (to take place sometime during the Spring 2012 semester).

Award amount: $2,500-$3,500

Date of Award: June 15, 2011

How to apply: Please fill out the attached Application Form and submit it along with the following documentation:

1. Statement of Research (3 pages). This statement should outline the specific research project objectives, methods and final product, including a description of the collaboration between researcher and community-based partner. As well, it should describe how the summer grant is to be used (e.g., personal stipend, travel expenses, research material). Finally, it should provide an analysis of the broader social justice impact of the proposed project.

2. CV/Resume

3. One Faculty Letter of Reference

4. One Community-based Letter of Support (This letter should state the community partner’s support of the proposed research collaboration).

APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 22, 2011

Please send all materials to Jayne Medina, Administrative Officer, Community Engagement Center: Jayne Medina jayne.medina@austin.utexas.edu. The faculty letter of reference should and the community-based letter of support should be sent directly by from the recommender.

For more information, please contact Eric Tang, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, Associate Director, UT Community Engagement Center: erictang@mail.utexas.edu

JOB POSTING
2011 Summer Internship with the Bernard and Audre
Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

Contact: William Chandler wchandler@law.utexas.edu 512-232-4857

How to Apply: Please submit materials to William Chandler via email at wchandler@law.utexas.edu (Subject: Graduate Internship) or in person in TNH Room 3.119D at the Law School.

Deadline: 12:00 PM on Friday, April 8.

Description: Professor Karen Engle is seeking to hire two to three law or graduate students to work at least half-time (20 hrs/week) as summer fellows at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

Projects may include the following:

Work with human rights archives at UT to develop online exhibits and programming;
Work on the publication of the Center’s 2010—2011 Annual Review by writing and editing articles, compiling photographs, designing layout and working extensively with the software program InDesign; Engage in human rights research, writing and curriculum development;
Other tasks may include mentoring Center undergraduate interns, helping with outreach to students and faculty at the law school and across campus, assisting in the planning of the speaker series and annual conference to take place during the 2011-12 academic year, expanding the Center’s social media and web presence, and assisting with grant writing and fundraising.

Funding is available for the positions.

Required Application Materials: Cover letter, resume, list of three references, and an unofficial transcript that includes the courses you are currently taking. Please indicate any InDesign or Photoshop software skills and foreign language proficiency.

This fellowship is open to all law and graduate students.

Dear CWGS MA & Portfolio Students,

We invite you to participate in a planning discussion for the October 2012 International Conference on Women’s Human Rights with a focus on women’s human rights organizing in the Americas. This conference is part of the Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative, the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies grant-funded project to develop education for women, gender, and human rights. The upcoming meeting builds on an initial pre-planning discussion held in February, and we encourage new faculty, students, and organizers to join the conversation; please see below for details on the initial discussion.

This conference should support the work of faculty, students, and community organizers in Austin, and we need your participation to ensure that the conference will speak to you!

Please join us for a discussion
Monday, April 4, 11:00-12:30
Gebauer (GEB) 4th Floor Conference Room (to the left off of the elevators): http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/geb.html
Bring your lunch, and we will provide cookies and coffee.

At this meeting, we will develop:
1. Conference topic and title
2. Conference concept (what it will look like)
3. Plans for community/university and cross-university partnerships for which we may partner with other centers and institutes to provide new project seed money

We also hope to have time to discuss:
4. Goals for the conference
5. Possible keynote or plenary speakers
6. Possible performers or films for the evening event
7. Strategies for circulating the conference announcement and call for proposals.

Please share this announcement with faculty, students, and organizers who may be interested. If you would like more information, please contact Kristen Hogan at hogank@mail.utexas.edu

This meeting will build on an initial shape developed by faculty and staff at a pre-planning meeting in February. Here’s some of what that group contributed:

Conference Goals:
The assembled group described their hopes that such a conference would:
1. Unsettle thinking about gender & human rights,
2. Contribute to ongoing flows of research & conversations,
3. Connect UT faculty with visiting presenters (don’t overlook the work our faculty are doing),
4. Feed back into the EWHRI by supporting new courses or course content, and
5. Involve faculty, community organizers, and students in planning stages and conference.

What will the presentations at the conference look like?
1. Conference organizers will create a call now for partnerships of university and community organizers to collaborate on a project; Centers/Institutes will collaborate to provide seed money to co-researchers in exchange for their report on the work at the conference.
2. Organizers may solicit papers in collaboration between faculty at two different institutions.
3. Organizers will create time and space for networking and project building at the conference.
4. Sessions may consist of results presentation or works in progress.

Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines is an interdisciplinary graduate student publication welcoming work from current graduate students. We are seeking both book reviews and artwork for our 2011 issue: Gender and Social Justice, which should be submitted by April 8, 2011. For more information on the journal and to contact the journal’s staff, please click here.

*(Dis)locating Queer: Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas**

A Graduate Conference at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
May 5-7, 2011*
*Keynote speaker:* Eithne Luibhéid, Associate Professor, Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Arizona.

Author of *Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border* (U of Minnesota Press, 2002) and co-editor of *Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings *(U of Minnesota Press, 2005).

This is an exciting time for work at the intersections of Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, and studies of region. “Queer” continues to be a critical location for agency and activism. However, those who undertake Queer Studies must also be conscious about uncritically endorsing racialized, spacialized, and classed norms while striving for a deeper
understanding of intersectionality. In contemplating the potential to “queer” the study of race, region and sexual diaspora we intend to challenge assumptions that undergird the construction of nationhood, race, migrations, community, settlement(s), and locality.

(Dis)locating Queer invites presentations that queer the analysis of race, region, and sexual diaspora and which unsettle racial, regional, and diasporic assumptions within queer studies. We seek presentations that investigate these intersecting lines of inquiry, asking what queer does rather than what “queer” is.

We encourage submissions organized around one or more of the following themes, but welcome presentations that use other rubrics to address the topic of race, region, and sexual diasporas:
-Race/citizenship
-Region/location
-Movement/diaspora
-Academy/activism
We invite proposals for panels, paper presentations, and artistic performances. The final day of the conference will be devoted to seminars on pre-circulated papers. Please indicate in your abstract if you would be interested in submitting your work early for a seminar. It is possible to both present a paper and participate in the seminar. We are eager to receive submissions from a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.

*Guidelines:
*** Panel proposals must include a title and a panel abstract not to exceed 500 words. Each panelist must submit a one page CV.
*** Individual papers must include an abstract (250 words maximum) and one page CV
*** Please submit all materials electronically to dislocatingqueer@gmail.comby March 15, 2011

We look forward to submissions that are insightful, creative, and challenging, and we hope to host a truly interactive, supportive conference.

Kwame A. Holmes
Graduate Fellow, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
PhD Candidate, Department of History
University at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
kaholmes@illinois.edu

The 2011 UTSA English Graduate Student Symposium “Theory in the Flesh: Bodies of Scholarship, Activism, and Community”

Sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio

May 7, 2011 at The University of Texas San Antonio in San Antonio, TX

Keynote Speaker: AnaLouise Keating

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2011

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives-our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings-all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. – This Bridge Called My Back

With ‘Theory in the Flesh,’ Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, co-editors of the foundational feminist text This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color, sought to establish a theoretical terrain that incorporated the various aspects of identity for women of color and grounded these elements in lived experience.

This symposium seeks to commemorate 30 years of This Bridge by exploring the applications, relevancies and politics of Theory in the Flesh in our contemporary moment. This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together graduate students, scholars, writers, artists and performers.

We invite papers that engage the concept of the corporeal, the self, community, and activism. Papers may challenge, complicate, critique, or expand current conceptualizations of the Theory in the Flesh in all disciplines, including, but not limited to, literary, cultural, queer, feminist, environmental, American, political, subaltern, bicultural, and popular cultural studies.

We also encourage topics that propose new and imaginative approaches to discourse analysis, methodology, and pedagogy. Visual arts and rhetoric proposals are highly encouraged; the symposium will feature an exhibition of artistic responses such as paintings, drawings, and sculptures related to our theme. We also invite creative writing proposals that bridge disciplines and explore questions of revolution and imagination.

Some possible topics include:
- Language
- Desire
- Concepts of communities/nations/space
- Alternative literacies
- Pedagogies in the grade school, university, or feminist classroom
- Discourses of development, progress, and difference
- Feminist methodologies
- Discourses of nativism, hybridity, and mestizaje
- Rhetorics of nationhood, sovereignty, and terrorism
- Local and global policies
- Environmental studies
- Queer studies
- Popular Culture
- Science Fiction
- Film Studies
- Music Studies
- Imagination in the arts
- Poetry as a revolutionary art form
- Politics and poetry
- Body studies
- Technologies of imagination
- Socio-linguistic studies

Please submit 250-word individual abstracts or panel proposals (comprised of a 250-word abstract for the panel as a whole and titles for each paper) to utsagradconf@gmail.com by March 15, 2011. Paste your proposal into the body of the email message and include any technology requests. Please also include your contact information. If submitting a work of art, please attach a low-resolution image of your piece, if possible, in addition to your abstract. The conference registration fee is $20.00 for pre-symposium registration and $25.00 for registration at the symposium.

Contact: utsagradconf2011@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: March 15, 2011
Facebook: “Theory in the Flesh”

Dear CoLA Graduate Students:

Associate Dean Esther Raizen and members of a special committee on graduate student affairs invite you to attend an open forum on February 18, at 3:30 pm in the third floor conference room at Gebauer.

The College of Liberal Arts is exploring ways to expand our graduate students’ prospects for successful post-graduation careers in training-related positions inside and outside of academe. Much of this effort takes place at the departmental level, but we feel that the College can play a significant role in enhancing our graduating students’ profiles.

We are interested in hearing your ideas about what we can do here, at every stage of your training, that would help you present the strongest possible profile as you prepare for job searches and for the early years of your career.

This interdisciplinary conference, presented by Writing Across Communities, focuses on presentations of graduate student work. The 2011 conference focuses on “constructing space” as both a theoretical and practical concern, inviting discussion about how physical, rhetorical, and spiritual constructions of space can best be undertaken sustainably, ethically, and in concert with one another. Our keynote speaker is Dr. M. Jimmie Killingsworth, of Texas A&M, and co-author of Ecospeak. We would like to invite graduate students in your department working on any of these issues to submit abstracts of their work for inclusion in the conference program. Please forward the announcement and attachments (PDF of Call for Papers and Conference Flier) to your department.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Writing Across Communities at the University of New Mexico presents the
Second Annual Earth Day Conference, Friday, April 22, 2011

Theme: Constructing Space(s): Making our Home(s) in the 21st Century
Keynote Speaker: Dr. M. Jimmie Killingsworth, co-author of Ecospeak

Presentation proposals and paper abstracts due by February 25, 2011

This interdisciplinary graduate student conference focuses on a range of practical and theoretical issues relating to themes of Earth, practical environmentalism, and environmental sciences. The 2011 conference focuses on “constructing space” as both a theoretical and practical concern, inviting discussion about how physical, rhetorical, and spiritual constructions of space can best be undertaken sustainably, ethically, and in concert with one another.

Climatologists, chemists, biologists, and physicists, among other scientists, have discovered and for years described the wide-ranging impact that human civilizations have on Earth, the environment, and the planet’s other inhabitants. Engineers, architects, policy makers and others have taken scientific data and begun to imagine ways to mitigate or reverse the effects of human activity. Visual arts, literature, philosophy, and the humanities also have traditions of representing and interpreting the relationships between human and nature, human and animal. Finally, native and indigenous perspectives on living with the land have long been in contrast to western understandings of the best use of resources. Our relationships to the Earth, animals, and one another are mediated through these diverse lenses, and because living responsibly in the 21st century will take the input and collaboration of many thinkers and actors, it is imperative to have cross-disciplinary, cross-paradigm conversations about these relationships. By fostering this conversation, Writing Across Communities hopes to complicate and enrich the myriad ways in which we understand ourselves and our planet, and thus perhaps influence our actions upon it.

When and Where? April 22, 2011 at the University of New Mexico campus, Albuquerque, from 9 am to 4 pm.

Submission: Send your presentation proposal or paper abstract of 500 words or fewer to: earthdayconference@gmail.com . The submission should be an attachment in Word (doc or docx), PDF, or RTF format. Include a working title for your paper or presentation, your email, please also include a brief biography specifying your name, institution, department or discipline, and research interests. For panel presentations, submit a single document containing a working title for the panel, working titles for each of the presentations, and the abstracts for each presentation. Submissions must be received by February 25, 2010.

Presentation Format: We welcome submissions of multi-media presentations as well as traditional papers for individual presentations (15 minutes) or three-person panels (45 minutes per panel) from any discipline or combination of disciplines that address the themes of constructed space, creating and making home-places, and emerging environmental paradigms for life in the 21st century.

Questions? Contact Erin Penner, Writing Across Communities Events Coordinator, epenner@unm.edu.

The 2011 UTSA English Graduate Student Symposium “Theory in the Flesh: Bodies of Scholarship, Activism, and Community”

Sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio

May 7, 2011 at The University of Texas San Antonio in San Antonio, TX

Keynote Speaker: AnaLouise Keating

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2011

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives-our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings-all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. – This Bridge Called My Back

With ‘Theory in the Flesh,’ Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, co-editors of the foundational feminist text This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color, sought to establish a theoretical terrain that incorporated the various aspects of identity for women of color and grounded these elements in lived experience.

This symposium seeks to commemorate 30 years of This Bridge by exploring the applications, relevancies and politics of Theory in the Flesh in our contemporary moment. This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together graduate students, scholars, writers, artists and performers.

We invite papers that engage the concept of the corporeal, the self, community, and activism. Papers may challenge, complicate, critique, or expand current conceptualizations of the Theory in the Flesh in all disciplines, including, but not limited to, literary, cultural, queer, feminist, environmental, American, political, subaltern, bicultural, and popular cultural studies.

We also encourage topics that propose new and imaginative approaches to discourse analysis, methodology, and pedagogy. Visual arts and rhetoric proposals are highly encouraged; the symposium will feature an exhibition of artistic responses such as paintings, drawings, and sculptures related to our theme. We also invite creative writing proposals that bridge disciplines and explore questions of revolution and imagination.

Some possible topics include:

- Language
- Desire
- Concepts of communities/nations/space
- Alternative literacies
- Pedagogies in the grade school, university, or feminist classroom
- Discourses of development, progress, and difference
- Feminist methodologies
- Discourses of nativism, hybridity, and mestizaje
- Rhetorics of nationhood, sovereignty, and terrorism
- Local and global policies
- Environmental studies
- Queer studies
- Popular Culture
- Science Fiction
- Film Studies
- Music Studies
- Imagination in the arts
- Poetry as a revolutionary art form
- Politics and poetry
- Body studies
- Technologies of imagination
- Socio-linguistic studies

Please submit 250-word individual abstracts or panel proposals (comprised of a 250-word abstract for the panel as a whole and titles for each paper) to utsagradconf@gmail.com by March 1, 2011. Paste your proposal into the body of the email message and include any technology requests. Please also include your contact information. If submitting a work of art, please attach a low-resolution image of your piece, if possible, in addition to your abstract. The conference registration fee is $20.00 for pre-symposium registration and $25.00 for registration at the symposium.

Contact: utsagradconf2011@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: March 1, 2011
Facebook: “Theory in the Flesh”

Deadline: February 15, 2011

The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in social scientific approaches to sexuality studies, to run September 2011 – August 2013. Applications are welcome from scholars who study sexuality from a social science perspective (broadly construed). The Fellow will be affiliated with both the Gender Studies Program and a department at Northwestern, which must be either Anthropology, History, Human Development and Social Policy, Linguistics, Performance Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, or
Sociology. That is, the Fellow must have relevant expertise in both sexuality studies and one of these fields, and must be prepared to teach courses that are cross-listed in both Gender Studies and the affiliated department.

The Fellow will pursue a program of independent scholarship under the guidance of a faculty mentor and will teach two undergraduate courses each
year. The Fellow will also be expected to assist in the organization of on-campus educational activities such as an annual workshop, as part of a
new interdisciplinary initiative on sexuality and health in social context.

Applicants must have completed all the requirements for the Ph.D. (or equivalent) by September 1, 2011, or have received their degree within the
last five years. The stipend is $45,000 plus benefits in the first year of the fellowship and $46,350 plus benefits in the second year. In addition,
the Fellow is eligible for $2,000 per year to fund research and conference travel, and up to $2,000 for allowable relocation expenses in the first year.

In order to ensure full consideration, all application materials must be received by February 15, 2011. Applicants should send the following
materials in PDF format by email attachment to sexuality@northwestern.edu, with the subject heading of “Postdoc Application”:

1) a cover letter: Please briefly situate your work in relation to the field of sexuality studies. Please identify the department(s) with which you are
qualified to be affiliated, from among the above list. Optionally, please identify a possible faculty mentor in that department or in Gender Studies.
Please address the question of your experience within interdisciplinary academic environments.

2) a full curriculum vitae

3) a two-page summary of the dissertation

4) a two-page research plan for the fellowship period (this may include, but should extend beyond, revisions to the dissertation)

5) titles and short descriptions of at least two courses that you could teach and that might be appropriate for cross-listing between Gender Studies and your department

6) a writing sample consisting of either a dissertation chapter or an article

7) a full graduate school transcript from your doctoral-degree-granting institution

In addition, please arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent, either by email to the same address (subject heading: “Postdoc application
letter of reference”), or by mail to Gender Studies Program, Sexuality Studies Postdoc, Northwestern University, Kresge Hall 2-321, Evanston, IL
60208-2211. One letter should be from the dissertation chair, and at least one should comment on teaching qualifications.

Administrative questions should be directed to Clare Forstie at sexuality@northwestern.edu. Substantive questions may be addressed to Héctor
Carrillo at hector@northwestern.edu or Steve Epstein at s-epstein@northwestern.edu. For more information about any of the
participating departments or programs, see http://offices.northwestern.edu/browse/A/academic.

AA/EOE: Applications from women and minorities are especially encouraged.

The Graduate Students from the Departments of French, Italian Studies, and
Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley, are
pleased to invite graduate students to participate in our
interdisciplinary colloquium to be held on April 15-16, 2011:

“The Crisis of the Confined Body: A Conference in Romance Studies”

“The Crisis of the Confined Body” is a conference that will join five
Romance languages (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish),
fostering a comparative approach to studies of the body in confinement,
isolation and extraction. The conference will offer critical examinations
of the body and its contingent relationship to spatial, temporal, cultural
and/or linguistic parameters. A theme that lends itself to multiple
fields, The Crisis of the Confined Body will promote interdisciplinary
collaborations between the humanities, visual arts, and sciences, engaging
points of overlap as well as lines of divergence. We encourage
presentations that engage a comparative and/or interdisciplinary approach.

General thematic subcategories: (a) violence and discourse; (b)
institutions and power; (c) the body and knowledge; and (d) the body
and/in space

Examples of critical topics include, but are not limited to:
The frontiers of the body
Scientific discourse and the abnormal body
The identity politics of the body (e.g. the tropologies of the veil) The
segregation of racialized bodies
The body and the social semiotics of language, or the social semiotics of
the body
Torture and testimony
Mysticism and seclusion
The psychology of confinement
Technologies of surveillance and control
The “War on Terror” and terrorist bodies
Insurgent bodies and the body politic
The embodiment of urban topographies/landscapes

Please submit abstracts (maximum of 250 words) to spp_conf@berkeley.edu by
January 24, 2011. In your email please include your name, email address,
and academic affiliation.

In order to make presentations accessible across departments and
disciplines, we request that all papers be in English.

For further details, please visit the following website:

http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/crisis-confined-body-conference-romance-studies

Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines is an interdisciplinary graduate student publication welcoming work from current graduate students. We are committed to the interdisciplinary research of women’s and gender issues and are affiliated with the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at UT Austin. The journal encourages scholars in every field to contribute book reviews, scholarly essays, creative writing, and artwork relating to this issue’s theme, “Gender & Social Justice.”

We are currently seeking graduate students to serve as peer reviewers for Issue 9. If interested, please send an email to Intersections.journal@gmail.com including the following information:

1. Name and email
2. Institutional Affiliation
3. Department/Program
4. Area of academic interest/specialization