Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

I am delighted to announce the publication of Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own (University of Texas Press, 2011). This collection, co-edited by AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López, contains original work by professors, students, and other scholars and activists in the social sciences and the humanities whose lives and work have been transformed by Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories.

Bridging is multicultural, multidisciplinary, and multigenre; it includes work by established scholars and activists like Norma Cantú, Aída Hurtado, Andrea Lunsford, Denise Segura, and Gloria Steinem, as well as work by contributors at earlier points of their careers. It is a very rich collection and demonstrates some of the innovative ways that people are adopting, expanding, and/or revising on Anzaldúa’s theories. The book also includes contributions from people outside the United States, which is a welcome expansion of Anzaldúan thought.

The editors of Bridging hope this collection will help us advance in the social sciences, women’s and gender studies, the humanities, and innovative scholarship promoting a critical inquiry and understanding of all forms of human diversity in our increasingly complex, globalized world.

For the table of contents, an excerpt, and information on how to order the book (at a discount!), please see: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/keabri.html

AnaLouise Keating is Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University and a prominent Anzaldúan scholar who worked closely with Anzaldúa for over a decade, co-editing several projects, and is now a trustee of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust.

Gloria González-López is Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty Associate at the Center for Mexican American Studies, and affiliated with the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

The deadline for you to submit an abstract for the 2011 Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking has been extended !

Our keynote speaker is Siddarth Kara, award-winning author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. Our theme is still very much knowledge-focused: “What we know, and what we need to know.”

This year there are a number of improvements to the conference, such as longer speaking times, a lower registration fee, lower hotel room rates, special tracks for student papers to receive feedback, and two full days of presentations.

This will be the third year for this great opportunity to present your work and to form working relationships and friendships with others working as academic researchers, victim service providers, law enforcement officials, government officers, and foundations that support anti-trafficking work.

As always, we encourage all types of submissions: descriptions of the work of your organization (particularly an analytical or integrative view), academic papers, analyses, theoretical contributions, identification of problems and need for knowledge, and so forth.

We invite you to visit the conference web site at http://humantrafficking.unl.edu and see for yourself.

Don’t delay! The deadline for 300-word abstracts is now April 21, 2011!

For questions, please contact Dr. Dwayne Ball at dball1@unl.edu.

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.

Calling Innovative Academics Within and Without Anthropology:

New Directions in Anthropology Conference: April 29-30, 2011
University of Texas, Austin

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: MARCH 6, 2011

Anthropology is not stagnant. Continuously it changes, grows, and evolves, transforming the world in which we live. As a new generation of academics and practitioners, such constant metamorphosis is paramount to our research methodology and pedagogy. Modern anthropology can only benefit from an inter-disciplinary approach to social science; therefore, it is important that anthropologists remain in dialogue and collaborate with academics in other disciplines.

We invite you who are making innovations in science, arts, humanities, and more, to share with us your knowledge and wisdom, your trials and errors, your fresh ideas and new directions.

The Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA) will hold its 4th annual student research conference, New Directions in Anthropology, on April 29-30, 2011. This conference will highlight your research and projects aimed at changing theoretical constructs, incorporating new viewpoints, implementing innovative methodology, and branching out beyond the generally accepted limits of anthropology. It presents a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue, pushing the boundaries of traditional anthropology.

What makes your work different than that which came before? Were you working against a canon, and found an interesting way to step outside of it? Did you examine an old problem through a new lens, discovering a new and helpful perspective? Have you found creative ways to present fresh thoughts and ideas? Tell us about it! This is your opportunity to think outside the proverbial box.

What new directions are YOU taking?

The over-all goal of this conference is to foster community amongst students from multiple disciplines and to provide a supportive environment where individuals can both share and receive feed-back on their current innovative research.

Please submit abstracts by email to: newdirectionsanthropology@gmail.com by March 6, 2011. Abstracts should be limited to 300 words and should be accompanied by a brief bio stating your research interests, subfield, year in program of study, and contact information.

Submitters will be notified of acceptance by April 1, 2011.

Please email any submission questions to the above listed conference email address.

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.

Greetings from the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law.

We are pleased to invite you to register for our seventh annual conference. Entitled “Aftershocks: Legacies of Conflict,” this year’s conference is designed to coincide with performances of The National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch at the University of Texas, an award-winning play written by Scottish playwright Gregory Burke and based on actual interviews with Scottish soldiers from the Black Watch regiment who were deployed to fight in Iraq in 2003. The conference will convene an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore some of the same intersections of violence, the colonial past, memory, and trauma that Black Watch invokes, as well as the unique role that performance might play in the analysis. It will consider these issues in a variety of geographic spaces and places, with a special emphasis on the legal and political regimes that are meant to preserve memory while also transitioning into post-conflict.
Lawrence Wright, journalist, playwright, and New Yorker Magazine staff writer, will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, February 17, to be followed by a pre-show panel with the playwright and a performance of Black Watch at Bass Concert Hall. The conference proceedings will continue throughout the day on Friday at the UT School of Law. The schedule is pasted at the bottom of this email.

This event is co-sponsored by Texas Performing Arts, the Humanities Institute, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, UT Libraries, the South Asia Institute, the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Performance as Public Practice, British Studies, and the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance (at St. Edward’s University).

You can learn more about the participants and register by visiting the conference website. This event is free and open to the public. Because space is limited at parts of the conference, we would appreciate your registration as soon as possible. Early registrants will be eligible for a 15% discount on tickets to Black Watch.

http://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/aftershocks/index.php

We hope that you will be able to join us for what we are sure will be an exciting and thought-provoking event!

Best wishes,

Karen Engle

Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law & Director
Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
University of Texas School of Law
727 East Dean Keeton
Austin, Texas 78705

http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/humanrights/

Schedule
Thursday, February 17, 2011 — UT School of Law
4:00 p.m.
Conference Opening: Lawrence Wright, Journalist, Playwright, New Yorker Magazine staff writer
Keynote Lecture sponsored by the UT Humanities Institute
5:15–6:30 p.m.
Pre-Show Panel: “Performance and Human Rights”
Chair: Charlotte Canning, University of Texas at Austin
Gregory Burke, Playwright of Black Watch
Nicholas Cull, University of Southern California
6:45-7:45 p.m.
Reception in Bass Concert Hall
8:00 p.m.
Attend performance of Black Watch by the National Theatre of Scotland at Texas Performing Arts’ Bass Concert Hall.
Friday, February 18, 2011 — UT School of Law
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:30–11:00 a.m.
“Colonial Legacies”
Panelists:
Chair: Benjamin Brower, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Rothberg, University of Illinois
Priya Satia, Stanford University
Ralph Wilde, University College London, University of London
11:00–11:15 a.m.
Break
11:15 a.m. –12:45 p.m.
“Traumatic Legacies”
Panelists:
Chair: Barbara Harlow
Neloufer de Mel, Colombo University, Sri Lanka
Laura Edmondson, Dartmouth University
Jeffrey Helsing, United States Institute of Peace
1:00–2:15 p.m.
Lunch
2:15–4:00 p.m.
“Institutional and Legal Legacies ”
Panelists:
Chair: Karen Engle, University of Texas at Austin
Kate Doyle, The National Security Archive
Paul Gready, University of York
Helen Kinsella, University of Wisconsin/Madison
Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain, University of Minnesota, University of Ulster, Belfast
4:00–4:15 p.m.
Break
4:15–5:30 p.m.
Closing Panel
Invited participants from each of the previous panels

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

As we approach the 20th anniversaries of the break-up of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union respectively, this conference offers a timely opportunity to consider the causes and legacies of these historic events from the perspective of gender analysis and by examining women’s lives in particular. The conference will enable us to consider critically the extent to which gender as an element of identity formation, social relations, politics, economic activity, culture, and warfare has become—or has still yet to become —an essential category of analysis. Potential questions of engagement might include (but are not limited to): To what extent has gender become an important means for understanding conflict (military, political, social, economic) in the region? Are ‘women’s issues’ still just that, or has there been a scholarly shift in agenda and perspective in the last two decades to consider them more generally as ‘human issues’? In framing analyses of gender and conflict how can we nuance women’s (and men’s) experiences, so that they are seen as agents of transformation or even destruction, rather than “re-victimizing” them as mere objects? The conference will not focus solely on Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union/CIS; indeed, we encourage prospective participants to think more broadly and thematically about the origins and legacies of these breakups and the shared historical experience of communism and the transition for the whole Eurasian and Eastern European region.

AWSS is also pleased to announce at this time that the keynote speaker will be Prof. Yana Hashamova, Director of Center for Slavic and East European Studies and Associate Professor of Slavic at The Ohio State University.

AWSS invites scholars of all disciplines (Slavic/Eurasian/East European studies, including anthropology, art, film, history, library science, literature, music, political science, popular culture, sociology, and any aspect of women’s studies) who are working on themes related to gender and conflict broadly defined in Eastern Europe and Eurasia to submit their abstracts electronically to Professor Maria Bucur (mbucur@indiana.edu) for distribution to a multi-disciplinary conference committee. All proposals are due January 15, 2011. Applicants will be notified about their participation in mid-February.

Proposals for panels/papers must include:

· A 250-word abstract for each paper

· A two-page c.v. for each participant

· For panel proposals, we ask that the organizer send a cover page with the list of proposed participants as well as a brief description (150 words) of the panel.

Proposals for roundtables must include a brief description of the topic and, if possible, a list of presenters/facilitators.

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and creative
submissions for an International Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Conference entitled “Collections and Collaborations” to be held at
Indiana University – Bloomington from March 24th – 26th, 2011 (hosted
by the graduate students of the IU Department of English).

New media—most notably Web 2.0 (and now 3.0)—have challenged us to
think about our artistic creations, social spaces, and most deeply
cherished beliefs along increasingly decentered, collectivist lines. Do
such technologies push our creative and critical work in more
collaborative directions? And given that ideas of collective fictions
and culture, collaborations, adaptations, and translations exist in
folk traditions, national legends, and the emergence of the bourgeois
public sphere, is there anything new about collectivity or
collaboration?

This conference seeks to investigate the notion of collections and
collaborations from a wide array of angles. We hope to receive papers
from a variety of disciplines, employing any number of methodologies
and considering any time period. Below are some suggestions for
possible topics. This list is by no means exhaustive; rather, we hope
these ideas might inspire some exciting new thoughts related to the
theme:
• Collaborative writing, storytelling, filmmaking, and performance
• Translation, adaptation, remediation
• Intertextuality, particularly across history or genre
• Museums, readings, performances, exhibitions
• The demise (or afterlife?) of the Romantic “genius”
• The death of the author and originality
• Voice and image: multiple voices/images; resonating voices and
mirroring images
• Mass audiences
• New media
• Web 2.0/3.0: “crowdsourcing,” “truthiness,” and “collaboratition”
• Digital possibilities for collaborative scholarship
• Collective aesthetics
• Genre studies
• Oral and folk traditions
• National legends and myths of “national character”
• The position of the individual in relation to the collective
• Subaltern, or other imposed collective identities
• Collaborative or collectives truths and faiths
• Utopianism and futurism
• The academy’s “collective fictions” (both its useful fictions and its
collective delusions)

We encourage proposals for individual papers as well as panel proposals
organized by topic. In the past, this conference has bridged the
“critical” and “creative,” and we intend to host both critical and
creative panels. Please submit (both as an attachment AND in the body
of the email) an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a few
personal details (name, institutional affiliation, degree level, email,
and phone number) by January 31, 2011 to .

Our keynote speakers at this year’s conference will be Jeremy Braddock
from Cornell University and Ellen MacKay from our home department.

Visit our website (http://www.indiana.edu/~engsac/conference/) for more
information!

The Women’s Studies Program proudly announces a public conference, which will take place on the campus of Texas Tech University, Friday, February 4, 2011. This year’s theme is “Innovative Voices: Initiatives, Projects and Practices for Empowerment and Gender Equality”. Itinerant feminist organizer Shelby Knox will serve on our keynote panel at 5:30 p.m. with a performance, “Voices of Feminism”, starting at 5:00 p.m. located in the Matador Room of the Student Union Building, Second Floor. Events are FREE and open to all faculty, staff, students and community members to attend.

We invite paper and panel presentations that explore the manifold meanings of movement and change as connected to, created by, and/or caught up in the presence of women’s, gender, and identity issues, in both contemporary and historical frameworks. Interdisciplinary proposals, as well as those from the disciplines and specialty subject areas across the Texas Tech University campus, are welcome. We will be happy to consider proposals from the professional schools and the administrative offices, as well as those from scholarly areas where women have been historically under-represented, including mathematics, the agricultural and natural sciences, and technology and applied sciences. We also invite students, staff and faculty members in the social and behavioral sciences, the visual and performing arts, the communications fields, and the humanities to present their research.

Interested parties from other colleges and universities, including Lubbock-area institutions, Angelo State University, and other institutions in the Southwest are encouraged to present, participate, and/or to attend this conference. Faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students are all invited to share their work, in the form of research findings, group or single-author projects, and works-in-progress in multiple media.

Undergraduate and Graduate students from an accredited College or University submitting a paper are eligible for a best paper award. These papers must be received in full form on or before January 21, 2011 with an abstract for review.

* We invite submissions for individual papers or panels highlighting feminist research, in progress or completed. Undergraduates, graduate students, staff and faculty from all disciplines are invited to participate and to attend. This year, we especially welcome research on:

• gender and media
• regional feminist issues and concerns on the South Plains
• the environment (e.g., ecofeminism, indigenista, urban planning, architecture)
• political activism (e.g., government, war/peace)
• embodiment (e.g., ability, genetics, inscribing)
• cultural constructions of gender
• psychology of sex roles
• social constructs of gender relations
• science and technology
• feminist visual culture (art and art criticism)

Deadline for submissions on or before Friday, January 21, 2011

Please send submissions to: patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu
Note: include “2011-Women’s Studies Conference Submission” in the subject line for easy identification

Conference Submission Guidelines:

* For individual papers, please submit a 250-word abstract including the proposal title, name, affiliation and contact information for all author(s). (Note: A final version of the paper submission should be included in addition to the abstract to be considered for Undergraduate and Graduate best paper review.)
* For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required of the individual paper submissions.

Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/call_for_papers_and_panels_2011.php and note that only complete applications adhering to the stated guidelines will be accepted.

Please watch the Women’s Studies website, http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies, for updates. This conference is FREE and open to the public. For questions contact us here in the Women’s Studies Office located in Holden Hall RM 8 or by phone at (806) 742.4335.

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE IN SOCIETY
The Catholic University of America
Washington D.C., USA
5-7 August 2011

http://science-society.com/conference-2011/

This conference addresses the social impacts, values, pedagogies, politics and economics of science. It is an inclusive forum that welcomes a breadth of perspectives on science from practitioners, teachers and researchers representing a wide range of academic disciplines.

The Science in Society Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. The Conference was inaugurated in 2009 at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, and was held at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2010. We are pleased to hold this year’s conference at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.

In addition to Plenary Presentations from leading speakers in the field, the Science in Society Conference includes parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters submit their written papers for publication in the peer refereed “International Journal of Science in Society”. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal as well as the option of uploading a video presentation to our YouTube channel.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 21 December 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website: http://science-society.com/conference-2011/.

In 2012 the conference will be held at the University of California, Berkeley from 15-17 November 2012.

WRITING THE MAP: CARTOGRAPHY AS SPATIAL FIGURE OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN/AS LITERATURE
Organizers: Valerie E. McGuire (NYU), Patrick W. Gallagher (NYU)
ACLA Annual Meeting, March 31-April 3, 2011

The act of mapping introduces the principle of alterity into human society like little else. Maps introduce the principle of differentiation, surveillance, and control into the relationships between humans and animals, humans and the earth, humans and other humans. By creating boundaries, maps give place-names, toponymy, definitions, and identities, and in the process, often eliminate important and meaningful “other” or alternate routes.

We are inviting proposals that investigate the intersection of spaces and ideology. On the concrete level, how do politics inform decisions about urban interventions, city planning, and architectural design? On a more abstract level, What is the relationship between urban space and/or urban design and narrative? Can urban planning constitute an act of violence, and if so, what are some potential responses and re-appropriations of such cartographical violence?

We welcome case studies from Anthropology, History, or Cultural Studies, particularly projects that treat urban re-development and planning and its social consequences in either colonial or metropolitan contexts. Analyses of literary, philosophical, or theoretical texts, in which the cultural work of mapping plays an integral role, are also strongly encouraged.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by 5 pm EST, Friday, Nov. 12, at http://www.acla.org/acla2011/

After the End: Medieval Studies, the Humanities, and the Post-catastrophe

November 4-6
University of Texas
Click links for more information and complete programs for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday

This meeting of the BABEL Working Group will feature presentations, panels and papers by queer scholars including:

Noreen Giffney (Trinity College Dublin), PhD in medieval history; co-editor of The Lesbian Premodern (Palgrave, 2011), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Ashgate, 2009), Queering the Non/Human (Ashgate, 2008), Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies (Taylor and Francis, 2007), Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference (under review, 2011); currently undertaking research for a project entitled “With/out Desire: An Experience in Reading W.R. Bion,” while co-editing a clinical/theoretical text, Clinical Encounters: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory; in clinical training in the object relations tradition of psychoanalysis at Trinity College Dublin.

Heather Love (University of Pennsylania), author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard, 2007) and co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History on “Is There Life After Identity Politics”; currently working on a book on the source materials for Erving Goffman’s 1963 book Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity, tentatively titled The Stigma Archive.

Michael O’Rourke (Independent Colleges, Dublin), editor and co-editor of Love, Sex, Intimacy, and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800 (Palgrave, 2003); Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World (Palgrave, 2006), Derrida and Queer Theory (Palgrave, 2010); founder and organizer with Noreen Giffney of Th(e)eories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research; series director, with Noreen Giffney, of Ashgate’s Queer Interventions book series, which has published Queer Movie Medievalisms, edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, as well as Queer Renaissance Historiography, edited by Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray, and Will Stockton.

Michael Johnson (University of Texas Austin)

Leah DeVun (Texas A&M University)

Masha Raskolnikov (Cornell University)

Eva Hayward (Duke University)

Public Feelings Group (University of Texas)

and more and more!

All interested graduate students are invited to submit a proposal to the 24th annual University of Wisconsin French and Italian Graduate Student Symposium, Articulating Communities, scheduled to take place in the Pyle Center on April 15-16, 2011.

Symposium presentations should be in English, twenty minutes in length (i.e., seven to eight pages double-spaced) and may address a topic from any period or discipline. Please submit your abstract of 250 words by e-mail attachment no later than February 4, 2011 to the GAFIS symposium co-chairs in charge of abstracts, Loren Eadie and Trésor Yoassi at gafisabstracts2011@gmail.com

The Student Journal of Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin is accepting papers from graduate and undergraduate students. The Student Journal of Latin American Studies is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to foster student research on topics relating to Latin America, promote a better understanding of the region, and link the research of graduate and undergraduate students around the world.

We invite all students conducting research related to Latin America to contribute to the journal and encourage faculty and staff across colleges and disciplines to promote this opportunity among their students. In order to be considered for publication, the articles must be submitted by November 15th, 2010.

Articles may be written in English or Spanish according to guidelines posted online.Those interested in contributing to the Student Journal of Latin American Studies or promoting it will find more information at our website: http://www.sjofas.org

If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at sjofas@gmail.com