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Date: 08-Oct-1994 04:03pm EST
From: Kolmar, Wendy
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Subject: NWSA '95 Call for Papers
National Women's Studies Association 1995 Conference
Women's Movements:
Cultural, Intellectual and Political (R)evolutions
June 21-25, 1995
University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: November 8, 1994
After a year of tremendous growth and its very successful June
1994 conference at Iowa State University, the National Women's
Studies Association moves for its 16th annual conference,
"Women's Movements: Cultural, Intellectual, and Political
(R)evolutions," to the University of Wyoming. In Wyoming, the
first state to pass women's suffrage, we will consider women's
relationship to revolutionary/evolutionary change historically
and globally, in women's studies and the women's movement, and in
our own organization.
How have women participated in the political, social, cultural
and intellectual revolutions of the past and present? How have
women shaped these revolutions or been excluded from them? How
have women themselves organized for change, creating movements to
struggle for political and economic justice? How have women
participated in and helped to define other movements for change:
the civil rights movements, the union movement, the gay and
lesbian rights movement; the peace movement; the environmental
movement? How have women's lives been shaped by change as they
have moved or been removed from their land and homes as refugees
from hunger, violence or political or religious persecution;
moved around the globe as immigrants; moved into cities as
workers in the industrial and technological revolutions of the
nineteenth and twentieth century or as domestic workers in South
Africa or textile and electronics workers in the Free Trade Zones
of Southeast Asia; moved to travel the world?
Especially in the past 20 years, women inside and outside of the
academy around the globe have challenged the fundamental
conceptualizations of gender, race, class and sexuality, the
epistemological and methodological bases of disciplines, the
social and cultural arrangements of societies; the definitions of
canon and quality in art, music, literature, dance, and theater;
the systems of representation in media, film, and other popular
forms. How have our challenges provoked reaction, retaliation
and backlash? Have we created and are we creating new orders and
understandings?
The conference plenaries are organized around four major themes
which reflect the questions raised above: Generations of Women,
The Politics of Survival, Chaos and Order, and Communities and
Coalitions. We welcome all proposals which respond to the issues
raised by the conference theme and plenary topics as they are
defined below or as presenters might define them. Presentations
by activists, community and cultural workers, teachers, graduate
and undergraduate students and scholars are invited.
Interdisciplinary papers are welcome as are papers, panels and
other forms of presentations in all fields of the humanities, the
natural sciences, social sciences creative and performing arts,
as well as health, law, and medical fields.
PLENARIES:
GENERATIONS OF WOMEN
What are the commonalities and conflicts among generations of
women within social and political movements? Within the feminist
movement and women's studies? Within families and communities?
Between lesbian theorists of the 70s and 80s and queer theorists
of the 90s? How can we use, understand and pass on the legacy of
previous generations of women activists, writers, and scholars
while also revising and critiquing it? How useful are such
familial metaphors for helping us to understanding relationships
among women of different ages? Are there alternative paradigms
for understanding such relationships?
POLITICS OF SURVIVAL
How do we define survival and how do those definitions vary
across class, culture, sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality and
time? How have women around the world organized for material
survival, for food, water, housing, health care, education and
jobs? How have women worked for the ecological survival of the
planet? How have women worked for cultural survival, for the
preservation, transmission and recovery of their stories, art,
religion, material culture? How have lesbians, women of color,
working class women, older women, women with disabilities
survived, resisting erasure within the social mainstream and
within the women's movement, gay rights movement, civil rights
movement etc? How have women survived in the academy as faculty,
students and staff members, resisting sexism, sexual harassment,
and backlash?
CHAOS AND ORDER
Are chaos and order gendered terms? How do these conceptions
differ among cultures? How have feminists been part of creating
and critiquing definitions of chaos and order as they are
embodied in the legal system, science, epistemologies, social,
political and cultural institutions, art and aesthetics?
What does the "new world order" mean for women? How and why have
feminist theorists and artists embraced chaos, madness, and the
non-rational as a resistance strategy? How does this strategy
hold up in the face of the chaos of violence, abuse, battering,
rape, political unrest, and discrimination that affects real
women's lives? Have women succeeded in creating new concepts of
chaos and of order that take account of the realities of women's
lives?
COMMUNITIES AND COALITIONS
How have women defined and built communities in the past and in
the present? In different national, cultural and historical
contexts? Among immigrants? Through grass roots organizing and
development projects? Within religious and social institutions?
How have women defined and created coalitions for survival,
resistance, and revolution? Between the academy and the
community? Among women of different races, classes, sexualities,
ages, abilities? Among women of different nations and cultural
traditions? When and why have women chosen or been forced into
separate communities -- utopian or religious communities,
single-sex educational institutions, harems, lesbian communities,
artistic communities, movements, or salons? When and why have
women resisted or rejected separatism to work in coalition with
women and men against war, racism, political repression, or
economic exploitation? How have women imagined communities in
theory and in fiction and art?
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NWSA makes conference registration and organization membership
available to everyone regardless of their ability to pay through
a sliding scale. Contact the NWSA office for membership
information: NWSA, 7100 Baltimore Boulevard, Suite 301,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740. (301) 403-0525.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Send papers, by November 8, 1994:
NWSA '95
Women's Studies Program
Ross Hall 405
University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming 82071-4297
Please provide a 1-2 page typed abstract of your paper or
description of your session or presentation. If you also provide
information on the level and likely audience (i.e. particular
discipline, caucus, area of interest etc.) for your session, it
will help the program committee to avoid scheduling conflicts. It
is also crucial that you provide complete address and phone
information for all presenters in your session. Conference
presenters must be members of NWSA for the calendar year of the
conference and must register for the conference at which they are
presenting. Presenters will be dropped from the program if they
have not joined and registered by the time the program book goes
to press (April 15).
Proposal Cover Sheet Deadline: November 8, 1994
Please TYPE the information on this cover sheet and attach it to
your proposal. Session proposals should be 1-2 typed pages.
Mail proposals to: NWSA '95, Women's Studies, Ross Hall 405,
University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071-4297; or e-mail to:
[log in to unmask] or FAX to: 307-766-3812.
PRESENTER(S) NAME(S):
Note: Conference presenters must be member of NWSA for the
calendar year of the conference and must register for the
conference at which they are presenting. Presenters will be
dropped from the program if they have not joined and
registered by the time the program book goes to press (April
15). Presenters registration fee is non-refundable.
ADDRESS(ES) (FOR SPRING 1995):
PHONE(S)
HOME: FAX:
OFFICE: E-MAIL:
PAPER/SESSION TITLE:
SESSION TYPE (Circle one):
Panel Workshop Paper (15-20 min) Exhibit
Film or Video Performance or Reading
PREFERRED SESSION LENGTH: One Hour and 15 minutes
One Hour and 30 minutes
EQUIPMENT NEEDS (Circle): SPECIAL NEEDS:
Slide Projector & Screen Mobility Assistance
VCR & Monitor Hearing Assistance
Overhead Projector Visual Assistance
Other:___________________
DAY/TIME PREFERENCE (not guaranteed):
SESSION DESCRIPTION: In the space provided below, please type a
15-20 word description of your paper or session for the program
book. Direct your description to a general audience and be aware
that your description may be revised or edited.
NWSA '95 -- UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, LARAMIE
NWSA '95 is co-sponsored by the University of Wyoming Women's
Studies Program, with the assistance of the Office of the Provost
and the College of Arts and Sciences.
ACCOMMODATIONS:
Dormitory rooms on campus: $12 and $17 per night
Lodgings close to campus include Laramie Inn, University
Inn, Holiday Inn and Sunset Inn.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
$95 early registration for members
$45 early registration for low-income and student members
TRAVEL
Laramie is early accessible by car via I-80 and, traveling
from Denver I-25 and I-80. Plane reservations may be made
to Denver with shuttle service to Laramie; or directly into
Laramie or Cheyenne.
Travellers who wish to have a car while they are in Laramie
are strongly encouraged to reserve their car for pick-up in
Denver or Cheyenne.
The NWSA travel agent for the conference is Laramie Travel
Center, Deb Olson (owner); Laramie Travel will offer
discounted air fares for NWSA travellers, as well as
providing round trip shuttle service from Denver. As an
additional bonus, Laramie Travel will be providing a return
profit to NWSA for each ticket purchased through their
agency. Phone: 800-845-1683 or 307-745-7321.
SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS
1995 Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards in Women's Studies
All awards, fellowships, and scholarships are intended to expand
the boundaries and possibilities of women's studies scholarship
and are available to people of all ages whose qualifications are
compatible with the requirements of each award. Application
forms can be obtained from and submissions are to be sent to:
NWSA, 7100 Baltimore Boulevard, Suite 301, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, (301)403-0525. Except as
indicated, all entries must be postmarked no later than February
15, 1995. NWSA invites individual members--or groups of members-
-to memorialize a friend, colleague or loved one by establishing
a new award or contributing to an existing one.
Illinois-NWSA Manuscript Award
$1,000
This award is presented annually for the best book-length
manuscript in women's studies. Along with the $1,000 prize, the
University of Illinois will publish the manuscript. Manuscripts
can be on any subject in women's studies that expands our
understanding of women's lives and gender systems.
Interdisciplinary studies and discipline-specific studies are
equally welcome. A precis of manuscript entries must be
submitted by January 30, 1995.
Pergamon-NWSA Scholarship in Women's Studies
$1,000 First Place Scholarship funded by Pergamon Press
$500 Second Place Scholarship funded by NWSA
The Pergamon-NWSA Scholarships will be awarded to two students
who, in the fall of 1995, will be researching or writing a
Master's thesis or Ph.D. dissertation germane to the
interdisciplinary field of women's studies. Students need not
necessarily be enrolled in a women's studies program. Preference
will be given to candidates who are NWSA members and whose
research projects on women examine color or class.
NWSA Graduate Scholarship in Lesbian Studies
$1,000
The NWSA Scholarship will be awarded to a student who, in the
fall of 1995, will be doing research or writing a Master's thesis
or Ph.D. dissertation in Lesbian Studies. Preference will be
given to NWSA members.
Scholarship in Jewish Women's Studies
$500
The Scholarship in Jewish Women's Studies will be given to a
graduate student who is enrolled for the fall 1995 semester and
whose area of research is Jewish Women's Studies.
Pat Parker Poetry Award
$250 funded by Woman in the Moon Press
($10 Submission Fee payable to Woman in the Moon Press)
This award is given for an outstanding narrative poem or dramatic
monologue by a black, lesbian, feminist poet. Submitted poems
can be up to 50 lines in length and on a topic related to the
concerns of African American women. lesbians and feminists, or
the life and work of Pat Parker. Special preference will be
given to poems that inspire, enlighten or encourage. If no
suitable entry is received, no award will be made. Submissions
accepted between March 1 and July 31, 1995.
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