------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED FROM: Alan Sparkes Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 13:25:33 -0700 Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> Errors-To: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Originator: [log in to unmask] Sender: [log in to unmask] Precedence: bulk From: Wendy Kolmar <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[log in to unmask]> Subject: NWSA '95 Call for Papers X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0b -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: discussion of women's health issues X-To: [log in to unmask] X-Sender: [log in to unmask] **************************************************** ** ** ** This message was sent to the obsolete system ** ** uwavm.u.washington.edu. Please inform the ** ** sender of a more appropriate address. In ** ** most cases you'll want to use a generic ** ** address like [log in to unmask] that does ** ** not include a system name that may become ** ** obsolete in the future. ** ** ** **************************************************** Date: 08-Oct-1994 04:03pm EST From: Kolmar, Wendy WKOLMAR Dept: FAC/STAFF Tel No: (201)-408-3632 TO: Press SH to view recipients. 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? ************************************************** 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.