Erin Arizzi, arizzi@email.unc.edu
CFP-- "Feminism Here and Now: An Interdisciplinary Conversation"
"Feminism Here and Now: An Interdisciplinary Conversation"
November 6 and 7, 2015
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
website: fhnconference.com
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit abstracts to
the inaugural meeting of "Feminism Here and Now," an interdisciplinary
conference organized by PhD students in the Department of Communication
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As the US continues to grapple with changes regarding gender, race,
class, and sexuality in an increasingly global environment, "Feminism
Here and Now" seeks to encourage critical conversation among faculty,
graduate students, and undergraduate students about the contemporary and
future states of feminist theory, pedagogy, and praxis. Both inside and
outside of the academy, feminism remains a contested term that raises
many unresolved questions. What are the relationships among feminist
studies, critical race studies, black feminist studies, sexuality
studies, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory? What is the proper
object of inquiry for feminist projects (women? genders? non-humans?)?
Is feminist theory transnational? How might feminism continue to
critique and intervene in a broad spectrum of cultural, political, and
social issues in the first half of the 21st century?
Instead of definitively answering these and other questions, this
conference will provide an opportunity for conversations among feminist
students and scholars from diverse academic disciplines. We invite
abstracts on feminism here and now with an understanding that writers
may consider each of these terms in their broadest contexts, where
feminism may refer to a multiplicity of political and theoretical
positions; here may designate any place or space; and now can include
all relevant pasts, presents, and futures. Potential areas of inquiry
may include, but are not limited to: defining feminisms, feminist
histories and futures, sexuality studies, queer theory, LGBTQ studies,
new media, and the future of feminist activism.
Undergraduate and graduate abstracts (400 words maximum) may be
submitted on the "Feminism Here and Now: An Interdisciplinary
Conversation" website at fhnconference.com. The deadline for submissions
is September 15, 2015. Participants will be notified of acceptance by
October 1.
Rachel E. Dubrofsky, racheldubrofsky@gmail.com
New Book: Feminist Surveillance Studies
We are happy to announce the publication of the edited collection Feminist
Surveillance Studies (Duke University Press). Feminist Surveillance Studies
(edited by Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana A. Magnet) insists on the urgency
of developing a critical feminist scholarship and praxis on surveillance, placing
gender, race, class, and sexuality at the center of surveillance studies.
Concerned with exposing the ways in which surveillance is tied to discrimination,
it investigates what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what
cost.
“Feminist Surveillance Studies provides a much-needed set of feminist
interventions into the study of surveillance. The essays offer critically important
insights into the gendered dimensions of state surveillance, vividly outline the
structural inequalities designed into surveillance regimes, and provide a wealth of
avenues for future research.”—Kelly A. Gates, author of Our Biometric Future:
Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance
For more information please visit https://www.dukeupress.edu/feministsurveillance-studies.
To save 30% on the paperback edition of my new book Feminist Surveillance
Studies, call Duke University Press at 888-651-0122 and give them the coupon
code E15FSURV.
CFP: Special Issue - Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies. Deadline
August 1, Bernardo Attias
CFP-- Chapter abstracts invited for a book on urban communication
regulation, Harvey Jassem
Special Issue for the Journal of Family Communication, Jordan Soliz
-------------------------------------------------------------------Bernardo Attias, bernardo.attias@csun.edu
CFP: Special Issue - Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies. Deadline
August 1
Cultural Studies<->Critical Methods Special Issue
Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies:
Ongoing Settlement, Cultural Production, and Resistance
Guest Editors: Aimee Carrillo Rowe and Eve Tuck
Aimee.carrillo@csun.edu
Settler Colonial Studies comprises an important body of scholarship
emerging from Indigenous studies, feminist studies, queer theory, and
critical ethnic studies. Recent theorizations of settler colonialism
have examined how cultural productions remain complicit with ongoing
settlement, both in everyday practices and intellectual projects like
queer studies, feminist studies, and critical race studies (see Barker,
Denetdale, Million, Morgensen, Goeman, Rifkin, Simpson, Smith). Cultural
studies' theorizations of race, space, and colonization have yet to
adequately grapple with the politics of settlement; whiteness must be
more fully interrogated as a settler project, especially within U.S.
contexts; imperialism must be theorized as productive of, but not the
same as settler colonialism; and popular cultural studies should be
radically rethought through a critical examination of pervasive
representations that disappear Indigenous peoples. This special issue of
CS<->CM invites the interrogation and unsettling of settler colonialism
via theoretical, methodological, and affective projects to revise
underlying assumptions within cultural studies about sovereignty,
racialization, imperialism, and Indigeneity.
Works in settler colonial studies may be at their best when they engage
Indigenous theorizations of genocide and survivance, and Black
theorizations of antiblackness and futurity. As such, settler colonial
studies provides a vibrant examination of power relations in its
extensive treatment of such topics as: sovereignty, nationalism and
nation formation; imperial formations, genocide, removal, colonial
legacies; the politics of land, landedness, space and place;
intersectionality, queer theory, and gender studies; race,
racialization, and white supremacy; affect studies; futurities,
materialities, environmentalism, new materialism; tourism and travel.
Authors in this special issue are invited to ask how settler
colonialism's violence and genocide shape cultural production and
political movements-including critical intellectual projects like
cultural studies-as they examine how the processes through which
settlement, land theft, and ongoing forms of genocide are maintained,
normalized, and erased within the popular imaginary.
New approaches to a variety of the above topics are of urgent importance
to cultural studies practitioners. Yet, with the exception of a handful
of scholars, treatments of settler colonialism have largely remained
undertheorized in cultural studies, where concepts like "settlers" and
"settlement" appear as secondary categories-if they appear at all. For
instance, while postcolonial critics have attended to settler
colonialism in their theorizations of nation state and imperial
formations, the "post" remains a vexed term in Native Studies, where any
move to place colonialism in the past risks reifying the myth of the
disappearing Indian and the naturalized settler. Rather the category of
the (indigenous) 'savage' is the condition of possibility for Western
thought, invisibly structuring the production of seemingly critical
concepts that circulate within cultural studies, like freedom, history,
origin, and difference (see Byrd).
This special issue of CS<->CM considers the political stakes of the
complicity of cultural studies in settler colonialism and expands,
revises, and repurposes the scope of the field's inquiry, politics and
archive. Potential projects might consider questions of cultural
production alongside topics such as the following:
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Epistemologies, methods, and processes of settler colonialism
Intersectionality, racialization and settlement, settlers of
color, and comparative ethnic studies
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Sovereignty, nation formation, landedness, space and place
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Settlement, capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization
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Antiblackness and Indigenous erasure
Dispossession, disappearance, loss, and resistance in the
production of Indigenous survivances (Vizenor), epistemologies, and
settler knowledge
"Felt theory," affect, relationality, solidarity, and spatial and
temporal productions
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Rituals, daily practices, and ceremony
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Theories of change, futurities, speculative futures and fictions
Materialism, vibrancy, matter, mattering, environmentalism, and
Indigenous epistemologies
Indigeneity, postindianess (Vizenor, Tuck & Yang), disappearance,
savagery and conquest in cultural and theoretical productions
Indigeneity, violence, genocide, and the prison industrial
complex
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Roots, routes, and returns
Deadlines for inclusion:
Please send your title and abstract to aimee.carrillo@csun.edu by
August 1, 2015
Papers are limited to 7,000 words (including references and
notes) and ready for review by October 1, 2015
Shannon Roper, Shannon.Roper@marist.edu
DEADLINE EXTENDED--Women & Society Conference
Submission Deadline Extended to July 25th!!!
24th Women & Society Conference - 2015
October 23 & 24, 2015
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York
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Keynote Speaker
Dr. Stacey Radin
Dr. Stacey Radin (PhD in Psychology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
of Yeshiva University) is a psychologist, researcher, and consultant who
has dedicated her career to the development of girls and women. She is
the founder and president of Corporate Equilibrium, specializing in the
psychology of organizational effectiveness, and a member of the United
Nation's Working Group on Girls. Dr. Radin is also Founder and CEO of
Unleashed-- a social justice program for middle schools empowering them
to take a stand against an injustice they care deeply about; advocating
for animal rights and welfare. Most recently, she is the author of
Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to Become
Powerful Leaders with Leslie Goldman, published by Simon & Schuster in
2015.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2015 Women & Society
Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and
multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied
in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist
inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student
papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates
may attend at no cost.
Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio. Papers, workshops,
roundtables and panels are welcome; please include abstracts and bios
for all participants, with one contact person. Please include all
contact information--including home and e-mail addresses for summer
correspondence to:
Women & Society Conference c/o Shannon Roper
School of Communication & the Arts
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
OR submit online at:
http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womensstudies/proposalsubmission.html
For more information email: WomenAndSocietyConference@Marist.edu
Proposals NOW must be postmarked no later than July 25, 2015.
Please circulate the CFP, thank you.
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