Dear All: This is x-posted from Femisa. Apologies for any duplications. Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 15:51:08 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: Fwd: Call for Papers (fwd) To: FEMINIST THEORY & GENDER STUDIES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CALL FOR PAPERS > >ANNUAL CPC WOMEN'S STUDIES CONFERENCE >Saturday, March 25, 2000 >Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Pennsylvania > >TOPIC: "Women as Agents of Change" > >Keynote Speaker: Temma Kaplan, Director of Women's Studies, SUNY, Stony Brook >"Making Spectacles of Themselves: Women in Grassroots Movements" > >We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics: > >Oral history of local movements and activists >Activist women in their communities >Artists as agents of change >Celebrities as agents of change >Mass media: obstacle or tool? >Breaking new ground in different disciplines >Practicing feminist science >Remembering our foremothers >Bringing our foremothers into the curriculum >Blues as protest >Reconciling race and gender activism >Women's activism within the world's religious institutions >How feminism joins with and enhances other movements > Feminism and environmentalism > Women and labor unions and unionization > Women and peace movements > Prostitutes' rights movement > Women and pornography >Reevaluations of race and class in 70s feminist activism >Conservative women's activism >Workshops on preserving oral history >Incorporating oral histories into the classroom >Workshops on organizing for change >Being an agent of change in the personal sphere >Student activists on campus >Recognizing women's work worldwide >Globalization of feminist activism against violence, sexual exploitation, >and sweatshops >Postcolonial feminist theory and action >Feminist Activism in the Next Millennium >And any other ideas we haven't been able to think of! > >In this conference we seek to bring together those whose work deals with >changing the lives of women and men in their work and home environments and >in local and global communities. We seek papers and proposals that >envision change as a complex network of actions. While we welcome papers >dealing with feminist political action, we also hope to see action defined >in different and multiple ways. We solicit papers and proposals that focus >on feminist action in different academic disciplines; in different social >and religious institutions; and in the arts, media and sports. We are >interested in global as well as historical transformative movements. Our >goals are to challenge paradigms to ask new questions, and to define >activism for the millennium. > >We seek proposals that break down the boundary between audience and >participant � workshops, roundtables, personal narratives, dance � as well >as more traditional scholarly papers and reports from activists themselves >and those working directly with activist organizations. Individual and >group proposals are welcome. We are particular interested in proposals >that highlight collaborative projects among social service agencies, >community groups, and schools, and colleges and universities. > >Proposals must be received by January 28, 2000. You will receive >notification by the middle of February 2000. Send proposals to Molly >Seidel, Executive Assistant, Central Pennsylvania Consortium, c/o Franklin >& Marshall College, P.O. 3003, Lancaster PA 17604-3003; email: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; fax: 717-399-4518. > > > > > > > >----------------- >Temma F. Berg >Co-coordinator of Women's Studies >Associate Professor >Department of English >Gettysburg College >717-337-6753 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************** Judith Lorber, Ph.D. Ph/Fax -- 212-689-2155 319 East 24 Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apt 27E New York, NY 10010 Facts are theory laden; theories are value laden; values are history laden. -- Donna J. Haraway **************************************************************** ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
