Location! Location! Location!

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[© Jorge Cham, PhD Comics]

I was unhappy with my paper proposal, so I asked Dr. Logan if I could meet with her to go over it (on October 25).  After a productive brainstorming session, she mentioned that my proposal would be a good fit for a conference presentation, specifically the Florida Consortium for Women’s and Gender Studies Conference at Florida Atlantic University.  


So, I’m excited to announce that I will, after revisions, submit my abstract/paper proposal for the conference in April 2011.  My previous conference experience is limited to Sigma Tau Delta’s International Convention in 2004 (“A Pleasant Walk, A Pleasant Talk”) – I did not submit a paper.  I attended with another officer of our chapter for the workshops and paper presentations, which were amazing, and I greatly enjoyed our guest speaker Sarah Vowell.  To be honest, at the time, I didn’t even know that undergraduates could do such a thing – submit papers for conferences.  I plan on rectifying that misunderstanding during my graduate study career.


Below is the call for papers for the conference, courtesy of Dr. Logan.  I hope that some of my classmates will submit their proposals too.


CALL FOR PAPERS


Florida Consortium for Women’s and Gender Studies Conference
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
April 1-2, 2011

Gendered and Racialized Technologies of Change: 

Moving Discredited Knowledge from the Margins to the Center

We understand “gendered and racialized technologies of change” to comprise the techniques and practices through which feminists and queer activists generate change in the organization of social, political, and economic relations. The purpose of this conference is to cross disciplinary boundaries and bring together feminist and queer discourses regarding these technologies. 


We welcome individual papers, panels and roundtables or workshops as well as innovative presentational formats from scholars, activists, and graduate students addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:

• Activist Strategies
• Civil and Human Rights
• Sexual Bodies, Sexualized Bodies, and Body Politics
• The Military Industrial Complex
• Corporate Culture
• The Feminization of Poverty
• Migration and Globalization
• The Changing (and Same Old) Faces of Oppression
• Intersections of the Local and the Global
• Environment
• Health and/or Women Healers
• New Media
• Popular Culture
• The Sacred and the Spiritual
• Visual and Performing Arts
• Science and Technology
• Pedagogy

Selected conference papers may be included in the Consortium anthology published by Cambridge Scholars Press. Past anthologies of conference papers include: Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change (2007), Florida without Borders: Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global (2008), and Femininities and Masculinities in a Global Context (currently in press).


To apply, please submit a 250-500 words double-spaced abstract. Abstracts should include the presenter’s contact information and brief vita. Deadline for submissions is January 15th, 2011. 

• Graduate Student abstracts should be sent via e-mail to Megan Halena at mhalena@fau.edu . 
• All other abstracts should be sent via e-mail to Josephine Beoku-Betts at wsc@fau.edu. 
• Final decisions on submitted abstracts will be sent by February 28th, 2011

For more information on the FAU Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies M.A. degree program, please visit our website: http://www.fau.edu/WomensStudies/




Works Cited:
Cham, Jorge. "Call for Papers!" Comic strip. PhD: Piled Higher & Deeper. 25 June 2010. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. <http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1335>.