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Rutgers Visiting Scholar Program
Armstrong Foundation Scholarship
NWSA Scholarships
Burke Jane Austen Scholar Grants
Planned Parenthood Media Awards
Rankin Foundation Scholarships
New Mexico Women's Foundation
Rockefeller Family Fund
NWSA Women of Color Caucus Essay Awards (Grad and Undergrad)
NWSA Conference Travel Grants
Research on Gender in Science and Engineering
Women's Mental Health in Pregancy, Postpartum
Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Women
Visiting Scholar Program
Rutgers Institute for Research on Women
The sponsor promotes innovative scholarship on women and gender through its interdisciplinary forums, lectures, and conferences. The sponsor offers support for visiting postdoctoral scholars to benefit from Rutgers' unique resources in the study of women and gender, which include the Center for American Women and Politics, Center for Women and Work, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Institute for Women’s Leadership.
Address: 160 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555
U.S.A.
E-mail: irw@rci.rutgers.edu
Web Site: http://irw.rutgers.edu/scholars/overview.html
Program URL: http://irw.rutgers.edu/scholars/07-08vscall.pdf
Tel: 732-932-9072
Fax: 732-932-0861
Application review for the following academic year will begin in March, but applications will be accepted until all positions are filled.
The 2007-08 seminar theme will be "Communities: Research and Action." Visiting Scholars are joined in the seminar by Rutgers faculty and graduate students whose work explores the seminar theme from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. In addition to participating in our weekly faculty/graduate seminar, Visiting Scholars in residence at the IRW are invited to give a public presentation about their work.
Postdoctoral scholars working in any discipline may apply.
Visiting Scholars typically hold academic appointments elsewhere but wish to be in residence at the Institute for a semester or a year. Although Visiting Scholar appointments are unsalaried, they include access to libraries and recreational facilities, a private office, and participation in university lectures, colloquia and seminars. Scholars also receive university email accounts and modest photocopying and long-distance telephone support.
Scholarship Program
Armstrong (Ethel Louise) Foundation
The sponsor provides scholarships ranging from $500 to $2,000 per year to any woman with a physical disability who is pursuing graduate studies at a college or university in the US.
Deadline(s): 06/01/2007
Contact: Deborah Lewis, Executive Director
Address: 2460 North Lake Ave., PMB #128
Altadena, CA 91001
E-mail: executivedirector@ela.org
Program URL: http://www.ela.org/scholarships/scholarships_process.html
Tel: 626-398-8840
Fax: 626-398-8843
Any area of study is acceptable. Eligible applicants are women with a physical disability.
Applicants must be currently accepted to a graduate program working towards a Masters degree or above in an accredited college or university in the United States. Applicants must be active in a local, state or national disability organization. The award is to offset tuition costs only.
Graduate Scholarship Award
National Women's Studies Association
The sponsor will award $1,000 to a student who, in the fall of 2007, will be engaged in the research or writing stages of a Master’s Thesis or Ph.D. Dissertation in the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies.
Deadline(s): 02/15/2007
Address: 7100 Baltimore Boulevard
Suite 502
College Park, MD 20740
.
E-mail: nwsaoffice@nwsa.org
Web Site: http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/index.php
Program URL: http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/downloads/gradschol.doc
Tel: 301-403-0525
Fax: 301-403-4137
The research project must be on women and must enhance the sponsor's mission.
Applicants must be members of the sponsor's organization at the time of application
Graduate Scholarship in Lesbian Studies
National Women's Studies Association
A scholarship of $500 will be awarded to a student who is engaged in the research and writing stages of a Master’s thesis or Ph.D. dissertation in the field of Lesbian studies.
Deadline(s): 02/15/2007
Address: 7100 Baltimore Boulevard
Suite 500
College Park, MD 20740
E-mail: nwsaoffice@nwsa.org
Web Site: http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/index.php
Program URL:
http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/downloads/lesbianscholar.doc
Tel: 301-403-0525
Fax: 301-403-4137
A scholarship will be awarded to a student who is engaged in the research and writing stages of a Master’s thesis or Ph.D. dissertation in Lesbian studies. Preference will be given to members of the sponsor's organization.
Scholarship in Jewish Women's Studies
National Women's Studies Association
A scholarship of $1,000 is awarded to a graduate student who is enrolled full-time for the 2007/2008 academic year and whose area of research is Jewish Women’s Studies.
Deadline(s): 03/01/2007
Address: 7100 Baltimore Boulevard
Suite 502
College Park, MD 20740
E-mail: nwsaoffice@nwsa.org
Program URL:
http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/downloads/NWSAJewishScolarship.doc Tel:
301-403-0524
Fax: 301-403-4137
A scholarship is awarded to a graduate student who has a special interest in the lives, work and culture of Jewish Women
Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Grant
Goucher College
The sponsor provides support to scholars for the biannual Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Grant. This five-day residency offers scholars the opportunity to spend five days with the sponsor's outstanding Burke Collection of books and materials related to Jane Austen and includes a $1,000 stipend, travel expenses, and hotel accommodations.
Deadline(s): 04/15/2007
Contact: Nancy Magnuson, College Librarian
Address: Julia Rogers Library
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204
E-mail: libraryweb@goucher.edu
Program URL: http://www.goucher.edu/x11619.xml
Tel: 410-337-6212
Fax: 410-337-6419
This is a biennial award. The scholar will offer one public lecture on Jane Austen and will
meet with students and faculty to discuss research methods and scholarly interests. The residency must be taken during the fall or spring semesters of the 2007-2008 academic year
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. Maggie Awards
The award recognizes exceptional achievement by the media and arts and entertainment industries in support of reproductive rights and healthcare issues, including contraception, sexuality education, teen pregnancy, abortion, and international family planning.
Deadline(s): 01/31/2007
Contact: Sara Friedman
Address: Maggie Awards Program
434 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
Web Site:
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/media-2007-maggie-awards.pdf
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/news-articles-press/politics-policy-issues
Tel: 221-261-4403
Awards are given in the following categories: television, music, theater, film, video, radio, newspaper, magazine, book, new media, and advertising. Awards will not automatically be given in every category each year.
Entries may be submitted by national newspapers and magazines; wire and online services; radio, cable, and television stations; and radio, cable, television, multimedia, recording, and music production companies and publishers. Entires may also be submitted by third
parties, both those within Planned Parenthood and those unaffiliated with Planned Parenthood. Preference will be given to entries that were published or broadcast during 2006.
Rankin (Jeannette) Foundation Women's Education Fund
The sponsor awards scholarships to women thirty-five years of age and older who, through undergraduate or vocational education, are seeking to better themselves, their families, and their communities. Applicants must have limited financial means.
Deadline(s): 03/01/2007
Address: P.O. Box 6653
Athens, GA 30604-6653
U.S.A.
E-mail: info@rankinfoundation.org
Web Site: http://www.rankinfoundation.org
Program URL: http://www.rankinfoundation.org/apply/default.php
Tel: 706-208-1211
Fax: 706-548-0202
Each year, the sponsor awards grants to low-income women who have a vision of how their education will benefit themselves, their families, and their communities. The grants are for $2,000 and will be awarded in the fall of 2007. The funds are not limited to just tuition
expenses, but can also be used for books, supplies, transportation, childcare, or any other living expenses.
Applicants must be: female, at least thirty-five years of age as of March 1, 2007; U.S. citizens and pursuing a technical/vocational degree, an associate's degree, or a first bachelor's degree; and
enrolled or accepted in an accredited school and have limited financial means.
New Mexico Women's Foundation
The sponsor supports innovative programs that expand and improve opportunities for New Mexico's women and girls. The sponsor is dedicated to creating employment opportunities for women that allow them to stay in their communities and produce new products.
Deadline(s): 02/23/2007, 09/07/2007
Address: 551 Cordova Road, #411
Santa Fe, NM 87505
U.S.A.
E-mail: nmwomenandgirls@aol.com
Program URL: http://www.nmwf.org/guidelines.html
Tel: 505-983-6155
Fax: 505-992-4974
The sponsor is dedicated to creating employment opportunities for women that allow them to stay in their communities and produce products or establish services. Examples are: creating arts-oriented retreats or centers such as those that include writers or visual artists; establishing a tortilla factory; creating a sewing or weaving cooperative. The project will help women produce and sell handmade crafts as simple as rag rugs, as complex as developing computer software programs, or as intense as catering for community events.
Groups or organizations, including guilds, cooperatives, and/or other community centers, must qualify under the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt section of the Internal Revenue Code or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal agent. Eligible applicants include: emerging grassroots groups or organizations, located in New Mexico that help women participate in, and/or develop, cottage industries. Groups must consist of three or more women and have some type of governing body.
Grants awarded are generally $2,000 but can go higher depending on the need.
Rockefeller Family Fund
SYNOPSIS: The sponsor makes grants for advocacy efforts in the following program areas: Citizen Participation and Government Accountability, Economic Justice for Women, The Environment, and Institutional Responsiveness. Eligible applicants are tax-exempt organizations.
Deadline(s):
Established Date: 11/12/1980
Follow-Up Date: 11/01/2007
Review Date: 11/06/2006
Contact: Maureen McCarthy
Address: 437 Madison Avenue
37th Floor
New York, NY 10022
U.S.A.
E-mail: mmccarthy@rffund.org
Program URL: http://www.rffund.org/rules/
Tel: 212-812-4252
Fax: 212-812-4299
Deadline Ind: Receipt
Deadline Open: Yes
*See Restrictions for further information.
DEADLINE NOTE
Letters of inquiry may be submitted at any time. Organizations invited to submit a full proposal will be provided with further guidelines.
OBJECTIVES: The sponsor provides support for advocacy efforts that are action-oriented and likely to yield tangible public policy results within the above program areas. The sponsor has four program areas. The Economic Justice for Women program area supports projects designed to promote economic justice. In particular, the program seeks to provide women with equitable employment opportunities and to improve their work lives.
Only non-profit, tax-exempt organizations within the U.S. are eligible.
Grants are usually in the $25,000 to $30,000 range. Most are for one year, although a limited number of multi-year grants are allowed for projects that the sponsor determines are in need of long-term support.
Della Scott Women of Color Caucus Undergraduate Student Essay Awards
National Women's Studies Association
The sponsor provides an award to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging Black women scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses about feminist/womanist issues concerning women and girls of color
Deadline(s): 02/15/2007
Contact: Dr. Pat Washington
Address: University of Maryland
7100 Baltimore Boulevard
Suite 502
College Park, MD 20740
U.S.A.
E-mail: Themorgangirl@aol.com
Program URL: http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/downloads/WoCCS07.pdf
Tel: 619-582-5383
Fax: 619-229-8226
The purpose of the Della Scott Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Awards is to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging Black women scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses about feminist/womanist issues concerning women and girls of color. Scholarly essays must provide critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses of issues/experiences of women and girls of African descent in the United States and/or throughout the Diaspora.
Eligible applicants are women of African descent currently enrolled or accepted for admission to undergraduate programs.
One $400 award is available.
Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Awards
National Women's Studies Association
The sponsor provides essay awards of $400 each for one Latina, one Asian/Asian-American/Pacific Islander/Arab/Middle East Asian woman, and one Native American/American Indian/Alaskan Native woman undergraduate or graduate student.
Deadline(s): 02/15/2007
Contact: Dr. Pat Washington
Address: 7100 Baltimore Ave., Suite 502
College Park, MD 20740
U.S.A.
E-mail: Themorgangirl@aol.com.
Program URL: http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/downloads/WoCCS07.pdf
Tel: 619-582-5383
Fax: 619-229-8226
Scholarly essays must provide critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses of issues/experiences of Latina, Asian/Asian-American/Pacific-Islander/ Arab/Middle East Asian, Native American/American Indian/Alaskan Native women and girls. The focus may be national or international. Eligible applicants are women of Latina/o,
Asian/Asian-American/Pacific-Islander/ Arab/Middle East Asian or Native American/American Indian/Alaskan Native descent who is currently enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate or professional program.
Women of Color Caucus--Scott Powell Memorial Student Essay Award
National Women's Studies Association
The sponsor provides one writing award of $400. The award is open to students of any race/ethnicity or gender.
Deadline(s): 02/15/2007
Contact: Dr. Pat Washington
Address: 7100 Baltimore Ave., Suite 502,
College Park, MD 20740
U.S.A.
E-mail: Themorgangirl@aol.com
Program URL: http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/downloads/WoCCS07.pdf
Tel: 619-582-5383
Fax: 619-229-8226
Scholarly essays must provide critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses of issues/experiences of women and girls of African, Latina/o, Asian/Asian-American/Pacific-Islander, or Native American/American Indian/Alaskan Native descent- nationally and/or internationally.
Eligible applicants must be students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate or professional programs. Applicants may be of any race-ethnicity and gender, but must be currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program.
One award of $400 is available.
Westlove, Ltd. Women of Color Caucus Graduate Student Essay Awards
National Women's Studies Association
The sponsor provides an award to discover, encourage, and
promote the intellectual development of emerging Black women scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses about feminist/womanist issues concerning women and girls of color
Deadline(s): 02/15/2007
Contact: Dr. Pat Washington
Address: University of Maryland
7100 Baltimore Boulevard
Suite 502
College Park, MD 20740
U.S.A.
E-mail: Themorgangirl@aol.com
Program URL: http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/downloads/WoCCS07.pdf
Tel: 619-582-5383
Fax: 619-229-8226
Deadline Ind: Receipt
Deadline Open: No
The purpose of the Della Scott Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Awards is to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging Black women scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses about feminist/womanist issues concerning women and girls of color. Scholarly essays must provide critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses of issues/experiences of women and girls of African descent in the United States and/or throughout the Diaspora.
Eligible applicants are women of African descent who is currently enrolled in a graduate or professional program.
One $400 award is available.
NWSA Conference Travel Grant
National Women's Studies Association
The sponsor provides a limited number of travel grants to presenters at the 2007 NWSA Conference.
Deadline(s): 02/15/2007
Address: 7100 Baltimore Ave.
Suite 502
College Park, MD 20740
U.S.A.
E-mail: nwsaweb@nwsa.org
Program URL: http://www.nwsaconference.org/travelform.html
Tel: 301-403-0524
The grants are intended to encouraging the participation in the NWSA of individuals whose presence enriches the diversity of and increases participation by under-represented constituencies in the NWSA.
Eligible applicants are Students, scholars and activists with a demonstrated need for financial assistance. Particular consideration will be given to assisting student presenters and emerging scholars who have not previously received NWSA travel grants.
Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE)
Directorate for Education and Human Resources/NSF
The program seeks to broaden the participation of girls and women in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education by supporting research, dissemination of research and extension services in education that will lead to a larger and more diverse domestic science and engineering workforce. Typical projects will contribute to the knowledge base addressing gender-related differences in learning and in the educational experiences that affect student interest, performance, and choice of careers; and how pedagogical approaches and teaching styles, curriculum, student services, and institutional culture contribute to causing or closing gender gaps that persist in certain fields. Projects will disseminate and apply findings, evaluation results, and proven good practices and products.
Deadline(s): 01/08/2007, 04/02/2007
Contact: Jolene Jesse, Program Director
Address: Division of Human Resource Development
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Room 815 N
Arlington, VA 22230
U.S.A.
E-mail: jjesse@nsf.gov
Program URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07501/nsf07501.htm
Tel: 703-292-7303
Fax: 703-292-9018
DEADLINE NOTE
Required prelimary proposals for Research and Extension Services are due January 8, 2007. Full proposals are due April 2, 2007 for Research, Extension, and Outreach and Communication.
OBJECTIVES: The program for Research on Gender in Science and Engineering seeks to build resources--developing the Nation's knowledge capital, social capital, and human capital--toward the goal of broadening the participation of girls and young women in STEM education from kindergarten through undergraduate education. The goal of this program is to advance participation of women and girls in STEM fields
where they continue to be underrepresented, in accord with the NSF's goal of developing a diverse science and engineering workforce.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligible applicants include colleges and universities, nonprofit, non-academic organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, and unaffiliated individuals.
It is estimated that twenty-two to twenty-seven grants per year will be awarded; a mix of Research Awards, Outreach and Communication Awards, and Extension Services Awards. Research proposals may request up to $500,000 for up to three years, pending availability of funds. Outreach and Communication proposals may request up to $200,000 for up to twenty-four months. Extension Services proposals may request up to
$500,000 each year for five years, with years four and five depending on performance. NSF expects to fund ten to twelve research proposals, ten to twelve Dissemination proposals, and two to three Extension Services proposals. It is anticipated that $5 million for new grants in all tracks will be awarded, pending the availability of funds.
Grants Program
Rippel (Fannie E.) Foundation
SYNOPSIS:
The sponsor provides support for projects concerned with aged women; for hospital construction, maintenance, and equipment purchases; and for research concerning heart disease or cancer.
Address: Suite 200
180 Mount Airy Road
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920-2021
U.S.A.
E-mail: rippel@attglobal.net
Program URL: http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/rippel/
Tel: 908-766-0404
Fax: 908-766-0527
The primary mission of the sponsor is to fund initiatives that: address the needs of and issues affecting the elderly and women of all ages; further current understanding or treatment of cancer; further current understanding or treatment of heart disease; and provide facilities and equipment for hospitals.
While there are no geographic limits, the sponsor tends to concentrate giving activities in New Jersey as well as in the Northeast and middle Atlantic States. The sponsor prefers to fund activities that promise broader impact and has interest in programs that could become replicable models.
Grants made in FYE 2005 ranged from $25,000 to $150,000.
Women’s Mental Health in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
The sponsor provides support for research on women's mental health in relation to pregnancy and the postpartum period. This program will use the NIH R01 Research Project Grant award mechanism. This program encourages research on perinatal mood and other mental disorders in four areas: clinical course, epidemiology and risk factors; basic and clinical neuroscience; and interventions; and services. Research is encouraged both on perinatal non-psychotic mood disorders and on psychotic disorders.
Eligible applicants are: for-profit or non-profit organizations; public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories; units of State and local governments; units of State and local Tribal government; eligible agencies of the Federal government; domestic or foreign institutions/organizations; and faith-based or community-based organizations.
Contact: Catherine Roca, M.D.
Office of Special Populations
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 8125, MSC 9659
Bethesda, MD 20892-9659
U.S.A.
E-mail: croca@mail.nih.gov
Program URL:
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-376.html
Tel: 301-443-2847
Fax: 301-402-2588
The deadlines for receipt of standard applications under this announcement are: February 1, June 1, and October 1 annually. The deadlines for receipt of AIDS-related applications are: January 2, May 1, and September 1 annually. This program will expire on March 2, 2009.
Title: Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved
Women
Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research/NIH/DHHS
OBJECTIVES:
This initiative will target minority and underserved women
with a special emphasis on six of the leading health indicators:
physical activity, overweight and obesity, tobacco use, substance
abuse, responsible sexual behavior, and injury and violence.
Many of the leading health indicators are interrelated and
thus may be amenable to interventions that target one or more
indicators simultaneously. Studies targeting a group of health
indicators may be more successful in improving the overall
health profile of minority and underserved women. Thus, applicants
responding to this initiative may address one leading health
indicator in a single application or two or more of the aforementioned
health indicators as a complex or group in a single application.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligible applicants are: for-profit or non-profit organizations;
public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges,
hospitals, and laboratories; units of State and local governments;
eligible agencies of the Federal government; domestic or foreign
institutions/organizations; and faith-based or community-based
organizations.
Contact: Yvonne Bryan, Ph.D., R.N.
Address: Program Director
6701 Democracy Blvd.
Room 710, MSC 4870
Bethesda, MD 20892-4870
U.S.A.
E-mail: bryany@mail.nih.gov
Program URL: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-04-153.html
DEADLINE NOTE: This program expires on August 28, 2007.
Top
Conferences & Calls
for Papers
Updated: 2/13/2007
CFP: Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality and War
CFP: Grad Student Conference on Women, Gender and Sexuality at UPenn
Conference: Intersectional Models on Women's Health
Southwest Social Science Association in ABQ, Women's and Gender Studies
Global Feminisms Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
CFP: Queer Fertility Journeys
CFP: Literary Mama
CFP: Third Wave Feminist Television Studies
CFP: Academic Exchange Extra
CFP: Toni Morrison encyclopedia
Call for Papers: Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality and War
We are seeking papers for a special issue of Race, Gender, & Class on "Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality, and War." Specifically we are looking for papers that explore the racial, gendered, classed, and sexualized dimensions of war and the military organizations and cultures that make war possible. Papers should examine simultaneously two or more of these social characteristics to understand how they compliment and complicate one another in military settings (recruitment, training, conflicts) and in warfare, broadly defined (ethnic, civil, international, guerrilla, terrorism, large-scale). We are interested in papers that focus on the RGCS aspects of contemporary militaries and wars involving groups, movements, nations, or international alliances.
The deadline for submitting papers is May 1, 2007. Papers should be submitted two ways:
a) please send an electronic copy of your paper to nagel@ku.edu and
b) please mail four (4) printed copies of your paper to guest editors: Joane Nagel and Meredith Kleykamp, Sociology Department, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, 716 Fraser Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.
Call for Papers: 1st Annual Graduate Student Conference on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Friday April 13, 2007
Sponsored by the Penn Women’s Studies Program and The Alice Paul Center
We welcome papers or abstracts on any topic concerning women, gender, and/or sexuality. We particularly encourage submissions that engage such themes as borders and boundaries, conflict and peace, race and ethnicity,
embodiment, and transnationalism. The mission of this conference is to showcase the excellence of Penn graduate students' research in the fields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Submissions from graduate students
in SAS as well as in the professional schools (e.g., law, medicine, nursing, social welfare, education, Wharton, etc.) are welcome.
The Graduate Student Conference Committee invites:
1. Completed Papers (no more than 2,000 words) with Abstracts (no more than 200 words)
2. Abstracts of papers (no more than 500 words)
Although abstracts will certainly be accepted, the conference committee will give preference to completed papers.
We are also seeking moderators/respondents for panels. If you are interested in being a moderator or a respondent, please send an email to Veronica Schanoes: schanoes@sas.upenn.edu. If you are submitting a paper
and are interested in being a moderator or respondent, send a separate email letting Veronica know.
The Institute for Teaching and Research on Women (ITROW) is pleased to announce its spring 2007 conference, Intersectional Models of Women's Health: Uniting Theory and Practice. The conference aims to bring together scholars, health care providers and advocates for women and hold a dialogue on how the intersections of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and class (poverty) affect women's health. The conference will take place at Towson University, in the Potomac Lounge which is located on the first floor of the University Union.
Opening Keynote Address and Reception, Thursday, March 8, 2007 (International Women’s Day)
Please join us on Thursday, March 8, 2007, in the Chesapeake Rooms, located on the third floor of the University Union, for the opening address and reception. This event is free and open to the public. Women’s health activist Byllye Avery (provided by LLuminari, Inc.) founder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative will deliver the keynote address, Defining Our Health Issues: Perspectives of African American Women.
Intersectional Models of Women's Health: Uniting Theory and Practice. Friday, March 9, 2007
A full day of conference activities is scheduled for Friday, March 9, 2007 and will take place in the Potomac Lounge on the first floor of Towson’s University Union. Registration is strongly recommended. Details on registration can be found HERE.
Keynote speakers and workshop sessions will address the importance of analyzing and understanding women’s health issues by looking at the ways in which race, class, gender and sexuality inform and construct women’s health concerns. Keynote topics and speakers include:
“The Promise and Practice of Intersectionality in Promoting Women's Health,” Dr. Lynn Weber, Professor and Chair, Women’s Studies Department, University of South Carolina.
“Privileging Marginalized Women with Breast Cancer: An Intersectional Approach to Social Justice in Women’s Health,” Dr. Anne Kasper, chair of the Maryland Women's Coalition for Health Care Reform
“Manufacturing Disease: Pharmaceutical Control of the Information Environment,” Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, Associate Professor in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Master’s Program, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Call for Papers
87th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association
March 14-17, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Join us for a program of research presentations, round tables, workshops, and organizational and social events. Our programs allow social scientists to address scholarly topics in a disciplinary framework that is enriched by a consciously interdisciplinary environment. Over 1,000 of your colleagues from nearly every state and several nations will be participating on the program. To submit a proposal or for more information on the Southwestern Women's and Gender Studies Association, visit: http://www.tcnj.edu/~swwgsa/
Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum
Global Feminisms, the first major exhibition to explore international feminist art at the turn of the 21st century, will inaugurate a portion of the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the first such center in the world. Slated to tour to venues to be announced, the exhibition will be on view in Brooklyn from March 23, 2007 through July 1, 2007. Co-curated by Maura Reilly, Curator of the new Center,
and the renowned art historian and feminist scholar Linda Nochlin, the exhibition brings together more than one hundred artists from over fifty countries. A portion of Global Feminisms will also be installed on the fourth floor of the Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, adjacent to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Global Feminisms has been made possible, in part, through the generous support of the Altria Group, Inc.
This exhibition presents a wide selection of young to mid-career women artists whose works deal with their socio-cultural, racial, and gender identities and the ways in which those identities are visually manifested. In presenting a worldwide selection, the curators aim to acknowledge the profound cultural differences in women’s lives and in the meanings of feminism cross-culturally. The goal of the exhibition is to offer an
alternate narrative of contemporary art.
Global Feminisms marks the 30th-anniversary of that exhibition. Global Feminisms is organized chronologically around four themes: Life Cycles, Identities, Emotions, and Politics. The exhibition includes work by such artists as Pilar Albarracín (Spain), Arahmaiani (Indonesia), Rebecca Belmore (Canada), Tania Bruguera (Cuba), Lee Bul (Korea), Tracey Moffatt (Australia), Priscilla Monge (Costa Rica), Ingrid Mwangi (Kenya), Catherine Opie (U.S.A.), Patricia Piccinini (Sierra Leone), Pinaree Sanpitak (Thailand), Jenny Saville (U.K.), Shahzia Sikander (Pakistan), Sissi (Italy), Milica Tomic (Yugoslavia), Adriana Varejão (Brazil), and Miwa Yanagi (Japan), among others. A wide range of media will be represented, including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, installation, video performance, and Web-based art.
For more information, see www.brooklynmuseum.org
Queer Fertility Journeys
I am putting out a call for proposals for essays about people's
experiences with the queer fertility journey. It is my hope
that these submissions will eventually be compiled into an
edited anthology for publication (there is of course, no guarantee
for this). Essays may be academic, personal stories and/or
both, but all must be written for a general reading audience.
Email: tpinterics@hotmail.com
Women, Development, and Global
Capitalism Reader
As concerns about globalizing the curriculum permeate discussions
of feminist scholarship and women's studies, certain knowledge
remains out of the mainstream discourse(s) about women's lives.
This reader hopes to draw from primarily the social sciences
as well as the humanities (including studies of art, poetry,
music) to discuss the ways in which women are confronting
global capitalism, engendering the development process, and
pointing to grassroots indigenous feminist responses to scarcity
and oppression world wide. Within this framework essays dealing
with often ignored or undertheorized communities are of particular
importance.
Proposed essays should be thoroughly grounded in feminist,
critical race, and queer theories among others. They should
state both their methods and the importance of their study
to the larger issue of women's studies clearly and succinctly.
Finally essays that highlight the creative ways (starting
their own businesses, banding together to confront issues,
artistic
expression, etc.) women confront global capitalism are of
particular interest. As are those articles which put women's
own words and/or artistic expression at the forefront.
Topics
Trafficking (sex, drug, etc.) and women's roles
Water rights
Land Tenure
Art collectives (recovery art, film makers taking back ethnographic
voice,etc.)
Disability rights
HIV pandemic
Sex Work
Human Rights
Grassroots organizing (women's rights broadly defined, lesbian
and bi-women's rights, transsexual rights, etc)
Publishing (feminist zines, self-published tracts, etc.)
Reproductive Rights and/or uses and abuses of NRTs
Violence against women (domestic, sexual, military or government
initiated, legal, etc.)
Community based coops, child care, micro-lending, etc.
Marriage and/or partner benefits
Small enterprise
Education for girls (including but not limited to sex ed)
Migration (rural to urban, urban to urban, out-migration,
internal migration)
Imagined and/or Diasporic Communities
Consumption
Music as critical voice for women (rap music - in Cuba or
Brazil,
reclamation of traditional musical forms, hybrid forms, etc.)
Class consciousness, conflict, coalition
Please EMAIL papers, proposals, or 100-150 word abstracts
(either within your email or in a WORD document) to Cheri
Louise Ross Area Chair, Cultural Conflict and Women veronicatmail@yahoo.com
Literary Mama
Literary Mama, an online literary magazine, seeks writing
for a new section, Literary Reflections, featuring writing
by mother writers, bothprofessional and amateur, focused on
the creative process. We're looking for first-person reflections
with an intellectual as well as personal focus. Potential
topics include:
Writing as a mother:
—the relationship between becoming a mother and becoming
a writer
—the influence of motherhood on your craft
—the influence of writing on your mothering
—the outlets for mother writers, from the private (journals,
diaries) to the public (books and magazines) and those that
attempt to bridge the gap (weblogs).
—the development and influence of communities of mother
writers (on-line and real time)
—balancing your writing life as a partner to someone
who may or may not be a writer
Reading as a mother:
—the reading that inspires and motivates your writing
process
—returning to familiar childhood literature as you read
to your child
—introducing your child to reading and writing
—giving feedback to and editing the work of other mother-writers
—working as a Professional: Teaching, Editing, Publishing,
Archiving, and Marketing Mother Writing
—developing a career as a professional mother-writer
—working as a professional editor or publisher of mother-writer
literature
—as a teacher of literature and/or writing, your experiences
with words and literature in the classroom and within the
school/college/university environmentWhat
We are not looking for:
Reviews of literary works, whether fiction, poetry, cultural
commentary or memoir. Literary Reflections welcomes reviews
of "how
to" books on the writing process, by and/or focused on
mother writers.
Please send submissions of 750-5000 words to litcrit@literarymama.com
in the text of an email and/or attached Word document, along
with a brief cover letter. We respond in 4-6 weeks.The Literary
Criticism Collection
We seek reprints of scholarly articles about literature whose
main theme is motherhood and written by mothers. These articles
can address motherhood/mothering/mothers as subject matter, theme or image.
We hope to gather materials to make it easier for teachers
and scholars of mother writing to do their work.Editors: Libby
Gruner and Caroline Grant Elisabeth Rose Gruner: egruner@cavtel.net
Jane Puts it in a Box. Third Wave
Feminist Television Studies
I am putting together a collection of essays that explore
third wave feminist media theory: what would a specifically
third wave approach to pop culture look like? The focus of this collection is contemporary
television. Each chapter examines in detail a single television
series and a single issue in feminism, reading the television show and the existing feminist
theory (film theory, sexual politics, intersectional analysis,
etc.) in terms of each other, using each field (the show and
the theory) to question or commenton the other. I have selected several contributors already, and now I am
seeking proposals that center on representations of race.
Even though third wave feminism has strong roots in U.S. third world feminism, the voices of this
"wave" are often young white women, directing our
gaze at other young white women, or images of young white women. There will certainly be chapters
that do just that in this collection, but I want to spend
as much time at the intersection of
race/ gender and race/sexuality as we do at gender/sexuality.
What would a third wave feminist analysis say about representations
of black femininity on television, for instance, or latino masculinity?
Or about lesbians and/or gay men of color on television. Are
there any television shows that seem to push beyond stereotypes, or that linger
in the space between revising and reinforcing stereotypes?
Please contact me with proposals at mjohnson@coastal.edu.
M. Lisa Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Coastal Carolina University
P.O. Box 261954
Conway, SC 29528-6054
843-349-2967
mjohnson@coastal.edu
http://ww2.coastal.edu/mjohnson
Academic Exchange Extra
Submissions are invited from undergraduates, graduates, and
educators for Academic Exchange Extra (Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth
Haller). Extra presents ideas, research methods, and pedagogical
theories leading to effective instruction and learning regardless
of level, subject or context. We also seek cogent essays,
poetry and fiction. Articles to 6,000 words on theory, practice
and administration of education across the full range of humanities
and social science-based approaches are welcomed. Possible
theoretical frameworks include: critical pedagogy, postcolonial
race theory, postmodernism, feminist theory, and other cultural
studies and perspectives. The use of a theoretical lens is
encouraged but not required; see options for other submission
types below. We are also interested in social and cultural
issues as they intersect with education. We prefer to include
an array of diverse material each month, though thematic issues
may be considered.
Essays up to 2,500 words are encouraged. Topics may include,
but are not
limited to, the following suggestions:
- distance learning e-communities and socialization
- community college retention and transfer
- service learning
- remedial education
- affirmative action
- marginalized or minority viewpoints and experiences
- tenure and post-tenure review
- urban education and issues of student inequality
- postmodernism and education
- canonical revision/non-revision
- analyses/reviews of recent pedagogical publications
We also seek poetry to 50 lines, in traditional or free verse
forms.
Fiction to 5,000 words is also encouraged.
Subject matter for poetry and fictions is unlimited; however,
we will not
publish inflammatory or libelous works, or works deemed otherwise
inappropriate for this journal.
HOW TO SUBMIT AND DEADLINE
Please place the words "AEE Submission" in the subject
line of your email.
Submissions should follow MLA or APA guidelines. Send your
submission as a Word Document (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf)
attachment. To be considered for the next issue, papers need
to be received by the 10th of the preceding month. Publication
date is intended to be the first of each month. Please include
a 3-4 sentence summary of your submission to be used for purposes
of introduction on the editorial page of AEE as well as a
current short bio that identifies your contact information
(e-mail and telephone), school/departmental affiliation(s),
and position(s) (e.g., student level, instructor, professor
and/or administrator), and areas of academic interest. For
bio examples, please refer to this issues contributor's page.
Send electronic submissions to:
Elizabeth Haller, Kent State University, USA (e-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com)
Toni Morrison encyclopedia
Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for
schools and libraries, is seeking a scholar to write a one-volume
encyclopedia on Toni Morrison, focusing on critical analyses of her works. The
ideal author will have a Ph.D., broad knowledge of Morrison's
works, and an ability to write clearly and succinctly for
students in both high school and college. This large project
(250,000-300,000 words) must be completed within two years.
Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines will be required. If
interested please send letter and cv, preferably by e-mail,
to
Jeff Soloway
Senior Editor
Facts on File, Inc.
132 W. 31st St., 17th Floor
New York, NY 10001
jsoloway@factsonfile.com
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