Hello,

Please consider submitting to the following conference.

Kind regards,

Laura Nelson-Hamilton
Master of Women's Studies Candidate
Memorial University
St. John's, NL Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMANDE DE COMMUNICATIONS
  
CANADIAN WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION/L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES ÉTUDES SUR LES
FEMMES (CWSA/ACEF)

DATE:  May 29 – May 31, 2010

LOCATION: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

The CWSA/ACEF is now seeking proposals, in either French or English, for its
annual conference, held in conjunction with the Congress of the CFHSS/FCSH. 
Submissions for papers and panels can be made by individuals or groups, and as
joint sessions with other associations. Please identify the specific theme to
which you are submitting application in your proposal.  

Theme 1:  Connected Understanding/Le Savoir Branché: Responses are invited from
scholars who wish to take up representational and communications issues in
Women’s/and Gender Studies.  This theme also provides an open call for new work
that supports emerging branches of gender and diversity-sensitive knowledge. 
The theme, “Connected Understanding/Le Savoir Branché,” is proposed by
CFHSS/FCSH as a way to explore the multiple linkages that branch across the
disciplines along emergent lines of inquiry, the impact of digital
communications technologies on how research is conducted and communicated, and
the connections between research and the publics and counter publics that are
impacted and constructed by knowledge creation projects locally, regionally,
nationally and internationally.   Women’s/and Gender Studies scholars and
feminist activists in Canada and elsewhere engage with and challenge the
assumptions informing this theme in multiple ways, recognizing that
communication technologies divide as well as connect, obscure even as they
communicate, and that local, regional, national and international
agenda-staging mechanisms can be as destructive as well-intentioned. Possible
topics might include, but are not limited to: How do local and transnational
feminists use communications technologies in transformative political projects?
 How is interdisciplinary feminist research facilitated and frustrated by
communications issues within and beyond the field?  
Theme 2:  Women’s/and Gender Studies and Intersectionality/Études des femmes et
intersectionalité:  How is critical intersectional theory imagined and
practiced in Women’s/and Gender Studies scholarship, teaching and politics?  In
what ways do efforts to take up the challenges posed to the field by critical
race, queer and transnational feminisms fall short in current research and
pedagogical practices?  Given the contemporary neo-liberal context, and the
persistent effects of colonialisms and neo-colonialisms, how has Women’s/and
Gender Studies in Canada held itself accountable to the project of
intersectional gender-based analysis, and how might that project as it has been
enacted to date be revised, revisioned, reinvigorated, critiqued?   

Theme 3:  Bodies/Embodiment/Corps, incorporations et performativité: 
Contributors to this theme are invited to consider practices and projects that
shape bodies and experiences of embodiment.  As the seat of perception,
position and relatedness – relentlessly targeted by multiple regulatory forces
– embodiment continues to function as contested terrain.  What contributions
can Women’s/and Gender Studies bring to engagement in and analysis of political
projects within and beyond the many communities and feminisms that seek to
trouble femininities, masculinities, genders, constructions of abilities,
racializations, sexualities, and the performative scripts and audiences that
attend upon bodies and embodiment?  
HOW TO SUBMIT:  

We encourage presentations in a variety of formats, including papers, panels,
workshops, roundtables, poster sessions, film and video screenings, performance
art pieces, exhibits, and cultural events. If you are proposing a
non-traditional presentation, please include a brief write up on any necessary
audiovisual, technical, logistical, or room size and location considerations.

The proposal form (Word document) can be found on the CWSA/ACEF website: 
www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef. All submissions must include a maximum 250-word abstract
for individual papers and panels. Panel submissions must also add short (50-100
word) abstracts of the individual papers, and all submissions should indicate
the theme for which the proposal is to be considered.  

Panel sessions and workshops are typically scheduled to be 75 minutes in length,
and papers are expected to be approximately 8 - 10 pages, or 15 - 20 minutes,
for individual submissions.  If you are proposing a workshop, please indicate
expected time frame if different from typical scheduling.  All proposals will
be anonymously reviewed.

**You must be a current member of CWSA/ACEF to submit an abstract.** 
To join, please visit www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef.

Send proposals by email only, in Word or RTF, to: [log in to unmask], c/o
Erica Van Driel, Assistant to Ann Braithwaite and Marie Lovrod, Program
Co-Chairs

Deadline:  December 10, 2009.  No late proposals will be accepted.