Conferences to Attend

STILL KISSING THE ROD? EARLY MODERN WOMEN'S WRITING IN 2005
2 – 4 July 2005 in Oxford, United Kingdom

Paper and panel presentations cover various aspects of the teaching and research of early modern women's writing, including: course design and methodologies; texts, anthologies, and canonicity; academic politics; the economics of publishing; electronic resources; new discoveries; women's literary history; women reading women; and transatlantic cultures of feminism. Speakers include: Germaine Greer, Elizabeth Clarke, Margaret Ezell, Elizabeth Hageman, and Nigel Smith. See http://www.human.ntu.ac.uk/research/perdita/sktr/sktr.htm for more information.


WOMEN'S HISTORY REVISTED: HISTORICAGRAPHCIAL REFLECTIONS ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
3 – 9 July 2005 in Sydney, Australia

The 2005 International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH) conference will take a historiographical look at women's history worldwide. The conference offers various theoretical approaches and discussions. For example, what is the relationship between women's history, gender history, and feminist history? What are the significant theoretical turningpoints? What is the future for women's history? Are the trajectories of women's history/feminist history different in differing global settings? Where will women's history be in 2050? Thematic reviews analyzing subjects of women's history, gender history, or feminist history will be offered. The themes may include women's movements, gendered histories of work, private life, and religion. The conference will consist of three half-day sessions to be held at the World Congress. N.B.: The participants need to register for the World Congress. More information about the Sydney 2005 World Congress can be found at http://www.cish.org/GB/Sydney.htm and information about the IFRWH can be found at http://www.historians.ie/women/index.htm.


TONI MORRISON AND SITES OF MEMORY: FOURTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE TONI MORRISON SOCIETY
14 – 17 Ju ly 2005 in Cincinnati , Ohio

Presentations will include papers that seek to describe and interpret sites of memory as cultural locations, persons, artifacts, expressions, and as a process of creative construction in Toni Morrison's fiction. Particular attention is given to sites of memory in Beloved, but papers on all of the works, employing a variety of approaches, will be offered. A special session will be devoted to the usefulness of sites of memory in teaching Morrison's novels. Visit http://www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/conferences/ cfp_05.shtml for more information.


SEXUALITY AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE: THE MAKINGS OF A "CENTERAL PROBLEM"
5 – 7 August 2005 in Brisbane , Australia

The fin de siècle is a particularly fertile terrain for exploring the emergence of "sexuality" as an object of medical attention and a subject for aesthetic experimentation. Nevertheless, historical and literary scholars have rarely confronted the close interplay between medical and literary discourses during this period. Following the lead of cross-disciplinary scholars like Janet Beizer, Carolyn Dean, Vernon Rosario, and Judith Walkowitz, this conference seeks to bridge the gap between academic disciplines, connecting, on the one hand, scholars primarily concerned with the intensive reading of texts, and on the other, scholars whose overriding preoccupation is with cultural-discursive extension. The conference's assumption and claim is that fin-de-siècle sexuality provides a quite precise topos for the close collaboration of these two groups. Sharing the topic may permit, in addition, a better understanding of the disciplinary habits that currently divide and organize the history of discourses, and the history of sexuality in particular. For more information visit http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/findesiecle.


FOURTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE WOMEN'S HISTORY NETWORK (UK): WOMEN, ART AND CULTURE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES.
2 – 4 September 2005 in Southampton, United Kingdom.

Plenary speakers are Frances Borzello on "Women Artists: Self Portraits" and Marina Vaizey on "Twentieth-Century Women Collectors." Conference topics include: women and the visual arts; women and the Arts and Crafts movement; women and the performing arts; women and the literary arts; women as art objects; women as mediators of culture; and women as collectors and benefactors. See http://www.womenshistorynetwork.org/conference_ 2005.htm for more information.


GENDER AND VIOLENCE: AN INTERDISCIPLARY EXPLORATION
1 0 – 1 1 September 2005 in Aberdeen , Scotland

The Women's Studies Network (UK & Ireland) Association 18th Annual Conference aims to explore male and female violence and the complex relations between reality and representation in a variety of practices, fields, and discourses. It will provide an opportunity to investigate the many forms in which "violence" has been expressed historically and continues to be expressed globally, and the role that gender plays in all those manifestations. Conference themes include: domestic violence, sexual violence, medical perspectives, pornography, cross-cultural practices, female genital mutilation, historical perspectives, gender and terrorism, women and war, violent offenders, legal/political initiatives on sexual/domestic violence, cultural/media representations of violence, cosmetic surgery, and body modification. See http://www.medinstgenderstudies.org/Gender_violence_Scotland.htm for more information or contact the conference administrator, Dr. Joyce Walker, at: j.a.walker@abdn.ac.uk.


EDUCATING ALL OF A NATION
6 – 8 October 2005 in Phoenix , Arizona

Educating All of One Nation is a national conference on diversity and improving minority participation in postsecondary education. It is sponsored by the American Council on Education's Division of Programs and Analysis, Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity (CAREE). Recognizing the increasing challenges that colleges and universities face in sustaining and expanding educational opportunities for students of color and in defending diversity practices, this conference will identify and highlight innovative programs that improve access and achievement for students of color; promote institutional change by focusing on diversity in the curriculum, student life, teaching, and employment; facilitate diversity in all sectors of society; encourage greater collaboration among higher education, K–12 education, and business; help colleges and universities identify and better articulate the benefits of diversity for all students using the context of their institutional missions and societal needs; and help institutions analyze and strengthen their diversity and affirmative action policies and practices. For further information see http://www.acenet.edu/programs/caree/conf_main.cfm.


Calls for Papers

INTERSECTIONS

Intersections is a refereed electronic journal conceived as an interactive forum for new research and teaching in the area of gender studies in the Asian region. It stems from Murdoch University's School of Asian Studies and was originally published with the financial assistance of the Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education. Issue Thirteen will deal with "Queer Japan" and submissions are due by 15 February 2006. Send all contributions either by e-mail to intrsect@central.murdoch.edu.au or by postal service to The Editors, Intersections, SSHE, Murdoch University, South Street, WA 6150, AUSTRALIA. See http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/submissions.htm. Call for further information.


THE FUTURE OF FICTION: THE FUTURE OF FEMINISM

The Journal of Gender Studies intends to publish a special issue entitled "The Future of Fiction: The Future of Feminism." In recent years, fictional and narrative forms have had an impact across the disciplines. These forms have moved out of their traditional homes in literature and psychoanalysis and into cultural studies, media studies, the social sciences and history. In doing so, new aesthetic practices have evolved, the potential of fiction has been explored through new technologies, and the demarcations between disciplines have come under question. The editors welcome papers that address this explosion in fiction (in all its forms) and that consider the political dimension of this development. What do these changes mean for the future of feminism? What does feminism want from fiction? What does fiction offer feminism? How can each speak to the other? In exploring these questions, not only "fiction" comes under scrutiny but "feminism" too, its diverse forms, and its relation to gender, race, class, and sexuality. Papers accepted will be published in Volume 15:2 of the Journal in July 2006. All papers should be submitted by September 2005. They should be between 5000 and 7000 words and should follow the guidelines set out in the "Notes for Contributors." Detailed copies are available from the journal office or in the "Instructions for authors" section on the website: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/09589236.html.


WOMEN, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND CONSUMPTION

The Journal of Women's History is soliciting articles for a special issue on women, material culture, and consumption. They seek manuscripts from the broadest chronological, geographical, and methodological range and from individuals residing around the world. Potential topics include comparative "consumer revolutions"; the gendering of consumption and material culture; fashion, luxury, and the exotic; family and the law in consumption; the relationship between production and consumption; and women's role in credit systems and market culture. The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2005. Please send four one-sided, double-spaced copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000 words, including endnotes) to the mailing address below. Mark the envelope "Attention: Clare Crowston." For more details on the submission policy see: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/guidelines.html. Or write to Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 309 Gregory Hall, MC-466, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL, 61801.


MOTHERING AND FEMINISM

The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) 2006 is seeking submissions that explore the topic of mothering and feminism from a variety of perspectives and disciplines for the Fall/Winter 2006 issue. They welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. They also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject. If you are interested in writing a book review, they have books in need of a review, or if you know of a recent publication that you think would be relevant, please contact arm@yorku.ca. Book reviews are to be no more than 2 pages (500 words), articles should be 15 pages (3750 words). All should be MLA style, in Word-Perfect or Word and IBM compatible. For more information, please contact: ARM: 726 Atkinson College, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3. (416) 736–2100, x60366, e-mail the editors at arm@yorku.ca, or visit the website at www.yorku.ca/crm. Submissions must be received by 1 November 2005 To submit work to the journal, one must be a member of ARM by 1 November 2005.