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CONFERENCE 2010
November 11-14, 2010, Sheraton Hotel, Denver, Colorado

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MONDAY MARCH 8, 2010

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, NWSA President & Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies, Spelman College;
Vivian M. May, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Syracuse University.

Download the Brochure from the NWSA Conference 2010 website
For full details: http://www.nwsa.org/conference/

Forums have been created for each of the themes and for the pre conference days.

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For discussion on the Program Adminstration and Development Pre-Conference sessions and activities

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Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:13 pm

crowlk

For discussion on the Women's Center Pre Conference sessions and activities

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Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:05 pm

erinregina

"Indigeneous Feminisms: Theories, Methods, Politics"
Use this forum for proposal ideas for Theme 1

Language shapes and reflects power relations and terms like “indigenous,” “Indian,” Native American,” “aboriginal” and “First Nation” have different historical, social, and political uses. We invite examination of how serious engagement with indigenous feminisms would shift the questions asked, the methods used, and the power analyses possible in women’s studies.

How does applying indigenous feminisms shift what counts as theory and what counts as a feminist issue?
What are some difficult dialogues among indigenous feminists?

How are indigenous feminisms defined differently in different geo-political contexts?
What is the nature of sexuality discourse in indigenous contexts?

What are some barriers to strategic alliances between non-Native and Native feminists in a US context? For example, have non-Native feminists adequately engaged questions of sovereignty and land rights?

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Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:39 am

hemjyoti

"Complicating the Queer"
Use this forum for proposal ideas for Theme 2

The move to queer theory in women’s studies has both expanded the field and simultaneously reinforced silences about nation, race, ethnicity, class, and religion. We invite women’s studies practitioners to apply feminist intersectional and transnational frameworks within queer studies.

In what ways are queer theories, methods, and/or politics still resisted in women’s studies?

How do feminist queer of color studies take shape politically, intellectually, and personally?

What would it mean to globalize LGBTQ studies?

How can we apply trans and gender-queer theories and politics to feminist critiques of the state and social institutions including the law, prisons, schools, education, religion, medicine, sports, etc.?

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Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:38 pm

aburford

The Politics of Nation
Use this forum for proposal ideas for Theme 3

Taking traditional women’s studies topics (i.e., “violence against women”) and reformulating them to more adequately account for the role of the state (i.e., incarceration, militarization, land rights, war, immigration/asylum) has the potential to yield new feminist theories, methods, and politics and to shift our understanding of existing frameworks.

How should women’s studies and feminist alliances address heightened nationalism, militarization, religious fundamentalism, and questions of citizenship?

How can feminists effectively challenge nationalistic rescue narratives within and outside the US (i.e., “saving” Muslim women under the Taliban as a justification for a US invasion)?

How are the intersectional and transnational dimensions of the history of citizenship, of definitions of personhood, and of disciplinary state structures essential to women’s studies?

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Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:37 pm

dbsmith

“Outsider” Feminisms
Us this forum for proposal ideas for theme 4

We seek to consider what it means to be positioned as epistemologically or phenomenologically “outside” of traditional feminist practices, theories, and politics. Meaningful and transformative political and intellectual practice often takes place when so-called “outsiders” both challenge hegemonic epistemologies and simultaneously articulate the barriers to working across difference in contexts of marginalization. We invite analyses of “outsider” feminisms in many forms, including but not limited to masculinity studies, girls studies, and disability studies. We would like to complicate these areas of study by addressing feminist theorizing about progressive masculinities, the experiences of girls transnationally, and issues of race, class and nation in disability discourse.

What are some practices and commitments that can better facilitate collaborative work and meaningful conversations among differently positioned “outsiders”?

Who and what fall “outside” of traditional feminist practices, theories, and politics, and why?

How can the field take up critiques and insights offered by “outsider” feminisms without engaging in reductive forms of tokenism or other hegemonic intellectual practices?

How are relationships fostered or hindered in working across academic margins—what are women’s studies’ institutional, curricular, and pedagogical relationships with black/Africana/African Diaspora Studies, ethnic studies, Latino/a/Latin-American Studies, Asian/Asian American/Pacific Rim Studies, disability studies, girls’ studies, and gay and lesbian/queer studies? How are some of these areas differently institutionalized than others and how do we best account for power differentials and asymmetries between these areas of inquiry in the academy?

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Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:33 pm

jmel

The Critical and the Creative
Use this form for proposal ideas for Theme 5

Groundbreaking collections like Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman, Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color and Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga’s This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color refused the false divide between creative expression and theoretical analysis. However, alternative approaches to what “counts” as knowledge have not been fully realized within women’s studies. We invite examinations of the epistemological and political dimensions of creativity in many forms, including but not limited to filmmaking, new media technologies, narrative, and the fine and performing arts.

How can women’s studies more fully engage the creative as a way of knowing?

How are various dimensions of the creative relevant to women’s studies teaching, research, and activism?

What do creative media allow for that conventional forms of feminist analysis do not?

How might the creative allow us to intervene in dominant/hegemonic stories and histories?

How do more traditional art forms (i.e., painting, music, literature, dance) and newer genres (i.e., digital technologies) offer an important archive of memory and site of resistance? How do marginalized groups plumb history’s silences in the creative realm?

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Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:04 pm

deeshla

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