>From: "Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality" <wgs@socrates.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: CFS BIQ 2000
>Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:35:56 -0800
>
>November 1, 1999
>Call for Submissions
>Boundaries in Question 2000: Women Imprisoned
>Friday March 3 and Saturday March 4, 2000
>UC Berkeley Campus - The Lipman Room - Barrows Hall
>8:30am - 6:30pm [or all day, all night, cuz we are nonstop to rock]
>
>One page proposals are being solicited for the 9th Annual Boundaries in
>Question Conference: a yearly symposium serving the feminist graduate
>student community through the presentation of research on feminist theory
>and practice. In light of the growth of the prison industrial complex,
>Boundaries in Question: Women Imprisoned invites projects that explore the
>construction and contestation of prisons, both physical and metaphoric. We
>welcome interdisciplinary projects that interrogate how gender and
>sexuality intersect race, class, capital and state power to confine women.
>Given the proliferation and privatization of prisons, the criminalization
>and incarceration of women, youth and other people of color, the renewed
>exploitation of prison labor, and repression by state coercive apparatuses,
>Boundaries in Question:Women Imprisoned will provide a forum for dialogue
>between activism and scholarship. We also encourage submissions that
>explore how punishment, surveillance, confinement, discipline, repression,
>and violence create prisons for women that extend beyond the physical
>boundaries of the penitentiary.
>
>Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
>Historical Studies of Women in Prison
>Health Issues of Women in Prison
>Women and the Death Penalty
>Young Women and the Juvenile Justice System
>Criminalization of Immigrant Women
>Criminalization of Sex Work
>Criminality, Coloniality and Gender
>Criminalization and Repression of Sexualities
>Globalization, Gender and New Forms of Imprisonment
>Women and Political Prisoners/Women as Political Prisoners
>Alliances (Political, Cultural, Sexual) Within and Through Prison
>Boundaries
>Prison and Visibility/Representations of Women in Prison
>Transgressing Gendered Boundaries/Acts of Resistance
>What/Who Is the Forcible Other of Feminism
>Domestic Violence and Imprisonment
>
>Please send Abstracts for a 15 minute presentation.
>Proposals should include: Name; E-mail address (where possible) and Phone
>Number; Department, Program, Year and/or Institutional Affiliation (where
>applicable); Title of Project and One Page Abstract/Project Description.
>
>Applications must be received by Friday, December 10, 1999.
>
>Please send to:
>Boundaries in Question 2000
>Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California - Berkeley
>3415 Dwinelle Hall #2050
>Berkeley. CA 94720-2050
>
> >Accepted panelists will be notified by January 15,2000 at which time a
>complete draft of the conference presentation (7 pages, double spaced) will
>be requested for mid-February (details/information will be enclosed with
>notification).
>
>
>Submissions from students, independent scholars, community organizers and
>youth as well as joint proposals and cultural productions welcome.
>
>Questions about the conference, and electronic submissions should be sent
>to wgs@socrates.berkeley.edu or directed to tel: (510) 643-3040 or fax:
>(510) 643-7288.
>
>Please distribute widely and print out and post.
>Amy Sadao
>Graduate Assistant
>Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality
>University of California, Berkeley
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