WOMEN, WAR and PEACE
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Thirteenth Annual Womenıs Studies Conference at
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 and SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2003
VISIT: http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/conference/
For downloadable CFP in .pdf format and further information.
*Conference Overview*
The Southern Connecticut State University Womenıs Studies Program will be
hosting its Thirteenth Annual Womenıs Studies Conference, ³Women, War and
Peace,² on October 17-18, 2003. This conference focuses on all aspecs of
women in war and peace. It will seek to promote interaction among academics,
community leaders, activists, professionals, artists, and others interested
in Women and War and Peace studies.
*Perspectives*
All theoretical approaches are welcome as are non-academic, practical, or
experiential workshops.
*Formats*
Submissions on any aspect of womenıs experience during war or peace are
invited. Possible session formats include, but are not limited to,
roundtable discussions, workshops, paper presentations, performances,
video/slide shows, poster sessions, works in progress, panels, and art
exhibits. Please note: Sessions are one hour and fifteen minutes long. Refer
to the section on Guidelines for Submissions for more information.
*The Womenıs Fair*
The Annual Womenıs Fair features woman-owned businesses, woman-oriented
services, woman-made products, womenıs advocacy groups and woman-centered
political organizations. It will be held in conjunction with the conference.
All products at the Fair are earth and animal-friendly and cruelty-free.
Interested vendors should request applications from the Womenıs Studies
Office 203.392.6133.
*Topics*
The conference theme, ³Women - War and Peace² focuses on all aspects of
women in war and peace.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
-Alternatives to war
-Environmental impact, economic impact, profiteering
-Eugenics, sterilization, experimentation
-Feminism
-Forensics, anthropologies, languages, rhetorics, histories of war
-International law, civil rights, civil liberties
-Just wars and unjust wars
-Media and propaganda, representations of war as entertainment, war games,
historical versions, debates, conspiracy theories, the internet, film, talk
shows
-Nationalism, national security, politics, Homeland Security, jingoism,
patriotism
-Nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional, psychological, and guerilla
wars
-Pedagogy, brainwashing, teach-ins, activism
-Representation of women, war and peace in literature, the visual arts, the
performing arts, music, cinema
-War and disability
-War and economics/environment: war and its aftermath, warıs impact on
animals
-War and gender, masculinities, feminisms, sexualities, homosexualities
-War, peace and spiritual/religious/theological issues
-War, race, class and ethnicity
-Women and resistance, guerilla warfare, political prisoners,
incarceration, the disappeared, internment camps, re-education
-Women and technologies of war: combat, intelligence, weaponry,
manufacturing
-Women and the technologies of war, the military/industrial complex,
high-tech combat, intelligence, electronic surveillance
-Women and war crimes: disfigurement, forced conception, mutilation,
slavery, torture
-Women as aggressors, as assassins, as bait, as camp-followers, as
combatants, as conscientious objectors, as freedom fighters, as grassroots
organizers, as guards, as guerillas, as heroes, as hostages, as icons of
home and patriotism, as informers, as leaders, as martyrs, as members of
humanitarian organizations, as missionaries, as mothers, as objects of
desire, as officers, as pawns, as peacemakers, as prey, as prisoners, as
prostitutes, as public intellectuals, as role-models, as spies, as suicide
bombers, as support staff, as targets for military rape, as terrorists, as
wives.
-Women warriors and wars against women
-Womenıs participitation in ethnic cleansing, genocide, holocaust
-Womenıs participation in the war against drugs, against abortion and
contraception, against ...
-Womenıs wars against anti-abortion activism, disease, domestic violence,
environmental degradation, exploitation, HIV/AIDS, multi-national
corporations, poverty, religious fundamentalism, sexual abuse, toxic
racism
-Womenıs work in founding alliances for justice and peace, organizing of
protests, participating in civil disobedience, advocating for pacifism,
Greenham
-Common Womenıs Peace Movement, IRA, recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize
*Conference Guidelines*
This conference is primarily self-supporting. Therefore, we ask that you
submit a proposal only if you and your panelists will be able to register
for the conference at the discounted presenter fee. Please indicate whether
you are willing to serve as chair/moderator/respondent of a panel if we are
unable to include your presentation. In cases of financial hardship, the
Womenıs Studies Progam is willing to make individual alternate arrangements.
Financial arrangements must be requested in writing with an explanation of
the special circumstances. We are not able to subsidize travel expenses.
*Submission Deadline & Mailing Info*
Submissions must be postmarked by 23 June 2003. Send proposals to:
Womenıs Studies, MO B7
Southern CT State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven CT 06515
or email: womenstudies@southernct.edu
fax: 203-392-6723
Decision notices will be mailed on/around 4 August 2003
*Guidelines for Submissions*
Please attach a separate sheet and provide all of the following information.
Be sure to send the signed Proposal Submission Form (page 3) with your
proposal. You may photocopy this form for colleagues and friends to submit
proposals as well.
1. Organizer(s)/Presenter
Organizer(s)ı role(s) (e.g. chair, facilitator, workshop leader name(s),
home address(es), institutional address(es) and title(s) if any, day/evening
phone; fax; e-mail.
2. All Panelists (if applicable)
Name, home address, institutional address, and title (if any), day and
evening phone numbers, email address, fax
3. Title of Session
4. Format of session/presentation
Roundtable discussion, workshop, video/slide show, etc.
5. AV support (please describe equipment needs)
AV support includes: TV/VCRs, overhead projectors, slide projectors,
microphones/speakers, powerpoint. Presenters will need to supply their own
tape/CD players.
6. Session Information
List of presenters by name, in the order in whic they will speak (if
applicable), titles of all papers (if applicable), brief description of
content of presentation or papers
7. Preferred day and time for the session
October 17, 2003: afternoon/evening
October 18, 2003: morning/afternoon
Note: we will attempt to accommodate scheduling requests.
8. 500-700 Word Proposal
A 500 word proposal summarizing the theme and intent of your presentation.
1000 word proposal for panels.
9. Abstract
A 50-75 word abstract of the theme of each of the presentations for
inclusion in the conference program (if proposal is accepted).
VISIT: http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/conference/
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