UPDATE: Out There: LGBTQ on Catholic Campuses (12/10/04; 10/28/05-10/29/05)

Update: Keynoters and Themes announced

Out There: First National Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs
Personnel Involved in LGBTQ Issues on Catholic Campuses

Santa Clara University - October 28-29, 2005
Santa Clara, California

Keynote speakers:

Mark Jordan, Professor of Religion, Emory University, and
Ronni Sanlo, Director, UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT)
Campus Resource Center, founding chair of the National Consortium of
LGBT Campus Resource Center Directors

Conference Themes:
How do LGBTQ Studies scholars and student affairs personnel who address
LGBTQ issues pursue their work on Catholic campuses? Is the
institutional mix like oil and water, or do we have more in common with
other universities than the general public might guess? At a historical
moment when the climate for dialogue within institutional Catholicism is
chilly, what is the responsibility of the Catholic college or university
in facilitating critical conversations regarding sexuality, freedom of
inquiry, religious faith, and the pursuit of justice?

"Out There" will bring together faculty and student affairs personnel
to discuss the challenges and opportunities for doing our jobs in
Catholic institutional contexts. Panels, workshops, discussion groups,
and keynote speakers will address issues of scholarship, curriculum,
pedagogy, campus climate, and support for LGBTQ students, faculty, and
staff. In some sessions scholars will present their current research;
other sessions might cover such topics as
potential areas for new scholarly research, creating lesbian/gay
studies courses, developing lessons for
integration into broader courses, improving campus climate for
students, making/disclosing identities,
support services for students in crisis, handling the extra workload of
campus service on gay/lesbian
issues, and addressing student attitudes toward LGBTQ programming and
course material. We seek a mix of
panels, workshops, and discussion sessions that cover scholarly,
pedagogical, and student affairs issues.

The organizers plan to produce an edited volume of papers from the
conference.

In addition to concurrent presentations throughout the day on Saturday,
there will be keynote addresses on
both days of the conference. The student affairs and faculty tracks
will run independently, but there will
be opportunities to discuss connections and overlapping issues between
student affairs and faculty work.

Santa Clara University is a Jesuit University in the San Francisco Bay
Area, easily accessible to the San
Jose and San Francisco airports. Limited travel assistance will be
available for presenters who lack institutional funding.

Send proposals of no more than one page for:
* Papers (20 minutes maximum)
* Panels consisting of three papers
* Topics for group discussions (75 minutes, to be led by the person
proposing the topic)
* Workshops (75 minutes; collaborative sessions encouraged)
Please include name, address, phone number, and email address of all
presenters, and designate one person as
the contact for any panel or collaborative presentation. Please
indicate whether your proposal
is for a paper, panel, discussion, or workshop.

Send proposals by December 10 to
Prof. Linda Garber
Director, Program for the Study of Women and Gender
Santa Clara University
English Department
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0280

Proposals may be submitted electronically to lgarber_at_scu.edu.

Another call for proposals is going out to student affairs groups. If
you would like a copy of the
student affairs call for proposals, please contact Lisa Millora at
lmillora_at_scu.edu.

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