Dear Colleagues,
Please distribute this Call for Papers, and excuse cross-postings.
Thank you.
Peace, Summer

Second Annual
Women of Color Mixed H/E/R (Heritage, Ethnicity, Race) Conference
Shifting Terrain: The Politics and Poetics of the Body

The WOC Mixed H/ER conference committee invites proposals of papers,
panels, roundtables, forums, art/performance works, and workshops on
themes related to POLITICS AND POETICS OF THE BODY. Again, we have chosen a theme to address and provoke discussion on essential and often under represented issues concerning women's diasporically constructed identities and experiences from the local to the global. It is our aim to recognize,
examine and celebrate our identities in academic, community, artistic and spiritual discourse.

At the second annual conference in Albuquerque on October 22, 2005, we
will engage and acknowledge the complexity of our identities as Women of
Color Mixed H/E/R, from all age groups. We will examine how these identities
inform our physical and socially constructed presences in society at large.
We welcome proposals that discuss, present and engage all aspects of
Women of Color Mixed H/E/R identities and their constructions.
We also welcome innovative/non-conventional approaches to addressing
identities of Women of Color Mixed H/E/R.

Possible topics (not exhaustive by any means)
What is in a name? Why Women of Color? Why mixed h/e/r designation? How
are our bodies understood by these designations?
Global Economic Politics/Policies and Our Bodies
Bodies and Borders
Organizing Across the Boundaries of Our Skin
Our Bodies in the Academy
Our bodies, Our Rights
Holistic Medicine
Our Bodies in The U.S. Health System
Mothering/Midwifery
Bodies Popping up in Pop Culture
The Politics of Policing Our Bodies
Women of Color Mixed H/E/R Under the Bush Administration
Our Bodies Betrayed/Traitors and Travesties Against the WOC Mixed H/E/R
Body
Community Activism Dear to Our Hearts/Our Bodies on the Front Lines
Life/Liberation and Our Bodies
Creative Writing: WOC Mixed H/E/R the Language and Music of Our Bodies
Biography/Autobiography: Writing the "Self"
Women & Spirituality
Information Systems and Technology
Psychotherapy/Psychology and Self-Help
Middle/High School Identities and Networks

Suggested Workshop Topics

Traditional Medicine
Writing (poetry, non-fiction, fiction, biography, etc.)
Activism
Education: Addressing WOC Mixed H/E/R in the Classroom
Empowering Children of Color Mixed H/E/R
Sexual Abuse
Artistic Expression for WOC Mixed H/E/R (song/dance/2D3D image making)
Performance Work

Deadline for Proposals May 5, 2005 (Cinco de Mayo)
For further information on the conference, requirements, application
and help with proposals, visit our website: www.unm.edu/~wocmxher or
Contact:
Women's Resource Center MSCO6
3910 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 (505) 277-3716
E-mail: wocmxher@unm.edu

Summer Little, MA
Program Services Coordinator
Women's Resource Center
1160 Mesa Vista Hall
MSC06 3910
#1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505.277.3716
505.277.2913 Fax
salittle@unm.edu
www.unm.edu/~women