[NIS_GS:] Call for Papers -- CWSA/ACEF
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CALL FOR PAPERS/DEMANDE DE COMMUNICATIONS
CANADIAN WOMEN▓S STUDIES ASSOCIATION/L'ASSOCIATION
CANADIENNE DES ÉTUDES SUR LES FEMMES (CWSA/ACEF)
DATE: May 29 √ 31, 2006
LOCATION: York University, Toronto, Ontario
CONFERENCE THEME: The City: A Festival of Knowledge / La Ville:
Un Festival du Savoir
The CWSA/ACEF is now seeking proposals, in either English or French,
for its annual conference, held in conjunction with the Congress of the
CFHSS/FCSH. Submissions for papers and panels can be made by
individuals or groups, and as joint sessions with other associations.

Theme 1: Urban Knowledges and Cartographies

The city has long been a contested site of marginalization, oppression,
resistance, transgression, liberation, collaboration, and negotiation
for gendered, racialized and sexualized bodies which are scripted but not
authorized by power. We invite papers, panels, roundtables and
workshops that explore gendered and/or feminist knowledges,
experiences and/or practices in a range of urban contexts.

Topics can include but are not limited to:
* The city as 'contact zone' (Pratt) or 'diaspora space' (Brah)
* The city as ▒home▓: belonging and alienation
* Community building and organizing
* Indigeneity in the city
* Municipal governance and policy
* Sexing the City: fetishism/S&M/BDSM/leather; HIV/AIDS;
lesbian/bi/gay/queer sexualities; Pride
* Teaching in the City: feminist pedagogy and practices; the
Women▓s Studies classroom
* Working the City: domestic labour; informal economies; migrant
labour; sex work; union organizing; workfare

Theme 2: Trans Feminisms

The questions of (trans) gender(s) and queer sex practices are again
both stabilizing and destabilizing the categorical limits of ⌠Woman■ as
a feminist epistemological foundation. One such assumption might be the
essentialisms √ strategic or otherwise √ of the biologically defined
female body as the supposedly self-evident ground of feminist political
praxis. Presentations are encouraged that not only expand and
complicate the relation between ▒queer▓, ▒feminist▓ and ▒trans▓ but
also those that interrogate the way that each might rethink the narratives
of embodiment through the transed relations of race, class, nation,
femininity, masculinity

Contexts and topics can include but are not limited to:
* Intersections of trans practice, queer bodies and the privileges of
whiteness
* Links between trans-gender(s), queer diasporas, and trans-
nationalisms
* Medicalization of pre, post, and non-op trans subjectivities
* Meeting places of the Q and the T in ⌠LGBITQ■
* Queer and transed femininities
* Queering heterosexuality
* Relations between transsexuality and intersex activisms
* Trans feminist masculinities

Theme 3: Performances and Representations

In this theme, we invite papers that engage broadly with the ways in
which a range of normative and non-normative femininities are
performed and/or represented in art, dance, film, literature, new
media, television, theatre, and/or video. Papers that explore the intersection
of gender with race, class, ability and/or ethnicity are encouraged.
Related topics that will be considered include audience reception and
interpretative strategies as well as the use of popular cultural texts
in the women▓s studies classroom.

We encourage presentations in a variety of formats, including papers,
panels, workshops, roundtables, poster sessions, film and video
screenings, performance art pieces, exhibits, and cultural events.* We
particularly welcome proposals specifically addressing the conference
themes described above, but are interested in all proposals for
presentations that explore new scholarship, knowledge, ideas, thinking,
and issues related to Women▓s Studies.

* If you are proposing a non-traditional presentation, please include a
brief write up on any necessary audiovisual, technical, logistical, or
room size and location considerations.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

The proposal form (Word document) can be found on the CWSA/ACEF
website: http://www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef/cwsaacef/cwsa.htm. All
submissions must include a maximum 250-word abstract for individual
papers and panels. Panel submissions must also add short (50-100
word) abstracts of the individual papers. All proposals will be
anonymously reviewed.

**You must be a current member of CWSA/ACEF to submit an abstract.**
To join, please visit
http://www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef/cwsaacef/memb/memb_f.htm

Send proposals by email only, in Word/Wordperfect/RTF, to
lwarbeck@upei.ca.
Deadline: Friday December 9, 2005. No late proposals will be accepted.

Canadian Women's Studies Association ∙ L'association
canadienne des études sur les femmes
2006 Conference proposal form

Name:
_________________________________________________________

Organization/Affiliation:
____________________________________________________

Mailing Address:
__________________________________________________________

City: ____________________________Province:__________Postal
Code: ____________

Phone (day)___________________Phone (night)__________________

E-mail address
___________________________________________________________

Title of Proposal: ïPanel proposal ï Paper proposal

_________________________________________________________
____________________

Please indicate which theme you are submitting to:
ï Theme I: Urban Knowledges and Cartographies
ï Theme II: Trans Feminisms
ï Theme III: Performances and Representations
ï Open call

For paper proposals: Please include, on a separate sheet of paper, a
250 word abstract for each individual paper.

For panel proposals: Please include, on a separate sheet of paper, a
250 word description of the panel as well a short (50-100 words)
description of each paper.

Please list names and contact information (including email addresses)
for
all presenters, and indicate the name of session chair.

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

All proposals will be anonymously reviewed.

**You must be a current member of CWSA/ACEF to submit an
abstract.** To join, please visit
http://www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef/cwsaacef/memb/memb_f.htm

Send proposals by email only, in Word/Wordperfect/RTF, to
lwarbeck@upei.ca.
Deadline: Friday December 9, 2005. No late proposals will be accepted.

Ann Braithwaite, Ph.D.
President/Présidente, CWSA/ACEF
Associate Professor, Coordinator
Women's Studies
University of Prince Edward Island
550 University Ave.
Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3
902-628-4312
abraithwaite@upei.ca
http://www.upei.ca/womenstu
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