SEWSA: Cultural Productions, Gender, and Activism
CFP: SEWSA Conference (Theme: Cultural Productions, Gender, and Activism; 3/25/10-3/27/10)
The 33nd Annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference will be hosted by the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC on March 25-27, 2010.
Conference Theme for 2010: "Cultural Productions, Gender, and Activism" is an exciting and edgy axis for theorizing WGS in the southeastern region of the United States.
Featuring Keynote Addresses by:
Judith Jack Halberstam
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Marjorie Spruill
The Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA) is a feminist organization that actively supports and promotes all aspects of women's studies at every level of involvement. The organization is committed to scholarship on and activism eliminating oppression and discrimination on the basis of sex, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, physical ability, and class. SEWSA is a regional organization under the National Women's Studies Association serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are solicited on any of the following topics:
- Culture, Globalization, and Transnational Activism
- Art, Culture, and Empowerment
- Cultural Work as Intellectual Work
- Cultural Work as Political Work
- Guerrilla Art and Guerilla Activism
- Art and Social Resistance
- Activist Art
- Grassroots Organizing Through Arts and Culture
- Pedagogies of the Oppressed
- Theater of the Oppressed
- Performance, Slam Poetry, and Politics
Thematic papers are encouraged, but we welcome paper proposals on all women‘s studies topics. Submissions are invited from undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS and SESSIONS of 3-5 PAPERS: December 1, 2009.
Selected panels will also be sponsored by the Student Caucus, the LGBTQ Caucus, and the Women of Color Caucus.
LGBTQ CAUCUS OF SEWSA
In response to the challenges of institutional and cultural homophobia in the U.S. Southeast, and in an effort to foreground antihomophobic feminist cultural work, SEWSA is building an LGBTQ Caucus that will provide a strong network for support and the sharing of scholarly and pedagogical ideas around LGBTQ issues throughout the region.
WOMEN OF COLOR CAUCUS OF SEWSA
In recognition of the central place of "intersectionality" in contemporary women's studies--a widespread disciplinary commitment to analyzing race, class, and gender as powerful interlocking principles by which people are organized globally and locally--SEWSA is building a Women of Color Caucus. The objectives of the group will be to provide a strong network for support and the sharing of scholarly and pedagogical ideas around issues of race throughout the region. Calls for papers for these panels will be announced soon.
Check for updates and more detailed instructions for submitting abstracts at the conference website (http://www.cas.sc.edu/wost/conference.html) and the SEWSA organization website (http://sewsa.nwsa.org/events.html).
STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
A total of $1,500 is available for student travel grants to the annual SEWSA conference. Student travel grants of up to $100 each will be awarded to students presenting papers at the SEWSA conference who attend college within the southeastern region. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. The request should include the student's name, academic affiliation, enrollment year, contact information (including surface address, email address, and phone number), a brief statement giving the paper title, an explanation as to how the conference fits with the student's interest in Women's/Gender Studies, and why attending the conference is important to the student's work. Requests for student travel grants should be submitted via email by January 15, 2010 to SEWSA President Elect Lisa Johnson at mjohnson@uscupstate.edu.
Other questions should be directed to the conference organizer, Dr. Drucilla Barker (barkerdk@mailbox.sc.edu).