The Institute of Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa is inviting applications for its Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies for 2012-2013. The purpose of this fund is to attract highly qualified researchers working on women’s issues. The Visiting Scholar’s stay should be from three (3) to six (6) months within the university’s academic year, from September to April. The recipient will receive a maximum of $3,000 which may be used to supplement research and/or travel expenses. Scholars with alternative funding will be considered. The Visiting Scholar will be required to present her ongoing research project in conferences and/or seminars and to interact with the community of students and colleagues. Additional information will be provided on request.

The Institute of Women’s Studies invites applications from Canadian and non-Canadian scholars, both tenured and untenured faculty, and from post-doctoral, independent scholars who are pursuing critical feminist research. Individuals must have a Ph.D. to be considered for this position.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a detailed statement of the research project, copies of recent publications, the dates of the proposed stay at the University of Ottawa and the names of two referees.

Please forward to:

Selection Committee
Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies
Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa
30 Stewart, room 101, Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 6N5 Canada
Telephone : (613) 562-5791
Fax : (613) 562-5994
E-mail : mcharbo@uOttawa.ca

The NEW closing date for submitting applications is 29 February 2012.

For more information, please consult the website here.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors

Call for Papers 

“Social Justice Feminism”

University of Cincinnati College of Law

October 26-27, 2012

Keynote Speakers 

Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland; Charles Phelps Taft Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Cincinnati

 Anika Rahman, President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women 

The University of Cincinnati College of Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice seeks submissions for its upcoming 2012 conference “Social Justice Feminism.”  For more information about the conference, please click here.

What is Social Justice Feminism?  It is the type of work feminist activists on the ground say that they want to do.  This desire for “social justice feminism” (SJF) emerged from a three-years’ long conversation among women leaders from national groups, grassroots organizations, academia, and beyond (the New Women’s Movement Initiative) who gathered to address dissonance in the women’s movement, particularly dissatisfaction with the movement’s emphasis on women privileged on account of their race, class, or sexuality.  In 2010, Kristin Kalsem and Verna L. Williams of the University of Cincinnati College of Law published an article, “Social Justice Feminism,” that takes initial steps at broadly defining SJF as that which is productive, constructive, and healing.  Moving from practice to theory, it suggests a new way of articulating and understanding the feminist work that is being done in this current stage of feminist jurisprudence, after the path-breaking interventions of anti-essentialism and intersectionality.  The article also sets forth methodological tools for “doing social justice feminism.” 

“Social Justice Feminism” was written to advance the conversation that has already begun, both in the world of practice as evidenced by the work of the New Women’s Movement Initiative, as well as the world of feminist legal theory.  The upcoming conference  is intended to continue and expand the conversation.  We are seeking papers from academics who are interested in practice and activists who are interested in theory.  Possible panels include: 

• A social justice feminist approach to women and prison
• Critical Race Feminism and SJF
• The intersections of SJF and environmental justice
• History and reproductive justice
• New approaches to domestic violence activism
• SJF and criminal justice 

Deadline: April 1, 2012.  We invite submissions of abstracts for individual papers, as well as complete panels.  Send paper abstracts of no more that 500 words and a short biographical statement to lawsonmn@ucmail.uc.edu.  In the subject or “re” line of your submission, please type: SJF conference submission.  Include your full contact information, including an email, phone number, and mailing address where you can be reached.  We will notify presenters of selected papers by June 1, 2012.

If you have any questions, please contact Professor Kristin Kalsem at kristin.kalsem@uc.edu.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors

From students at Iowa:

The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice

Call for Submissions

Innovative Scholarship needed for Volume 16

The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice is dedicated to the living discussion of feminist inquiry and critical race analysis in legal scholarship. We explore how people are classified, stratified, ignored and singled out under the law because of race, sex, gender, economic class, ability, sexual identity and the multitude of labels applied to us. The Journal would like to invite legal authors of all perspectives to submit proposals for articles to fill Volume 16 of our publication.

For more information about the Journal and our submission policy, please see here.

Please send article or proposal submissions, along with your curriculum vitae to Whitney Smith at whitney-e-smith@uiowa.edu.

Submission Deadline is January 30, 2012.

I published with the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice a few years back, and had a good experience FWIW.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors

Feminist Law Professors

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP for the 20th Annual Women’s Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University:

“Women and Labor: At Home, At Work, Around the Globe”

Keynotes: Dolores Huerta & Lilly Ledbetter

Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, 2012

Proposal Submission Deadline:  December 1, 2011

INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE WORK

Our 20th annual conference addresses one perennial struggle in women’s movements across the globe: labor.  As we witness this spring the surge of labor movements in the U.S. as labor is challenged—specifically, unionized & feminized labor, we also receive findings, just released in May 2011 by Ms. Foundation for Women, that women are bearing the brunt of today’s economic crisis.  More than ever, women’s labor is at the forefront of our struggles.  In a different part of the world, we continue to observe women’s critical contribution to what is now called the Arab Awakening.  Yet we, too, see little representation of women in the wake of the Egyptian revolution.  By all accounts, the report cards on women and labor have made less than significant progress over the decades.  In this annual conference, we invite colleagues and activists to take a close look at all issues concerning women and labor, in both private and public domains as well as globally and locally.  Employed as a category of analysis in women’s and gender studies, feminist analyses of gender and labor do not simply travel throughout diverse communities and academic disciplines in the U.S., but they also travel globally, generating significant connections with other fields.  With this conference, we will have an opportunity to examine the body of activist and scholarly feminist work on women and labor.  What aspect of labor continues to be the struggle that women share across the race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality divide?   How might we begin to talk about women and labor without collapsing the multicultural, heterogeneous, global and transnational within us?  How have women contributed their labor artistically, culturally, and politically, in our communities as well as around the globe?  What challenges do women and girls across races, classes, religions, and cultures face in an increasingly globalized world?  Going forward, what might labor as a site of knowledge production further benefit our work and struggle in the human community?  What are some of the best practices?

More information is here.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors

From the FLP mailbox, this request for applications for Hamilton College’s 2012-2013 Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor in Women’s Studies:

The Women’s Studies Department at Hamilton College invites applications and nominations for the 2012-2013 Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor in Women’s Studies.  This is a visiting professorship endowed for the purpose of serving the needs and interests of women at Hamilton College.  We seek a scholar at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor with experience teaching women’s studies courses. We are particularly interested in scholars whose areas of teaching and/or scholarly expertise is in critical race studies (African American, Latina, Native American, indigenous feminisms) with particular attention to the areas of race, gender, and reproductive justice; criminalization and imprisonment; sexuality and queer theory.

Teaching load is 3 courses for the year.  Salary is commensurate with experience; other responsibilities are negotiable.  Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names of three references to:  Prof. Anne E. Lacsamana at wssearch@hamilton.edu.  Application deadline is January 16.

Hamilton College is a residential liberal arts college located in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York; for applicants with dual-career considerations, Hamilton participates in the regional Higher  Education Recruitment Consortium, which posts additional area employment opportunities at
Hamilton College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in all areas of the campus community. Hamilton provides domestic partner benefits.  Candidates from underrepresented groups in higher education are especially encouraged to apply.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP:

21st International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Conference: 27-29 June, 2012

Barcelona, Spain

Human Well-being for the 21st Century: Weaving Alliances from Feminist Economics

The 2012 IAFFE conference theme, “Human Well-Being for the 21st Century: Weaving Alliances from Feminist Economics”, will be conducive to discussions on the effects of the global crisis as well as policy, action and alliances from a feminist economics perspective. In addition to regular presentations, we invite everyone to organize sessions and present papers analyzing the multiple aspects of the crisis and to shape feminist responses to the challenging questions facing the world today.

Submissions: Proposals must be submitted on-line via the IAFFE website. Submissions can be made for panels or individual papers. Participants are limited to one formal paper presentation and one panel discussion. Additional co-authored papers are allowed so long as they are presented by the other co-author.

Please see the IAFFE website for detailed submission guidelines, as well as the limits for individual participation in panels and paper presentations (here).

Deadline for Submission: The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2012.

Acceptances announced by early March.

Conference Site: The conference will be held at the Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Travel Grants: Travel grants may be available; please see the IAFFE website for updated information.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP:

Sex::Tech is the premier event for health professionals; technology experts; researchers and educators; community leaders and advocates; parents and young people to advance sexual health awareness, knowledge, and strategies. This annual gathering is hosted by ISIS Inc. [Internet Sexuality Information Services], a California-based nonprofit providing leadership, innovation, education, and research for technology to promote sexual health, healthy relationships, and disease prevention.

KEY DATES

Proposal Abstracts Due: 18 Nov 2011

Selection Notification: 16 Dec 2011

Conference: 1-3 Apr 2012

Sex::Tech is organized along four main conference tracks. We invite abstracts of 250 words or less, related to the overall goal of the conference, that fit within one of these tracks.

(1) Healthy Sexuality among youth and young adults, programs or research pertaining to LGBTQ youth, young MSM, or youth of color.

(2) Field Insights that provide data for evidence-based program design, focused on teen pregnancy reduction, STI/STDs, or intimate partner violence prevention.

(3) Grassroots Advocacy for sexual health and reproductive rights leveraging use of technology at the community level.

(4) “I’m A… XYZ” professional education sessions that describe work experience on behalf of youth-focused public health and/or technology.

Particular emphasis in session ideas addressing one or more of the following areas/audiences:

– Youth-led innovations and campaigns

– Technology innovation for public health

– HIV/AIDS strategy and prevention

– Teen pregnancy prevention

– Intimate partner violence prevention

– STDs/STIs and young MSM

– Sexual health policy/advocacy (including youth LGBTQ)

– Sex education in learning environments

– Effective partnerships & collaboration (inter-agency, cross-sector, public-private-public interest, etc.)

Across all tracks we look for potential sessions that involve significant public health information or use of new media/online/mobile technology tools and resources.  We fully encourage interactive, creative, non-traditional presentation formats.

More info available here.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP:

TRANSECTING SOCIETY:Critical Dialogues on Transsexual/Transgender Identities in Politics, Media, Activism and Culture

 Date: April 12 & 13, 2012

Location: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Memorial Union Building (MUB)

Transecting Society is a two-day symposium dedicated to exploring controversial political topics related to transsexual/transgender identities in contemporary U.S. culture.  We welcome scholars, activists, artists, lawyers, performers, writers, non-profit workers and others who are interested in exploring the oppression of trans people in our society, and strategies for promoting our collective liberation and civil rights.

Conference organizers are currently seeking abstracts on any of the following topics:

• Trans Identities and Feminism: histories of inclusion/exclusion, trans feminist theory and activism, trans feminist controversies, transphobia in radical feminism and anti-pornography movement, coalition-building in trans and feminist communities

• Trans Identities in Lesbian/Gay/Queer Communities: Gay, Inc., LGBT as coalition, LGBT non-profits and political organizations, gay transphobia, trans-exclusive legislation, ENDA, “coming out” as heterosexual after transition
• Trans Identities and [Pseudo]Science: GID reform, transvestic disorder, DSD, autogynephilia/homosexual transsexualism, the sexualization of trans women In pseudo-scientific literature, The Bailey-Dreger controversy, psychological/psychiatric gate-keeping, trans-“reparative” therapies for youth and adults.
• Trans Terminologies: Debates on terms, labels, identities, language, e.g. transgender as an umbrella term, transsexualism as a medical condition, reclaiming the term “tranny”, usefulness of “cisgender” etc.
• Trans Media and Media Defamation : The Jerry Springer Show, “she-male” pornography, comedy skits, Ticked Off Trannies with Kinives criticism and activism, journalistic accounts of anti-trans hate crimes, misgendering in the press, trans-produced film, photography and media with a radical agenda, trans in high fashion as the latest “trend” in capitalist entertainment.
• Trans Blogosphere and New Media: Blogs, Blogging and Blog wars, Vlogs, internet radio, digital video, Youtube channels, digital activism, social networking, web sites, Second Life etc.
• Trans Identities and Race: Race, ethnicity, trans people of color, racism, white privilege, whiteness, racial conflict and division in trans communities
• Trans Activism in the Past, Present and Future: Stonewall, Compton’s Riots, Dewey’s Riots, Trans Pioneers, Sylvia Rivera, Marsha Johnson, Christine Jorgensen, gay historical imperialism, trans militancy, etc.
• Trans People in/and Electoral Politics: Trans folks and voting, trans people running for office, trans delegates, trans people in state politics, anti-trans campaigns at the state and national level, the so-called “bathroom bill” and political fear-mongering, etc
• Critical Trans Politics and Social Movement Coalitions: racial and economic justice, disability rights, global and transnational issues, sex worker rights, elders, youth movements, adultism and ageism, fat liberation, prisoner rights.

Please submit a 300-word abstract in which you clearly describe your research paper and how it relates to the themes of the conference.  Up to two submissions per person are allowed. Please send as a MS Word Attachment by February 1, 2012 to transecting.society@gmail.com and include the following info as well: paper/presentation title, name, address, phone, email, institutional affiliation, and a brief bio.  Feel free to send queries to the above email as well.  Sponsored by TransGender-UNH and the UNH Women’s Studies and Queer Studies Programs.

Additional information about the conference will soon appear here.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors

From our colleagues at Queen’s University (Kingston Ont.):

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY FEMINIST LEGAL STUDIES

 Call for papers —

 Women, the Charter, and CEDAW in the 21^st Century:

Taking Stock and Moving Forward

March 2-4, 2012, Kingston Ont.

 The Charter sex equality provisions were drafted in 1981, the same year Canada signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). How have women fared as these human rights guarantees have come into effect over the last thirty years? What accomplishments can now be counted on, and what challenges remain?

This symposium invites lawyers, academics in law and other disciplines, policy analysts, community activists, and students to submit proposals for panel discussions and papers that assess the state of contemporary women’s equality in Canada and other jurisdictions at the national, regional, and international levels. The goal of this symposium is to identify emerging priorities and examine strategies that are most likely to promote substantive sex equality in the rapidly changing social, political, and economic circumstances of today.

Proposals and papers are invited on these issues, and on any others added by participants:

• Women in paid work: barriers, rewards, and challenges
• Violence against women, disappearing women, and government responses
• Indigenous women’s issues: economic, social, and political
• Arctic and northern women: geography, culture, and equality
• Immigration and refugee law, public safety deportations, and federal policy
• Disabled women’s rights
• Education and sex/gender: for whom does education pay, and how much?
• Racialization and gender in legal policy
• Religion, feminism, and human rights
• Women in corrections systems
• Maternal mortality, health care, and reproductive rights
• Women and economic crisis: gender and recessions, unequal safety nets, social costs
• Pay equity, equal pay, and equality: how are women faring?
• Gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting, and fiscal equality
• International relations, militarism, and democracy
• Lesbian, bisexual, and trans women – rights and responsibilities
• Women in sports: funding, safety, competition constraints, and ‘legacy’ planning
• Prostitution, Bedford, and beyond
• Sex/gender and economic security, property, wealth, and subsistence

Call for papers:

Submissions grounded in public policy, domestic or international law, sociology, economics, health/medicine, foreign affairs, women’s/gender studies, Aboriginal studies, development, gender/sexualities, accounting, environmental, human rights, or political studies are sought.

Date and location:

The symposium will be held at Queen’s University Faculty of Law, Kingston, Ont. on

Friday March 2 through early afternoon Sunday March 4, 2012.

Submitting paper topics:

If you are interested in presenting a paper or organizing a panel on specific issues, please email your proposal and a short (one paragraph) description to Bita Amani at amanib@queensu.ca or Kathleen Lahey at kal2@queensu.ca.  This can be sent any time until Nov. 15, 2011. Participation will be confirmed by Nov. 25, 2011.

Travel funding:

When submitting paper or panel proposals, please indicate whether you would be able to obtain institutional support to attend, or whether you could attend only if you receive funding from Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s.

Registration:

Attendance without presenting a paper is welcome, as the goal is to discuss a wide variety of equality issues. Contact the organizers to indicate interest and obtain registration information. Special funding from the Law Foundation of Ontario, which is funding this symposium, has been provided to assist students to attend.

Accommodation and child care:

Information on accommodation will be provided on request. Anyone wanting child care should mention that from the outset so appropriate arrangements can be made.

For further information, contact either —

Professor Bita Amani (co-director, Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s) at amanib@queensu.ca or Professor Kathleen Lahey (co-director, Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s) at kal2@queensu.ca.

The folks at Queen’s are doing very interesting work, and very much welcome participation from U.S.-based academics, so check it out.

-Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors