of possible interest:
>
>FEMINIST UTOPIAS:
>Redefining Our Projects
>An International Feminist Conference
>Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies
>University of Toronto
>November 9-11, 2000
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>Imagine an ideal world - an ideal feminist world. What would it look
>like? What would have to change for us to get there? The intent of
>this conference is to bring together feminists from across the world
>to assess and redefine feminist projects in a number of areas
>affecting women's lives today.
>
>This event will include the launch and inaugural conference of the
>Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies (IWSGS) at the
>University of Toronto, which came into existence in 1999. In
>accordance with the mandate of IWSGS, the conference aims to create a
>"polylogue" between feminists across disciplines, regions, and
>countries as well as between feminist scholars, artists and activists,
>while integrating analyses of race, gender and sustainability.
>
>Speakers are asked to describe what the ideal situation in their area
>of concern would be (the utopian part), then identify the many real
>problems that exist (the reality check), and finally discuss how we
>can move from where we are to where we would like to be (the
>redefining part). The conference will address some of the key issues
>in feminist scholarship today.
>
>The conference is made up of 4 plenary sessions ( Work, Citizenship
>and Globalization, Sustainable Societies, Intersectionalities:
>Addressing Race, Gender, Class..., and Contested Sexualities) with
>invited internationally renowned scholars and prominent activists from
>a variety of fields and disciplines. The conference will also include
>a substantial number of parallel sessions, for which we invite
>submissions, on issues that have been identified of particular
>relevance to feminist projects today.
>
>Submissions are invited to address research and innovative projects
>related to a series of themes that have been set up by the organizing
>committee. The topics are:
>
>1. Beyond Pathologizing Women
>2. The New Eugenics
>3. Refugee Women: Dis/continuities
>4. The Women's Movement: Redefining the Feminist Project for the 21st
> Century
>5. Women Redefining Spiritualities
>6. Cultural Activism
>7. Violence
>8. Educating for Equity
>9. Gender in Sport
>10. Gender in the Arts
>12. Race and Gender in Feminist Epistemologies
>13. Post/Scripts: current Trends in Women's Prose Fiction
>14. Women and Media
>15. Gender in Cyberspace
>16. Welfare Mothers under Workfare
>17. Transnational Families
>18. The Future of Sexualities
>19. Where We Live - Creating Feminist Spaces
>20. Home and Work
>21. Whose Body is This Anyway?
>22. A Feminist Future for our Children
>23. Women and Dis/Abilities
>24. The Lifecourse and Aging
>
>We are accepting abstracts on any of these topics from faculty,
>students, writers and activists. When applying, please identify the
>session number. We also welcome a limited number of proposals for new
>themes or innovative sessions or workshops that are not listed.
>Efforts will be made to incorporate new, innovative suggestions, space
>permitting. For this, please provide a detailed proposal.
>
>DEADLINE: The submissions must be received no later than May 31, and
>should be sent to the address below. The conference committee will
>meet to evaluate each abstract and proposal. Evaluation will be based
>on originality and relevance to the conference theme. Notification of
>acceptance will be mailed or e-mailed to you in June 2000. Conference
>registration and additional information will follow. Information about
>the conference will also be posted on the IWSGS website:
>http://www.utoronto.ca/iwsgs/conference.html
>
>With each submission, be sure to include your name, the title of your
>paper, the session name and number you are applying to, your e-mail
>address, telephone number and fax, and/or any other contact
>information and a one-page abstract. Also include a four-line
>biography which will be included in the final programme if your
>abstract is selected.
>
>Please send abstract to:
>Feminist Utopias Conference
>New College - Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies
>University of Toronto
>40 Willcocks Street
>Toronto, Ontario
>M5S 1C6
>Phone: (416) 946-3817
>Fax: (416) 946-5561
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
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>Dr Sasha Roseneil
>Director
>Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
>University of Leeds
>Leeds
>LS2 9JT
>UK
>
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Department of Social Sciences,
Loughborough University,
Loughborough,
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