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Subject: FW: CFP "Women's Worlds 2005"
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Call for Papers & Proposals
Women's Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on
Women
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Theme:
"Embracing the Earth: East-West/ North-South"

Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, June 19-24, 2005


Women's Worlds 2005 is organized by
The Organizing Committee for WW05

Linked with
Worldwide Organization of Women's Studies (www.fss.uu.nl/wows)

Superintended by
Korean Association of Women's Studies (www.kaws.or.kr)
Ewha Womans University (www.ewha.ac.kr)

Sponsored by
Ministry of Gender Equality, Republic of Korea (www.moge.go.kr)

In Cooperation with
Sogang University (www.sogang.ac.kr)
Yonsei University (www.yonsei.ac.kr)
Sookmyung Women's University (www.sookmyung.ac.kr)



International Congress, WW05:

The Women's Worlds Congress is an international interdisciplinary
congress
on women held every three
years. The focus of the Congress is gender research and
interdisciplinary
scholarship. The first
Women's Worlds Congress took place in 1981, in Israel. Since then, other
Congresses have taken place

in the Netherlands (1984), Ireland (1987), USA (1990), Costa Rica
(1993),
Australia (1996), Norway
(1999) and Uganda (2002).

The 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women (WW05) is
being
organized by the Organizing
Committee for WW05 in Seoul, Korea. In December 2002, the Korean
Association
of Women's Studies
(KAWS) reached an agreement with Ewha Womans University to co-host the
congress by setting up the

Organizing Committee and secretariat at the Asian Center for Women's
Studies, Ewha Womans
University in Seoul. The goal of the Committee, which set out with
'addressing gender and
development/globalization issues from an Asian perspective' as the
foremost
of its initiatives, is to
contribute to realizing gender mainstreaming and peace building in
Korea.

Korea, the first Asian country to host the 9th International Congress
offers
a unique environment for
exploring the ways in which fast-paced industrialization, during the
past
decades, changed the lives of
women and the manner in which women have mobilized development and
globalization for their own
national feminist causes. The distinct advancement of women's social and
economic status and their
quality of life, achieved in the midst of negotiations with entrenched
patriarchal and paternalistic values
and struggles with the continuing tragedy as a divided people in
Korea,
inspired the WW05 congress
theme, "Embracing the Earth: East & West, North & South." We would like
to
especially bring to the
attention of international minds the diversity of the historical
manifestation and evolution of patriarchal
rule, given the historical and cultural diversity of the Asian region.


Women's Worlds 2005 Special Focus

WW05 is organized around the theme, "Embracing the Earth: East &
West, North
& South." This theme
provides an opportunity for a broad reflection on the changes in the
traditional boundaries of
North-South/East-West and how women's lives are interwoven, as well as
kept
separated, by the
increasing economic disparity between the North and the South and the
contesting values between the
East and the West. This theme also brings to attention the phenomenon of
the
deconstruction and
reconstruction of the North-South/East-West boundaries with the newly
emerging forms of international
conflict and war, and the prominent rise of the U.S. as the sole
hegemonic
state since 9.11, and lays
out the foundation for examining how this phenomenon is transforming the
lives of women around the
world and how the women are coping with their changing circumstances.
Other
subjects of interest in
line with the Conference theme are the 'Third World,' which is being
newly
constructed within the Northern

West, or what used to be the center of politico-economic power, and
Asia's
'new middle class,' the
appearance of which is posing a threat to the traditional geopolitical
imaginations about Eastern Asia.
We are hoping for serious inspections on the influences of the
diversification and complexation of the
North-South/East-West boundaries on women's lives and the challenges
feminism has to face.
WW05 will look at the contrasts between East-West perspectives, and
perhaps
more importantly, try to
give participants from all around the world a better look at the
cultural
backdrops, social movements,
identities and policy-making efforts that are specific to the Asian
context.

The special focus areas will be topics arising from the history of Asia
as a
multicultural, multiethnic, and
multilingual region which has long been represented as 'the East,'
therefore, 'the Other' by the West
which has imposed various kinds of colonial domination. Secondly, we are
looking for program
contributions related to 'Asian women's identities,' as they deal
with the
complexities of their own
changing status following the impact of globalization and various
types of
feminisms. Thirdly,
considering women's deteriorating living conditions in the processes of
modernization and globalization
in Asia as well as in other regions, we invite program contributions on
such
issues as sex trafficking,
child prostitution, feminization of poverty, and women's human rights
related with war and other forms of

violence, political unrest and instability, etc.


Call for papers and proposals (deadline December 30, 2003)

We invite proposals on a broad range of material that constitutes the
subject of Women's Studies. In
keeping with the theme of the Congress, we welcome proposals that
address
coalition building,
collaboration, and connectivity, particularly across barriers that have
proved significant in feminism's
past, such as those of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, age,
sexual
identity, and religion. We also
welcome proposals that investigate the application of Women's Studies
beyond
the classroom, such as

internships, service learning, and community activism.

We encourage cross-cultural and interdisciplinary proposals as well as
proposals from all fields in the
humanities, the natural and social sciences, the creative and
performing
arts, health, law, social work,
education, community development, and other professional and
paraprofessional fields. The intention is
to have a combination of both scholarly texts, as well as popular
synopses
of works by activists,
advocates, and development practitioners in the field of women and
gender.
Proposals may be submitted for individual papers, panels, workshops,
round
tables, short lectures,
posters and the artists,' film, and writers' series.

* A panel is composed of three individual papers presenting
theoretical
issues or research data
organized around a common theme pertaining to any Women's Studies
field.

* A workshop is an in-depth presentation designed to share skills,
knowledge, and/or expertise in a new
area of Women's Studies. Authors will be allocated 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for
discussion.

* In a roundtable, presenters (two or more) offer ideas and
facilitate group
discussion on problems of
mutual concern, focusing on new ideas and problem solving.

* Short lectures on specific topics will run continuously throughout the
Congress and be open to the
general public. These will be short presentations of no more than 15
minutes, without provision for
discussion.

* Posters, offering an alternative to presenting a full research
paper, will
be displayed during the entire
conference. A special time will be scheduled to meet and talk to the
authors
about their work.

* The artists,' film, and writers' series offer opportunities to
present and
receive feedback on an array of
creative endeavors, including visual art, films, videos, prose, poetry
and/or non-fiction.

* Extras: Congress organizers will provide space for different
organizations
and interest groups to plan
meeting and events that are relevant to the Congress theme. Those
intending
to do so should inform
the Congress Secretariat before December 30th, 2004.

Pre-arranged panels and roundtables will have a better chance of
acceptance
than individual paper
proposals and proposals for one-person workshops.

Please submit your abstract of 300 words or less no later than
December 30,
2003. The abstract should
give a working title and indicate clearly its relevance to the
Conference
theme. Authors whose abstracts
are selected will be notified by mid March, 2004 and invited to
submit full
papers no later than December
30, 2004. Those who submit papers must register to attend this
congress.


For further information, please contact:
Kang Sun-Mi, Conference Coordinator
Organizing Committee for WW05
Asian Center for Women's Studies,
Ewha Womans University,
#11-1, Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-ku,
Seoul, Korea

Tel: 82-2-3277-4196
Fax: 82-2-3277-2577
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: www.ww05.org




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