> Subject: FW: CFP "Women's Worlds 2005"
> From: Masashi Iwasa <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, July 25, 2003 12:22 pm
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>
> Call for Papers & Proposals
> Women's Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on
> Women
> ______________________________________________________________________
> _____
> 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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