C A L L F O R PAPERS
> 6TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
>
> Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality:
> The Power of Intersectionality
>
> February 27, 2004
>
> The Women's Studies Program, Black World Studies
> Program, International
> Studies Program, American Studies Program, and the
> Latin American
> Studies
> Program at Miami University are pleased to sponsor
> this event. The
> symposium will showcase work that examines the
> intersections among race,
> gender, class, sexuality, and any interrogations of
> identity politics in
> scholarship, activism, practice, cultural
> representation, and
> experience.
> Faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students,
> and community
> professionals are all encouraged to participate.
>
> Keynote speakers are AnaLouise Keating, coeditor of
> This Bridge Called
> Home: Political Visions for Transformations and
> associate professor of
> Womens Studies at Texas Womens College, and
> Itumeleng Kimane, Senior
> Lecturer, Department of Social
> Anthropology/Sociology, National
> University
> of Lesotho, Liaison for the OSSRESA. Her
> presentations include
> HIV/AIDS
> and Gender and A Southern African Challenge:
> Information System, Data
> Bases and Sustaining Institutional Capacity.
>
> Possible presentations include theoretical and/or
> practical exploration
> of
> the intersections between at least two of the social
> locations of race,
> gender, class and sexuality. A variety of formats
> is possible,
> including
> films or performance pieces, roundtable discussions,
> and paper
> presentations. We encourage proposals on works in
> progress as well as
> completed works. We are interested in presentations
> by activists,
> artists, scholars, and practitioners from all
> disciplinary and
> interdisciplinary perspectives.
>
> Please submit a 200-300 word abstract of either a
> panel proposal or
> individual presentation. Include the title of the
> panel or
> presentation,
> name(s) and address(es) (including e-mail) of the
> presenter(s),
> preferred
> format, and audio-visual equipment requests.
> Submissions must be
> received
> on or before December 5, 2003. E-mail submission is
> preferred. You will
> receive notification of the status on your proposal
> by January 15, 2004.
> Direct submission and questions to one of the
> following:
>
> Cheryl Johnson Rodney Coates
> Womens Studies Black World Studies
> 126 MacMillan Hall 121 MacMillan Hall
> Miami University Miami University
> Oxford, Ohio 45056 Oxford, Ohio 45056
> PHONE (513) 529-4616 PHONE (513) 529-1235
> FAX (513) 529-1890 FAX (513) 529-1890
> E-MAIL: johnsocl@??? E-MAIL
> coatesrd@???
>
> For more details, visit the Womens Studies web site
> at
>
http://casnov1.cas.muohio.edu/womensstudies/EVENTSSYMPOSIU.HTM
>
>
>
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