Reminder: Call for Papers Women’s and Gender Studies Programs University of Texas at Austin Proposals due May 15, 2002 Conference on Friday and Saturday, October 18-19, 2002 FLASH POINTS . . . is a conference that considers the recent history and current state of affairs of women’s, feminist, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transexual, race/ethnicity, and global-rights activism and scholarship. On the occasion of 38th anniversary of the adding of “sex” discrimination to the Civil Rights act, the 34th anniversary of the demonstrations against the Miss America contest, the 33rd anniversary of the Stonewall events, the 30th anniversary of the first course in women’s studies at the University of Texas, the 29th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 20th anniversaries of the Barnard Conference on “Towards a Politics of Sexuality” and the “Combahee River Collective Statement,” and the 10th anniversary of Grrrl power, the publication of Gender Trouble, and the development of intersectionality theory, it seems useful to consider feuds and friendships both past and present among those seeking social change and understanding self-identity. This conference seeks papers describing the histories of these events or analyzing where thinking and debates on these activisms and research currently stand. What are our opinions and dissensions about · representations and their effects, · epistemologies and epistemological theories, · methods of scientific investigation and creative innovation, · biologies and neurobiologies and women, genders, and sexualities, · affects, emotions, and feelings, · personal relations in families, couples, and friends, · information storage and retrieval systems, · systems of learning and communicating, · memories, histories, · conceptions of health and wellness, · commodities and style, body designs, · contested and complex identities and their construction and performance, · social activism and social space, · political systems and policies, · notions of citizenship, rights, and justice, · art and artists, and · sketches of space and time and being? The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin invites proposals of about 500 words for a twenty-minute paper that will address any of these themes. While we will invite several guest speakers and will present papers ourselves, we seek outside presenters who might be interested in exploring these matters over two days with the UT Women’s and Gender Studies faculty and students. We will give preferences to papers that are crossdisciplinary. We also hope to publish these papers so please submit proposals that would be potentially original publications of about twenty typescript pages upon revision. Both UT and non-UT scholars should send their proposals by May 15, 2002, to: Janet Staiger, Center for Women’s Studies 405 West 25th Street (Walter Webb Hall), Suite 401 Campus Mail A4900 University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78705 512-471-5765; fax 512-475-8146 http://www.utexas.edu/depts/wstudies/ [log in to unmask] Notification of acceptance will be made by June 15, 2002. ********************************************************** Janet Staiger William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication Department of Radio-Television-Film, CMA 6.118 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 USA 512-471-6653 (office) http://www.utexas.edu/coc/rtf/fs/staiger/ Director, Center for Women's Studies Walter Webb Hall 401 405 West 25th Street University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78705 USA 512-471-5765 (office) 512-475-8146 (WS fax) http://www.utexas.edu/depts/wstudies/ ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html