Reminder--Call for Papers: Feelings and Memories Conference Women’s and Gender Studies Programs, University of Texas at Austin Proposals due May 15, 2003 Conference on Friday and Saturday, October 24-25, 2003 FEELINGS AND MEMORIES . . . is a conference that considers how the places and times for feelings and memories for individuals are differential and, at times, unequal. Who can feel what where, who can call upon memories of what when, are signs of the states of ability to produce or circulate specific meanings. This conference hopes to further the work feminist, gender, and queer-theory scholars have produced about personal positions and politics. This conference seeks papers analyzing where thinking and debates on these matters currently stand. What are our opinions and dissensions about · Places of feelings and memory in legal spheres, access to and delivery of health services, and health care environments · The use and abuse of feelings and memories in advertising, marketing, political debate, social issue movements, senses of community or coalition, national sentimental politics · The global flow of privileged and denigrated feelings and memories · Debates of objectivity versus subjectivity in the sciences and journalism · Innovations in pedagogies and educational theories · The representations and functions of feelings and memories for diasporas and in neo-colonialist states · On specific feelings and memories: ambivalence, trauma, terror, nostalgia, grief, melancholy, ecstasy, moral righteousness, and others 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 cross-disciplinary. Both UT and non-UT scholars should send their proposals by May 15, 2003, 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, 2003. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html