Forwarded by Jeremy Butler. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 09:43:18 EDT Send reply to: "Women's Studies List" <[log in to unmask]> From: Kali Tal <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP--1995 Sixties Conference, Deadline extended To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L <[log in to unmask]> We've extended the deadline for the Conference to August 15. Please forward this call for papers to any appropriate list or person. !!!CALL FOR PAPERS!!! 1995 SIXTIES GENERATIONS CONFERENCE An Interdisciplinary Conference of Scholars, Activists and Artists October 5-8, 1995 Western Connecticut State University Danbury, Connecticut Proposals due: August 15, 1995 I invite you to join us for the third annual Sixties Generations Conference: From Montgomery to Viet Nam on October 5-8, 1995. Last year over 400 scholars and students joined us at Western Connecticut State University to hear more than one hundred presentations by academics, activists, and artists. The Sixties Generations Conference is a showcase for intelligent and lively academic work in a variety of disciplines and studies fields, but what makes it special is the interdisciplinary emphasis and the collegial atmosphere. We've demonstrated that mixing academics with artists, crossing disciplines, and spanning generations fosters a creative and collaborative excitement that can't be matched. Our evaluation forms showed that over 95% of those who attended last year will be back in 1995. Here are some comments we received: "The Conference provided a rare opportunity to not only learn from scholars and artists but to engage in fruitful discussion that multiplied the impact of the meetings many times over. The organization and administration of the conference was superb and the facilities excellent. What was most gratifying was how so many of the scholars and artists in their lives and work sought to cut across traditional boundaries of gender, academic disciplines, and even of age: there was a lively mix of younger students and scholars and well-established teachers and professors. I look forward to next year's meeting knowing it will be a highlight of my academic annual activities." "The conference was an outstanding mix of scholars, students, artists, participants, participant-observers, etc. One could sample informal networking and heavy-duty scholarship. The interactions of panels and audience was lively and informative. Keep it up!" "I particularly appreciated the interdisciplinary nature of the conference. If not unique, it is extremely rare. Vietnam veterans, scholars, antiwar activists, artists, musicians, and writers all dealing with the same subject--in a better society, Vietnam Generation would be recognized and nurtured as a national resource. We remain committed to interdisciplinary work and to seeking diverse presentations. We particularly encourage the participation of those traditionally under-represented in academic discourse, and we do not shrink from controversial topics. In addition to soliciting work from traditional disciplines, we enthusiastically invite presentations in African American Studies, Chicano Studies, Women's Studies, Native American Studies and other studies programs. We know that most of the best work at conferences is done between sessions, when people get the chance to talk, to share stories, to set up collaborations. So we do our best to make sure that there is plenty of time for these activities-we arrange for meals to be available at the conference site, set up a lounge for refreshments, and keep coffee and tea available all day long. We also arrange evening events--our Sixties style coffeehouse reading was so successful last year that we will do it again, breaking it up into two nights of poetry, fiction, multimedia and performance art. As usual, we are doing all this work on a shoestring. Viet Nam Generation, Inc., is a literary and educational nonprofit which cannot yet afford to salary its staff. This conference has been supported entirely by volunteer efforts, the registration fees of participants and by our book sales. The facilities are generously provided by Western Connecticut State University. We know that many conferences can afford to waive fees for those presenting papers, but we cannot. We do waive fees for those who would not otherwise be able to participate, and we do our best to find alternative housing for those who cannot afford hotel rooms. We're committed to the notion that no one should be turned away for lack of funds. To meet this goal we rely on support from those who do have funds-faculty members or others with full-time positions and decent incomes. In fact, we encourage you, if you can afford it, to pay an extra registration fee to cover someone else with fewer resources. We also encourage you to subscribe to our journal, Viet Nam Generation, a forum for interdisciplinary written work on the war. We publish many of the Sixties Generations Conference papers in the pages of the journal, which is now entering its seventh volume year. Your support enables us to continue our efforts. Part of our philosophy is that we do not rank those who attend the Sixties Generations Conference-there are no "stars" here; we don't even put your institution on your name tag. We have no "keynote" speakers or "special" sessions. Those who attend don't do it for their c.v. They do it-and we do it-because the work we all do is vital, because we believe in an alternative to the rest of the deadly dull gatherings which pass for conferences in academia, and because we are dedicated to building a community of scholars, activists, and artists who can support each other in our work. I look forward to seeing you in October. Kali Tal Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc. 18 Center Rd., Woodbridge, CT 06525 203/387-6882; fax 203/389-6104 email: [log in to unmask] home page: http://kalital.polisci.yale.edu ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]