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Call for Papers on Topics Related to Women of African Descent Anywhere in the World
Contours,
a new, multidisciplinary journal exploring the experiences of people of African
descent all over the world, invites submissions for its premier issues. Contours
will publish refereed scholarly articles, fiction, poetry, and societal and
cultural commentaries. The journal will publish scholarly articles from disciplines
as diverse as sociology, political science, history, anthropology, education,
and psychology; art, film, music, literary, and cultural criticism; and medicine
and the health sciences.
Suggested deadline for submissions is August 1, 1998; later submissions will
be considered for Volume Two. Preferred language for submissions is English;
however, we will accept manuscripts in any language. If a manuscript in a
language other than English is accepted, a translation will be published.
Contours will be published three times a year by Indiana University Press
and is supported by the African and African-American Studies program and the
history department at Duke University.
To request a style sheet, inquire further, or to submit manuscripts (four
copies), contact: Contours, Duke University, Box 90719, 121-N Carr Building,
Durham, NC 27708, USA (919) 660-3197; fax: (919) 660-3198; e-mail: LLHORN@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU
"Women
in the Christian Tradition III", European Science Foundation, Seefeld
, Austria, Oct. 1998
Further Information: Nanna Damsholt damsholt@coco.ihi.ku.dk>
(Re)Visions:
Feminist and Gender Theory at the Turn of the Century
Papers are invited for a forthcoming collection engaging the interconnected
projects of reconceptualizing boundaries and 'reading across domains' (Delaney
& Yanagisako 1995). The papers in this collection will challenge the boundaries
inscribed on current scholarship, including both inter-disciplinary as well
as intra-disciplinary conceptual and analytic categories. Papers should engage
(broadly defined) feminist areas of inquiry, while speaking to the muting
(e.g., Abu-Lughod 1991 & 1993, Cole & Phillips 1995) reconceptualization
(e.g., Tsing 1995), or deconstruction of inter- and intra-disciplinary boundaries
(e.g., Cole & Phillips 1995, Strathern 1987). The collection aims to embrace
interdisciplinary and international content.
Please send two copies of your abstract (300 words) and CV or personal introduction
by Sept. 1, 1998 to: Celia Rothenberg, Centre for the Study of Religion, University
of Toronto, 123 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E8, CANADA Inquiries
may be directed to Celia Rothenberg at: crothenb@chass.utoronto.ca
GENDERED
LANDSCAPES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATION OF PAST PLACE AND SPACE May 31
-1 June 1999, The Nittany Lion Inn State College, Pennsylvania
The goals of the conference are to learn, explore, and share particular perspectives
within a multi-disciplinary community and to initiate an ongoing dialog regarding
issues of gender and past construction of place and space. The conference
will bring together scholars from many disciplines that study, create, and
are inspired by issues of gender and landscape history: historians, geographers,
landscape architects, art historians, urban historians, sociologists, artists,
scholars of American and women's studies, and others. Anyone whose discipline
uses landscape history or gender to inform or guide his or her efforts should
attend.
A call for papers/panels will be mailed in August 1998, and abstracts will
be due December 11, 1998. Web site: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/CI/GenderedLandscapes/
Roberta Moore, Conference Planner, The Pennsylvania State University 225 The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, University Park PA 16802-7002 Phone: (814) 863-5120; Fax: (814) 863-5190; E-Mail: ConferencefInfo1@cde.psu.edu
The Journal of Women's History is soliciting essays for a special issue on women, poverty, and political economies. We seek manuscripts that address a wide range of topics, diverse geographical locations, and all historical eras. Stephanie J. Shaw will serve as guest editor, and the issue will appear early in 2000. Deadline for submissions is 15 August 1998. Send four double-spaced and one-sided copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000 words, including endnotes) to Poverty Issue, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, The Ohio State University, 106 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 432190-1367 U.S.A.