Conferences and CALLs FOR PAPERS
The Race, Ethnicity, and Community Engagement in Higher Education conference: Race, Praxis, and Curriculum
Texas tech university
Lubbock, Texas
October 29-31, 2009
The conference encourages participants to address a wide range of issues related to research, curriculum design, assessment, institutional support, diversity, community connection, partnerships, and student development. The goal of the conference is to provide participants with multiple perspectives on critical issues, paradigms, and challenges related to race, ethnicity and community engagement in higher education.
This conference originates with the book African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2009) and will feature panels from the authors of this edited volume: http://www.professo
The conference will be grounded with three tracks; panel proposals should address one or more of these issues:
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Critical Race Studies: Ethnic Communities and Service-Learning or other community in Higher Education
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Praxis in Experiential Education: Best Practices for Integrating University, Community, and Students as Mutual Beneficiaries in Social Justice Efforts
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Curriculum and Paradigms: Developing Cultural Competencies in Service-Learning, other community engagement, and Community-Based Research Curriculum
Central Conference Questions
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What are possible future directions for community engagement in Communities of Color?
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Is service-learning/
community engagement a social movement or a social reform in higher
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Does service-learning take place at the expense of academic rigor?
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How can communities be equitable partners in service-learning courses and community-based
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What are the past, present, and new directions for service-learning, volunteerism, and
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How can we put theories and research to work in minority and underserved communities?
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How can we use service-learning and cultural identity to test theories of learning and
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What issues of ethics, reciprocity, and safety exist in community service, service-learning,
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In addition to participant outcomes, what other kinds of outcomes should be measured?
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What are major theoretical texts in race and ethnicity research that can guide curriculum development?
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What model classes and programs exist that integrate critical race and ethnicity analyses with
community engagement?
EASTERN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2010 Annual meeting: Economic Crisis and New Social Realities
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Cambridge, MAssachusetts
March 18-21, 2010
The online Abstract System for the 2010 Annual Meeting is now available through our website (http://essnet.org) or directly by clicking here. The cut-off date for submissions will be October 30, 2009. We ask that all proposals for papers, panels, sessions be submitted using this system. The system willa sk you to create your own new 2010 password sot hat you can revisit your submission as necessary (particularly useful if you are building a proposed panel). You do not need to be an ESS member to submit an abstract, but you will be required to be a 2010 member to present (online 2010 membership will be available in October).
Economic Crisis and New Social Realities
America is facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The 2010 Meeting will focus on the nature of this crisis and its implications for the U.S. and other societies around the world. How will the global economic crisis change the American Dream as well as the aspirations of those in other countries? What new patterns of consumption, work, and family seem most likely to emerge? What will be the role of government in economic markets? What will be the nature of government responsibility to its citizens in areas such as health care, social security, employment, housing, and family benefits? How will citizens define responsibilities to their government and to each other? What kinds of economic and social inequalities will emerge and will they feel legitimate or even acceptable? How will societies define the balance of individual rights versus communal concerns? How will the reduction of government programs affect education and the criminal justice system? To what degree will societies look inward and as opposed to looking outward toward more global issues such as the environment, immigration, terrorism, and international conflict? What new social policies will be needed to adequately deal with this changed reality? The new and current economic and social situation challenges sociology to provide analyses and answers to these and other pressing questions.
In addition submissions on all sociological topics are welcome. We are especially interested in having them in such varied forms as:
- Individual papers (please include one-page abstracts; longer drafts are also welcome)
- Wholly constituted sessions (with names and affiliations of all presenters)
- Workshops on specific topics and techniques (indicate the expert in charge)
- Conversations, Q&A sessions, or master classes (featuring a prominent scholar)
- Round-table and poster-session presentations
Regular submissions for all sociological topics in any of above formats are due by October 30, 2009. It is never too early to start planning. Questions should be sent to: easterns2010@gmail.com.
Program Committee: Jonathan Imber (Co-Chair), Christopher Winship (Co-Chair), Rosanna Hertz (President), Pamela Stone (Vice President), Anita Garey, Nazli Kibria, William Julius Wilson, and Jennifer Girouard and Clare Hammonds (Program Coordinators)
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies xxxvii conference: chicana/o environmental justice struggles for a post-neoliberal age
Grand Hyatt Seattle - Downtown Seattle
Seattle, Washington
April 7-10, 2010
Deadline for Call for Papers: October 15, 2009.
Submission process will open soon. Hotel details, exhibit information, and other conference logistics will be available soon. Check website regularly.
Since the 1960s and the farm worker anti-pesticides campaign, environmental justice has emerged as a potent and principal force of activism and self-organization in Chicana/o and other communities of color. Grassroots environmental justice movements have transformed the theory, ethics, and practice of environmentalism and changed the way we think and talk about the environment. In contrast to notions of the environment as separate from humans, either as "wild nature" or as exploitable "natural resource," environmental justice activists define the environment as the place where we live, work, play, and worship. Our communities have challenged the neoliberal regime of privatized environmental planning and deregulation while promoting the re-valuation and empowerment of place-based "traditional" ecological knowledge. Youth, and especially Chicano males, are an especially overlooked and vulnerable population subject to acts of environmental racism including the ecology of fear created by criminalization and marginalization of young people in urban spaces.
Chicana/o struggles demonstrate that environmental justice is more than resistance against racism in environmental law, planning, and regulation. It also involves a search for "ecological democracy" and environmental self-determination by our communities that are disproportionately impacted by the dominant neoliberal model for the destruction of the Earth and her peoples. These struggles are often rooted in collaborations with Native American and other indigenous peoples.
Environmental justice links social justice with ecological resilience and
poses significant questions for Chicana/o Studies and its historic benign neglect of ecological issues: What is the contemporary and future outlook for Chicana/o struggles around the material conditions of our existence? How do environmental justice struggles reflect our experiences in the daily-lived encounter with structural violence and historical trauma? What are the strategies of environmental justice used by our communities to supersede the fragmented identity politics of the past three decades and embrace the resurgence of collaborative social action-oriented research? How does the environmental justice movement promote our struggles to move toward
a post-neoliberal age?
Call for Papers, Panels, Roundtables, and Poster Sessions
For the first time in the history of NACCS, we have adopted a conference theme focused on critical scholarly work on human-environment interrelations. Environmental Justice in theory and practice is the theme of the 2010 Seattle meetings. We invite proposals for individual papers and panels organized to address the conference theme, and roundtable discussion sessions across disciplinary boundaries. We especially encourage paper and
panel collaborations among academic scholars, community-based organizations, and activists in the environmental justice movement. This year we will also be adding a Poster Session option to the conference.
Some of the themes we seek to address include:
1. Youth: We are especially interested in addressing the overlooked
vulnerable populations of male youth; role of youth in environmental justice activism and education.
2. Indigenous communities: What are the environmental justice issues and struggles in land grant and acequia communities? What are the ecological issues facing Native peoples and how are these cross-linked to Chicana/o communities and organizations?
3. Gender, sexuality, and the environment: Studies show that women of color face extraordinary levels of disparate risk. How are issues of gender and environmental protection related? What are the contributions of Chicanas to discourses of environmental ethics and ecofeminism? The interrelations of nature and sexuality are significant aspects of the discourses on environmental justice and ethics. How is sexuality related to the construction of our relation to the environment? Is the dominant construct of nature as female part of the problematic of heterosexism and patriarchal orientations?
4. Labor-environmental collaborations: The rise of blue-green" alliances has become a critical aspect of the environmental justice movement. How are labor and environmental justice activists collaborating and what are their defining struggles?
5. Food justice: Everyone must eat and drink water. Our communities face unprecedented levels of obesity, malnutrition, and hunger. What are Chicana/o communities doing to address issues of hunger, malnutrition, and the loss of our heritage cuisines? How is environmental justice related to the struggle for sustainable agriculture and the resurgence of local food systems? What are the struggles of Chicana/o communities in the area of urban agriculture?
6. The commons: What are the struggles aiming to restore the social ecology of urban and rural spaces including the reclaiming of common space? How is the struggle for the ecological commons a form of resistance against neoliberalism? Is Chicana/o urbanism the original form of "New Urbanism"?
7. Immigration and environmentalism: Anti-immigrant groups, elected
officials, and some mainstream environmental organizations often point to immigration as a source of environmental degradation of the border or as a source of "over-population" [sic]. What are the ecological consequences of immigration? Why have traditionally anti-ecological groups suddenly adopted an environmentalist slant to attack immigrants?
8. Post-NAFTA transboundary ecological politics: NAFTA unleashed an
unprecedented wave of economic integration and "maldevelopment" that has exacerbated environmental problems and conflicts on the US-Mexico border. What effects has NAFTA had on the incidence and nature of environmental racism? What are environmental justice groups doing to combat these effects? How has NAFTA affected our capacities and strategies to use environmental laws to protect our communities and ecosystems?
9. The ecology of fear/structural violence: The environment is not just the "natural world." It is also the "built environment." Our cities and rural areas have become dangerous places that facilitate systemic and
interpersonal violence and produce the "ecology of fear." How are
structural violence and historical trauma related to environmental justice struggles? How are these factors changing the theory and practice of environmental risk science?
10. History of the Chicana/o participation in the EJM: Chicana/os and other Latina/os have played a major role in the environmental justice movement. What are the factors leading to this leadership and participation? What are the unique qualities of Chicana/o EJM activism?
Please note that we invite proposals across a wide variety of themes.
Proposals are not required to focus exclusively on the conference theme and we invite NACCS participants to focus on their own established research agendas.
Please submit your proposals no later than October 15, 2009, online at:
www.naccs.org<http://www.naccs.org/>. Acceptance notices will be sent via email by January 31, 2010. Questions should be sent to Chair-Elect, Devon G. Peņa via email: mailto:dpena@naccs.org.
19th Annual Women's Studies Conference: Women & Girls of Color: History, Heritage, Heterogeneity
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut
April 16-17, 2010
INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE WORK
Both inside and outside of academe, women of color have actively participated in theoretical, artistic, and cultural production, influencing the ways we perceive and think about issues pertinent to women and girls. Situated by both gender and race, yet often at the margins, women of color have been instrumental in challenging scholars to critically re-conceptualize the discourses on race, gender, class, sexuality, and nationality. The scholarly work by women of color and on women of color is simultaneously multicultural, heterogeneous, interdisciplinary, and, in most instances, global and transnational. This body of literature which has spawned a whole new area of study at universities and colleges, is among the most exciting and vibrant in feminist scholarship and publications. As a site of innovative knowledge production, women of color writing does not simply travel throughout academic disciplines in the U.S., but it also travels globally, generating significant contributions with women's writing especially globally. In the 19th annual SCSU Women's Studies conference, we will take a close look at women and girls of color, looking back at their achievements throughout history but also pushing our thinking forward into the 21st century. Who are women and girls of color and what issues are important to them? How have women of color contributed artistically, culturally, and politically, inside universities as well as out in our communities? What challenges do women and girls of color across races, classes, religions, and cultures face in an increasingly globalized world? How can the discourse surrounding women and girls of color challenge our ideas about race, gender, class, nationality, and sexuality?
PROPOSAL FORMAT: Faculty, students, staff, administrators, and community activists from all disciplines and fields are invited to submit proposals, performance pieces, video recordings, and othe creative works are also encouraged. For individual papers, please submit a one-page abstract. For complete panels, submit a one-page abstract for each presentation plus an overview on the relationship among individual components. For the poster sessions and artwork, submit a one-page overview. All proposals must include speaker's/speakers' name(s), affiliation(s), and contact informnation (address, Email, and telephone number). Please also indicate preference for Friday afternoon, Saturday morning or Saturday afternoon; all attempts will be made to honor schedule requests.
PANELS: Each 75 minute session usually includes three presenters and a session moderator, but individual presenters may request an entire session for a more substantial paper or presentation. Presenters are encouraged, though not required, to form their own panels. The conference committee will group individual proposals into panels and assign a moderator. Please indicate in your contact information if you are willing to serve as a moderator.
POSTERS, ART DISPLAYS AND SLIDE PRESENTATIONS: A poster presentation consists of an exhibit of materials that report research activities or informational resources in visual & summary form. An art display consists of a depiction of feminist concerns in an artistic medium. Both types of presentations provide a unique platform that facilitates personal discussion of work with interested colleagues & allows meeting attendees to browse through highlights of current research. Please indicate in your proposal your anticipated needs in terms of space, etc.
We also invite your ideas and suggestions. Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geopolitical perspectives in order to re-examine narratives on women and girls of color, their histories, and their representations. Expect serious fun through meals, performance, and poetry slam, with women and girls of color and their allies speaking of their struggles and power.
Submission Deadline: Postmarked by December 1, 2009
Please submit proposals and supporting materials to:
Women's Studies Conference Committee
Women's Studies Program, EN B 229
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT 06515
Or via email to: womenstudies@southernct.edu with attention to Conference Committee. If you have any questions, please call the Women's Studies Office at 203-392-6133.
Please include name, affiliation, E-mail, standard mailing address, and phone number. Proposals should be no longer than one page, with a second page for identification information. Panel Proposals are welcome.
The Annual Women's Studies Conference at SCSU is self-supporting; all presenters can pre-register at the discounted presenter's fee. The fee includes all costs for supporting materials, entrance to keynote events, and all means and beverage breaks.
Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) annual conference: Re-Positioning Race Through Prophetic Research, Teaching, and Service
Atlanta, Georgia
Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
August 11 - 14, 2010
ABS invites Poster Session submissions for the 40th Annual Conference (2010). We welcome submissions with conceptual and/or empirical relevance to the program's theme, "Re-Positioning Race through Prophetic Research, Teaching, and Service." The Poster Session is intended to convey new unpublished data, new analyses of these data, and newly designed ongoing studies, in addition to scholarly conceptual analyses and interpretation. All methodologies appropriate to the discipline, the data, and the question(s) under study (including small-sample, single-subject, and descriptive research designs) are acceptable. Presenters are required to spend one hour at their respective posters to answer questions and/or participate in discussions. Posters will remain available (without presenters) throughout the conference, enabling conferees to view them at their convenience. The Poster Session will be open to the press. Submission of a poster presentation implies permission for media coverage. The deadline for poster abstracts is Tuesday, December 1, 2009.
For additional information, please contact Dr. Evita G. Bynum (Poster Session Organizer) at egbynum@umes. edu.
Black New England Conference: The Politics of Race: Movements, Protests, Leaders, and Representation
Durham, New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire
October 14-16, 2010
The 2010 conference will cover the history of cultural, social, and political movements in New England from the 1700s to the present. As the word "representation" indicates, the conference will include presentations on the politics concerning and the forms of representing such events and people of African descent in New England.
For information, please contact:
Center for New England Culture
Huddleston Hall
73 Main Street
Durham, New Hampshire 03824
Phone: 603-862-0693
Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2010
