Sex, Rights and the Law in a
World with AIDS (Request for Abstracts)
In partnership with aids2031, the International Center for Research
on Women (ICRW), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and
the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) will convene a meeting
in early 2009 entitled Sex, Rights and the Law in a World with AIDS.
The conveners are soliciting abstracts of published or unpublished papers
that capture research and/or experience on sexual behavior, sexual identity,
human rights and the law as they relate to a long-term response to the
AIDS epidemic. Research, program and advocacy-oriented papers are welcome.
Ten to twelve of the submitted abstracts will be selected by the conveners
for presentation at the meeting. The goal of the meeting is to identify
effective strategies to address sexuality- and gender-related vulnerabilities
to HIV. The objective of the meeting is to uncover existing strategies,
generate innovative thinking and develop recommendations on addressing
"the complex social, legal and political obstacles to the successful
prevention of sexually transmitted HIV, and the barriers to effective,
gender-transformative and human rights-based approaches to treatment,
care and support." The meeting will produce succinct but thorough
guidance for programs, policy and action. The meeting will take place
over 2.5 days in late January/early February of 2009, location to be
determined. Abstracts of no more than two pages (12 point, Arial font,
1 inch margins) should include the following information:
* Issues: A summary of the issue(s) addressed by the abstract;
* Description: A description of the research, project, experience, service
and/or advocacy; partners involved; and the extent to which this work
captured new or marginalized voices;
* Results/Lessons learned: Conclusions and implications of the research
or project, especially for marginalized groups;
* Conclusions and next steps: Main finding/results of effort, and possible
next steps for future action and collaboration with additional partners.
Abstracts should be sent in PDF format to Ann Warner (awarner@icrw.org),
by September 30, 2008. Abstract submissions will be
reviewed and applicants notified regarding acceptance for the workshop
by October 31, 2008. Completed papers are due to the conveners
by December 15, 2008. Direct travel expenses as well as
room and board will be covered by the workshop host. Exact dates and
the venue for the three-day workshop will be finalized soon.
Global Goods: Changing Perspectives
on Trade, Human Rights and the Environment
We stand at a unique moment in history when human rights, social justice,
and concern for the environment inform the agenda of both multinational
corporations and social movements. Paradoxically, the open and competitive
market, long considered a perpetrator of human and environmental abuses,
is now viewed as a frontier for respecting, protecting and serving "the
greater common good." While activists and non-profit organizations
have historically been the outlet for such causes, over the past decade,
for-profit corporations have sought to reinvent themselves as champions
of social welfare and the environment. New agencies, institutions and
standards-making bodies are surging to the foreground to mediate between
social, environmental and economic imperatives. The blurring of boundaries
between markets and movements, for-profit and non-profit, has created
new possibilities and problems which we will explore through a junior
scholar workshop titled Global Goods: Changing Perspectives on Trade,
Human Rights and the Environment. In this workshop, we seek to understand
the rise of responsible capitalism through research conducted on the
production and consumption of what we call "global goods."
The Global Goods workshop will take place at Rutgers University in New
Brunswick, NJ. Scholars participating in the workshop will be organized
into three paper sessions over one day in Spring 2009 (April 23-24,
2009). These sessions will illustrate the diversity of studies that
echo the Global Goods theme and will facilitate peer-review feedback
on each presenter's paper with the ultimate purpose of collective publication
as a special issue in a social science journal. The workshop will also
invite faculty discussants from Rutgers whose expertise in the field
will enrich the debate, feedback and dialogue. We invite papers from
advanced Ph.D. candidates, recent Ph.Ds. and junior faculty that address
the trade of commodities in an international setting. Additionally,
preference will be given to papers which are ethnographically informed
and connect conceptually to one or more of the broad workshop themes.
Potential thematic areas for papers include but are not limited to:
• Global Commodity Chains
• Moral Economies
• Transnational Activism and Advocacy
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Environmental Justice
• Product Certification
• Energy and its Alternatives
• Sustainable Development
• Labor Rights, Human Rights
• Global Food Networks
• Gender Equity and Trade
• Artisans and Industry
• Biopiracy
• Fair Trade and Free Trade
• Common Resources and Privatization
• Global Agriculture or Extraction
• Green Marketing and Ethical Branding
• GMOs
To participate in the workshop please send a current CV and an abstracts
of 500 words or less to globalgoods2009@gmail.com on or before
September 15, 2008. In the abstract, please include a brief
statement of relevance to the workshop theme. The workshop selection
committee will notify selected presenters by October 15. Final
papers (approximately 4,000-6,000 words) will be due for circulation
by March 15, 2009. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Workshop
email: globalgoods2009@gmail.com.
Workshop website: http://globalgoods.rutgers.edu.
Junior Scholars Workshop, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April
23-24, 2009. Workshop is sponsored by: The Office of International Programs,
The Department of Geography, The Center for African Studies, and The
Program in South Asian Studies.
Special Issue on Gender and
Sexuality Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
invites students, faculty and independent researchers to contribute
to a special issue of Souls focused on a critical examination of race,
gender, and sexuality. Souls is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal
that maps the intellectual contours of the contemporary Black experience.
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2008. The past three
decades have given rise to generations of challenging, critical scholarship
on questions of gender and sexuality in the African diaspora. Capitalizing
on this momentum, this special issue of Souls will draw from the strongest
emergent scholarship on black gender and sexuality both in the United
States and abroad. A central concern of this issue will be the place
that our genders and sexualities occupy in broader fields of knowledge,
politics, and history. While normative heterosexualities fall under
this rubric, this special issue will be more focused on other areas
of inquiry, which might include: new definitions of the alphabet soup:
LGBT(Q,I) identities and blackness, critical approaches to activism
and sexuality, neoliberalism and black sexuality, race, sexuality, and
affect, sexual citizenship, sexual identity and place, sexuality and
age, sexuality, race, and dis/ability, polyamory and sexual partnership/s,
queer asylum, and/or gender and performativity. Indeed, it is critical
that the intersections of race, sexuality, and other categories of analysis
continue to be thoughtfully examined in order to set the stage for future
public debates and discussions around these issues. Interested authors
should send abstracts/proposals of no more than 350 words to Guest Editors
Dana-Ain Davis, Shaka McGlotten, and Vanessa Agard-Jones at soulsgendersexuality@gmail.com.
Each abstract must also include the essay’s title, the author's
name, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Proposals
with multiple authorships should indicate the primary contact person.
Authors with provisionally accepted abstracts will need
to submit their final articles for editorial review no later than October
15, 2008.
SAGE Reference Project
The topics listed below (from a total of 143) still need an author.
This SAGE Reference project is now underway. Let us know if one of these
subjects interests you. Please reply to: birxh@canisius.edu.
Dr. H. James Birx, Editor, Professor of Anthropology, Distinguished
Research Scholar, State University of New York at Geneseo. Here are
the topics: Ethnography and Ethnology
Human Adaptations
Human Growth and Development
Sociocultural Anthropology
Media and Anthropology
Forensic Anthropology
Cross-Cultural Studies
Geology and Anthropology
Paleontology and Anthropology
Functionalism and Structuralism
Primate Genetics and Research
Primate Extinction and Conservation
Ethnic Groups
Group Associations
Marriage and the Family
Social Problems
Social Relationships
Literature and Anthropology
Museums, Collections, and Exhibits
Human Longevity and World Population
Call for Discussion: Frontiers
Introduces Interactive Column Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies announces
the introduction of a new interactive column, “Feminist Currents”
by Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair of the Women’s Studies
Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. According to
Boris, the column “is a place for feminists to debate pressing
and not so pressing (sometimes whimsical but hopefully compelling) issues
of the day, to share perspectives and thoughts, develop strategies,
and connect scholarship and teaching to social justice.” Each
column poses a question for discussion and response by Frontiers readers.
The question will also be available on the Frontiers website (www.asu.edu/clas/history/frontiers/fem.html)
to allow participation by other interested feminists. The responses
will be summarized and presented in a future column. The editors of
Frontiers, Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett, both Associate Professors
of History and affiliates of the Women’s Studies Program at Arizona
State University, view this column as a means of encouraging exchange
that strengthens and enriches the feminist community. The first question
offered for discussion is: Political theorist Anne Phillips offers the
concept of “the politics of presence” to argue for electing
representatives who not only share the ideas and beliefs of their constituents
but also reflect their experiences. In light of the 2008 Presidential
contest, assess the ways that group identity, race, and gender have
played out—or should have. Or to put this question more concretely,
was Elizabeth Edwards right when she claimed that her husband was more
of a woman/feminist than Hillary Clinton? Who should Black women support,
Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton? Was former presidential candidate Bill
Richardson Latino enough for Latina voters? And do you have to be a
real man to secure the Republican nomination for President and be elected
to the highest office of the United States?
Responses of 300 words or less can be e-mailed to frontiers@asu.eduby November 7, 2008. E-mails should include “Feminist
Currents” in the subject line. Responses may be quoted directly
or paraphrased in the column and names and affiliations may be published
unless the e-mail specifically requests otherwise. Frontiers is one
of the oldest and most respected feminist journals in the country. Founded
in 1975, it retains its original commitment to a broad mix of scholarly
work, personal essays, and the arts as well as to multicultural and
interdisciplinary perspectives offered in accessible language. Its editorial
offices are housed at Arizona State University and it is published by
the University of Nebraska Press.
Gender Mainstreaming: the Appropriation
of Feminist Discourses in Development?
A call for papers for a panel for the Association of Social Anthropologists
conference in December 2008 in Auckland (conference web page:
http://www.theasa.org/asa08/index2.html). Convenors: Suzanne
Clisby (University of Hull) and Maggie
Bolton (University of Hull). Gender mainstreaming is a response
to feminist and anthropological critiques of gender disparities in development.
This panel calls for an analysis of gender mainstreaming from a feminist
anthropological perspective and aims to critically explore issues of
ownership and appropriation therein. Gender mainstreaming' is heralded
as a major global strategy for ensuring the incorporation of gender
perspectives and the promotion of equality in all areas of social development.
Placing gender mainstreaming on the international development agenda
can be perceived as a successful outcome of feminist/GAD and anthropological
discourse and activism. The question is, how has this policy been translated
in terms of practice and what are the real consequences of that discourse?
The incorporation, for example, of 'gendered' terminology into policy
without the corresponding implementation at all levels can serve to
blunt women's calls for change on the grounds that their concerns have
already been addressed. More critically, is gender mainstreaming being
subverted as a tool for the appropriation of women's knowledge, interests
and concerns in social development arenas? Does the terminology of gender
obscure women and facilitate the continuation of male dominance over
development processes? Does it impose an inappropriate model of womanhood
on non-Western women? Has, then, the incorporation of feminist critiques
into international development discourse subverted feminist theories
of ownership and appropriation? Finally, to what extent has the requirement
for 'gender mainstreaming' in international development discourse become
an extension of a neo-liberal/neo-colonial project to control and 'civilise'
developing economies? Is a putative concern for gender equality in development
being used as another means to distinguish between the modern, civilised
One and the colonial, traditional Other? We invite papers that explore
one or more of these questions: we would especially welcome contributions
from feminist anthropologists engaged in development.
Encyclopedia of Gay Folklife
The upcoming Encyclopedia of Gay Folklife,
which should be finished by the beginning of 2009 and ready for publication
mid-year, has many articles that still need authors. The Encyclopedia
of Gay Folklife will be an 800 page, 2 volume work (approx. 300,000
words). Entries will be between 500-2000 words, depending upon topic
and author's recommendations. Those authors that write 3 or more articles
will get a free copy (approx. $200 retail). The publisher is M.E. Sharpe
(contact person: Todd Hallman). Editor is Mickey Weems. We are looking
for authors for entries that reflect the breadth and width of LGBTQA
folklife. In order to distinguish this encyclopedia from other such
works about the LGBTQA community, we emphasize the following points:
Aesthetics, Identity, Ethics, Eros, Performance, Coding, Healthways,
Lived experience, Spirituality. Those who have done ethnographic research
address many of the same concerns as folklorists; such scholars would
be qualified to write entries for this work. Sexual and/or gender orientation
are not factors in considering authors for entries. Mickey Weems, editor
614-746-1778.
WID: Michigan State
University
Michigan State University's Women and International Development (MSU-WID)
Publication Series invites you to submit your manuscript for review.
The series focuses on the relationships between gender and global transformation
and publishes reports of empirical studies and projects, theoretical
analyses, and policy discussions that illuminate the processes of change
in the broadest sense. Individual papers in the series address a range
of topics including women's historical and changing participation in
economic and political spheres, intra- and inter-family role relationships,
gender identity, women's health and health care, and the gender division
of labor. We particularly encourage manuscripts that bridge the gap
between research, policy, and practice. The Working Papers on Women
and International Development series features article-length manuscripts
by scholars from a broad range of disciplines. It disseminates materials
that are at a late stage of formulation and that contribute new understandings
of women's economic, social, and political position amidst change. The
WID Forum series features short research and project reports and policy
analyses of importance in the field. It disseminates papers that are
brief or at an early stage of development and that contain insights
that can inform scholarship and influence development policy and programs.
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to the MSU-WID Publication
Series, please contact Dr. Anne Ferguson, WID Publication Series Editor,
Women and International Development Program, 206 International Center,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1035, USA. You may
want to refer to the WID
Style Sheet to help you prepare your manuscript for submission.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call us at 517/353-5040;
fax 517/432-4845 or e-mail papers@msu.edu.
