We are looking for short conference paper proposals (50 to 100 words) for one or more sessions on researching and teaching masculinities in the context of academic Women’s Studies, to be proposed for the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association/ L’ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES �TUDES SUR LES FEMMES (CWSA/ACEF) at Congress 2010.
DATE: May 29 – May 31, 2010
LOCATION: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
We are interested in receiving proposals covering a wide range of possible topics, which may include, but are not limited to, the following:
� locating masculinities studies in Women’s Studies (as opposed to the disciplines or Gender Studies Programs);
� the disciplinary and/or epistemological stakes of teaching and researching masculinities in the context of academic Women’s Studies;
� specific pedagogical practices and critical issues that emerge when masculinities become central to the Women’s Studies classroom;
� responses by students, faculty, the institution and/or the public;
� experiences of teaching masculinities studies;
� teaching/researching the intersections of masculinity and race (and/or other vectors of power).
Please send paper proposals (50 to 100 words) by December 5rd . Please include a brief bio as well as full contact information (including email addresses) to both:
Dr Susanne Luhmann, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Alberta
Luhmann@ualberta.ca
and
Dr Bobby Noble, Associate Professor, School of Women’s Studies and Sexuality Studies Program, York University
bnoble@york.ca
**You must be a current member of CWSA/ACEF by the time we submit the proposal to CWSA Dec 10th, 2009. For information on how to join, please see http://www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef/join_online.html** Please also see below for more information on the Congress of which this meeting is a part.
What is ‘Congress’? What is its relationship to the CWSA/ACEF annual conference?
Like many other national scholarly associations, the Canadian Women’s Studies Association/l’association canadienne des �tudes sur les femmes holds its annual conference in conjunction with the CFHSS (Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences) <http://www.fedcan.ca/> Congress. ‘Congress,’ as it is now known (although several years ago it was called ‘the Learneds’ – and you can still hear many people refer to it as such), is the annual mega-meeting organized by the CFHSS; during this approximately 8-day period at the end of May and early June, many of the national scholarly associations in Canada gathered under this large academic organization come together to hold their annual meetings and conferences at the same time. Every year, Congress is held at a different university across Canada, and usually brings together about 5500 academics and researchers, representing the variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.