Monthly Archives: August 2010

PETE&C 2011

http://sessions.peteandc.org/session.php

Pennsylvania Educational Technology Exposition & Conference
February 13-16, 2011
Hershey Lodge & Convention Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania

REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION

You are invited to submit a proposal to conduct a conference presentation for the 2011 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Exposition & Conference. Individuals representing all academic disciplines and all phases of technology and education are welcome to submit proposals for presentations.

SCOPE: The following strands are examples of interest areas

Adaptive Technology/Special Populations/Accessibility

Emerging Technologies

Infrastructure/Security/Management

Instructional Strategies/Best Practices

Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management

Library Media Centers

Mobile/Wireless Learning Technologies

Performing/Creative Arts

Policy/Planning/Funding

Professional Development/Teacher Preparation

Standards/NCLB

Technology and Ethics

Technology Directions/Trends: Issues, Innovations, and Research

Technology Leadership

Notification: Please note that information regarding selection of presentations will be sent from peteandcpresents@gmail.com. Please be sure to add this address to your address book or spam controls. Please use an e-mail address that does not require sender verification. We will not be able to respond to sender verification.

PARTICIPATION INFORMATION: For all accepted proposals, the person listed as first presenter will be automatically registered for the conference. Any other presenters are required to register for the conference. Only the main presenter will receive a complimentary registration for the three days of the main conference February 13-16, 2011. Additional presenters must register at the regular conference fee.

All contact concerning proposals will be made through the primary presenter.

Final placement of all workshops into the program schedule is at the discretion of the PETE&C program committee.

EQUIPMENT: Each session room has a video projector, screen, a 4 outlet extension cord, and an Internet connection. You are responsible for supplying your own computer and any other equipment that you may need.

In some cases, an interactive whiteboard may be provided. Please be sure to indicate your preference on the submission form.

Vendor/Exhibitor Sessions: A conference presentation by a commercial enterprise or it’s agents requires representation on the exhibit floor. Contact Marilyn Chastek for more information. Vendor sessions are reviewed in the same process as non-vendor sessions and are subject to selection, but will not be reviewed if there is not appropriate representation on the exhibit floor.

Return to this site beginning on November 15, 2010 to see if your proposal has been accepted. Accepted proposals will be listed in the Tentative Concurrent Sessions section of the web site.

Choose the type of session that best fits your proposal:

One hour sessions: Concurrent lecture type sessions lasting one hour. Discuss your topic and include audience[] participation whenever possible. These can be listed as BYOL by including BYOL at the end of your Presentation Summary for Conference Program Books.

Poster Sessions: Presenters prepare a display to exhibit their topic and discuss it with interested attendees as the attendees visit their display. Poster presenters are expected to remain with their poster throughout the assigned 2 hour and 15 minute time period. (Covers two one hour sessions and the break between).

Panel Sessions: This one hour session gives a panel of up to four presenters an opportunity to discuss varied perspectives on a topic of choice and promote discussion with the audience[].

Peer Reviewed Sessions (Higher Ed): The proposals submitted for Peer Reviewed Sessions are evaluated for research basis required for promotion and tenure tracks. Session presentations are one hour. Presenters from Higher Ed institutions are welcome to submit proposals in other session types as well.

Deadline October 10, 2010

Technology in Libraries

Call for proposals:  ACRL/DVC wants to know how you use technology!

 

For the fall 2010 program, we are changing things a bit.  We want to hear how academic libraries in our own service area have been using technology.  As librarians, we are constantly bombarded with new technologies that promise great results, but it’s hard to tell which ones will actually work for our own library.  What technology have you employed that made your work easier, services better, or had a great end result?  Come share it with your colleagues and get them jumpstarted on something new!

We encourage proposals from any area of library services (instruction, reference, tech services, outreach, etc.) but favor presentations on ideas that are quick/cheap/easy to implement, since none of us have a lot of time or money to spare.

The program will be Friday, November 12, at Penn State Great Valley.   All presentation slots will be 20 minutes long.  To submit a proposal, simply send an email with a presentation title and description (300 words maximum) to Pat Newland pnewland@wcupa.edu  by Friday, September 10. A committee of ACRL/DVC board members will determine the final presentations; this is a chance to add a peer-reviewed presentation to your CV!

We will close out the day with roundtable discussions and are taking suggestions for these as well. If you have a topic in mind that you would like to discuss with your colleagues, please submit it to Susan Markley susan.markley@villanova.edu  by Friday, September 10.  If your submitted topic is selected, you will have the option to lead the discussion.

 

 

Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2010

About the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition

The Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition offers doctoral students an opportunity to share information about their research projects with the LIS community. Posters will be judged on the significance of the research topic to the LIS field, the appropriateness of research design and methodology, and a concise description of the results, as well as on the organization, clarity, and aesthetics of the poster.

This competition has been established in memory of Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario (now the Faculty of Information and Media Studies). During her thirty-year career, Professor Sutcliffe’s research on the measurement of information made significant contributions to the theoretical, methodological and practical foundations of library and information science. This award, established by students at UWO in 1997, also recognizes Professor Sutcliffe’s dedication to the education of information professionals by awarding a certificate and a $250 cash prize to the first-place winner.

Eligibility
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  • Only one submission per student is permitted.
  • Only doctoral students who have completed or are near completion of their doctoral dissertation research (e.g., the core data have been analyzed; the student is at the stage of drawing conclusions from the research findings) are eligible to enter this competition.
  • Students whose posters are accepted must submit a final copy of the poster as a PDF by November 29, 2009. Failure to submit a poster at this time will result in elimination from the competition.
  • Students whose posters are accepted are required to register for and attend the ALISE 2011 Conference in San Diego, CA on January 4-7, 2011.

Submission Requirements
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  • To enter the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition, please submit a 500 word structured abstract in plain text format via the online form at https://surveys.scilsnet.rutgers.edu/TakeSurvey.asp?SurveyID=33H6861I3n2KG 
  • No submissions will be accepted via e-mail; all submissions must be sent through the online form listed above.
  • The final submission deadline is October 1, 2010, and posters are accepted on a first-come first-served basis.

Judging Criteria
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Posters will be judged according to the following criteria on a scale of 1-5:

  • Practical, theoretical and statistical significance: The discovery has broad application and benefit for practice, forwards the understanding of theory or sets important new theoretical direction, and results are statistically significant or provide a persuasive basis for argument.
  • Design and Method: Design is logical and appropriate to the problem or research question(s), and method(s) of data collection and analysis are appropriate, well-described and demonstrate meaningful results.
  • Oral Presentation: Presentations are clear and to-the-point, no longer than necessary to describe broadly the overall nature of the problem, the design and methodology, the results and their implications.
  • Organization, clarity and aesthetics of visual materials: Posters should be well-organized, attractive, could be interpreted without oral presentation, and are coherent with oral presentation.

Poster Guidelines
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The Doctoral Poster Session Co-conveners are currently evaluating additional poster guidelines pending information about the venue in San Diego. Students whose abstracts meet submission requirements will be notified about final sizes and formats as soon as possible.

Questions?
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Please direct any questions regarding the ALISE Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition to:

Nicole Alemanne (nalemanne@fsu.edu) or Nicole Cooke (Nicole.Cooke@Rutgers.edu)

Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men

Trystan Cotten and Zander Keig
Surgical genital modification, commonly known as ?bottom surgery,? is a
memorable experience of gender transitioning for many transsexual men. It is
a momentous process involving incredible sacrifice, fortitude, and most
importantly, love – the love of self and of others supporting us through the
process. For many transsexual men it is this final step that provides a
feeling of completeness and wholeness in our bodies and a feeling of greater
security in the world. Yet, we rarely write about our experiences of bottom
surgery or share our stories with others, except on a few websites and
private listservs designed for sharing information on FTM surgeries. When we
do share our experiences, we are often met with harsh criticism, negative
assumptions, and outright contempt.

So much has changed since Loren Cameron and Dean Kotula published
*ManTool*(internet) and
*Phallus Palace* (2002) respectively, both of which documented transmen?s
sex reassignment surgeries through photographs and personal testimonies.
Yet, it remains invisible and hidden from public awareness. Exciting new
surgical techniques and technologies have been developed and increasing
medical insurance coverage has made various kinds of genital surgery more
available to transsexual men, but ignorance about lower surgery options is
propagated widely in both academic and popular circles by people who have
never undergone any kind of genital surgery, but feel confident and free to
comment on our genitalia anyway.

We want to counter this misguided ignorance with autobiographical
testimonies of transsexual men who have undergone some form of surgical
modification of their genitals. In pursuit of this goal, we invite you to
share your life-changing experience with the world. Provide other transmen
contemplating lower surgery with valuable information and advice that will
help them make informed choices. Counter the myths and misinformation of
naysayers with your own testimonies of trial and triumph. Submissions may
vary in length. We are asking for a minimum of eight pages, roughly the
equivalent of 2000 words.

It is important to include the perspectives of partners, who tend to be
neglected in studies and collections treating transsexual topics. To counter
this trend we are also seeking submissions from partners (of all gender
identifications) of men who have undergone (or are contemplating) genital
surgery.

We have formulated several questions (below) to assist your writing process.

*For Transsexual Men:*

Reasons for pursuing lower surgery: Why did you pursue bottom surgery? What
kind of surgery did you pursue, and did you consider others? Did costs and
cultural contexts factor in your decision of what kind of surgery to pursue?
How has your life changed as a result? How has surgery affected your
relationship with your body and how you relate sexually? How has it affected
your sense of wellbeing in the world? What has been the emotional and
spiritual impact of your journey? What issues or concerns (function, sexual
gratification, aesthetics, length of process, physical health toll,
finances, etc.) were especially important to you in the process?

Familial reactions: How did your partner(s) react to your decision to pursue
bottom surgery? Did you feel supported by them? Were there tension and
disagreement between the two (or more) of you? Looking back, what were some
of the challenges and rewards of dealing with family members around your
surgery? Were there unexpected surprises?

Physical and emotional trials/rewards: What was your emotional process? What
kinds of feelings did you experience in the journey?

Aesthetics and function: Are you satisfied with the outcome of your surgery?
Were all your expectations met? Are you happy with how it looks, feels, and
functions? Does it bring sexual gratification? Can you satisfy your
partner?s desires and needs? How does male embodied sexual gratification
feel?

Internal sense of satisfaction and completeness: What were your expectations
going into the process? Did the surgery give you what you were looking for?
Were all your expectations met? What does the surgery mean in your
transition journey? What expectations were not met by the surgery? Did you
experience difficulty or loss? How did you cope with problems?

Complications and challenges: What was the healing process like? Were there
complications or setbacks? What was their impact on you/your process and how
did you handle them?

Are there any memorable moments of your journey that you want to share with
other transsexual men? What advice or words of wisdom do you have for those
who are contemplating lower surgery? Is there something about genital
surgery that you wish to inform or express to the larger public?

*For Partners of Transmen:*

Your reaction: What was your reaction when your partner disclosed his
intentions for bottom surgery? What was your emotional process? What
feelings emerged for you and how did you address these? If you had some
difficulties, what did your partner do to help you cope? Who supported you
and how? Did your relationship with your friends, family, and/or peers
change? What fears did you have going into the surgery? What do you feel you
lost and/or gained in going through this process? What was your role in his
surgical process? Is there something that you would have done differently?
What have you learned on this journey?

Sexuality and physicality: How has your partner?s surgery affected the way
you relate to his body sexually? How has your own sense of your sexual
identity/orientation or relationship to your body changed?

Post-Genital surgery: If you met your partner after his genital surgery, how
did you feel about his body when you became sexual with him? How did he
communicate his surgical status to you? Has there been any changes?

What advice do you have for other partners (or for men who plan to have
genital surgery).

Send submissions by *December 31, 2010* to:

* **Zander.Keig@gmail.com* <Zander.Keig@gmail.com>* and **
TrystanCotten@gmail.com* <TrystanCotten@gmail.com>**

ACRL 2011 Cyber Zed Shed

Are you a tech savvy librarian using new technologies in innovative ways? Adapting existing technologies to reach user needs?  Here is an opportunity to share your innovations with your colleagues, library administrators, and others at ACRL 2011.  The ACRL 2011 Cyber Zed Shed Committee is looking for proposals that document technology-related innovations in every area of the library.  Whether you are teaching in a classroom; answering questions from patrons; acquiring, cataloging, processing or preserving materials; or providing other services, we’re interested.  We invite you to submit your most innovative proposals to help us make Philadelphia the site of a truly groundbreaking conference.  Cyber Zed Shed presentations are 20 minutes, with 15 minutes to present a demonstration, and five additional minutes for audience Q&A.  Presentations should document technology-related innovations in academic and research libraries.  A computer, data projector, screen, microphone, and stage will be provided in the Cyber Zed Shed theater. You will be responsible for bringing all other equipment required for your demonstration, except as agreed to in advance.

The deadline for submission is November 1, 2010.

Questions about Cyber Zed Shed submissions should be directed to:
Kenley Neufeld, Santa Barbara City College, kenleyneufeld@gmail.com
Emily Rimland, Pennsylvania State University, erimland@psu.edu

“LGBTQ Campus Experiences”

Call for Articles
“LGBTQ Campus Experiences”
A Special Issue of the Journal of Homosexuality Edited by Genny Beemyn and Sue Rankin

More and more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students are entering higher education institutions in the United States after having come out in junior high or high school and are expecting colleges to be LGBTQ-supportive environments that will meet their needs.  But while the overall campus climate may have improved in the last decade, many LGBTQ students still experience harassment and discrimination, fear for their physical safety, and conceal their sexual orientation or gender identity at times to avoid mistreatment (Brown, et al., 2004; Rankin, 2003; Rankin, et al., 2010).  Transgender students especially often encounter a high level of insensitivity and hostility at colleges and universities (Beemyn, 2005; Bilodeau, 2009).

This special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality invites academic articles (20-30 pages in length) that address the experiences and needs of LGBTQ college students, staff, and/or faculty.  Some possible topics include the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender students of color, students with disabilities, students of faith, or student athletes; the experiences and needs of students who identify as genderqueer or gender fluid; comparisons of the identity development processes of transgender students who identify in various ways as male, female, or neither/both/in between; the climate at historically Black colleges and universities, women’s colleges, religiously affiliated institutions, community colleges, or more conservative schools; the attitudes of heterosexual or cisgender students toward LGBTQ people; comparisons between LGBT and non-LGBT students in academic achievement, co-curricular involvement, or institutional perceptions; an evaluation of LGBTQ safe zone or ally programs; and educational or policy initiatives to create campuses that are more inclusive of and welcoming to LGBTQ students, staff, and faculty.
Send inquiries and manuscripts to Genny Beemyn at genny@stuaf.umass.edu by January 1, 2011.
 
Manuscripts should be double spaced, including end notes and quotations, and in 12-point Times New Roman with 1-inch margins.  Please number the pages and include a short title in the header.  To facilitate blind review, do not include your name on the manuscript.
 
References
Beemyn, B. G. (2005). Making campuses more inclusive of transgender students. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, 3(1), 77-89.

Bilodeau, B. (2009). Genderism: Transgender students, binary systems and higher education.
Saarbr�cken, Germany: Verlag Dr. M�ller.

Brown, R. D., Clarke, B., Gortmaker, V., & Robinson-Keilig, R. (2004). Assessing the campus climate for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) students using a multiple perspectives approach. Journal of College Student Development, 45, 8-26.

Rankin, S. (2003). Campus climate for LGBT people: A national perspective. New York: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute.

Rankin, S., Blumenfeld, W. J., Weber, G. N., & Frazer, S. (2010). State of higher education for LGBT people. Campus Pride.

Best Practices Sessions, ALLA Convention, 2011

Call for Presenters:

The Alabama Association of College and Research Libraries and the division of College, University and Special Libraries of the Alabama Library Association invite submissions for best practices sessions for next years ALLA convention in Huntsville, AL. to be held April 13-16, 2010. Panel sessions are 50 minutes in length, while mini-sessions are fifteen minutes in length. Abstracts may be submitted to Christopher Shaffer at shafferc@troy.edu by September 15th, 2010. Notifications of acceptance should be expected in late October or early November.

DISABLING FEMINISM: Sex, Gender & Disability Studies

The Critical Feminist Studies Division of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites submissions for the 9th Annual Meeting to be held at Columbia College in Chicago, March 24-26, 2011. Traffic at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies has been in motion for more than twenty years. In 1989 Susan Wendell observed that: Some of the same attitudes about the body which contribute to women's oppression generally also contribute to the social and psychological disablement of people who have disabilities. In addition, feminists are grappling with issues that disabled people also face in a different context: Whether to stress sameness or difference in relation to the dominant group and in relation to each other; whether to place great value on independence from the help of other people, as the dominant culture does, or to question a value-system which distrusts and devalues dependence on other people and vulnerability in general; whether to take full integration into male dominated/able-bodied society as the goal, seeking equal power with men/able-bodied people in that society, or whether to preserve some degree of separate culture, in which the abilities, knowledge and values of women/the disabled are specifically honoured and developed. These questions are still pressing today and new scholarship, political actions and artistic representations are reinterpreting the shared spaces of identity. What are important conversations taking place between feminism and Disability Studies? How can a feminist approach (whatever that means) to abilism/ability/able-bodied privilege (however defined) raise new questions regarding the self, the state, the workplace and cultural conceptions of disability? How does Disability Studies force a reconsideration of traditional concepts within feminist theory and Women's & Gender Studies? Topics include, but are not limited to: -Social construction of disability/social construction of gender -Historical conceptions of femininity/masculinity and disability -Power, oppression and connections between abilism and sexism -Eugenics, sterilization, abilist reproductive politics -Prosthetics -Global disability rights movements -Representations of disability -Anti-discrimination laws -Reconstructive surgery -Sexuality and disability Critical Feminist Studies dedicates itself to work that builds upon, even as it critiques, the institutions and practices of Women's and Gender Studies, focusing in particular on transnational formations and movements, queer and sexuality studies, and politics, practices, and representations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Studies_Association) One of the aims of the Division is to maintain a collegial space for the ideas and initiatives of graduate students and junior faculty within Cultural Studies. It is one of the largest Divisions within CSA. Previously, the Division has sponsored special annual themes: Girls Studies (2007) Time & Temporality Studies (2008) The Body & Embodiment (2009) To submit, please include the following: 1. Your name, email address, phone number, and institutional affiliation 2. Paper/presentation title 3. 500-word abstract Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2010. Send inquires and submissions to: Sarah L. Rasmusson & Sabrina Starnaman Co-Chairs, Critical Feminist Studies Division criticalfeministstudies@gmail.com Sarah L. Rasmusson, MA Instructor & PhD candidate (ABD) Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois srasmus3@illinois.edu 217-721-7733 (mobile) 217-265-0308 (office) 

Reference Services Section Discussion Forum (RUSA)

Interested in leading a discussion about issues related to reference?  If yes, then consider submitting a proposal to the Discussion Forum Coordinating Committee of the Reference Services Section (RSS) of RUSA for ALA Midwinter in San Diego, CA. 

Submit a proposal, lead a discussion, see your name in print, and find your way to stardom!  Details are below.

See http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/rssdiscussionforum

Description: The RSS Discussion Forum Coordinating Committee solicits discussion topic proposals for discussion for ALA Midwinter 2011 in San Diego, CA.  The purpose of the discussion forum is to provide a venue for reference practitioners to introduce reference related topics of current importance, to promote discussion, and to encourage further exploration.

 

What to Include in the Proposal:

The following 5 elements need to be addressed and clearly stated in the proposal:

         A clear description of the discussion topic’s issues

         Rationale for convening a discussion on the topic

         Importance of the topic’s issues for reference librarians

         At least three sample discussion questions that may be used to facilitate group discussion

         Proposed strategies and structure to ensure a group discussion

 

The Potential Scope of Discussion Topics includes, but is not Limited to:

         Reference methods

         Reference and information technology

         Assessment of reference

         Management of reference

         Research in reference

 

The topic should be focused enough to be covered reasonably well within the allotted time. (For example “Everything about IM” would be too broad, while “Using IM to answer reference questions for Honors Students” might be just the right scope).

 

Expectations for Discussion Forum Conveners:

For the selected proposals, the proposal author(s) will serve as convener(s) and commit to:

         becoming up-to-date and familiar with the discussion topic;

         exploring possible discussion formats and selecting the appropriate format that allows for maximum discussion within the parameters and scope of the topic;

         drafting a summary of findings about the issue with a few key references to hand out at the discussion forum;

         facilitating a Discussion Forum at the ALA Midwinter Conference (in San Diego, C.A., January 7-11, 2011);

         maintaining communication with the Discussion Forum Coordinating Committee throughout the planning, program, and follow-up processes.

 

A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism: Conference and Festival

Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York, UK.
3-5 March 2011

www.feminist-cultural-activism.net

We welcome proposals for a three-day international festival and conference of presentations, performances, exhibitions, academic papers & workshops.

The carnival is designed to offer a huge variety of activities, from zine
workshops to digital events; from skill sharing to alternative bands; from
open mic sessions to scripted plays; from radical stitching to interactive
installations; from comedy to academic papers.

We welcome people new to presenting and performing as well as those with
years and decades of expertise and experience.

We ask: can feminist art* change the world and, if so, how?
and we invite responses from activists, artists and academics.

*street theatre :: poetry :: music :: knitting :: zines :: digital fiction
:: podcasts :: dance :: performance :: painting :: puppetry :: frock-making
:: weaving :: gardening :: cooking :: sketches :: pottery :: blogs :: song
:: cartoons :: writing :: comedy :: sculpture :: posters :: comics ::
tweeting :: and so on

The event is designed to generate action as well as debate, and to inspire,
celebrate & challenge understandings of women, grassroots art & politics.
It is a deliberately open invitation – surprise us!

We welcome provisional ideas as well as full proposals. Please send draft
ideas asap, and full 300-word proposals for papers, panels, exhibitions,
workshops and performances plus a 50-word biography, by 31 October 2010.

Contact:

E: carnival@feminist-cultural-activism.net

P: Carnival of feminist cultural activism
Centre for Women’s Studies
University of York
Heslington
York
Yo10 5DD
UK

W: www.feminist-cultural-activism.net

See website for further details or email if you have queries.