Monthly Archives: March 2009

Hudson River Valley Review

Call for Articles, Book Reviews, etc. for  a theme issue of  the Hudson
River Valley Review, a peer reviewed periodical.

This year is the 125th birthday of Eleanor Roosevelt and the 60th
anniversary year of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.  To celebrate, there will be a themed issue of the fall issue
Hudson River Valley Review published.

I am looking for contributors, if you are interested, please contact me
with your proposals, ideas and relevant books to review.  The deadline for
proposals is April 15, final copy for accepted work due in June.

The specs are below:
Articles:         5,000-8,000 words,
History Forums:         1,200-2,000 words
Book Reviews:           1-2 pages (600 – 1,200 words) on Eleanor Roosevelt,
Human Rights,
New and Noteworthy:     1-2 pages (500-1000 word), 3-5 books per issue,  on
Eleanor Roosevelt or Human Rights Issues

Other things to consider:
1. Authors are responsible for procuring images and permission to publish
them
2.We follow the Chicago Manual of Style, and prefer endnotes to footnotes

Dr.JAM
JA.Myers@Marist.edu
Political Science & Women’s Studies
Women & Society Conference:
blogging-for-america.blogspot.com (applied political theory)

Fontaine 315, School of Liberal Arts

Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY 12601

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Call for Papers
Journal of Media Literacy Education Volume 1, Issue 1  
The Journal of Media Literacy Education is an online interdisciplinary
journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the
pedagogy of media literacy education.  The journal provides a forum for
established and emerging scholars, media professionals and educational
practitioners in and out of schools.  As an extended conceptualization of
literacy, media literacy education helps individuals of all ages develop
habits of inquiry and skills of expression needed to become critical
thinkers, effective communications and active citizens in a world where
mass media, popular culture and digital technologies play an important
role for individuals and society. 

In the Inaugural issue entitled, “Media Literacy Education: Past, Present
and Future,” we seek papers that explore media literacy’s
multidisciplinary roots; critical analyses of the philosophical and
theoretical foundations of the field; examinations of contemporary
instructional practices both in and out of schools; qualitative and
quantitative research addressing media literacy education’s
implementation, impact and effects; critical perspectives on the
opportunities and challenges faced by media literacy educators today and
in the future; and new directions for the field. Interested parties can
access more information about the journal at
http://www.namle.net/publications/jmle or contact the editors Renee Hobbs

and Amy Petersen Jensen at editor@jmle.org  

London International Conference on Education (LICE-2009)

CALL FOR PAPERS

London International Conference on Education (LICE-2009), November 9-12, 2009, London, UK
The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2009 invites research papers that
encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.
The topics in LICE-2009 include but are not confined to the following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*ESL/TESL
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Reading Education
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*E-Society
*Other Areas of Education
IMPORTANT DATES:

Extended Abstract Submission Date:June 30, 2009 
Paper Submission Date: July 15, 2009
Proposal for Workshops: May 15, 2009 
Notification of Workshop Acceptance: May 31, 2009 
Proposal for Academic Presentation: April 30, 2009 
Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection:July 31, 2009 
Notification of Academic Presentation Acceptance: May 15, 2009
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: August 15, 2009 
Camera Ready Paper Due: September 01, 2009 
Author Registration: September 15, 2009 
Early Bird Attendee registration: October 01, 2009 
Conference Dates: November 09-12, 2009 

For further information please visit LICE-2009 at www.liceducation.org

Encyclopedia of Motherhood

We are inviting academic editorial
contributors to the Encyclopedia of Motherhood, a new 3-volume reference to be
published in 2009 by Sage Publications. The General Editor for the encyclopedia is Andrea O’Reilly, Ph.D., York University,  who will review all the articles for editorial content and academic consistency.

If you are interested in contributing to the encyclopedia, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. Payment for the articles are honoraria that range from a $50 book credit at Sage Publications for article submissions
totaling 500 to 1,000 words up to a free set of the finished encyclopedia (a $400 value) for contributions totaling 10,000 words. The following type of articles are available and submissions are due April 22, 2009:
 
Articles on U.S. States and Countries – The state and
country articles are profiles of motherhood in that geographic region and
should include as many of the following information points as possible:

Number of children per mother
in the state/country (and what that means)

State/national financial aid and supports for poor mothers, unwed mothers, etc.

Divorce rate of parents with children in the state/country

Cultural norms of motherhood in the state/country

Religious practices affecting motherhood in the state/country

Birth control practices and laws in the state/country

Education levels achieved in the state/country

Prenatal care practices in the state/country

Highlights of the history of motherhood in the state/country

Famous mothers from the state/country

The list of available articles and guidelines are prepared and will be sent to you in response to
your inquiry. Please then select which unassigned articles may best suit your
interests.

If you would like to contribute to
building a truly outstanding reference with the Encyclopedia of Motherhood,
please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a very brief
summary of your background in social history and related subjects. Thanks for
your time and interest.
Sue MoskowitzAuthor ManagerGolson Mediagolsonbooks6@hotmail.com

Faculty of the Future 2008: A Conference on Learning and Leading

May 29, 2009

Bucks County Community College

275 Swamp Road

Newtown, PA 18940

 

Welcome to Faculty of the Future 2009. Last year, our regional one-day conference celebrated its 6th anniversary with 200 attendees from 30 institutions and seven states. Once again they shared and discovered valuable teaching and learning initiatives through presentations, roundtables, and networking.

This year’s conference will be held on Friday,May 29, 2009, and is open to all educators and administrators who are committed to improvement in all areas of higher education.

Conference Goals

To exchange ideas and best practices to improve student outcomes

To provide a forum for professional development

To foster networking experiences for higher education faculty

 

This is YOUR conference. Your innovations, ideas, and initiatives are what make this conference successful. While all topics are welcome, some of the more requested and popular areas include:

Learning and teaching

Assessment and accountability

Technology infrastructures, support, and learning- from classrooms to podcasts

Student engagement

Nursing and allied health

Learning environments and libraries of the future

The connection between the community and the college

Leadership, new faculty issues

Discipline-specific best practices

 

 

The proposal submission deadline is Friday, March 27 2009

 

For more information go to: http://www.bucks.edu/fotf2009/index.php

“Are Lesbians Going Extinct?”

*TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism **is now accepting submissions for issue #10, “Are Lesbians Going Extinct?”** *edited by Lise Weil and Vancouver poet and essayist Betsy Warland.

*Deadline: May 29, 2009*.

In an essay written in 1983, Nicole Brossard wrote: /”Une lesbienne qui ne reinvente pas le monde est une lesbienne en voie de disparition.”/ (A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian going extinct.) At that time, the phrase made very good sense. As writers, thinkers, activists, and in our day-to-day lives we felt (many of us) compelled to reinvent a world in which we were for the most part invisible if not unthinkable, a world whose values we largely rejected. Today, over 20 years later, we are accepted, even embraced, by mainstream culture–as co-workers, wives, mothers, talk show hosts–in ways we could not have imagined then. But how have we gained this inclusion? Have we gone quiet as lesbians (not denying our lesbianism but seldom foregrounding it)? Are we still reinventing the world? As writers, are we inventing new forms? Is there still a radical edge to the word “lesbian”? Or are we now, by Brossard’s definition, a disappearing species?

We want to hear from young lesbians as well as anyone who ever embraced and/or lived this notion of lesbians as political trailblazers, radical visionaries. If you still identify as lesbian, what does it mean to you to be a lesbian today? In what relationship do your politics stand to your sexuality? Do you still see lesbians as a vanguard? See yourself as reinventing the world? If you no longer identify as lesbian, are there political/cultural reasons for this? Are there aspects of lesbian existence that you miss? Are glad to be free of? Do you still identify as a political trailblazer, a radical visionary? We welcome responses in the form of essays, poems, stories, creative nonfiction, and any in-between genres.

TRIVIA #9, “Thinking about Goddesses,” will be appearing in mid-March. //

TRIVIA, a free twice-yearly online literary journal, publishes literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews. We encourage writers to take risks with language and form so as to give their ideas the most original and vital expression possible. TRIVIA’s larger purpose is to foster a body of rigorous, creative and independent feminist thought. See our submission guidelines for details : http://www.triviavoices.net

TRIVIA : Voices of Feminism is an online relaunch of TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas, an award-winning international feminist literary magazine published from 1982 to 1995. The online journal is a team effort by veteran feminist editor Lise Weil, founding editor of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, and feminist geek web developer Susan Kullmann.

Pennsylvania Library Association -General call

The Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) holds an annual conference each fall to provide the library community with continuing education and networking opportunities. This year’s conference will take place October 18 – 21, 2009 at the recently expanded Hilton Harrisburg, located in downtown Harrisburg.

The conference will offer approximately 50 sessions and keynote sessions on topics of interest to Pennsylvania librarians from all types and sizes of libraries. If you are an expert on a topic that you feel will be of interest to librarians, we invite you to submit a proposal for a session.

The deadline for program proposal submissions is March 31, 2009.

 

Student Library Users: Deliver What They Need The Way They Want It

Sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division Deadline: March 31, 2009 The 2009 Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division (LAUC-B) Conference Planning Committee invites proposals for presentations and breakout sessions to be given at the 2009 Conference, Student Library Users: Deliver What They Need  The Way They Want It. (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LAUC/2009conference/) The Conference will be held on October 23, 2009, at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr Campus. Conference Objectives: Student library users are changing faster than the libraries that serve them. The multi-tasking, social networking generation wants instant information. The Internet offers a global information marketplace; school and university libraries need to retool or risk becoming neglected storefronts. What services do our student patrons really, really want? What skills should academic librarians be learning today to be successful in the future? Can libraries give users what they want and at the same time help them discern quality information? Join a day-long conversation among library educators, academic, school, and young adult librarians and the students they serve. Through keynote addresses, breakout sessions, and panel discussions, we will explore our changing users and highlight innovative library services that point the way to the future. Topics for Presentations: The Committee seeks two presenters to speak about innovative library services that respond to the changing needs and behaviors of today’s (and tomorrow’s) undergraduate users. Topics might include new service models for: •     reference sservices •   library instruction •   outretreach to underserved user groups •        engagingg with users online via Web 2.0 •       space uttilization •    others Presenters will give  a 12-minute presentation as part of a three-person panel, and will then facilitate a 45-minute breakout session for additional discussion and questions. Stipends for Presenters/Session Facilitators: Presenters will receive a $200 stipend. Travel to Berkeley and one night’s accommodations will also be provided for presenters from outside the Bay Area. LAUC-B 2009 Conference: Student Library Users Proposal Information (Word template) (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LAUC/2009conference/doc/RFPform.doc) Presentation Title: Presenter information Name: Title & Affiliation: Mailing Address: email: phone: fax: Abstract: 200 words maximum ­ please include a short list  of critical questions to be raised in the breakout session. Summary: 50-100 words (to be used in program materials). We must receive your proposal by email (to David Eifler), no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 31, 2009. Please format your proposal as a Word document attachment (you may use the Word template link above). LAUC-B Conference Planning Committee will announce its selections by May 1, 2009. If you have further questions about this Request for Proposals, please contact David Eifler (deifler@library.berkeley.edu) .For an archive of past messages from the ILI listserv, visit: http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/ili-l. F

MCN 37th Annual Conference

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
 
MCN 37th Annual Conference, November 11-14, 2009, Portland, Oregon
Online proposal submissions will be accepted March 6-27, 2009

The Museum Computer Network (MCN) will host its 2009 Conference with the theme
“Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!” in lovely Portland,
Oregon. The annual MCN meeting is one of the most important conferences serving
international cultural heritage professionals, collections and new technologies.

The MCN 2009 program committee seeks innovative sessions (panels, papers, case
studies, and workshops) that illustrate how institutions are effectively functioning
and planning to function during the tough times ahead. We are looking for active,
engaged individuals and groups of individuals thinking about and using best practices
in the following areas:
 
  –  Serving institutional mission with cost-effective strategies in tough economic
     times
  –  Making, managing, and delivering digital media in new and effective ways
  –  Building the future now: innovations coming soon to a museum near you!

Conference Topics
Prospective authors are invited to make submissions in areas including, but not
limited to:

  –  Technology and Information Management Serving the Institutional Bottom Line
  –  Digital Readiness, Digital Accomplishments, Digital Accountability (Image
     Capture, Digital Asset Management, Best Practices, Preservation, Access)
  –  Implementing Systems in Adverse Conditions
  –  Digital Convergence: Archives, Libraries, and Museums
  –  Doing More with Less
  –  Leadership, Sustainability, Accountability
  –  Social Media
  –  Superior Content, Superior Delivery

Innovative formats and interaction with audience are highly desirable and will
be important factors, as will practicability, in the 2009 selection process.

Online proposal submissions will be accepted March 6-27, 2009

If you have questions or need more information please contact Holly Witchey,
MCN Program Chair, 216-707-2653, hwitchey@clevelandart.org or Christina DePaolo,
MCN Conference Chair, 206 654-3165, christinad@seattleartmuseum.org.

FETC 2010

January 12 – 15, 2010
Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, FL
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Schools and districts throughout the country are facing unprecedented budget cuts for the 2010 school year as a result of today’s economic crisis.  Educators are looking for inventive techniques and ideas to help them bridge this gap and continue providing their students with the best education possible.  Be a part of a dynamic partnership that is working to ensure that our students do not suffer during these difficult times:  Become a speaker at FETC 2010, January 12 – 15, 2010 in Orlando, FL.

BY SHARING your successful classroom practices, creative teaching and learning solutions for closing the gaps caused by severely reduced funding, you can help inspire and encourage other educators, administrators and executives to think outside the box and use today’s cutting edge technologies–many of them at low or no cost–to continue driving student achievement.

FETC INVITES APPLICATIONS to present from education professionals representing all levels, content areas and specialties, as well as business and industry experts. If accepted, your presentation will be scheduled as one of the 55-minute sessions planned for the conference.  We at 1105 Media, Inc., and FETC will be doing our part to assure that your ideas are shared by offering creative registration solutions and substantial discounts to FETC 2010 attendees.

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>>Click the link below for complete information on submission guidelines and access to the electronic application form:

****DON’T DELAY!  Deadline for submissions is June 12, 2009.****

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