Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality Symposium:”Critiquing Culture, Working for Change”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality Symposium:

“Critiquing Culture, Working for Change”

Friday, February 24, 2012

Wright State University

Dayton, Ohio

Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to propose
papers, panels, workshops, and performances as part of a day-long series
of conversations about intersectional knowledge production and community
engagement.  The 2012 theme, “Critiquing Culture, Working for Change,”
explores the tensions in contemporary rhetoric, politics, media,
scholarship, and activism relative to advancing social justice.

Successful proposals will engage the intersections of
race/gender/class/sexuality *and/or* the conference theme. Recognizing
that social change often begins with critical analysis of culture and
the status quo, this symposium offers opportunities for sharing diverse
scholarship and models of activism and community engagement. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the possibilities
and challenges of sisterhood and coalition-building; the politics of
language; sexual and reproductive rights and justice; explorations of
feminist, gender, critical race, and queer theories; media and literary
explorations of race/gender/class/sexuality; economic crisis and
marginalized populations; the future of interdisciplinary studies in the
academy; politics and grassroots organizing; anti-violence work;
critiques and analyses of the “Occupy”/indign�s/indignados/Arab Spring
movements; backlash against those who work for social justice;
comparative and international topics related to
race/gender/class/sexuality; and transgender issues and concerns.

Please submit a 250 word abstract of your proposed presentation or
session to Amber Vlasnik at amber.vlasnik@wright.edu
<mailto:amber.vlasnik@wright.edu>by *Tuesday,* *January 17, 2012*.  
Include name and contact information for all participants in your panel,
workshop, or performance.  For more information, contact Amber Vlasnik
at amber.vlasnik@wright.edu <mailto:amber.vlasnik@wright.edu>.

“SlutWalks and SisterTalk: When ‘Pro-Sex’ Met Black Feminist Critique”

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Kimberly Springer

Dr. Kimberly Springer is associate professor of Women’s, Gender, &
Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She earned a B.A. in
Women’s Studies and Sociology from the University of Michigan and a
doctorate in Women’s Studies from Emory University. Dr. Springer has
written extensively on gender, race, sexuality, and digital culture for
academic and popular press outlets, including Flow TV; /Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society/; /Meridians: feminism, race, and
transnationalism/; /Cercles: revue pluridisciplinaire du monde
Anglophone/; /Ms. Magazine/; and the /Journal of Women’s History/. Her
monographs and anthologies include /Stories of O: The Oprahfication of
American Culture/, co-edited with Trystan Cotten (University Press of
Mississippi, 2009); /Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist
Organizations, 1968-1980/ (Duke University Press, 2005); and /Still
Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women’s
Activism/, editor (New York University Press, 1999). Dr. Springer’s
writings on black feminism, film, and sexuality appear in a number of
edited volumes, including /Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual
Power and a World Without Rape/; /Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and
the Politics of Contemporary Culture/; /Feminist Television Reader: A
Reader/; /Black Power Studies: Rethinking the Civil Rights and Black
Power Eras/; and /Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film/.

/Presented by Wright State University Women’s Center, Women’s Studies
Program, and African & African American Studies Program, in coalition
with the Miami University Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
and Women’s Center. /

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