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University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database--Calls for papers

Call for Proposals: Women, Gender and Science, The 26th Women's Studies Conference SUNY New Paltz October 22, 2005 Deadline: June 22, 2005 This year's conference will examine the ways that gender relations affect the world of science, a topic recently highlighted by the controversy surrounding the comments of Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University, that suggested genetic roots for the under representation of women in scientific fields.   To bring to bear on this controversy the experience of women in scientific careers and recent research about the gender politics of science, we invite proposals that explore a variety of questions including but not limited to the following:  What has been the experience of women as scientists, students and subjects of research?  Is science gendered?  Is there a male model of scientific research? What impact are women having on scientific research? What are the barriers to women's participation in science, technology and engineering?  What does history have to teach us about the experience of women in scientific careers?  What has been the experience of women scientists in various parts of the world? How does popular culture represent women scientists? Has science education changed to encourage girls to think scientifically and consider careers in science? To what extent does the full participation of women in science and technology require systemic change? How have women intervened in the processes that inhibit women's full participation in science at school, at work and in the laboratory? How has social science research reflected the gender politics of our culture? How has contemporary politics affected scientific and medical research? How has the ascendancy of religious conservatism affected the gender politics of scientific and medical research?  We invite proposals exploring these and other questions for individual presentations or workshops, panels and performance pieces.  We encourage complete workshop proposals but will accept individual presentations that can be grouped with others. Sessions are usually one and a half hours long, but we will try to accommodate various formats.  Our conference audiences include students, faculty and community members from a wide variety of backgrounds. Presentations should be accessible and allow ample time for audience participation.  Workshop proposals should include: 1)     One to three page description of presentation:  how it relates to the conference theme, the specific issues it will address and the activities it will include to address these issues 2)     Name and a description of the relevant experience of each presenter. 3)     Name, address, phone and e-mail address of contact person.  Send proposals to: Conference Program Committee: Women's Studies Program, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, N.Y.12561 or e-mail to Chandlec@newpaltz.edu. Proposals can also be faxed to (845)257-2798. For more information call or to discuss workshop plans call (845) 257-2977 or 257-2975.

CASWE Institute 6th Bi-Annual Conference WOMEN, HEALTH and EDUCATION Healthy girls, healthy women: Promoting health and healthy educational communities May 30 - June 1, 2006 York University, Toronto, CANADA  * * * *   Health and education are arguably the two most important issues for international and local governments, health and school authorities, community groups, health professionals, educators, and activists. As public interest in these issues grows and budgets shrink, there is greater need to find innovative and effective ways to promote health and awareness, and improve conditions and facilities for healthy educational communities for girls and women around the globe.  The organizers of the 6th Biannual Institute of the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE) invite submissions that explore the intersection of health and education in the lives of diverse groups of girls and women. This conference will bring together an international group of researchers, educators, health professionals, policy makers, community groups, and activists to explore the current debates, concerns, interventions, and initiatives around two central themes:  Toward Healthy Living for Women and Girls,  Submissions in this category will reflect the multi-dimensional ways, that women and girls learn, teach, produce and transfer knowledge about, and perform, promote, and protect their health as individuals and collectives. We welcome international submissions that cross disciplinary boundaries in exploring a broad spectrum of health education and health literacy issues. Among the many relevant points of entry into discussion are:  * Organizing health education resources for Aboriginal and indigenous women; Native American women; immigrant or refugee women; women of the global South * Transferring knowledge of women's health into healthy social policy, locally and globally * Health knowledge production: Gender-based analysis of health research * Building and sharing knowledge among informal care providers: Women's narratives of caring for the young, chronically ill, disabled, and elderly * What can rural and northern women teach us about education, poverty and health? * Key messages about risk reduction from and for women with HIV/AIDS/HepC * Evaluating community-based rape prevention programs * Developing sex education programs for girls and women with disabilities * Peer education for adolescent girls' smoking cessation * Mothers organizing public awareness campaigns about drug and alcohol misuse * Role of media/internet in girls' and women's ways of knowing/performing disordered eating * Fit and fabulous: Women's knowledge of recreation and exercise across the lifespan * Learning to age: Challenging pharmaceutical companies' representations of menopause * The feminization of medicine and its impact on women's health  Healthy Educational Communities for Girls and Women  Submissions in this category will reflect the complexity and multiplicity of gendered experiences in educational environments. We welcome international submissions that cross disciplinary boundaries in exploring formal education and informal educational communities as sites that shape, inform, regulate, and organize the health and wellbeing of diverse groups of women and girls. Examples of relevant topics for presentation are:  * Educational attainment as a key determinant of women's health and wellbeing * Assessing global strategies for increasing girls' educational attainment * Nutrition, poverty, and adolescent girls' academic performance * "This place makes me sick": Exploring unhealthy institutional policies, processes & practices * Transnational narratives of occupational stress among women teachers and administrators * Walking a healthier path to tenure: Challenges for marginalized women in the academy * Biting, head lice, and the common  cold: Health hazards for early childhood educators * Is it warm yet? Re-assessing classroom climates * Girls and bullying: A health issue on the playground * Girls getting physical: Embodied learning for healthier students * Educating women for non-traditional jobs in health* Integrating gender, race, and class in health professional education * Informal learning about health in health education programs: Exposing the hidden curriculum  The CASWE Institute has met every two years since 1996, immediately following the annual meetings of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE). The institute will begin with registration and a meet and greet on the evening of May 30. Presentations continue throughout May 31 - June 1, 2006.  The CASWE Institute provides a forum for presenters to raise issues of interest and concern in traditional formats such as paper presentations, panels, and posters and in a variety of creative, interactive formats such as workshops, performance works, and visual arts. To facilitate healthy and critical engagement across diverse groups of participants, there will be plenary sessions, film screenings, lunchtime and evening events, fitness and nutrition breaks, and day care.  All proposals will be peer-reviewed and selected based on the quality of the proposal, and the contribution to critical and creative interdisciplinary feminist thought on women, education and health.  A CD copy of the conference proceedings, nutrition breaks, and lunch on both days are included in the cost of registration. Students, seniors, and the unwaged may register at a reduced rate.