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WSGS Alumnae Career Panel and Reception
Wednesday, April 25th, 6:30-9 p.m., Panel from 7:00-8:00 followed by Q&A
Piper Hall, First Floor
WSGS students, faculty, alumnae, and friends are all invited to attend this event featuring a career panel of WSGS Loyola alumnae.  A reception will follow to network with Loyola feminist professionals and activists. Panelists include:
Susan Campbell -- Project Coordinator, Loyola Wellness Center
Téresa Helena Moreno -- Professor, Department of African American Studies and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Jacqui Scott -- Medical and Legal Advocate, Rape Victim Advocates
This event is sponsored by the WSGS Graduate Association.

Call for Focus Group Participants: How can we enhance Professional Development in Women's/Gender Studies?
We want your opinions! Eligibility Requirements are the following:
·Current student or alumni of a Women'sStudies/Gender Studies major, minor, graduate certificate, or MA program offered at a university/college in Chicago
·Has attended or presented at a Women'sStudies/Gender Studies academic conference or symposium OR has been involved in aWomen's Studies/Gender Studies professional association
·Able to participate in one focus group for approximately 2 hours
·Interested in talking about the future of Women's Studies and how it relates to professional development
*Focus group will be confidential and refreshments will be served.
**All participants will receive a $10 gift card to the feminist bookstore “Women and Children First!”
This research is sponsored by the Women's Studies and Gender Studies Master of Arts program at Loyola University Chicago. The focus group will take place on Loyola's LakeshoreCampus: 1032 W Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60660. Email wsgsfocusgroup@gmail.com for more information

Seeking Volunteer Speakers for WSGS Alumnae/i Panel and Networking Event
Deadline for Applications: Sunday, April 1, 11:59 p.m.
Wednesday, April 25th, 7-9 p.m., Piper Hall, First Floor
The WSGS Program seeks 4-6 WSGS Loyola Alum (majors, minor, and graduate alum) to volunteer for our upcoming Alumnae/i panel. We invite alum to share how their WSGS education has had a positive impact on their careers, and to inspire the next generation of feminist professionals.  We aim to represent a variety of professions and backgrounds. Panelists will speak for 10 minutes, and respond to a Q&A.  Students, alumnae/i, faculty, and friends of WSGS will be invited to attend.  If you would like to volunteer, e-mail kberg3@luc.edu no later than Sunday, April 1st at 11:59 p.m.  In the body of the e-mail, please describe your WSGS Loyola education, your graduation year, your current profession and/or long-term career path, and several examples of strengths and diversity that you would bring.  The panel will be followed by a reception.  This event is sponsored by the WSGS Graduate Association.  The GSA will select panelists for the purpose of representing as much diversity as possible, and will notify applicants in mid-April about final selections.

“Juggling the Demands of New Parenthood: Unique Challenges for Low-Income Families” presented by Dr. Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Ph.D.
McCormick Lounge, Coffey Hall, LSC
Thursday, April 12, 4:00 p.m. followed by reception with light refreshments at 5 p.m.
Dr. Perry-Jenkins’ research focuses on the ways in which race, gender, and social class influence the mental health and close relationships of parents and their children. Dr. Perry-Jenkins’ recent research explores the work and family experiences of blue-collar fami-lies. Her current National Institute of Mental Health-funded longitudinal investigation explores the effects of the transition to parenthood and re-turn to employment for working-class families. This is the final presentation in the Gender, Work, & Family Speaker Series. Sponsored by: Department of Psychology Committee on Diversity Affairs (CODA), College of Arts and Science, Gannon Center for Women & Leadership, Developmental Psychology Graduate Program, and Women Studies & Gender Studies.

Angelina's Bosnia: The Gender Politics of Violent Viewing Pleasures presented by Ana Croegaert
Thursday, April 19, 4:00 p.m. to be followed by reception
Piper Hall Room 201
This event is co-sponsored the WSGS Program and the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership.

The Intimate Discourse of Women Mystic Poets presented by Dr. Ananda Amritmahal
Monday, April 23, 4:00 p.m. to be followed by reception
Piper Hall, First Floor
Dr. (Sr.) Ananda Amritmahal is Head of the Department of English at Sophia College for Women, Mumbai, and Co-ordinator of the Sophia Centre for Women's Studies and Development. She was awarded the Smt. Savitridevi Phule Adarsh Shikshika Puraskar (prize for exemplary teachers) in 2008, by the University of Mumbai, for her contribution to the field fo women's education and empowerment.  Sr. Ananda Amritmahal has been awarded the Fulbright Teaching Fellowship as Visiting Lecturer at Loyola University, Chicago and she has also been appointed the Gannon Visiting Research Scholar for the spring semester of 2012.  Co-sponsoreed by the WSGS Program and the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership.

Special Announcement on New Library Resource: Gender Watch
The Electronic Resources and Periodicals Committee recently added the Gender Watch database to our electronic resources.  It has been added to the databases tab of the Women's Studies and Gender Studies Subject Guide (see http://libguides.luc.edu/womens_studies_gender_studies).  The databases tab is directly accessible at http://libguides.luc.edu/content.php?pid=185040&sid=1554538.  If you have questions about accessing or using Gender Watch, please contact Reference Librarian Jane Currie. 

CAMPUS EVENTS

Donate Bras to Stop Human Trafficking in Africa
Ongoing throughout March
Lewis Towers room 919
In honor of women's history month, GCJO (Graduate Student Criminal Justice Organization) is getting involved to help stop human trafficking in Africa. We're collecting used/new bras for the entire month of March. Donations will be sent to the Free the Girls organization in Colorado (http://www.freethegirls.com), and then shipped to Africa. Please help us collect as many bras as possible for this group. We'll be collecting bras throughout the month of March, and bras can be dropped off at Lewis Towers Room 919. Bras can be used or new.

El Pueblo Canta: A Concert for Immigration Justice
April 12, 6:30 p.m.
CFSU- Zips Lounge
This event will not only have great music provided by the group Quinto Imperio but also personal testimonies from various community organizations ( Immigrant Youth Justice League, Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition, and Centro Romero).  This event is made to bring awareness of the issues involving immigration. For more information visit the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/189427684505101/  If you need more information on this, please contact laso.luc@gmail.com for any comments or questions. This event is sponsored by LASO, the Latin American Student Organization.

Poverty, Coercion, and Human Rights Conference
April 13 – 15, 2012
Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus
Conference Director: Diana Tietjens Meyers, Ignacio Ellacuría, S. J. Chair in Philosophy,
Loyola University ChicagoTo register and obtain accommodation information, contact Randall Newman at: rnewman2@luc.edu/773-508-2373  Co-sponsored by: the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Brennan Fund of the Philosophy Department.

LUCES Women of Color Dialogues: Honoring our Stories and Celebrating our Differences
Last Friday of the Month, January-April
Mundelein Greenhouse, 7th Floor Mundelein, 4-5 p.m.
March 30 - Vocational Wellness
April 27 - Gala
The Department of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs welcomes any self-identified Woman of Color to be a part of its Loyola University Chicago Empowering Sisterhood LUCES program.  The LUCES Women of Color Program is a multi generational community of women that actively works towards solidarity, leadership, and community wellness at Loyola University Chicago.  The LUCES Program encourages the success and growth of its participants and our community at large by focusing on the following elements of wellness: social/cultural, intellectual, spiritual/faith, vocational, physical health, environmental, and emotional. For more information e-mail luceschicago@gmail.com

Jomama Jones *Radiate* produced by Jane M. Saks in association with Victory Gardens Theater
April 19-21, 7:30 p.m.  
Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue
Legendary expatriate performer Jomama Jones brings an intimate concert version of her sold-out smash show *RADIATE* to Chicago.  "RADIATE glows..." said The New York Times, "making it hard to resist this sequined earth-mother's soulful embrace." Accompanied by her collaborator and musical director, Bobby Halvorson, Jones will perform songs from her albums Lone Star, Radiate and the upcoming EP Six Ways Home while sharing tales from her life's journey and her surprising observations of the America to which she has returned.

Lessons from Margaret Fuller, The Courage to Live an Extraordinary Life, (1810-1850)
Friday, April 20, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.                                                                                                         
Location: The University Center at 525 S. State St. Chicago, IL 60605                          
Suggested donation is $15-$25.
Ms. Edelstein will also be giving a day seminar the following day, Saturday April 21 on Andrew Cohen’s perspective, path, and practice as described in his new book Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening. This day is intended for those in search of greater meaning and purpose in our modern world. A Senior Teacher of EnlightenNext and 25 year practitioner of Evolutionary Enlightenment, Ms. Edelstein will share the thrill of discovery and many personal stories so you can learn how to transform culture from the inside out. This dynamic and participatory seminar will include lecture, question and answer sessions, short periods of meditation, facilitated inquiry groups and interactive exercises. Seating is somewhat limited so please reserve your complimentary tickets in advance on line at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/e/234866.

eChicago 2012 Conference: Making Chicago a More Digital and Democratic City
Friday April 20, 8:30-5:00 and Saturday, April 21, 8:30-3:30
Student Center East, 750 S Halsted, University of Illinois at Chicago
eChicago is a place where people share what is happening and what could happen to make Chicago not only a digital city, but a more democratic one.  Our goal is digital equality, and we connect people who don’t find each other easily in their daily lives: all kinds of librarians with community workers and volunteers; students with professionals; social workers and library people; campus with community; government and grassroots.
Librarian-scholar Joyce Latham (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) will draw lessons for today from the dynamic and proud history of Chicago Public Library. Philip Neustrom (Localwiki.org) will explain the explosive success of local wikis in Davis, California and other towns around the world. Free to all but space is limited.  Register today at: http://echicago.illinois.edu.

STUDENT LEARNING AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Summer Service Opportunity: JUMPSTART SUMMER program for Early Childhood Education
Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis - For full consideration apply by April 13
Make your summer meaningful! Join the Jumpstart team for an intensive summer of service and make an impact on the lives of children in your community. Earn an AmeriCorps Education Award ($1,175) upon completion of a 300-hour service term. The summer program begins in April or May (depending on your academic schedule), and runs through mid to late August.
•AmeriCorps Education Award upon completion of 300-hour service term ($1,175)
•Extensive training in the field of early childhood education
•Unique opportunity to join a national network of individuals serving young children
•Invaluable opportunity to make a difference in the lives of young children
•Work Study is not available for Summer 2012
For more information visit http://luc.edu/serve/jumpstart/index.shtml. Apply online at https://application.jstart.org/

Wellness Center Seeks Volunteer Sexual Assault Advocates for 2012-13
Deadline for Applications: Applications are due April 30th, 2012.
The Wellness Center is leading a 3-year grant project through the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women. A major goal of this project is to increase the reporting rates of sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, and stalking on campus. We wish to increase our ability to respond to students as immediately as possible. Graduate students in social science, social services, higher education, and other related fields are being sought as volunteer advocates to help increase our response to survivors of sexual assault at LUC. Volunteer advocates will be expected to complete 60 hours of training through Rape Victim Advocates in downtown Chicago. The next training will occur May 29 – July 5, 2012, every Tuesday, Thursday, 5:15 pm – 9:30 pm, and Saturday, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. For more information on the training schedule click here.  Your volunteer position will take place during the 2012/2013 school year.
For more information or an application, please contact Stephanie Atella at satella@luc.edu. 

2012 Organizing Internships: UNITE HERE! Summer Internship Program
Final deadline for all applications: April 30
In 2011, the Organizing Beyond Barriers Summer Program trained 112 “Summer Organizers” on campaigns in our hotel, gaming, and food service union organizing campaigns. The program emphasized movement building, one-on-one organizing skills, and “Always Be Recruiting,”—developing hundreds of volunteers who participated in rallies, picket lines, delegations, and door-to-door community outreach. Organizing Beyond Barriers combined field work, classroom training, and mentorship from UNITE HERE lead organizers and rank-and-file leaders. Trainings included house visits skills, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, labor history, the economic crisis, and comprehensive campaign strategy and planning. Summer organizers were trained in 24 UNITE HERE locals, including but not limited to: Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Phoenix, and Hawaii. In 2012, Organizing Beyond Barriers will include both an Alternative Spring Break Program in Ohio and Summer Organizer placements lasting for eight weeks. Summer internships will include a weekly stipend of $450 per week. Dates and summer city placements will be announced in Feb. 2012. UNITE HERE does not pay for housing, so every effort will be made to match up summer organizers with union campaigns and cities where applicants can line up their own housing.
Application at : http://jobs.unitehere.org/internapp.php

Plans for the summer?  Explore intentional community life with Benedictine Women of Madison!
This is a 2-4 week summer opportunity to live in community while caring for the earth.
Benedictine Sojourners --This is a new 6-12 month opportunity to live, work and pray with Benedictine Women of Madison. June 19-July 13, 2012, Apply now for 2-4 weeks.
Exploring Community Retreats --These retreats provide time to reflect on God's call in your life.
June 8-10, 2012 or October 12-14, 2012. More information is available on our website at: www.benedictinewomen.org/monastic-life  Or contact: Sister Lynne Smith, OSB lwsmith@benedictinewomen.org - 608-831-9305

Two-year Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES)
Deadline for Applications: May 21
This programme is jointly offered by the University of Bologna, Italy together with the Vytautas Magnus University at Kaunas, Corvinus University of Budapest and St Petersburg State University. The University of Ljubljana is an associate partner that offers additional mobility opportunities for students. The Programme is taught entirely in English (120 ECTS). The MIREES students will spend the first year in Forlì (one of the five campuses of the University of Bologna), while in the second year a minimum of 6 months will be spent at Partner Universities (including Ljubljana) and, in particular cases, at other MIREES Associated Universities in the Balkans. A mobility grant is offered to all enrolled students.
The programme aims at developing language skills. MIREES offers courses in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian, Slovak, Lithuanian (Hungarian is also available in the 2nd year), as well as Italian for foreigners as an additional option. The curriculum is focused on Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans and includes interdisciplinary studies in economics; history, media and international relations; politics and sociology. The international dimension of the programme is enhanced through student mobility abroad, through courses offered by an international faculty composed of prominent scholars of international repute, and by a genuinely international student body. In the previous cycles we enrolled students from 31 countries including China, USA, Mexico, Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey, Albania, Poland, Armenia, Norway, Slovenia, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Slovakia, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Austria and, of course, Italy. Should you need further information, please feel free to contact the Tutor of the course at leonas.tolvaisis@unibo.it or the Mirees Secretariat (elisa.landi3@unibo.it, phone +39.0543.374149).

Tunisia Summer 2012 Travel Course Announcement May 27-June 16, 2012
Loyola Professor Peter J. Schraeder will be leading for the 7th year in a row his highly popular interdisciplinary 22-day summer travel course to Tunisia, “Arab Spring, Democratic Transition, Islam, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” May 27-June 16, 2012.  This is an exciting time to participate in such a course: Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution of January 14, 2011, ushered in the Arab world’s first democracy, with more than 80% of Tunisians voting in their country’s first free and democratic elections in October 2011.  Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution also sparked the imagination of the Arab world, creating a domino effect as pro-democracy demonstrators continue to confront dictatorships across the Middle East and North Africa, including toppling the thirty year Egyptian dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak and the forty-two year Libyan dictatorship of Muammar el-Qaddafi.  Please contact Professor Schraeder (pschrae@luc.edu or 773-508-3070) if you have any questions

Lesbian Caucus Award
Deadline: May 15
The purpose of the annual NWSA Lesbian Caucus Award is to provide a $500 research award in recognition of a Master's Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation research project that resonates with the mission of NWSA and the goals of the Lesbian Caucus. For more information visit http://082511c.membershipsoftware.org/content.asp?pl=16&contentid=16.

NWSA Graduate Scholarship
Deadline: May 15
NWSA will award $1,000 to a student who, in the fall of the year of the award, will be engaged in the research or writing stages of a Master's Thesis or Ph.D. Dissertation in the interdisciplinary field of women's studies.
The research project must be on women and must enhance the NWSA mission. For more information visit http://082511c.membershipsoftware.org/content.asp?pl=16&contentid=16.  

Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Awards
Deadline: May 15
The purpose of the Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Awards is to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses about feminist or womanist issues concerning women and girls of color in the United States and the diaspora. Four (4) $500 awards are available for women of color currently enrolled in a graduate or professional program and are current members of NWSA.
For more information visit http://082511c.membershipsoftware.org/content.asp?pl=16&contentid=16.
   

Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice
Call for Proposals
Deadline for Proposals: April 13
We invite submissions for papers that explore the role of feminist theory within current pedagogical practices across the disciplines.  This edited collection aims to provide educators with a theory-to-practice approach to implementing feminist pedagogy in higher education classrooms.  Papers that discuss the use of feminist pedagogical practices in different disciplinary contexts, paying particular attention to the ways that feminist theory is employed in the classroom, in curricular development and/or in community service learning are particularly sought.  Authors should interrogate the notion of feminism and its relevance for
teaching today’s learners and address questions about the design of learning activities to engage students with this approach as well as ways to evaluate learning within the context of the current structure and focus of universities. Papers that present a dialogue around this approach while providing concrete steps for readers to implement this  approach in their own classrooms are of particular interest.  Interested authors should send a 250-300 word proposal to the editors by April 3, 2012 and accepted proposals will be identified
by May 1, 2012. Drafts of papers (6000-8000 words) will be due August 15 and a book workshop will be held in the fall of 2012 (if funding is available).  Revised manuscripts will be due November 15, 2012.  The book is under contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press. For more information or to submit a proposal, please contact Tracy Penny Light tplight@uwaterloo.com

A Beautiful Struggle: Transformative Black Studies in Shifting Political Landscapes - A Summit of Doctoral Programs
April 12 - 14, Hotel Orrington, Evanston
This conference will convene the 11 doctoral programs in Africana Studies from across the nation.  Scholars from Temple, UMASS-Amherst, UC-Berkeley, Michigan State, Yale, Harvard, Brown, UPENN, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Indiana University-Bloomington and Northwestern University will participate! A highlight of the conference is the Leon Forrest lecture, to be delivered by poet Elizabeth Alexander, on April 13 at the Hotel Orrington at 4:30pm in the Grand Ballroom.Other Conference Speakers Include: Jafari Allen, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Darlene Clark Hine, Karla Holloway, John Jackson, Dwight McBride, Khalil Muhammad, Amilcar Shabazz, and Ula Taylor. No tickets or registration required for Leon Forrest lecture, although registration is highly recommended for the conference. For more information http://www.afam2012.northwestern.edu/

National Women’s Music Festival - Call for Workshop Proposals
Call for Proposals
Deadline for Submissions: April 15 
The National Women’s Music Festival, scheduled to take place from June 28 – July 1, in Middleton, Wisconsin, is seeking workshop proposals for the 2012 festival on topics of interest to an intergenerational gathering of women and supporters of women in the arts.  A number of scholarships will be available to both graduate and undergraduate student presenters.  More information, including the workshop application form, is available at http://wiaonline.org/.

Session on Women in the University
Call for Papers
Deadline for Submissions: April 15
This is an invitation to attend the session on Women in the University: Rights, Choice and the Clergy during the dates of July 29 - August 2, 2012 at Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England. Harris Manchester is one of the thirty-eight colleges of the University of Oxford.  The conference is sponsored by the Forum on Public Policy  in collaboration with the Oxford Round Table. You are invited and encouraged to make a presentation and to provide a paper on a relevant aspect of the topic.  If you wish to present a paper, you should so indicate when you respond to this invitation. Thereafter, you will be requested to submit a brief abstract for review by the Programme Committee.  Papers presented may be subsequently submitted for publication in the Forum on Public Policy. Manuscripts considered for publication in the Forum are evaluated by peer reviewers as to technical and substantive quality and for potential to make a significant contribution to knowledge in the field.  Topics of particular concern of this Round Table arising under the general heading of Women in the University are the following: Women's Health and Choice, Contraception Rights of Women, Women's Autonomy and the Roman Catholic Church, Priestcraft in the Academy, Contraception and Student Health Services, Health and Contraception in Europe, Implicit Gender Discrimination in the Workplace, Employment Discrimination and Clerical Universities, Social and Cultural Restraints on Women, Politics, Religion and Gender Inequality, Clerical Rationalization of Disparities, Culture of the Institution and Gender Inequality, and Hidden Hierarchies and Gender.

Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency
Call for Papers
Deadline for Submissions: May 1
The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 3.2 of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (JMI) to be published in fall/winter 2012.
The journal will explore the topic of Motherhood Activism, Advocacy and Agency from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, government agencies and workers, artists, mothers, and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.
Topics can include (but are not limited to): the relationship between maternal agency and institutional constraints; personal agency; social agency; intersectionality and maternal agency; maternal agency and social justice; empowerment and family-life responsibilities; maternal agency and legal norms/practices; public policy and the public/private split; neoliberalism and public policy for mothers; healthism and maternal agency; navigating cultural expressions of "good" and "bad" mothering; second and third shift responsibility and agency; online advocacy and empowered mothering; maternal advocacy as theorized or practiced by women of a particular race, class, religion, or culture; empowered caregiving versus non-empowered caregiving; workplace norms and maternal advocacy or agency; motherhood and politics; "having it all" and maternal empowerment; challenging the maternal wall; challenging the "price of motherhood"; pregnancy and maternal agency; empowered mothering and disability; co-parenting and maternal empowerment; social change potential of memoir, narrative, autobiography, or blogging; maternal empowerment through artistic expression, film, music, literature, pop culture, or other arts; maternal agency through 'experts' or resistance to them; maternal empowerment by being resistant to or rooted in traditions, histories, or generational knowledges; navigating multiple identities as a mother; motherhood movements; advocacy for new family forms and relations; feminist mothering; queer and/or transgendered mothering; gender equity in home and work place; redefining fathering; othermothering; activism by young and/or low-income mothers; maternal activists' allies. Articles should be 15-18 pages (3750 words) including references. All should be in MLA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible. Please see our style guide for complete details: http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/journalsubmission.html
** To submit work one must be a member of MIRCI.  For more information visit http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/membership.html

Graduate Student Conference - Histories of the Family: Intersections Between Public and Private Life
Friday, June 1, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston campus
In recent decades, historical considerations of changes in the nature and constitution of families and family life have opened up new ways of thinking about the relationship between private and public life. Histories of the family bring new perspective to a host of important issues, including the changing social and cultural meaning of parenthood and childhood; the relationship between changes in the constitution of family life and perceptions of national decline; intersections between debates over marginalized sexualities and public anxieties over family “breakdown”; conflict between state services and ideas of familyresponsibility for the care of vulnerable individuals, such as children, the disabled, and the elderly; the role of the family in bringing legitimacy to colonial rule; as well as the relationship between changes in family life and changing patterns ofconsumption and expectations about standard of living. It has become increasingly accepted that families, family life, andfamily practices are intimately connected to a wide array of social, economic, cultural and political fields of inquiry.
To what extent have changes in families and family life been motivated by, and in turn impacted, economic, political, social, intellectual and cultural factors seemingly lying far beyond the reach of the private sphere of the family?  Interested applicants should submit a one-page paper proposal and CV by Friday, February 10 at 12 noon via email to:terichettiar2011@u.northwestern.edu. A faculty committee will select conference participants. For further information or questions, please contact Teri Chettiar, CCHS Graduate Fellow, terichettiar2011@u.northwestern.edu.

The National Council for Research on Women Annual Conference 2012: Strengthening Women's Economic Security and Leadership - National and Global Perspectives
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - Friday, June 22, 2012
We will host our signature annual conference June 20-22, 2012 at the Georgetown University Conference Center in Washington, DC. The conference will gather more than 300 participants from academic, research, and grassroots organizations; government, policy, business, and philanthropic communities; the news media; and the general public. It will bring together a unique cross-section of network experts to strategize about economic and wealth disparities; investments in low-income communities; as well as existing pay, opportunity, and leadership gaps.  We want to advance an agenda that sheds light on the critical intersections of race, class, and gender and the changes needed to transform our economy and society, nationally and globally. To register visit: http://www.ncrw.org/priv/national-conference-2012-registration-instructions

Children and War: Past and Present
Call for Papers
Deadline for Abstracts: July 13
Second international multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 10-12 July 2013
Organized by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton, in association with the United Nations  Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
All research proposals which focus on a topic and theme related to ‘Children and War’ are welcome, ranging from the experience of war, flight, displacement and resettlement, to relief, rehabilitation and reintegration work, gender issues, persecution, trafficking, sexual violence, trauma and amnesia, the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory, educational issues, films and documentaries, artistic and literary approaches, remembrance and memorials, and questions of theory and methodology. Specific conference themes anticipated are: Children as victims, witnesses and participants in armed conflict, Holocaust, genocide and forced labour, Deportation and displacement, refugees and asylum seekers, War crimes, trials and human rights.
A special focus will be on the ‘Changing nature of armed conflict and its impact on children’. In the past two decades, UN reports, including the 1996 study by Graça Machel and its 10-year review, noted with concern that the character and tactics of armed conflict are changing, creating new and unprecedented threats to children. Characteristics of the changing nature of warfare include the blurring of lines between military and civilian targets, the use of new technologies and the absence of clear battlefields and identifiable opponents. Extensive research is needed to deal with challenges emerging from this context, including the use of children as suicide bombers, the deliberate targeting of traditional safe havens such as schools and hospitals, the detention and prosecution of children associated with armed groups, and terrorism and the use of counter-terrorism measures (for more information, please see the ‘Note by OSRSG-CAAC’ on our web site:
http://wlv.ac.uk/childrenandwar2013).

Fear, Horror and Terror Conference
Call for Papers
Friday 7th September 2012 – Sunday 9th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror and terror. In particular the project is interested in investigating the various contexts of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social, (geo) political, philosophical, psychological and religious significance of them, both individually and together.
In addition to academic analysis, we welcome the submission from practitioners, such as people in religious orders, therapists, or victims of events which have been provoked by experiences of fear, horror and terror – for example, social workers, those involved with the legal system, medical practitioners, or fiction authors whose work aims to evoke these reactions. For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/call-for-papers/
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Fair Share Alliance Campaign Director
As a Campaign Director, you’ll be a part of building a Fair Share Alliance organization in your community and raising the profile of our issues to make a real impact in the lives of your friends, family and neighbors. Campaign Directors are responsible for building the grassroots movement to help everyday people have access to the American Dream. Specifically, you’ll run a local campaign office to conduct grassroots fundraising, build membership for Fair Share Alliance and support for our issues, turnout voters for the elections and keep the heat on the 1% in the media. You’ll work on a team with other directors to run a successful campaign office. Each Director will be responsible for Staff Management, Grassroots fundraising and membership building, and Issue Campaigns and Election Field Work. In classrooms and in the field, you’ll work with experienced staff to learn all the skills of campaign directing, including recruitment, leadership development, staff management, public speaking, media, fundraising, canvassing, and administrative management. We’re looking for smart leaders ready to launch a project in their state.  Passion for the issues, strong work ethic, ability to work on a team and follow direction are a must. We’re hiring for 30 locations across the country. Email your resume and one paragraph about why you’re interested in Fair Share Alliance to Noel Gibson, Lead Campaign Director, at noel@fairsharealliance.org. For more information visit http://fairsharealliance.org/jobs/campaign-director

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