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"Seeking Solutions" Australia's First Joint Conference On Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault 5th, 6TH & 7TH September 2001 at the Parkroyal Hotel on Queensland's Gold Coast, Organised by Combined Women's Crisis Services Gold Coast Inc. The conference program will consist of invited plenary speakers from overseas and across Australia, invited papers and presenters and selected papers from interested persons in concurrent sessions. If you are interested in presenting a paper or leading a conference workshop, please prepare the following: · A brief abstract of approximately 150 words. · A personal profile of no more than two paragraphs The closing dates for to receive abstracts is April 30th 2001. Please send your abstract or profile to: P.O. Box 409 Southport QLD 4215 or Email: domviol@fan.net.au sass@onthenet.com.au If your submission is successful, no assistance to defray travel, registration or travel expenses will be available. A comprehensive conference program including a diverse range of speakers and topics is being developed. Updated information is also included. (see also 'conferences')
2ND CALL FOR PAPERS: 8TH INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE CENTRAL COAST CAMPUS UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE The Conference is concerned with gender issues of interest to those from a wide range of academic disciplines. Papers may be located within a single discipline or may challenge and cross disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of gender issues in unconventional and unfamiliar territories. Individual papers and panel sessions are invited. Suggested themes include: ·Media, film & performance ·Indigenous issues ·Religion, belief & spirituality ·Politics, work & policy/ issues of power ·Teaching & education ·Gendered sites (e.g. the environment & corporeal) ·Alternative sub-cultures ·Pro-active approaches to gender ·Technology and science ·Gender and youth The Central Coast Campus is situated at Ourimbah, approximately halfway between Sydney and Newcastle, close to an exit from the F3 freeway. A regular train service operates from Sydney and Newcastle. The campus is ten minutes walk from Ourimbah station. SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 1 MAY 2001. Enquiries should be directed to one of the conference convenors below. Dr
Marguerite Johnson
Journal of Visual Culture - The Journal of Visual Culture is a new international, refereed journal being launched in April 2002 as a site for astute, informative, and dynamic thought on the visual. The journal will publish work from a range of methodological positions, on various historical moments, and across diverse geographical locations. It will promote research, scholarship, and critical engagement with visual cultures. The Journal of Visual Culture will be essential reading for academics, researchers and students engaged with the visual within the fields and disciplines of: * film, media, and television studies * art, design, fashion, and architecture history * visual culture * cultural studies and critical theory * gender studies and queer studies * ethnic studies and critical race studies * philosophy and aesthetics * photography, new media, and electronic imaging * critical sociology * history * geography/urban studies in comparative literature and romance languages * the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine Topics to be covered will include: * technologies for seeing, machines of the visible, architectures of vision * gazes, glances, voyeurism, narcissism * the public sphere, privacy, the visible and everyday life * appearances, surfaces, textures, touch, transparency * performance, the erotic, the pornographic * the eye, ocular regimes, optics, blindness, the obscene * blackness, whiteness, colour, lightness, darkness * the ornamental, iconoclasm, idolatry, aura * spectacle, simulation * displays, exhibitions, collections, installations * seeing, scenes, screens * land/city/media-scapes * detection, the hidden, invisibility, blindspots, resemblance, vanishing points, peripheries, misrecognition, curiosity * cartographies, topographies * image, imagination, dreaming, fantasy * censorship, editing * forgery, the alchemical, anamorphosis * perception, projection, disclosure, illusion * monuments, museums, archives * copy, reproduction, the microscopic, the macroscopic * aesthetics, mimesis, tropes, figures * style, technique, gesture Call for Papers Articles should be between 5-7000 words. Reviews (which must be approved in advance with either the Reviews or Events Editor) should be between 800-1200 words. Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted, typed in double-spacing on one side of A4 paper only and must include an abstract of 100-150 words on a separate sheet. Authors will be asked to provide a diskette of the final version. Submissions will be refereed anonymously by at least two referees. The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with author's name and date in the text and a full reference literature in alphabetical order at the end of the article. Articles for the journal should be addressed to either: Raiford A. Guins, University of California, San Diego, Department of Literature, 0410, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0410, USA Email: raygun81@aol.com or Joanne Morra, School of Art, Publishing and Music, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Hill Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK Tel : +44 (0)1865 484960 Fax: +44 (0)1865 484952 Email: gmorra@brookes.ac.uk
Rethinking Feminist Bioethics: The Challenge of the Postmodern We are seeking papers of up to 7000 words for a new book - Rethinking Feminist Bioethics: The Challenge of the Postmodern - to be edited by Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mykitiuk. Contributions are invited from all disciplinary backgrounds including legal studies, health sciences, womens studies, and science and technology, as well as philosophy. Papers may include empirical or theoretical issues relating to postmodernist feminist perspectives on bioethics. Contributors will be expected to clearly address the difference that postmodernism can and does make to bioethics, although they may have reservations about its adequacy. 350 word abstracts or draft papers to hand must be received by 27 April 2001. All proposals should be submitted by email to: m.shildrick@liverpool.ac.uk and mykitiuk@yorku.ca Routledge has expressed initial interest publishing such a collection.
People with Disabilities Press at iUniverse.com Many individuals with disabilities, parents, family members, organizations and professionals have produced fine books but cannot get the attention of traditional publishers. Now, you can publish that book(s) and/or bring back your out-of-print books. Have you and/or your organization published monographs or reports that deserve a worldwide audience? Such materials can now be books! And you/your organization will receive royalties. Once accepted, your book will be available in several months-with no up-front costs! As the Series Editor for iUniverse.com's People with Disabilities Press, I screen manuscripts and assist in marketing. Please contact me for the details. Stan Klein Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D. stanklein@rcn.com
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