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Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory, LSE Gender Institute
Monday 11 March 2013, 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Chaired by Professor Anne Phillips
Gendering the Social Sciences: A Gender Institute Public Lecture.
Open to all – no booking required.
Abstract
This paper charts the significance of Emma Goldman’s revolutionary thought for a contemporary analysis of sexuality, gender and revolt. Throughout her life (1869-1940) and work Goldman centred sexuality as both key to how capitalism functions (particularly for women) and as a privileged site for political transformation. Connecting sexuality to labour, Goldman’s analyses of reproduction, prostitution, homosexuality and free love provide a helpful challenge to contemporary feminist investments in materialist and cultural analyses as opposed, and open up the possibility of an alternative feminist history with sexual materialism at its heart. But in claiming Goldman’s thinking for a post-Marxist queer and feminist politics, what do we need to ignore in her thought? What does serious consideration of the sexual (but not gendered) essentialism that grounds Goldman’s thought do to a contemporary vision of feminist transformation? Drawing on primary materials and a creative re-reading of archival fragments, I suggest that Goldman’s sexual politics allows for a reinvigorated feminist method (as well as politics) with a real connection to others at its heart.
Biography
Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory and has been working at LSE for 13 years. Her primary areas of research interest are feminist theory and sexuality studies, and her main publications in these spheres are ‘Bisexual Spaces’ (Routledge 2002) and ‘Why Stories Matter’ (2011), for which she won the 2012 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Book Prize.
CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) would like to invite you to a symposium on the question of
WOMEN, SEXUALITY AND
CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM
which will take place at the Khalili Lecture Theatre in SOAS (www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)
Saturday 9th March, 2-5pm
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. Ann Rossiter
‘The role of the Catholic Church in the making of a London-Irish abortion underground trail’
Dr. Carmen Sepulveda, UCL
‘Religion and feminism “face to face”: institutions and the roll back of reproductive rights in Latin America’
Dr. Rahul Rao, SOAS
‘The international relations of homophobia’
Dr. Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Goldsmiths
‘The Christian Peoples Alliance: race, regeneration and reproductive
rights’.
Natalie Bennett
‘Women and Christian Fundamentalism in the UK’
Chair: Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS
Discussant: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL
The event is free but places are limited so please RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk).
Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/
Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB UEL Director
Women's Lives, Women's Stories
To mark International Women's Day 2013, the University of Huddersfield’s Feminist Research Group are holding their inaugural event 'Women's Lives, Women's Stories: A Feminist Research Symposium'. Organised by a group of postgraduate researchers and academic staff, the event will showcase the feminist research currently being undertaken within the University and bring together feminist academics, students and practitioners for networking, discussion and debate.
Agenda
Friday 8 March 2013, 9.15am-4.30pm
Quayside, University of Huddersfield
9.15am - 9.45am Registration
9.45am – 10.00am Introduction, Viv Burr
10.00am -10.30am Telling Women’s Stories, Jo Woodiwiss
10.30am -11.00am Refreshments
11.00am -12.30pm Women’s Voices, Women’s Narratives, Chair Annie Topping
In Women’s Words: Recounting Experiences of Fatigue, Marilynne N Kirshbaum
Supporting Women and Children Experiencing Domestic Abuse?: Service Provision in an Age of Austerity, Berenice Golding and Sue Peckover
Narratives Told By, For and About Women Refugees, Kate Smith
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm - 3.00pm Spoken and Unspoken Stories: Constructions of ‘Good’ Mothering, Chair Sasha Williams
Good Mothering, Feminisms and Infant Feeding, Abigail Locke
Mothering from the Inside: Narratives of Women in Prison, Kelly Lockwood
“I Wouldn’t Change it for the World”: Younger Mothers’ Stories of Mothering through Relationship Abuse, Julia Langley
3.00pm - 3.30pm Refreshments
3.30pm - 4.30pm Women Researching Women: Roundtable discussion led by Gráinne McMahon
Places can be booked at: http://www.store.hud.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&catid=247&modid=1&prodid=0&deptid=0&prodvarid=170
Eleanor Formby
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Education and Inclusion Research (CEIR) Sheffield Hallam University
AHRC 'connected communities' LGBT research now published: see http://www.lgbtcommunityresearch.co.uk/
Troubling Gender: The Question of Multiple Identities,
a one-day interactive conference on the topic of intersectional feminism
Deadline for abstracts: 24th February 2013.
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Bridget Byrne (University of Manchester), who is known for her work on the politics and culture of social class, ‘racial’ and gendered identities. In 2006, Byrne authored ‘White lives: the interplay of ‘race’, class and gender in everyday life’ which was based on her earlier research into the construction of white identity in Britain.
Professor Avtar Brah (Birkbeck, University of London), the author of the influential ‘Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities’ which offered a new approach to the study of ‘difference’ and ‘commonality’ within the context of feminism and anti-racism. More recently, Brah co-wrote the article, ‘Ain’t I A Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality’ with Professor Ann Phoenix, which explored the intersections of gender, ‘race’ and sexuality with social class and argued that studying these intersections allows a more complex and dynamic understanding than a focus on social class alone.
In addition to the paper sessions, we will also be running workshops addressing issues of gender and age, neo-colonialisms and transnationalism, and the identity politics of research, as well as a roundtable discussion. Registration for the conference will open at the beginning of March. The cost will be £5 – £8 on a sliding scale. This includes lunch and a post-conference drinks reception.
The Conference is on Friday 24th May at the University of Sheffield. For more information, visit: http://troublinggender.wordpress.com/
| Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Women’s Rights 2013: Melanne Verveer |
| The Humanitas Chair in Women’s Rights has been made possible by the generous support of Mrs Carol Saper.
Ambassador Melanne Verveer, the first US Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium on Gender Equality: A Moral and Foreign Policy Imperative. 5pm Mon 4 March 2013: ‘Women’s Rights are Human Rights’. The Beijing Platform for Action: An Unfinished Agenda The first lecture will begin with a look back at the 1995 UN 4th World Conference on Women that took place Beijing with a substantive discussion of ‘women’s rights are human rights’ and implications for international law as well as a personal reflection on the significance of Beijing in sparking a global movement for women’s progress. 5pm Wed 6 March 2013: Women as Entrepreneurs and Employees: Critical Drivers of Economic Growth in Both Developed and Emerging Economies The lecture will focus on women’s economic participation from an evidence-based argument. Today a range of studies and data underscore why gender equality and women’s economic participation are key both to women’s progress and a country’s progress. The discussion will focus on the importance of the so-called “missing middle” – the need to support women-run small and medium size enterprises as accelerators of growth, women’s income as a double dividend and women as consumers.
This lecture will focus on the benefits of women’s political participation as well as the hurdles women confront in running for public office and effective ways to grow the numbers women in elective positions. 2-6pm Mon 11 March 2013: Gender Equality: A Moral and Foreign Policy Imperative Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women’s Rights 2013 concluding symposium at King’s College with Sara Ahmed (Goldsmith’s), Nina Power (Roehampton), Susie Orbach (psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic), Henrietta Moore (Cambridge) and Heidi Mirza (University of London). Free online registration. The lectures are free and open to all and take place at Mill Lane Lecture Room 9. Registration (free) is required for the symposium which takes place at CRASSH online here. For further information on this series please click here. Best wishes, Ruth Rushworth Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) |
CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) would like to invite you to a symposium on the question of
WOMEN, SEXUALITY AND
CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM
which will take place at the Khalili Lecture Theatre in SOAS (www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)
Saturday 9th March, 2-5pm
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. Ann Rossiter
‘The role of the Catholic Church in the making of a London-Irish abortion underground trail’
Dr. Carmen Sepulveda, UCL
‘Religion and feminism “face to face”: institutions and the roll back of reproductive rights in Latin America’
Dr. Rahul Rao, SOAS
‘The international relations of homophobia’
Dr. Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Goldsmiths
‘The Christian Peoples Alliance: race, regeneration and reproductive
rights’.
Natalie Bennett
‘Women and Christian Fundamentalism in the UK’
Chair: Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS
Discussant: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL
The event is free but places are limited so please RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk).
Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/
Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB UEL Director
REGISTER NOW for The F- Word in Contemporary Women’s Writing
The fourth biennial conference of the Postrgraduate Contemporary Women’s Writing Network
4 -5 April 2013
Queens University, Belfast
Keynote: Professor Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths, University of London)
PhD and Early Career Workshop: `Publishing on Conemporary Women’s Writing’, led by Dr Helen Davies (Teeside University and CWWA).
Feminism has always found significant expression in creative and critical literature, from poetry and pamphlets to modes of the digital age: Twittering and blogging. Yet with its shifting social and political manifestations, the term feminism itself has frequently been seen to raise as many questions as supposed answers, leaving it open to revision, contestation and new expression. This conference seeks to examine the varied and diverse ways in which contemporary women’s writing since 1970 has engaged with and continues to respond to the `the f word’.
Marking the centenary of Emily Wilding Davison’s legacy on the women’s movement, this two-day conference will investigate how feminisms are particularly represented within contemporary women’s writing in its broadest sense: from novels and short stories through to journalism and children’s literature. This cross-genre approach aims to consider the wider social and cultural impact of feminist politics, including the influence of new media and social networks.
The F Word in Contemporary Women’s Writing seeks responses which examine the generational implications of first, second and third wave feminism(s) and postfeminism upon contemporary literary culture. How might contemporary women’s writing emphasise the legacy and continuing relevancy of feminism? And how might literature effect possible feminist futures?
This conference considers these questions with a range of diverse presentations on subjects including popular media, poetry, Islamic culture, the erotic, trauma narratives, activism and resistance, comparative feminisms, postcolonial (trans)nationalisms, popular and underground music, crime fiction, comics, websites and blogging ˆ amongst many others!
To register, please visit pgcwwn.wordpress.com/the-f-word/registration
Attendance fee: £25.00 | •30.00 (payable by cheque or via PayPal)
http://www.pgcwwn.org | thefword@pgcwwn.org | @pgcwwn #fwordcww
Series Editors: William F. Pinar, Nelson M. Rodriguez, and Ugena Whitlock
LGBTQ social, cultural, and political issues have become a defining feature of twenty-first century life, transforming on a global scale any number of institutions, including the institution of education. Situated within the context of these major transformations, this series is home to the most compelling, innovative, and timely scholarship emerging at the intersection of queer studies and education. Across a broad range of educational topics and locations, books in this series incorporate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex categories, as well as scholarship in queer theory arising out of the postmodern turn in sexuality studies. The series is wide ranging in terms of disciplinary/theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, and will include and illuminate much needed intersectional scholarship. Always bold in outlook, the series also welcomes projects that challenge any number of normalizing tendencies within academic scholarship: from works that move beyond established frameworks of knowledge production within LGBTQ educational research to works that expand the range of what is institutionally defined within the field of education as relevant queer studies scholarship.
William F. Pinar is Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author, most recently, of Curriculum Studies in the United States: Present Circumstances, Intellectual Histories (2012).
Nelson M. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at The College of New Jersey, where he teaches courses in queer and gender studies. His current research areas include queer studies and education, critical masculinity studies, and Foucault studies. His most recent publications includeQueer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education (with John C. Landreau) andQueering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education (with William F. Pinar). His forthcoming book (with Cris Mayo) is Queer Pedagogies:Theory, Praxis, Politics.
Ugena Whitlock is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Gender and Women’s Studies at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. She is also currently Associate Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department. She is the author of This Corner of Canaan: Curriculum Studies of Place and the Reconstruction of the South and editor of the forthcoming collection Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place. Her research focuses on reconstructing self and society within contexts of place, drawing from her experiences growing up in a working-class, fundamentalist Christian family in the South.
Please send proposals to Sarah Nathan, Palgrave Macmillan (s.nathan@palgrave-usa.com)
The series editors can be contacted at lgbtqbookprojects@gmail.com
New Seminar Series: ‘Queer Utopias’
Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC)
and the Queer Cultures Network
University of Manchester
All welcome
Thursday 21st Feb – Professor Ulrika Dahl (Södertörn, Sweden) ‘Femmembodiment: Notes on Queer Feminine Shapes of Vulnerability’
(Venue: Room A112, Samuel Alexander).
Tuesday 19th March – Professor Clare Hemmings (Gender Institute LSE)
‘The Voice of Love is Calling, Wildly Beating Against Their Breasts’: Emma Goldman, Sexual Freedom and the Homosexual Archive’
(Venue: Room A101, Samuel Alexander)
Our project.
Ariadne
University of BristolSince 2003, Luce Irigaray holds a seminar with researchers doing their PhD on her work. This way, they have the opportunity to receive personal teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences between them. The seminar was welcomed by the University of Nottingham during the first three years (see Luce Irigaray: Teaching edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, and published by Continuum, London & New York, 2008), by the University of Liverpool the fourth year, by Queen Mary, University of London, the fifth year, by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year, by the University of Nottingham the seventh year, by the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol as co-hosts the eighth year, and by the University of Bristol the ninth year. The seminar will take place at the University of Bristol in 2013.The framework of the seminar is this: A group of at most fifteen researchers, doing their PhD on the work of Luce Irigaray, stay one week on the university campus. The timetable includes a presentation by each researcher of the aspect of their PhD which most focuses on the work of Luce Irigaray, the discussion of this presentation by the group, the comments of Luce Irigaray herself and her answers to the questions asked by each one, and also sessions devoted to an explanation of some key-words or key-thoughts chosen by the participants. Personal meetings with Luce Irigaray are organized on the last day. The participants pay for their travel, but receive, at least in part, hospitality from the university. The language of the seminar is English.
The participants in the seminar come from different regions of the world, they belong to different cultures, traditions and fields of research – Philosophy, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, Arts, Critical and Cultural Studies, etc. The themes of their research include, for example: the treatment of personal or cultural traumatic experience; the resources that various arts can offer for dwelling in oneself and with the other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; the interpretation and embodiment of the divine today; the contribution of sexuate difference to personal and social development; new perspectives in philosophy etc. In each of these fields, diverse domains, approaches and methods are represented. To date, the participants came from Australia, Vietnam, Korea, China, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Latvia, France, Belgium, Pakistan, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Romania and from different regions and universities of the U.S.A. and of the U.K. Beyond the multicultural teaching which results from such a gathering, the participants learn to live together and to share in difference during the time devoted to the work, and during meals, walks, personal meetings etc. The atmosphere of the seminar is intense but friendly and joyful, and its outcome highly successful for both the research and the life of each participant.
If you are interested and would like to participate in such a seminar please send as soon as possible a CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce Irigaray (5 – 6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015 Paris, France). After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you if you can participate in the seminar of 2013. You will be in contact, for further practical information, in the Spring after the selection of the candidates
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Guest Edited by Bisi Silva (curator and Director of CCA, Lagos)
Giulia Lamoni ‘African masks, family photographs and open suitcases: Rosana Paulino, Mónica de Miranda and Maimuna Adam’
Julie Crenn ‘Michèle Magéma – Without Echo, there is no Meeting’
Nontobeko Ntombela ‘Silent Toyi-Toyis in the work of Donna Kukama and Reshma Chhiba’
Monique Kerman ‘Cut to the Chase: The Work of Mary Evans’
Rachida Triki ‘Contemporary women artists in Tunisia’
Cheryl Thompson ‘Contesting the Aunt Jemima Trademark through Feminist Art: Why is She Still Smiling?’
Solange Farkas ‘From “ferramentaria” to trance: Symbolism, concept and religiosity in the work of Eneida Sanches’
Peju Layiwola ‘From Footnote to Main Text: Re/Framing Women Artists from Nigeria’
Zehra Jumabhoy ‘Betwixt and In-Between: Reading Zarina Bhimji’
Artists’ Statements on recent works from Taiye Idahor, Ato Malinda, Adwoa Admoah, Maimuna Adam and Mary Sibande
Artist’s Pages by Ayana V. Jackson; Pinar Yolacan; Angèle Etounde Essamba
This volume is financially supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
n.paradoxa is published two times a year (Jan and July) and its content is available in print and electronic form.
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years,
Vol. 3: Light and Shadows
The third volume of Emma Goldman’s Documentary History is out and it is a great scholarship contribution. Please consider supporting the Emma Golman Papers Project
- An interesting entry about what is happening with the Women’s Library by Myriam David at the Gender and Education website: An Update: The Women’s Library
Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender studies:
Gender, Class and Value, InterGender:
(Un)Doing Gender: a postgraduate symposium
8 February, 2013, Newcastle University
(Un)Doing Gender is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium for postgraduate students at all levels, hosted by Newcastle University’s Gender Research Group. The symposium will take place at Newcastle University on the 8th of February from 9am to 5pm, and will provide an informal platform for the exchange and exploration of ideas in a relaxed and supportive environment.
The aim of (Un)Doing Gender is to allow postgraduate students working in gender studies to mix with other researchers in the same field, to build connection across disciplinary boundaries, and to provide them with the opportunity to gain confidence at presenting their work to an audience. As such, we invite proposals for 10-15 minute presentations on any topic relating to the field of gender studies. Researchers from all disciplines are more than welcome to participate, and we strongly encourage anyone whose work pertains in any way to issues surrounding gender to submit a proposal.
Possible topics might include, but are in no way restricted to work on:
- Feminist theory
- Politics of Gender and Gendering Politics
- Gender and Sexuality
- Queer theory
- Masculinities
- Gender in the Media
- Violence and Masculinity
- Re-gendering History
- Gender and Theoretical Frameworks
- Gender, Race and Class
- Gendering the Workplace
- The Gendered Family
- Gender in a Global Context
- Legislating Gender
- Gender and the Postcolonial
- Gender and Religion
- Gender in Language
- Space, Geography and Gender
Abstracts of 100-150 words should be submitted via email to Marie Stern-Peltz (m.c.stern-peltz@ncl.ac.uk) and Faye Keegan (faye.keegan@ncl.ac.uk) by the 15th of December 2012, along with your name and school. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding the symposium. We look forward to hearing from you.
(Im)possibly Queer International Feminisms
Second Annual IFjP Conference, University of Sussex 17-19 May 2013
Gender, Media & Generations Postgraduate Network A one-day conference at the Open University, London 25 Jan 2013, Keynotes: Yvonne Tasker & Beverley Skeggs Ticket Price: £15 CfP: WGSRF 2013: Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Feministes
June 1 – 4, 2013
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
WGSRF is now seeking proposals, in either French or English, for its annual conference, held in conjunction with the Congress of the CFHSS/FCSH. Submissions for panels, roundtables, workshops and papers can be made by groups or individuals, and as joint sessions with other associations. Posters can be proposed by individuals or groups. Please identify the specific theme to which you are submitting application in your proposal.
- The role of civil society in the emancipation of women: challenging or supporting the status quo?
The Affinity Group for Gender, a working group established by the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) has been approached by Springer Publishing House to edit a book exploring the connections between civil society organisations (CSOs) and women’s emancipation. This is a really exciting opportunity and we invite you to submit a proposal describing your research, for consideration.
Our overall aim is to present and analyze current fieldwork from different parts of the globe where CSOs are working to promote women’s emancipation. Specifically, we want:
- To analyze some of the factors that contribute or hinder the emancipation of women, taking into account the socioeconomic and political conditions and the possibilities for CSOs,
- To make visible the roles and achievements of women in CSOs,
- To investigate and critique the experiences of women working within CSOs,
- And, through these activities, to contribute to theory building.
We know that through CSOs women have challenged oppression locally and nationally, achieved many successes, and have developed outstanding entrepreneurial activities. But we also know that sometimes organisations may find themselves drawn into colluding and reproducing the structures that maintain women in positions of marginality and systemic disadvantage. That is why we have put a question mark in the working title of the book – we are interested in critiques of CSOs as well as success stories.
Please don’t be put off by the term ‘civil society organisation’. We recognize the many debates about the terminology and that there are important distinctions to be made between labels such as third sector, voluntary and / or community, non-profit, social enterprises or social economy, non-governmental and peoples’ organisations, to name but a few. A similar terminological blur/fuzziness holds true for the term ‘emancipation’ which we have used because for many people it suggests change at a deeper, more systemic level, but we know that ‘empowerment’ is more common in some fields of research. Maybe some of you have written something on how these debates specifically relate to organisations working with women and if so, do send us your thoughts. We want to appeal to as broad a possible range of contributors, so whichever label you find is most relevant to your work is fine!
We have identified four distinct ways in which CSOs and women’s interests intersect: 1) CSOs whose main purpose is women‘s emancipation; 2) CSOs run by, and for women; 3) women’s experiences working within CSOs, and 4) contributions by CSOs and their researchers to our theoretical understanding of the causes of women’s oppression and emancipation. These four strands overlap but can also conflict.
We expect that all of the chapters will, to some extent, be engaging in exploring whether there are distinctive methodologies developed by women’s organisations and whether distinctive research strategies are needed to investigate and analyse these areas of interest. And finally, have CSOs made a distinctive contribution to theorising women’s emancipation?
We expect contributions to report on case studies from the field (successful or not-so sucessful) as well as more theoretical discussions. We welcome contributions for scholars who are applying a variety of methodologies such as surveys, case studies, action research, and theoretical perspectives such as policy analysis, sociological and historical approaches, critical approaches such as poststructuralist, postcolonial, feminist, critical race and social constructionist perspectives and more to developing our understanding of the intersection between CSOs and women’s emancipation.
All proposals will be peer reviewed. We will be looking for contributions that address the above themes but also provide a representative balance of theoretical and empirical work as well as studies from different parts of the world (developed/developing; urban/rural) and focussing on a range of organisations including those working in areas of advocacy, community building and service provision.
We have discussed pairing researchers who do not always use English as their main language, with more experienced researchers whose mother tongue is English to work on specific chapters together, so if you have a really interesting and relevant piece of research you would like to write up for this volume but are concerned about your written English skills then please don’t be discouraged for submitting your ideas.
If you would like to contribute to this exciting book please send us an abstract of about 500-600 words (excluding references) telling us about your idea for a chapter and how it specifically addresses the main issue: the contribution of CSOs to women’s emancipation by 31st January 2013. All proposals will be reviewed by at least two members of the editorial board. Please email your abstracts to:cschwabenland@hotmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
Chris Lange , Christina Schwabenland,
Jenny Onyx, Sachiko Nakagawa
- Roshini Kempadoo: Stuart Hall Library Animateur As Animateur for the Stuart Hall Library, Roshini Kempadoo aims to expand the use and development of the Library and stimulate research for publishing and creating work. Building on the success of the Stuart Hall Reading Group and other activities, she plans to develop new initiatives to encourage and empower other Artists and Researchers. She will also develop ideas for future programmes and collaborations with other collections, and involve Artists and Curators responses.
- Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Feminist Policy, Politics and Practice Forum You are invited to the first meeting of the newly established Feminist Policy, Politics and Practice Forum, which will take place on 16 November 2012, at Birkbeck, University of London. The Forum is initiated by Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck) and Janet Newman (Open University), with Sue Pell (Goldsmiths), and will meet 3 times a year. A Steering Group will be established at the first meeting.
Friday 30th Nov 2012, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study
