Extended submission deadline – June 30, 2007

Los Angeles, September 7-9, 2007
www.tonguetotongue.org

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS/PARTICIPATION

Tongue to Tongue: Provoking Critical Dialogues Among Queer Women of Color is a community-organized three-day dialogue among diverse queer women of color, transgender, genderqueer and gender non-conforming communities of color featuring workshops, lectures, visual art, film, performances meant to facilitate real dialogue among participants. Tongue to Tongue believes that provoking honest and difficult dialogue is a critical first step toward building and strengthening community alliances across diverse communities and differences. The goal of this event is to envision concrete plans of action to collaboratively confront the injustices we face through proposals for continued organizing and solidarity building. This social change event aims to deepen analysis of-, broaden dialogue on-, and instigate response to critical issues created out of the intersecting sites of race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, and nationalism. [Read more…] about Tongue to Tongue: Critical Dialogues among Queer Women of Color (Los Angeles 9/7/07)

The May 16-19 conference Feminicide = Sanctioned Murder: Race, Gender and Violence in Global Context will examine the murders and disappearances of women in Mexico, Guatemala and Canada that are occurring on an epidemic scale, and interrogate closely the gender, class, sexual and ethnoracial components of this violence against women. The aim and purpose of the conference is to stop the violence and map out ways to bring about justice.

Distinguished participants include Elena Poniatowska, one of Mexico’s most eminent writers, whose innovative writing advocates for women and the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice, and Lydia Cacho, who recently received the 2007 Ginetta Sagan Award for Women and Children’s Rights from Amnesty International for exposing a net of pederasts linked to the government and big business, and for creating a shelter for the children, victims of trafficking and abuse in Cancún, Mexico.

For more info, see conference website at https://ccsre.stanford.edu/feminicide

The 2007 MALCS Summer Institute site committee is currently seeking submissions for scholarly papers, panels proposals, workshops, roundtables, intimate circles, etc. for the 2007 Summer Institute at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus August 2-4.

The theme of this year’s Institute, “Among Women, Between Nations–Entre mujeres, entre naciones,” symbolizes both the intimacy and the sociopolitical complexity of our identities, relationships, and affiliations–between spaces and across borders. We hope to examine our commonalities as well as the things that separate us. We will make a conscious effort to address issues particular to indigenous women’s communities, as well as the transnational realities of Chicana/Latina lives.

Paper topics may include: Chicana/Latina feminisms, transnational feminisms, indigenous women, transnational migration, literary theory, afro-latinidades, the legal justice system, activist scholarship, community activism, sovereignty, political and gender-based violence, health, science studies, creative writing, poetry/performance, visual cultures, coalitions between women of color, media and visual culture, land issues, etc.

Workshop topics might include: getting into graduate school, how to set up a MALCS chapter, going on the job market, MALCS for Beginners, Tips for Tenure, Professional Development for undergrads (Research, writing a c.v., letters of rec), Balancing activism & scholarship. This list of themes suggests a wide array of topics. However, it is not meant to be exhaustive nor limiting in its scope.

Submissions from all disciplines, activist and community organizations are encouraged. Abstracts or descriptions of no more than 250 words, should be accompanied by: 1) the TITLE of the paper, panel, roundtable, workshop or other presentation; 2) NAME(S) of all presenters or facilitators & their academic/ institutional/ organizational or community affiliations; 3) EMAIL address and any other relevant contact information.

Deadline for submission: EXTENDED TO MAY 21, 2007. Send to: ude.nmuobfsctd-6765a4@sclam or ude.nmuobfsctd-35a983@700errot Or: Dr. Edén Torres, 425 Ford Hall 224 Church St SE Mpls., MN 55455

Download the Call for Papers as an MSDoc here
See complete information at the Minnesota Summer Institute blog / website

On March 21st and 22nd, 2007, MuJER and Loyola Marymount University will be hosting an international conference in Los Angeles on the violent murders of women in Guatemala which has surpassed 2,500 since 2001. (Amnesty International)

The purpose of the conference is to create a safe space to lecture and debate the femicide, its theories, the culture of violence behind this issue, and actions to take. It will create a network of US supporters for Guatemalan women and human rights organizations. It will promote international pressure on the Guatemalan government to address the lack of justice, insecurity, and increasing number of women murders.

Complete info here

—submitted by Alicia Partnoy

From MALCS mail: 

I am a German post-graduate student working on a dissertation project about Chicana Literature.  During research on the net I came across your homepage and I sincerely hope that you can help me: My professor has come up with an interesting new idea for my project, telling me to check whether there are Chicana authors living and writing across the other American border, that is, in Canada. My own research so far has not led to any results, so I draw on you as experts: Is there any Chicana Literature in Canada to speak of? I’d be very grateful for a short answer.
Best regards from Germany,
Julia Andres

If you can help Julia, please email us your suggestions and they will be forwarded to her.

Published by Wings Press, Cervantes’s latest collection, Drive: The First Quartet was widely anticipated and met with abundant praise from poets and critics alike. Her first publication in fifteen years, it marks the return of a major poetic voice.

Wings Press will publish a collection of critical essays that speaks to the significance of the poet and her work, both within and beyond the Chicana/Latino literary movements.

Possible topics/areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
Interviews with Cervantes; Poetics; Art and Politics; Poetry and music/visual arts; Formalist approaches; Canonicity; Xicanisma; Feminisms; Indigeneity; Multiculturalism; Poverty; Poetic Voice; Transnationalism; Solidarity; Revolutions; The lyric; Loss and mourning; Memory and survival; The poetics of place; Cervantes as cultural activist; Poetry and blogging; The place of Cervantes within Chicana/Latina/American/World literature

Previously published essays and interviews are welcome. Essays may discuss any aspect of Lorna Dee Cervantes’s work; those that focus on Drive are especially sought.

Deadline for 250-300 word abstracts is March 30, 2007. Please send abstracts to: ude.sdnalderobfsctd-886b88@nosbigyzeugirdor_azile.

Deadline for completed manuscripts is May 1, 2007. Completed manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 7,500 words, including works cited page. MLA style documentation should be used. Manuscripts should be generated in MS Word (or saved in RTF). Contributors should submit a one page CV and a brief biographical statement with the manuscript.

Contacts:
Bryce Milligan, Publisher/Editor Wings Press.
627 E. Guenther
San Antonio, Texas 78210
(210) 271-7805

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