"Gender, Culture, and Power: Chinese and Western Women Interact in Late Imperial and Early Modern China"

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Gender, Culture, and Power: Chinese and Western Women Interact in Late Imperial and Early Modern China"

Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Hosted by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim

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The Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim is pleased to announce "Gender, Culture, and Power: Chinese and Western Women Interact in Late Imperial and Early Modern China," a one day seminar to be held at the University of San Francisco on April 5, 2006. The Ricci Institute welcomes proposals for individual papers from faculty, independent scholars, and Ph.D. candidates from the disciplines of history, women's studies, art history, and literature. The seminar will be an interdisciplinary examination of the interaction between Chinese women and Western women in China during the Qing and Republican periods, highlighting issues of gender, culture, and power. The aim of the seminar is to provide a forum for the examination of themes concerning the interaction between Chinese women and Western women in China such as: social and cultural roles, social reform, education, cultural exchange, encounters with Christianity, relations of power, gender roles, and issues of race. Panels will be organized thematically and will encourage discussion among participants and the audience. Depending upon the number and quality of the presented papers, the Ricci Institute is interested in publishing a selection of the seminar proceedings in an edited volume.

Deadline: Monday, November 14, 2005
Paper Proposal Guidelines:
Please submit a 250 word (maximum) abstract to:
Melissa Dale, Ph.D.
Asst. Director for Research
The Ricci Institute
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, LM 280
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Fax: (415) 422-2591
e-mail: mdhuang@usfca.edu

The Ricci Institute at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim is an interdisciplinary research center that promotes the study of historical cross-cultural encounters and dialogues between China and the West. The Institute facilitates and engages in research on the history of Chinese-Western cultural exchange and the history of Christianity in China through scholarly research, programs, publications, and conferences, and public events.

For more information on the Ricci Institute, please visit our website at: www.usfca.edu/ricci

Acacia Group's 2006 panel: 'moving beyond gender'

Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing Texts

The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking papers for our 2006 conference to be held February 17th and 18th, 2006. We are interested in papers/presentations for the following suggested panel:

"Moving Beyond Gender"
Judith Butler's Performative Gender appeared over ten years ago. Many scholars have debated this theory, but many have accepted gender as a social construct. This panel seeks papers that explore what happens after performative gender. If gender is performance – what defines an individual's identity? What does this say about the core-persona (or lack of core-persona)? Are representations of different/new/innovative gender constructions presented in the arts? Papers exploring literature, television, film, and popular culture welcome. We are accepting completed paper submissions only, no abstracts please. Creative writing/productions/performance contributions are encouraged to function as commentaries on or expressions of any and all of the topics listed, or, they may be submitted individually for special panel consideration. Submissions that will not be presented in written form (performances, art, etc.) must include a brief (1-2page) explanation of the submission's relevance to the topic/theme, materials used, and concepts explored. All presentations, whether written, performed, or shown may not exceed 20 minutes.
Submission Deadline: December 17, 2005
Conference date: February 17-18, 2006

Please note submissions are open to graduate and undergraduate students. Please note panel title in your subject line and send completed papers of 10-12 pages in Word format to: acaciaconference@gmail.com

Graduate Student conference

The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto invites abstracts for its 17th annual graduate student conference "The Politics of Memory" to be held fromMarch 31st to April 2, 2006.

Papers may address interdisciplinary issues related to, but not limited to, the following questions: In what ways does literature illuminate the historical construction and remembering of particular identities, events, and nations? How do different genres and media (poetry, theatre, film, graphic novels, etc.) depict history? How does their language (verbal, visual,etc.) influence or challenge collective historical memories? How do different readers receive a historical narrative? What happens when one reader is more familiar with the depicted historical event? What is the responsibility of the author/reader toward history as it concerns real people and events? How does interdisciplinarity today offer new techniques for studying the relationships among literature, memory, and history, as well as their political implications?Abstracts of 500 words should be sent to complit_colloq06@yahoo.ca by January 9, 2006.

Graduate students from various disciplines are encouraged to apply. Please observe the following procedures to enable blind peer review:
1) attach ashort biographical note on a separate page
2) do not include your name on the same page as your abstract
3) type “abstract” in the subject line of your email.

Also, indicate at the end of your abstract if you will require any special resources for your presentation. Papers may be given in English or French with citations in any language. The Centre will publish a selection of papers from the conference inTRANSverse: A Comparative Studies Journal.

For more information on the Centre for Comparative Literature, please visit:www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/