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Call for Submissions:
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites submissions of paper, poetry, spoken word, film, photography, performance, and poster proposals for their 27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference.
This year’s conference theme, Imagining Reparations,engages contemporary social, scholarly, and literary movements that push to reimagine and retheorize what freedom, justice, health, and care can look like. Historically, reparations have taken financial form with governments recognizing victims of perceived injustice by awarding them money. Such practices have depended on and have defined the law and dominant ideas of justice within states and empires. By contrast, marginalized groups today are reframing reparations as capable of addressing historical and ongoing abuses, evident in law itself and manifest in biological, environmental, educational, technological, institutionalized, political, and diplomatic violence. The daring to imagine new forms of reparative justice emerges from raced, gendered, and sexualized subjectivities, which inform movements that devastate the binary between theory and practice in their struggle to be whole. A broad and intersectional investment in reparations challenges the assigning of rights and privileges in the past, and it is an important tool in recasting the structures that impact our daily lives.
Thinking Gender 2017, Imagining Reparations, takes a cue from movements that conceive of violence and reparative justice intersectionally with consequences that shape and are shaped by gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, etc. We invite presentations of work from across disciplines that embody this intersectional ethos and envision reparations through the lens of gender and sexuality. Conference sessions will include ample time for discussion of work, emphasizing dialogue discussion, writing as important modes of conference participation, and exploring their potential as feminist, decolonial tools for learning and action. Imagining Reparations aims to create cohesion among a broad range of disciplinary engagements, theoretical stances, and practical applications by providing space for thinking together about the role of the academy in theorizing tools for collective liberation from gendered and racialized violence.
Registered graduate students from any institution are eligible to submit presentation proposals for all Thinking Gender sessions, including the panels, plenary session, multimedia salon, and poster session. Registered undergraduate students from any institution are eligible to submit proposals for poster presentations and participation in the multimedia salon only.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Panel Presentations
Panels will consist of graduate student paper presenters and a UCLA faculty moderator who will read and provide detailed feedback and questions on each paper.
To apply, submit:
- Paper proposal
- Works cited
- CV
Plenary Session
A number of exceptional papers will be selected from among those submitted for Panel Presen-tations and awarded the Think-ing Gender Plenary Prize. Those selected will present their papers on the Plenary Session, and their work will be responded to by a distinguished guest scholar.
To apply:
- Complete Panel Presentation application requirements by October 10th deadline
- Submit a draft of your paper by Monday, December 12.
Performance and Poetry
We invite submissions of poetry, spoken word, short film, photography, musical, and other kinds of performance for a multimedia salon.
To apply, submit:
- Description of your work and its relationship to the conference theme
- CV or Resume
- A short work sample
- Description of any technology needs
Posters
Graduate students, undergraduate students, activists, and community organizations will present visually compelling re-search posters, the presentation of which will be integrated into the Multimedia Salon. Posters will remain on display through-out the conference.
To apply, submit:
- Poster proposal
- CV or Resume
