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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Purdue Women's Studies Symposium:
"Third Wave Feminism"
April 5-6, 2002
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
The 5th biannual symposium, "Third Wave Feminism," will be held April
5-6, 2002.═ We invite abstracts or descriptions of projects that reflect
on-or do-Third Wave feminist work.═ In addition to standard academic
papers, we invite innovative and diverse contributions, including
performance pieces, installations, 'zines and other computer or
web-based resources, sound and visual artwork or collages, as well as
other kinds of writing, e.g. stories, poetry.═ Presentations or
performance pieces should be no more than 20 minutes in length.
Guest speakers will be Jennifer Drake, Assistant Professor of English
and Women's Studies, Indiana State University, and Leslie Heywood,
Associate Professor of English, SUNY Binghampton, the co-editors of
Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism, who will be speaking
on "It's All About the Benjamins: Economic Determinants of that Third
Wave Feminist Thang."═ Erika Lopez, author of Flaming Iguanas: An
Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing, They Call Me Mad Dog, and Hoochie
Momma: The Other White Meat, is our third guest speaker.
Some possible themes for presentations include:
*third wave feminism and queer theory *defining / performing third wave
feminism
*third wave and/as global feminism *third wave and cyberspace
*bridging third wave and second wave feminisms-does a gap exist?
*third wave feminism and responses to terrorism and September 11th
*third wave pedagogies and classrooms
*becoming third wave, or realizing you've always been
Please send a 250-500 word abstract or description to:
Pat Boling, Chair, Program Committee
Women's Studies Program, LAEB 1361
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1361
Electronic proposal submissions are welcome; please send attached files
to: boling@polsci.purdue.edu.
Abstracts are due by February 8, 2002. We will let you know by February 15th.═ Details about the symposium will be available on the Purdue Women's Studies website
(http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/womens-studies/) starting Valentine's Day.
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