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ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTS SOCIOLOGY (AHS) 2008 CONFERENCE

Boston, MA - November 6-9, 2008

The Association for Humanists Sociology [AHS] would like to invite submissions for our 2008 Annual Meeting at the John Hancock Center in Boston, Ma, November 6-9. Our conference theme is "What is to be Done? Public Sociology in Theory and Practice."

While public sociology has attracted excitement in recent years, sociology as a resource for social action is not new. From Marx and Mills, to Dubois and Jane Addams, to Al Lee and Francis Fox Piven, the reemergence of public sociology is really the product of a long march by politically interested and socially engaged scholars through educational institutions, professional associations and publications, and other places where sociology is done. Yet, public sociology remains a contested terrain, criticized as "too political" by some and "not political enough" by others. Since our inception in 1976, AHS and its members have been contemplating and practicing public sociology, mostly from the margins of the discipline. Now that public sociology is front and center, we ought to have much to say about it: historically, theoretically, ethically, politically, and practically. This Annual Meeting is an opportunity to examine the past, evaluate the present, and begin to shape the future of a public sociology that matters. Paper submissions should address some aspect of public sociology and its relationship to teaching, activism, policy or community-based research, or other aspects of sociology as they relate to incorporating humanist goals with sociological work. Please send papers, abstracts, posters or session/worshop ideas to Program Director Daniel Egan, Daniel_Egan@uml.edu or AHS President, Corey Dolgon, cdolgon@worcester.edu

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ETHNIC STUDIES, INC. 2008 CONFERENCE

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36th Annual National Conference
April 3 – 5, 2008
Westin Peachtree Plaza
Atlanta, Georgia

POLITICS OF ETHNICITY

The National Association for Ethnic Studies invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, business, social sciences, humanities, science and education on politics and ethnicity. Where are we now? What are our expectations for the next administration? How do politics affect us in all walks of life?

The conference will create a lively forum for the discussion of issues related to ethnic communities, including, but not limited to the following: citizenship and voting rights; affirmative action; women and men of color in politics; academic freedom, reproductive rights; religious freedom, globalization, nationalism and hegemony; government and individual freedom; politics and the media; war and peace; 2008 U.S. elections; political responses to global disasters; national and/or global immigration.

Two-hundred-fifty-word abstracts/proposals should be submitted by December 15, 2007, which relate to any aspect of the conference theme, with the participant’s institutional affiliation and mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The abstract/proposal must indicate whether the presentation is an individual paper or a complete panel presentation and if a/v equipment is needed. Complete panel proposals must include abstracts and complete contact information for each individual presenter. All program participants must pay full conference registration and 2008 NAES membership dues. All abstracts must be sent electronically. Presenters are welcome to chair other panels but may only present one paper.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically to:
http://www.ethnicstudies.org/conference.htm Select the “Submit Abstract” link to proceed to the online submission form. You must select a user ID and password for security purposes. Please retain this information as you will need it again to access the online membership & conference registration forms, which will be available shortly.

For questions about the conference program, please contact:
Dr. Ashton W. Welch, awelch@creighton.edu
Telephone: 402-280-2657; Fax: 402-280-1454

For more information about the conference and NAES, visit http://www.ethnicstudies.org

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ASIAN AMERICAN/ASIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE - CUNY CONFERENCE ON ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN: Celebatring Succeses, Meeting Challenges

Friday, May 16, 2008

CUNY Graduate Center - Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York

Deadline for Proposals: Friday, January 18, 2008
E-mail: conference@aaari.info

The Asian American/Asian Research Institute will host a one-day conference on May 16, 2008 titled Asian American Women: Celebrating Successes, Meeting Challenges, a forum where we will examine past, present, and future challenges and objectives for Asian American women.

Asian American women?s experiences and concerns illustrate the heterogeneous and complex histories and interests of this important segment of the U.S. population. This year?s AAARI conference will investigate the landscape of Asian American women?s historical and contemporary experiences, examining and evaluating past accomplishments while maintaining a critical and pragmatic eye to future goals. The conference seeks to explore the manifold realms of Asian American women?s lives from the diverse vantage points of scholars, researchers, business professionals, educators, activists, artists, legislators, writers, and students. During the conference, we will ask ourselves what we have learned from Asian American women?s histories, and how we can apply this knowledge to present and future challenges for our communities.

SESSION TRACKS

COMMUNITY ADVOCACY
Asian American community advocates are spearheading work to garner visibility and recognition of Asian American women?s issues. These issues include domestic violence, literacy, labor organizing, the low-wage economy, bias crimes, housing, and immigration legislation. How do individuals and organizations at the forefront of these issues forge and sustain relationships with dynamic Asian American communities? What obstacles do they face as liaisons between Asian America, the media, private industry, and government agencies?

BUSINESS, LEADERSHIP, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Focusing on the resources and strategies that support and encourage Asian American women as they seek to become better leaders in both local and global economies, the session will examine gender, ethnicity, and cultural norms in the workplace, while highlighting the differences between small business and large corporations and issues of executive management in political, public service, educational, and non-profit fields.

BALANCING CAREER AND FAMILY
Women, in general, have to negotiate familial responsibilities while also focusing on their careers. Have Asian American women been successful in balancing career and family? What roles do immediate and extended families play in helping Asian American women juggle career and family? This session will explore how Asian American women address issues such as childcare, professional commitments, day-to-day domestic chores, and elderly parents. Related topics include stress- and time-management as well as financial resources.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT
Historically, Asian American women have been underrepresented in positions of authority in public administration and government. What are the personal and professional obstacles for women in reaching their career goals in these areas? Do the voices of Asian American women have an impact on policy and decision making? What does the future hold for other Asian American women who want a meaningful role in public administration or to serve in public office?

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Science and engineering have traditionally been dominated by men. Although the number of women working in these fields is increasing, we still hear of cases where teachers, faculty, and advisors actively discourage female students from studying science and/or engineering. With many women actively contributing as scientists and engineers, it is time to ask how Asian American women have negotiated and become successful in these traditionally male-dominated fields, and to examine the challenges and obstacles Asian American women face in their academic and professional careers.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Asian American women face distinct social, cultural, and political barriers to physical and mental health and wellness. The purpose of this session is to explore occupational, genetic, environmental, and cultural factors in disease or health risks for this population. We will also examine how cultural beliefs, traditional practices, and linguistic deficiency impact health care delivery, wellness education, government policy, and disease prevention for Asian American women.

MEDIA, VISUAL, AND PERFORMING ARTS
Representations of Asian American women are changing, and examinations of racial stereotypes are insufficient in representing the complex position of Asian American women in the U.S. How are Asian American cultural producers seeking to examine and complicate the intricate relationships between popular culture, artistic production, and identity? What roles do historical depictions of this community play in expanding our artistic understandings of Asian American women in the present and the future?

LITERATURE
No longer relegated to the back door of autobiography, Asian American women writers are charting new literary maps through formal and thematic innovations that reflect complex intersections between gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, and language. This session seeks to examine how the arc of Asian American literary production informs these writers, and what lies ahead for emerging authors.

NEW DEMOGRAPHICS
The landscape of Asian America is continuously changing: How do we understand these shifts in our examinations of new immigrants, mixed-race identities, and the dynamic diasporic communities that emerge as migratory paradigms evolve? As local communities are shaped by the changing demographics, what is the response of mainstream culture and public policymakers? To what extent do transnational businesses and global capital influence Asian American communities? How do these developments impact the daily lives of Asian American women and define their identities?

PEDAGOGY, EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND CURRICULAR ISSUES
What changes have we seen in college and university curricula since the introduction of courses in Asian American studies? How has the incorporation of Asian America, along with other ethnic and gender studies borne out of civil rights struggles, shifted the U.S. academic landscape? This panel will explore pedagogical and curricular dimensions of the field, including a focused examination of the varied programs inside Asian America, a discussion of how geopolitical differences affect development and funding of Asian American programs east of California, as well as the alliances and/or boundaries between Asian American studies and other ethnic and gender studies programs.

WE WELCOME PROPOSALS FOR THE FOLLOWING:
- Individual papers
- Workshops
- Artistic presentations: performance, literary readings, film screenings (max. 10-12 minutes in length, with technical specifications provided)

PROPOSALS MUST INCLUDE:
- Working title
- Description of presentation (individual paper, artistic presentation, workshop, etc.)
- Brief double-spaced abstract (one to two pages, 11 or 12pt font, one-inch margins)
- Presenter?s name, address, phone number, email address, title, and institutional affiliation

DISCLAIMER
This invitation to submit a proposal to the 2008 AAARI Conference on Asian American Women does not constitute an offer to pay travel or accommodation costs associated with the conference. No speakers' fee or travel expenses are paid to successful applicants. Conference presentations may be taped (audio and video) and transcribed for possible future publication.

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Nuestra América in the U.S.? A U.S. Latino/a Studies Conference

Friday & Saturday, February 8 & 9, 2008
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2007
www.ContinuingEd.ku.edu (keyword: Latino)

Plenary Speakers
Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came with Them

Juan Flores, From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity

Emma Pérez, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History

Roberto Suro, Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence

This interdisciplinary conference adopts José Martí's expansive hemispheric conception of "America" to explore implications of the growth of the U.S. Latino population at the cusp of the 21st century-a century that has seen Latinos/as become the largest U.S. ethnic minority. How have these shifting demographics affected communities, labor, politics, education, and cultural production in the U.S.?

Papers will be considered from all disciplines. We invite submissions that address issues of:
* migration and immigration
* transnationalism
* pan-ethnicity
* education
* the (re)formulation of racial and ethnic identities
* Latinos/as and labor practices
* militarization of the border
* Latino consumer marketing
* Latino media
* Latinos/as and the law
* political activism and coalition
* immigrant rights struggles
* community organizations serving Latino populations
* the impact of "Latinization" on U.S. culture

Send 200-word proposals by Sept. 15, along with title and institutional affiliation to:
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
KU Department of English
1445 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045

camsan@ku.edu
785-864-2529

Sponsors The Milton & Miriam Handler Foundation; the University of Kansas departments of English, Spanish & Portuguese, Sociology, Political Science, History, Public Administration, and Anthropology; Office of the Provost; Office of the Chancellor; the Hall Center for the Humanities; the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; KU Continuing Education; the School of Education; the School of Journalism; the School of Social Welfare; the Institute for Policy & Social Research; the KU Women's Studies, American Studies, and Latin American Studies programs; the Center for Research on Global Change; The St. Anthony Educational Foundation.

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Southern Sociological Society's (SSS) 71st Annual Meeting
April 9-12, 2008

Southern Sociological Society's (SSS) 71st Annual Meeting, April 9-12, 2008, Richmond, VA Marriott. Theme: "Movement Matters: Vision, Mobilization, and Memory." Submissions should be made online at . Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2008. Contact: Program Co-Chairs Peggy Hargis at har_agga@georgiasouthern.edu , Woody Beck at wbeck@uga.edu , or President Larry Isaac at "a href = "mailto:larry.isaac@vanderbilt.edu"> larry.isaac@vanderbilt.edu.

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"New Perspectives in Race Theory" Interdisciplinary Conference University of San Francisco
April 25-26, 2008

Race theories in analytic philosophy have evolved over the last decade bringing advances on a variety of topics, ranging from the metaphysics of social categories to questions about the role of race in medicine. Its influence on the study of race and ethnicity has been substantial, and it has been a touchstone for debate and research on race and ethnicity in other fields. This conference focuses on that body of work, and showcases new perspectives in the analytic philosophy of race by upcoming and established philosophers.

The presenters and their topics are:
Robin Andreason (University of Delaware) "Human Kinds as Interactive Kinds: A Reply to Mallon"

Luc Faucher (Université du Québec à Montréal)
"Race, Moral Ills and Emotions: For a Finer Texturing of Emotions Underlying Racial Ills"

Eduard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
"The Folk Concept of Race"

Ron Mallon (University of Utah)
"Beyond Non-Essentialism and Toward a New Standard Anti-Racialist Argument"

Quayshawn Spencer (Stanford)
"Is Cladistic Race a Genuine Kind?"

Mark Risjord (Emory)
"Race and Social Role"

Julie Shulman (Alliant International University) and Joshua Glasgow (Victoria University of Wellington)
"Is Race-Thinking Biological, Social, or Something Else, and Does It Matter for Racism? An Exploratory Study"

Michael Root (University of Minnesota)
"The Use of Racial Categories in the Social and Biomedical Sciences"

Yolonda Wilson (Duke University)
"BiDil and the Ethics of Racialized Medicine"

The Keynote lecture will be given by Sally Haslanger (MIT),
and her topic will be, "Race, Gender and Ideology Critique."

This conference is sponsored by the philosophy department of the University of San Francisco through the generous support of the Mortimer Fleishhacker Endowment. It is free and open to the public, but please register by emailing the organizer.

For more information contact Ronald Sundstrom: rrsundstrom@usfca.edu

And visit the conference website: http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/rrsundstrom/NPRT.html

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RACE, SEX, POWER: New Movements in Black & Latina/o Sexualities
April 11-12, 2008
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Over the past decade, racialized representations of Black and Latina/o sexualities as perverse Others have been systematically challenged by scholars and political and cultural activists from myriad disciplinary fields. The steady emergence of new exhibitions, performances, media, writings, virtual communities, and activist groups bear witness to the importance of how Black and Latina/o people love and express themselves sexually.

This conference brings attention to these “bodies of knowledge” – in their biological, social, cultural, and political forms – in order to rethink how the relationships between race, sexuality, and power has, and continues to, shape Black and Latina/o sexualities in the U.S. This conference intends to highlight debates, ideas, and practices relating to the meanings assigned to black and brown bodies in the U.S., how black and brown people experience their socially regulated bodies, and how those bodies are positioned vis-à-vis knowledge, truth, politics, and history.

Bringing together activists, artists, independent scholars, faculty, practitioners, and students from a broad range of disciplines and fields, the conference aims to address issues of sexual desire and pleasure, cultural activism, black-brown dialogues and coalition-building, creating and performing sexual identities, human rights and social justice, and citizenship, among other topics.

The conference venue presents a unique opportunity for the participants to examine critically the state of empirically grounded, historicized, and theoretically informed inquiries and practices around Black and Latina/o bodies and sexualities. Equally important in this moment then, is the recognition and scrutiny of how these interventions have made an impact on the fields of African American studies; Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; sexuality studies; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer studies; as well as mainstream disciplines like literature, sociology, history, public health, psychology, art history, public policy, etc.

Participants from all disciplinary fields and perspectives who wish to engage with these issues are welcome. Through this interdisciplinary forum, the conference seeks to create a diverse intellectual community, to foster healthy debate about the intersections of race and sexuality, and to provide unique opportunities for networking and professional development. In turn, such working relationships can better inform public policy, present and future scholarly agendas, and community needs.

Interested participants may submit an abstract (approx. 300 words) for: 1) individual papers; 2) panels and roundtables (approx. 4 persons); 3) poster presentations; or 4) visual presentations (film, performance, video, photography displays). If applicable, please include any technology requests, space needs as well as low-resolution images of your work, in addition to your abstract.

Please submit abstracts (as well as any queries) to RACESEXPOWER2008@DEPAUL.EDU . The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15, 2007.

TOPICS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

 Art, Music, Literature and Censorship
 Black-Brown Dialogues and Coalitions
 Black and Latina/o Sexualities and Prison Culture
 Critical Approaches to Activism
 Cultural Productions and Activism
 Desire, Eroticism, Fantasy and Pornography
 Disability and Desir/Ability
 Family and Kin Relationships
 Geography and Sexual Identities and Practices
 Health and Sexual Decision Making
 Health Care and Health Education
 Human Rights, Sexual Rights, Civil Rights
 (Im)Migration, Diaspora and Transnationalism
 Intersections of Race, Sexuality and Spirituality
 Making and Un/Making of Erotic Black and Latina/o Bodies
 Mass Media Representations of Black and Latina/o Sexualities
 Philosophy
 Psychoanalytical Approaches to Black and Latina/o Sexualities
 Public Sex, Private Sex
 Queer Black and Latina/o Feminisms
 Queering Spaces, Producing Sexualities
 Race, Sex and the State
 Sex Work/Sexuality at Work
 Racialized Bodies and Data Collection
 Sexual Citizenship
 Sexual Desire and Knowledge in the Archives
 Sexual Economies, Sexual Communities
 Sexual Health and Pleasure
 Sexual Initiations/Rites Of Passage/Sexual Scripts
 Sexual Attractiveness and Intimacies
 Sexual Rights, Civil Rights and Citizenship
 Social Justice and Public Policy
 Technology, Virtuality, and Racialized Sexualities
 Urban Sexual Cultures
 Visual Cultures

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MEPHISTOS Graduate Student Conference - University of Texas-Austin

April 4-6, 2008

26th Annual MEPHISTOS Graduate Student Conference Devoted to the History, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine, April 4-6, 2008, University of Texas-Austin. MEPHISTOS welcomes proposals for individual papers from graduate students examining issues related to the History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Anthropology of Science, Technology, Medicine, and Health. Application should include an abstract and CV with full contact information, department and university affiliation, and level in graduate program. Deadline for submission is January 1, 2008. Contact: mephistos2008@gmail.com ; .