Call for Papers: Gender and Violence 

2011 Women's Studies Conference,  

sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania ConsortiumSaturday, March 26, 2011 

Dickinson College, Carlisle PA 

The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC), comprised of Dickinson, Franklin and Marshall, and Gettysburg Colleges, sponsors an annual conference on women's studies. The theme of the 2011 conference, held at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, is "Gender and Violence."  

The keynote speaker will be Andrea Smith, author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.

The issue of violence is at the forefront of women's and gender studies scholarship, and scholars are interrogating how women's and men's lives are shaped by violence in many forms. We solicit papers on topics relevant to this theme and we especially welcome papers that focus on people and topics outside of the United States. Broad themes we hope to discuss at this conference include, but are not limited to:  

• institutional violence;  
• structural violence;  
• media depictions of violence;  
• sexual(ized) violence;  
• interpersonal violence;  
• the intersections of these forms of violence;  
• theoretical, practical, and enacted responses and solutions to combat violence. 

Papers may focus on such topics as women's experiences with war as soldiers, supporters, detractors, and victims; current and longstanding fights over access to natural resources as gendered battles; institutional and/or structural violence across race, socioeconomic class, and sexual identity; agency and victimhood in the context of violence in popular culture; violence and sexual identities and practices; violence within domestic situations; experiences and approaches to ending violence; among other sites of inquiry and experience. We welcome proposals from across the disciplines and interdisciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  We particularly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to submit proposals. 

Please submit a one-page (250 word) proposal to Stephanie Gilmore, chair of the Women's and Gender Studies department at Dickinson College, at gilmores@dickinson.edu or 105 Denny Hall, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 17013 no later than 1 December 2010.  

If you have questions, please contact Stephanie Gilmore at gilmores@dickinson.edu or Kathy Missildine at kathy.missildine@fandm.edu 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The Women’s Studies Program presents 

“The Twilight Saga: Girls, Women & Feminism in Popular Culture” 

An Academic Conference 

Saturday, October 23, 2010 

Professionals and students, from a variety of disciplines, are invited to present scholarly papers, lead roundtable discussions or facilitate panels, on the current popular culture phenomenon that is The Twilight Saga. Papers may address discussions of some, or more, of the themes in the book or film series, including, but not limited to; 

Gender 

Race & Ethnicity 

Marriage & Family 

Religion 

Music of the Series 

Fan Characteristics 

Sexuality / Sexual Orientation 

Other Areas as Appropriate 

In addition we are looking for facilitators of group discussions & participants in panel discussions, on topics related to the series.  Submit your idea for a group discussion in the same manner as you would submit for a paper presentation. 

The deadline for papers submissions is Thursday, October 7, 2010.  Please submit abstracts, & papers, via email attachment.  Abstracts must be between 200—300 words in length. 

Send inquiries to eupwsinfo@gmail.com 

For downloadable & printable copies of the Call for Papers, click here. 

Conference Web Site:  http://onewomansworkcom.ipage.com/twi_con.htm 

Dr. Rhonda Matthews, Conference Chair  -  814.732.1593 

 Tomorrow night (9/21), at 7:30 p.m. at the Feminist Collective house, the FC will be holding a discussion entitled Fucking While Feminist, inspired by this really awesome interview: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/03/26/fucking-while-feminist-with-jaclyn-friedman/ 

While the above article is a tad heteronormative, our discussion will be much more inclusive, so please come and bring your friends--queer, straight, trans, female, male, intersex--we'd love to have a pluralistic, honest conversation. We'd like to talk about how a feminist identity affects the way you date and have sex. How has your dating/sex life changed since you started identifying as a feminist? What things are you more open to because of feminism? What things are red flags to you because of feminism? Have your primping/grooming/beauty habits changed? Do you ever find yourself making compromises? How do potential partners/hook-ups respond to your feminism? Etc, etc.  

Hope to see you there, it should be a great discussion! 

-The FC facilitators 

WOMEN’S CENTER FALL 2010:  
CONSCIOUSNESS TO ACTION

helping you take what you're learning into your life

 CTA events are open to all!  All events take place at Landis House at College and Pomfret Streets unless otherwise noted.
    
Friday, September 10, 12, 15, & 16    Carlisle Theatre Film:  “The Kids Are All Right”
            Professor Stephanie Gilmore will host a discussion on 9/15
Tuesday, September 21, 12pm    CTA:  Faculty Lunch:  Vanessa Tyson, Feminist Political Thought
Friday, September 24, 6pm    Ladies’ Night    

Friday, October 8, 6pm        Chick Flicks Unplucked
Wednesday, October 13    Film: Prop 8 – The Mormon Proposition (presented by Campus Life)
Friday, October 22, 6pm    Ladies’ Night    
Tuesday, October 26, 12pm    CTA:  Faculty Lunch:  Laura Grappo talks Queer Theory

November 8, 7pm        Speaker Jenny Brier, location TBA
November 9, 7pm        Kimberly Juanita Brown, Northeastern University, “Monticello’s Body: Race, Landscape, and Slavery’s Remains”  location TBA
Friday, November 12, 6pm    CTA:  Chick Flicks Unplucked
Friday, November 19, 6pm    Ladies’ Night
Tuesday, November 23, 12pm    CTA:  Faculty Lunch:  Jerry Philogene talks Black Feminist Thought

Tuesday, December 7                 CTA:  Faculty Lunch:  Amy Farrell:  Living Feminism/Listening Feminism
Friday, December 10, 6pm    Ladies’ Night    
Friday, December 10, 8pm       CTA:   Chick Flicks Unplucked
    
        
PLUS, DON’T MISS THESE SPECIAL EVENTS
Sister to Sister, Wednesday, Sept. 15, ATS * National Coming Out Day (October 11) *  World AIDS Day:  December 1, 2010

From: Louie Marven [mailto:lmarven@centralpalgbtcenter.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:55 PM
To: 'Louie Marven'
Subject: Workshop Proposals now being accepted for GSA Leadership Summit 

Hello: 

The GSA Leadership Summit planning committee is now accepting proposals for workshops to be presented at the 4^th Annual GSA Leadership Summit on Friday, February 25, 2011, at Dickinson College. Please see the link below for proposals. Completed RFPs are due back to me at this email address, lmarven@centralpalgbtcenter.org, no later than November 1, 2010. Incomplete proposals will not be considered by the committee. 

We especially encourage proposals that focus on topics including but not limited to: GSA technical assistance (including student leadership development, club fundraising strategies, creative ideas for programming, etc.), bisexuality/biphobia, Day of Silence planning, and racial and ethnic intersections with gender and sexuality. We are looking for a broad range of topics and formats for workshops, and a diverse group of presenters. We are especially interested in having a mix of student and professional presenters.  

Please find more information on the link provided, and let me know if you have any questions. Please also pass this along to anyone who may be interested in submitting a proposal.  

GSA Leadership Summit 

Thanks,
Louie 

Louie Marven 

Director of Education & Youth Services 

LGBT Community Center Coalition of Central Pennsylvania 

(717) 920-9534 

lmarven@centralpalgbtcenter.org 

www.centralpalgbtcenter.org 

Sign up for our e-newsletter to receive regular updates on the LGBT Community Center.  

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 YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS FILM!!! 

"The Kids Are All Right" film will be starting at the Carlisle Theater this Friday, September 10^th,  at 7:30 pm.  The Wednesday night show will be followed by a panel-audience discussion with Professors from Women’s and Gender Studies Department.  Admission for all showings is $2.00 if students buy their tickets at the Devil's Den. 

Show Times:   

Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) are in a long-term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relation- ship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield control, whereas Jules is less self-assured. She has floundered in her “nine to five” life, sometimes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay-at-home mom. They have two teen-aged children, Joni and Laser, who are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. 

Shortly after Joni’s eighteenth birthday, before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. He is Paul (Mark Ruffalo), a co-op farmer and restaurateur. Despite his seemingly successful businesses, Paul has always shirked responsibility, especially in his personal life. After Joni and Laser meet with Paul, Nic and Jules learn what their children have done, and although they don’t want Paul infiltrating their lives, they want to meet him, because Joni and Laser seem to want to maintain a link with him. As Paul’s relationship with the entire family grows, and as he hires Jules to design and construct his backyard, they have an effect on what he wants in life, and he in turn affects the family dynamic as well as each person’s relationships outside of the family. 

The hit of the 2010 Sundance Festival, The Kids Are All Right has been praised by Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune: “”All right” doesn’t begin to describe it. The Kids Are All Right is wonderful. Here is a film that respects and enjoys all of its characters, the give-and-take and recklessness and wisdom of any functioning family unit, conventional or   un-." 

Sponsored by Dickinson College and the Dept. of Women's and Gender Studies at Dickinson College 

Carlisle Theatre ◊ 40 West High Street ◊ Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013 ◊ (717) 258-0666 

We hope to see you there!! 

Susannah Bartlow, Lori Loudon and Yoleidy Rosario 

Women’s Center 

CHICK FLICKS UNPLUCKED is back on! 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 6PM, Landis House 

What is a “chick flick”, anyway?!  We’ll be hosting the movie series on a small TV—because who needs a flat-screen when you have free pizza and Alicia Silverstone?  This week’s Chick Flick Unplucked will be Clueless.  Sponsored by the Women’s Center.   

 Want to get involved in ending relationship and sexual violence in the Carlisle area? 

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 

 RAPE CRISIS VOLUNTEER INFO SESSION 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 7PM 

LANDIS HOUSE, COLLEGE & POMFRET STREETS 

 Hope Comeau, volunteer coordinator for Rape Crisis Services, will describe the training and commitment to serve on the Sexual Assault/Rape Crisis Services of Cumberland County and Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland and Perry Counties hotline.   

Bring a friend—all are welcome! 

Volunteers serve on the community crisis hotline as first responders and sometimes advocates.  The full training will begin on SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 and take place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 – 9:00 PM at YWCA Carlisle, 301 G Street, Carlisle, PA  17013. 

If you can’t make the info session or need more information, please call: 

Dickinson College Women’s Center: 717-245-1931 

Sexual Violence Resource & Advocate:  1-888-727-2877 

Sexual Assault/RCS 717-258-4324 or 1-888-727-2877 

Domestic Violence Services 717-258-4806 or 1-800-852-2102 

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DICKINSON COLLEGE WOMEN’S CENTER 

Fall 2010:  Consciousness to Action 

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