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CFP: SEWSA 2014 – The Ebb and Flow: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Feminism

CFP

Call for Papers: Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference 2014.  The Ebb and Flow: Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Feminism.  Deadline: 1 November 2013.  Location: The University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC.  Date: March 27-29, 2014.  Official Posting (http://www.uncw.edu/sewsa/documents/SEWSA_2014_cfp_final2.pdf): The past few years have marked the anniversary of a number of landmark moments, publications and legislation crucial […]

FOOTBALL MUSINGS

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 I am a football fan—a devout one at that.  Though I would not be a womanist if I did not add that I have no true genuine favorite team on the collegiate or professional levels.  I tend to root hard for the team that I’m closest to geographically.  So, now that I am at Vanderbilt, […]

CFP: WSQ Special Issue, Fall 2014: Solidarity

CFP

Call for Papers: WSQ Special Issue,  Fall 2014: Solidarity.  Guest Editors – Shefali Chandra and Saadia Toor.  Deadline: 1 October 2013.  Official Posting (http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/current-call-papers): Solidarity, the act or expression of unity in the face of power, has been on the resurgence. The vast reach of neoliberal globalization and the ravages of an unending global war […]

Harvard Divinity School: Research Associate and Visiting Faculty Positions, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, 2014-15

Jobs/Funding

Harvard Divinity School:  Women’s Studies in Religion Program Openings: 5 Full-Time Positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2014-15 Due Date: 15 October 2013 Official Posting: HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL announces five full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2014-15 in its Women’s Studies in Religion Program.  Proposals for book-length research projects utilizing […]

“White Privilege” is Not Enough

Current Events, Living It Out

More than forty years after the advent of Black Liberation Theology, Trayvon Martin’s predator and murderer walked. More than twenty years after critical studies of whiteness began to gain traction in the academy Trayvon Martin’s predator and murderer walked. Free. Went home. I feel frozen. Caught tight between the demand for an endless flow of […]

MIXED WEEK

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The week of June 24, 2013 was an exceedingly mixed bag for many of us.  On one hand, the Supreme Court struck down the Act to Define and Protect the Institution of Marriage (DOMA) that was enacted in 1996 on June 26th.  Then President Bill Clinton agreed with both houses of Congress that a federal […]

All or Nothing?

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If there is anything new under the religious sun in the United States it is the changing patterns of how people are or are not religious. What this means for feminist studies in religion is of interest to me because it reshapes the backdrop of our work. One of the major religious stories of the […]

Roundtable: Feminisms in Action in Literature and Visual Arts, NeMLA 2014

CFP

Roundtable: Feminisms in Action in Literature and Visual Arts Deadline: 30 September 2013 Official Posting (http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=204689): 45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 3-6, 2014, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna University This roundtable explores the pluralism of feminisms emerging from new generations of female writers and artists, whose political message shifts from theory to practice, from gender […]