[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1849] CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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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, co-editor of Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism; and 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.

Some possible themes for presentations include:
*defining / performing third wave feminism
*bridging third wave and second wave feminisms?does a gap exist?
*third wave feminism and queer theory
*third wave and/as global feminism
*third wave and cyberspace
*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 attachment files to: boling@polsci.purdue.edu. Include information regarding file format in your e-mail to facilitate spedy processing of your
submission.  Abstracts are due by February 1, 2002. We will let you know by February 15th (if we have an e-mail address, a bit later if we need to mail you).



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