Young Feminism Seminar - Manchester - 11 May 2010

I'm really excited to see this one!


YOUNG FEMINISM


PhD Seminar

11 May 2010   |   2-6pm

Dep. of Sociology, University of Manchester
University Place Room 6.207

Call for Participation


It is a widespread misconception that feminism is ‘post’ and did not
make it into the 21st Century. Ideas that young women are
post-feminist and do not engage with feminism is a trap! Since 2000
there has been an international and national surge in formal and
informal, institutional and grassroots, transnational and local
feminist initiatives. As a result, there has been an increase in
popular feminist and academic publications on the subject.

As PhD students researching young feminist ideology and activism, we
think it is important to develop academic thinking on young feminism
and to create a network of researchers in the field. With this in
mind, we would like to invite you to an interdisciplinary PhD seminar
on YOUNG FEMINISM on the 11 May 2010, at the University of Manchester.

This afternoon will provide an opportunity for PhD students
researching aspects of young feminism and young women to get to know
each other, discuss our research, and establish a network that enables
us to continue dialogue and debate whilst taking an interest in the
progress of each others work.

The seminar will cover two broad themes:

1.  THINKING & IDEOLOGY: Intersectional young feminism
Keynote speaker: Dr. Sophie Woodward (University of Manchester),
author of Why Feminism Matters. Feminism lost and found (2009,
co-author Prof. Kath Woodward), will offer a critical and
intergenerational account of contemporary feminism.

2.  DOING & ACTIVISM: Reclaiming young feminism
Keynote speaker: Catherine Redfern, founder of the F-Word and author
of Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement (forthcoming,
co-author Dr. Kristen Aune), will examine the vibrant agenda of new
feminist activism.

We would like to invite PhD students to present their work in progress
on one of these themes. All students are welcome, from any department
or University and at any stage in their PhD research. Send us an
abstract and a brief statement of purpose (each max.150 words). The
deadline is 23 April. We welcome other researchers and staff
interested in the field of young feminism to attend. For presentation
and attendance (both limited), please fill in the registration form.
We will respond to applications 30 April.


Registration form:www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/sociology/events/YF

Organisers:
-  Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg (Sociology, University of Manchester)
-  Susan O’Shea (CCSR, University of Manchester)

Contact: youngfeminismresearch@googlemail.com

Refreshments will be provided.

quietriotgirl is cool

I've just stumbled upon the blog of Quiet Riot Girl.  It's well written, feminist and real.  Check it out here:

http://quietriotgirlelly.blogspot.com/

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who is again taking a break from blogging to write her thesis

CFP: The Other's Other: French Feminism

The Other's Others

Othering and Marginalisation in French Feminism and Beyond

London French Postgraduate Conference 2010

Wednesday 10^th November 2010, IGRS, London

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for submission: 30^th April 2010

'[La femme] se détermine et se différencie par rapport à l'homme et non celui-ci par rapport à elle; elle est l'inessentiel en face de l'essentiel. Il est le Sujet, il est l'Absolu: elle est l'Autre.'

Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième sexe, 1949

In her seminal work of 1949, Le Deuxième sexe, Simone de Beauvoir defined the status of women in society as being that of 'l'Autre'. However, just as society has evolved and changed, so have our methods of understanding and analysing it; with the emergence of subsequent waves of feminism and new forms of criticism, such as queer studies and postcolonial studies, new approaches to and conceptions of 'l'Autre' have developed. The question is how far we have really come: sixty years on, to what extent – or how – are women defined by their 'otherness'? The hope of the world's women standing in unity has been shattered by the alleged ethnocentrism and heterosexism of Western feminist movements, which creates its own Others: the Other's Others. Consequently, how have notions of, and reactions to, 'l'Autre' changed? What groupings are formed by the reconfiguration of the Other, and what are the intersections and tensions between these different forms of 'otherness'? Finally, how is ‘l’Autre’ represented in different cultural mediums such as French and Francophone literature and film, television, journalism and the internet?

With a view to examining the various conceptions of 'l'Autre' and how they have evolved over time, we welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of the conference theme in relation to the French-speaking world. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Othering of non-white/lesbian/disabled women in literature/theory/film
• Representation of 'l'Autre' by women from 'marginalised' groups
• Feminist/Postfeminist/Queer/Psychoanalytic/Postcolonial understandings of 'l'Autre'
• 'L'Autre' in French/Francophone literature, film, art, culture, history, theory, philosophy or politics
• French national identity and the Other (including debates about the Burka and the Niqab)

It is anticipated that a selection of papers from the conference will be published.

Please send abstracts (300 words max.) for twenty-minute papers (in French or English) along with the name of your institution, the title of your PhD and your year of study to:

LondonPGConference2010@hotmail.co.uk no later than 30^th April 2010. Informal enquiries and panel suggestions are also welcome.

We will review submissions and respond via email by 31^st May 2010. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.

Conference Organisers: Jenny Kosniowski (King’s College London) and Sara Leek (Queen Mary, London)

EVENT: Feminist Philosophy Conference Canada - June

Conference Announcement

International Association for Women Philosophers 

XIV IAPh Symposium 2010

Feminism, Science and Values 
June 25-28, 2010 
The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
co-hosted by the Department of Philosophy
and the Rotman Institute of  Science and Values

Featuring keynote addresses by  Barbara Duden (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Lisa Gannett (St. Mary's University),  Sarah Richardson ( University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
Vandana Shiva (Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology) ) and  Nancy Tuana (Penn State University) 

This will be the International Association of Women Philosophers' (http://www.iaph-philo.org) first meeting in Canada and only its second meeting in North America. 

Session themes will include:

• Race, Genomics and Social Values
• Researching Sex Differences: Feminist Critiques and Their Antecedents
• Facts in Feminist Philosophy
• "Female Complaints": Medicine, Markets and Women's Health
• Beauvoir and Arendt on Science
• Feminism and Empiricism (Quinean Themes)
• Technology and Intervention in Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Sex and Gender: Military Contexts
• Reconsidering Values in Feminist Philosophy of Science
• Reductionism, Determinism and Feminist Values
• Disability and Dependence
• Gender and Sport
• Science and Values: Global Perspectives

Registration and full program information can be found at: http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/events/iaph2010/index.html

EVENT: 21 June - Sheila Rowbotham - London

Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century

Sheila Rowbotham

Monday 21 June 18.30 - 20.00

The British Library Conference Centre

Sheila Rowbotham’s groundbreaking new history of the early women’s movement, the unsung ‘dreamers and adventurers’, who sensed dramatic social change was possible. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Dreamers of a New Day explores how, struggling to define themselves as individuals, these women overturned norms and assumptions, transforming the conditions of their own lives and those of others.

Pioneering feminist writer and activist Sheila Rowbotham ( University of Manchester ) is the author of many books including the acclaimed Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love and articles for The Guardian, The Times, theIndependent, the New Statesman, and the New York Times.

£6 / £4 concessions  / Conference Centre

Tickets available at http://boxoffice.bl.uk, by calling 01937 546546 (9am-5pm Mon-Fri) or in person at The          

British Library.

Summer School - Memory, Empire and Technology - London

Greetings blogland.  This summer school isn't particularly feminist, but I like Dr Katia Pizzi a lot so I thought I'd post it here.


I wasn't quite sure what cultural memory studies were when I first encountered them. Last week, I heard from some folks working on cultural memory, however, and I have to say that it's a really interesting way of looking at the world.  The IGRS (who has a hand in this summer school) does a PhD and, I think, an MA in cultural memory.

School of Advanced Study, University of London

SUMMER SCHOOL

MEMORY, EMPIRE AND TECHNOLOGY

29 JUNE-3 JULY 2010

Held at the School of Advanced Study and organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, this Summer School consists of a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects related to the relationship between memory and technology. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, to photography and workshops on digital archives. These sessions will be complemented by afternoon activities centred round London understood as technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour on the famous Routemaster bus. This School welcomes researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London.

Deadline for Applications: 30 April 2010

For more info please visit: http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html

or email: CMSS@sas.ac.uk

Tue 29 June: FILM

AM: Proust, planes and telephones'
Seminar/Workshopled by Dr Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Film and colonial memories
Seminarled by Prof Robert Lumley, UCL

PM/Evening: 
Patrick Keiller: The view from the train
Plenary Lecture
chair: Dr Katia Pizzi (IGRS) (open to the public)

Wed 30 June: ARCHIVES

AM: The Warburg Library
led by Dr François Quiviger (Warburg Institute)
PM: Visit to the Stanley Kubrick Archives, London College of Communication, University of the Arts
led by Richard Daniels (University of the Arts) and Dr Ricarda Vidal (IGRS)

Thu 1 July: PHOTOGRAPHY

AM: Writing with light
Practical photography workshop 
led by Dr Junko Theresa Mikuriya (University of Kent)

PM: Architectural tour of London on a Routemaster bus
led and driven by Prof Joe Kerr (Royal College of Art)
The Archway Polytechnic
Practical workshop led by the artist Ruth Maclennan - the session includes a presentation in Senate House and an exploratory walking tour in Archway (North London)

Fri 2 July: MUSIC/DIGITAL

AM: Digital memories
Seminar
led by Dr Eleanor Chiari (Harrow School)
Analogue memories: shellac and vinyl records
Seminar 
led by Dr Richard Osborne (Middlesex University)
PM: The Big Smoke: Films from a Lost London 1896-1945
Film screening

Sat 3 July: LITERATURE/VISUAL ARTS

AM: 
The British Empire on film
Seminar at Imperial War Museum, led by Dr Richard Osborne (Middlesex University)
Guns and the memory of the First World War: The case of the Imperial War Museum
Seminar at Imperial War Museumled by Dr Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck University of London)
PM: London, the river, technology and memory
walking tour 
led by Prof Derek Keene (Institute of Historical Research)

Summer School Dinner

Day 15 - Women's Month - Natasha Walter

Natasha Walter is speaking tomorrow evening at Southbank Centre.  The event is, disappointingly for those of us wanting to go, sold out.  http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/natasha-walter-50498

The good news is, however, that her book Living Dolls is readily available on Amazon.  I've not read it yet, but have placed an order and am thoroughly looking forward to what she has to say.  Have any of you read it?  What do you think?