SHAW Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop Royal Holloway 8th May

Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop Wednesday 8th May 2013, 1pm to 6

Objectific​ation of women in mass media – Event – May 2013

REALLY? is a series of art exhibitions that will be held monthly in London organized by hAirY EGg, a

Chair Elections 2013

We are very pleased to announce that the FWSA will shortly be holding elections for the position of

 

SHAW Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop Royal Holloway 8th May

March 26, 2013 in Announcements, Conferences and Events

Postgraduate & Early Career Scholars Research Training Workshop

Wednesday 8th May 2013, 1pm to 6pm, at Royal Holloway University of London

NB This event was originally planned for 5th December 2012 but unfortunately we had to cancel due to weather/travel disruption.

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is organising a research training workshop for postgraduates (MA students and PhDs) and early career scholars (defined as within five years of PhD graduation). The event is intended to be a “one-stop-shop” where attendees can take part in a variety of training and development workshops, get advice and feedback on their own work and meet with other researchers. The event is targeted primarily although not exclusively at those interested in the Americas, with both an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. We particularly encourage those just starting out in postgraduate research to attend. We also hope that the sessions will appeal to those making the transition from postgraduate research into the next stage of their academic careers, who often find that there is a dearth of research training catering to their particular position.

The event has three elements:

1) Training and development workshops. Sessions include Getting published, Teaching as a postgrad, Using social media, Applying for funding, Conference organisation, Job search and CV writing, Being a part-time postgrad, Coping with academic stress, Working with your supervisor & mentoring others, Remaining research active post-PhD graduation.

2) A “drop-in surgery” for advice

3) Networking and socialising opportunities, including a drinks reception kindly supported by The Paul Mellon Professorial Fund


The cost is £20. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 24th April 2013.

To register, or if you have any questions, please contact the organisers (Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, RHUL; Dr Rachel Ritchie, Brunel University; Ms Imaobong Umoren, Oxford University) via shawsociety@gmail.com.

PG & Early Careers Scholars Workshop

 

Objectific​ation of women in mass media – Event – May 2013

March 26, 2013 in 1, Announcements, Conferences and Events, Uncategorized

REALLY? is a series of art exhibitions that will be held monthly in London organized by hAirY EGg, a newly formed, growing network of socially aware artists and supporting charities from around the world.

Each event will be centered on different social issues. The main focus is to raise awareness on the chosen topic, support our chosen charities (whose cause is fitting for the given event) and last, but not least, promote young artists from different mediums.
The first Really? Event will cover the Objectification of Women.
The objectification of women in mass media has a long history. Simply put, objectification means that society sexually objectifies the female body and equates a woman’s worth with her body’s appearance and sexual functions.
Although sexual objectification is but one form of gender oppression it is one that factors into and perhaps enables a host to other oppressions women face, ranging from employment discrimination and sexual violence to the trivialization of women’s work and accomplishments.
In a collaboration of artists and human rights activists, we will be asking  questions and looking for answers.
You can find out more about the Really? Events here , read what we think on our blog or download an Invitation for the first event here (it includes details on the program, participants, venue etc.)

Tatiana Hinkley Originator Email: tatiana@reallyevents.co.uk
—– Really? Events Ltd w: www.reallyevents.co.uk

UK Company Number: 08430233

Chair Elections 2013

March 12, 2013 in Announcements

We are very pleased to announce that the FWSA will shortly be holding elections for the position of Chair or Co-chairs.

If you would like to stand in this election please contact the acting chair Dr Kate Sang in the first instance, by the 28th March, 2013. Please email Kate, for more information, at k.sang@hw.ac.uk

Seminar: ‘Criminalising Extreme Pornography’ Durham Law School

March 6, 2013 in Conferences and Events

  ‘Criminalising Extreme Pornography: 5 years on’ Seminar hosted by Gender & Law at Durham (GLAD), Durham Law School, 8 May 2013. 

The seminar will examine the effect that criminalising the possession of extreme pornography in England and Wales has had over the past 5 years. It will bring together academics, activists, policy-makers and other regulatory authorities to evaluate the success or failure of the legislation currently in place, and to ask what, if any, reforms are necessary. Confirmed speakers include:

  • Simon Walsh (barrister and alderman of the City of London)
  • Fiona Elvines (Rape Crisis, South London)
  • Holly Dustin (End Violence Against Women Coalition)
  • Alex Dymock (University of Reading)
  • Clare McGlynnand Erika Rackley (Durham Law School)
This event will take place on Wednesday 8th May between 2pm – 5.30pm (registration from 1.30pm) in the Howard Lovells lecture theatre, Durham Law School (The Palatine Centre, Stockton Road, Durham). The seminar is open to all. We are inviting individuals and organisations for which this topic is particularly relevant directly, and we would encourage recipients of this email invitation to pass on details to others with an interest in the subject. It is free of charge, but registration is required and places are limited. To book a place, please contact law.events@dur.ac.uk


For more information about the event, please see the poster attached, visit
https://www.dur.ac.uk/glad/events/events/?eventno=15214, or contact Judith Evans at n.j.evans@durham.ac.uk
Kind regards,
Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley

Modernist Intimacies: Call for Papers

January 15, 2013 in Announcements

EXTENDED DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 11TH, 2013.

 

 

 Modernist Intimacies

 

Friday May 17, 2013. The Centre for Modernist Studies

University of Sussex

 

Featured Speaker:  Denis Flannery (University of Leeds)

Responding to recent scholarly constellations of modernism, affect and intimacy this one-day symposium, hosted by the Centre for Modernist Studies at University of Sussex, seeks to explore new ways of thinking about modernist feeling and modernist intimacies. Are there such things as “modernist feelings”? How might different modernist narratives of emotion in psychoanalysis, literary theory, philosophy and medicine be made to collide, disrupt and form new points of contact? How do modernist bodies come together and apart?

 We encourage papers from academics at all stages in their career and hope to encourage inter-generational discussions.

 Topics may include, but are not limited to:

 -Genealogies of modernist affect

-Narratives of (im)personality

-Modernist diaries, autobiographies and letters

- Scenes of intimacy and extimacy in modernist writing

-The role of affect in modernist cinema and/or other visual arts

-Touch, texture, and textuality

-Modernist emotional geographies

-Modernism and affective disorders

-Modernist archives of feeling

- Constructions of publicity and privacy in modernist writing

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words (for 15-20 minute papers) and a short biography to Ruth Charnock at:  rnec20@sussex.ac.uk by 11th February, 2013.

Gender and Responsible Business- ICCSR Annual Symposium 20 June 2013, University of Nottingham

January 14, 2013 in Uncategorized

Gender and Responsible Business

ICCSR Annual Symposium 20 June 2013, University of Nottingham

“Call for Papers”

The marginalization of numerous voices from mainstream CSR discourse has been noted in particular with regard to voices from the South (Gilbert and Rasche, 2007; Nanz and Steffek, 2004), indigenous people (Banerjee, 2011), and women (Marshall, 2007; Newell, 2005). This symposium addresses such marginalization, focusing in particular on gender issues. Gender equality is recognized internationally as a human right, and identified as key to economic, social and democratic development in the 21st century by, among others, the World Economic Forum. Core CSR issues cannot be tackled effectively without increased attention to gender, as evidenced by the feminisation of poverty (Habermas, 1998); the importance of gender analysis in addressing environmental degradation (Marshall, 2007); and long-standing recognition of gender equality as a key to development (Millennium Development Goals). Yet despite acknowledgement by companies and CSR standards, the status of gender equality within CSR and other systems of responsible business research and practice appears modest. The purpose of this Symposium is to bring insights together from research and practice which examine and challenge this modest status.

Exploring gender issues through a responsible business lens requires us to examine not only corporate governance and workplace issues, which have been addressed by some researchers, policy-makers and companies. It also requires attention to the wider gender impacts of business including in the marketplace, the community, the ecological environment, and through corporate value chains. We do have the benefit of some earlier research on which to build, most broadly: the relationship between women’s studies and business ethics (Larson & Freeman, 1997); comments and critiques on business responsibility from feminist organization scholars (Acker, 2004); the business case for gender equality, and critiques thereof (Dicken, 1999); gender issues in specific CSR initiatives (Grosser and Moon, 2005; Kilgour, 2007); and in stakeholder relations (Grosser, 2009). Other literatures explore gender in global supply chains (Barrientos et al., 2003; Prieto Carron, 2008), and social reporting and gender equality (Grosser and Moon, 2008). Several scholars call for attention in CSR to women’s reproductive labour (Pearson, 2007).

While many of these researchers take a rights-based approach, Coleman (2002) opened an ongoing debate about corporate citizenship as a political process of participation. Here, Marshall (2007) explores the gendering of CSR and sustainability leadership, and others note the lack of participation by women’s NGOs in CSR (Kilgour 2007). Recent scholarship has begun to bring feminist perspectives to bear on the new ‘political CSR’ literature (Grosser, 2011), and to analyse CSR and gender issues from an institutional perspective (Karam and Jamali, 2012). Thus, while feminist critiques of CSR often focus on its discretionary nature, the growing recognition of CSR itself as a political project with important global governance implications, suggests that engagement between CSR and gender/feminist scholars is timely.

Our symposium brings together researchers to address these agendas, in order to explore how we conceptualize and research responsible business with regard to gender issues. The symposium will also provide an opportunity to learn from corporations, NGOs and policy-makers about leading responsible business practice, in order to inform a more coherent research agenda in this field.

Key questions to address include:

  •  How can we assess the wider impact of business on gender relations?
  •  Can CSR complement government regulation on equalities issues?
  •  Where has the dialogue between feminist ethics and business ethics got to, and what are the new emerging issues in this debate?
  •  What are the key gender issues in stakeholder relations?
  •  How are leading companies integrating consideration of gender issues in their value chains?
  •  How might CSR rhetoric on gender equality be instrumentalized by women’s movements?
  •  How might engagement with the CSR agenda contribute to feminist organization studies, and feminist research on regulation, governance, and even international relations?
  •  What does feminist scholarship tell us about marginalized voices in CSR, and their importance for addressing core CSR issues effectively?
  •  How does gender overlap with other inequalities with regard to business impacts in the context of globalization?
  •  What might a critical feminist engagement with the field of CSR/responsible business involve?

Authors interested in submitting a paper for presentation at the symposium should submit an abstract of 1000 words to Kate Grosser & Lauren McCarthy at lauren.mccarthy@nottingham.ac.uk by 28th February 2013.

Key Dates:


Notice of Acceptance of Abstract – 15th March 2013
Registration Opens – 4th April 2013
Full Paper Submission – 3rd May 2013
Symposium – 20th June 2013

 
For Symposium enquiries contact:


International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility
Nottingham University Business School
t: +44 (0) 115 846 6976
e: karen.maltby@nottingham.ac.uk
w: www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/iccsr

2013 FWSA Book Prize

November 9, 2012 in Announcements, Book Prize

It gives us great pleasure to announce that we are now accepting nominations for the FWSA annual Book Prize.  Sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan since its second year, the fifth round of this highly successful competition is open to scholars who were employed, postgraduate students at, or associated with a British or Irish University or research organisation and is intended to recognise scholarship which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice.

Nomination forms can be downloaded here

We look forward to your nominations!

Call for Papers Feminism; Influence; Inheritance March 23rd 2013

November 5, 2012 in Uncategorized

CFP Feminism Influence Inheritance

This one-day symposium hosted by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London aims to bring together postgraduates and academics to explore how the issues of feminism, influence and inheritance animate or problematize their work and practice in the field of literary study. Through this conference we aim to begin a discussion about the challenges and anxieties, but also the significant rewards of engaging with our substantial feminist inheritance as scholars working in English Studies today. It will seek to consider how contemporary research relates to the rich, complex and extensive history of feminist research in the discipline and explore how new directions in literary study might be informed by the work of the past.

It will also provide an opportunity to reflect on inter-generational relationships between feminist researchers, on the informal or formal networks of support that exist or have existed for women academics in the field and on the way the traditions of feminism relate to the contemporary research and teaching environment.

We are delighted that Marion Shaw – Emeritus Professor, Loughborough University – will give a keynote address titled ‘Old Feminism, New Feminism’.

We welcome papers that engage with any aspect of the theme of “Feminism: Influence: Inheritance”. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

The perils or promise of ideas of post-feminism; how might the tradition of feminist writing relate to changing theoretical/methodological approaches, or to changing research and teaching priorities (internal and external), within the field?

The challenges of teaching feminism

Feminist/ anti-feminist models of inheritance and influence

Literary representations of the dynamics of feminist inheritance: how is the issue of feminist inheritance understood in the works of particular writers, or in particular texts?

Negotiating the feminist scholarship in your field

Assessing inheritance: who are the feminist writers whose influence is most significant within the field; where are the gaps and silences in contemporary understandings of the feminist inheritance?

Approaches to dealing with problematic feminist legacies

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20 minute papers to feminism.influence.inheritance@gmail.com by 4th January 2013. Please include your name and a short biographical statement.

See feminism-influence-inheritance.blogspot.co.uk for further information and updates.

 

Clare Hemmings’ Acceptance

October 22, 2012 in Announcements, Book Prize

Professor Clare Hemmings’ book, Why stories matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory is the recipient of the 2012 FWSA Book Prize.

2012 Student Essay Competition

October 19, 2012 in Uncategorized

The deadline for the FWSA Student Essay Competition has now been extended to 20th November, 2012.

 

To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FWSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The top six entries will be published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies and the winner will, in addition, receive a year’s free FWSA membership. Students at any stage of their studies at a British or Irish university are encouraged to submit work which has not previously been published and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere or under consideration under competitions elsewhere which result in *any* form of publication. Entries should be 6,000 to 7,000 words (including footnotes, excluding bibliography) and must be submitted electronically, including a completed competition coversheet. The essay must be submitted as a single MS Word document attachment, including bibliography and cover sheet. Please use your surname as the file name (e.g. ‘ROY’). Please note that entries without this coversheet will not be considered.

 

The deadline for this year’s competition is 20th November 2012.

Please submit the essays electronically to administrator@fwsa.org.uk

Read the winning essays from 2010′s FWSA Student Essay Competition in the Journal of International Women’s Studies online

We look forward to receiving your entries!