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The Gender Studies Program at the University of Missouri - St. Louis invites papers, presentations, and panels that confront and interrogate the gendered, raced, and/or sexualized positions of individuals and groups in political, legal, historical, social, educational, and creative arenas in the state of Missouri and the other states in the Midwest from the pre-colonial period through the 1820 Missouri Compromise to the present day.
We encourage presentations from those working in history; law; literature and language; composition, rhetoric, and literacy studies; cultural studies; girls' studies; political science; economics; sociology; social work; criminology and criminal justice; psychology; anthropology; media and film studies; art history; medicine; and the biological sciences. We also encourage topics for panels.
Possible topics include:
Slave narratives
Interracial social and political
relationships
Missouri’s literary and artistic heritage
Slavery, sexuality and scienceSame-sex marriage and partner rights
Queer cultures and practicesBi-racial identities
Women and minorities in political officeWomen’s and/or Men’s Clubs
Race, gender, and/or sexuality in the artsQueer cultures and practices
Economic opportunities and obstacles Archives on race, gender and sexuality
Whiteness and power Business successes
Grass roots activism Gender, Race, Crime and Justice
Literacy Masculinity and blackness
Women as slave holders Quilting & domestic arts
Motherhood and maternity Fatherhood and paternity
Girlhood and boyhood
Ethnicity and discriminatory practices Gender, race, and educational policies
Biographical studies of race and gender pioneers
Laws and policies based on race and/or gender
Segregation/desegregation laws and policies
We also invite the submission of creative or historical projects strongly related to the conference topic. If you propose this kind of project, please be specific about technical and space requirements.
Proposal Submissions
•Send 350-500-word proposals or abstracts to compromising@umsl.edu. Please use abstract submission form.
•Proposals should include title, contact information, and institutional affiliation
•Student papers are welcome
•The deadline for submitting proposals is December 6, 2010.
•Selected presenters will be notified by late January 2011 and must register for the conference by February 28 to be included in the program.
•For updated information on the conference, go to http://umslce.org/index.php/compromising-positions
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