Call for Papers:

1st Annual Graduate Student Conference on
Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Friday April 13, 2007

Sponsored by the Penn Women's Studies Program and
The Alice Paul Center

We welcome papers or abstracts on any topic concerning women, gender, and/or sexuality.  We particularly encourage submissions that engage such themes as borders and boundaries, conflict and peace, race and ethnicity, embodiment, and transnationalism. The mission of this conference is to showcase the excellence of Penn graduate students' research in the fields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Submissions from graduate students in SAS as well as in the professional schools (e.g., law, medicine, nursing, social welfare, education, Wharton, etc.) are welcome.

The Graduate Student Conference Committee invites:

1. Completed Papers (no more than 2,000 words) with Abstracts (no
   more than 200 words).
2. Abstracts of papers (no more than 500 words)

Although abstracts will certainly be accepted, the conference committee will give preference to completed papers.

We are also seeking moderators/respondents for panels.  If you are interested in being a moderator or a respondent, please send an email to Veronica Schanoes: schanoes at sas.upenn.edu.  If you are submitting a paper and are interested in being a moderator or respondent, send a separate email letting Veronica know.

Submitting Papers/Paper Proposals

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2007

Send to:

Veronica Schanoes, via email attachment: schanoes at sas.upenn.edu

Or drop a hard copy off at the Women's Studies Program Office: 411 Logan Hall

Format:

Paper submissions must include complete papers (of no more than 2,000 words) and abstracts (of no more than 200 words).

Abstract submissions must include a title and a proposal of 500 words for paper.

The word count for papers should appear on the cover sheet; papers that exceed the 2,000 word limit will be returned to the author. Please specify any AV equipment that will be needed.