[ecrea] CFP for Feminisms Here and Now: Communicating Alongside | Across | Against

Call For Papers

Feminisms Here and Now: Communicating Alongside | Across | Against

December 2-3, 2016, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
fhnconference.com
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Undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows are
invited to submit abstracts to the second annual meeting of "Feminisms Here
and Now," an interdisciplinary conference organized by PhD students in the
Department of Communication of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.

This year's theme, "Communicating Alongside | Across | Against," arose out
of both the current political climate and points of discussion from last
year's conference. Feelings and experiences of insecurity, inequity,
violence, and disrespect resonate locally and globally, affecting our
personal lives, communities, states, nations, and worlds. In the United
States, these are most palpable in the face of a number of troubling
occurrences, including the passing of North Carolina’s House Bill 2,
persistent police violence against black life, the loss of queer of color
lives at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, the spectacle of the US presidential
election, anti-immigrant backlash, and xenophobic responses to the global
refugee crisis. Globally and transnationally, developments pertaining to
war, migration, labor, militarization and security, and other systemic
crises of political, economic and environmental organization and violence
make the need for thinking through the role of feminist analysis, pedagogy,
and praxis clear. With these and other feminist concerns in mind,
/Feminisms Here and Now/ encourages faculty, graduate students, and
undergraduate students to join together to process, think about, contest,
theorize, and innovate toward desired social and political conditions,
processes, ethics, and ends.

"Communicating Alongside | Across | Against" is meant to highlight the
communicative capacities and limits of feminisms in all of their
complexity, in matters pertaining to time, space, identity, oppressions,
privileges, coalitions, and antagonisms. Here and now, we ask: What do
feminist scholars want from feminisms? What are the relationships among
feminist studies, critical race studies, black feminist studies, gay and
lesbian studies, trans* studies, disability studies, and queer theory, and
how do debates internal to these fields reconfigure the relations between
them? In what ways can and should feminisms continue to critique and
intervene in a broad spectrum of cultural, political, and social issues in
the first half of the 21st century?

The conference invites abstracts on feminisms here and now with an
understanding that writers may consider each of these terms in their
broadest contexts. “Feminisms” may refer to a multiplicity of personal,
political, and theoretical positions; “here” may designate any place,
space, or scale; and “now” can include all relevant pasts, presents, and
futures. Work utilizing critical, theoretical, qualitative, social
scientific, performative, or other methodologies are welcome, as are all
disciplinary, departmental, activist, or programmatic orientations and
perspectives. Submissions not directly responding to this year’s theme are
also encouraged.

Abstracts (400 words maximum) may be submitted on the "Feminisms Here and
Now: Communicating Alongside | Across | Against" website at
fhnconference.com. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2016.
Participants will be notified of acceptance by October 15, 2016.

Please visit fhnconference.com for details about the conference, including
schedule, speakers, registration (free), travel, and location information.
The website will be updated regularly with new information. Please use the
"Contact Us" form on the website to send any questions or comments about
the conference or this call.

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