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

*CFP: /Feminisms Here and Now//: Communicating Alongside | Across | 
Against/*
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*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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*Megan M. Wood***

*University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill***

*Doctoral Researcher | Department of Communication***

*FFFP Teaching Fellow | UNC-CH Center for Faculty Excellence***

*Co-Chair |#FHN16*


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