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The Goddess Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion, Western Region, is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of female (cis/LGBTQ/non-binary inclusive) figures and goddesses in religion, mythology, and culture. Possible lenses of critique include, but are not limited to: Gender and LGBTQ studies, history, literature, film, folklore, psychology, and/or critical race theory.

See CFP for AAR West here.  The deadline for submissions to the Goddess Studies Unit is Friday, September 30, 2016.

The conference will be held on March 10-12, 2017 at Loyola Marymount University in the Westchester community of Westside Los Angeles, California.

The Afterlives of Eve

9-11 September 2016 at Newcastle University and Durham University

Keynotes: Sandra M. Gilbert (UC Davis), Wendy Furman-Adams (Whittier), John Bothwell (Durham)

From Genesis to mitochondrial Eve, the idea of a single common foremother has occupied a crucial space in the Western cultural imaginary. Eve, whether as bringer of sin, as life-giver, as burden, curse or saviour, functions as a commentary on maternity, sexuality, creativity and power.  This cross-period and interdisciplinary conference will be an opportunity to explore the impact of her varied representations through the centuries and across different genres and media. How has this archetypal figure been revised and revisited by conservative and radical thought? What personal, polemical and/or creative uses have been made of the figure of Eve? What persists and what changes in her depictions across time and geographical space?  How have women and men negotiated their shared and different relationships to Eve? How has Eve been appropriated, neglected or rejected as a foremother? How does she speak to fantasies of masculine or feminine self-sufficiency? What cultural, political, literary and/or theological spaces does she occupy now? Topics might include, but need not be limited to:

Origins of/Sources for Eve                                                                                                                                  Other Eves                                                                                                                                                            The absence of Eve                                                                                                                                             Representations and Transformations of Eve                                                                                                         Eve as Over-reacher

We welcome papers from all disciplines in arts, humanities and sciences and covering any historical period. We also welcome panel proposals including PGR panel proposals. Titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words per speaker should be sent to Ruth Connolly (ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk) and Mandy Green (mandy.green@durham.ac.uk) by 12 March 2016. Panel proposals should also include a title for the panel’s programme. Speakers will be notified by March 21st.

We gratefully acknowledge support from MEMS at Newcastle (http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems/), Newcastle University’s Academic Conference Fund and also from IMEMS at Durham University (https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/research/).                                                                                                              (A limited number of PGR bursaries may be available. Please indicate when sending your abstract whether you would like to be considered for a bursary.)

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme:

Feminist Gift Economy Theorizing and Practice:  A Matricentric Alternative to Patriarchy

32.1 (Summer/Fall 2016)

Deadline:  January 30, 2016

The aim of this issue of CWS/cf is to recognize and give value to unilateral gifting and to explore the new theoretical and practical understandings and political possibilities uncovered by the recognition of its maternal roots. The study of Indigenous gift economies in the West denies the importance of direct unilateral giving and some have even questioned its existence. However a great deal of unilateral giving is called for in the practice of care by mothers, who are usually women but can also be men, other children, or entire villages.

Write or call as soon as possible indicating your intention to submit your work.

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme

210 Founders, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

Telephone: (416) 736-5356 Fax: (416) 736-5765 E-mail: cwscf@yorku.ca

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION/WESTERN REGION (AAR/WR)

2016 ANNUAL CONFERENCE – CALL FOR PAPERS

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 1-3, 2016

Conference Theme:

The overall theme for the 2016 Conference is Social Justice. We are using this idea in its broadest terms. We are hoping to encompass racism, feminism, womanism, eco-justice, gender justice, classism, neo-colonialism, etc., seen through the eyes of religious scholars. See submission guidelines and application here.

Extended Deadline:  Saturday, October 10, 2015, is the deadline for submitting proposals via e-mail to unit chairs for papers for the 2016 AAR/WR Conference. Proposals or abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and, along with participant forms, should be sent as an attachment to unit chair(s) at the e-mail addresses provided below. If you are proposing a panel of three to four papers, please include short abstracts for each paper on the panel, and a short description of your panel theme.

Individuals whose proposals are accepted must be members of the AAR before the conference date in order to present.  For any questions regarding the call for papers please contact the Program Chair Dorothea Kahena Viale at  dkviale@cpp.edu.