The Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University<\/a> is proud to host SEWSA 2015: \u201cTrafficking in Gender: Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment.\u201d<\/a>The 2015 Southeastern Women\u2019s Studies Association conference will be held at the Wyndham Hotel in Boca Raton on March 26-29, 2015. We look forward to welcoming you to South Florida!<\/p>\n We invite paper abstracts and complete panel, workshop, and roundtable proposals on all aspects of gender and embodiment. We especially encourage those that engage the conference theme to discuss feminism in relation to the themes of (im)mobility, trafficking, and movement. Gayle Rubin\u2019s landmark essay, \u201cThe Traffic in Women: Notes on the \u2018Political Economy\u2019 of Sex,\u201d provides a touchstone for SEWSA 2015 conference theme, with its references to cultural anthropology, theories of sex and gender, activism, histories of sexual subcultures, deviance, SM, prostitution, and \u201cmodes of reproduction.\u201d<\/p>\n Suggested topics\/approaches for proposals: The conference topic is inspired by our Center\u2019s current initiative to raise awareness about sex trafficking, particularly in South Florida. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center found that the state of Florida ranked 3rd in the number of phone calls amassed by their human trafficking hotline in 2011. Our keynote speaker, Carrie N. Baker, an Associate Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College, has published The Women\u2019s Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge UP, 2004), and her current research is on sex trafficking.<\/p>\n We invite you to submit individual proposals of 250 words in a Word document for this general call for papers and ask that you also review the LGBTQ, People of Color, and Student caucus CFPs for their submission requirements. Caucus submissions are due by October 15th and general admissions will be accepted through November 1st. Submissions should detail requests for specific audiovisual equipment, if needed. We also ask that a proposal for a complete panel, roundtable, or workshop include a short description of the central topic, supplemented by brief abstracts of individual speakers\u2019 contributions. Please e-mail abstracts to:SEWSA2015@fau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n All presenters, chairs, and respondents must be members of SEWSA. Membership information can be found on:http:\/\/sewsaonline.org\/membership\/<\/a><\/p>\n
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