MEETING: Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) Tenth Anniversary National Meeting

This is to announce the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) Tenth Anniversary National Meeting, at the University of South Florida, Tampa.  February 1-3, 2013.

We have titled the meeting: “Expanding the Role of Faculty in the Governance of Intercollegiate Athletics at Both the National and Campus Levels”.

Representatives of COIA member institutions and others concerned about the future of intercollegiate athletics are invited to attend.  Click http://blogs.comm.psu.edu/thecoia/?page_id=255 for details and registration information.

Please note: The focus of the meeting will be a series of work sessions in which attendees will help to draft recommendations to the NCAA regarding what can be done to expand faculty participation in the governance of intercollegiate athletics at the national level and to develop a “tool kit” that universities can use to improve oversight of athletics – especially on academic matters – at the campus level.  The NCAA is collaborating in the project, and Kevin Lennon (NCAA Vice President of Academic and Membership Affairs), Diane Dickman (Managing Director of Academic and Membership Affairs) and Jenn Fraser (Director of Academic and Membership Affairs) are confirmed participants, and others are expected to be announced soon.  Representatives of partner organizations, such as Faculty Athletics Representatives Association, Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, Drake Group, are also expected to participate.

Given the nature of what we will do at the meeting, it is important that a representative(s) from each of our member, and other interested, institutions be there to provide input and perspective.

Other topics, speakers, and highlights of the meeting:

·         COIA at Ten Years:  Looking Back and Forward

·         Legal issues in intercollegiate athletics

·         Wally Renfro (NCAA Vice President and Chief Policy Advisor)

·         Update on NCAA presidential reforms

·         Judy Genshaft (USF President and immediate past chair of NCAA D1 Board)

·         Data sharing and collaborative research with the NCAA

·         Presentations by major media figures and partner organizations

A detailed agenda will be posted on the COIA website, http://blogs.comm.psu.edu/thecoia/?page_id=255,  as soon as it is available.

HOTEL INFORMATION

Embassy Suites Tampa - USF/Near Busch Gardens

3705 Spectrum Boulevard

Tampa, Florida, 33612

Phone: 813-977-7066

Rate:  $139.00/night

http://embassysuites3.hilton.com/en/hotels/florida/embassy-suites-tampa-usf-near-busch-gardens-TPAFRES/index.html

Holiday Inn & Suites, Near Busch Gardens-USF

11310 North 30th Street
Tampa, FL 33612

Phone: 813-971-7690
Fax: 813-972-5525

Rate:  $89.00/night

www.histampa.com

Both hotels are very nice, feature complimentary warm breakfasts, and have on-call/regular shuttle service to the USF Lee Roy Selmon Athletics Center where we will meet.  The Embassy Suites is located on the USF campus (although a bit of a walk to the meeting place), while the Holiday Inn & Suites is just off campus, but has an easy (3-5 minute) shuttle trip to the meeting place.  

When making reservations, please let the hotel know that you are attending the COIA Meeting.

MEETING LOCATION

The COIA meeting will be held at the Lee Roy Selmon Athletics Center on the campus of the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Driving directions from I-75:  Get off at the Fowler Avenue exit and head west. Turn right on Bull Run Drive (MOSI will be on your left). Bull Run Drive will intersect with Elm and the Athletic Training Center is straight ahead to the left.

Driving directions from I-275:  Get off at the Fowler Avenue exit and head east. The University is about three miles from 275. Go past the main entrance to campus and then make a left at the next light (Bull Run Drive). Bull Run Drive will intersect with Elm and the Athletic Training Center is straight ahead to the left.

We hope to see you there.

CFP: 2013 International Philosophy of Sport Association Conference

2013 IAPS Conference - Call for Papers

www.iaps.net <http://www.iaps.net>

The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 41st annual 2013 IAPS meeting. The conference will be held September 4-8, 2013 at California State University Fullerton. 

Abstracts are welcome on any area of philosophy of sport, including metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics, and from any theoretical approach, including analytic philosophy and critical theory. While IAPS recognizes, values, and encourages interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies, acceptance is contingent on the philosophical content of the project. Emerging scholars are encouraged to submit works in progress. 

A Program Committee of three IAPS peers will review abstracts. Contributors will be notified about the status of their abstracts by May 20, 2013

Proposals for round table and panel discussions, including a tentative list of participants, are also welcome and should follow the same format as paper abstracts. 

2013 R. SCOTT KRETCHMAR STUDENT ESSAY AWARD

IAPS is proud to announce the third edition of the “R. Scott Kretchmar Student Essay Award.” Interested undergraduate and graduate students should submit a full paper by June 17, 2013 (in addition to an abstract, see below).  A separate announcement is posted at the IAPS website <http://iaps.net/conference/> .

GUIDELINES 

Abstracts should be 300-500 words long, in English, and must be received by April 1, 2013. Please, follow the following instructions (incomplete proposals will be returned).  Provide:

Name, E-mail, current position, and employer

Title of Program

Key Words (three to five)

Primary Content Area/s (choose no more than 2) 

Ethics                                    d.   Epistemology                        g.   Applied

Metaphysics                       e.   Phenomenology                   h.   History

Aesthetics                           f.   Comparative                            i.   Other (explain) 

            

    5. Indicate special Audio-Visual requirements (computer & projector will be provided) 

The preferred mode of submission is by e-mail. 

Please send the abstract blind-review ready as an attachment, preferably in Word, to the Conference Chair at: jilunda@linfield.edu <mailto:jilunda@linfield.edu> 

Contributors who lack access to e-mail may send a hard copy instead to the following address:

            Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza

            IAPS Conference Chair

          Associate Professor of Philosophy – Linfield College

           4786 Brisa del Bosque

          Los Alamos, NM (USA)

Please distribute to interested parties.

JOB: University of Southern Mississippi

Final reminder/announcement:

I’d like to call your attention to the following two positions at the University of Southern Mississippi that may be of interest to you, your colleagues or graduate students.

Position #1:

Assistant Professor of Human Performance and Recreation: Sport Coaching Education

Position #2:

Director, School of Human Performance & Recreation  

More information on these positions can be found at:

https://jobs.usm.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1352728950694

CFP: European Sport Management Quarterly 2015 Special Issue

CALL FOR PAPERS
ESMQ 2015 Special Issue (15.1):
IMPACTS AND STRATEGIC OUTCOMES FROM NON-MEGA SPORT EVENTS 
FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
(and for the pre-publication Workshop at the EASM 2013 conference)

The staging of sport events directly impacts the quality of life of people living in the host communities. Sport events are temporal and can trigger a variety of short- or long-term, positive or negative impacts, which lead to positive or negative outcomes, and if sustained, these outcomes become legacies. Most of the research thus far has focused on economic and tourism impacts of mega-events. It is unclear how or whether small and medium sized events actually affect the overall wellbeing of people living in the local community, especially from a nonmonetary perspective such as social life, urban regeneration, sport participation, environmental stewardship, or infrastructure. Are there features that make non-mega-events different from
mega-events with regard to their effect on local communities?  If so, is the difference due to the inherent features of the types of events or the characteristics of the smaller towns and cities in which they are usually hosted, or a combination of both?  What are the underlying processes that make non-mega events uniquely different from mega events for local citizens?
This special issue will bring work together that analyzes tangible and intangible impacts as well as the strategic choices that host communities make when hosting non-mega events, including the outcomes of those choices. Identifying and extending our understanding of impacts and strategic outcomes will have practical value for sport event management and strategy, and will advance our understanding of the social, economic, and environmental consequences of events.  While there are no universal definitions of different types of events, non-mega-events are generally smaller in size, scale, scope and reach than their mega counterparts (e.g., the Olympic Games, the World Cup, the Euro Cup, the Commonwealth games). However, like mega events, they are one-off, discontinuous and out of the ordinary.
Authors are invited to submit articles that contribute to our understanding of the nature, management and implications of non-mega events. We invite both conceptual and empirical papers related to the topic, from a range of perspectives and impacts, especially non-monetary (e.g., social life, sport participation, urban regeneration, local infrastructure, environmental stewardship…). Papers are welcome to consider spectator sport events, participant sport events, or both.

Invitation to participate in the EASM 2013 Special Issue Workshop
Interested contributors are invited to submit a standard two-page abstract through the abstract submission system of the 21st EASM 2013 Conference (Istanbul, Turkey, 11-15 September 2013; for more information see conference website when this is launched). Invited contributors are expected to submit a full paper to Marijke Taks (mtaks@uwindsor.ca) before the conference by August 15, 2013. All full papers will be distributed among the workshop participants prior to the conference to stimulate conversation and discussion. Papers presented at the conference may be invited to be submitted for consideration for the 2015 ESMQ Special Issue, though other contributions will not be excluded.

Invitation for the ESMQ 2015 Special issue (15.1)
Submission of manuscripts is not limited to those participating in the workshop, but open to everyone interested in the topic.  Manuscripts should follow the general submission guidelines of the European Sport Management Quarterly. Papers should be submitted in electronic format to mtaks@uwindsor.ca no later than November 30, 2013.

Guest editors
Marijke Taks (University of Windsor), mtaks@uwindsor.ca
B. Christine Green (University of Texas), bcgreen@austin.utexas.edu
Laurence Chalip (University of Illinois), lchalip@illinois.edu

CFP: Racism and sports

Racism and Sports - Two-Volume Set, Praeger Publishers

Call for Papers

Editor: L. L. Martin

Contributors are solicited for a two-volume set on racism and sports, published by Praeger Publishers. Topic areas are listed below. If interested in submitting a manuscript under any of the topic areas, please contact: Editor: Lori Latrice Martin, African-American Studies Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 445 West 59^th Street, Room 9.63.08 NB, New York, New York 10019, lmartin@jjay.cuny.edu, 212-237-8758. Manuscripts are 7,000 – 10,000 words. Manuscript due date is April 1, 2013.

Volume 1: Professional Sports

Part I.                   Sports and Racial Ideologies

Part II.                  Ballin’:  Racism and the National Basketball Association

Part III.                 Out of Bounds: Racism and the National Football League

Part IV.                Crying Foul: Racism and Major League Baseball

Part V.                  Sidelined: The Underrepresentation of Minorities in Sports

Volume 2:  Collegiate Sports 

Part I.                   Stereotyping and Racism:  The Black Male Athlete

Part II.                  X’s and O’s: Racism and Coaching

Part III.                 She Got Game: Racism in Female Sports

Part IV.                Making the Grade: Racism and the Student-Athlete     

Part V.                  American Gladiators? Racism and Classism in College Athletics

Purpose:

Throughout the years, many debates have surrounded the topic of sports and race, debates that can be heard countrywide, from all sections of society: fans, players, coaches, commentators, educators, etc. Although these issues may seem to be limited to the playing field or the ring, the issues surrounding racism in sports impact people in every realm of life, as they are often representative of problems that have not been addressed in society as a whole. The challenges our country faces in addressing these issues are not going to go away anytime soon. The purpose of this unique multivolume set is to bring about an awareness of the issues, to aid readers in making the links between sports and society as a whole, and to encourage readers to think about solutions to the problems presented.

The essays in this multivolume set are meant to highlight controversies surrounding racism in sports and to present the policies and practices that both shape and perpetuate racial/ethnic disparities in sports in American today. Although there will be essays in the set that necessarily have to be of a historical nature, the focus of the set will be sports in America today.

CFP: 2013 CSRI Conference on College Sport

2013 CSRI Conference on College Sport

April 18-19, 2013

William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center

 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 

Call for papers

The College Sport Research Institute welcomes the submission of abstracts for its 6th annual CSRI Conference on College Sport to be held on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. The conference’s mission is to: “Provide students, scholars, and college-sport practitioners a public forum to discuss relevant and timely intercollegiate-athletics issues.”

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
To be considered for acceptance, abstracts must reflect college-sport research on the history of intercollegiate athletics, social-cultural college-sport issues, legal theory or the application of law to college-sport issues, business-related issues in college sport, or special topics related to current college-sport issues. The research should have reached a fairly complete stage of development, and the abstract should provide enough detail about the research, so the reviewers have sufficient information to judge its quality. Abstracts proposing teaching-related sessions on college-sport issues will also be considered, as long as the abstract provides sufficient detail to judge the quality of the proposed session.  

Abstracts will undergo a multi-person, blind-review process to determine acceptance.
Abstracts submitted to CSRI should not be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference.

 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

Abstracts should NOT be submitted prior to Monday, October 15, 2012 and MUST be received no later than Friday, January 11, 2013 (11:59p.m. EST). Submissions received after this date and time will not be considered for acceptance. 

ABSTRACT FORMAT AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:
All abstracts MUST be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment and must contain the following information and conform to the following format requirements:

• Single-spaced
• One-inch margins,
• Times New Roman 12-point font, and
• 400-word maximum for 30-minute presentations and posters, and 800-word       maximum for 65-minute presentations.

ABSTRACT FORMAT:
Line 1: Type of session desired (choose from the options below):

·         30-minute oral presentation (including questions)

·         65-minute panel, roundtable, or workshop

·         Poster presentation

Line 2: three to four keywords that will help the program coordinator schedule similar topics in succession

Line 3: author(s) and institution(s) names (centered on page)
Line 4: presentation title (centered on page)
Line 5: blank

Line 6 to end: text of abstract (including demonstration of research conducted)

In the email message accompanying the attached abstract, include the principal author’s name, postal mailing address, email address, and fax and telephone numbers.

Submission of abstract(s) indicates the intent of the presenter(s) to register for the conference at the appropriate registration fee.

Email all abstracts to: 

(Graduate Research Coordinator – College Sport Research Institute) at csri@unc.edu

NOTE: All abstracts MUST be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment

For more information regarding the conference:

http://www.csriconference.org 

or 

919.843-9627 / 919.962-3507

CONFERENCE: 7th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Associatio​n's Sport and Politics Group (Bath, UK)

With support from the Department of Education and the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, the Physical Cultural Studies research group at the University of Bath (@pcsbath) are hosting the Political Studies Association (PSA) Sport & Politics interest group annual 1 day conference on the 2nd February 2013.

 

The conference will be titled: Sport, Politics & Policy

 

We are delighted that the keynote presentation will be from Professor Tess Kay (Brunel) and is titled: The Politics & Ethics of Sport & International Development Research

 

The theme is relatively open, and we would especially welcome papers reflecting high-quality and cutting edge research related to any (although not limited to) of the following thematic areas:

 

Politics, Sport & Health Policy

Politics, Sport, Youth & Development

Sport, Politics & International Development

Sport, Politics & Pedagogy

Politics, Sport & Well-being

Sport, Politics & Conflict

Sport, Politics & Security

Sport, Politics & Mega-events

Sport, Politics & (Urban) Space

Sport, Politics & Governance

Sport, Politics & Social Justice

Sport, Politics & Identity

Sport, Politics & Technologies

Sport, Politics & Leisure

Sport, Leisure, Social Media & Politics

Politics, Sport & Disability

Management, Sport & Politics

Researching Sport, Politics & Policy

 

We are especially open to proposals from postgraduate students (as such there is a significant discount for students who may wish to attend).

 

Any interested colleagues should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr Michael Silk (m.silk@bath.ac.uk) and Dr Paul Gilchrist (P.M.Gilchrist@Brighton.ac.uk) by 14 December 2012. Please indicate if you are a postgraduate student. You are also welcome to attend only (and not present). A few further details are available here:

http://www.sportpolitics.net/23.html

We hope this is of interest to some and that some may be able to make it to Bath in February,

Best, Michael Silk

JOB: Purdue University - American Studies

Purdue University seeks to hire an Associate or Full Professor as Director for its distinguished program in American Studies.  The program offers degrees at the M.A. and Ph.D. level and includes a new, fast-growing undergraduate major.  American Studies at Purdue has strong affiliations with programs in Women’s Studies, African American Studies and Asian American Studies among others.  The Director of the program must demonstrate a fluency in interdisciplinary research and the ability to provide intellectual leadership to students working in a variety of humanities and social science research fields. 
 
A Ph.D. in American Studies or field appropriate to the position is required.  The successful candidate for the position should bring a distinguished record of scholarship and teaching in American Studies or one of these related fields: History, English, Anthropology or Sociology, with the successful candidate’s tenure home being in one of these four departments. The Director will be fully appointed in American Studies and will be responsible for directing a large affiliated faculty, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in American Studies, shaping curriculum and giving intellectual vision and direction to the program.  Administrative experience is preferred but not essential.  
 
Application materials should include a letter of application, CV,  e-mail and telephone addresses for three professional references, and a sample of recent research not to exceed 40 pages.  Materials should be sent to Delayne Graham, Program Assistant in American Studies via e-mail at dkgraham@purdue.edu  Deadline for materials is January 15 2013.  Starting date for the position is August, 2013.
 
A background check is required for employment in this position. Purdue University is an equal opportunity/equal access/affirmative action employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.

CFP: Annual Tri-University Conference for the Trans/Disciplinary Study of Sport

Call for Papers
March 22-23, 2013
Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

This conference represents the collaborative efforts of graduate students from Ohio State, Penn State, and Western Ontario universities designed to stimulate scholarship in the historical, philosophical and sociocultural approaches to studying sport.  As a student-led initiative, this annual meeting aims to strengthen our academic community and foster intellectual development across the many disciplines within sport studies.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 16, 2012

We invite paper proposals for the 2nd annual Tri-University Conference to be held in 2013 at Penn State University. Not restricted to any particular theme, paper proposals may relate to any issue within sport researched from an historical, philosophical, or sociocultural perspective. Because this conference aims at promoting the scholarly growth and academic networking of emerging scholars, faculty members and other qualified scholars are strongly encouraged to attend in order to contribute to these goals through providing constructive feedback and skilled appraisals of the conference’s student generated scholarship. Please submit only original research for consideration.

ABSTRACT FORMAT AND SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

Authors must send their abstract in an email attachment and include the following information:

1.     Title of the paper
2.     300-500 words
3.     Name(s), affiliation (university or institution), position, and email address of each author
4.     Abstracts should include research questions, methodology, a statement of argument, and the paper’s significance to the study of sport in the humanities

Submissions should be sent to: triuniversityconference@gmail.com.

Notification:  Individuals will be notified of the results of the review process by January 7

GRADUATE STUDENT OVERNIGHT HOUSING:

To alleviate costs, if you would like to room with a Penn State graduate student on March 22 and/or 23, please indicate your interest on the abstract.

* Submission of an abstract indicates the presenter’s intent to attend the conference and be available to present on  the afternoon of March 22 or the morning/afternoon of March 23.

CFP: Teaching Media on Sport, Media, and the Military

Teaching Media announces our second CFP for a new curation of teaching media resources. This issue's theme is Sport, Media, and the Military. Teaching Media is dedicated to promoting a collaborative exchange and dialogue between media studies scholars about contemporary approaches to teaching and critically engaging with multi-modal media.

Call for Proposals:
Since September 11, 2001 sports has become increasingly “complicit” in an increasing militarization of U.S. society and popular culture. Butterworth and Moskal (2009), for example, argue that American identity is constituted in and by a culture of militarism, “wherein Americans are implicated in a structural relationship between government, the military, and entertainment industries to the extent that it has become functionally impossible to live outside the rhetorical production of war” (p. 413). The “seizing” of the NFL, Major League Baseball, or NASCAR by the military can be witnessed frequently through the spreading of militaristic messages from sponsors, advertisers, and broadcasters who appear eager to use these sporting events to garner support for war, especially during a time of great unpopularity among the American public, and to reassert national identity through excessive displays of patriotism.

Teaching Media seeks teaching materials and models for understanding the relations between sports, media, and the military. Approaches to teaching the sports-media-military nexus can include, but are not limited to:

- the role of the media in mediating militaristic sporting events
- the intersection of gender, race, and sexuality and the military-sport-media nexus
- the links between the (in)visibility of women and queer subjects in mediated sports to the military as a traditionally hetero-patriarchal institution
- socio-political issues raised concerning the militarization and securitization of the 2012 London Olympics
- the entanglements between the neoliberal state and the military-sports-media nexus
- the effects of globalization on professional sports and the military

Teaching Media seeks 250-word summaries of teaching materials and models from a variety of pedagogical perspectives. The summary should include your general framework, a list of teaching materials and/or assignments in the unit, and a short explanation of why your approach is innovative.Please email all submissions, either as a word or PDF document, toteachingmedia.contact@gmail.com. The Teaching Media editorial board will choose three summaries and ask the submitters to expand upon their abstract as part of a curated space on our site. Those not chosen are encouraged to submit their materials to our common space.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday November 18, 2012

As we hope for continuing discussions and exchange as well as contributions to Teaching Media we encourage you to visit our website at http://www.teachingmedia.org/

Best, 

Melody Hoffmann

TM Board

CFP: THE 11th ANNUAL MACINTOSH SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT CONFERENCE

THE 11th ANNUAL MACINTOSH SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT CONFERENCE

Saturday 19 January 2013, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University would like to invite all those interested in socio-cultural studies of sport and exercise to our annual day conference, held in the memory of our colleague Dr. Donald Macintosh.

The conference programme will consist of several sessions of graduate student presentations, a catered lunch, and the annual Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture, which will be given this year by Dr. Cathy van Ingen, associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University. Dr. van Ingen’s research utilizes various theories and methods including those drawn from cultural studies, cultural geography, and poststructuralist and feminist theories of the body. She is one of the founders of the Shape Your Life boxing program for female and trans survivors of violence in Toronto. Dr. van Ingen has written the first biography of Hall of Fame boxer, “Dixie Kid” Aaron Brown, in Aycock & Scott’s (eds.) (2011) The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s. She also has written articles on women’s boxing published in The Sociology of Sport Journal, Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, Feminist Media Studies and a forthcoming article in the Journal of Sport History called “Seeing What Frames Our Seeing”: Seeking Histories on Early Black Female Boxers.

Graduate students who would like to present their work at the conference should send 250-word abstracts or proposals for roundtable discussions or posters to Mary Louise Adams (MLA1@queensu.ca) by December 7, 2012. We are looking for presentations of works-in-progress, as well as presentations of completed research.

In selecting papers for the conference, priority will be given to students who submit independent research and who are first time Macintosh presenters; second priority will be given to students who submit research as part of a faculty research team and who are first time Macintosh presenters; third priority will be given to returning Macintosh presenters. All applicants will be given the option to present their research in the form of a poster.

Kingston is accessible by VIA rail or bus. It is a two hour and 45 minute drive from downtown Toronto or downtown Montreal. It is a two-hour drive from Ottawa and a one-hour drive from Watertown, New York. Registration fees are $30 for faculty and $20 for students.

For information or to add your name to our email list, please write to Robbie Millington (r.millington@queensu.ca).

CFP: Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference

REMINDER: 29 Days Until final SEWSA Call for Papers Deadline!Please post and foward this announcement. Hotel & registration information now posted on our website. **Our conference overlaps with a major citywide event -- so please reserve your hotel room EARLY!!!** Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, April 18-20, UNC Greensboro Call for Papers/Submissions Deadlines: November 16 and November 30, 2012 http://sewsa2013.wordpress.com General Proposal Deadline: November 30, 2012 SEWSA 2013 invites conversation surrounding Outrage! Discourses, Practices, and Politics of Protest and Social Transformation that have been and will be transformative in the interdisciplinary study of women, gender, sexuality, and in framing and exploring social experience. The conference will foster a vigorous, open and inclusive dialogue about the need for, and possibility of, different avenues to change and transformation. Rage, outrage, protest, organizing, diplomacy, and compromise will be considered as they are manifested in the discourses, practices, and products of art, scholarship and public service. Proposals should be submitted via: http://sewsa2013.wordpress.com For more information: womens_studies@uncg.edu SEWSA Caucus Proposal Deadline: November 16, 2012** The Southeastern Women's Studies Association supports caucuses for groups that are under-represented within society or SEWSA as an organization. Current caucuses include LGBTQ Caucus, People of Color Caucus and Student Caucus. **Those submitting caucus proposals will be notified soon after the deadline so that they can also submit to the general CFP by November 30th, should they desire. LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "The Queer South: Challenging Regionalisms" solicits proposals that critically analyze some phenomenon related to sexualized or gendered "otherness" that positions the South (or some facet of the South) as "queer." These analyses may define "queer" in terms of les-bi-gay/non-straight sexualities, non-normative genders, or other non-normative sexual practices (not necessarily les-bi-gay), or non- or anti-heteronormative practices, theories, and lives. The call is open to broad interpretations of "the South," including the global South, but the LGBTQ Caucus takes as its starting point how the U.S. South is situated within a national landscape. For more information and submission, contact LGBTQ Caucus Chair, Jennifer Purvis jpurvis@ua.edu PoC Caucus CFP: "A Meeting at the Kitchen Table: POC Feminists Envisioning the Future" calls on some of our People of Color feminist foremothers to examine where we are as POC academics, cultural workers, and artists and where we'd like to be. As we look at the interracial POC dynamics that both propel and impede our activism/scholarship/art we realize that we must look to ourselves for answers as we struggle to keep our movements alive. We invite stories, questions, experiments, practices, and ideas from POC to encourage an intergenerational multi-racial conversation that supports the articulation of collective movement toward the world we want. For more information and submission, contact PoC Caucus Chair, Moya Bailey moyazb@gmail.com Student Caucus CFP: "The Future of Feminism in a Post-Identity Era" invites proposals that examine the relevance of identity categories for contemporary academics and activists. Feminism, Queer Studies and Critical Race Theory have explored the continued relevance of these categories, with concern for preserving points of solidarity and narratives of struggle, existence and belonging. How can feminist and queer scholarship demonstrate the continued importance of these categories? What kinds of work can we produce that will expand the public's awareness of continuing discrimination and marginalization? For more information and submission, contact student caucus representative, Aretina Hamilton aretina.hamilton@uky.edu