2009-04-22: Concordia University 2009 Workshop Series on Social Research

2009-04-17: L'Université de Sherbrooke à la recherche d'un professeur suppléant en sciences des religions

2009-04-09: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Tobacco and Gender

2009-04-09: ELEVENTH BERLIN ROUNDTABLES ON TRANSNATIONALITY - MEMORY POLITICS: EDUCATION, MEMORIALS AND MASS MEDIA

2009-04-08: Global Dialogue Conference Series - GDC09: RESPONSIBILITY --- CLIMATE CHANGE AS CHALLENGE FOR INTERCULTURAL INQUIRY ON VALUES - November 3-6, Aarhus, Denmark

2009-04-08: COMOX VALLEY HEAD INJURY SOCIETY CONFERENCE - Making the Invisible Visible June 18-19 2009

2009-03-27: Violences et société - 3ème Congrès de l'Association française de sociologie

2009-03-23: Conférence internationale - Éducation, économie et société - Paris 2010

2009-03-23: University of California - San Diego - Endowed Chair in Social Thought - Full Professor

2009-03-23: Johnson-Shoyama School of Public Policy - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Social Policy Research

2009-03-23: Mothering and the Environment Conference - Call for papers

2009-03-23: St. Thomas University - Limited-term Position in Sociology

2009-02-11: CALL FOR PAPERS - Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) 13th Annual Conference in conjunction with York University’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built October 22-25, 2009, York University, Toronto, Canada

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, environmental agencies and workers, environmental educators, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats.

Topics can include (but are not limited to):
maternal health and the environment; creating and maintaining sustainable family systems; public/private spaces and the pregnant body; procreation and fertility; declining fertility and the environment. disability, environments and the maternal body; mothers, cancer and pollution; mothering and HIV/AIDS, breastfeeding and environmental toxins; mothering, environments, sustainability and technology; women, children and ‘nature’; gender, children and the language of ‘the natural’; resisting, embracing and challenging the image of Mother Earth; the philosophy of nature and its relation to the feminine; nature and culture as gendered concepts; New definitions of “environment”; environmental theory and mothering; feminist natural science; feminist philosophy of natural science; essentialism and motherhood; Indigenous theories of mothering; mother environmental movements and maternal activism; ecofeminism, maternal environmental activism and global citizenship; the arts and mothering for social change; narrative inquiry as a mother's story; imagination and motherhood; environmental activism through the arts; representations/images of mothers and environmental issues; mothering and social and environmental justice; mothering with reduced resources; social environmental support for mothering; race and (anti-) racism in parenting; mothering and educational environments; mothering and children’s play environments; mothering children in data-driven school systems; mothering within the neoliberal context; corporations, capitalism and the environment; commercialization of nature; consumerism, the economy and performing motherhood; caring work, waste and water; the effects of resource privatization/commodification on poor and rural women; paternalism and dominant development models for the global south; private and public geographies of mothering; mothering and landscapes; geographies of mothering; mothering and geography; mothering in public space and private space; the maternal in architecture; modernist architecture as a symptom of patriarchy (phallic skyscrapers); disability, environments and the maternal body; Internal environments (mothering the self; internal/personal landscapes of mothers); food, farming and the nurturer; GMOs ;The role of mothers in creating food sovereignty; ‘other’ mothers; animal mothers, migration and climate change.

If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 250 word abstract and a 50 word bio by March 1, 2009 to: arm@yorku.ca 

Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
(Tel) (416) 736-2100 x 60366 (Fax) 416-736-5766
email us at arm@yorku.ca 
http://www.yorku.ca/arm

2008-12-01: Gender Futures: Law, Critique and the Struggle for Something More  - 3-4 April 2009 @ Westminster University, London

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Dean Spade,
Professor of Law, School of Law, Seattle University, USA
"Trans Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape"

Andrea Smith, 
Associate Professor, American Culture and Women's Studies, University of Mitchigan, USA 
"Women of Color and State Violence" 

Nivedita Menon, 
Professor of Political Thought, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
"Justice contra Law? Feminism and Law in the 21st century" 

Rosemary Hennessy, 
Associate Professor of English, RICE University, Houston, USA 
"Autonomy, Community, and the State: Learning from the Legacies of Socialist Feminism in Latin America"

Emily Grabham, Research Fellow, CentreLGS, Kent Law School , Kent University, UK 
"Fleshy (Legal) Consciousness: Norms and Legalities in the Contemporary UK Nudist Movement" 

Lisa Adkins, 
Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 
"Feminism, Time and the Future of Gender"

We welcome papers and panel proposals on the following themes: feminism and materialism rights and equality new political formations and ideologies social movement struggles alliance and coalition-building the potential and limits of law citizenship and violence transforming work bodies and belonging nation and empire territory and borders race, space and postcolonialism biopolitics homonormativity temporalities of gender Abstracts are welcome by 31 December 2008 to centre-lgs@kent.ac.uk. 

For more information and registration: http://www.kent.ac.uk/clgs/news-and-events/LawCritiqueandStruggleforSomethingMore.htm