*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*DEMETER PRESS*
Seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled
*Pagan, Goddess, Mother*
Editors: Sarah Whedon & Nané Jordan
*Deadline for Abstracts: September 1st, 2016*
Pagan spirituality and Goddess spirituality are distinct, yet overlapping
movements and communities, each with much to say about deity as mother and
about human mothers in relationship to deity. The purpose of this
collection is to call categories of Pagan and Goddess mothering into focus,
to highlight philosophies and experiences of mothers in these various
movements and traditions, and to generate new ways of imagining and
enacting motherhood.
What is distinctive about Pagan motherhood, what is distinctive about
Goddess spirituality motherhood, and where is the overlap? How do these
differ, and what does each have to learn from the other? How does study of
these communities, philosophies, and practices highlight tensions and
insights into gender, motherhood, and embodiment, more broadly? How do
mothers in contemporary Pagan and Goddess movements negotiate their
mothering roles and identities? What elements of these diverse contemporary
traditions inform their experiences? How do theologies, thealogies, and
devotions to Mother Goddesses affect experiences of mothering? How do Pagan
and Goddess mothers engage with ceremony, ritual, magic, and priestesshood?
How do Pagan and Goddess mothers interface with interreligious dialogue,
social institutions for children, community leadership, social justice, and
the public sphere?
*Topics may include (but are not limited to):*
The specific theologies, thealogies, mythologies, ethics, or practices of
mothers in particular Pagan and/or Goddess traditions; theories of gender,
motherhood, or embodiment in Pagan and/or Goddess traditions; Earth Mother,
Great Mother, mother Goddess creation stories, eco-spirituality, or the
maiden-mother-crone trinity; mothers’ participation in ceremony, ritual,
festival, magic, or priestesshood; the relationship between mother Goddess
and human mother’s empowerment; pregnancy, birth, early mothering, and
beyond; Pagan and/or Goddess spirituality in mom blogging, custody
conflict, religious freedom, children’s religious education, or other
social institutions; diversity and difference in Pagan and/or Goddess
mothering including grandmothering, race, disability, or lgbtq families.
Perspectives are welcomed from a wide range of disciplines and genres,
including history, theology, thealogy, religious studies, anthropology,
sociology, cultural studies, biography, spiritual autobiography, personal
essays, life writing, poetry and artwork.
*Submissions Guidelines:*
Please send abstracts of approximately 300 words together with a short bio
to
Sarah Whedon & Nané Jordan at: pagangoddessmother@gmail.com
*by September 1, 2016.*
*Accepted papers *of 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages including references and
endnotes) will be due *February 1st, 2017. *Contributors will be
responsible for ensuring that manuscripts adhere to MLA style.
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Call for Student Reviewers! Applications are Open to Join the PWQ Student Advisory Board
Call for Student Reviewers!
Applications are Open to Join the PWQ Student Advisory Board
Interested in learning about, and contributing to, the peer review process for a journal? Then consider joining Psychology of Women Quarterly’s Student Advisory Board. All GRADUATE STUDENTS with research interests in feminist psychology are welcome to apply. (To our undergrad members, we’ll see you in the future!)
What is Involved:
As a member of the Board, you will be invited to contribute your own mentored review of submitted manuscripts. Your review will be considered by the action editor throughout the review process, and we will give you helpful feedback about your review (as well as share with you a masked copy of our decision letter to the author and all other reviews). In sum, joining the Board is a great way to get an insider’s look at the review process.
As a member of the Board, your name will appear on the masthead of each issue of the journal. Appointments are for one year and may be continued so long as you remain a graduate student and respond to our requests in good faith. We do monitor how many manuscripts you have, to avoid overlapping and too frequent requests. As of now, we anticipate that most students will handle 1-2 manuscripts per year. You may decline a request, especially if you think a paper is not a good fit for your area of expertise; however, we ask that you accept most invitations and complete a review within the specified time period, typically two to three weeks. We also will share a helpful handout with you about how to conduct constructive and useful reviews. Our hope is that you’ll get hooked on doing reviews – and may become a future editor!
How to Apply:
If you are interested, please email your application, with the following subject line, “Last Name, First Name_PWQ SAB Application 2016” (e.g., Rubin, Lisa_PWQ SAB Application 2016) to Anna Hillary, Assistant Editor (pwq@nyu.edu), by Monday, May 16th.
In your email, include the following information:
· Complete the attached Application Cover Page (use link if attachment doesn't come through)
· Submit a one-paragraph statement of your interests and experience in psychology, particularly as it relates to the aims and scope of PWQ. Please include your areas of emerging expertise, both in terms of content area and method(ology).
· Tell us if you have served on any other editorial board, including PWQ.
· Include an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae
If you have questions, please feel free to contact me at RubinL@newschool.edu. Please do note that openings are limited, although we will do our best to include as many students as possible. Division 35 Membership is not required, but is highly encouraged at the time of application.
CALL FOR PAPERS- WOMEN IN JUDAISM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submissions are invited for an online periodical
WOMEN IN JUDAISM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
http://www.womeninjudaism.org
The journal is published exclusively on the Internet as a forum for scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The journal, a not-for-profit organization, is indexed by EBSCO, Feminist Periodicals published by the University of Wisconsin System; ProQuest; Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory; RAMBI- The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies by the Jewish National and University Library at the Hebrew University; Index of Jewish Periodicals; MLA International Bibliography; MLA Directory of Periodical; DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals); and Contemporary Women’s Issues, Infotrac CPI.Q., Expanded Academic ASAP, General OneFile -- distributed by Gale Cengage Learning. The journal is mirrored at the National Library of Canada; Scholars’ Portal Journals of the Ontario Council of University Libraries; and at the Judaica Division of the Harvard College Library of Harvard University. In addition, the journal is indexed and linked to by dozens of electronic directories and web sites.
Articles, essays, book reviews, short notes, and bibliographies from all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences are welcome. Submissions are concurrently accepted and should be made by e-mail to:
Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon, Editor-in-Chief
Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal
E-mail: dina.eylon@utoronto.ca
Note: Scholarship by/and about Canadian Jewish women are especially encouraged.
The journal will consider re-printing peer-reviewed papers or chapters from books that are not currently available in any digital format.
We are also seeking book reviewers. A complete list of books is available in our Review Books Received section, which is updated periodically. For further information and guidelines for contributors, please consult our web site and/or write to the Editor-in-Chief.
5th Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD), "Lean Out: Gender, Economics, and Enterprise," October 21 - 23, 2016, held in historic Seneca Falls, NY.
Announcing the 5th Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD), "Lean Out: Gender, Economics, and Enterprise," October 21 - 23, 2016, held in historic Seneca Falls, NY.
The 2016 SFD will feature award-winning documentarian and creator of "Upstate Girls," Brenda Ann Kenneally, keynote and WILL award recipient. The Call for Dialogues is pasted below.
Call for Dialogues
The Biennial Dialogues are a collaborative effort to reinvigorate Seneca Falls as a site of feminist activism and intellectual exchange. We invite faculty, students, activists to participate in a weekend of dialogue on any of the following "Lean Out: Gender, Economics, and Enterprise," subthemes:
• Divisions of Labor
• Class, Gender, & Sexuality
• Teaching Economic Justice
• Representations of Work
• Gender and Entrepreneurship
• Global Economies
• Art, Activism, and Social Justice
• Women in Business
We are seeking group-led sessions that involve active audience participation and focused discussion of issues raised by the conference theme and subthemes. Session proposals should indicate how organizers will present information, pose questions, and facilitate conversation.
Submit proposals to senecafallsdialogues.com@gmail.com
All proposals must include:
• Title of the session.
• A 2-3 sentence summary of its focus and relevance to one or more of the conference subthemes.
• Name of each session organizer.
• Name of one organizer who will serve as the contact person. Include for the contact person her or his
home or institutional address, email, and telephone number.
• 250-500 word description of the session’s focus and organization. This should include how the
organizers will introduce the topic, questions they will pose, and a clear explanation of how the
organizers will involve the audience in dialogue.
• List of technology needs.
Proposal Deadline: April 30, 2016
Conference participants will be invited to submit essay versions of their dialogues for publication consideration in the new online, peer-reviewed Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal. For additional journal information, see http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/sfd/
Questions about the SFD and the SFD Journal can be directed to me off list atblesavoy@brockport.edu
Visit www.senecafallsdialogues.com for conference updates including upcoming links to registration and hotel. Join us and feel the power of place in Seneca Falls, NY.
Peace and Good Cheer,
Barbara LeSavoy, PhD
Director, Women and Gender Studies
Executive Editor, Dissenting Voices
Co-Editor, The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal
118 Liberal Arts Building
The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Brockport, NY 14420
http://www.brockport.edu/wms/
Voice: 585-395-5799
Fax: 585-395-2448
blesavoy@brockport.edu
Yes, I am your mother: Discussing alternative forms of reproduction with children
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute's Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis division continues the "Dialogues on..." Series with leading child development experts:
Yes, I am your mother:
Discussing alternative forms of reproduction with children
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street, NYC
Free and open to the public
RSVP HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900
ART (Alternative Reproductive Technologies) include IVF, sperm or egg donor, surrogate mothers, etc. How is the best way to address this accounting for parental preferences and the child's developmental stages?
Anna Balas, M.D. is a child, adolescent and adult board certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is on the faculty at New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Associate Professor on the Voluntary Faculty at The Payne Whitney Division of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Weill Cornell School of Medicine.
The "Dialogues on..." Series is intended for professionals and parents who are involved with the care of children in the school and home environments. Educators, school administrators, community leaders, grandparents are welcome. NO CME OR CE CREDITS WILL BE OFFERED.
The "Dialogues on..." Series is made possible by a generous donation from The Poses Family Foundation.
The 60th Freud Anniversary Lecture
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute cordially invites you to attend
The 60th Freud Anniversary Lecture
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 8 pm
The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street, New York City
Rosemary Balsam, M.D, will speak on Freud, the Birthing Body, and Modern Life
Shelley Orgel, M.D. will introduce the speaker
Starting with a closer look at Freud's early astute sense of the psychic impact of the bodily power of females' biological sex and child-bearing potential, the lecture will show how this appreciation became obscured until about the 1970s. In spite of sporadic subsequent efforts, moreover, the impact of the female body has never been acknowledged in general in psychoanalytic thought (except as an infantile archaic fantasy, or sidelined in a special adult "woman's" category). Given the new vibrant culture of enacted gender multiplicities that we encounter in the clinic these days, where, then, can this lag leave us with psychoanalytic ideas about natally sexed female or male bodies as they articulate with gender?
Rosemary Balsam, M.D. is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine; Staff Psychiatrist at the Yale Student Mental Health and Counseling Service; and Training and Supervising Analyst at Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of numerous writings, including Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis published in 2012 by Routledge.
General Admission: $15
To register, click HERE, visit
nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900
A Reception will follow the lecture. All are welcome.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
a) describe Freud's early sense of the biological body
b) appreciate why and how this changed, and how the body became obscured
c) assess the long term effects of this obfuscation on our thinking, that can still affect today's analysts dealing with patients' gender dilemmas.
d) think more creatively with patients about the modern role of the biologically female body.
2 CME/CE credits offered.
Frontlines: Women of Color on the Forefront of Activism
Frontlines: Women of Color on the Forefront of Activism will highlight women of color as driving influences in activist movements, and illuminate a few of the most pressing issues facing women of color over a series of panel discussions. The panels will be about mental health, criminal and civil incarceration, and institutional violence. The conference will open with keynote remarks from Bronx County District Attorney, the Honorable Darcel Clark. Please register for the conference here. April 15th
The First Annual City Lights Kids Film Festival!
The Spirituality Mind Body Institute Invites you to...
The First Annual City Lights Kids Film Festival!
Date: Thursday, April 14th
Time: 5:00PM-6:00PM
Location: Milbank Chapel (125 Zankel Hall) at Teachers College, Columbia University
Please join us for the City Lights Kids Film Festival! We will be screening a series of short films all created by children for children. The mission of the festival is to support and cultivate the creativity of youth and to disseminate their films to the local community. All ages are welcome! Please RSVP below if you plan to attend.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/1LBDrwX
Inquiries: SMBIFilm@gmail.com
call for submission #DarkMatter: women witnessing
We are now accepting submissions for issue #4 of/Dark Matter: Women Witnessing.//Dark Matter /publishes writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species extinction and ecological collapse, especially work that points toward cultural and/or linguistic restoration.Deadline: May 13, 2016
http://www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com
We welcome writing in all forms and genres as well as artwork in all mediums. Context and commentary are required for dreams, visions, and other communications. Notes bridging to the journal’s mission must accompany all poetry and fiction. We also welcome submissions for our /After•Words /column, in which writers offer responses to books, films, artwork, cultural events—not necessarily current ones—that they feel make an important contribution to our mission. Responses can be creative—the work may serve as a springboard for the writer’s own reflections— and they can be as brief or as long as they need to be, within our 5,000-word limit.
The theme for each issue of /Dark Matter/ tends to emerge organically from material we receive. For now, the issue is open.
Submissions in French and German welcome; we will provide translation.
For more details please see our submission guidelines.
http://www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com/submission_guidelines.html
Women and Creativity House Student Exhibition
Women and Creativity House Student Exhibition
April 20 - May 2, 2016
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries, Douglass Library
8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Special Event: Douglass Global Village Student Showcase and Women and Creativity House Student Exhibition Reception
April 25, 2016
Time and location TBA
Exhibition presenting the work of student artists living and working in the Women and Creativity House Living-Learning Community in the Global Village at DRC, under the guidance of instructor Stacy Scibelli.
Theorizing Motherhood In The Academy 2016
Each Year the Museum of Motherhood works with academic partners and collaborators to create the Annual Academic M.O.M. Conference. This year the conference is pleased to partner with JourMS (the Journal of Mother Studies) for publication of select peer-reviewed content in the field of Mother Studies.
The goal of the conference is to develop interdisciplinary approaches to Mother Studies and encourage information exchanges between thought-pioneers, activists, artists, academics, students on the subject of Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Family Life.
Theorizing Motherhood In The Academy 2016
May 5 – Motherhood Hall of Fame – Columbia Teachers’ College, NYC (Free) 7-9pm
May 6-7 – MOM Conference – Manhattan College
4513 Manhattan College Pkwy, Bronx, NY 10471
What factors, past and present, inform our new ways of understanding motherhood, fatherhood, and notions of family? The conference organizers encourage submissions that provide critical insights into mothering, fathering, and family issues; that draw direct links between theories and/or research findings; or that offer practical approaches to issues facing contemporary mothers and families. The overarching goal of this conference is to provide an environment to explore new ideas and approaches for tackling issues that concern mothers as well as important others who fill a care giving role in the family.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The conference fee which helps to cover our expenses is: $150 before March 1. ($175 after) Payments are non-refundable- However the museum turns no one away for lack of funds and special student rates apply. (payment link)
The Conference is open to all those students wishing to attend, and we will provide discounted fees to the general public and for those wishing to attend singular panels.
For questions e-mail queries to MOMmuseum@gmail.com
part time employee or paid intern for BOBB films
BOBB Films is a production company run by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein.
An overview of their projects can be seen at http://www.rickiandabbyfilms.com/.
Lake and Epstein partnered in 2004 to make the documentary “The Business of Being Born” and have also written a book and executive produced 6 other documentaries in the women’s health space. BOBB Films is in production on two current films “Weed the People” and “Sweetening the Pill” along with several ancillary media projects.
BOBB Films is seeking a part time employee or paid intern to serve as an assistant to Ms. Lake and Ms. Epstein. The assistant will help manage day to day operations for the company and assist on all media projects for 15-20 hours/week. We are looking for a minimum 1 year commitment. Candidates will need to have some or all of the following qualifications and skills:
- A background or interest in women’s health and/or women’s reproductive issues or women’s studies.
- A background or interest in documentary film production, media or journalism.
- Strong writing skills and experience with social media to manage all social media accounts and create monthly newsletter.
- Administrative asst. experience to manage scheduling for Lake and Epstein, coordinate conference calls, create calendars, manage email communications and create financial reports for accountant.
- Excellent personal skills and initiative to work independently and contribute ideas
The Second Annual National City Lights Film Festival
The Spirituality Mind Body Institute invites you to the
The Second Annual National City Lights Film Festival!
Date: Thursday, April 14th
Time: 6:30PM-9:00PM
Location: Milbank Chapel (125 Zankel Hall) at Teachers College, Columbia University
Please join us for the Second Annual National City Lights Film Festival! We will be screening a series of short films that explore lived spirituality in its many forms of expression. We invite you to an evening of film, culture and conversation. Please RSVP if you plan to attend. Appetizers and drinks will be served.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/1UfWn7s
Inquiries: SMBIFilm@gmail.com
Recommended Donation: $10 at the door
LGBTQ Study Group at William Alanson White Institute
LGBTQ Study Group
Katharina Rothe, Ph.D.
Bisexuality: Freud's major marginal concept, lived sexual orientation, and experience in the consulting room
Dr. Rothe will provide history on the multifaceted term bisexuality and will explore Freud’s unfinished work on the concept of a constitutional bisexuality. She will also describe how she applies the concept of bisexuality in the consulting room through a clinical vignette.
Katharina Rothe received her Ph.D. from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2008. She is widely published in academic journals and books on psychoanalysis, qualitative methods in psychoanalytic social research, sex and gender, anti-Semitism, and racism. She is a NYS-licensed psychologist and a WAWI graduate in psychoanalysis.
Please note the correct time:
8:30-10:00 pm
Date:
Wed. April 6th, 2016
Location:
William Alanson White Institute
20 West 74 St.
New York, NY 10023
RSVP: eugenioaduarte@gmail.com
Film Screening & Panel discussion "the mask you live in"
African Diaspora International Film Festival
2016 Keywords Roundtable Discussion on the keyword “choice”
The Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council are co-hosting a spring 2016 Keywords Roundtable Discussion on the keyword “choice.”
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Lehman Auditorium (202 Altschul Hall), Barnard College
Featured participants:
- Rachel Adams: Director, CSSD and Professor of English and American Studies, Columbia University
- Ester Fuchs: Director, Urban and Social Policy Concentration and Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, SIPA, Columbia University
- Maya Sabatello: Assistant Professor of Clinical Bioethics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Carol Sanger: Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- Josef Sorett: Associate Director, Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and Assistant Professor of Religion and African-American Studies, Columbia University
Woman and City, a conversation with Wang Anyi
One of China's most critically-acclaimed writers, Shanghai-based Wang Anyi has published twelve novels including The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Weatherhead Books on Asia/Columbia University Press), The Age of Enlightenment, Heavenly Fragrance, and Anonymous. She is the winner of many prestigious literary prizes, including the Lu Xun Prize, "The Writer of the Year" of the Chinese Literary Media, and The Dream of the Red Chamber Prize offered in Hong Kong. Her work was nominated in 2011 for the Man Booker International Prize. She is a professor at Fudan University.
Hosted by Lydia H. Liu and Eugenia Lean
Monday, 21 March at 6:00pm
104 Jerome Greene Hall
Columbia University
Registration required
Please click to register -> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/woman-and-city-a-conversation-with-wang-anyi-tickets-22421328798
Cosponsored by Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University; Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College; East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Columbia University; C.V. Starr East Asian Library; Columbia Law School Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Literary Translation at Columbia, Columbia School of the Arts; and Columbia University Press.
Twenty-first annual Queer Studies Award and the ninth annual Women’s and Gender Studies Award!
IRWGS is proud to announce the twenty-first annual Queer Studies Award and the ninth annual Women’s and Gender Studies Award!
$250 in prize money for each award!
All Columbia, Barnard, Engineering and Applied Science, and General Studies undergraduates are encouraged to submit their best work for consideration. All disciplines and topics within the fields of “queer studies” or “women’s and gender studies” (broadly defined) are welcome. Papers will be judged by an interdisciplinary committee of IRWGS faculty. Students are invited to enter one or both of the competitions (but must submit a different essay for each competition).
Application deadline: Monday April 18th, 2016 by 5pm
Application packets now available on irwgs.columbia.edu/undergrad.
