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Contents of Upcoming Events:
| Current Listed Events in the USA (MI, WI, IL, MD, IL, CA, DC, MA). |
June 20 - 23, 2013 Detroit, MI USA
Allied Media Conference 2013
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June 21, 2013- November 10, 2014 Washington, DC USA
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s
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July 4 - 7, 2013 Middleton, WI USA
National Women's Music Festival
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July 5 - 7, 2013 Chicago, IL USA
National NOW Conference
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July 25 -27, 2013 Chicago, IL USA
BlogHer '13
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August 6 - 11, 2013 Hart, MI USA
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
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August 26, 2013 USA
Women's Equality Day
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September 26 - 27, 2013 Bowie, MD USA
Social Media Technology Conference & Workshop
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September 26 - 27, 2013 Washington, DC USA
Women in Politics Conference
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October 4 - 6, 2013 Carbondale, IL USA
Global Fusion 2013: A Global Media and Communication Conference
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November 1 - 3, 2013 San Francisco, CA USA
The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action
more information
And next year in 2014:
March 22 - 25, 2014 Washington, DC USA
Fourth Annual Poetry Fesival - Poems of Provacation & Witness - Split This Rock
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March 28 - 95, 2014 Boston, MA USA
A Revolutionary Moment: Women's Liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s
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June 20 - 23, 2013 Detroit, MI USA
Allied Media Conference 2013
The Allied Media Conference advances our visions for a just and creative world. It is a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. Since our founding in 1999, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers, technologists and social justice organizers. We draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment. We are ready to create, connect and transform.
The AMC is a collaboratively-designed and participant-driven conference. Organize, prepare, spread the word!
More information: http://amc.alliedmedia.org
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June 21, 2013- November 10, 2014 Washington, DC USA
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s
National Museum of Women in the Arts
In the 1960s, Ringgold explored race and gender in the context of the civil rights and feminist movements. The exhibit showcases 45 of her bold paintings from that period.
More information: www.nmwa.org
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July 4 - 7, 2013 Middleton, WI USA
National Women's Music Festival
A four-day musical and cultural extravaganza, the festival is jam-packed with concerts, workshops, comedy and films.
More information: www.wiaonline.org
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July 5 - 7, 2013 Chicago, IL USA
National NOW Conference
More information: http://www.now.org/organization/conference/2013/
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July 25 -27, 2013 Chicago, IL USA
BlogHer '13
A social-media conference celebrating women bloggers, BlogHer will have sessions on topics such as "What Type of Social Media Leader Are You?" and "Teen Bloggers: Coming of Age Online."
More information: www.blogher.com
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August 6 - 11, 2013 Hart, MI USA
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
The "Original Womyn's Woodstock" is back. this year's lineup features the Indigo Girls, Hanifah Walidah and more.
More information: www.michfest.com
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August 26, 2013 USA
Women's Equality Day
Marking the 93rd anniversary of U.S. women winning the right to vote, this day brings attention to the work still being done for full gender equality.
More informationn: www.nwhp.org
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September 26 - 27, 2013 Bowie, MD USA
Social Media Technology Conference & Workshop
Co-Hosted by Bowie State University and Howard University
Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice
The third annual Social Media Technology Conference & Workshop to be hosted by Bowie State University and Howard University will take place at Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland from September 26-27, 2013. It will bring together scholars and professionals who are experts in the area of social media to share their perspectives on the pedagogy and practice of social media, especially as it relates to higher education. This two-day intensive conference will combine panel discussions, posters sessions, roundtables and hands-on workshops designed to enlighten scholars and practitioners about social media and provide them with the knowledge to create and effectively utilize social media in different contexts. As social media continue to influence all areas of our lives, it is important to examine and debate not only the use of various social media tools in different contexts, but how they change the manner in which individuals, academics, business owners and the government make use of this medium. The purpose of this call is to solicit work focusing on the use of social media in educational settings and how social media are impacting/altering pedagogical thought. Respondents can send in proposals, papers, workshop themes, panels and poster proposals that address a myriad of topics, including:
• Methodologies for teaching social media
• Hypertext pedagogy
• Digital culture
• Impact of social media on curriculum design and teaching practices
• Social media as an assessment tool
• Research and social media
• Social media and mass communication
• Social media and minority use
• Social media and the future of journalism
• Social media and health communication
More information: http://socialmediatechnologyconference.com
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September 26 - 27, 2013 Washington, DC USA
Women in Politics Conference
Washington Marriott at Metro Center – 775 12th St NW, Washington, DC 20001
More information: http://www.womeninpoliticsmedia.com/wipcon2013.html
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October 4 - 6, 2013 Carbondale, IL USA
Global Fusion 2013: A Global Media and Communication Conference
College of Mass Communications and Media Arts
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois
This year’s theme for the Global Fusion conference is Mediations: Movements and Markets. Expanding the concept of global media to global mediation, we wish to highlight the processes through which media are integral to a world in which people
“do things with media” that constitute action in the public sphere as well as in the private sphere. We recognize that the often blurred boundaries between interpersonal and mediated communication are fostered in the contemporary age of convergence, of the manufacturing or fracturing of markets, and in the wake of large scale protests that have emerged in the Middle East and with the Occupy movement. These and other events have relied heavily on interpersonal networks and new information technologies. The notion of mediation also recognizes that media, especially small scale, local media, play more than an information transmission role but also perform important relational work by building communities and often emphasizing process over product. Thus, mediation includes attention not only to the production and consumption of media, but also to the ways in which media are used to shape our daily lives and the ways in which we use media to resist that shaping.
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November 1 - 3, 2013 San Francisco, CA USA
The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action
Union for Democratic Communication and Project Censored joint conference.
For more information about the UDC, see: http://www.democraticcommunications.net/about
For more information about Project Censored, see: http://www.projectcensored.org/
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March 22 - 25, 2014 Washington, DC USA
Fourth Annual Poetry Fesival - Poems of Provacation & Witness - Split This Rock
From our friends at Mothertongue
More information: http://splitthisrock.org/
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March 28 - 95, 2014 Boston, MA USA
A Revolutionary Moment: Women's Liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Conference at Boston University
Despite its immense achievements, the women's liberation movement of the
late 1960s and early 1970s has been minimally documented in print or on
film. In recent years, however, celebrations of the movement's
accomplishments have proliferated and new films have revived interest in
this revolutionary period. It seems timely therefore to bring together
activists, scholars, artists, writers, and filmmakers to reflect on the
movement: its accomplishments in so many domains, its unfinished business,
and its relevance to contemporary work that is advancing women. The
conference will engage with political, intellectual, artistic, literary,
legal, and personal elements of the movement, and especially with the ways
in which these elements intertwined and often reinforced each other. Films
of and about the movement will be screened and a signature play of the
period will be performed. Linda Gordon, University Professor of the
Humanities and Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University,
will deliver the conference keynote address.
The organizers invite proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted
panels, and non-traditional presentations. Applications from junior
scholars and activists are particularly encouraged. Travel allowances will
be available to bring to Boston those who could not otherwise participate.
Topics for conference presentations include but are not limited to the
following:
*What groups and individuals created the women's movement of
the late 1960s and early 1970s?
*What were the contributions of radical, working class, rural,
African American, and Latina women? Of lesbian and heterosexual women? Of
men?
*At what moments did women work together across boundaries of
class, ethnicity, generation, and sexuality and at what moments did they
pursue their goals independently?
*What have been the impacts of the movement on the lives of
women and men? On the arts and literary work? On political organizing?
*To what extent were intellectual disciplines transformed by
feminist insights, and to what extent have these changes been sustained?
*How did developments in different disciplines affect and
reinforce each other?
*What are the reigning narratives today about the women's
liberation movement, and to what extent do these narratives obscure or
illuminate what has been important about the movement?
*How is the women's movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s
depicted in contemporary scholarly work? In popular culture? By different
generations?
*Which elements of the movement and which movement figures
have received the most attention, and which have been overlooked?
*How has more recent theorizing complicated our understandings
of the women's liberation movement and the goals for which it fought?
*What impact has gender theory, queer theory, and other
post-structuralist theory had on the cause of women's liberation?
*What of the tools and methods of the women's liberation
movement? Is there a role for consciousness-raising groups today?
Proposal deadline: July 1, 2013
For individual 15-minute presentations, please submit an abstract of 500
words. Include a 2-3 sentence biographical statement that includes your
institutional or professional affiliation, if any, and your
research/artistic/activist interests. For complete panels, please submit a
200-word proposal along with individual paper abstracts with biographical
statements for each panelist.
We also welcome alternative presentations by activists, artists, and
non-academics, including art installations, performances, workshops, film
screenings, and more. Please submit a 500-word proposal providing an
explanation of your presentation and a 5-sentence biographical sketch.
Include a description of your space and A/V needs.
If you would be unable to travel to Boston without some assistance with
travel costs, please note what a necessary travel award would be.
All materials should be sent to conference organizer Deborah Belle,
Director of Boston University Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program,
at debbelle@bu.edu. Use Women's Liberation Movement Conference as the
subject line in your email. All submissions will be acknowledged by email.
For more information, please contact wgs@bu.edu or debbelle@bu.edu.
More information:
Laura Newman, MA
New York
Ph: 212 664-0017
newman [at] nasw.org
Washington, DC
email: allen [at] wifp [dot] org
www.wifp.org