CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The deadline for submissions has passed; this call is now closed.

The Sixth Annual Women's Studies Student Conference presents this year's theme:

This event will highlight the use of media for feminist social justice and critical studies of women and gender. We especially encourage analyses that intersect gender with sexuality, race, class, and (trans)nationality.

We invite college and university students and community activists to submit proposals for papers, film, music, art, live performance, and other creative and critical works.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* Critiques of media representation
* Impact of new media and the digital revolution on feminisms (e.g. blogging, YouTube, Second Life, etc.)
* Historical explorations of media
* Role of media in activism and social justice movements (past and present)
* Role of community media and independent media in an age of corporate control
* Access to media and technology, alternative low-tech forms, and issues of the 'digital divide'

Please send 200-word abstracts describing your project to wstudent@albany.edu no later than Friday, October 19, 2007. Abstracts describing film and live performances should indicate the project's running time (Image or digital files of media projects may also be submitted as e-mail attachments or through a URL if presented on the web).

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This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Women's Studies, Sociology, Communications, the Journalism Program, and the Division of Student Success.