Monday, April 14, 2014

Society for Educating Women 2014 Call for Papers: Symposia and Studio Sessions at the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Hyatt Regency, Toronto, Ontario 29 Oct-2 November 2014

Society for Educating Women
2014 Call for Papers:
Symposia and Studio Sessions at the
American Educational Studies Association (AESA),
Hyatt Regency, Toronto, Ontario
29 Oct-2 November 2014

To the Society for Educating Women:

Our next annual meeting, SEW@AESA 2014, will include both conference
presentations by SEW members at the American Educational Studies
Association and some SEW seminar sessions in the Hyatt Regency's free
public spaces, amid the AESA conference activity.

You are invited to submit a paper, symposium, panel, or alternate
format/special interest proposal to the AESA submission site in accord
with AESA policies and instructions.  AESA's submission deadline is 15
April 2014.  To identify your submission as a SEW session at AESA,
please include the phrase "Educating Women" somehow in the title of
your proposed paper, symposium, panel, or alternative format session.
For example, "Educating Women:  A Conversation about
________________________."  You will find samples of such accepted
AESA symposium proposals at
http://educatingwomen.net/conferences/index.php/SEW2014/SEW2014; you
will find AESA guidelines and the link for proposal submission at
http://www.educationalstudies.org/conference.html#2.   We ask that you
email your AESA proposal submissions also to SEW at
societyforeducatingwomen@gmail.com  Please put the words "AESA
proposal" in the subject line, and in the body of the email, indicate
what kind of proposal is being submitted (individual, symposium,
alternate session, etc.) and the name of the primary submitter.

As we did for our 2013 conference, SEW will publish a conference
proceedings for SEW@AESA 2014.  The published SEW@AESA 2014
proceedings will include SEW members' papers on the AESA program as
well as SEW members' working-paper Seminars that SEW will hold at the
Hyatt Regency, Toronto, November 1-2, 2014.

Those who prefer to submit working papers for SEW Seminars should
submit them by June 15, 2014 for review by the SEW@AESA 2014 Program
Committee.
Authors of working papers will meet together in a series of authors'
seminars.  For each working paper Seminar, an assigned session chair
will introduce each presenter, who will discuss her/his working paper
in some detail, expanding on the development of key ideas, research
problems, etc. Each participant's work receives equal time (25
minutes) of concentrated attention. Authors will not read aloud their
essays, which will be published in the Proceedings, but will expand
upon them briefly in a conversational mode. This is an opportunity for
presenters to share their most significant challenges, field others'
questions in a constructively-collaborative environment, and highlight
aspects of their own projects where they want reflective discussion,
critical responses (including queries), bibliographic recommendations,
etc. All participants in these seminars will have the opportunity to
read the Proceedings (which will be downloadable from the SEW
conference site and made available in print to registered participants
beforehand) so as to prepare notes and questions in advance for all of
these discussions.

SEW Seminars supplemental to the AESA program will address working
papers (see above) accepted by the SEW@AESA 2014 Program Committee,
and discussed working papers will be published in the SEW@AESA 2014
proceedings. As at SEW's 2013 Summer Studio, all participants in
SEW@AESA 2014 will participate in Seminars over SEW authors' working
papers, but SEW members presenting in AESA-sponsored sessions are
asked to attend working paper discussions as peer mentors. As SEW's
representative on the AESA Program Committee, Julie Davis will work to
prevent schedule conflicts between SEW sessions on the AESA program as
well as session conflicts with SEW's working paper Seminars. SEW@AESA
participants will meet, greet, and dine together at a nearby location
on the evening of Saturday 1 November.

If you attended the 2013 Summer Studio conference in St. Louis and
participated in its authors' seminar sessions, we invite you to revise
your 2013 SEW Proceedings paper as a proposal for a SEW-AESA session.
Since the AESA conference follows a typical conference-presentation
format, you should plan to revise and expand your short (1500 word)
SEW Proceedings paper to read and discuss in an AESA session.
Generally, each presenter in a symposium or on a panel will have 15
minutes (which amounts to about 1800-2000 words) to speak.

The authors' seminar sessions at SEW Summer Studio in August 2013
were, by all accounts, vital and exciting.  We encourage you to
collaborate with the people you met in one or more sessions last
summer to craft a symposium proposal and invite someone from within
SEW or AESA to chair your session (a symposium is usually 3 persons
and a session chair).  Please see the 2013 SEW Program and Proceedings
to review seminar papers on pages 17-140 and the list of presenters'
contact emails on page 141.

As the AESA has its own review committee, SEW cannot guarantee
acceptance of its members' session proposals submitted to AESA, but
SEW will have its own program review committee too.  All AESA
proposals must be submitted to the SEW program committee. SEW session
proposals not accepted by AESA may be re-submitted by June 15, 2014 at
societyforeducatingwomen@gmail.com for review by SEW's own review
committee. SEW session proposals not submitted to AESA may also be
submitted by the same date to SEW for review.

All 2014 papers presented at SEW@AESA 2014, whether accepted on the
AESA program or not, will be included in the published 2014 SEW
proceedings, but you must attend the conference to have your paper
included. Final copies of papers to be presented at the 2014 SEW-AESA
conference (about 8-10 pages) need to be submitted to SEW by 1
September 2014 for inclusion in the Proceedings.  Additional
information regarding submissions to the Proceedings will be posted to
the SEW website soon.

Since the costs for attending AESA may be higher for many of our
members, SEW's registration costs this year will be greatly reduced
(only enough to cover the printed proceedings costs), and we are
planning to offer scholarships to members in need of travel
assistance.  Please look for more information soon about the
scholarship application process and awards.

Once you have received word regarding the acceptance of your SEW
submission to AESA, please notify Cat Kinyon at
Catherine.M.Kinyon-1@ou.edu and again, please include as an attachment
a copy of your proposal. This will help us in organizing the SEW
Proceedings and in directing our members to where and when SEW
sessions will take place at AESA, whether in assigned conference
meeting rooms or in public spaces.

SEW@AESA Rationale and History:

Nine years ago, the Society for Educating Women's founders came
together in Charlottesville, VA in 2005 at the annual conference of
the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), around a common
concern.  As stated in the SEW Mission Statement, the founders wanted
to respond

to a perceived generation gap in scholarship on women, gender, and
education and also to a widespread limit-situation for this field, one
that weakens the thoughtfulness of girls' and women's education at all
levels in diverse settings: in general, the field's senior scholars
often lack opportunities for collaborative work, while interested
junior scholars often lack opportunities for adequately diversified
advanced studies of women, gender, and education.
(http://www.educatingwomen.net/mission.html )

At the SEW's 2013 business meeting in St. Louis, members elected to
hold our 2014 conference within and around the forthcoming AESA
conference in Toronto.   SEW@AESA 2014 will, therefore, address AESA's
2014 conference theme specifically to educating women:
"Re-conceptualizing Diversity: Engaging with Histories, Theories,
Practices, and Discursive Strategies of/for Educating Women and Girls
in Global Contexts" (see
(http://www.educationalstudies.org/conference.html)

This decision to embed SEW's conference within AESA's reflects SEW's
initial mission directly:

Funded by various sources, this project will combine
distance-education technologies, annual special-interest-group
meetings within the American Educational Studies Association &
National Women's Studies Association, publications online and in
print, face-to-face intergenerational collaborations, and
international conferences.
Its purposes are to broaden, deepen, and more extensively share
specialized knowledge, thought, and ongoing scholarship on women,
gender, and education and thus to construct unprecedented
opportunities for novice, mid-career, and senior scholars to undertake
advanced learning and inquiry in this new field that serves the
professional development of conscientious educational leadership,
policy, and practice affecting girls and women.

SEW's co-founder Susan Douglas Franzosa is a past AESA president.
For those who are unfamiliar with AESA, it was

established in 1968 as an international learned society for students,
teachers, research scholars, and administrators who are interested in
the foundations of education. AESA is a society primarily comprised of
college and university professors who teach and research in the field
of education utilizing one or more of the liberal arts disciplines of
philosophy, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, or economics
as well as comparative/international and cultural studies. The purpose
of social foundations study is to bring intellectual resources derived
from these areas to bear in developing interpretive, normative, and
critical perspectives on education, both inside of and outside of
schools.

The role of AESA is to provide a cross-disciplinary forum wherein
scholars gather to exchange and debate ideas generated from the above
mentioned areas. This cross-disciplinary commitment of the
organization creates a landscape for the discussion of broader policy
issues such as minority studies, gender studies, multicultural
education, democracy, and issues of educational equality and equity.
Our membership is dedicated to examining issues in education from a
plurality of academic viewpoints and perspectives.

AESA has announced that in 2014, it will partner with the
International Association of Intercultural Education to host its
annual conference: Together we will provide

a critical space for sociohistorical, political and philosophical
dialogues focused on reframing diversity within a global context. In
particular, we are interested in submissions that address diversity as
a multifaceted and dynamic idea as well as the structures that
transform, maintain, and reproduce the many intersectionalities of
identity. By focusing on colonialism, settler ideologies, capitalism,
and neoliberalism, among other related topics we can resituate
diversity in a global context. Turning to issues of transnational
immigration, cosmopolitan citizenships, and globalized knowledge
networks, we might find new approaches to equity and social justice in
education.

SEW calls for educating women's attention particularly to this call's
concern with "intersectionalities of identity" that include gender and
sexuality, to resituate diversity in a gendered global context and to
find new approaches to gender equity and sexual justice as they
intersect with other diverse concerns about equity and social justice
in education.   Those approaches may include cultural studies fields
not mentioned above, which are traditional specialties within
Educational Studies, such as arts & education or religion & education.

Educating Women: The Journal of the Society for Educating Women

One final piece of news to share:  The SEW Journal, Educating Women,
will soon be accepting revised-essay seminar papers (published as
abstracts in the 2013 conference proceedings) for submission.
Educating Women is a peer-reviewed, online journal.  The journal site
is open access, so please visit this site to read/download the
articles from the first three issues:
http://educatingwomen.net/journals/index.php?journal=ew1&page=issue&op=archive
Guest editors are preparing several volumes and issues publishing work
presented at prior conferences (2010-2013).

For information about submitting an article for the 2012 and 2013
volumes, please contact Linda Hoeptner-Poling, lhoeptne@kent.edu.  For
information regarding an article for the 2011 volume, please contact
Maike Philipsen, miphilip@vcu.edu. For on submitting for the 2010
volume, please contact Julie Davis, Julie@ou.edu.

Once again, thank you for your continued support for and participation
in SEW.   I'm looking forward to seeing you in Toronto this fall!


Warmest regards,

Susan Laird
2014 SEW@AESA 2014 Chair and President-Elect
and
Julie Davis, SEW 2014 President and AESA 2014 Conference Program
Committee Member

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