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THE UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN
in conjunction with
THE USC CENTER FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH
announce

CALL FOR PAPERS
2009 Thinking Gender

THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Friday, February 6, 2009
UCLA FACULTY CENTER

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or preconstituted panels. This year, we especially welcome feminist research on:

- women and media
- local feminist issues and concerns in Southern California
- women and the environment (e.g., ecofeminism, the built environment, urban planning, architecture)
- women and political activism (e.g., women in government, women and war/peace)
- embodiment (e.g., disability, genetics)
- women in sports

For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 word maximum), a CV (2 pages maximum, no resumes, please), and a brief bibliography (1 page maximum). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions. Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html, and note that only complete applications adhering to the stated guidelines will be accepted.

Deadline for Submissions: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, by midnight.
We will only accept completed submissions emailed by the deadline, without exception.
Please send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Box 957222/ Public Affairs 1500
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
310-825-0590
http://www.women.ucla.edu/csw/
Email: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu

USC Center for Feminist Research
Mark Taper Hall of Humanities, 442
3501 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4352
http://www.usc.edu/dept/cfr/
Email: cfr@usc.edu

LOTERIA!!!

[Meeting] On tap at Antigua...!

Take a look at what we'll be doing in our meeting on Saturday, May 24th, at Antigua Cultural Coffee House ~

• Check-In!
• Update on "Mujeres en Movimiento Panel"!!
• Update and Discussion on Loteria Night !!!
• --> Should we decide to proceed with Loteria, we'll then move into a more prolonged chat on things that still need to be done and how to get them done within the next couple of days!
• Upcoming elections...?
• Schedule for summer....??
• MALCS Summer Institute
• Check-Out!!!! =)

We will start at 10 a.m. at

Antigua Cultural Coffee House

4836 Huntington Drive South

Los Angeles, CA 90032

Hope to see you there! =)

[Event] Mujeres en Movimiento Panel: TUESDAY!!! =)

Loteria Planning Meeting y Mas!!!

I hope that everyone is doing well this weekend, especially as I know our thoughts are particularly with la familia Padilla Morales. <3 With those good energies in mind, please allow me to humbly transition to some BIG THINGS that are coming up and that we need to make some collective decisions about....

Loteria Planning Meeting:
Can folks meet either Tuesday after the CSGS Conference for about an hour (4:30 - 5:30,or 5:00 - 6:00?), or Wednesday from 3:15 to 4:00?? It's really important that we have a face-to-face update early in the week, and also we need to have a more formal sit-down planning meeting either Friday or Saturday. For the second meeting time, which hours might work best? Let's start throwing some out!

Loteria Updating:
Please continue to send out whatever updated thoughts, news,etc. you might have on our gran evento! =) Much`issimas gracias a Margarita for handling the goodies, and Adilia, Carmen, y Erika for looking into the room situation. I am finishing the Event regsitration paperwork, but QUICK QUESTION FOR EVERYONE: what do we want to raffle as the grand prize??? I am stuck on the budget request because I need to put down specific amounts for any tickets/etc. that we want to have as the big premios. Please send back specific suggestions of shows, etc., so we can figure this out today!!! =) (Paperwork will be submitted tomorrow, 12.5., in the afternoon.)

CSGS Conference:
If you are still interested in being part of the panel that will present on MALCS during the afternoon session, please hit me up! It is a really fun conversation to participate in, and the "prep work" for it is not as intimidating as you might think. ;) Also, who's down to table?? Let me know asap; gracias!

MALCS Bookmarks and Outreach:
Gracias a Carmen, Eva, y Martha for making the MALCS bookmarks! They are too cute and were a definite hit at the Teatro Chicana event. To everyone: can we think of more ways that we can continue to outreach this quarter and advertise our upcoming events? The bookmarks are dope but I think we will run out by Tuesday... also, please consider making classroom announcements even this week to start getting the word about everything out and getting everyone excited!!

Ok, mujeres, I know there is a lot going on right now, so I will try and cut this somewhat short and stop for now. Take care, mujeres, and let's be in contact!!!

!Nos vemos pronto!

[Event] EpiCentro Poets Event with USEU

Please click on the small version of our flyer above to view it full-size....y claro come and support Unión Salvadoreña de Estudiantes Universitarios (USEU) and MALCS de CSULA as we bring EpiCentro Poets to campus on Wednesday, May 7th from 7:30 - 9:30 in the Golden Eagle Ballroom. Hope to see you there!!!

Work from Working Potluck: Part One!

Buenos días a todas~*

¡Gracias por asistir nuestra junta anoche y compartir toda su energía e ideas! I will send out a more comprehensive version of "minutos" from last night within the next couple of days. In the meanwhile, here are some of the more important points to keep in mind that we discussed last night about getting MALCS recognition/recruiting/etc....!

*Finishing the Constitution
Attached is the sample constitution outline from the folks at CSULA. Adilia agreed to talk to Frangelo and check again to find out what exactly happened to the Constitution that we had on file --> A, can you please (!) do that within these next two days so that way people do not need to stress so much on updating their articles in case he does find it??
In the event we do need to submit a whole new one, everyone needs to be done with their articles and emailing them to the MALCS lista by Friday, 8:00 a.m. I can compile it all at that point and hand it off to Erika in time for the funding meeting.

*Articles that We Each Agreed to Take On:
Article III - Adilia
Article IV - KP
Article V - Mica
Article VI - Reina
Article VII - Carmen
The MALCS website (http://malcs.net) should be helpful in getting these done. =)

* Funding Meeting: 2:00 p.m. Friday
Erika will attend the mandatory meeting on Friday in the Golden Eagle. Anyone else who can show up and support along with her, it would be GREATLY appreciated!!

* Recruitment at Cal State L.A. VIP Day: 9:00 - 12:30 on Saturday
Erika and Mica will be there at 9:00 to set up our table/part of table next to the Chicana/o Studies department. Reina will be joining us at 10, and Carmen and Ninozka will also be coming later to help talk to new CSULA admits and hopefully recruit more mujeres into our fold! =) It will be at the Eagle Nest Gym; I'll forward the announcement about it later today/tomorrow.
Also, Ninozka very dope-ly offered to make us flyers to hand out that day. They will include the MALCS logo and contact information (the blog, MySpace, CHS Dept. address to track us down, and malcsdecsula@yahoo.com address because only members can post to the googlegroups lista), etc. as a basic recruitment tool. N., what would be the best way for us to get copies of the flyer before Saturday morning so that Erika and I can pass some out to the early birds??


Okey dokey - I think that is about all for now! My apologies for the very direct, no-frills, possibly confusing throwing out of all this information. IMore to come, and in a more organized fashion!, soon!

Thanks again, mujeres, and let me know if there is anything that can be clarified.

Peace and blessings,
Mica =)