The 26th SUNY New Paltz Women's Studies Conference: Women, Gender and Science

This year's conference will examine the ways that gender relations affect the world of science, a topic recently highlighted by the controversy surrounding the comments of Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University, who suggested genetic roots for the underrepresentation of women in scientific fields. Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in the Program for Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the keynote speaker.

The conference is scheduled for Saturday, October 22, 2005, from 8:00 AM-6:30PM, and will be held on the SUNY New Platz campus. For more information, please visit: www.newpaltz.edu/wmnstudies or call: 845.257.2977.

Call for Papers: XVI World Congress of the International Sociological Association

The XVI World Congress of the International Sociological Association scheduled to be held in Durban, South Africa from July 23-29, 2006, has issued a call for papers on multiple themes, including gender and land rights in Africa. The theme of this year's conference, the first to be held in Africa, is "The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World." The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2005.

The organizer is Ben Cousins, Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His contact information is bcousins@uwc.ac.zu or annobene@iafica.com. For more information on the conference, please visit www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/.

I'm Not Doing This Just for My Health: Programs that Work for Institutional Change

The Program for Health and Higher Education (PHHE), an HIV/AIDS institutional change project housed at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), in collaboration with the Bringing Theory to Practice Project, is hosting a student pre-conference symposium, I'm Not Doing This Just for My Health: Programs that Work for Institutional Change. This symposium will focus on student engagement, HIV/AIDS, and mental health and is designed to empower and engage students to identify and promote various forms of activism on their respective campuses. It will also highlight the dialogues, strategies, and promising practices implemented by students within their campus community/ies. Though gender is not the explicit focus of the symposium, it plays an essential role in the topics being discussed and will be one of the lens through which participants are asked to examine both HIV and mental health and strategies for reaching out to key constituencies.

The Symposium is being held in connection with the AAC&U Civic Engagement Imperative conference and will take place Thursday, November 10, from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM in Providence, Rhode Island. Registration for the Symposium is limited to students (both undergraduate and graduate). The cost of registration is $25. For more information, please visit www.aacu.org/meetings/civic_engagement/studentsymposium.cfm or contact Amy Addams at addams@aacu.org.

Visions in Feminism Call for Presentations and Workshops

Visions in Feminism is issuing a call for workshops and presentations for its 6th annual conference, scheduled for Saturday, April 22, 2006 in Washington, DC. The conference is focused on mobilizing our communities and organizing them toward social change and social justice. ViF seeks to create feminism in its purest form, through organizing and mobilizing within our communities, continuing and expanding conversations of activism, confronting challenges as we encounter them, and sharing the successes we have experienced. This year, ViF is focusing on the techniques and processes that people use to create change in their communities and how these can be used in a feminist movement. ViF invites proposals on a broad range of topics that focus on mobilization and organization and welcomes all voices on these topics and encourages cross-cultural and transnational proposals from all areas/fields/focuses/disciplines. Workshops and presentations that are "non-traditional," and utilize various forms of media production are encouraged and will be given priority in the selection process.

Proposals should be submitted by mail or e-mail by December 15, 2005. Applications are available on the ViF website: www.visionsinfeminism.org. For more information, please contact ViF at: 703.276.9768, vif@visionsinfeminism.org.

Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology, and Society Fellowship Program, 2006-2007

The Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology, and Society (IAS-STS), located in Graz, Austria, is now accepting applications for its fellowship program. There are two types of positions available: research fellow, with a stay of up to nine months, and visiting scholar, with a stay of up to one month. Researchers would be at IAS-STS between October 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, depending on the program. The Institute has identified four themes for its 2006-2007 fellowship program: Gender, technology, environment; ethical, legal, and social aspects of human genetics and biotechnology; technology studies and sustainability; and information and communication technologies. IAS-STS "promotes the interdisciplinary investigation of the links and interactions between science, technology, and society, technology assessment, as well as research on the development and implementation of socially and environmentally sound technologies."

Applications must be submitted to IAS-STS by December 31, 2005. For application forms and further information, please visit www.sts.tugraz.at or e-mail info@sts.tugraz.at.

Call for Proposals: NSF ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Award

The National Science Foundation ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) program has issued a call for proposals for Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination. The ADVANCE program's primary goal is to "increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers," which it hopes to achieve by encouraging and facilitating institutions to create and sustain innovative and collaborative initiatives. According to the ADVANCE website, the Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Award support the analysis, adaptation, dissemination and use of existing innovative materials and practices that have been demonstrated to be effective in increasing representation and participation of women in academic science and engineering careers.

The deadline for submissions is January 27, 2006. For more information, please visit www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&from=fund.