>Please Distribute the Following Announcement. Thanks!
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>ANNOUNCING
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>THE 2005 AERC LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER & ALLIES
>(LGBTQ&A) PRE-CONFERENCE
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>Pre-Conference Location: Georgia Center for Continuing Education,
>University of Georgia, Athens, GA
>(<http://www.gactr.uga.edu/>www.gactr.uga.edu)
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>Pre-Conference Date: Thursday, June 2, 2005, 9:00pm – 5:00pm
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>Pre-conference Organizers:
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>Bob Hill (<mailto:rjhill@coe.uga.edu>rjhill@coe.uga.edu), André P. Grace
>(<mailto:andre.grace@ualberta.ca>andre.grace@ualberta.ca) Kristopher Wells
>(<mailto:kris.wells@shaw.ca>kris.wells@shaw.ca), Mitsu Misawa
>(<mailto:mmisawa@coe.uga.edu>mmisawa@uga.edu), and Wayland Walker
>(<mailto:wwalker@uga.edu>wwalker@uga.edu)
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>PRE-CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
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>(Due Date for Proposals: February 28, 2005)
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>PRE-CONFERENCE TITLE:
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>Hear Me Out: Queer Narratives, Moral/izing Discourses & the Academy
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>The 3rd annual LGBTQ&A PreConference of the 2005 Adult Education Research
>Conference, titled Hear Me Out: Queer Narratives, Moral/izing Discourses &
>the Academy invites reflections on experiences of students, staff,
>faculty, professors, and academic professionals in the present time which
>is characterized by fundamentalism and moral/izing discourses.
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>Moral/izing discourses now characterize the present moment in much of
>world history. Fundamentalism has become both a local and global
>phenomenon and LGBTQ people are in the cross-hairs of a conservative
>right-wing revolution, both locally and globally. For instance, on
>November 2nd in the U.S. people overwhelmingly voted in 11 states to enact
>constitutional amendments banning ‘gay rights.’ ‘Moral values’ topped the
>list why people supported these amendments. Almost 60 million people who
>are neighbours, colleagues, co-workers, and members of civil society
>expressed the sentiment that LGBTQ folks are immoral. In Zimbabwe,
>President Mugabe constantly issues a stream of homophobic
>rhetoric. Uganda has acted to thwart UNESCO efforts to include sexual
>orientation rights in education for all initiatives. In Latin America,
>transgendered individuals are robbed of identity cards, beaten and murdered.
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>Despite these trends, the debates over LGBTQ rights are sometimes framed
>in ways other than around an ‘immorality perspective.’ For instance, in
>Canada we find the Supreme Court read in protection against discrimination
>on the ground of sexual orientation into Section 15 (1) of the Canadian
>Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1995. In another Supreme Court decision
>in 1998, equality rights were provided to LGBTQ citizens. Despite these
>federal protections, rightist political and religious factions in Canada
>still mount campaigns to prevent LGBTQ citizens from making further gains
>toward attaining the rights and privileges of full citizenship and personhood.
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>What do the debates with/in, beyond, around moral/izing discourses have to
>say to LGBTQ justice? What is the role of adult education in them?
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>Schools, the academy, and non-educational workplaces reproduce the
>tensions that exist in society over lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
>and queer rights. In academe, sexual orientation and gender identity are
>issues that emerge in policy debates and in discussions on the role of
>adult education for social transformation. At the heart of this social
>contestation, scholars—gay, straight, and those who reject identifiers—are
>‘thinking and being outside of the closet’ to effect change. How can/does
>this affect the trends toward fundamentalism and moral/ization?
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>There is a maxim that states, “I must see myself in order to know
>myself.” What does academic visibility (or lack of it) mean to the
>proliferation of moral/izing discourses?
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>This call for the 3rd annual LGBTQ&A PreConference invites involvement in
>two ways: (a) presentation of papers on the intersection of the academy,
>visibility, social justice, civil rights, academic citizenship and
>local/global moral/izing, and (b) an invitation to students to participate
>on a student panel to discuss the theme of LGBTQ presence/experiences in
>the academy at this moment in history.
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>PRE-CONFERENCE FORMAT:
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>(1) Opening Guest Presentation – André P. Grace & Kristopher Wells,
>University of Alberta, Canada
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>Out Is In: Building a University-Community Network in Edmonton to Empower
>LGBTQ&A Youth through Arts-Informed Socialization and Informal Educational
>Initiatives.
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>The Out Is In project began in November 2004 after Public Safety and
>Emergency Preparedness Canada provided us with funding. During the first
>phase of the project we developed expertise in understanding the complex
>personal, safety, legal, and health issues and concerns of LGBTQ&A youth
>in Alberta. During our multimedia presentation we will discuss Out Is In’s
>unique arts-informed approach to helping youth deal with identity and
>socialization issues in their public or religious schools, family or
>custody-and-care situations, and communities.
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>(2) Paper presentations (selected from proposals)
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>(3) Student panel
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>PAPER PRESENTATIONS / ALTERNATIVE FORMATS:
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>Forty minutes (40 min.) each on the day of the pre-conference.
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>For presentation proposals, submit: Name of author(s)/presenter(s);
>Affiliation(s); Mailing address(es); Email address(es); Phone number(s);
>Title of presentation; AV requests; and an Abstract (no more than 250
>words) of the paper or alternative format presentation.
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>Spacing, margins, font, and other formatting for all written submissions
>should follow AERC guidelines. See
><http://www.edst.educ.ubc.ca/aerc/callfor.htm>http://www.edst.educ.ubc.ca/aerc/callfor.htm
>for guidelines on formatting.
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>The deadline for submission of proposals for the LGBTQ&A Pre-Conference is
>February 28, 2005.
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>A committee of the LGBTQ&A Caucus will review all proposals.
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>Accepted authors will be notified by April 1, 2005.
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>Criteria of judgment will include relevance of the proposal to the
>Pre-Conference theme, Hear Me Out: Queer Narratives, Moral/izing
>Discourses & the Academy, quality of submission, and significance of the
>topic to expanding our conceptualizations of adult education and advancing
>its inclusive possibilities.
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>Please send proposals by email, in MicroSoft WORD (preferable) or
>WordPerfect, to:
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>Bob Hill (University of Georgia) at
><mailto:rjhill@coe.uga.edu>rjhill@coe.uga.edu
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>or
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>André P. Grace (University of Alberta) at
><mailto:andre.grace@ualberta.ca>andre.grace@ualberta.ca
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>Accepted authors must submit (by email to Bob or André) a written paper
>from three to six pages in length, single-spaced and following AERC
>guidelines, by April 30, 2005. The paper will be included in the
>Proceedings to be distributed at the Pre-conference.
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>Cost of attending the pre-Conference is $10.00 (US).
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>PARTICIPATION ON THE STUDENT PANEL:
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>Students are invited to send their name, affiliation, mailing address,
>email address, phone number and a 100 word summary of the ‘point of view’
>that they will bring to the student panel on their experiences at the
>intersections of the academy, visibility, social justice, civil rights,
>academic citizenship, and local/global moral/izing.
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>LGBTQ & A CAUCUS INFORMATION:
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>In addition to the Pre-conference, the annual LGBTQ & A Caucus meeting
>will be held during the main AERC 2005 Conference, (See:
><http://www.gactr.uga.edu/conferences/2005/Jun/02/aerc.phtml>http://www.gactr.uga.edu/conferences/2005/Jun/02/aerc.phtml)
>at a time that will be noted in the main conference schedule (TBA).
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