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This conference aims to provide participants with an opportunity to reflect and strategize around how to integrate activism into the undergraduate academic experience and vice versa. It also hopes to bring together students, community members, activists, graduate students, and faculty in order to interrogate the gaps between our disciplines and build bridges.

In order to foster nation-wide undergraduate feminist activism, part of the conference will be dedicated to forming a cross-Canada Women’s Studies undergraduate student association. We hope that such an association will be able to address the lack of communication and partnership between Women’s Studies programs and discuss how to increase student access to issues not covered by the course offerings of our home departments.

Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

Proposal Guidelines

The conference committee invites Women’s Studies undergraduate students, as well as other undergraduate students, community members, activists, graduate students, and faculty to submit proposals in English for paper presentations, verbal art, or 2D/3D artwork. Alternative forms and formats are welcome.

The deadline for paper submissions is February 15, 2006 (or March 1 for U of A students).

Each submission will have at least two parts:

Title Page: The first page contains your submission title, name, e-mail address, telephone number, and technology requests. Click to download the Title Page Form.

Proposal: Your proposal for a paper presentation, verbal art, or 2D/3D artwork should consist of a 500-word (maximum) description of the material you would like to present. Proposals for 2D/3D artworks may also include up to three small, preferably digital, image files. Please put the title of your submission in the header of your proposal. We welcome you to share in your proposal how you came to your work or how you feel personally connected to it, but do not include your name or affiliation in your proposal itself — that information goes on your title page form. You may submit in more than one category, or more than one of each, but a separate title page form is required for each submission. (Note: The full text of your paper presentation is not expected by the submission deadline. Only a max-500 word description is required.)

To Submit: Please send your proposal and any questions to wsua[at]ualberta.ca.

Here are some helpful links for how to fill out submissions and what to think about. These guides are meant to assist you as resources for preparing your proposal, although they have different requirements for their submissions. Please ensure you follow our specific submission guidelines.

CHI’s Guide to Successful Paper Submissions
NASPA Examples of Successful Submission
UPA’s How to Prepare a Successful Submission. You have to scroll down a bit to get to the guidelines.