Women's Worlds 2011 Launches Website

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MEDIA ADVISORY

New website signals countdown to global feminist conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
17 June 2009, Ottawa

Today's launch of www.womensworlds.ca - a trilingual website devoted to a
2011 global feminist event - signals the start of a countdown to what will
likely be the largest women's conference in Canada's history: Women's
Worlds 2011 (WW 2011).

"Inclusions, Exclusions, and Seclusions: Living in a Globalized World" is
the theme of the international and interdisciplinary gathering of and
about women to be held in Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada from July 3-7, 2011.

The event will convene a diversity of minds and experiences to delve into
some of the most pressing issues of our time. Outreach is underway to draw
a rich cross-section of people from around the world into the conversation
- from academics to activists and researchers to policy-makers.

In the lead-up to the gathering, the website will serve as a hub where
people from around the world can connect and converse on issues related to
globalization and women's equality, and more. To stoke that conversation,
organizers will roll out a range of interactive components and unveil
content and registration information as it becomes available. Site
visitors are encouraged to sign up for e-bulletins to receive
up-to-the-minute information about website content and the conference.

This online portal is part of a broader new media strategy that organizers
hope will attract unlikely participants to the conference and related
discussions, a key conference objective being to encourage
intergenerational exchange.

WW 2011 organizers also plan on using social media like facebook, flickr,
youtube, and twitter to stimulate connections and conversations.

Ottawa-Gatineau plays host to this 11th edition of Women's Worlds - a
triennial global women's conference most recently held in Madrid in 2008
and Seoul in 2005 - with the University of Ottawa and Carleton University
partnering as lead coordinators.

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For more information:

Lise Martin, Executive Director
Women's Worlds 2011
(001) 613.562.5800 extension 6600
media@womensworlds.ca

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AVIS AUX MÉDIAS

Nouveau site Web entame le compte à rebours d'une conférence féministe
internationale

POUR DIFFUSION IMMÉDIATE
Le 17 juin 2009, Ottawa

Le lancement aujourd'hui de www.mondesdesfemmes.ca - un site Web trilingue
consacré à un événement féministe international - entame le compte à
rebours menant à Mondes des Femmes 2011, le plus important rassemblement
de femmes jamais organisé au Canada.

« Inclusions, exclusions et réclusions: Vivre dans un monde globalisé »,
c'est le grand thème de cette rencontre internationale et
interdisciplinaire, organisée par et pour les femmes, du 3 au 7 juillet
2011 à Ottawa-Gatineau (Canada).

MF 2011 rassemblera des femmes en provenance de tous les horizons. Leurs
analyses et expériences vécues éclaireront certains des enjeux les plus
pressants et actuels. Nous espérons intéresser à notre conversation le
plus possible d'universitaires et de militantes, de chercheures et de
décisionnaires de tous les coins du monde.

D'ici au rassemblement, notre site Web sera un forum international où se
rassembler et échanger sur des questions touchant la mondialisation,
l'égalité des femmes et plus encore. Pour stimuler cette conversation, le
comité organisateur mettra régulièrement en ligne des composantes
interactives, en plus d'afficher à mesure des nouvelles sur la conférence
et des directives d'inscription. On peut également s'abonner à partir du
site au bulletin électronique de MF 2011, qui vous préviendra de tout
développement.

Ce portail en ligne fait partie d'une nouvelle stratégie média visant à
amener à l'interaction et à la conférence des personnes de milieux plus
difficiles à rejoindre, MF 2011 souhaitant beaucoup encourager les
échanges intergénérationnels.

Le comité organisateur de la conférence misera aussi sur des médias
sociaux tels facebook, flickr, youtube et twitter, pour stimuler
connexions et conversations.

Après Séoul en 2005 et Madrid en 2008, c'est donc Ottawa-Gatineau qui
accueillera en 2011 la 11e édition de Mondes des Femmes, une conférence
internationale triennale coordonnée en partenariat avec l'Université
d'Ottawa et l'Université de Carleton.

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Pour plus d'information:

Lise Martin, directrice générale
Mondes des Femmes 2011
(001) 613.562.5800, poste 6600
media@womensworlds.ca

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AVISO A LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN

Nuevo sitio web marca el inicio de la cuenta regresiva para conferencia
feminista mundial

Para publicación inmediata
17 de junio de 2009, Ottawa

Hoy, el lanzamiento de www.mundosdemujeres.ca, un sitio web trilingüe
dedicado al evento feminista mundial a realizarse en 2011, marca el inicio
de la cuenta regresiva para lo que se augura el mayor acontecimiento
feminista en la historia de Canadá: Mundos de Mujeres 2011 (MDM 2011).

"Inclusiones, exclusiones y reclusiones: vivir en un mundo globalizado" es
el tema del encuentro internacional e interdisciplinar de mujeres y acerca
de las mujeres que tendrá lugar en Ottawa-Gatineau, en Canadá del 3 al 7
de julio de 2011.

El evento reunirá una gran diversidad de perspectivas y experiencias para
profundizar en algunos de los temas más apremiantes de nuestro tiempo. La
conferencia pretende alcanzar a una rica variedad de interlocutores de
todo el mundo - desde académicos y activistas e investigadores hasta
dirigentes políticos - que conversarán e intercambiarán puntos de vista
sobre problemas en común.

En el marco de los preparativos de la reunión, el sitio web servirá de
punto de encuentro para que interlocutores alrededor del mundo entren en
contacto y conversen sobre la globalización, la igualdad de las mujeres, y
otros temas afines. Para facilitar el intercambio, los organizadores
pondrán a la disposición de los participantes una amplia gama de
componentes interactivos y difundirán los contenidos y la información
sobre las inscripciones a medida que éstos estén disponibles. El portal en
Internet es parte de una nueva estrategia mediática de amplio alcance, por
medio de la cual los organizadores esperan atraer a participantes
imprevistos a las conferencias y a las discusiones, pues uno de los
objetivos principales es motivar el intercambio intergeneracional.

Los organizadores de MDM 2011 planean utilizar también medios de
socialización como facebook, flickr, youtube, y twitter para estimular los
contactos y los intercambios.

Ottawa-Gatineau es el anfitrión de la 11a edición de Women's Worlds
[Mundos de Mujeres] - una conferencia mundial de mujeres realizada cada
tres años, cuyas ediciones más recientes tuvieron lugar en Madrid, en 2008
y en Seúl, en 2005. En 2011, la Universidad de Ottawa y la Universidad de
Carleton trabajan juntas como coordinadoras líderes del evento.

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Para mayores informes:

Lise Martin, Executive Director
Mundos de Mujeres 2011
(001) 613.562.5800 extension 6600
media@womensworlds.ca

Interdisciplinary Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada/November 21, 2009

YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) presents:
Interdisciplinary Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada
November 21, 2009

Playing the Field
playingthefield2009@gmail.com
www.playingthefield2009.wordpress.com

Throughout much of the history of socio-cultural anthropology, fieldwork,
particularly that involving extended periods of participant observation, has
been touted as the discipline's methodological hallmark. However, the
established tendency to conceptualize 'the field' as the site where
'fieldwork'
is conducted, and 'the fieldworker' as the actor who conducts it,
obscures the
complex and multiple milieux informing their mutual constitution. This
conference encourages participants to interrogate, complicate,
demystify, and
possibly re-enchant the concepts and practices of field/work/er, with
special
focus on their privileged, albeit shifting, contributions to the domains of
knowledge making within anthropology and other disciplines. Alongside
theoretical interrogations, we welcome submissions that speak to
participants'
ongoing experiences, obstacles and successes as workers in the field.

The Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) cordially invites
fellow
graduate students, activists and applied scholars to participate in an
interdisciplinary and interactive forum on Saturday, November 21, 2009
at York
University in Toronto, Canada.

We invite conference contributions in the following formats:
- Academic papers (presentation time: 15 minutes) and panels
(presentation time:
75 minutes)
- Alternative media presentations (posters, video, poetry, other
creative works)

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- What and where is the field?
- How is it constituted, entered, and exited by fieldworkers?
- Who is a fieldworker? How is she or he constituted by the practice of
fieldwork?
- Where is the 'work' in fieldwork?
- How is fieldwork arranged and conducted?
- What are the experiences of fieldworkers?
- How does the experience of the 'field' sometimes surprise fieldworkers?
- What kinds of interesting stories come out of fieldwork? Do these
stories make
it to the final draft?
- What is the relationship between disciplinary, regional, and performative
fields?
- How is the face and place of fieldwork changing in academia?

To propose a paper, please submit a cover page with your name; institutional
affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and
email) and
a 250 word abstract of the paper. Presentations will be limited to fifteen
minutes.

Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome. To propose a panel,
please
submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of
presenters; a panel abstract of 150 words; a separate page with the names of
presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and
email) and institutional affiliation(s), the titles of their
presentations; and
a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be limited to one hour and
fifteen minutes, including discussion periods.

Keynote address by Trent University Professor Anne Meneley:
http://www.trentu.ca/anthropology/meneley.php

Submission deadline for abstracts, proposed panels, and media
presentations is
September 25, 2009. Please send abstracts and all other inquiries to
playingthefield2009@gmail.com. Successful submissions may be assembled for
later publication. Note: travel bursaries are NOT available.