Deadline: July 31, 2008: Call to Junior Scholars interested in LGBT Scholarship: Junior Scholars Workshop at the Lavender Law Conference

         

The National Gay and Lesbian Law Association's annual Lavender Law Conference announces the inaugural session of its Junior Scholars Workshop, to be held in San Francisco on September 4-6, 2008, and seeks submissions concerning legal issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity. The Workshop's objective is for more senior scholars in the field to aid in the development of the next generation of scholars. Submissions can range from completed drafts, to works-in-progress, to early-stage thoughts or proposals for future scholarship. The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2008.

SUBMISSIONS, preferably in electronic form, should be sent to Jane Trevethan,  jtrevethan@law.wnec.edu; hard copy submissions should be mailed to Jane Trevethan, Western New England College School of Law, 1215 Wilbraham Rd., Springfield, MA, 01119.  If you have further questions, please contact Taylor Flynn, Western New England Law School, flynn.taylor@gmail.com. 

 

Call for Papers--August 15, 2008 Deadline to Submit for University of Toledo School of Law : 1808: Fighting for the Right to Dream

1808 was the year of the abolition of the importing of slaves into the United States.  In this bicentennial year, how should we think about 1808?  What does 1808 say to us?  What will be said about 1808 in 2108?

The papers and witness being invited in this call for papers are about the meanings of 1808.  Those meanings might be found in the life of a slave in the United States at that time such as Barbary.  Born in 1787 in Africa and sold into slavery in 1800 in North Carolina to the Harrison family (of Founders and Presidents fame), Barbary was enslaved, black and twenty-one in 1808.  How do we keep slave stories such as her story alive?

 Those meanings might be found in 1847 in the founding of Liberia and Liberia’s history.  Or in the Civil War.  Or in Reconstruction. Or in Jim Crow.  Or in 1908, year of birth of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall whose life was dedicated to fighting for the right to dream.    Or in a picture in a courtroom in Norman, Oklahoma in 1948 of Ada Sipuel dreaming of being a lawyer.  Or in the mass movements of the civil rights and human rights movements. Or in 1968 with the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and other momentous events.  Or in a more recent rededication of efforts to achieve, protect and preserve civil and human rights for all.

 Those meanings might be found in Africa and the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Australia and the Pacific.  What does 1808 mean to the world?

 This call for papers is interdisciplinary and universal.  Scholars from around the world interested in presenting are invited to submit one to two page abstracts for papers on the conference theme on or before August 15, 2008 to  ben.davis@utoledo.edu.

 

Scholars from around the world who may have difficulty getting visas to the United States or attending should advise of their interest on or before August 15, 2008 to  ben.davis@utoledo.edu.  Overseas scholars and those unable to attend may provide a video witness of up to 10 minutes in length.