Call for Submissions (Deadline June 1, 2012)

Complete details below or at www.ila-net.org/Publications/BLB/CallforSubmissions.htm

Lois Melina, Editor.  Melina is Chair, Ethical and Creative Leadership Concentration, PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, Union Institute & University.

The International Leadership Association invites you to submit your work on the theme, The Embodiment of Leadership for our annual volume in the Building Leadership Bridges series. The book captures the best contemporary thinking about leadership from a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadership studies. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the book series connects ways of researching, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world. The book will be published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley with an expected publication date of March 2013.

Background/Rationale

Linguistics scholar James Paul Gee identified four ways of viewing identity, i.e., what it means to be a particular kind of person. Among them are an identity that is inborn (i.e., natural) and an identity that is conferred by a particular position of authority within institutions, both of which can be related to theories of leadership. A third way of viewing identity is as a discursive identity, one that is constituted through speech, action, attitude, use of materials, gestures, feelings, race, gender, size, age, physical appearance—in short, an identity that acknowledges and is created by the body. This form of identity, Gee said, does not have power on its own, but must be recognized. This is similar to feminist philosopher Judith Butler’s notion that gender is an identity that is constituted through performative repeated acts.

This volume seeks to explore the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity that is situated in a body that not only thinks, but moves, acts, has emotions and desires, ages, experiences, hurts, and senses. This idea moves leadership beyond the intellectual functions such as visioning, strategizing, and persuading, and the actions that emanate from the intellectual realm, and situates leadership firmly in a corporality that is raced, gendered, cultured, sexual, instinctual, and emotional. It suggests that leadership itself is an embodied text that can be “read” to discover personal and cultural meaning. Indeed, anthropologist Victor Turner suggested that it is through performance situated in the body that we not only reveal meaning, but reveal ourselves to ourselves and others.

Contemporary calls for leaders who are authentic due to heightened self-awareness cannot be answered unless that includes the ways in which leadership involves both mind and body awareness. Contemporary calls for more inclusive leadership cannot be answered without an awareness of the ways in which our understanding of leadership has been constituted by a dominant performative discourse that is white and male (even when not enacted by white males), heterosexual, and fully able.

This is a call for essays and creative works that explore the embodiment of leadership. Each submission is expected to be supported by a theoretical, philosophical, and/or disciplinary grounding. We seek traditional scholarly essays, personal narrative, ethnographies, plays, poetry, visual art, and photo essays, as well as reports of research and discussions of how educators and practitioners have used these concepts in their classrooms, in their personal development, and in leadership workshops.

Questions for Stimulation

The editor of this volume offers a set of guiding questions to stimulate your thinking about The Embodiment of Leadership: How can an understanding of the ways the body is involved in constituting leadership contribute to an understanding of leadership that includes bodies in ways that genuinely shatter glass ceilings? How can leaders recognize the ways their bodies are impacting their leadership—and leadership is impacting their bodies? How can leadership development benefit from an understanding of the role of the body in leadership? What roles have literature, film, myth, fairy tale, archetype, and art played in the constitution of an embodied discourse of leadership? Can a lack of attention to the body in leadership account for dramatic accounts of self-sabotage by leaders in ways that involve the body?

Areas for Submission

The editor welcomes previously unpublished submissions that explore the theme The Embodiment of Leadership from diverse perspectives, disciplines, cultures and sectors. Submissions should strengthen ties between those who practice and who study leadership, and that foster effective leadership. Submissions will be considered in five areas that help us understand leadership and leading at the intersections of research or theory, application, experience, and art.

• Analyses of leaders and/or leadership: Researchers should present inquiries, findings, and discussions that analyze the relationship of the body to leaders and/or leadership using a variety of methods, including (but not limited to) narrative inquiry, case study, discourse analysis, and performance ethnography. This can include not only contemporary and historical figures, but literary and mythological figures. What cultural narratives, myths, or archetypes are revealed when we examine the way leadership identity has been constituted through performativity? How can the field of performance ethnography contribute to the study and practice of leadership? How do the media contribute to the constitution of leadership through the choices they make in representing the bodies of leaders, both visually and in print? How can an understanding of the body as a site of knowledge contribute to the study of leadership?
• Ways of developing leaders and teaching about leadership: Those who develop leaders in classrooms, through mentoring, in workshops, or through a consulting practice are encouraged to share how they involve the body as a site of knowledge in leadership development workshops and leadership education. How can an awareness of the embodiment of leadership be addressed in online courses, webinars, and other media-based or distance education modalities?
• Leadership theory: To what extent are theories of leadership influenced by a performative discourse constituted by the dominant white male culture? In what ways does consideration of leadership as an embodied, performative discourse invite reconsideration of existing theories? Further, discussions of the embodiment of leadership invite explorations of the ways leadership theory intersects with critical race theory, gender theories, queer theory, and other theories in which the body is clearly at the center of inquiry.
• Artistic works: Literature, photography, fine art, music, dance, film and other artistic forms can be explored as sources of information or units of analysis about the embodiment of leadership. In addition, artists in these and other genres are encouraged to submit original works that relate to the theme of embodied leadership or the performative discourse of leadership.
• Boundary crossing: This topic invites consideration from a variety of disciplines, including theatre, anthropology, the arts, psychology, narrative, and others. Contributors are invited to take a multi-perspective and/or interdisciplinary approach, which may include representing research in artistic form or arts-based leadership development workshops.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted works must be previously unpublished and must adhere to the following specifications:

• Submissions should be no longer than 5000 words, the word count not to include references, tables, or charts.
• Submitted works will be blind-reviewed, thus all identifying information should be on a separate cover sheet.
• Information on the cover sheet must include all of the following: suggested area of submission, title of submission, a maximum 100-word abstract, and names, affiliations, and contact information (including best phone, best email, and mailing address) for all contributors.
• APA style should be followed.
• Notes should be kept to a minimum but when used should come in the form of endnotes.
• Margins are to be 1” on all four sides, left-aligned, NOT justified, and all pages numbered in the top right-hand corner with the narrative starting on page 1.
• Submissions should be in Times New Roman, font size 12, double spaced, and indented paragraphs for all submissions EXCEPT artistic works.

PLEASE NOTE: All submissions must meet these guidelines except artistic works. If guidelines are not met, submission may be excluded from consideration.

Send submissions electronically as a WORD DOCUMENT to ILA Director of Publications, Debra DeRuyver at dderuyver@ila-net.org by June 1, 2012.

We plan to make final decisions and send out notifications the week of August 1, 2012.

The 14th Annual International Leadership Association Conference Call for Proposals is Open! Leadership Across the Great Divides: Bridging Cultures, Contexts, and Complexities.

The Continental Divide of the Americas, or the “Great Divide” as it is known in Colorado, is the series of mountain ranges that spans from northern Alaska through Colorado to the tip of Patagonia in South America. Crossing this Great Divide has historically required courage and stamina fueled by innovation and a vision of a better life on the other side.

From every street in the city of Denver you can see the towering peaks of the Continental Divide. The snow-covered crags of the Rocky Mountains draws your gaze upwards, inviting consideration of what it would be like to climb to new heights, cross a challenging pass, or explore different perspectives.

Metaphorically, contemporary Great Divides present complex challenges whose solutions require much more than courage, stamina, and a vision of a better life. Complicated by new technologies used for both good and ill, these challenges—marked by racism, poverty, illiteracy, religious intolerance, hunger, and even war—call for new approaches to leadership and new types of leaders able to bring diverse contexts together, create cultural inclusion, and deal with complexity and rapid change.

The 14th Global Conference of the ILA offers a unique opportunity for multisector, multinational, and multicultural examination of Leadership Across the Great Divides.

Submissions are being accepted through March 15; visit this section of the ILA website to learn more and to submit: http://www.ila-net.org/Conferences/2012/cfp.htm

Additional information:

“Wildflowers Institute was established in 1997 as a social innovation and application lab. We are focused on understanding how communities work. Our mission is to design methods and tools to catalyze the innate power in communities. We believe that the greatest promise for self-sustaining community change comes from strengthening the existing resources within the community.”

(From the Wildflowers website)

Click here to view the CFP for Works In Progress.

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

“Communication in the 21st Century: Intercultural Communication” 1:00 p.m., Thursday, April 5 – Noon, Friday, April 6, 2012

The School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University welcomes proposals from graduate students in any discipline for a two-day symposium (from 1:00 p.m. Thursday to noon on Friday) exploring all facets of communication. This year, the theme of the symposium is “Intercultural Communication” broadly defined.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

communication in a globalized world
communication norms and discourse communities
the challenge of cross-cultural communication
communication and cultural values
globalization and global media
media framing of global politics and culture
cross-cultural training
public relations and diplomacy
diversity and communication in a global society
intercultural communication and foreign policy
communication and media convergence
intercultural awareness in communication

This year, the symposium keynote speaker at the Thursday evening banquet is Dr. Kirk St. Amant, associate professor of Technical and Professional Communication at East Carolina University, and a faculty member with ECU’s Master’s of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) program. His research focuses on international and intercultural communication as it relates to online media and includes international virtual workplaces, international outsourcing/offshoring, and the effects of globalization on online education.

Submit short 250-300 word proposals for 15-minute presentations as an attachment in ‘.doc’ format to communicationsymposium@gmail.com by Wednesday, February 1, 2012.

More information about the symposium, including programs and videos of keynote addresses from previous years, can be found at http://www.jmu.edu/wrtc/gradsymposium/.

Please contact us at communicationsymposium@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Congratulations Gariot!

·      Writing instruction as a site and medium for the production of racialized, sexualized bodies, desires, consciousness, emotions
·      Institutional and disciplinary economies within higher education
·      Rhetorics of the economy of writing: notions of efficiency, profit, competence, clarity, precision, efficacy, etc.
·      Problematics of the transnational exchange of composition expertise
·      Notions of labor and management in composition research and pedagogy
·      Relations of language ecology to economic, cultural social, physical, biological ecologies
·      Relations of linguistic labor and physical, intellectual, emotional labor
·      Relations of power and rhetorical authority within specific modes of the production and circulation of writing
·      Shifts and continuities in notions of authorship, intellectual property, and the commodification of language, writing, and composition skills
·      Questions of translation in economies of writing
·      Dominant and alternative economies for the production and distribution of scholarship in rhetoric and composition
·      Writing and the (re)production of class, professional identities

Keynotes, Featured Speakers, and Moderators:

Deborah Brandt
Resa Crane Bizzaro
Ralph Cintron
Ellen Cushman
Keith Gilyard
Juan Guerra
Jeanne Gunner
Joseph Harris
Asao Inoue
Rochelle Kapp
Michelle Hall Kells
Carmen Kynard
Steven Lamos
Theresa Lillis
Julie Linquist
Tamera Marko
Paula Mathieu
Shondel Nero
Wendy Olson
Kelly Ritter
Phyllis Ryder
Tony Scott
Cynthia Selfe
John Tassoni
John Trimbur
Scott Wible
Vivette Milson-Whyte

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 1, 2012

For more information, email Min-Zhan Lu, conference director: watson@louisville.edu
Or call: (502) 852-1252

Submission Information:
Electronic submissions open on November 4, 2011 and close on March 1, 2012.

We invite proposals for 20-minute individual presentations and 75-minute panels of two or three presentations that consider some aspect of the conference theme. For individual presentations and panels, Submit 250-word proposals. Panels will be accepted or rejected as a whole. Follow the links below to access the appropriate online submission form.

Individual Presentations <http://louisville.edu/conference/watson/watson-2012-individual-submission-form>

Panel Submissions <http://louisville.edu/conference/watson/panel-submission-form>

Though we prefer to receive proposals through our online submission forms, the Watson Conference will accept hard copy proposals postmarked no later than March 1, 2012.

Include the following information for each proposed participant:
Name and institutional affiliation
Mailing address
Email address
Title and abstract of 250 words
Audio-visual equipment needs
Special needs

Address paper submissions to:
Min-Zhan Lu, Thomas R. Watson Conference Director
315 Bingham Humanities Building
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292

Important Information for Presenters

• If you need audio-visual equipment, please specify your needs as clearly as possible. The Watson Conference can provide overhead projectors, DVD players, audio tape/CD players, laptop computers, and data projectors.
• To preserve time for discussion, the Watson Conference limits all presentations to 20 minutes.
• Notifications of proposal status will be sent by May 2012.
• No person may make more than one presentation at the conference.
• Each presenter must make his or her own presentation; no proxies are allowed.
• The Watson Conference does not sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs.

• intercultural communication in a globalized world
• communication norms and discourse communities
• the challenge of cross-cultural communication
• communication and cultural values
• globalization and global media
• media framing of global politics and culture
• cross-cultural training
• public relations and diplomacy
• diversity and communication in a global society
• intercultural communication and foreign policy
• communication and media convergence
• intercultural awareness in communication

This year, the symposium keynote speaker at the Thursday evening banquet is Dr. Kirk St. Amant, associate professor of Technical and Professional Communication at East Carolina University, and a faculty member with ECU’s Master’s of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) program. His research focuses on international and intercultural communication as it relates to online media and includes international virtual workplaces, international outsourcing/offshoring, and the effects of globalization on online education.
Submit short 250-300 word proposals for 15-minute presentations as an attachment in ‘.doc’ format to communicationsymposium@gmail.com by Wednesday, February 1, 2012.
More information about the symposium, including programs and videos of keynote addresses from previous years, can be found at http://www.jmu.edu/wrtc/gradsymposium/.
Please contact us at communicationsymposium@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Kenyon College, a highly selective, nationally ranked liberal arts college in central Ohio, invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology for the academic term commencing Fall 2012.  This position is for a three-year replacement. Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in sociology by Fall 2012. Faculty responsibilities include teaching a 3/2 course load over two semesters and informal advising of students. Courses to be taught include Methods of Social Research. The successful applicant’s theoretical and topical specialization is open, though we especially encourage applicants whose areas of expertise include medical sociology.

To apply, candidates should visit the online application site found at https://employment.kenyon.edu. A complete application will be comprised of
1) an Unofficial Transcript;
2) a Cover Letter that includes an articulation of the applicant’s teaching philosophy; 3) a Curriculum Vitae; and,
4) Letters of Reference from three (3) recommenders.

All application materials must be submitted electronically through Kenyon’s employment website.

Review of applications will begin February 1, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled. Completed applications received by the February 1stdeadline will be guaranteed full consideration.

Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in sociology by Fall 2012.

*Kenyon College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the College’s policy to evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, disability, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, political belief or activity, or status as a veteran. Kenyon welcomes diversity and encourages applications from women and minority candidates.** Employment at Kenyon is contingent upon a successful background check.*

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