The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi is pleased to announce its 22nd Annual Isom Student Gender Conference (ISGC). The ISGC is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30th through Friday, April 1st in the Student Union Auditorium (Rm 124).

The 2022 conference theme is Queer and Feminist World Making. We invite participants to explore the act of world-making in a myriad of contexts, with its linkages to social movements, notions of space and place, and intersections into issues of equality, equity, access, empowerment, and lived experiences. We are particularly interested in what happens in the in-between spaces where interdisciplinarity modes merge with a do-it-yourself ethos to pro-duce new terrains: where new knowledge is formed, where solutions for social change are produced and enacted through feminist collaborations, where aesthetic forms are ruptured to produce new pathways for making meaning and art.

Students are welcome to submit papers from all disciplines, along with creative writing projects such as fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Additionally, we are seeking submissions of student films that will be part of an evening event on Thursday during the conference. Lastly, proposals for roundtable discussions that center on community building, advocacy, and social change both on and off the campus through the arts, social media, and student engagement with broader communities are encouraged. A small number of domestic travel grants will be made available to non-UM students.

The keynote speaker for this year’s Isom Student Gender Conference, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Ph.D., embodies this dynamic world-making in her own life, activism, and art.

The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, February 15, 2022.

Visit IsomStudentGenderConference.org for more information or to submit.