{"id":671,"date":"2008-03-09T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2008-03-09T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T05:35:00","slug":"cfp-race-gender-and-media-in-the-2008-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/03\/09\/cfp-race-gender-and-media-in-the-2008-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Race, Gender, and Media in the 2008 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R9Nn97MqJ5I\/AAAAAAAABHA\/MEoLsvsIbDE\/s1600-h\/images-2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R9Nn97MqJ5I\/AAAAAAAABHA\/MEoLsvsIbDE\/s200\/images-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Many democracies&#8211;the United Kingdom, Argentina, India, Israel, the Philippines, Pakistan, Liberia, France, and Jamaica, to name a few&#8211;have or have had women heads of state, and other countries&#8211;oh, like Peru and Bolivia&#8211;have elected presidents who are members of racial minority groups. Not so much here in the US of A, which is why, of course, it is rightly Such a Friggin Huge Deal.  And the scholars are rightly getting busy.<\/p>\n<p>On September 26-27, 2008, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohns.edu\/academics\/graduate\/law\/prospective\/RonBrown\/symposia\/rm2008\">Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development <\/a>at St. John&#8217;s University School of Law will hold a symposium entitled <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Making  History: Race, Gender and the Media in the 2008 Elections<\/span> at their Queens campus to explore it all.  They&#8217;re inviting proposals <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span>from scholars from all relevant disciplines (law, media, political science, gender studies, race studies, ethnic studies, sociology, economics, history) and activists engaged in &#8220;developing concepts, analyses, methods, or data relevant to race, gender, media and elections.&#8221; Any takers?  The deadline for submissions is March 14, 2008.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohns.edu\/academics\/graduate\/law\/prospective\/RonBrown\/symposia\/rm2008\">More info available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quick&#8211;pass it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many democracies&#8211;the United Kingdom, Argentina, India, Israel, the Philippines, Pakistan, Liberia, France, and Jamaica, to name a few&#8211;have or have had women heads of state, and other countries&#8211;oh, like Peru and Bolivia&#8211;have elected presidents who are members of racial minority groups. Not so much here in the US of A, which is why, of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21101],"tags":[21328,129,10745,21733],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfps","tag-events","tag-media","tag-political-campaigns","tag-racial-equality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}