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Call for Presentations:  Feminist Scholarship: Genealogies and New Directions-Having completed the 10th Year of the Annual Feminist Preconference, this is an excellent time to evaluate the field and reflect on itshistories.  Therefore, this year--17 October 2013--we ask that participants present their current research to reflect the latest scholarship in "Feminist Studies" (broadly conceived) and, at the same time, examine the intellectual threads that have influenced it.  What scholarly trajectories does this new work advance and which ones does it challenge, reject, or re-imagine?Several overarching themes seem to be emerging in our related fields, often blurring the boundary between our respective disciplines.Feminist studies have helped to reorient the study of comparative literature and history, as well as analyses of globalization and neoliberal economics whether by recasting the historical project or focusing attention on the effects of neoliberalism on women.  This in turn has led to, among numerous other issues, rethinking subject formation, relations of field research, disenfranchisement anddisplacement, and the shift from government-based and directed aid to non-government organizations. What is the role of feminist research in examining these issues and interrogating old concepts such as "empowerment," "civil society," "transnational," or even "feminism" itself?  How are these trends being interpreted in (and perhaps led by) South Asian Studies?  South Asianists in both Social Sciences and Humanities also have been at the forefront of theorizing and pushing the boundaries in fields that shape feminist studies. When scholars talk about "queering the archive," they point to a total reexamination of existing research categories.  How has our research led or contributed to these discussions and debates?There is a valuable questioning prevalent in South Asian Studies of liberal assumptions that pervade much feminist theory, human rights frameworks, and the privileging of secularism as the most central discourse of emancipation. And while earlier scholarship focused on the inclusion of women and gender issues, there now seems to be renewed attention to questions of subjugation, violence, economic disparity and real or metaphorical "dirt."  What do these changes mean and how are they different from the focus on similar themes that took place in colonial or orientalist scholarship?  Again what role is South Asian feminist analyses playing in this reexamination?The Feminist Pre-Conference therefore looks to highlight new scholarship that reflects feminist approaches to your disciplines andsubfields on these or other issues that you deem most important.  Plus it asks you to provide an analysis of how that research fits into the history or genealogy of Feminist inquiry.We look forward to a state-of-the-field discussion that looks ahead with attention to the past.  Pleas submit proposals for papers (250words in length) to both Wendy Singer singerw@kenyon.edu AND Shelley Feldman rf12@cornell.edu by 30 May 2013. Source: AISLS