Call For Proposals
Due date: Friday, January 31, 2025. We invite proposals from undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates—see details below.
2025 No Limits Student Research Conference
Theme: Transforming Lives, Gender, and Justice
March 7, 2025
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, City Campus Union and Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center
No Limits is an interdisciplinary student conference on issues related to women, gender, and sexuality and is sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Programs at UNO, UNK and UNL. It is held annually in early March and it rotates between the campuses at Lincoln, Kearney, and Omaha.
In order to keep this event accessible to all participants, No Limits charges no conference registration fee. It is entirely supported by donations from academic departments and units within the University of Nebraska and the fundraising efforts of student organizations.
Keynote by Ryan Sallans
"Finding Me: Finding We"
Ryan Sallans, MA is an inspirational transgender speaker and author who specializes in inclusion, diversity, and healthcare. Over the past 20 years, Ryan has worked in the fields of eating disorder recovery, sexual orientation, and gender identity development. His work focuses on building inclusive environments and providing trauma-informed care for students, patients, employees and clients. His growing body of texts and teachings assist corporations, healthcare institutions, federal agencies, universities, and communities. Ryan’s teachings are based on personal narrative storytelling that interweaves his past academics with present research and science. His work is designed to help audiences and individuals break down the barriers that gender presents us all.
Proposal Details
“No Limits” is an annual student conference dedicated to crossing boundaries between disciplines and exploring a wide range of women’s and gender issues. We invite proposals from undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates on any topic from any discipline related to women’s issues, lives, histories or cultures; feminism; or women’s and gender studies. Creative writing, visual arts, film, music, performances, workshops, and academic papers are all welcome. Proposals for individual presentations or pre-made panels are accepted.
Deadline to submit: Friday, January 31, 2025
Accommodations
For those who wish to stay overnight, we have reserved a limited number of rooms for Thursday, March 6 and Friday, March 7 at two area hotels. Please be advised that Lincoln is also hosting the NSAA Girls Basketball Championships that weekend, so hotel accommodations will be tight. Be sure to reserve your room as early as you can.
The Graduate
- Call the hotel at 402-467-0568 and reference "No Limits Student Research Conference Room Block 2025"
- Or, you can reserve a room using this link
- Deadline to reserve a room - February 20, 2025
Comfort Suites Plus
- Reserve your room through this reservation link
- Deadline to reserve a room - February 25, 2025
- Questions can be directed to saipropertiessales@gmail.com
History
The conference began in 1994 with a group of dedicated students who wanted to create an unquestionably interdisciplinary conference able to accommodate both traditional and non-traditional topics and presentations. Since that time the conference has remained student-oriented, open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates.
Over the decades, No Limits has hosted hundreds of presentations from students and community members involved in Women's and Gender Studies in numerous academic departments and community groups. Further, No Limits encourages creative presentations, including artwork, performances, and the reading of original work.
No Limits has also hosted many renowned scholars, writers, performers and activists, including SJ Sindu, Lindsey Churchill, Shireen Ghorbani, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Mary S. Hartman, Shireen Roshanravan, Obioma Nnaemeka, Janet Kourany, tatiana de la tierra, Judith Cofer Ortiz, Nomy Lamm, Toi Derricotte, and Lourdes Portillo.
