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NWSAction

Twice annual member publication

NWSA Journal

Official journal of NWSA

NWSA Resource publications

Syllabi Collections, Program Admin Handbook and more

Graduate Guide to Women's and Gender Studies

Free resource for students considering graduate work in Women's/Gender Studies

Directory

Directory Includes:
Staff
Governing Council
Delegate Assembly

Member Directory

Institutional Directory

Click here to visit the PA&D webpages and resources

The Program Administration and Development Committee (PA&D) is a standing committee in NWSA specifically designed to represent the interests and needs of administrators of women's studies or gender studies programs and departments to the Governing Council of NWSA and to assist NWSA in meeting the needs of women's / gender studies administrators and their departments and programs.

The PA&D webpages offer a wealth of free downloadable resources for NWSA members.

These include:
Administrators Hand Book
The latest edition of the Administrators handbook

Defining Women's Scholarship
A Statement of the National Women's Studies Association Task Force on Faculty Roles and Rewards.

What Programs Need
Essential Resources for Women's Studies and Gender Studies Programs.

Shared Development Documents including course development, climate issues and surveys, service learning guides and evaluations and much more.

Click here to visit the PA&D webpages and resources.

Click here to visit the Women's Center pages and resources.

Women's Centers have representation on the NWSA Governing Council as a standing committee. This is more than a symbolic recognition of the important role that women's centers play in feminist education.

The Center webpages offer a wealth of free downloadable resources for NWSA members.

Administration Resources
Annual Reports,
Strategic Planning and Surveys
Constitutions and Advisory Boards
Contact Logs and Evaluation Forms
Mission Statements
Position Descriptions
Program Proposals
Student Staff Procedures and Handbooks

And More...

Click here to visit the Women's Center pages and resources.

NWSA has many initiatives in development and ongoing.
Click here to see more

Current initiatives include:

NWSA Data Collection Project

NWSA partnered with the National Organization for Research (NORC) at the University of Chicago to collect data on the field of women’s studies nationally.

Women of Color Leadership

The WoCLP is designed to increase the number of women of color students and faculty within the field of women’s studies / gender studies and, consequently, to have an impact on the levels of participation and power by women of color in the PA&D, NWSA, and in the field of women’s studies / gender studies as a whole.

Governance

This section includes reports, recommendations, constitution, bylaws, elections, policies and so forth.

CONFERENCES: APRIL - JUNE

Conferences &CFP's: Jan-Mar | April-June | July-Sept | Oct-Dec
Journals and Publications CFP's

LIST REFLECTS SUBMISSION DEADLINE : CONFERENCE DATE

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1. Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World (November 15th, 2008 : June 3rd, 2009)

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1. Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World

Organizers: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Location:
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Conference Date(s):
June 3rd, 2009 - June 6th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
November 15th, 2008

Conference URL:
http://asle.uvic.ca/

Keynotes/Speakers:
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, author of "The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy"; Ruth Ozeki, author of "My Year of Meats" and "All Over Creation"; Amy Seidl, author of "Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World"; and many others.

Theme:
We seek proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and other public presentations connecting language, nature, and culture. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches; readings of environmentally inflected fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction; and proposals from outside the academic humanities, including submissions from artists, writers, practitioners, activists, and colleagues in the social and natural sciences.

Suggested Topics:
We welcome proposals from members of NWSA on women's literature and the environment, ecofeminist literary criticism, and related subjects.

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