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Administrators Hand Book
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Defining Women's Scholarship
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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

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CONFERENCES: JANUARY - MARCH

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

LIST REFLECTS SUBMISSION DEADLINE : CONFERENCE DATE

JANUARY (jump)


FEBRUARY (jump)


MARCH (jump)

1. Women as Global Leaders (November 15th, 2007 : October 3rd, 2008)

2. CCCC(Conference on College Composition and Communication) Feminist Workshop: Crosscurrents in Feminism: Building Coalitions, Sharing Knowledges and Pedagogies, Shaping Networks (April 30th, 2008 : March 11th, 2009)

3. Middle Tennessee State University Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Conference on Sexuality (September 1st, 2008 : March 26th, 2009)


JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH

1. Women as Global Leaders

Organizers: Zuyed University
Location:
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Conference Date(s):
October 3rd, 2008 - December 3rd, 2008
CFP Deadline:
November 15th, 2007

Conference URL:
http://www.zu.ac.ae/leadership2008/

Keynotes/Speakers:
Jane Fonda, Sarah Ferguson, Carol Bellamy, Anousheh Ansari, Helen Thomas

Theme:
The Women as Global Leaders conference focuses on women's emergent and current leadership roles across the globe as well as the practice of educating students for and about leadership. "Learning Leadership" - As calls for leadership echo across the globe, there is concentrated interest in the multitude of ways people learn leadership across a variety of contexts

Suggested Topics:

CFP Address:
http://www.zu.ac.ae/leadership2008/call.html

CFP Email Address:

Contact:

E-Mail: wagl@zu.ac.ae

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone: Women as Global Leaders Conference Zayed University P.O. Box 19282 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Phone: +971 (4) 4021 488

 


2. CCCC(Conference on College Composition and Communication) Feminist Workshop: Crosscurrents in Feminism: Building Coalitions, Sharing Knowledges and Pedagogies, Shaping Networks

Organizers: Lisa Costello, Layne Craig, Jennifer Fallas, Allison Gross, Emily Hoeflinger, Erin Hurt, Jessica Ketcham-Weber
Location:
San Francisco

Conference Date(s):
March 11th, 2009 - March 14th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
April 30th, 2008

Conference URL:

Keynotes/Speakers:

Theme:
The 2002 anthology Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse suggests that the divide that has persisted in feminist scholarship between activism and intellectualism results from divergent ways of defining change-- change as something to be debated or shaped. These discussions have often highlighted the disjuncture between various feminist groups and forms of feminism within the academy, as well as the uneasy relationship between academics and activism. Such disjunctures, however, are also productive and can signal the ways in which academia and the community might continue to dialogue. This workshop seeks to analyze these disjunctures as productive difference and to interrogate their implications in the creation of feminist coalitions, pedagogies, and mentorships. We would like to address the theoretical and practical roles of feminists in the academic community in shaping feminism's dedication to change-- as a movement and a discourse-- that crosses and negotiates the currents of difference.

Suggested Topics:
Additionally, this workshop asks participants to frame and respond to questions such as the following:

- What are the bases for coalitions between academic feminists and feminist community activists, artists, or workers?
- What coalitions seem to be lacking in academic feminist communities?
- What are the effects of conflicts within feminist academic communities--i.e. the Andrea Smith tenure case at Michigan--on feminism as a social movement?
- How do conflicts or coalitions within online communities affect the "real world" structures of feminism, in the academy or in other contexts?
- What political issues not historically identified with feminism--i.e. immigration, security issues, environmentalism--have feminists been contributing to in productive ways?
- In what ways have these movements offered alternative models for coalition-building?
- Which issues are feminist communities overlooking or not doing enough to address?
- Is feminist pedagogy a form of feminist activism?
- If feminist pedagogy is a form of activism, what kinds of practices do people use in their classrooms or in their writing?
- How can feminist mentorship facilitate feminist coalitions and activism?

CFP Address:

CFP Email Address: 4Cfeministworkshop@gmail.com

Contact: CCCC Feminist Workshop Committee

E-Mail: 4Cfeministworkshop@gmail.com

Alternate E-Mail:

Telephone:

 


3. Middle Tennessee State University Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Conference on Sexuality

Organizers: Elyce Helford, Tina Johnson
Location:
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Conference Date(s):
March 26th, 2009 - March 28th, 2009
CFP Deadline:
September 1st, 2008

Conference URL:
http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11472/WMST_conf_homepage_2009.htm

Keynotes/Speakers:
Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner

Theme:
Sexuality

Suggested Topics:
Please visit http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11472/WMST_conf_homepage_2009.htm

CFP Address:
Pat Bradley, Program Chair
Women's Studies Conference 2009
English Department, Box 70
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

CFP Email Address: wmstconf2009@gmail.com

Contact: Elyce Helford

E-Mail: ehelford@mtsu.edu

Alternate E-Mail: womenstu@mtsu.edu

Telephone: Elyce Helford 615 898 5961

 


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