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Opportunity for Book Readings/Signings in the 2010 Conference Exhibit HallsNWSA would like to feature its member-authors at the 2010 conference with book readings and signings in the exhibit hall. If you would like your book to be considered for inclusion, you must complete the online form and provide your book title, author, publisher, ISBN number, and publication date. Due to high demand requests without this information will not be considered. Books for reading and signing must be published in the past year. If you have questions, please contact NWSA Deputy Director Patti Provance at patti.provance@nwsa.org |
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: RENYA RAMIREZ AND ANDREA SMITH Thursday, November 11 (more) |
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Renya Ramirez is the author of Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond and numerous articles on transnationalism, Native feminisms, and gender and cultural citizenship. |
Andrea Smith is a co-founder of INCITE! Women Of Color Against Violence, a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and communities ; and the Boarding School Healing Project |
Plenary Session: Collaboration as Feminist Praxis RevisitedM. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty,
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Plenary Session: Complicating the queerJuana Maria Rodriguez and Gayatri Gopinath.
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Juana Maria Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley where she is also the Director of the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. |
Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. |
Ananya Dance TheatreSaturday November 13 (more) |
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M. Jacqui Alexander (University of Toronto), and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University), will build on their conversation about the nature of collaborative research and curricular practices, transnational feminisms and alliances, how they see this work as central to the field of Women's and Gender Studies, and how they have come together in their work to engage in their own forms of "difficult dialogues."
About the Theme
In response to wide demand, NWSA 2010 builds on conversations that began in Atlanta at the 2009 conference. Difficult Dialogues II will explore a range of concepts and issues that remain under theorized and under examined in the field of women’s studies.
Although the problem of omissions, silences, and distortions in women’s studies has been analyzed for decades, too often feminist scholarship continues to theorize on the basis of hegemonic frameworks, false universals, and a narrow range of lived experiences. The legitimate terrain of feminist theory, inquiry, and politics remains contested.
The Difficult Dialogues theme builds on Johnnella Butler’s essays (beginning with her 1989 article in the Women’s Review of Books) about the contested relationship among and between black studies, ethnic studies, and women’s studies in the US academy. Butler pinpointed a reluctance to engage questions of gender and sexuality in black studies and ethnic studies, and a reluctance to engage with questions of race and class in women’s studies.
