Upcoming Events

PAC-W Banquet

Date: April 25, 2013

Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Location: River Valley Room (Union)

Come and join us for a free lunch as the winners of the Women and Gender Studies Essay Contest are awarded the prizes.

13th Annual Red River Women's Studies Conference: R/Evolution: Creating Women and Gender Studies

Date: October 4, 2013

Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Location: UND Memorial Union, Grand Forks, ND

The 13th annual Red River Women's Studies Conference will focus on the theme R/EVOLUTION: Creating Women and Gender Studies. This interdisciplinary conference will examine and celebrate the creation and evolution of the fields of Women's Studies, Gender Studies, and Queer Studies, as well as the changing roles of women and men in society. The keynote speakers with be Dr. Cristina Alcade (University of Kentucky) and Dr. Adeyinka A. Bruce Omotunde.  We invite proposals for panels, individual papers, workshops posters, and creative presentations for this year's conference. Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to: the creation and growth of Women's, Gender, and Queer Studies; History of Women and Gender Studies in the Red River Valley; changing social roles of women and men; representations of women in popular culture; feminist activism; women in politics; gender in the classroom; women in science and technology; cyber-feminism; global feminism; rural gender and sexuality; and reproductive health.

The University of North Dakota's Women and Gender Studies Program invites students, faculty, and community activists to submit proposals for panels, papers, and workshops that address any of the key areas above. Submissions addressing other themes relevant to the fields of Women and Gender Studies are also welcome. Panel proposals should include a 250-word description of the panel topic, as well as a 250-word abstract of each paper/presentation. Proposals for individual presentations or posters should provide a 250-word abstract of that presentation/poster. Electronic proposals are preferred, and may be emailed to RRWSC2013@gmail.com. Hard copies of proposals may be mailed to: Women and Gender Studies, University of North Dakota, 221 Centennial Dr., Stop 7113, Grand Forks, ND 58202-7113.

Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2013

 

NWSA Annual Conference: Negotiating Points of Encounter

Date: November 7-10, 2013

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Call For Proposals: Submission Deadline: February 20, 2013

NWSA's 2013 conference theme, Negotiating Points of Encounter, takes up the geographies, histories, and political stakes of various feminist engagements, confrontations, and struggles - intellectual and institutional, local and global, public and intimate. How are we, or should we be, negotiating these points of encounter as the contours of theories, disciplines, communities, economies, forms of protest, and even national identities shift? How are new spaces for thinking and doing otherwise opened up by reassessing loyalties, renegotiating borders, reconceptualizing pasts, and reimagining embodiments? How do such renegotiations demarcate both exclusions and inclusions? What might they tell about new (or old) ways of effecting change? And what justice or injustices do they foster and/or resist?

NWSA 2013 identifies several thematic areas for critical inquiry and creative engagement in women's and gender studies and related fields: The Sacred and the Profane, Borders and Margins, Futures of the Feminist Past, Body Politics, and Practices of Effecting Change.

Visit the National Women's Studies Association website at www.nwsa.org to join or submit proposals.