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ANNOUNCING THE 19TH ANNUAL WOMEN'S STUDIES CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

           DR. ANDREA SMITH

Andrea Smith 2010 Keynote

Andrea Smith is a co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence and the Boarding School Healing Project.  She is the author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (South End Press) and Native Americans and the Christian Right:  The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke Univ Press).  Through Incite!, she is the co-editor of The Color of Violence and editor of The Revolution  Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex (both South  End Press).  She teaches at UC Riverside in Media and Cultural Studies.

 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS YEARS KEYNOTE PLEASE VIEW THE FOLLOWING LINKS:

Native Feminism Without Apology

South End Press - Andrea Smith

 

Announcing Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall as part of the 2010 multi-racial and generational plenary

We are pleased to announce that at this conference we will be featuring a multi-racial and multi-generational keynote plenary session. Featured in the session will not only be the keynote speaker Dr. Andrea Smith, but also Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Dr. Guy-Sheftall is President of the National Women's Studies Association, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, and Founding Director of the Women's Resource and Research Center at Spelman Collge. We look forward to see you all there this spring!

 

To learn more about Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D. click on the following:

 

An Open Letter to Women's and Gender Studies Faculty

WRRC: Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall

 

 

Annual Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS 19th Annual SCSU Women's Studies Conference
"Women & Girls of Color:
History, Heritage, Heterogeneity"

April 16 & 17, 2010

Both inside and outside of academe, women of color have actively participated in theoretical, artistic, and cultural production, influencing the ways we perceive and think about issues pertinent to women and girls. Situated by both gender and race, yet often at the margins, women of color have been instrumental in challenging scholars to critically re-conceptualize the discourses on race, gender, class, sexuality, and nationality.  The scholarly work by women of color and on women of color is simultaneously multicultural, heterogeneous, interdisciplinary, and, in most instances, global and transnational. This body of literature, which has spawned a whole new area of study at universities and colleges, is among the most exciting and vibrant in feminist scholarship and publications. As a site of innovative knowledge production, women of color writing does not simply travel throughout academic disciplines in the U.S., but it also travels globally, generating significant connections with women's writing especially globally.  In the 19th annual SCSU Women's Studies conference, we will take a close look at women and girls of color, looking back at their achievements throughout history but also pushing our thinking forward into the 21st century.  Who are women and girls of color and what issues are important to them?  How have women of color contributed artistically, culturally, and politically, inside universities as well as out in our communities?  What challenges do woman and girls of color across races, classes, religions, and cultures face in an increasingly globalized world?  How can the discourse surrounding women and girls of color challenge our ideas about race, gender, class, nationality, and sexuality?    

We invite individuals, groups, scholars, activists, artists, girls and all, to submit proposals for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, or artistic performances that address topics including the following:

Women of Color as a Social Construct
Women & Girls of Color in Pop Culture   
Women of Color & Women's Movements
Histories of Women & Girls of Color
Women of Color Consciousness       
Literature by & about Women/Girls of Color
Politics of Women of Color         
Girls of Color & Leadership
Women's Studies & Girls' Studies          
Girls Globally & Child Labor
Race & Class in Girls' Studies       
Women of Color Performance
Women of Color  & Sexuality         
"Ethnography" & Women & Girls of Color
Representations of Women & Girls of Color  
Women of Color & Children's Literature
Orientalism and Women of Color         
Women & Girls of Color Zines
This Bridge & Women of Color           
Inter & Intra-Community Challenges
Indigenous Women and Girls           
Human Rights of Women & Girls of Color
Diasporic Women & Girls         
Globalization and Women & Girls of Color
Women & Girls of Color and Resistance     
Public Policies & Women of Color
Media and Gendered/Racialized Identities               
Transnational Adoption & Girls of Color
Violence against Girls & Women of Color     
Womanism and/or 21st Century Feminism
Education and Mentoring of Girls          
Women of Color & "Third World" Women
Comparative Women of Color Studies   
Women of Color and Grassroots Activism
Growing up Incarcerated           
Women & Girls of Color across/between Worlds

We also invite your ideas and suggestions.  Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geopolitical perspectives in order to re-examine narratives on women and girls of color, their histories, and their representations.  Expect serious fun through meals, performance, and poetry slam, with women and girls of color and their allies speaking of their struggles and power.

Send submissions electronically by December 1, 2009, to womenstudies@southernct.edu.  Please include name, affiliation, E-mail, standard mailing address, and phone number. Proposals should be no longer than one page, with a second page for identification information.


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