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Upcoming NIWHE Events
Join the National Initiative for Women in Higher Education (NIWHE)
at AAC&U's
Diversity and Learning: Democracy's Compelling Interest meeting
in Nashville, TN on October 21-24, 2004. NIWHE will be sponsoring
two pre-conference workshops on Thursday, October 21 from 2:00 to
5:00 p.m. and a lunch forum on Friday, October 22 from 12:30 to 2:00
p.m.
"Women Leading for Change: Cultural Identity as a Tool for Empowerment"
will be presented by Nancy "Rusty" Barceló, Vice President
for Minority Affairs, University of Washington, and Patricia M. Lowrie,
Director Women's Resource Center, Michigan State University. This
interactive workshop will help women of color and their allies develop
strategic pathways for access, identify redress for impediments to
leadership positions, and build cultural tool kits that validate and
empower.
"The Next Generation of Transformational Work: New Agreements for
Teaching and Learning," presented by Laura I. Rendon, Veffie Milstead
Jones Endowed Chair, California State University Long Beach, will
offer a transformational model of teaching and learning that builds
on previous years' work on diversity, intellectual development, and
ways of knowing.
The Bring Your Own Lunch to National Initiative for Women in Higher
Education (NIWHE) Forum will offer an interactive discussion about
mentoring and how we can use mentoring to provide access for those
who have been left out. Bring your own lunch or buy a boxed lunch
at the door.
For more information about these events, please contact Karen Rowan
at rowan@aacu.org or visit www.aacu.org/meetings/diversityandlearning/index.cfm
to learn how to register.
2004 International Perspectives Symposium:
Women Leading Change in Public Health and Technology
The American Association of University Women's Educational Foundation
invites researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to attend its
third biennial international symposium, International Perspectives:
Women Leading Change in Public Health and Technology, November 12-14,
2004. Presenters will examine how women are using their education
to create change in different regions of the world where access to
and knowledge of technology and health concerns may vary. Sessions
will highlight the importance of women's formal and informal leadership
roles and identify emerging issues in the areas of public health,
technology, and the intersection of these two areas. The symposium
will focus on the developing world and newly independent states, and
interactive presentations will include panel discussions, demonstration/poster
sessions, and focused dialogues. For more information about the symposium
and registration, visit www.aauw.org/ef/symposium.cfm.
Women and Creativity Conference: Examining
the Past, Composing the Future
The Women and Creativity Conference will be held October 13-15 at
West Virginia University. The conference will be hosted by WVU's College
of Creative Arts; its Center for Women's Studies, a unit of the Eberly
College of Arts and Sciences; and the Council for Women's Concerns.
The conference will be an opportunity to celebrate the work of women
artists, writers, and thinkers. The keynote address will be given
by Libby Larsen, an acclaimed composer who serves on the National
Endowment for the Arts music panel. Sessions will focus on the process
of creative writing as well as women's creativity in historic communities.
For more information, visit www.as.wvu.edu/wmst/wvuwomenandcreativity.htm.
The Fourteenth Annual Women & Society
Conference
The Fourteenth Annual Women & Society Conference will be held
October 8-9, 2004 at Marist College , Poughkeespie, NY. Paula Rothenberg
will give the keynote address; Rothenberg is editor of Race, Class,
and Gender in the United States and Director of the New Jersey
Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum and Teaching, as well
as a professor at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Women
& Society, a feminist multi- and inter-disciplinary conference,
allows academics and activists to share research, information, and
ideas about a variety of issues that concern women and gender. The
conference encourages the mentoring of students and supports student
participation. For more information, contact Dr. J.A.Myers at JA.MYERS@MARIST.EDU.
The Wisconsin Women's Law Journal
The Wisconsin Women's Law Journal is soliciting articles
for its Spring 2005 special issue on legal issues at the intersection
of gender, medicine, and health. The Journal invites professors,
clinical professors, and practitioners to submit articles. The Journal
also seeks contributions from the humanities, medicine, and the social
sciences. The Wisconsin Women's Law Journal is especially
interested in articles on the intersection of the law and race, intersexuality,
health research, or reproduction although the Journal also
welcomes articles on other topics that address legal issues related
to gender, medicine, and health. Submissions are due by October 15,
2004. For more information, visit students.law.wisc.edu/wwlj/submiss.html
or contact Submission Editors Sarah Opichka (snopichka@wisc.edu)
or Mendocino Steele (mtsteele@wisc.edu).
Thirteenth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
British Women Writers Conference
The Thirteenth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century British
Women Writers Conference, "Women's Texts and Cultural Contexts,"
will accept abstracts until October 31, 2004. Paper topics may include
but should not be limited to women writing culture, religion and women's
writing, subversive women, women's bodies, mothers as cultural icons,
and women and the public sphere. The conference will be held at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette April 14-17, 2005. Keynote speakers
for the conference are Catherine Burroughs of Wells College, Linda
Hughes of Texas Christian University, and Susan Staves of Brandeis
University. Visit www.louisiana.edu/bwwc
for more information.
New Jersey Project Fall 2004 Conference
The New Jersey Project Fall 2004 Conference, Whitewashing Race in
the US: How the Discourse on Race Has Changed and Why It Matters,
will be held Friday, October 15, 2004 at Essex County College in Newark,
New Jersey. The conference will include workshops such as South Asians
in North America, Importing and Exporting the US Racial System, and
Exploring the Impact of Crime and Justice on Perceptions of Race.
For more information, contact the New Jersey Project at (973) 720-2296
or njp@wpunj.edu.
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