9th Annual Science, Gender, Diversity, and Community Curriculum Reform Institute
The University of Wisconsin System is sponsoring its 9th annual summer Curriculum Reform Institute June 3-7, 2006 on the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh campus. This five-day institute provides an intensive and dedicated space for national and international teams to work together on projects that will improve science education for all, "with an emphasis on addressing issues that often discourage women and minorities from pursuing study" in the STEM fields. Dr. Daryl Chubin, the Director of the AAAS Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity, will serve as the keynote speaker. The Institute is designed to help campus teams develop and revise courses and programs to take back to their campuses, share useful information from other team projects, and provide the opportunity for members of campus teams to learn from each other and develop networks. To learn more about this institute, please visit www.uwosh.edu/wis

National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) annual conference, Locating Women’s Studies: Formations of Power and Resistance, is being held June 15-18 in Oakland, CA. The keynote speaker is Rebecca Walker, the founder of the Third Wave Foundation. Plenary sessions include "Mothering as Resistance/Activism/Social Change," "Empire, Global Political Conflicts, and Resistance," "Feminist Science," and "Intersections: Locating Acts of Courage." This year’s meeting will also include extended seminars during which small groups of attendees can gather to engage in discussion around critical issues and ideas in women’s studies. Registration for the conference is now open. To learn more about the conference, visit www.nwsaconference.org/.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) National Conference for College Women Student Leaders
AAUW’s conference for college women leaders, Summit on Sexual Harassment: Leading Change on Campus and Beyond, will be held from June 7-10, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Workshop topics range from women and the law to fostering campus dialogue(s) and creating inclusive environments on campus. The call for conference workshops and seminar proposals is now open, and the applications for conference scholarships are now available. Information on both of these opportunities, as well as additional information on registration, can be found at www.aauw.org/nccwsl/2006/index.cfm.

Know How Conference: Weaving the information society: a gender and multicultural perspective
The Know How Committee is a global network of women’s information services and centers whose Secretariat is housed in the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women’s Movement (IIAV). Know How is hosting its third international conference, Weaving the information society: a gender and multicultural perspective, from August 21-26, 2006 in Mexico City. The mission for the 2006 conference "is to advance gender justice and respect for every nation’s cultural diversity within the information society, and promote access to information and communication as a fundamental women’s and human right." The conference objectives include, among others, establishing strategies for promoting the use of women’s information to improve women’s lives and developing a strategic plan whose goal is to narrow the information/digital gap for women. For more information on this conference, please visit knowhow-pueg.unam.mx/english_site/call_for_papers.html.

Imagining Ourselves Launch
On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2006, the International Museum of Women will launch Imagining Ourselves, A Global Generation of Women. Imaging Ourselves is an online interactive exhibit that seeks to engage a generation of women—those in their twenties and thirties—in addressing the question, "what defines your generation"? This project includes an anthology of young women’s writing and visual art; an online exhibit including over 300 women’s interpretations of and answers to the question, discussion forums, action resources, and educational outreach and curricular information; and global gatherings. For more information about this exciting project, please visit www.imow.org.

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Conference
The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (AAPAM) is holding its 8th annual conference, Tax and Spend: Designing, Implementing, Managing and Evaluating Effective Redistributional Policies November 2-4, 2006 in Madison, WI. They are placing particular emphasis on the effects of redistributional policies on women and people of color, and are encouraging submissions that name gender as an organizing theme, with a particular emphasis on the "implications of feminist theory and its relationship to policy." For more information both on the call for papers and the conference itself, please visit the APPAM website at www.appam.org. The deadline for submissions is March 10, 2006.