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National Women's Studies Association
Difficult Dialogues II Conference Highlights
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Greetings!
We are pleased to announce that the following speakers and performance have been added to our confirmed listings for NWSA 2010:
Indigenous Feminisms: Theories, Methods, Politics
Andrea Smith and Renya Ramirez
Keynote and Book Signing, Thursday, November 11
Plenary Session: Collaboration as Feminist Praxis Revisited
Featuring Chandra Talpade Mohanty and M. Jacqui Alexander, Friday, November 12
Ananya Dance Theatre Performance
Saturday, November 13
Join the conversation.
Proposal submission deadline: March
1, 2010.
New for 2010: Faculty Development Workshop
Civic Engagement in the Women's and Gender Studies Classroom:Power and Privilege at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Nation.
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Indigenous Feminisms: Theories, Methods, Politics
Andrea Smith and Renya Ramirez Keynote and Book Signing
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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. She currently teaches American Studies at the University
of California, Santa Cruz.
 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 and
Native Americans And The Christian Right: The Gendered Politics Of Unlikely
Alliances. She is also editor of The Revolution Will Not Be
Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex and The Color Of
Violence. She currently teaches in media and cultural studies at the University
of California, Riverside.
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Plenary Session: Collaboration as Feminist Praxis Revisited
Featuring Chandra Talpade Mohanty and M. Jacqui Alexander |
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." |
 Ananya Dance
Theatre (formerly
Women In Motion ) is a company of women artists of color, diverse in age, race,
nationality, and sexual orientation, but uniformly committed to artistic
excellence and passionate articulation of their dreams, hopes, and desires.
The mission is to create
and stage original works and powerful images inspired by the lives and work of
women all around the world. Based on contemporary interpretations of the Odissi
dance form, aesthetic traditions of Bengal, and practices of street theater
created by women's groups, the company seeks to reach and engage diverse
peoples.
More about the Ananya Dance Theatre.
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Civic Engagement in the Women's and Gender Studies Classroom:
Power and Privilege at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Nation
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New for 2010: Faculty Development Workshop
Hosted by the
National Women's Studies Association with generous support from the Teagle
Foundation, this workshop is designed to generate critical reflection and
discussion among scholars and teachers in Women's and Gender Studies in order
to better understand the actual practices and effects of civic engagement and
to improve student learning.
For
the purposes of this workshop, "civic engagement" is defined as individual and
collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern
from feminist and intersectional perspectives. Civic engagement can take many
forms, from individual voluntarism to organizational social justice work to
electoral participation. Successful
applicants will receive travel and lodging grants.
Visit the website to learn more.
Deadline to
apply: March 1, 2010.
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