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Women & Courage: Expressing Women's Wisdom in the 21st Century

September 12-14, 2008
Rhinebeck Campus, 150 Lake Drive, Rhinebeck, NY  12572

It is time to change our definition of what it means to be a brave and daring human being.  This conference celebrates the widsom of "mamisma," a brand of courage that women have honed over the ages.  Blending risk taking and caretaking, fearlessness and tenderness, action and cooperation, the energy of mamisma seeks to heal rather than harm.  More....


Women's Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity Conference:
"Women and Power"

October 3-4, 2008
The University of South Dakota, Vermillion

The 2008 conference will feature scholarly and creative work that takes up questions of power in relation to women.  The conference aims to provoke discussion about women in positions of power, the vexing roads they travel to get there, the barriers they meat, defeat, or submit to along the way, and the humorous, sad and/or inspiring visions that arise from various women's engagement with power of all kinds -- including the powers they possess themselves.  This year's conference will culminate in the selection of 3-5 conference pieces to be pulished in a special issue of The South Dakota ReviewMore....


17th Women & Society Conference

October 24 & 25, 2008
Marist College, Poughkeepsie New York

This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates may attend at no cost.    More....


NEWS

An open planning meeting for the college-wide Women's Studies Program will take place on:
Friday, September 5, 2008
from 2 - 4:00 in Room MT212
on the Rockville campus.

Please come and be a part of the planning session that will launch an exciting new year in Women's Studies at Montgomery College.  The Women's Studies Program is growing, and there is plenty of space for new voices, new proposals, and new initiatives.


The National Women's Studies Association posted its first issue of NWSAction, an interactive online magazine, in Fall 2007. The Spring 2008 issue is now available at www.nwsa.org/nwsaction


Prof. Sharon Anthony
Women's Studies Coordinator
Germantown campus
HS178
20200 Observation Dr.
Germantown, MD 20876

(240) 567-7769


Professor Genevieve Carminati
Collegewide Women's Studies Coordinator
Rockville Campus, Macklin Tower 212E, (240) 567-7446

Linda Hankey, Administrative Aide, 240-567-5238

Nancy Nyland, Webmaster, (240) 567-7854
  Site last updated September 5, 2008

 


Prof. Deb Taylor
Women's Studies Coordinator
Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus
PF202
7600 Takoma Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912

(240) 567-1619