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 Review.  More....

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....