NWSA conference
The National Women’s Studies Association
28th Annual Conference
Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois
PAST DEBATES, PRESENT POSSIBILITIES,
FUTURE FEMINISMS
June 28 - July 1, 2007
Featured Speaker: Sandra Cisneros, celebrated author of The House on Mango Street and the novel Caramelo. She will read from Caramelo, which devotes much of its text to immigration issues, and comment on the politics of migration and mobility today.
The 2007 conference marks the National Women’s Studies Association 30th anniversary celebration. Established in 1977 at a conference funded by the Ford Foundation, NWSA has survived and thrived in the context of fundamental shifts in higher education, an increasingly complex understandings of gender, and the transformative challenges of globalizing women’s movements.
Feminist inquiry within women’s and gender studies has broken new ground in the past three decades, while facing key social, political, and scholarly challenges.
NWSA 2007 will provide opportunities both to revisit past debates in light of today’s priorities and to chart possible futures for feminisms in the academy and beyond.
In particular, the conference will examine three sub-themes, each related to the past, present, and future of women’s and gender studies.
For more information, see http://www.nwsaconference.org/.