Announcements
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Dr. Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook, will present "'Mars and Venus' or Planet Earth: Women and Men on Campus in a New Millennium" on Wednesday, February 27 @ 7pm. Miller 1101.
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Doris Gray (Department of Modern Languages and Women’s Studies Program, Florida State University) will present “Visions for the Future: Muslim Women in North Africa and France” on Wednesday, March 26, at 5:00pm in ISAT 159.
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2008 Dominion Lecturer April 2, 2008.
Jill Ker Conway (first woman President of Smith College)
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National Young Women's Leadership Conference: What's at Stake in 2008?
The 2nd annual National Young Women's Leadership Conference: What's at Stake in 2008? is only a month away and we're counting on you to help your FMLA get to DC! Go to http://www.feministcampus.org/leadership to register today!
Come celebrate International Women's Day on March 8 & 9 with the Feminist Majority Foundation in our nation's capitol! We're planning two action-packed days of big-name speakers, workshops, and networking with feminists from across the country! Each session will try to answer our main question: what IS at stake in 2008? From our four main campaigns (Get Out Her Vote, Global Reproductive Rights, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and Birth Control Pricing) to the issues affecting your college campus, there is certainly a lot to talk about! Plus, as if that weren't enough, you have the opportunity to carry your message to Capitol Hill with the National Council of Women's Organizations at their Equality Summit on March 10-11.
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REGISTER NOW!! Combating Sex Trafficking: Prevention and Intervention in North Carolina and Worldwide April 3-4, 2008 Friday Center, Chapel Hill Every year, approximately 800,000 individuals are trafficked worldwide across international borders and exploited through forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Nearly 20,000 of these victims enter the United States; an estimated 23 percent arrive in the southeast. All nations that serve as points of origin, passage, and destination must work collectively to raise awareness, nurture its victims, prosecute its offenders, and end human trafficking. The Carolina Women’s Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in partnership with the Jordan Institute for Families, the UNC School of Social Work, the Law School, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and the Office of Research Development, along with other campus, state and community partners, will sponsor a national conference entitled Combating Sex Trafficking: Prevention and Intervention in North Carolina and Worldwide on April 3-4, 2008 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC. This conference follows the Carolina Women’s Center 2006 conference, “Sexual Trafficking: Breaking the Crisis of Silence.” “Combating Sex Trafficking” will be an action-oriented conference, focusing on: sensitive advocacy for survivors of various ages, races, and ethnicities; shutting down demand for commercial sexual exploitation; the role of the travel and tourism industry; legal research and advocacy; local prevention models and efforts; the media’s impact in educating the public; and the role of corporate, private, non-profit, and faith-based sectors in dealing with this global problem. The conference will provide training to first responders, educators, health professionals, and the legal community, with the purpose of developing a working plan for North Carolina and beyond to help victims, raise global awareness, and put a stop to sex trafficking. For more information, contact Dr. Pam Lach at plach@email.unc.edu or visit: http://womenscenter.unc.edu/08conference/ Online registration is now available at: http://fridaycenter.unc.edu/pdep/trafficking/ -- Donna M. Bickford, Ph.D. Director, Carolina Women's Center The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill CB# 3302 134 E. Franklin Street, Suite 215 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3302 Phone: 919-843-5620 Fax: 919-843-5619 dbickford@unc.edu Combating Sex Trafficking: Prevention and Intervention in North Carolina and Worldwide: http://womenscenter.unc.edu/08conference/
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Graduate Student Research Conference: “The ‘F’ Words of Feminist Scholarship”
April 4 & 5, 2008, Ohio State University
futures, feminisms, fat, functionality, freak, fresh, family, fetish, fixity, fore, f*cking, fleshy, foul, field, fear, finish, foundations, failure, fertility, figures, fundamentals, fragment, findings, fold, flow, fathers, follow, fire, friendship, fight, female, fascism, feminine, fanaticism fundraising, fun, fierce, focus, finitude…
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Dr. Celest Condit, Professor of Communication Studies at University of Georgia will speak on Wednesday, April 16 at 7:00 pm in HHS (room TBA) on the rhetoric of genetic science.
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AAUW grants for graduate study (click here for more information)
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Study Abroad in London (Summer 2008) and earn Women's Studies credit! Click here for information on applying.
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Sister Speak (JMU's Feminist Literary Journal) is seeking prose, poetry, short dramatic, and non-fiction submissions. Contact Emmy Feamster (feamstea@jmu.edu) for more information.