Women's and Gender Studies Programs and Conferences 2013
Alternatives to Violence Project Different Faces: One Voice-One Vision, Florida International University May 24-27, 2013 We live in a violent society. Violence knows no class, racial, economic or geographical boundaries. People in the United States have twice the chance of being murdered than in many other Western countries. We have the world's highest prison population, and our prisons spawn more violence. Over ninety percent of prisoners eventually return to society - from a prison experience that encourages violence. The purpose of the project is to foster a violence preventing methodology. THis event focuses on community building, affirmation, cooperation, communication and creative conflict resolution. The purpose is to empower people to lead nonviolent lives through affirmation, respect for all, community building, cooperation and trust.
22nd Annual Women and Society Conference--2013, Marist University, Poughkeepsie, New York October 25 & 26, 2013 Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2013 Women & Society Conference. 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.
3rd Annual Brigham Young University Women's Studies Conference-- Women, Race and Ethnicity November 7-9, 2013 Women have been perceived as the “exotic” other, exhibited as curiosity objects, and have also succeeded sometimes in overcoming racial, gender, and social barriers. Women have worked as slaves, they have owned slaves, and they also have fought in the desegregation movement. Enslaved women have raised their masters’ children, and transmitted their cultural heritage to their own children. Women have built both walls and bridges between racial and ethnic groups. Colonial arts and literatures have depicted women stereotypically, and postcolonial arts and literatures have allowed women’s voices to be heard. Women, sometimes excluded and barely tolerated, can impose their presence as legitimate and gain recognition for their roles and contributions to society.
National Women’s Studies Association Conference-- Negotiating Points of Encounter, November 7-10, 2013, Cincinnati, OH NWSA's annual conference regularly draws more than 1,500 attendees and is the only annual meeting in the US exclusively dedicated to showcasing the latest feminist scholarship. For more info, visit the website
Special Programs
Women and Social Change in Mexico:
Learn about Mexican culture, politics, and economics through the
lens of women´s experiences and struggles for social justice. Study how
women from various backgrounds (i.e. Indigenous, students, workers)
have been affected by the neoliberal model of globalization and the
kinds of mobilizations they have initiated or participated in.
Establish and strengthen links between women of different countries
(whose lives in an increasingly globalized world are more interrelated
than ever) by sharing our respective struggles for justice and
equalities.
Dates: July 13-26, 2013
INCLUDES:
Classes: Intensive language instruction, 9:00
a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Students are evaluated and
placed at the appropriate level with a maximum of five students in each
class.
Activities on Women & Social Change: Talks,
videos and visits with women and grassroots projects are scheduled
during the afternoon. Themes will be approached "from below" by
spending time with activist groups and with an orientation towards
social change.
Themes may include:
- NAFTA, globalization, and "neoliberalism" in Mexico as
well as the independent labor movement and maquiladoras
- Zapatismo and the struggles of Indigenous women
- Feminism, women's health, alternative medicine, sexual and
reproductive rights and the lesbian movement in Mexico
- Alternative media and a visit to a women's video collective
- The 1990/2000 student movement and strike at UNAM (the National
Autonomous University of Mexico)
- Politics and the recent elections
- Liberation Theology and Christian Base Communities
- Globalization and the environment
Note: All program activities are in Spanish with English
translation when necessary.
Weekend Excursions
- Xochicalco ruins
- Taxco silver mining town
Homestay
Staying with a Mexican family provides a vibrant sense of the
Mexican people and makes the course more personal and profound. It also
provides participants with ample opportunity to practice Spanish in
everyday situations.. We offer homestays with gays and lesbians in the
Cuernavaca community. All CETLALIC families are gay and lesbian
friendly (Note: hotel or apartment accommodations are also available
upon request).
COST: $1,373 US