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June 5-7: Hitting the Ground Running: Research, Activism, and Leadership for a new Era will be held at the Kimmel Center, NYU. This year's conference themes will center on where women can have the most impact in the 2008 Presidential election and beyond, including research and policy issues that will need to be addressed with a new administration; challenges women in the academy con-front—backlash, shrinking budgets, corporatization, conservative social pressures—and what can be done to counter them; and the implications of the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, generation and other markers of difference for feminist scholarship, leadership, and activism, nationally and globally. For more information and the register visit:
http://www.ncrw.org/events/conference2008/index.php.

June 12: 18th Annual Southern Connecticut State University Women’s Studies Conference “Girls’ Culture & Girls’ Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood” will be help at Southern Connecticut State University. The Conference will take a close look at girls' culture and girls' studies. Individu-als, groups, scholars, activists, artists, girls and all are invited to submit propos-als for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, or artistic performances that address topics including Girls and Pop Culture, Construction of Girlhood, Me-dia and Girls' Culture, Girls & Leader-ship, and Globalization and Girlhood. Conference sessions will juxtapose cul-tural, generational, and geopolitical per-spectives in order to construct feministrenditions of girls' cultures, histories, and representations. Send submissions elec-tronically by June 12 to womenstud-ies@southernct.edu.

June 20: Outside the Box/Performing Dis-ability: An Evening of Cabaret, Dance and Drama will be held at the Kimmel Center, NYU. This one-night only New York appearance will feature provocative, ex-otic and new, disabled performers on center stage. The performance hopes to address current issues concerning disabili-ties in the arts with its form and content. Outside the Box/Performing Disability brings the best international talent in theatre, dance, spoken word and beyond to New York University. Tickets are required. For more information, please visit www.disstudies.org or call 646-344-7250.