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National/International Events
May 16-May 28: 2nd Annual Women's Symposium & Study Program: Chinese Urban, University and Rural Women, hosted at Sias International University, Xinzheng City, Henan Province – China. The goal of the conference is to engage American and Chinese women in a dialogue to understand, realize, and prepare for their role in a global society as well as develop strategies to work collaboratively on future projects. For more information please visit http://www.globalinteractions.org/2008-events-programs/2008-womens-symposium.aspx.
May 24-June 7 and Sept. 27 - Oct. 11: The Ariadne Institute for the study of Myth and Ritual welcomes all to a Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete. This program will address the mind, body, and spirit, encouraging "embodied thinking" and personal transformation. Several hundred women of all ages—including artists, writers, educators, students, businesswomen, and homemakers— have participated in these programs since 1993. The Goddess Pilgrimage will be offered in both May and September of 2008. For more information please visit: www.goddessariadne.org.
June 5-7: National Conference for College Women Student Leaders: Leadership for Today and Tomorrow will take place at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Students will participate in workshops focusing on advocacy, leadership, health and wellness, and take part in optional community service projects and pre-conference activities. Keynote speaker is Pamela Stone, professor of sociology at Hunter College. For more info, visit http://svc.aauw.org/nccwsl/reg/.
June 7: Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK will hold a one-day conference on to discuss transatlantic perspectives on American women's history. The conference will reflect on the contours of American's women's history research today, particularly amongst scholars and postgraduates working and studying in the UK, although papers are also welcome from those researching in the United States and elsewhere. The conference will include a keynote speech by Jay Kleinberg, Director of The Centre for American, Transatlantic and Caribbean History and an editor of the recently published: The Practice of US Women's History: Narratives, Intersections and Dialogues, She will address US women's history practice and practitioners in the UK. Professor of Women's and American Studies at the University of Kansas, Ann Schofield, will discuss transatlantic approaches to American women's and gender history. For more information contact Rachel Cohen, at Rachel.Cohen@brunel.ac.uk.
July 4: Genital Cutting in a Globalized Age: A Forum for Interdisciplinary Debate will be held in London, England. Keynote lecture will be by Cheryl Chase from the Intersex Society of North America. Her speech is entitled, " Why a Focus On Surgery Can't Improve Healthcare Services for Disorders of Sex Development." The Conference will be a groundbreaking event bringing together medical doctors and researchers, social and behavioral scientists, scholars in literary and cultural studies, lawyers, artists, philosophers and historians who share a critical interest in genital modification in the clinical, political and cultural spheres. The conference will explicitly address the discursive and legislative inconsistencies relating to genital cutting, and tackle the ideological, political and ethical implications of current practices. For more information and conference details visit: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161598.
September 22-23: The War Question for Feminism: Gender Aspects on Militaries, Armed Conflict and Peacekeeping Conference held at the Örebro University, Sweden. The conference will focus on three themes: War as a Feminist Issue, Militarism and Masculinities and Feminist concepts travelling into the area of security, the military, violent conflicts and peacekeeping operations. The title of this conference was inspired by the work of Christine Sylvester. Conveners are Erika Svedberg from the Institute of Thematic Gender Studies and Örebro University and Annica Kronsell from the Department of political science at Lund University. The conveners were part of a group organizing the international conference at Lund University: A World in Transition. Feminist Perspectives on International Relations, in May 1996. A selection of papers and summaries of workshop discussions were published as a special edition of Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, 1997.This conference is a follow-up of that successful event. For more information please visit: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/148.
November 13-16: The Midwest Modern Language Association Conference will be held in Minneapolis. The conference theme is "Feminist Pedagogy: Transforming Silence Into Action." Under this concept, the conference examines how to, as feminist teachers, especially teachers of language and literature, engage our students in the rich and meaningful relationship between theory and practice, teaching and activism? Discussions will explore strategies for achieving this goal, for example service learning, teaching language as activism, community research, and campus organizing. For more information visit: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/.
