NWSA Employment Service November 12-15, 2009
The NWSA Employment service will offer conference meeting space for hiring institutions and job seekers to meet for preliminary interviews. Employers post jobs on the NWSA website. Interested applicants register for the job-seeker service and apply directly to the hiring institutions.
Hiring institutions will contact candidates with whom they wish to meet to schedule a meeting time at their institution's dedicated booth.
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Ms Magazine/NWSA 2009 Guide to Women's Studies
Whether looking for a degree, a career or just some great courses, here's the place to learn about this burgeoning field.
Search the complete listings to find out about degrees, classes, courses, and institutions by state, type, or region. Find additional data such as contact information, and graduate work requirements, for those instutions that are current NWSA members.
An Open Letter to Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty
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Dear Colleagues,
I’m eager to share news of changes underway at the National Women’s Studies Association, where I am serving as President until June 2010, and to invite you to join NWSA and submit papers for the conference in Atlanta, GA from November 12-15, 2009. The conference theme is “Difficult Dialogues.”
NWSA Commitment to Scholarship
NWSA adopted a strategic plan in June 2007 that made central the organization’s commitment to providing support and resources for women’s and gender studies scholars. It established a Research Scholars’ Advisory Board, which I chaired, in order to bring women’s studies scholars into the planning process. NWSA also adopted key suggestions proposed by that group, from moving the annual conference to November to enhancing the role of the NWSA President to serve as an intellectual leader of the organization, especially via conference program planning . .
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NWSA CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 12-15, 2009
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The theme: Difficult Dialogues: NWSA 2009 will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly or implicitly) as superseding or transcending the politics of race, sexuality, social class, nation, and disability.
Conference Speaker: Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years she has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. She is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era.
Prof. Davis' long-standing commitment to prisoners' rights dates back to her involvement in the campaign to free the Soledad Brothers, which led to her own arrest and imprisonment. Today, she remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system.
Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of five books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography; Women, Race & Class; and the recently published Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. The Angela Y. Davis Reader, a collection of Prof. Davis' writings that spans nearly three decades, was published in 1998.
Community Discussion Boards
NWSA has launched a discussion board with a forum for each of the Caucus, Task Force and Interest Group constituencies.
The forums are intended to replace the current listservs, and will help to facilitate greater participation in constituency group interests, research projects, discussions and concerns.
A general discussion forum is also available. Discussions and comments are welcome from all NWSA members. Click here to visit the forums
