CONFERENCE 2010
November 11-14, 2010
Sheraton Hotel,
Denver, Colorado
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, NWSA President & Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies,
Spelman College; Vivian M. May, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies,
Syracuse University
The preliminary November 2010 conference schedule
is now available online.
See the schedule, check your presentation time, and build your own conference calendar.
Please Note: The general conference will open at 1:00pm on THURSDAY AFTERNOON this year and conclude on Sunday afternoon. Pre-conference events will also take place on Thursday as usual.
Important Reminder for Presenters: If you are presenting, you must join NWSA and register for the conference by August 31, 2010 or you will be removed from the schedule and your name will not appear in the conference program book. Help us to insure an accurate conference program by registering and joining today.
If you find errors or omissions in the schedule, please email Valda Lewis at valda.lewis@nwsa.org no later than August 1, 2010.
You can find general information on preparing a poster session, developing an effective presentation, serving as a moderator and more in our general guidelines section.
Opportunity for Book Readings/Signings in the 2010 Conference Exhibit Halls
NWSA would like to feature its member-authors at the 2010 conference with book readings and signings in the exhibit hall. If you would like your book to be considered for inclusion, you must complete the online form and provide your book title, author, publisher, ISBN number, and publication date.
Due to high demand requests without this information will not be considered. Books for reading and signing must be published in the past year.
Deadline for submitting request: September 10, 2010
Notification date: September 20, 2010
NWSA will communicate with a Denver-based bookstore to have your books available at the conference site.
If you have questions, please contact NWSA Deputy Director Patti Provance at patti.provance@nwsa.org
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: RENYA RAMIREZ AND ANDREA SMITH Indigenous Feminisms: Theories, Methods, Politics Thursday, November 11 (more)
Renya Ramirez (left) is the author of Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond and numerous articles on transnationalism, Native feminisms, and gender and cultural citizenship.
Andrea Smith(right) is a co-founder of INCITE! Women Of Color Against Violence, a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and communities; and theBoarding School Healing Project.
PLENARY SESSION:COLLABORATION AS FEMINIST PRAXIS REVISITED M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Friday, November 12 (more) M. Jacqui Alexander (University of Toronto), and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University), will build on their conversation about the nature of collaborative research and curricular practices, transnational feminisms and alliances, how they see this work as central to the field of Women's and Gender Studies, and how they have come together in their work to engage in their own forms of "difficult dialogues."
PLENARY SESSION: COMPLICATING THE QUEER Juana Maria Rodriguez and Gayatri Gopinath
Saturday, November 13 (more)
Juana Maria Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley where she is also the Director of the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
Ananya Dance Theatre
Saturday November 13(more) Ananya Dance Theatre (formerly Women In Motion ) is a company of women artists of color, diverse in age, race, nationality, and sexual orientation, but uniformly committed to artistic excellence and passionate articulation of their dreams, hopes, and desires.
About the Theme
In response to wide demand, NWSA 2010 builds on conversations that began in Atlanta at the 2009 conference. Difficult Dialogues II will explore a range of concepts and issues that remain under theorized and under examined in the field of women’s studies.
Although the problem of omissions, silences, and distortions in women’s studies has been analyzed for decades, too often feminist scholarship continues to theorize on the basis of hegemonic frameworks, false universals, and a narrow range of lived experiences. The legitimate terrain of feminist theory, inquiry, and politics remains contested.
The Difficult Dialogues theme builds on Johnnella Butler’s essays (beginning with her 1989 article in the Women’s Review of Books) about the contested relationship among and between black studies, ethnic studies, and women’s studies in the US academy. Butler pinpointed a reluctance to engage questions of gender and sexuality in black studies and ethnic studies, and a reluctance to engage with questions of race and class in women’s studies.
2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER
11- 14
DENVER COLORADO
The preliminary November 2010 conference schedule
is now available online.
M. Jacqui Alexander (University of Toronto), and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University), will build on their conversation about the nature of collaborative research and curricular practices, transnational feminisms and alliances, how they see this work as central to the field of Women's and Gender Studies, and how they have come together in their work to engage in their own forms of "difficult dialogues."
Ananya Dance Theatre 
