New Englad Women's Studies Conference Call for Papers
Moya Bailey
New England Women’s Studies Conference
UMass Dartmouth, April 30th-May 1st,
2010
Teaching Activism: Women’s Studies in the 21st Century
The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In
that field of possibility we
have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our
comrades, an openness of mind
and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways
to move beyond boundaries,
to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.
–bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1999, p. 207
This year’s New England Women’s Studies (NEWSA) conference invites
presentations focused
on feminist pedagogy and ideas for teaching women’s studies, gender
studies, and/or feminist
approaches in the university classroom. Possible topics include:
• Student-faculty
collaborations inside and outside the classroom
• Impact of service
learning and internships for Women’s Studies students
• Value of service learning
for the Women’s Studies curriculum
• Teaching activism
• Teaching Praxis through
effective blending of feminist theory and practice
• Feminist pedagogy online
• Women’s Studies
education as the practice of freedom
• Contradictions of
feminist pedagogy
• Locating
“feminism” in pedagogy
• Teaching local and global
engagement
• Feminist teaching and
learning methods
• Cross-listed courses and
assuring connections to WMS curricular goals (what curricular
concerns do WMS faculty and programs have about crosslisting courses? Gaining
new resources?)
The conference includes an embedded undergraduate student conference that
includes a
workshop on feminism and a track for presentations of undergraduate research
and experiences
in the discipline of Women’s Studies. We invite proposals from undergraduate
students; faculty
and undergraduate panels are especially welcome. Possible topics here include:
• Lessons learned from
service learning and internship experiences
• Research projects drawing
upon feminist theory
• Practicing activism on a
college campus
• Defining 3rd Wave feminism
• Claiming your feminist
identity
• Why major in Women’s
and/or Gender Studies?
• Experiencing the feminist
classroom
• Engaging in feminist
research
• Learning local and global
engagement
500-word abstracts due by January 29th.
Panel submissions welcome.
Submit electronically as .RTF, .DOC, or PDF attachment to:
ne...@umassd.edu
Decisions will be made by February 15th
--
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
Juli Parker, Ph.D.
Director, Women's Resource Center
Affiliate Faculty, Women's Studies Program
UMass Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Rd.
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747
508.910.4584 phone
508.910.6456 fax
www.umassd.edu/wrc
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