Fall 2008
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Women's Caucus
San Diego Program Highlights
Suzanne Enck-Wanzer, Eastern Illinois University
As we look forward to beautiful San Diego, Women’s Caucus programs will provide you with plenty of enticement to stay indoors for at least part of the conference. To be sure, it promises to be yet another vibrant and provocative year with programming from the Caucus. Following NCA’s 2008 charge of providing an unCONVENTIONal conference, submitters to the Caucus took up this theme with great enthusiasm. In all, we will be involved with sponsoring 23 panels that range vastly in methodological approach, subject matter, scope, and participants.
On Friday morning, in conjunction with the Vice President’s Spotlight Series, we are co-sponsoring “An Unconventional Voice Against Ageism: The Old Women’s Project.” This panel spotlights an unconventional activist group from San Diego that works to make visible how old women are directly affected by all issues of social justice, and to combat the ageist attitudes that ignore, trivialize or demean women. They describe themselves as “a group of old women who use actions of various kinds to achieve this goal.” Members of The Old Women’s Project will screen their 30 minute film, “Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women’s Project” and then will dialogue with the audience.
In addition, we will have six panels that address directly the question of women’s roles, publishing, and advancement opportunities within the academy. Following this theme, there will be two different panels addressing the topic of (wo)mentoring within the academy. First, on Saturday morning, we will sponsor the panel, “Women of Color in the Academy: Utilizing (Wo)mentoring in Career Development.” This discussion will feature women from various stages in their academic careers (from a full professor to an undergraduate student) to address the pressing problem of mentoring underrepresented women in all arenas of higher education. Then, on Monday morning, the Women’s Caucus is teaming up with the Mass Communication Division to sponsor “Discussing from Within: (Wo)mentoring Across the Academic Lifecycle.” Providing an interactive conversation with three (wo)mentors and three (wo)mentees, this panel will address the needs of female graduate students and junior faculty in an effort to model proactive mentoring relationships.
Join Us!
Combined Women’s Caucus &
Feminist & Women Studies Division
Business Meeting
Saturday, Nov.22, 3:30-5 p.m.
Salvatore’s Cucina Italiana Restaurant
700 Front St.
Reception:
2008 Francine Merritt Award &
2008 Bonnie Ritter Book Award
Saturday, Nov.22, 5-6:30 p.m.
Salvatore’s Cucina Italiana Restaurant
700 Front St.
Purple Protest T-shirt!
Order yours to wear in
San Diego on Saturday’s a
Annual “Purple Day”:
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~senckwanzer/FWSWCNCA/
In an exciting political year, we are pleased to present three panels that look specifically at women in politics. On Friday afternoon, “Women’s Political Voices in 2008: Analyses of Influence, Persuasion, Leadership, and Change” will examine the role of gender in the 2008 presidential campaign. On Saturday afternoon, we will offer a roundtable of ten preeminent scholars who will treat various aspects of Senator Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential bid in the panel, “Hillary '08: Feminist Opportunities and Challenges.” And then, on Monday morning, the panel “Welcome to the Boys' Club Hillary: A Roundtable Discussion of Women in Leadership Roles” will consider media portrayals of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to shed light on how such images affect women’s leadership potential in all arenas.
On Saturday afternoon, we are pleased to offer the panel, “Spitzack & Carter 20 Years Out: Has ‘Woman’ Become Conventional?” Considering Carole Spitzack and Kathryn Carter’s 1987 assessment of women’s place in pedagogy, profession, and research, this panel asks a new generation of scholars to assess contemporary developments. This panel asks questions such as: “Has ‘woman’ become conventional?” and “Should/how should we seek to make ‘woman’ unconventional once again?” Ultimately, the panelists will take this germinal essay as their starting point to offer a range of possible answers, and to open engagement with convention participants.
In all, this only scratches the surface of what the Caucus will be offering this year. You’ll also find incisive feminist analyses of the media, explorations of women’s creative capacities, queries of public and private sphere theories, considerations of intercultural challenges to gender and sex, ruminations on third wave political potency, reflections on age as it relates to gendered communication, and various concerns regarding women in a wide range of work spaces. Please search the program for more specific times and places for all of our Women’s Caucus and FWS Division programming.
Finally, as a reminder, since we are doing things unCONVENTIONally this year, our day to wear purple will be on Saturday. On Saturday we will also have our combined FWS Division and Caucus business meetings, as well as the awards reception for the Francine Merritt Award and Bonnie Ritter Book Award. These are off-site at Salvatore’s Cucina Italiana Restaurant on 700 Front St. The Business meeting runs 3:30-5 with the reception following from 5-6:30.
And don't forget to order your Purple Protest T! For more information, Visit:
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~senckwanzer/FWSWCNCA/Welcome
Looking forward to seeing you all in San Diego where we will show NCA how unCONVENTIONal we can be!
Last Updated 23 October 2008
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