Girls' Studies and
Activism Professional Development Tour
Thursday, June 28
Plan ahead to take a guided tour on Thursday, June 28 featuring Chicago-area resources that highlight the Girls Studies and Activism Institute theme.
Participants will work with BeyondMedia Education http://www.beyondmedia.org/about_us.html, whose mission is to collaborate with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their stories to the world around us, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of alternative media and arts. .
Participants will also visit Babes with Blades, a nonprofit group that teaches women stage combat skills and mounts productions like When Fairy Tales. . . Attack. Finally, tour members will hear from The Viola Project staff.
The Viola Project is dedicated to empowering young women through the understanding and performance of Shakespeare's plays.
There will be an additional fee for this tour, and Illinois secondary educators may earn Continuing Professional Development Units.
To register, please visit:
http://www.niu.edu/clasep/conferences/institutes/nwsa/index.shtml
GIRLS STUDIES AND ACTIVISM
"ENGAGING SCHOLARSHIP"
SPEAKER
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for other speakers in this series) 
Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., is Professor of Education and Human Development at Colby College in Maine.
Dr. Brown, a founding member of the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and co-creator of the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women (www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org), has written two other acclaimed books on girls’ social and psychological development. Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger (Harvard University Press, 1998) and Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girl (New York University Press, 2003).
Her latest book, Packaging Girlhood Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketer’s Schemes (St. Martin’s Press, 2006), co-authored with Dr. Sharon Lamb, shows adults the image of girls that's being packaged and sold while also giving caring adults the tools to help girls resist these images.
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About the Institute
The embedded "Girls Studies & Activism Institute" will focus
on the exciting and emerging field of girls’ studies
and girl-centered activism, with a particular
emphasis on encouraging girls, their parents, and
their teachers to attend and participate in the
conference.
K-12 and higher education curriculum
development focusing on girls’ issues will be one
area of exploration, while tours and events will
focus on the girl-centered spaces and projects
in the Chicago area.
Illinois secondary educators will have the opportunity to earn Continuing Professional Development Units by attending the NWSA conference and a Thursday tour. Panel
facilitators will be encouraged to include girls in
their sessions.
Girls’ studies is an emergent field that focuses
on girls’ lives, interests, and culture—areas
which have been under-researched and undertheorized,
but which constitute a critical and
exciting contribution to the future of Women’s
and Gender Studies.
Events and programming for the 2007 Chicago area
conference will address the unique
theoretical, methodological, epistemological, and
ethical challenges confronting studies by and
about girls in both US and global contexts.
Some
of the many topics to be explored include:
- girls at various ages
- the performativity of girlhood
- ethnic and racial differences among girls
- girls as immigrants
- girls’ sexualities
- surveillance and girls
- girls and movement(s)
- girls’ body identities
- girls’ activism
- education for, by, and about girls
- popular culture by and about girls
- the human rights of “the girl child”
- girls’ roles in the world’s economies
- sex trafficking in/and girls
- girls and accessibility
- girls, access, and technology
- girls’ ways of knowing and teaching
methods appropriate to girls
- critical perspectives on the mutability of
what girlhood means around the world
- historical/cultural/development perspectives
on “the girl child”
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