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The National Women’s Studies Association
28th Annual Conference
Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois

PAST DEBATES, PRESENT POSSIBILITIES,
FUTURE FEMINISMS

JUNE 28 - JULY 1 2007

Featured Speaker: Sandra Cisneros, celebrated author of The House on Mango Street and the novel Caramelo.  She will read from Caramelo, which devotes much of its text to immigration issues, and comment on the politics of migration and mobility today.

The conference will feature several special sessions.

  Engaging Scholarship

We will inaugurate Engaging Scholarship, four simultaneous sessions on Friday intended to address the conference theme and sub-themes and provide opportunities for networking. 

Invited scholars will explain how their work articulates, engages with, and theorizes key issues in the field of women's and gender studies and in today's world. 

Session participants will then break out in discussion sections to explore the various themes and issues in more detail.

NWSA is delighted to introduce the Tribute Panel, a session format intended to honor past scholarship that has set new directions for the field. 

2007 will feature a tribute to This Bridge Called My Back titled Bridge Inscriptions: Radical Women of Color Envision — Pasts, Presents, Futures.

Presidential Sessions are intended to highlight emerging trends in feminist theory and the field of women’s studies or to revisit central questions that have long shaped the field.

The conference will open with three pre-conferences:

The Program Administration and Development Committee hosts daylong sessions offer that important networking and professional development opportunities for women’s studies administrators on Thursday, June 28.

Organized by the PA&D standing committee of NWSA, the pre-conference requires a $60 registration fee in addition to the general conference registration. 
Program Administration and Development

This daylong event offers Women’s Centers professionals, student leaders, and Women’s Studies faculty an opportunity for professional development as well as a supportive environment in which to explore the successes and challenges of our work.

Women’s Centers Standing Committee. 

The Student Pre-Conference will offer time to explore the unique concerns of the undergraduate and graduate student constituency of the NWSA. 

This half-day pre-conference is intended to strengthen student involvement within the organization as part of NWSA’s 30th anniversary celebration and in conjunction with the General Conference theme, “Past Debates, Present Possibilities, Future Feminisms: A Women’s and Gender Studies Conference Celebrating 30 Years of NWSA.”
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