2014 marks the 30th Anniversary that the Women's Studies Program at Texas Tech University has hosted a conference on the advancement of women in higher education. This year's conference titled “Women’s Studies on the Edge” is part of a three-day celebration of 33 years of academic excellence provided by the Women’s Studies Program at Texas Tech University.
The Conference runs April 17-19 in meeting rooms on the upper level of the Student Union Building, including the Matador room where Dr. Guy-Sheftall’s, our keynote speaker, will make her public address at 1p. This conference is a very special occasion to expand regional, national and international research in Women's Studies and related fields of scholarship. Through various keynote speakers and guest scholars our participants have found a place to network and support women faculty, staff, and students and all interested members of the University and surrounding communities.
Since 1984, when the First All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Academia was held, over 40 guest scholars and activist have spoken on this campus as keynote speakers. Guest scholars have included a Chief Nurse and Colonel in the US Army Reserves, Dr. Margarethe Cammermeyer, a former Vice-Presidential candidate and an inductee to the National Women’s Hall of Fame, member Winona LaDuke, as well as one of the founding members of the second wave of the women’s movement and current recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, Gloria Steinem.
This conference occurs each spring on the campus of Texas Tech. A local, state and national call for papers is distributed to help promote academic research. Over the years, the theme of the conference has merged with present day discourse of examining the cultural and social construction of gender, exploring the history, experiences and contributions of women to society, and studying the influences of gender on the lives of women and men.
The special theme this year is Women’s Studies on the Edge, in which we will explore the present and future of women’s studies programs, especially the challenges faced in red states.
- "The edge is defined as a place of indeterminacy, at once exciting and precarious. Exciting because to be on this edge is to be on the verge of discovering new possibilities for a field that may only seem to be exhausted and new ways to disrupt prevailing arrangements and relationships of power. Precarious because in the quest for an as-yet-unimagined future, there are never any guarantees." - Joan Wallace Scott, Editor, Women's Studies on the Edge, Duke Press, 2008
About the Conference
This three-day conference will kick off with a pre-conference event on Thursday, April 17 and continue on Friday, April 18 with simultaneous panel sessions conducted throughout the day and including the keynote speaker, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Saturday, April 19 will continue the discussion with three Regional Directors of Women's Studies Programs panel and a TTU Women's Studies Affiliated Faculty panel, concluded by a final group workshop.
Attendance is FREE of charge to attend one or more panel and keynote sessions. All participants must register.
A late registration fee of $25 students/$35 non-students is required for participants attending the networking breakfast and the conference luncheon and scholarship awards ceremony.
Registration is required for all presenters and participants (students and non-students) and includes access to all sessions and guest speaker presentations. A registration fee applies to all participants attending the networking breakfast and luncheon.
The all-day conference panel and keynote sessions on Friday, April 18th and Saturday, April 19th, will be held in the Student Union Building (upper level). Room assignments and the conference program will be available online as the final call for proposals are reviewed.
For faculty wishing to have students attend a session and/or keynote speaker for FREE, we will provide proof of attendance but the student needs to check in and register (FREE) at the registration table.
For visitors without TTU parking credentials, enter off of University and 15th Street for directions from the traffic kiosk to the nearest pay-to-park lot. The traffic kiosk attendant will give directions to the Student Union Bldg.
The Women's Studies Program is part of the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement. For more information and the complete conference program visit: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/AWHE_2014.php
CONTACT: Women’s Studies Program, Texas Tech University, (806) 742-4335, or womens.studies@ttu.edu or Tricia Earl, Unit Coordinator/Advisor, Women's Studies Program, patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu
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Posted:
4/15/2014
Originator:
Patricia Earl
Email:
patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu
Department:
Women's Studies Program
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