| scholarship activism community change! | | | | NewsNotes | January 12, 2010 | | Happy New Year! We're glad to be back in touch with you and looking excitedly toward the new year. The Women's Center completed an important strategic planning process at the end of 2009 with support from both the Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, with assistance from LarsonAllen. We are clear about our work over the next several years, and hope to be making announcements about new directions this year. We appreciate your support of the Center and are happy to share with you compelling programming and resources on and off the Spelman campus in this issue.
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Founding Director Join Our Efforts to Establish a Permanent Endowment for Women's Center Programs! | | | | | | 4th Annual CRS Symposium Intersectionality: Challenging Theory ~ Reframing Politics ~ Transforming Movements UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW SAVE THE DATE March 11-13, 2010 CALL FOR PROPOSALS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 15, 2010! Since the publication of Kimberlé Crenshaw's formative articles - Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race & Sex (1989), and Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics & Violence Against Women of Color (1994) - the concept of intersectionality has traversed more than a dozen academic disciplines and transnational and popular political discourse, generated multiple conferences, monographs, and anthologies, and animated hundreds of articles and essays.
In the twenty years since Crenshaw introduced intersectionality, critiques of identity politics and multiculturalism and, more recently,claims of a "post-racial" era have blossomed. In 2010, we will re-visit the origins of intersectionality as a theoretical frame and site of legal interventions and consider its still unfolding potential for unmasking subordination and provoking social change.
Co-sponsored by the Women's Research and Resource Center |  Still Brave The Evolution of Black Women's Studies Edited by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster & Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker-from the pioneers of black women's studies comes Still Brave, the definitive collection of race and gender writings today. Including Alice Walker's groundbreaking elucidation of the term "womanist," discussions of women's rights as human rights, and a piece on the Obama factor, the collection speaks to the ways that feminism has evolved and how black women have confronted racism within it.
The Feminist Press |  17th Annual Institute for Women's Studies Student Research Symposium Friday, March 19, 2010
Feminist Research Across the Disciplines CALL FOR PAPERS
The Institute for Women's Studies' Annual Student Research Symposium is designed to foster research in all areas of women's studies. We encourage research from all disciplines. Both graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration. All interested students please submit individual abstracts or complete panel abstracts electronically to wmstsymposium2010@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: Friday, January 22, 2010.
All abstracts will be judged anonymously. Papers should be 15 minutes in length. A 5-minute question period will follow each presentation. For further information, please contact Daleah Goodwin at wmstsymposium@gmail.com. |  Call for Papers/Presentations The 10th Annual Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference: March 26-27, 2010 Spelman College Making Revolution Irresistible: The Tradition of Black Women & Radical Scholar-Activism
Accepting papers, panels and performance pieces that explore dimensions of Black/African Women's lives, scholarship and social change activism across disciplines and topical areas. Deadline for submissions: February 19, 2010. For submission form and/or more information, contact the Women's Center at 404.270.5625 | From Don Imus to Michelle Obama, the 2000s Will Go Down as a Decade to Remember for Black Women
By C. Nicole Mason, PhD for the NAACP Legal Defender Online The 2000s were a mixed bag for African-American women. From Venus and Serena Williams to Condoleezza Rice to Michelle Obama to Don Imus' infamous nappygate, the 2000s will go down as the decade of both opportunity and setbacks for black women. This decade retrospective looks at the top ten events that shaped how we view black women in society, our communities, and in pop culture.
To read the rest of the article, click the following link: http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/01/05/from-don-imus-to-michelle-obama-the-2000s-will-go-down-as-a-decade-to-remember-for-black-women/.
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NWSA Call for Proposals DIFFICULT DIALOGUES II November 11-14, 2010 · Denver, CO
Program Co-Chairs: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, NWSA President and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College and Vivian M. May, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Syracuse University
Download the Full CFP from the Conference Site
(http://www.nwsa.org/conference/)
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2010 | | | | | About Us
The WRRC is the first women's research center at a historically Black college and the first one to offer a women 's studies major. Over the course of its 27 year history, with sustained support from the Ford Foundation, the Center has facilitated faculty and student leadership development; collaborated with other departments/programs on and off campus to establish new courses (most recently in the sciences) that address issues of gender and race; established international linkages with universities outside the U.S. to increase their capacity to promote faculty and student development; and hosted a number of conferences that explore the lives of African and African descended women in a variety of cultural contexts. scholarship...activism...community...change
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