NWSA: National Women’s Studies Association is holding its annual meeting in the Duke Energy Convention Center, November 7-10.  Established in 1977 to promote and support research, teaching, and learning about women and gender, NWSA’s annual conference is the only meeting of its kind within the United States that exclusively features feminist scholarship.  

“Negotiating Points of Encounter” is the theme of this year’s conference.  Noted poet, playwright, and Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of African American Studies (Yale University) Elizabeth Alexander will deliver the conference keynote address at 7pm on Thursday, Nov.7^th.

Her “American Sublime,” an American Library Association Notable Book, and “Praise Song for the Day,” written for and delivered at President Barak Obama’s first inauguration, are two of her many published works found in UC Libraries’ collections.

In addition, a number faculty and students in UC’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will be presenting papers that they have written based on research conducted in our library collections.

View NWSA’s conference events and register to attend at http://www.nwsa.org/.  Note especially the Friday and Saturday sessions featuring UC faculty members:  Professors Danielle Bessett, Erynn Masi de Casanova, Ashley Currier, Erika Gasser, Lisa Hogeland, Laura Dudley Jenkins, Deb Meem, Thérèse Migraine-George, Shailaja Paik, Barbara Ramusack, Anne Sisson Runyan, and Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama.  Also note UC Women’s Center staff and UC graduate students who will be presenting their research at the conference. 

Note too that UC’s Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is sponsoring a special panel of UC WGSS graduate alumnae in the professorate in academic institutions throughout the country.  WGSS is also hosting a special reception for UC faculty, students, alumnae, and all who are interested in UC’s Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and WGSS is one of the women’s studies graduate program co-sponsors of NWSA’s Graduate Programs Reception.  Consult the conference program at http://www.nwsa.org/  for these special events.