Announcements and Upcoming Events


YWCA Black & White Gala
Orange Peel
October 2, 2008

Click here for more information.
http://www.ywca.org/site/pp.asp?c=gmKUJdNZJvF&b=269395

The event is a major fundraiser for the YWCA of Asheville.
Proceeds will help provide
programs bridging gaps in education,
health care, and child care experienced by women and minorities."
 


Opening Reception: International Print Portfolio Exchange Exhibit
September 26, 2008
Opening Reception: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Informal Gallery Talk: 7:00 p.m.
S. Tucker Cooke Gallery
Owen Hall
UNCA Campus

Show Dates: September 26-October 21, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

The limited edition fine art prints are from two international women's print portfolio exchanges ("The Birth Project" and "Women's Work") on loan to UNCA from one of the artist/participants, Kore Loy Wildrekinde-McWhirter of South Toe River, Yancey County, NC. Loy, as she is known locally, is a long-time friend of UNC Asheville and the Art Department (both of her daughters graduated from UNCA in Art).

Artists represented in these portfolios are from a variety of countries throughout the world including: Ireland, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, Venezuela, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Germany, and Finland, as well as from many different locations in the United States. Techniques used in the various printmaking processes included in the exhibition are: line etching, aquatint, photo lithography, collograph, woodcut, linocut, and serigraph.


Contact the
UNCA Art Department at 828/251-6559.
Free and open to the public.
 


What was it like to be a woman at BCM?
A Symposium
UNCA Humanities Lecture Hall
UNCA Campus

Saturday, October 4, 2008
3:00 p.m.

Chaired by Mary Emma Harris. BCM scholar, author of "The Arts at Black Mountain College"
BCM Alumnae Panelists:
Patsy Lynch Wood
Alma Stone Williams
Vera Baker Williams
Cynthia K. Homire
Marie Tavroges Stilkind

Click here for more information:  http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/

Co-sponsored by the UNC Asheville Women's Studies Program and History Department
 


Running in High Heels

Owen Conference Center
UNCA Campus
Tuesday, October 7
7:00 p.m.

A film about the difference between what women say and do in politics.

This film will be followed by a panel discussion.
Panelists are Mayor Terry Bellamy, Robin Cape and Patsy Keever, local political activists.

Click here for further information.
 


Women and Girls in Georgia Conference
Health and Well-Being
Athens, GA
October 24-25, 2008

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Susan F. Wood
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at George Washington University

Full program and registration information: www.uga.edu/iws/WAGG
 


17th Women and Society Conference

Marist College
Poughkeepsie New York
October 24 & 25, 2008

A feminist conference that is both interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary,
covering all aspects of women and gender being studied in the academy.
The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students,
so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered.
Undergraduates may attend at no cost.

Please click below for information.

http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womensstudies/conference.html

 


UNCA Conference
Living in, Living with, Diversity
November 21-22, 2008

The conference will include discussion panels (of which your paper will be a part), round-tables, workshops, and more. We ask that if you submit a paper, that you also are going to present it at the conference in one of the panels. You will be hearing more about this conference at the beginning of fall semester. If you would like to participate in some way other than presenting a paper, please let us know.

Thank you very much for your interest. We look forward to hearing from you.

  
Greetings
Volker Frank
 

National Women's History Project

The National Women's History Project wants you to nominate  women who in various ways nurture planet earth, women who have taken the lead in the environmental or "green" movement.

Nomination forms are available at the National Women's History Project website: http://nwhp.org/whm/nomination_form.doc or go to www.nwhp.org and click on the 2009 theme.

Nominations deadline is Dec. 31, 2008

                                Contact: Molly Murphy MacGregor
                             (707) 636-2888

           
                 ednasmolly@aol.com


The North Carolina Conference for Women
Charlotte Convention Center
Charlotte, NC
January 28, 2009

http://www.ncwomensconference.com/index.cfm
 


Middle Tennessee State University
Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Conference on Sexuality

Murfreesboro, TN
March 26-March 28, 2009

The theme of the 2009 conference is sexuality, a very broad topic that allows us to explore current issues in feminist scholarship related to sex and gender.  The call for proposals provides some possible topics and areas that might be addressed, such as biology, culture, and sexuality; gender construction and sexuality; class and sexuality; sexualizing childhood; sex trafficking; feminism and sexuality; and the construction of perversity, and many more possibilities that address this broad field.
 

Details about the conference are available on the conference website link, including the call for proposals and information about keynote speakers Jennifer Baumgartner and Amy Richards.  

 

For more information, contact the MTSU Women's Studies Program, Box 498, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN   37132, Phone:  615-898-5910, email: womenstu@mtsu.edu ,  Fax: 615-898-5289.
 


SEWSA 2009
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC
April 2-4, 2009

http://www.womenstudies.appstate.edu/SEWSA09/sewsa2009index.htm

Deadline for presentation proposals
November 1, 2008

Photo from SEWSA 2008 at UNC-Charlotte

 

University of North Carolina - Asheville
Women's Studies Department
One University Heights CPO 2825
Asheville, NC 28804-8520
(828) 251-6419

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Updated October 2008