Florida Consortium for Women’s Studies Conference

Florida Atlantic University • Boca Raton, Florida

April 1-2, 2011

Gendered and Racialized Technologies of Change: Moving Discredited Knowledge from the Margins to the Center

Keynote Speaker: Gail Dines Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Wheelock College, Boston
Local Speaker: Marlene Bastien Executive Director, Haitian Women of Miami

Hosted by the FAU Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in collaboration with the FAU Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association Annual Conference

We understand “gendered and racialized technologies of change” to comprise the techniques and practices through which feminists and queer activists generate change in the organization of social, political, and economic relations. The purpose of this conference is to cross disciplinary boundaries and bring together feminist and queer discourses regarding these technologies.

We welcome individual papers, panels and roundtables or workshops as well as innovative presentational formats from scholars, activists, and graduate students addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:

• Activist Strategies
• Civil and Human Rights
• Sexual Bodies, Sexualized Bodies, and Body Politics
• The Military Industrial Complex
• Corporate Culture
• The Feminization of Poverty
• Migration and Globalization
• The Changing (and Same Old) Faces of Oppression
• Intersections of the Local and the Global
• Environment
• Health and/or Women Healers
• New Media
• Popular Culture
• The Sacred and the Spiritual
• Visual and Performing Arts
• Science and Technology
• Pedagogy

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