Conference Announcements

Canadian Women’s Studies Association/L'association Canadienne Des Études Sur Les Femmes (Cwsa/Acef) Penser sans frontières: Thinking Beyond Borders m- Global Ideas: Global Values / Idées mondiales: valeurs mondiales.
June 1st – 3rd, 2008
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
To join, please visit www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef.

Inclusive Science: Articulating Theory, Practice, and Action
Hold the Dates for a Revolutionary Conference!
June 16, 17, 18, 2008
Visit our website www.stkate.edu/inclusive_science

Teaching for a Change: Tradition & Possibility
June 16-18, 2008
Park City, Utah
http://www.teachingforachange.com/

Society for Disability Studies 21st Annual Conference , Cosmopolitan Disability Studies: Crips the City
New York City, June 18-22, 2008
SDS website www.disstudies.org.

NWSA Conference 2008
June 19-22, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire.
Additional information can be found here: http://www.nwsaconference.org/
The National Women's Studies Association 28th annual conference will open with three pre-conferences for Program administration and Development, Women’s Centers, Students. These day-long events (students 1/2 day) offer networking and professional development opportunities for women’s and gender studies and women’s center administrators on Thursday, June 28. Registration available: http://www.nwsa.org/

12th Annual American Indian Studies Summer Institute
June 23-27, 2008 at the Oneida Nation Elementary School, Oneida, WI
More info available soon on www.dpi.state.wi.us/amind
Or contact J P Leary -- jp.leary@dpi.wi.gov

10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women
New Frontiers: Dares and Advancements
Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds 2008 (MMWW08)
'Equality: No Utopia'
University Complutense of Madrid (UCM-Main Campus at Moncloa), Spain
July 3-9, 2008
Women´s Worlds is the most important congress on academic research on gender and women and feminist social movements. It is a major international event with a main goal: to continue the fight against social injustice and gender inequalities. Feminist researchers, specialists, activists and internationally known public figures will use this opportunity to reflect on important contemporary issues that affect women in specific ways. The University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) was elected in Seoul (WW05) to be the home for the 2008 congress edition. Thus, Madrid, the UCM, will welcome thousands of people from around the Globe and from more than a hundred countries for the 10th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women.
For more information, contact:
Contact: Mundos de Mujeres / Women´s Worlds, Av. Juan de Herrera s/n, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain, Tel: +34 91 3941027/ +34 91 1171
Fax: +34 91 3941171, Email: mainoffice@mmww08.org, Website: http://www.mmww08.org

The Society for Women and the Civil War presents:
Women at Gettysburg: The 10th Conference on Women and the Civil War
Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
July 25-27, 2008
For more information on speakers, topics, field trips and other conference related events, visit swcw.org or e-mail call2post@gmail.com

Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP) and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN-ISDR)!

Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance
Gender and Climate Change
October 19-22, 2008
Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Women and environment experts have raised concern over the absence of women in the discourse and debate on climate change, a global mainstream issue that is currently impacting the entire world. The involvement of women in areas of environmental management and governance should not be perceived as an afterthought. Women's roles are of considerable importance in the promotion of environmental ethics. The current imperative is for women to understand the phenomenon of climate change and its impacts and implications at the individual, household, community and national levels. Studies show that women have a definite information deficit on climate politics and climate protection. Only with this information can women take their proper, significant and strategic role in the issue of climate change. Invited to this congress are women parliamentarians, women in decision - making and governance, environment organizations, youth Leaders and Media Practitioners

The Congress will have the following objectives:
Overall Purpose: To provide a forum for women legislators, and women in decision making and environment organizations at all levels, in formulating gender-responsive legislation and policies.
Specific Objectives:

a) To understand the phenomenon of climate change, its impacts and implications;

b) to review and examine the gender aspects of climate change and formulate appropriate actions to address such;

c) to define the roles women can play in addressing the issues of climate change at the global, national and sub-national levels; and

d) to identify and define the action agenda for parliamentarians, policy advocates and women leaders to support global and national actions to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Congress Proceedings:
The discussion on gender and climate change will be organized around identifying the challenges to action as well as defining the appropriate responses to effectively address the impacts of climate change. Inputs to the discussion will be collected and organized around: 1) geographic location and 2) types of actions: i.e. preparedness, risk reduction: building community resilience; adaptation; and mitigation. Cross cutting these discussions will be the identification of technologies in aid of responding to climate change. The focus of the discussions will revolve around defining and elaborating actions (i.e. preparedness, disaster risk reduction, adaptation, and mitigation) to cope with climate change and its impacts. Preparedness and disaster risk reduction is about building individual and community capacities to position themselves and their communities so that the likelihood of climate change-induced disasters is reduced; the intensity or adverse impacts of disasters are cushioned and that inhabitants are able to respond promptly, expeditiously and effectively. Adaptation entails actions that moderate harm, or exploit benefits, of climate change. Mitigation entails actions that minimizes or cushions the adverse impacts of climate change. In all of these actions, special attention will be given to defining how women and gender could be mainstreamed. In other words, the Congress should define how women can be given the social space to participate, influence, and benefit from global and local responses to climate change.
The registration fee for the four day congress is One thousand five hundred fifty US Dollars (US$ 1,550.) per person for twin room sharing accommodations (two persons in one room) and one thousand nine hundred fifty US Dollars (US$ 1,950.) per person for single room accommodations (one person in one room). We are sending you the detailed information sheet (which contains the registration form) as an attachment to this email.
The training will be held on Oct 19-22, 2008. However, the participants will be requested to be in Manila the day before, October 18, 2008 and leave Manila only on October 23, 2008. The overnight hotel accommodation on October 18, 2008 is already included in the fee. Participants will be billeted in the Dusit Hotel, the venue of the congress and hotels near the Dusit Hotel, accessible within walking distance. Room accommodations in the Dusit Hotel, the venue of the Congress will be on a first come - first served basis. You can also download the full information sheet and registration form for this Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance from our website,
Importance of the Congress

· Today, on the average, one person out of nineteen in a developing country will be hit by a climate disaster, compared to 1 out of 1,500 in an OECD country. Climate change creates life time traps: in Niger, a child born during a drought is 72 percent more likely to be stunted than a child born during a normal season.
Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance.

• The Theme of “Gender and Climate Change” is the first time this will be discussed in a forum whose objective is to formulate gender responsive legislation and policies for national governments and parliaments.

We truly hope that the environment organizations will find this forum a good opportunity to advocate gender and climate change policies and programs through gender responsive legislation to the women parliamentarians, decision makers, the youth leaders, media and the funding agencies/organizations. Let us join hands in promoting gender responsive governance through transformative leadership and citizenship. We are looking forward to your participation.