Conference Announcements

AAC&U
Educating for Social and Personal Responsibility Conference
October 1-3
Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://www.aacu.org/aacu_news/AACUNews09/august09/news_events.cfm
This Network for Academic Renewal conference will explore how to move education for personal and social responsibility to the center of institutional culture and academic practice. The program will feature promising practices that develop studentsí civic engagement and social responsibility in both a local and global context; personal and academic integrity; ability to examine and understand differing (and often competing) perspectives; and ethical and moral reasoning.

6th Annual Conference on Prostitution, Sex Work, & Human Trafficking
October 1- 2, 2009
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
http://www.prostitutionconference.com
Bringing together researchers and practitioners in an effort to lay the groundwork for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program development. To educate social service, health care, and criminal justice professionals on human trafficking and the needs and risks of those victimized by the commercial sex industry. This conference is open to researchers, practitioners, academics, survivors, and workers in the social service, criminal justice, and health care fields.

Women Mobilizing for Change: Past, Present, Future
October 2-4, 2009
University of Tampa Tampa, Florida
http://web1.cas.usf.edu/wst/fcws/
The breadth of this conference allows for research in a wide historical area, allowing for papers which: a) revisit and reexamine well-known historical landmarks for women to explore their legacies for the present and the future; b) investigate contemporary interaction of womenís movements with local, regional, and global communities, organizations, and institutions; c) demonstrate efforts of women to influence and change existing political, economic, education and community culture and structures to improve the lives of women and children; d) look to the future to explore how underlying ideological concerns today will impact womenís roles tomorrow.

2009 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis
October 25-27, 2009 at the Westin Indianapolis
Registration deadline is October 2nd
A full schedule and registration information can be found at http://www.planning.iupui.edu/institute. The Assessment Institute in Indianapolis is the nationís oldest and largest event focused exclusively on Outcomes in Higher Education. Participants will learn about new techniques and approaches in a variety of outcome assessment areas, including civic engagement, student development, first-year-experience, each of which has its own track throughout the schedule. Several sessions are designed for beginners and others are for the more experienced practitioner.

Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s): ëEnabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetorics
October 7-10, 2009
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/
Highlighting the intellectual traditions of womenís communities, especially communities constellated around specific identity markers such as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation issues, geographic origins; and other topics that address the connections in the conference them

3rd Annual Women of Color Conference
October 9th & 10th, 2009
Spellman College, Atlanta, Georgia
Http://www.feministcampus.org
The Feminist Majority Foundation is proud to partner with Spelman College, the Spelman Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, the Spelman Women's Research and Resource Center, and Bennett College for Women to bring you the 3rd Annual Women of Color Conference. The conference will bring together feminist activist leaders from communities of color around the country. Student leaders will learn about various social justice issues and come together as women of color and allies to strategize for real sociopolitical change as part of a larger movement for justice and equality.

WWHEL 2009 State Conference
Women as Transformational Leaders: Gender and Clear-Headed Leadership in Higher Education October 22-23, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
For more details and registration, see http://www.wwhwl.org
Keynote speaker: Venita Kelley, Ph.D. Founder of Kelley Communications and Consulting In her keynote speech and subsequent workshop, Venita Kelley will show that women are significant contributors at all levels and that when they engage in transformational leadership they strengthen processes, strategic planning, and institutions. In an interactive session on the first day of the conference, Dr. Kelley will provide the constructs of a transformational leadership model that women can begin using immediately to meet their own leadership goals. The Friday morning session will focus on women's need to bring their leadership vision and best practices to the forefront in their work and personal environments, including how to present oneself as a leader in formal and informal ways while incorporating a communication skill component. Hotel Accommodations for October 21 and 22, 2009, at Holiday Inn & Convention Center, Stevens Point, WI, 54481
Rates are $70 single/$99 double using the block code UWS, expires on 9/30/2009. 715-344-0200
www.holidayinn.com.

AAC&U
Integrative Learning Conference: Addressing the Complexities
October 22-23, 2009
Registration through September 30, 2009
Atlanta, GA
http://www.aacu.org/aacu_news/AACUNews09/august09/news_events.cfm
What types of activities allow students to apply their learning to new situations in order to practice the skills and abilities necessary for todayís world? This question and others like it will be explored at AAC&Uís Network for Academic Renewal conference. This conference will highlight the new importance of integrative learning ten years in to the new century.

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built
October 22-25, 2009
York University, Toronto, Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/arm
The conference focuses on maternal health and the environment; creating and maintaining sustainable family systems; public/private spaces and the pregnant body; procreation and fertility; disability, environments and the maternal body; mothers, cancer and pollution; mothering and HIV/AIDS, breastfeeding and environmental toxins; mothering, environments, sustainability and technology; women, children and ìnatureî; the philosophy of nature and its relation to the feminine; nature and culture as gendered concepts; environmental theory and mothering; feminist philosophy of natural science; essentialism and motherhood; Indigenous theories of mothering; mother environmental movements and maternal activism; ecofeminism, maternal environmental activism and global citizenship; environmental activism through the arts; ; mothering in public space and private space; the maternal in architecture; modernist architecture as a symptom of patriarchy (phallic skyscrapers); disability, environments and the maternal body; Internal environments (mothering the self; internal/personal landscapes of mothers); commercialization of nature; consumerism food, farming and the nurturer; GMOs ;The role of mothers in creating food sovereignty

Center for Gender & Intercultural Studies
Succeeding as Women in Higher Education Conference
October 23-25, 2009
SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York.
For information please contact the CGIS office at gender@cortland.edu Websites: Cortland.edu/swhe and Cortland.edu/cgis

8th Women & Society Conference
October 23rd & 24th 2009
Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY
http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womensstudies/conference.html
This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, covering all aspects of women & 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. As 2009 marks the 125th anniversary of Eleanor Rooseveltís birth, the Women and Society Conference is pleased to announce the 2009 keynote speaker Robin Gerber. Gerberís acclaimed Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies From the First Lady of Courage focuses on the continuing need for women to take on more leadership roles and draws on the values, tactics, and beliefs that enabled Eleanor to bring about transformational change in her own time. For more information about Robin Gerber and her books visit www.robingerber.com

National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
Name's 2009 Annual International Conference
October 28-November 1, 2009
Denver, CO
http://www.nameorg.org
NAME celebrates cultural and ethnic diversity as a national strength that enriches a society and rejects the view that diversity threatens the fabric of a society. NAME believes that multicultural education promotes equity for all regardless of culture, ethnicity, race, language, age, gender, sexual orientation, belief system or exceptionality. Multicultural education enables the individual to believe in one's own intrinsic worth and culture, to transcend monoculturalism and, ultimately, to become multicultural. The conference program is filled with exciting speakers and events for networking with colleagues who work in the field of multicultural education and other activists for equity. Registration is now open. If you have questions about the conference, please contact us at name@nameorg.org or (301) 951-0022

Third Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference: The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy
November 6th, 2009 - November 6th, 2009
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, NYC
The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars and activists across disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy. Building on previous work, this is a forum to share pedagogical methods and ideas for teaching in women and gender studies and/or feminist approaches to learning and classroom strategies in various disciplines. Our aim is to address issues of gender and sexuality, in conjunction with race and class, both inside and outside of the academy.

National Women's Studies Association
Difficult Dialogues
November 12-15, 2009
Atlanta, GA
http://www.nwsaconference.org
Difficult Dialogues: NWSA 2009 will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly or implicitly) as superseding or transcending the politics of race, sexuality, social class, nation, and disability.

National Multicultural Institute Leadership Development Conference
Forging New Pathways for Diversity and Inclusion:
Building Skills for Collaboration and Dialogue
November 18-21, 2009
Marriott Crystal City at Reagan National Airport
Arlington, Virginia
http://www.nmci.org/leadership_institutes/index.html
Reflecting one year after the election of our nationís first biracial president, the United States continues to face challenges in creating a truly inclusive and equitable society. Although many organizations dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and civil and human rights share similar visions for inclusion and equity, often they find themselves isolated from, or even at odds with one another. In order to form a unified vision and mobilize our collective strength to create real change, advocates, practitioners and leaders must be equipped with the tools necessary for dialogue and coalition building.
The Fall Conference will be comprised of three segments:
Emerging Issues Forum (November 18) to convene leaders from different sectors and areas of expertise, to engage in thoughtful dialogue on controversial diversity and equity issues, and to elicit concrete strategies for successfully overcoming challenges in the field.
Diversity Dialogue Series (November 19) to provide participants with an opportunity to build and practice skills for effective dialogues on difficult diversity issues.
Diversity Leadership Institute (November 19-21) to provide professionals with the skills they need to effectively manage and lead diverse organizations, build internal capacity for inclusive workplace practices, and drive organizational culture change.

6th International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice:
Reframing Race, Gender, and Teacher-Education Policy
December 5-6, 2009
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
http://www.antioppressiveeducation.org/2009conference.html
What does it mean to prepare teachers to teach toward social justice? Across the United States and around the world, educators face many challenges. Especially troublesome are the economic, social, and political contexts that make difficult our attempts to address differences and oppressions in schools and society. Yet, in the face of these challenges, teacher educators are continuing to produce significant theories, practices, and coalitions. The 6th International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice will offer rare opportunities to discuss cutting-edge research, develop innovative resources, build networks, and explore possibilities for new directions in teacher preparation. The Conference draws together hundreds of educators from around the world with diverse experiences but with shared commitments and priorities. Co-Sponsors: Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies, UIC, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, UIC