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CFP: National Council for Research on Women?s ?Hitting the Ground Running?

By Bridget Crawford

The National Council for Research on Women has issued this CFP/conference announcement for its “Hitting the Ground Running” Conference, co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study on Gender and Sexuality at NYU:

Please join leading scholars, researchers, advocates, and policy makers from across various disciplines and fields June 5-7, 2008 at the Kimmel Center at NYU for our Annual Conference. Share information and resources; learn about cutting edge and emerging research on women, gender, and girls; and strategize about ways to work across communities and fields of study.

This year?s conference themes will center around where women can have the most impact in the 2008 Presidential election and beyond, including research and policy issues that will need to be addressed with a new administration; challenges women in the academy confront?backlash, shrinking budgets, corporatization, conservative social pressures?and what can be done to counter them; and the implications of the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, generation and other markers of difference for feminist scholarship, leadership, and activism, nationally and globally.

Deadline for Call for Papers and Presentations: February 15, 2008.

More information is available here.

-Posted by Bridget Crawford

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).