The 21st Annual Women's Studies Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, February 28-29, 2008, at the Daniel Management Center, Moore School of Business. The conference theme is "Representing Bodies: Disability, Difference, and Identity" and the keynote speaker will be Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University. Garland-Thomson's work understands disability as a culturally constructed narrative of the body that, in concert with other markers of identity and social difference, privileges certain ideas of beauty, health, and normality.

You are invited to submit abstracts (300 word maximum) for individual presentations or proposals for a panel/session relevant to the conference theme as well as to other issues in disability studies or gender and women's studies. Fifteen minutes will be allotted for individual papers and 45 minutes for panel/session presentations. Abstracts and proposals must contain a cover sheet with the name of the presenter, address, work phone, home phone, fax number, email address, and biographical information. Information must be provided for all individuals included in the panel/session proposal. Please submit your abstracts or proposals electronically to wostconf@gwm.sc.edu. The deadline is Friday, December 14, 2007.

All presenters must register for the conference: general registration is $50 and student registration is $20. The nonrefundable registration fee includes packet of conference materials, lunch, and reception.