Welcome Back Faculty and Students!
We are pleased to announce a very exciting line-up of speakers and programming events for the up-coming academic year. A new Feminist Brown Bag Series developed by our graduate director, Dr. Kate Adams, will provide four opportunities to explore the question of feminist pedagogy with feminist faculty and graduate students. Additional information about the lecture series is locatedin the Spotlight section of this page.
Anita Hill was the guest speaker at the annual Adrenée Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture in African American Women's Studies on Thursday, October 20, 2011. An enthusiastic audience of over 300 faculty, students and community members attended her talk on "Finding Home: In Search of a 21st Century Vision of Equality" , based on her newest book, Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race and Finding Home, published by Beacon Press in October 2011. City of Columbia Councilwoman Tameika Isaac Devine, also a member of the WGST Partnership Council, presented Professor Hill with a proclamation signed by Mayor Steve Benjamin declaring October 20th, 2011as "Anita Hill Day."
The Freeman Lecture was established in 1993 in memory of Adrenée Glover Freeman, an African American Columbia attorney who was active in civic affairs and was one of the first members of the Women’s Studies Partnership Council.
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Women’s & Gender Studies Conference at the University of South Carolina, we are happy to announce collaboration with the Institute for Southern Studies. The notion of legacy plays a central role in the American South, and while some legacies are to be celebrated, others reflect troubled histories of racism, classism, and sexism. Uncovering, examining, and interrogating these legacies in the South will be the focus of this conference. Catherine Fosl, Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, will deliver the keynote address, “From Popular Front to Intersectionality: Three Generations of Southern Dissent.” The call for papers is posted on our website at:
http://www.cas.sc.edu/wgst/conferences/conf12/cfp12.html
Women’s & Gender Studies is an exciting interdisciplinary field of study. Offering courses on a wide variety of topics ranging from women’s health, to literature, to globalization, the Program uses gender and its intersections with race, class, and other important categories of identity and difference to understand the lives of women and men. It keeps women at the center, but it is not only about advancing the status of women. It is about understanding the world in ways that value gender equity, racial equality, and social justice. Women’s & Gender Studies students at both the graduate and undergraduate level, engage with real life issues and the classroom is a place that fosters engagement, ethical conversations, and diverse perspectives.
We continue to update and improve the Advance South Carolna Women website. The website focuses on issues, opportunities, and policies that affect women's lives personally and professionally. Advance South Carolina Women contains links to useful institutions, organizations, and agencies that provide resources and services for South Carolina women. We'd love to get your feedback. E-mail us your thoughts or suggestions.
The Women's Well-Being Initiative is an active coalition of faculty, students, and community members. Plans for the 2011-2012 academic year include school-based literacy initiatives, an on-going collaboration with the Juvenile Arbitration Program of Lexington County to provide arts program for at-risk girls, outreach and educational initiatives with the local Hispanic population, and oral history projects aimed at gathering and disseminating community members’ experiences and perspectives. For more information, contact Ms. Heather Eaddy, by e-mail at: heather.eaddy@gmail.com .
WGST 2012 Conference Deadline extended until January 10, 2012.
For more information, please go to the Call for Papers web page.
February 2 at 6 pm
Annual WGST Potluck CANCELLED - will be rescheduled later.