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>ANNUAL CPC WOMEN'S STUDIES CONFERENCE
>Saturday, March 25, 2000
>Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Pennsylvania
>
>TOPIC: "Women as Agents of Change"
>
>Keynote Speaker: Temma Kaplan, Director of Women's Studies, SUNY, Stony
Brook
>"Making Spectacles of Themselves: Women in Grassroots Movements"
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>We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics:
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>Oral history of local movements and activists
>Activist women in their communities
>Artists as agents of change
>Celebrities as agents of change
>Mass media: obstacle or tool?
>Breaking new ground in different disciplines
>Practicing feminist science
>Remembering our foremothers
>Bringing our foremothers into the curriculum
>Blues as protest
>Reconciling race and gender activism
>Women's activism within the world's religious institutions
>How feminism joins with and enhances other movements
>     Feminism and environmentalism
>     Women and labor unions and unionization
>     Women and peace movements
>     Prostitutes' rights movement
>     Women and pornography
>Reevaluations of race and class in 70s feminist activism
>Conservative women's activism
>Workshops on preserving oral history
>Incorporating oral histories into the classroom
>Workshops on organizing for change
>Being an agent of change in the personal sphere
>Student activists on campus
>Recognizing women's work worldwide
>Globalization of feminist activism against violence, sexual
exploitation,
>and sweatshops
>Postcolonial feminist theory and action
>Feminist Activism in the Next Millennium
>And any other ideas we haven't been able to think of!
>
>In this conference we seek to bring together those whose work deals with
>changing the lives of women and men in their work and home environments
and
>in local and global communities.  We seek papers and proposals that
>envision change as a complex network of actions.  While we welcome
papers
>dealing with feminist political action, we also hope to see action
defined
>in different and multiple ways.  We solicit papers and proposals that
focus
>on feminist action in different academic disciplines; in different
social
>and religious institutions; and in the arts, media and sports.  We are
>interested in global as well as historical transformative movements. Our
>goals are to challenge paradigms to ask new questions, and to define
>activism for the millennium.
>
>We seek proposals that break down the boundary between audience and
>participant — workshops, roundtables, personal narratives, dance — as
well
>as more traditional scholarly papers and reports from activists
themselves
>and those working directly with activist organizations.  Individual and
>group proposals are welcome.  We are particular interested in proposals
>that highlight collaborative projects among social service agencies,
>community groups, and schools, and colleges and universities.
>
>Proposals must be received by January 28, 2000.  You will receive
>notification by the middle of February 2000.  Send proposals to Molly
>Seidel, Executive Assistant, Central Pennsylvania Consortium, c/o
Franklin
>& Marshall College, P.O. 3003, Lancaster PA 17604-3003; email:
>cpcdfg@fandm.edu; fax: 717-399-4518.
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>Temma F. Berg
>Co-coordinator of Women's Studies
>Associate Professor
>Department of English
>Gettysburg College
>717-337-6753
>tberg@gettysburg.edu

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