Announcing the 2011 Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Graduate Student Conference:
GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND URBAN SPACES
March 11 - 13, 2011
at the MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Registration is
*FREE* and open to the public. To register, contact
gcws@mit.edu and include your name, university and department or other relevant affiliations.
The complete schedule is available online at:
http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_conference_2011/index_schedule11.html
Schedule highlights include:
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION, Friday, 3/11, 6:30 PM
"Queerying Identity: The Tyranny of Gendered Planning"
A presentation by:
Petra L. Doan
Associate Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Florida State University
*Post keynote reception to follow*
A DAY OF GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS, Saturday, 3/12, 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Panels, poster sessions, and presentations by graduate students from around the globe.
Panel topics include, but are not limited to:
- Planning for Gender: Perspectives on Urban Development
- Sex in the City: Reclaiming the Public Stage
- Living in the Margins: Othered Lifestyles/Hidden Histories
- Transformational Armatures: The Performance of Gender as/in Architecture
- Politics, Class, and Identity in the Queered City
and more!
KEYNOTE PANEL, Sunday, 3/13, 10:00 AM
"Making it Real: Bridging Theory and Practice"
A panel by:
Sharon Reilly
Executive Director
The Women's Lunch Place
Gia Barboza
Assistant Professor
African American Studies
Northeastern University
Karen Tei Yamashita
Associate Professor
Literature
University of California Santa Cruz
*Panel co-sponsored by the Tufts University American Studies Program*
For more information contact Andi Sutton, GCWS Program Coordinator, at
arsutton@mit.edu or 617-324-2085
