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Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead conference

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead

September 24–26, 2010

Join hundreds of women for a weekend of celebration and conversation guaranteed to wake up your inner leader and leave you brimming with renewed purpose. Omega’s annual Women & Power conference is one of the most celebrated women’s gatherings in the world, unique [...]

Call for Contributions for Edited Book Volume: Black Senior Women: Race, Age, and Sexual Identity

Publishing House: Palgrave Macmillan

Editors: Bette J. Dickerson, PhD & Nicole Rousseau, PhD

Publication Date: 2011

A truly collaborative project, the first editor of this piece, Bette J. Dickerson, is an associate professor in the department of sociology at American University in Washington. Dr. Dickerson’s research specialties include: ageing and the social aspects of [...]

Strategic Imperatives for Ending Violence against Women: Linkages to Education, Economic Security, and Health

ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE

REGISTER NOW Online at http://www.unifem-usnc.org/conference

When: June 11 and 12, 2010

Where: Hunter College, West Wing, East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City

What: A conference to build collaborations to understand the intersections between violence against women and key social investments: the economy, health and education. Convening leaders [...]

Bridging the Gap: Medicine, the Media, and Women’s Health

When: Saturday, April 24th, 2010, from 8.30-4.30 (Breakfast, Coffee, and Lunch Provided!)

Where: Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, on the 4th floor of the Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South)

The NYU School of Medicine and the NYU Hospital for Join Diseases would like to invite you to join us for an exciting full day [...]

Call for Papers: 2010 Women & Society Conference

Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2010 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates [...]

In Love With Russia: U.S. Women, Sexual Revolution, and Revolutionary Tourism, 1905-1945

Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

5:00 to 6:30PM (with reception to follow)

The Tamiment Library is located at 70 Washington Square South, New York City (between LaGuardia and Green) 10th floor

For a copy of the paper or to RSVP please contact Zuzanna Kobrzyski

A Conversation with Queer Women in Public Service: A Panel Discussion

March 25, Thursday 7 to 9 PM

RSVP to ma123@nyu.edu

Margarita Lopez, Board Member of the New York City Housing Authority

Rosie Mendez, Member of the New York City Council from the 2nd District

Ann Northrop, journalist and activist, current co-host of TV news program Gay USA

Melissa Sklarz, first openly transgender public official [...]

A Feminine Palette: Women Artists of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Presented by the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden

Friday, March 5th at 6:30 PM

Panelists Dr. Katherine Manthorne of City University of New York’s Graduate Center; Catherine Coleman Brawer, M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and Ph.D student Whitney Thompson, also of City University of New York’s Graduate Center, discuss the [...]

Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts @ the New School

Monday, March 1st @ 6:30 p.m.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street — Room 510 New York, NY

WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) will celebrate the formation of their new organization with a reading and panel presentation at the New School in New York, NY.

Merging the creative and [...]

From Turbulence to Transformation

Presented by the National Council for Research on Women

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 3 to 5 PM

A SPECIAL EVENT WITH:

Edith Cooper, Managing Director, Global Head of Human Capital Management, Goldman Sachs

Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

Letty Chiwara, Manager, UNIFEM Cross Regional Programmes (invited)

Moderated by Jacki Zehner, Founding [...]