Monday, November 20, 2006
3:00p-5:00p

Mark your calendars: on Monday, November 20, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., there will be an open house for English students and faculty to celebrate the opening of our shiny new conference room in Dakota Hall 304.

Please stop by to visit with your fellow English students and English faculty and admire the many deluxe features of the conference room. Lounge indolently in a semi-matching easy chair! Gaze in wonder from its many windows at the roof of Noteboom hall! Luxuriate in wall-to-wall carpeting which is a slightly different shade of blue than elsewhere! Hang your coat/shawl/serape in its cavernous Cloak-a-torium! Ponder the uncanny mystery of the "door that nobody has a key for"!

Seriously, this is an opportunity to discuss your major and future plans, to chat informally with our English community about language, literature, and life. We will be serving homemade cookies, pizza, coffee, and cold beverages.

We hope to see you there.
posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 7:21 AM

Call for Papers

University of South Dakota Women's Studies Conference:
Research,Scholarship, & Creative Activity, 2007
"Choices Women Make"
(01/15/07; March 23-24, 2007)

The University of South Dakota announces the return of its Women's Research Conference, formerly held from 1984 to 1996. In hosting the USD Women's Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference, 2007, we recognize the continued engagement of scholars and artists in areas of crucial importance to women's well-being, advancement, and survival, and we seek to affirm the inextricability of women's decisions from the diverse communities of family, work, and play in which such decisions get made.

The 2007 Conference, "Choices Women Make," welcomes papers, presentations, and creative readings and performances from all disciplines. We seek projects that investigate the medical, economic, psychological, political, ecological, legal, expressive, and artistic opportunities of women and the factors that inform their responses. "Choices Women Make" hopes to initiate dialogue about the many opportunities and limitations that women encounter and create.

Featured Panel: the Conference is excited and honored to host a featured panel discussion among invited women leaders and activists from the Native American communities of South Dakota

Banquet and Keynote Address: the Conference proudly features Keynote Speaker, Lori Jo Marso, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Union College, NY. Marso is author of Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women (2006).

Investigations, critical papers and performative readings on topics that address the diversity and variability of choice among women of color and American Indian women are strongly encouraged.

We anticipate projects that address questions in the following topic areas but will gladly consider other approaches:

• women and work
• women and finances
• women and politics
• women and activism
• women and sexuality
• women and popular culture
• women and gender
• women and the arts
• women and crime
• women and farming
• women and the digital age
• women and science
• women and medicine
• women and health & wellness
• women and religion
• women and globalism
• women and the military
• women and ecology
  

Please email 250-word abstracts to aemerson@usd.edu or to the following address by
January 15, 2007.

Mailing Address:

Women's Studies
University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
posted by Michelle Rogge Gannon at 6:18 AM