Women's History Month: Call for Papers, Presentations, Performances

Colleagues and students:

This March as part of our Women’s History Month celebration, the Women’s Studies Committee wishes to honor the accomplishments of women activists around the world and throughout history. Recently Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia along with Tawakkol Karman of Yemen were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their non-violent work to bring justice and peace to their societies.  Originally chartered as the “State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Radford,” our university is rooted in the same historical movement for women’s full participation in society that has impelled women like Gbowee, Sirleaf, and Karman to transform their worlds.

We would like to invite proposals from all faculty, staff members, and students for activities to be scheduled as part of our March Women’s History Month events.  We encourage proposals dealing with women’s activism in global societies, but we welcome any and all proposals. Our theme this year picks up on the Women’s Studies Program motto:  Know Your History / Know Yourself:  Build the Future.  

We welcome work in any discipline that engages questions involving any aspect of women’s lives, women’s history, women’s accomplishments, women and the arts, women and the sciences, women and business, women and society, women and the transformative work to change society.  If you would like to plan an event, present a paper, organize a panel of several speakers (including other faculty members or students), offer a creative performance, organize a reading or discussion group, or join the Women’s History Month planning committee, please complete the proposal form and send to mpbaker@radford.edu.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS:  January 31, 2012

PROPOSAL FORM

1.         NAME OF PRESENTER(S):

2.         PRESENTER’S DEPARTMENT:

3.         TYPE OF PRESENTATION AND TITLE:

4.         TIME REQUIRED FOR PRESENTATION:

5.         LIST OF POSSIBLE DAYS OF WEEK AND TIMES FOR PRESENTATION.  (WE WILL SCHEDULE AND NOTIFY YOU)

6.         TECHNOLOGY NEEDS FOR PRESENTATION

Sincerely,

Moira P. Baker

Professor of English

Director of Women’s Studies Program

mpbaker@radford.edu