Events
Film Series: Women in Crisis
Scholarly and Clinical Perspectives - February 12 through April 16, 2009
Florida Consortium for Women's and Gender Studies Conference in Tampa, Oct. 2-4, 2009 -- Call for Papers--Women Mobilizing for Change: Past, Present, Future--Excellent opportunity for students and faculty
*Some of the most celebrated feminist/womanist and Women’s Studies scholars from
universities across the nation have joined forces with the Department at USF to
offer cutting edge scholarship in critical feminist pedagogy and research this academic
year at USF.
They are: bell hooks, Jennifer Baumgardner, AnaLouise Keating, Jacqui Alexander,
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Leslie Hill, Chandra Mohanty, Phyllis Chesler, Mark Anthony
Neal, Amit Rai, Layli Phillips, Aimee Carrillo Rowe, LaMonda Stallings, Christine
(Cricket) Keating, Aaronette White, and Barbara Scott Winkler
The aim of the Spring, 2009 Women’s Studies Department Lecture Series is to present leading intellectuals in the field of feminist critical pedagogy which is both anti-sexist and anti-racist, as well as age-, ability-, LGBTQ- and working-class- affirming. They will discuss their research and scholarship in a semester-long affirmation and celebration of the academic discipline of Women’s Studies. Speakers include: bell hooks; Jacqui Alexander; Beverly Guy-Sheftall; AnaLouise Keating; Phyllis Chesler; Mark Anthony Neal; Amit Rai; Layli Phillips; Aimee Carrillo Rowe; LaMonda Stallings; Christine (Cricket) Keating; Aaronette White; and Barbara Scott Winkler. All presentations are free and open to the public.
Doing Business with Africa: Practice, Issues and Potential is this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008
For more information regarding this event, please click here.
Picture Decription: left to right:
María Crummett, Dean, International Affairs, USF
Karenta Kalley, Ph.D. Senior Economist, Global Insight Forecasting
Carol West, Professor of Economics and Director of Center for Business and Education Research, University of Florida
Leo Villalón, Director, Center for African Studies, University of Florida
Linda Lucas, Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies, USF
Betty Castor, Director of Patel Center for Global Solutions