NW NWSA/ TeachOUT
May 16-17, 2014
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Click here for the complete 2014 Call for Proposals
NW NWSA’s 2014 conference theme, Gender and Sexual Orientation in the Classroom, endeavors to examine the ways that feminist scholarship is transgressing the bounds of public/private, gender conformity and sexuality. Feminist scholars, educators and activist can provide important insights and refreshing perspectives imagining a feminist future in the classroom.
Through engaged feminist scholarship and queer theory, we will explore the ways in which gender and sexual orientation are discussed and enacted in the classroom and how they are made visible or invisible through instruction, embodiment, and performance. Utilizing an interdisciplinary lens, workshops will interrogate how gender is performed, applied, used a method of transgression, a mode of inquiry and/or how it is used to disrupt heteronormativity. By engaging the arts through intersectional feminist scholarship, we explore comedy, poetry, music and games as places of conformity and resistance.
Subthemes:
- Gender Performance
- Engaging Creative Methodologies
- Gender and Sexual Orientation Minority Issues in K-12 Education
Conference Overview
The Northwest National Women’s Studies Association leads the region in women’s studies in educational and social transformation. The region is comprised of women’s and gender studies departments and women’s centers from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. Our annual conference regularly draws faculty, staff and students from around the region showcasing the latest feminist scholarship.
The 2014 annual conference is a joint venture between NWNWSA and UO TeachOUT hosted by the University of Oregon Department of Education Studies and the ASUO Women’s Center. This is the fifth annual forum on gender and sexual orientation minority issues in education.
The 2014 conference will open on Friday, May 16 with three tracks of presentations/workshops and a keynote by Ivan Coyote. This two-day event offers networking and professional development opportunities for professors, graduate and undergraduate students, women’s center staff, K-12 educators and community members. The second day provides an opportunity for attendees to connect with regional musicians, comics and spoken word artists including comics Sapna Kumar and Belinda Carroll, spoken word artist and Shakespearean actor Claudia Alick, performance artist Nicky Click, and musicians Julia Serano and Whitney Monge.
For more information contact Brandy Teel at bota at uoregon.edu or 541-346-0640. Proposals due by March 21