Hitting the Ground Running

Please join leading scholars, researchers, advocates, and policy makers from across various disciplines and fields June 5-7, 2008 at the Kimmel Center at NYU for our Annual Conference. Share information and resources; learn about cutting edge and emerging research on women, gender, and girls; and strategize about ways to work across communities and fields of study.

This year’s conference themes will center around where women can have the most impact in the 2008 Presidential election and beyond, including research and policy issues that will need to be addressed with a new administration; challenges women in the academy confront—backlash, shrinking budgets, corporatization, conservative social pressures—and what can be done to counter them; and the implications of the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, generation and other markers of difference for feminist scholarship, leadership, and activism, nationally and globally.

Deadline for Call for Papers and Presentations: February 15, 2008
For more information, please call 212.785.7335 ext. 202
or email ncrw@ncrw.org

•Click here to download the Registration Form (pdf, 268KB)
•Click here to download the Call for Proposals (pdf, 260KB)
•Click here to download the nomination form for Member Center Awards 2008 (pdf, 488KB)

Featured Speakers:
Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland, College Park
Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University
Kimberle Crenshaw, Columbia University
Stephanie Davis, Office of the Mayor, Atlanta
Kim Gandy, National Organization for Women
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
Inez Hernandez-Avila, UC Davis
Pinar Ilkkaracan, Women for Women's Human Rights
Gloria Jacobs, The Feminist Press
Kate Kahan, National Partnership for Women and Families
Ruth Mandel, Rutgers University
Monique Mehta, Third Wave Foundation
Chandra Mohanty, Syracuse University
Sandra Morgen, Penn State University
Rupal Oza, Hunter College
Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College
Kavita Ramdas, Global Fund for Women
Anne Runyon, University of Cincinatti
Ellie Smeal, The Feminist Majority
Kathy Spillar, Ms. Magazine
Abigail Stewart, University of Michigan
Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Bonnie Thornton-Dill, University of Maryland, College Park
Susan Wefald, Ms. Foundation for Women
Marie Wilson, White House Project
Gina Wood, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Planning Committee:
Stacie Geller, University of Illinois, Chicago
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
Ines Hernandez-Avila, UC Davis
Heather Johnston Nicholson, Girls Inc.
Annalisa Jenkins, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Julia Jordan-Zachary, Howard University
Lisa McClain, Boise State University
Shari Miles-Cohen, American Psychological Assoc.
Sandra Morgen, Penn State University
Cynthia Secor, HERS
Wendy Smooth, Ohio State University
Deborah Tsai-Munster, Merrill Lynch