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BYU Women's Studies Annual Conference

The BYU Women's Studies annual conference provides a space for U.S. and international scholars from a variety of disciplines to share and discusstheir research on women's lives, representations of women, and gender. Professors, independent scholars, and students are invited to attend andsubmit proposals for papers, sessions, or panels.

Student interns are integral in planning and putting on the conference. The faculty organizer of the Women's Studies Conference is Dr. Anca Sprenger, Associate Professor of French Literature and Women's Studies Executive Committee Member.

November 7-9, 2013
The 3^rd Annual Women’s Studies Conference will focus on women, race, and ethnicity. Women have been perceived as the “exotic” other, exhibited as curiosity objects, and have also succeeded sometimes in overcoming racial, gender, and social barriers. Women have worked as slaves, they have owned slaves, and they also have fought in the desegregation movement. Enslaved women have raised their masters’ children, and transmitted their cultural heritage to their own children. Women have built both walls and bridges between racial and ethnic groups. Colonial arts and literatures have depicted women stereotypically, and postcolonial arts and literatures have allowed women’s voices to be heard. Women, sometimes excluded and barely tolerated, can impose their presence as legitimate and gain recognition for their roles and contributions to society.

We invite faculty to submit 300-word abstracts for individual papers on these topics or other related themes. Advanced students should submit both a 100-word abstract, and an 8-10-page paper. Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

Women and slavery
Women in colonial empires
Race, ethnicity, and gender stereotypes
Fighting discrimination, women in the desegregation movement
Representation of race in colonial literature
Women and postcolonial literature

Orientalism, exoticism and racism
Gender, race, and ethnicity as economic factors
Women, race, and politics
Gender, ethnicity, and race within the family
Anthropological, legal, and ethical definitions of gender and race

Submissions should be sent to: BYUWSconference@gmail.com by May 19, 2013. Please include your name, title, academic and departmental affiliation, e-mail, mailing address and phone number, title of your paper, topic from the list above in which it may fit, and the abstract (students should also submit the 8-10 page paper). CFP flyer

Airport and Transportation:
The airport for the symposium is Salt Lake international Airport (SLC). You may take the following or search for your own options:

Shuttle Service:
Xpress Shuttle: http://www.expressshuttleutah.com/
Public Transport:
UTA/TRAX/Frontrunner: http://www.rideuta.com/
Taxi:
Yellow Cab of Provo: http://www.yellowcabofprovo.com/

Location and Parking:

For directions to campus please see this google map.

Most of the Conference will be held in the The Joseph F. Smith Building (JFSB). It is located on West Campus Drive at Brigham Young University. The JFSB is west of the Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) and North of the Spencer W. Kimball Tower (SWKT).

BYU Visitor parking is just off of North Campus Drive in front of the Museum of Art, and east of the Wilkinson Center. Parking is free after 7 PM on weekdays and all day Saturaday, visitors may park in the JFSB underground parking garage.

campus map

Conference Co-organizers:
Dr. Anca Sprenger, Associate Professor of French Literature and Women's Studies Executive Committee Member
Dr. Valerie Hegstrom, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Coordinator of Women's Studies

2012 Conference Student Interns:
Chrissie Cook Edmunds, Women's Studies Minor, Majoring in Psychology
Liz Young, Women's Studies Minor, Majoring in Anthropology
Chelsea Bakaitis, Women's Studies Minor, Majoring in Geography

Fall 2012 Conference Photos

Fall 2012 Conference: Women and Territories

Fall 2011 Conference: Women and Creativity