Friday, November 6, 2009

The Graduate Center
of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

Pamela Burger
PhD program in English, CUNY Graduate Center

Jennifer Sugg
PhD program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center




To register, please send your name, title, and affiliation (if any) to feministpedagogy@gmail.com..

Registration is free of charge and open to the public.

The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars and activists across disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy. Building on previous work, this is a forum to share pedagogical methods and ideas for teaching in women and gender studies and/or feminist approaches to learning and classroom strategies in various disciplines. Our aim is to address issues of gender and sexuality, in conjunction with race and class, both inside and outside of the academy.

Call for Papers: The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy 2009

Abstract due June 1, 2009

The Third Feminist Pedagogy Conference seeks participants for a day-long conference entitled The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy

The Conference will take place on Friday, November 6, 2009, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.

The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars and activists across disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy. Building on previous work, this is a forum to share pedagogical methods and ideas for teaching in women and gender studies and/or feminist approaches to learning and classroom strategies in various disciplines. Our aim is to address issues of gender and sexuality, in conjunction with race and class, both inside and outside of the academy.

We invite submissions for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions that examine the role of feminist theory within current and possible pedagogical practices. These practices might take place in the classroom, in curricular development, or in community outreach. Examples of panel topics that might be addressed include, but are not limited to:

  • Desire in the classroom
  • Gender and Power in the classroom
  • Interrogating Post-Feminism
  • What is a feminist syllabus?
  • Teaching sexual violence/Addressing sexual trauma
  • Social Justice, Activism, and Transformative Politics: Bridging the Divide between the Academia and Community
  • Queering Feminist Pedagogy
  • Sex Education in policy and practice
  • Interrogating Feminist Histories
  • Post-colonial Interventions in Women's Studies
  • Transnational Feminist Activism, Politics and Solidarity
  • Working with Youth
  • Gendered Realities of the Economic Downturn

Please send a 300-500 word abstract for a papers, panels, or roundtable discussions to Pamela Burger and Jennifer Sugg at feministpedagogy@gmail.com.