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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
90095-7222
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(310) 825-0590
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January
26, 2009
Dear CSW
Faculty Affiliate,
We are
very pleased to invite you to attend Thinking Gender, the Nineteenth Annual
Graduate Student Research Conference on Friday, February 6, 2009.
We are
confident that this year’s conference will appeal to a broad spectrum of
undergraduate and graduate students who have an interest in feminist research on media, sports, sexuality, performance,
spirituality, activism, contemporary politics, disability studies, the
environment, and a variety of other topics. I will be chairing this
year’s plenary session: “Changing the (his)story: Women in Film and
Television,” which spotlights current graduate research on historicizing
women in media.
If
you are teaching this quarter, we hope that you will encourage your class to
attend. We welcome classes! If you would like this year’s conference
coordinator, Mirasol Riojas, to speak to your class about the conference
offerings, please email her directly at [log in to unmask] . If
you would like to offer your students extra credit for attending the
conference, we would be happy to provide sign-in sheets at our registration
tables. We would like to assist you in any way that we can. We hope
that you will invite your students and advisees to attend the conference and to
take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to engage with their fellow
students, faculty, and scholars.
The
conference is free and open to the public. For information on the
conference, please visit our website: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html
. The scheduling is not settled, but the preliminary list of panels is
available: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/Forms/TG_2009_panels.pdf
. I hope that you will help us to advertise panels of interest to you and your students, advisees, and colleagues.
Enclosed
are some copies of the plenary flyer and the poster. Please let us know if you
need more copies.
With all
best wishes,
Kathleen
McHugh
Director,
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Professor,
English and Cinema and Media Studies