Dear CSW Faculty Affiliates -

CSW invites you to recommend UCLA doctoral students who are writing dissertations on research related to gender, sexuality and women’s issues for the opportunity to participate in a writing retreat. The following is the description:

As part of CSW’s Graduate Student Initiative, CSW will convene a writing retreat for UCLA doctoral students writing dissertations on research related to gender, sexuality and women’s issues. An intensive two-day experience designed to facilitate the writing process, the CSW writing retreat will provide a large conference room, the camaraderie of fellow dissertators, and breakfast, lunch and snacks.  The writing retreat is ideally suited for dissertators finishing up a chapter or the project overall.  In order for the retreat to be effective, students should have the research for whatever section of their dissertation they will be working on completed.  The retreat will be devoted entirely to writing. Similar writing retreats held at other universities have been successful in encouraging doctoral students to make significant headway in writing a chapter or editing parts or all of their dissertations.

When:  Saturday, June 19, 9am-5pm and Sunday, June 20, 9am-5pm
Where: Young Research Library
RSVP to Patricija Petrac at [log in to unmask] by Monday, May 3.  A yes RSVP affirms participants commitment to attend the retreat in its entirety.

All the best,

Kathleen

Kathleen McHugh

Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Professor, English and Film, Television and Digital Media