Category Archives: Conferences
Reflections on the RWSA’s 14th Triennial Conference During COVID
The RWSA decided to go virtual, and the great pivot began. Continue reading
RWSA 2021 Virtual Conference final program
Register by Sunday, May 9 for RWSA 2021! Continue reading
RWSA 2021 Virtual Conference Program
The theme, “Kitchen Table Talk to Global Forum,” emphasizes how conversations, relationships, and food shape rural communities. This theme allows for the consideration of the ways that gendered, sexual, ethnic, and racial identities affect personal power, class consciousness, individual choice, and community development. These subjects lend themselves to the exploration of rural activism, social justice, innovation, politics, business development, cultural expression, self-governance, and collective experiences — both historical and contemporary — locally and globally. Continue reading
RWSA 2021 Virtual Conference
The Rural Women’s Studies Association’s triennial conference has gone virtual. Register today! Continue reading
2021 RWSA Conference Goes Virtual
The 2021 RWSA Triennial Conference is going virtual. We are excited to host a virtual conference that allows for a more diverse range of participants. Continue reading
Women, Gender and Sexuality at the Agricultural History Society’s 100th Anniversary Meeting
Women, Gender and Sexuality at the Agricultural History Society’s 100th Anniversary Meeting The 100th anniversary meeting of the Agricultural History Society will be held June 5-8, 2019, in Washington, DC. The conference will address the theme of “Power in Agricultural … Continue reading
Grandmothers and Granddaughters of the RWSA: What Generation Gap?
What works would you add to our rural women’s studies canon? Continue reading
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RWSA Triennial Conference 2021
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RWSA 2018 Reflection: Historical methodology and the McLennan sisters
How, Samson asks, can we see Bell’s McLennan’s life through her husband’s diary, a diary near completely devoid of her perspective? Continue reading
The Past, Present and Future of Rural Women’s Studies
RWSA blog editor Cynthia Prescott responds to reflections on her experiences in RWSA that she wrote for this blog following our last conference in 2015 and looks ahead to this year’s conference Continue reading