Category Archives: Conferences
Surviving and Thriving: Gender, Justice, Power, and Place Making
The Rural Women’s Studies Association’s 13th Triennial Conference is fast approaching. It will be held May 16-19, 2018, with optional pre- and post-conference tours on May 16 and 20. We hope that you will join us at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, for this interdiciplinary gathering of scholars, activists, and others interested in rural women past and present. To whet your appetite, we are posting the conference program here. Continue reading
Wide Open Suburban Spaces
Querying the boundaries of natural, rural, urban, and suburban spaces, and the complex interrelationships between traveling and living in the twentieth-century American West. Continue reading
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Pedagogy in Public: Academic Programs and Community Partners
Perhaps organizations like the RWSA should look to the public history field for guidance [on how to] overcome the town-gown barriers. Continue reading
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When Scholars Collaborate: New Book on Rural Women
The essays in this volume profile women whose work was embedded in specific national contexts and together they form a collective biography of women who graduated into a world that was not always prepared to welcome them into the public life that professions demanded. Continue reading
Berks Panels of Interest, Part V
Berks 2017 panels related to rural women Continue reading
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Berks Panels of Interest, Part IV
Berks 2017 panels related to rural women Continue reading
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Tagged African diaspora, conferences, farm labor, history, land ownership, slavery
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Berks Panels of Interest, Part III
Berks 2017 panels related to rural women Continue reading
Berks Panels of Interest, Part II
Highlighting 2017 Berks panels related to rural women Continue reading
Berks Panels of Interest, Part I
Panel related to rural women at the 2017 Big Berks conference. Continue reading
RWSA 2018 Call for Presentations and Papers
The Triennial Rural Women’s Studies Association (RWSA) conference is only about a year away! Check out the Call for Presentations here and on our web site. The deadline for proposal submissions is May 31, 2017, so put on your thinking bonnets, and start working on your proposals right away! We want the 2018 meeting to be the best one yet! Continue reading