The second annual Gendering Research Across the Campuses (GRACe) symposium will be held all day Saturday, Oct.15, in the Multimedia Classroom Building at WSU Vancouver.
GRACe is comprised largely of female faculty members at WSU. The group provides a framework for discussion of scholarly work on gender and plans collaborative research and teaching activities that have gender as a central theme.
The symposium theme is “The Politics of Movement.” Topics include:
• global feminisms and women’s movements;
• notions of citizenship, gender and economics;
• immigration and migration; and
• gender, identity and mass media.
Grace Chang, Oakland activist, scholar and author of “Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy” (2000), is the keynote speaker.
GRACe was founded in fall 2002 by WSU faculty members Amy Mazur and Noël Sturgeon. With support from the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy, the Department of Women’s Studies, and the College of Liberal Arts, the group has grown to 73 members in more than 20 departments/programs across four colleges and three campuses. Collectively the group boasts more than $1.1 million in research and teaching grants on gender.
For symposium details, see libarts.wsu.edu/grace/symposia/2005.html. For more about GRACe, visit http://libarts.wsu.edu/GRACe.
