New England Regional Chair
Jen Riley
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Tel: 508-999-8279
Fax: 508-999-9235
About NWSA Regions
The NWSA membership is divided into twelve USA regions, most of which are active during the year. They often sponsor a regional newsletter, annual conferences, and student scholarships. An International Region includes our international membership.
Regional Women's studies associations exist to strengthen networks among the approximately 600 women's/gender studies programs, departments, women's centers, and their affiliated community organizations.
New England Women’s Studies Conference
UMass Dartmouth, April 30th-May 1st, 2010
Teaching Activism: Women’s Studies in the 21st Century
The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom. –bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1999, p. 207
Filmmaker and Activist Rory Kennedy (keynote speaker)
Feminist Writers and Activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
(Facilitators for workshop on activism)
We have a broad range of presentations, panels, and workshops taking place at this year’s NEWSA conference: NEWSA 2010 Conference Schedule Page (html version)
Or you can access the schedule here: NEWSA 2010 Conference Schedule (pdf)
NEWSA 2010 Conference Registration Form (pdf)
NEWSA 2010 Conference Hotel Information
All events are included with your conference registration. In an attempt to keep conference costs low and to subsidize student registrations, we ask that you complete the registration form and mail in a check with your registration fee. This process helps us avoid credit card fees.
NEWSA is a non-profit organization. At this time, we do not charge a yearly membership fee, nor do we have any cash reserves. The conference is sponsored and underwritten by UMass Dartmouth’s College of Arts and Sciences, the Women’s Studies Program, and the Division of Professional and Continuing Education.
Thank you in advance for submitting your registration form and your registration fee by March 31st. Please also share the form with colleagues and encourage their attendance. A conference schedule will be available by March 15th online and an email notice will go out when it is available. We also have conference rates at local hotels available.
The NEWSA conference has not been held in two years. It’s great to be renewing the energy in the region. We hope you join us.
Best regards,
Jen Riley
Director, NEWSA