Maine Women's Studies Consortium
We bring together people working in women's studies across
the state of Maine to share resources, knowledge, and strategies
for achieving common goals.
The consortium holds three networking meetings throughout the year, usually in September, February and April. There is also a research retreat in late May or early June.
To learn more about the Maine Women's Studies Consortium,
please contact Ann Schonberger at Ann.Schonberger@umit.maine.edu
Maine Women's Studies Conference:
From its inception in 1983 under the sponsorship of Colby
College, the Maine Women's Studies Conference has become an
annual event that brings together women's studies faculty,
students, and activists from across the state to share information
and scholarship and to celebrate the spirit of feminism. Author
Carolyn Chute read from her newly published The Beans of Egypt,
Maine at that first conference; speakers at subsequent conferences
have included Ntozake Shange, Isabel Marcuse, Angela Davis,
Louise Bernikow, Ms. editor Marcia Ann Gillespie, and Stephanie
Coontz.
The Maine Women's Studies Consortium now sponsors the conference,
with the financial support of the University of Maine Office
of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. The conference
rotates among campuses active in the consortium.
This year's Maine Women's Studies Conference was held at the
University of Maine on November 18, 2006.
21st Annual Maine Women’s Studies Conference
Saturday, November 18, 2006
University of Maine
Sponsored by
The Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program
Globalization, Immigration, and Borderlands
Plenary Speaker: Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center
and
Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies
at Spelman College
"Global Black Feminisms"
Plenary Performance:
“Telling Somali Women’s Stories: A Reader’s Theatre”
University of Maine Somali Narrative Project
Mazie Hough, Nasra Mohamed, Safia Nur, Carol Toner
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