Global Conference on Women and Gender
Featuring Keynote Speaker Barbara Hamm Lee, this interdisciplinary conference on Women and Gender is organized around women’s stories. Our definition of “story” is deliberately vast and inclusive, and may refer to a personal account, historical or contemporary representation, or any form of expression that illustrates the breadth of women’s experiences. Historically, many women’s stories have been silenced, overlooked, or filtered through outside perspectives. This conference offers an opportunity to recover, share, and pass them on. We may ask, to what extent is storytelling gendered? What can we learn from women’s stories that were previously untold? What roles do the categories of race, sexuality, class, and/or ability play in narrating women’s stories? What does it mean to tell the story of a woman’s life or to recover a forgotten story from the past?