Oct. 27-28: Red River Women’s Studies Conference focuses on bodies, spaces, and powers

Please join us Oct. 27-28 to hear lectures and presentations on the theme, “Bodies, Spaces, and Powers,” hosted by UND’s Women and Gender Studies Program and the College of Arts and Sciences.

• Thursday, Oct. 27 at 4 p.m.: Keynote lecture by Danya Qato, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services, “At the Margins: Women’s Health Under Occupation.” Gransberg Room, Gorecki Alumni Center. Reception to follow.
• Friday, Oct. 28 at 1 p.m.: Keynote lecture by Ladelle McWhorter, Stephanie Bennett Smith Chair in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond, “In Perpetual Disintegration: A Foucault-Inflected Look at How Machine-Bodies Became Normalized Bodies.” Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union. Reception to follow.
• Friday, all day: panels and presentations by students and faculty from around the region on the second floor of the Memorial Union.

See the full schedule and more details here.

Those planning to attend a session should register. Registration is free. Please click on the following link to register (or copy/paste into your browser): https://www.visitgrandforks.com/meeting/participants. Once there, select “16th Annual Red River Women’s Studies Conference” and then enter Username: RRWSC, Password: RRWSC2016

When you are in the site, please fill out all of the fields with your information and “submit.” You should receive a confirmation of registration notice.

— Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, Director of Women and Gender Studies