(OTHER) FEMINISMS

An international Women's and Gender Studies Conference, the national conference of the Australian Women's Studies Association, will be held from the afternoon of Saturday 12 to the lunch time of Wednesday 16 July, 2003 at The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia.

The main venue will be Women's College at The University of Queensland and you can book accommodation there or at the Stamford Plaza in the city, via this site. Information about the University and can be found via the menu.

Abstracts have been received from attendees from Iran, Malaysia, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Ireland, USA, New Zealand, Canada and all Australian states. Plenary speakers include Ann Curthoys, Vijay Agnew, Raylene Ramsay, Elizabeth Wilson and Gabriele Griffin amongst others.

Abstracts can now be read here.

The organisation of papers into the programme will be done by the end of May.

Registration fees for the Conference (including morning and afternoon tea, lunch, a reception, and possibly more) will be $300 for members and $350 for non-members, students and unwaged $120 members and $150 non-members (all including GST). Day attendance will be pro rata. The Conference dinner and the bus tour of Radical Sites will be extra to be paid for at the Conference. The Registration and payment form and joining AWSA forms are now available on this site.

Membership rates to join AWSA for 2003 are as follows:
Waged: $40 (1 year) $60 (2 years) Unwaged (inc.Students): $20 (1 year) $30 (2 years) Institutional: $160 (1 year; student organisations can negotiate to join for less)

Conference Organising Committee

PAPERS
Carole Ferrier
Margaret Henderson
Roxanne Marcotte
Alison Bartlett
Angelo Coco

EVENTS
Elizabeth Mackinlay
Evelyn Hartogh
Linda Neil

POSTGRADUATE ASSISTANTS
Tania Oost
Barbara King
Tiffany Stephenson
Ana Salazar
Nadia Mizner
Roseanna Medda

Note: Two other overlapping conferences at the University of Queensland are Making an Appearance: An International Conference on Fashion, Dress, and Consumption, Thursday July 10 to Sunday July 13, 2003. http://www.fashion2003.net/ and the 11th Annual International Conference of the Australian Society for French Studies in Brisbane, Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 July 2003 with the title: Soi-disant: writing, screening, theorising the self in French. http://www.uq.edu.au/asfs2003


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