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News and Views
Spring 2002 Volume 12, issue 2
Cultivating Knowledge(s): Celebrating 25 Years of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Florida
Thursday, October 24 - Saturday, October 26, 2002
The Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research will mark its 25th anniversary with a research symposium featuring the knowledge (both theoretical and community-based) created by Florida faculty, students and community members.
This
symposium is intended to be a place where Florida researchers, community
members, teachers, performers, students, administrators, and activists
can examine the variety of ways in which we develop and cultivate knowledge
about women and gender. In particular, the symposium will span three days,
each with a focus on one aspect of cultivating women's studies and gender
knowledge(s): Reclaiming Knowledges (Thursday), Creating Knowledges (Friday),
and Action Knowledges (Saturday). Dr. Irma McClaurin will open the symposium
on Thursday, October 24 with a plenary talk about the work of Zora Neale
Hurston and Native and Black Feminist Anthropology. Dr. McClaurin is an
Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, where she co-coordinates
the Zora Neale Hurston Diaspora Studies Research Project with Dr. Kesha
Fikes. In 1999, she conducted the Zora Neale Hurston Ethnographic Field
School, and is currently working on a book about Zora Neale Hurston as
an anthropologist. Her writings on Zora include: "Belle Letters:
'Dear Langston, Love Zora'," "Seeking Zora," and the forthcoming
"Zora Neale Hurston: the Life Behind the Archives." In conjunction
with the symposium there will be performances and art exhibits at both
the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and the University Gallery.
There are many ways to become involved in this celebration (create a panel
of research, organize a meeting of community organizations, create a workshop,
do a performance, etc.). See our website at cultivatingknowledges/ck.html
for updates and information about how to get involved!
Symposium Logo Award!
The CWSGR is sponsoring a Symposium Logo Contest for our 25th Anniversary symposium (Cultivating Knowledges) in October 2002. The design should represent the spirit of the Cultivating Knowledges symposium, a gathering designed to recognize and share the gender and women's studies work of the University of Florida and of Gainesville community groups. One logo design will be chosen and announced on the Cultivating Knowledges web page by June 1. The winner will receive an award of $100. Please send your submission by May 1, 2002, to:
Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research
Symposium Logo Award
3324 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117352
Gainesville, FL 32611
Please include your name, address, phone number and e-mail address with your hard copy entry. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn will be chairing the committee that will choose the winning logo and will be presenting the winner with the award.
