Coordination with Course Assignments
The conference is free for all UW System students to attend in-person. The overall conference theme and threads have a strong interdisciplinary and intersectional lens which likely overlap with much of your coursework. We encourage instructors to include the conference in spring syllabi and find ways to incorporate conference events into classroom discussions and assignments.
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Assignment Ideas that Align with the WGSC Conference
- All UW System students can attend the conference for free in-person.
- Attend one plenary or keynote and connect the content to larger course themes.
- Attend a roundtable for each conference thread. How does the roundtable engage with each issue intersectionally? How does the roundtable connect to themes in your course?
- What are common themes relating to social justice, institutional resistance, and intersectional feminist activism?
- How does hope function as a feminist strategy for institutional and structural change?
- How are activists and scholars deconstructing, decolonizing, and reimagining hope?
- How is creative work a feminist tool of inquiry, knowledge production, and critical resistance?
- How does a broadly defined vision of care expand and complement our work as researchers, students, educators, and activists?
- How does the space of the conference offer a different arena for sharing and connecting with others? What are the opportunities and limits of this type of space for thought exchange, dialogue, and feminist activism?
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Reading Guides
- No Study Without Struggle – Chapters 1-2
Reading Guide 1 for "No Study Without Struggle" by Leigh Patel
- No Study Without Struggle – Chapters 3-4
No Study Without Struggle Reading Guide for Chapters 3-4
- No Study Without Struggle – All Chapters
No Study Without Struggle Reading Guide - All Chapters
Reading guide for No Study without Struggle by Keynote Speaker Leigh Patel.
Release dates: Chapters 1-2: February 19; Chapters 3-4: March 4; and Chapters 5-6: March 22
Bibliographies
The Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian has created bibliographies for each conference thread. These include articles and books for further engagement and classroom discussions.
a. Centering Women of Color Feminisms
b. Digital Spaces, Online Activism
c. Fugitive Spaces: Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies
d. Resistance Across the Globe
e. Student Center(ed)
f. Feminism, Community, and the State
g. Feminist Pedagogy and Praxis