2019 Conveners
4W: Women, Well-Being, Wisconsin and the World, located in the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology. The thirteen Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs and departments of the University of Wisconsin System brought together by the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, administered by the UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.
2019 Summit Co-sponsors:
- UW System Administration Office of Academic Programs and Educational Innovation (APEI)
- Alverno College Women and Gender Studies
- Edgewood College Women and Gender Studies
- Madison College Gender and Women’s Studies
- St. Norbert College Women’s and Gender Studies
- Winona State University Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality
- University of Minnesota Duluth Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
2019 Campus Co-Sponsors:
- See full list at Co-Sponsors
Fourth Annual
4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being
and
42nd Wisconsin Women and Gender Studies Conference
April 11-13, 2019
Pyle Center, Madison, WI
Transformative Education: Then. When? Now!
New Author’s Reception
2019 Book Flyer
D.A. Dirks and Patricia Relf, To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, University of Wisconsin Press, 2017
Amy L. Gilliland, Doulaing The Doula, BookBaby, 2018
Rosalyn La Pier, Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet, University of Nebraska Press, 2017, and City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934, University of Nebraska Press, 2015
Katia Levinotva and Alison Staudinger, Gender in the Political Science Classroom, Indiana University Press, 2018
Keisha Lindsay, In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools, University of Illinois Press, 2018
Ann Mattis, Dirty Work: Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction, University of Michigan Press, 2019
Sami Schalk, Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, & Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, Duke University Press, 2018
Davey Shlasko, The Trans Allyship Workbook: Building Skills to Support Trans People in Our Lives, Thinking Again Training, 2017 and Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, 4th ed., Routledge, 2018
Conference Co-chairs:
Lori DiPrete Brown, Director, UW-Madison 4W Initiative
Stephanie Rytilahti, Director, UW Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium
Special Thanks to the Summit Planning Committee
Summit Contacts:
Stephanie Rytilahti, Director
UW Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium
Email: srrytilahti@wisc.edu, Phone: 608-262-3056
Dace Zeps, Program Administrator
Center for Research on Gender and Women, UW-Madison
dazeps@wisc.edu, Phone: 608-263-2053
The 4W Summit co-convenors and sponsors are honored to be holding this conference under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing, and a Culture of Peace as part of a global United Nations Platform on education, science, and culture.