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!
Keynotes and Plenaries
All events on this page are taking place in the Pyle Center or the Chazen Museum, and are free and open to the public, however, registration is required. Please register here. IF you do plan on attending all or part of the conference, click on register in the menu.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
4:00pm * Soffa Lecture (Pyle Alumni Lounge) Brigitte Baptiste
Friday, April 12, 2018
10:30-12:00 * Keynote (Memorial Union) Rosalyn LaPier and Abaki Beck, Joint with OPID Conference
4:00-5:30pm * Plenary I (Pyle Alumni Lounge) 4W Keynote: Janet Shibley Hyde
Saturday, April 13, 2018
9:00-10:15am * Plenary II (Pyle Alumni Lounge) African American Women’s Health Network
1:45-3:00 * Plenary III (Pyle Alumni Lounge) Social Transformations to End Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex (STREETS)
All events on this page are free and open to the public, however, registration is required. Please register here. IF you do plan on attending all or part of the conference, click on register in the menu.
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.