You are cordially invited to attend the 2001 Harvard Interdisciplinary Graduate Gender Studies Conference, to be held March 2-3, 2001. The conference will be held at Dudley House, in the Harvard Yard, and is free and open to the public. Sessions begin at 1:30 pm on Friday, March 2, and continue through Saturday, March 3. A complete conference schedule is available online at the conference Web site: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~harris2/gender/

Conference highlights include:

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Graduate Student Papers
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More than 40 graduate students from North America and Europe will present papers approaching gender studies from a range of academic disciplines. Panel topics include gender and reproductive technology; gender and war; gender and sexual identity; gender and religion; gender and the family; gender, class, and work; gender and mass media; gender and pedagogy; gender and activism; gender and visual culture; gender and space; and gender and post-colonial studies.

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Keynote Address
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Judith Halberstam, Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, and author of works including Female Masculinity and Posthuman Bodies, will present the keynote address, "In the Back of Beyond: Brandon Teena and the Politics of Space," at 5:30 pm on Saturday, March 3.

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Faculty Guest Panel
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A special Harvard faculty guest panel on "The Experience of Gender Studies in Academe," to be held at 5:00 pm on Friday, March 2, will feature Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (History), Jane Fountain (Public Policy, KSG), and Charis Thompson (History of Science). The panel will be moderated by Susan Pedersen, Professor of History and Dean of Undergraduate Education.

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Luncheon
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From 12:30-1:30 pm on Saturday, March 3, the Radcliffe Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies will sponsor a free luncheon for Boston-area graduate students to discuss the academic needs of those interested in gender studies in the Boston area.

We hope to see you on Friday and Saturday. For more information, check our Web site: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~harris2/gender/

Thanks to our sponsors: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Dudley House, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Radcliffe Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies,