Women's Stories, Women's Lives: Making Sense of Experience

On Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, 2005, Sarah Lawrence College will hold its seventh annual conference in honor of Women's History Month. This interdisciplinary gathering seeks to understand women's lives by examining the stories they tell about themselves and others. How have women understood their experience? What lessons have they sought to hand down? How have they found their voices in social movements, literature, the academy, the arts? How have differences of class, race, generation, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality played out in women's lives? Do their stories reveal commonalities that transcend difference?

We welcome all proposals for papers, panels, readings, workshops, and performances that focus on women's stories and lives. We call upon scholars, artists, writers, and activists to take part in the conference.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Autobiography and Memoir
• Women's Stories in Fiction and Poetry
• Oral Traditions
• Storytelling through Music and Visual Arts
• Biography and Social History
• The Lives of Women Activists
• Theorizing Experience: Materialism, Poststructuralism, Postpositivist Realism

Key Note Speaker: Emeralda Santiago, author of five books including "When I was Puerto Rican" and "Almost a Woman".

Proposals should be no more than 1-2 pages. Please attach brief biography or cv to your proposal. Full panels are especially encouraged.

The conference is sponsored by the Sarah Lawrence graduate program in Women's History.

Deadline: November 19, 2004
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