Penn State Women’s Studies Graduate Organization offers free conference Feb. 24-25

decorative capital initials W, S, G and O to represent Women's Studies Graduate OrganizationThe 16th-annual Penn State Women’s Studies Graduate Organization conference offers opportunities for academics, students and activists to gather and exchange ideas in feminist scholarship, collaboration, creativity and teaching across disciplines Friday-Saturday, Feb. 24-25. The two-day program, “Feminism, Race, and the Anthropocene,” is sponsored in part by the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) and includes a pre-conference lecture and reception on Friday, Feb. 24, in the Willard Building on Penn State’s University Park campus. The sessions on Saturday, Feb. 25 will be held at the Penn Stater Conference Center. Registration for the conference is free.

This year’s conference focuses on feminism’s role in understanding and critically investigating the new geological age called the Anthropocene in an interdisciplinary and transnational context, giving special attention to questions of indigeneity and highlighting the contributions that academics and activists have made in understanding the intersectionality of injustice in relation to global climate change.

Keynote speaker, Zoe Todd, assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, conducts innovative research on feminism, indigeneity, and decolonialism in relationship to the Anthropocene.

Research presentations and projects from graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a variety of disciplines will be featured onsite at the conference venue.

The 2017 conference is sponsored by several departments and entities connected to Penn State, including the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK).

For more information and to register for the conference, please visit the conference website.

More information about the conference and the full list of sponsors is available in the Penn State News article.