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Every spring, the Gender and Women's Studies program organizes the Elizabeth
Cady Stanton Conference to highlight and celebrate the incisive work produced by
students from all across campus during the previous year. It features a number
of panels where both undergraduate and graduate students present their work, as
well as a keynote address from an invited scholar.
The 20th Annual Conference: Thursday, March 19, 2009
In 2009, the 20th Annual Elizabeth Cady Stanton Conference will take place on
Thursday, March 19, and it will feature a keynote address by
Linda Greenhouse, the Supreme Court reporter for
The New York
Times.
Presenting papers at the Conference
The annual Elizabeth Cady Stanton Conference
is an exciting opportunity to showcase your work, discuss your interests
with other students and faculty, and see the broad range of intellectual
disciplines that Women’s Studies encompasses. Submit your paper to compete
for a cash award in one of the following three categories:
- papers written by first year
students (minimum of 4 pages of text)
- papers written by undergraduate students (minimum of 5 pages of
text)
- papers written by graduate students (12-30 pages of text)
Submission
Requirements
Eligibility for Submission
To be eligible for submission:
- A paper must engage gender theories; a paper written about women
or a woman is not sufficient.
For example, a paper might use a lens which
distinguishes actions and reactions caused by gender prejudice,
critically discuss the ways that gender functions in some aspect of
society, or analyze a text using other elements from feminist theory.
- With the exception of those written by first year students, all
papers must include outside sources in a bibliography or reference
section.
- Essays should be formatted in Word, using 12 pt. Times New Roman
font with 1 inch margins, and page numbers.
- Please include a cover sheet with the following information:
student's name, major and year of graduation; mailing and email
addresses and phone number; and the name of the course and professor
for which the paper was written (if any).
- Marks of identification should not appear anywhere else in the
paper.
- All papers must be written during the past calendar year,
from Spring or Fall or written specifically for the competition
itself.
- Students are expected to present their paper, in person, during the conference.
- Please submit 4 paper copies to the Gender and Women's Studies Secretary
(Jessica DeLisi) in the Global Studies Office, Old Falvey 204.
- In addition to the paper copies, email the Word document to
gws@villanova.edu
For any questions that you may have about the papers or the conference,
please contact us at gws@villanova.edu.
The deadline for submission for 2009 papers
is Friday, February 20 at 4pm.
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