Dear all,

There are just  a few places left for this event to be held in Huddersfield on March 8th.

To mark International Women's Day 2013, the University of Huddersfield’s Feminist Research Group are holding their inaugural event 'Women's Lives, Women's Stories: A Feminist Research Symposium'. Organised by a group of postgraduate researchers and academic staff, the event will showcase the feminist research currently being undertaken within the University and bring together feminist academics, students and practitioners for networking, discussion and debate.

This event is free for students and staff at the University of Huddersfield. For external delegates there is a nominal charge of £20 (waged) or £10 (unwaged). Lunch and refreshments
will be provided.

Friday 8 March 2013, 9.15am-4.30pm  Quayside, University of Huddersfield

9.15am - 9.45am Registration

9.45am – 10.00am Introduction, Viv Burr

10.00am -10.30am Telling Women’s Stories, Jo Woodiwiss

10.30am -11.00am Refreshments

11.00am -12.30pm Women’s Voices, Women’s Narratives, Chair Annie Topping
In Women’s Words: Recounting Experiences of Fatigue, Marilynne N Kirshbaum
Supporting Women and Children Experiencing Domestic Abuse?: Service
Provision in an Age of Austerity, Berenice Golding and Sue Peckover
Narratives Told By, For and About Women Refugees, Kate Smith

12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm - 3.00pm Spoken and Unspoken Stories: Constructions of ‘Good’ Mothering, Chair Sasha Williams
Good Mothering, Feminisms and Infant Feeding, Abigail Locke
Mothering from the Inside: Narratives of Women in Prison, Kelly Lockwood
“I Wouldn’t Change it for the World”: Younger Mothers’ Stories of Mothering
through Relationship Abuse, Julia Langley

3.00pm - 3.30pm Refreshments

3.30pm - 4.30pm Women Researching Women: Roundtable discussion led by Gráinne McMahon

Places can be booked at: http://www.store.hud.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&catid=247&modid=1&prodid=0&deptid=0&prodvarid=170


Dr Jo Woodiwiss
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Course leader Sociology & Psychology, Behavioural Science
Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences
University of Huddersfield
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01484 472172

Author of: Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse (Palgrave Macmillan)
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=9780230574045

http://www.hud.ac.uk/research/staff/profile/index.php?staffuid=shumjw
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From: Announcement list for the BSA Gender Study Group. [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sally Hines [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 January 2013 11:04
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Subject: FW: Out Now: Queer Futures

Please see below and attached for exciting new book.  All best, Sally
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From: Elahe Haschemi Yekani [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 2:21 PM
Cc: Eveline Kilian; Beatrice Michaelis
Subject: Out Now: Queer Futures

Dear Queer Again conference participants,

We are very happy to announce that the volume

Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political

http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409437109

which includes a number of the wonderful contributions of the conference is now available from Ashgate.

We would greatly appreciate it, if you recommended the book to interested parties, colleagues, friends and foes, and also order it for your libraries to make this rich collection available to as many people as possible (a PDF Flyer is attached).

Please also feel free to recommend the book to possible reviewers, who should contact Debbie Fattore: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.


With belated but heartfelt good wishes for the New Year,
Beatrice, Elahe and Eveline.

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Out Now:
Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409437109

Feministische Studien 2/2012: The Queerness of Things Not Queer
http://www.feministische-studien.de/index.php?id=25&no_cache=1&paper=47

Univ.-Ass. Mag. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani
Department of English
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52
Room 40333
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

E-Mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Tel.: + 43/(0)512/507-4195
Web: http://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/staff/haschemi/


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