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The 21st-annual Women's Studies Conference will be held Feb. 28-29 at the Daniel Management Center, Moore School of Business. The conference theme is "Representing Bodies: Disability, Difference, and Identity," and the keynote speaker will be Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, professor of women's studies at Emory University. Garland-Thomson's work understands disability as a culturally constructed narrative of the body that, in concert with other markers of identity and social difference, privileges certain ideas of beauty, health, and normality.
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Conference activities include panel sessions on representations of the body, critical literacy in the English classroom, and music and disability, globalization and health; student panels focusing on preserving women's history and Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; and the Josephine Abney Award Lecture featuring Louise B. Jennings, associate professor of educational research and social foundations at USC.
General conference registration is $50, and student registration is $20. The nonrefundable registration fee includes a packet of conference materials, lunch, and reception.
For more information or to register online, go to www.cas.sc.edu/wost/program/events/
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