[NIFL-WOMENLIT:2884] Re: Conference on Women in Higher Education

From: Bertha Mo (bertiemo@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 12:08:05 EST

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It looks like this conference is in the UK and cost
and issues might not be relevant for women from US?

Bertie Mo, Ph.D., MPH--- Ujwala Samant
<lalumineuse@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Further to this message yesterday, I have today
> heard
> that the deadline 
> for
> abstracts has been extended to March 30, so if you
> are
> interested 
> please contact
> Shirley Silcock <ss1@bolton.ac.uk>
> Sue
> 
> Susan Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Colleagues -
> > Please find below information about the
> forthcoming
> Women in Higher 
> Education
> > Network conference, which might be of interest.
> > Best wishes
> > Sue
> >
> > WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK NATIONAL
> CONFERENCE
> >
> > RE-INVENTING ACADEMIC CULTURE /
> > HARMONIZING LIFE AND WORK:
> > PROVISIONING FOR SURVIVAL, EXCELLENCE
> > AND SOCIAL PURPOSE
> >
> > 14-15 MAY 2004 BOLTON INSTITUTE
> >
> > Plenary speakers:
> > Professor Mary Mellor, Chair of the Sustainable
> Cities Research 
> Institute,
> > Northumbria University
> > Claire Ridgeley & Jill Scott, Staffordshire
> University HEFCE funded 
> Flexible
> > Employment Options Project
> > Dr Michelle Tytherleigh, University of Plymouth,
> Project Leader: 
> HEFCE funded
> > Occupational Stress in HE Project
> >
> > The past twenty years have seen more women
> academic
> staff in H.E., 
> but white
> > women remain predominant. At the same time, policy
> changes have 
> produced
> > increased workloads and intensification of work
> practices, which 
> together have
> > served to polarise work and personal life, thereby
> reinforcing 
> existing
> > inequalities of access and quality participation,
> including among and 
> between
> > women.
> >
> > We are keen to look at the ways in which the
> academy
> makes intense 
> and intensive
> > demands on the time and energy of its women
> workers.
> We seek to 
> understand the
> > organising principles of the power games that are
> being played. The 
> conference
> > builds on previous WHEN events. Time and time
> management have 
> consequences,
> > not only for individual women (who gets to
> participate, how and at 
> what cost?),
> > but for conditions of service, the organisational
> culture of H.E., 
> and the
> > relation between academia, society and the global
> environment.
> >
> > The conference will bring together and examine
> evidence of womens 
> experience,
> > womens organisation and activism, and the
> application of feminist 
> theory, in
> > order to develop an agenda for change in policy
> and
> practice in 
> higher
> > education.
> >
> > HARMONIZING LIFE AND WORK: problems & issues
> > 7 What types of impacts have recent policy changes
> had on different 
> groups of
> > women workers in H.E.?
> > 7 How has research, writing, teaching and
> administration been 
> affected?
> > 7 Theorizing the gendered speeding up of time and
> collapse of space.
> > 7 What has been the effect on the academic career?
> Is it possible to 
> take time
> > out or to focus on projects not directly related
> to
> officially 
> recognised
> > criteria?
> > 7 (How) have the physical and psychological
> effects
> of work 
> intensification been
> > experienced?
> >
> > HARMONIZING LIFE AND WORK: ideas & strategies
> > 7 Sustaining a healthy balance between life and
> work.
> > 7 The positive potential of current and future
> policy changes and 
> initiatives.
> > 7 The value and implications of an ecofeminist
> perspective for 
> understanding and
> > changing academic culture: its indifference to
> provisioning for the 
> life of the
> > body and the sustaining of community; and the
> differential 
> consequences of
> > recent masculinist, economistic managerialism for
> women in the 
> academy.
> > 7 What might the HE sector of the future look like
> if these issues 
> are fully
> > taken into account?
> >
> > Activities related to stress management, including
> massage, will be 
> offered
> > during the conference. An additional fee will be
> charged if 
> participants wish to
> > book these services.
> >
> > Further information from Shirley Silcock
> <ss1@bolton.ac.uk>
> >
> > --
> > Dr Susan Jackson
> > Lifelong Learning and Citizenship
> > Faculty of Continuing Education
> > Birkbeck College
> > University of London
> > 26 Russell Square
> > London WC1B 5DQ
> > Tel: 020 7631 6625 (direct line)
> >      020 7631 6666
> > Fax: 020 7631 6683
> > e-mail: s.jackson@bbk.ac.uk
> > http://www.bbk.ac.uk/fce/lll/index.html
> 
> 
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