Printer-friendly versionThe Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) will sponsor its 38th annual conference from March 7-10, 2013, at the Marriott City Center Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The theme of the 2013 AWPConference is Global Concerns, Local and Individual Perspectives: Voices of Indigenous, Immigrant, and International Women--expresses a goal of inclusiveness. The conference will shine a light on scholarship, practice, and activism by and with women whose perspectives have traditionally been in shadow. Global Concerns include those experiences that--although unique across individual women and their cultures-- affect all women, such as violence, our bodies and sexualities, motherhood and parenting, work, and aging. Local and Individual Perspectives is a reminder that our global concerns vary across the host of individual and cultural differences that characterize our social identities. This encourages exploration of our experiences of privilege and power as well as oppression and colonization. Contributions that express the full range of issues typically of interest to AWP and other feminist multicultural scholars, practitioners, and activists are invited; and especially those with a focus on indigenous, immigrant, and international women's concerns.
Our keynote speakers are Ouyporn Khuankaew, a Thai feminist activist, and Jennifer Nez Denetdale, an indigenous feminist scholar. The conference offers a Women of Color Institute and a selection of pre-conference workshops on Thursday, March 6, 2013; followed by panels, workshops and seminars from Friday to Sunday. AWP offers continuing education units for mental health professionals, an author's book signing, various receptions, a dance, social, and other inspiring events.
For more information, visit the conference website.