Second Annual Gender Research Conference
Washington State University Vancouver
October 15, 2005

On Saturday, October 15th, the College of Liberal Arts at WSU-Vancouver and the faculty/graduate student research group Gendering Research Across the Campuses (GRACe) co-sponsored the second annual Gender Research Conference, "The Politics of Movement," on the WSU-Vancouver campus. Over 80 people attended, including faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, staff, and the general public. Keynote speaker Grace Chang (author of Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy), gave a very well-received talk titled: "Redefining Agency: Feminist, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Racist Responses to Trafficking."

Panels subjects included: War and Women Across Continents; Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Movement; Reconsidering Women's Work in Global Contexts: From Survival to Activism; Spheres of Sexualities; and Violence, Hyper-Masculinities, and Militarism. A number of interesting research posters were also presented on topics ranging from processes of decolonization to responses to rape.

Those who organized the event were the GRACe Conference Taskforce: Luz Maria Gordillo (History), Candice Goucher (History), Paula Groves Price (Education), Linda Heidenreich (Women's Studies), Lombuso Khoza (Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles), and Pavithra Narayanan (English); GRACe Co-Facilitators Noël Sturgeon (Women's Studies) and Amy Mazur (Political Science); and GRACe Coordinator Heather Ebba Maib.

For the full conference program with abstracts of all presentations and posters go to GRACe conference program 2005.

Conference photos courtesy of Rebecca Gragg (digital technology and culture student at WSU Vancouver)

Luz Maria Gordillo
History, WSU Vancouver

Ayano Ginoza
American Studies Graduate Student

Research Poster