Hi, I am in the Master's of Environmental Studies program at The
Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. I have a B.S. in Genetics & Cell
Biology and Sociology from Minnesota. While going to school I have been
working for the USDA-Forest Service doing a number of things. I would be
happy to answer any questions you may have if this sounds of
interest...or i may be able to find someone else closer to your interests
in this area...
julie
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On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Zinat Yusufzai wrote:
> I'm doing some career/grad school exploration, and would like to know if
> anyone can recommend good environmental orgs./groups that I could
> contact. I'm looking for opportunities to talk to people about what they
> do, and/or to get some direct experience in an environmental field. I'm
> interested in both the natural science of environments/ecology AND in
> the relationship that humans have with it (how we affect it, how we are
> affected by it, how we affect each other's lives through our impact on
> it). I've been looking into graduate programs in Environmental
> Anthropology (U. of Georgia, U. of Washington), but am concerned that
> anthropology may not be as "hands-on" as I would like. If anyone has
> ANY ideas, I would greatly appreciate your response. Thank you.
>
> Zinat Yusufzai
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 27 16:30:34 1997
28 Jun 1997 10:29 +1200 (NZS)
28 Jun 1997 10:31:25 +1200
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 10:31:04 +1200
From: "STEFANIE S. RIXECKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mothers and Daughters Conference (fwd)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fyi...Stefanie
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From:|Katherine Side <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
International Conference on:
MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: MOVING INTO THE NEXT MILLENIUM
Sept.26-28, 1997 York University
Positioned at the threshold of the new millennium, this
interdisciplinary conference aims to consider the most recent scholarship on
mothers and daughters and investigate the concerns of mothers and daughters
as they enter the next century. This conference will bring together the major
writers in this area along with interested academics, students and activists
in order to promote the development and dissemination of feminist scholarhip
on mothers and daughters.
Keynote speakers at the conference will include Miriam Johnson,
Christina Baker, Sara Ruddick, Helen Lucey, Katherine Arnup, Patricia
Bell-Scott, Suzanna Walters, Marianne Hirsch, Paula Caplan, Janet Burstein,
Naomi Lowinski, Sylvia Hamilton and Esther Broner.
Participants will have the opportunity to hear all the keynote
speakers, as well as to choose from 34 conference sessions which are grouped
broadly around the themes of disability, popular culture, state, feminist
theory, lesbian mothering, literature, biography, race, class, education and
family.
Conference Agenda:
Friday, Sept 26
2-4pm Registration
4-6pm Concurrent Sessions: Reproduction, Lesbian Mothering, Writing and
Mothering, Immigrant Mothering, Biracial
Mother/
Daughter Relationships, When Daughters are not
Mothers, Power and Violence, The Last
Closet: Motherhood and the Visual
Arts.
6-7pm Dinner
7-9pm Keynote Event I - MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS AND FEMINISM
9-11pm Reception
Saturday, Sept 27
8-8:30am Breakfast
8:30-10:30am Keynote Event II - MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: RACE, CLASS,
SEXUALITY
10:30-11am Coffee Break
11-1pm Concurrent Sessions: Disability, Representations in Popular
Culture: Media, Domestic Workers,
Representation and Maternal Identities,
Children's Literature, Aging and Motherloss,
Motherwork, Third Wave: Initiatives in Education.
1-2pm Lunch
2-3:45pm Keynote Event III - MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS AND REPRESENTATION
3:45-4pm Coffee Break
4-6pm Concurrent Sessions: Home and School, State Policy, Theorizing
Mother/Daughter Relationships, Canadian Literature,
Bad Mothering, Personal Stories of Self as
Mother,
Class and Mothering, Young Girls Speak Out.
6-8pm Dinner
8-11pm Cabaret
Sunday, Sept 28
8-8:30am Breakfast
8:30-10:30am Concurrent Sessions: Theorizing Mothering, Genre, Voices of
Mothers and Daughters, Mothering Across
Cultures in Literature #1, Jewish Mothering,
Feminist Socialization, Mothering and
Health, Teachers as Women: Creating Space for
Girls' Voices While Exploring Their Own.
10:30-11am Coffee Break
11-1pm Concurrent Sessions: Representation in Film, Black Parenting,
Coming Out as a Lesbian Mother, Infertility,
Mothering
in the Life Cycle, Mothering Across Cultures in
Literature #2, Domineering Mothers? Resisting
Daughters? Mother-Daughter Narratives
in the Teaching and Learning of Women's
Studies.
1-2pm Lunch
2-4:30pm Keynote Event IV - MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: TELLING OUR STORIES
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
Cost: $150 - regular
$60 - student, limited number available
To register for this event, please send the following information (via email,
fax or mail) and a cheque to:
Cheryl Dobinson
Centre for Feminist Research
228 York Lanes
York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, ON
M3J 1P3
Canada
phone: (416) 736-5915
fax: (416) 736-5416
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IF YOU REQUIRE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS CONFERENCE,
PLEASE CONTACT US AT THE CENTRE FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH, AS PER ABOVE.
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Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair
Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa.
Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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