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The POWS three-day Annual Conference covers a wide range of issues including: gender, mental health, women's health, feminist theory, masculinity, sexualities, qualitative methodologies, disability, ethnicity, and racism. Contributions include papers, symposia, posters and workshops. This is an excellent opportunity for students to present their work for the first time in a supportive and friendly environment, and to meet and learn from leading academics from the UK and overseas. Some financial support is available upon request for students, unemployed, or those who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference.
Conference 2009
'Feminisms and Professions'
Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th July 2009, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
Keynote Speakers include:
Professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani - Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara
Ms Lucy Johnstone - Academic Director of Bristol University Clinical Psychology Doctorate
Lucy spent over 10 years in adult mental health, with a particular interest in in-patient work, before moving to an academic post at the University of the West of England. From there she moved back in-to part time clinical practice and has a current post with the Bristol Doctorate since 2001. Lucy is also a counselling psychologist and the author of 'Users and Abusers of psychiatry' and a number of other articles and chapters taking a critical perspective on psychiatric theory and practice.
Professor Liz Bondi
Liz Bondi is Professor of Social Geography and Head of the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. She is founding editor of Gender, Place and Culture (first published in 1994) and Emotion, Space and Society (launched in 2008). Since the late 1980s, Liz Bondi has published extensively in the field of feminist geography, focusing especially on gender identities & subjectivities, and feminist urban geography. Alongside her academic career, she trained as a counsellor and this field has become increasingly influential in her work. Her recent research examines counselling and psychotherapy as socio-spatial practices, and applies ideas from counselling and psychotherapy to debates about care and emotion.
Liz Bondi Abstract
Call For Papers Deadline is now extended to Tuesday 31st March 2009,
For more information please see the Conference and Events Site
Further details will be available in the near future.
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