Canadian Women's Studies Association
L'association canadienne des études sur les femmes

WELCOME

NEWS
  • The Call for Papers and the conference proposal form for the 2010 annual conference at Concordia University are now ready! Deadline for submissions is December 10, 2010. Note: open call submissions should indicate 'theme one' on the proposal form.

  • The latest edition of Atlantis -- the "journal of choice" of the CWSA/ACEF -- is now out. You can see a brief intro and the table of contents for issue 34.1 here, or go directly to the journal website for more information about this issue. And find out much more about the journal, including subscription rates etc., here. Did you know that Atlantis also publishes book reviews of the winning books for the annual CWSA/ACEF book award? And interviews with the authors? And that you can see these here.

  • Did you know that there's an academic group for francophone feminist studies in Quebec and Canada? Check them out here

  • The 2009 annual conference at Carleton University was a great success! Many many thanks to Andrea Levan and the conference committees for their terrific work! The final programme is available for your perusal - and will be left on the website for a while longer.

  • The Association is now moving to standardized timelines and deadlines for all committees. See here for details of these dates, and here for more information about the various committees. And think about getting involved too!

  • The draft minutes for the 2009 AGM are now available. They will be on the website until next year's AGM for your review.

  • Notes from the special lunchtime session, entitled Women's Studies in Hard Economic Times: Realities and Strategies are now available here.

  • See here for a copy of the English CWSA/ACEF press release about the closure of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Guelph. Et ici en français

  • The conference travel refund policy is available for your information. Please note that you must attend the AGM in order to be eligible.

  • A quick note from the Communications committee can be found here.

  • Want to get in touch with us... We have several ways to do that right now: i) If you have something you want posted on the website, send it to Ann Braithwaite. ii) If you have something you want sent to the membership via email, send it to the general CWSA/ACEF email address. (And note that we will be making changes shortly to our communications -- stay tuned for more info!

  • The Association also has a Facebook group... Help spread the word about the association - especially amongst your students!
ABOUT US

The Canadian Women's Studies Association/l'association canadienne des études sur les femmes was founded in 1982 as a Canadian-wide, bilingual association of Women's Studies practitioners in Canada. It is composed largely of academic faculty across Canada, in addition to graduate and undergraduate students, community activists, and policy researchers -- but is open to everyone who supports its mission and goals. The CWSA/ACEF is a member association of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences/la fédération canadienne des sciences humaines.

The goals of the CWSA/ACEF are to promote and foster Women's Studies as an academic field and to build a network of Women's Studies practitioners across Canada. The association encourages a wide defintion of Women's Studies as a field of study and aims to aid those teaching and researching in the field in a variety of locations.

The CWSA/ACEF holds an annual conference in conjunction with the CFHSS Congress, in addition to awarding an annual book prize and both an undergraduate and graduate student essay prize. Additionally, the association organizes the annual national coordinators of Women's Studies one-day meeting, held the day before the annual conference begins. The CWSA/ACEF keeps in regular contact with its Membership via an email list and runs a separate email list for the coordinators of Women's Studies programs and departments across Canada.

For more information or to contact the CWSA/ACEF, please contact the association President, Si Transken, at cwsa-acef@unbc.ca.