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Tom Hagerty
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LAKELAND,
FL (February 08, 2008) - When the Florida Consortium for Gender and Women's Studies 2008 Conference begins today in Tampa, scholars from the University of South Florida Lakeland will play key roles.
Dr. Orathai Northern of USF Lakeland served as conference program co-chair. She helped organize panel presentations and speakers as well as structure the two-day conference.
"This year's theme is Femininities and Masculinities in a Global Context," she says. " Our panelists and speakers address this theme in a number of ways by engaging gender, performance, the humanities, media, sexuality, race and so on."
Panelists and speakers include faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, retired educators, performance artists and writers.
"It is meant to be collaborative and cross-disciplined - in the spirit of the Florida Consortium for Gender and Women's Studies," says Northern. "We anticipate a marvelous conference full of rich and provocative conversation."
Also on the agenda from USF Lakeland are Dr. Rosemarie Lamm, Dr. Cynthia Patterson and Salvador Torres.
Patterson will lead a panel discussion on iconicity, while Torres will facilitate "Outsider Within: Creating a New Standpoint in Feminism." Lamm will lead a roundtable discussion of health disparities in aging women's populations.
"Panel participants will discuss the status of women's health from an international perspective," says Lamm. "We will review the health disparities which currently are observed and the programs that endeavor to intervene to reduce mortality and morbidity. We will discuss the two major killers, those being heart disease and cancer. We will also integrate the social variables of poverty, obesity and lack of health care support because of insurance issues. "
Housed at USF Tampa, the consortium is a statewide coalition of 15 women's and gender studies departments, programs, centers and institutes at community colleges and public and private universities. The purpose of the consortium is to share resources, encourage activism and service learning, produce and evaluate research, increase student access to women's studies courses across the state and develop international resources and connections.
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