17th Annual International Conference on Women and Education, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, England

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Σας διαβιβάζουμε την ανακοίνωση από το Πανεπιστήμιο University of Oxford της Αγγλίας , που αφορά το Διεθνές Συνέδριο 17th Annual International Conference on Women and Education , το οποίο θα διεξαχθεί από τις 22 – 26 Μαρτίου 2015 στην Αγγλία.

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Ελένη Μπαχτσαβανοπούλου

ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΕΙΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

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Email: internat-rel@auth.gr

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We are pleased to invite you to attend the 17th Annual International Conference on Women and Education during the dates of March 22 – March 26, 2015 at Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England. Harris Manchester College is one of the thirty-eight colleges that form the University of Oxford and was founded in 1786. We are pleased to invite you to become a member of this Round Table. Membership is limited to approximately thirty-five (35) interdisciplinary scholars who have a particular interest in this subject.

Seventeen years ago, a highly successful Round Table was specifically designed to explore women and education. You are invited and encouraged to make a presentation and to provide a paper on a relevant aspect of the topic, however your participation as a member of the Round Table is not contingent upon presenting and you can serve on a panel or as a discussion leader. Papers presented at the Round Table may be subsequently submitted for publication in the Forum, a journal of the Oxford Round Table. Papers considered for publication in the Forum are evaluated by peer reviewers as to technical and substantive quality and for potential to make a significant contribution to new knowledge in the field.

Should you accept this invitation you will be joined on the programme by Dr. Isobel Hurst who holds a BA, Classics and English, M Phil in English Studies and a D Phil in English from the University of Oxford. Her popular book, Victorian Women Writers and the Classics was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. She has taught at the Universities of Bristol, Warwick, and Oxford, United Kingdom. Dr. Hurst is currently a Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Members of the Oxford Round Table have access to an array of academic, cultural and social resources, including the Oxford Union Debating Society, colleges and halls of Oxford dating back to 1204, museums, theatres, bookstores, college chapels, river boating, literary pubs, political clubs and may, on recommendation, become official readers of the venerable Bodleian Library of the University, founded by Duke Humphrey circa 1440 and refounded by Sir Thomas Bodley 1602. A free afternoon and evening will be available on Tuesday for independent travel to London (one hour south of Oxford), Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Stonehenge, Salisbury, Cambridge or many of the other cultural sights in England.

Topics of discussion will include but are not limited to:

Women and the University

Manifestation of Gender Discrimination Gender and Hierarchy of the University
Factors Affecting Compensation Tenure and Promotion
Culture of the Institution and Gender Inequality
Women’s Career Investments and the Returns
Equal Pay
Effects and Limitations of Legislation
Sexual harassment and Consequences

Women and Careers

Career Traps for Women
Women’s Career Investments and Returns
Implicit Discrimination in the Workplace
Promotion and Pay
Barriers to Progress in the Cultural Religious Context
Overcoming the Obstacles on the Professional Ladder
Women in Power in a Man’s World

Women’s Writing

The Idea of Education in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing
Education, Gender Reform, and African- American Women's Writing
Women's Writing as Experiential Education
England and the United States in Nineteenth Century Women's Writing
Jane Eyre and the Power of Education

Women in Literature

African-American Women Writers
Victorian Age
19^th Century Novels
Survey of British Literature
Feminist Literature
Gay and Lesbian Literature
Feminist Theory

Women in History

Women in Government
Women and Nation Building
Against All Odds
African American Women in History
Women in Early America
Looking Back Looking Forward
Women on the International Stage
Women in Developing Countries

Women and Social Justice

Invisible Ceilings and Barriers
Cultural Expectations
Politics of Gender
Citizenship
Political Activism
Families and Nations
The Stateless: Displaced People

Women and Religion

Women’s Health and Choice
Family Planning
Contraception Rights of Women
Women and the Roman Catholic Church
Fundamentalist Protestant Constraints
Women and Islam
Contraception and Student Health Services
Employment Discrimination and Clerical Universities
Social and Cultural Restraints on Women
Clerical Rationalization of Disparities

Women and Sports

Techniques in Coaching Women’s Sports

· Women in Sports Administration and Leadership Roles

· Sports Management

· Rise of Women’s Sports

Sport and Health for Girls and Women
Women and the Olympic Movement
History of Women in Sports

The conference will run from Sunday night through Thursday morning. We will have reception and dinners in the Olde Dining Hall on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday nights where the Oxford professors and students dine when the University is in session. Lunches are provided on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday along with tea/coffee/biscuit breaks during the meeting. You can also reserve a room in the Oxford University dormitory at Harris Manchester College where students stay during term time. More detailed information concerning the schedule of events and the registration fee can be found on our web site.

In order to ensure that you are registered in a timely and accurate manner, we recommend that you register on our website at www.oxfordroundtable.co.uk. Should you be unable to attend, we would welcome your nomination of a colleague to attend in your place. We look forward to hearing from you.

Alternatively, we are also hosting a few other sessions in 2015 that may be of interest to you as well:

Childhood Education, March 15 – March 19, 2015

Literature, Language and the Arts, March 15 – 19, 2015

Women and Education, March 22 – 26, 2015

Issues in Childhood Education, July 19 – 22, 2015

Environment, Climate Change and Global Warming, July 22 – 25, 2015

Critical Public Issues, July 26 – 29, 2015

Religion, Women and History, July 29 – August 1, 2015

Please direct all inquiries to:

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Coordinator

Oxford Round Table