The Women and Gender Studies Program is pleased to announce that the annual Seton Hall University Conference on Women and Gender will be held Friday, March 28, 2025.
We hope to offer a collection of exciting sessions that reflect the dynamic, productive diversity of perspectives and approaches characterizing current discussions about women and gender. We warmly invite presenters exploring any topic related to women and gender from all fields—including the humanities, diplomacy, social sciences, mathematics, and experimental sciences—and all professions, including but not limited to business, law, health care, education, and non-profit administration.
Consistent with the principles and methodology of Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, and related fields, papers should be academic in nature, based on foundational concepts including the constructedness of gender, and joining critically in conversation with reliable, scholarly or edited sources. Papers should also be accessible to a general audience of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. We strongly welcome the participation of students, faculty, and staff, with the proviso that graduate and undergraduate panels must have a faculty discussant. We will accept both panels and individual paper presentations. Selected presenters will have about 15 minutes for individual paper presentations.
The deadline for abstracts is February 3, 2025. Please email single paper or panel abstracts of up to 300 words to Dr. Denise Vigani (denise.vigani@shu.edu). Please be sure to include names and affiliations of each presenter as you’d like them to appear on the program as well as paper and/or panel titles.
This year we are pleased to welcome journalist, philosopher, and author Chloé Cooper Jones as our keynote speaker. A contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, Chloé Cooper Jones is a two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist—in 2020 for Featured Writing and in 2023 for her memoir, Easy Beauty. An exploration of disability, motherhood, and self-acceptance, Easy Beauty was a New York Times Notable Book of 2022, and a Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year.