Graduate work in the field of Women’s and Gender studies is highly dynamic and interactive. As graduate students, we feed off ideas and methods from different disciplines and institutions. In the spirit of such interdisciplinarity, graduate students initiated a collaborative graduate conference sponsored by 10 schools offering PhD’s in Women’s Studies. Students from Rutgers University, The Ohio State University, Emory University, Claremont Graduate University, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, University of Maryland, University of Washington, University of California Los Angeles, and Clark University planned, organized and ran this graduate conference, hosted by Rutgers, for the first time in 2006.

Emory University will host the second collaborative graduate student conference in 2007, continuing last year’s goal of creating and maintaining contacts with our fellow and future colleagues in Women’s Studies. We hope to create and continue relationships that will last well past our graduate years—professionalizing ourselves with each other and allowing us to work collectively on publications, conferences and even future collaborative research projects.

Our thanks to the students at Rutgers for setting such a fine precedent at last year’s conference. Please check out their website for more information on that event. We will continue to update this webpage with additional information on the 2007 conference, as it becomes available.