Four members of the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies presented papers to the Australian Women's Studies Association at their conference in Melbourne last month, and we were pleased to see the Association take an important new move in changing its name to the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA rather than AWSA).
The new President of the Association is Dr Maryanne Dever of Monash University, and while the AWGSA's new website is being set up, queries about membership should be addressed to Maryanne.
As part of the Association's new activities it has announced it will be sponsoring two panels in December, at the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia's annual conference, and at The Australian Sociology Association's annual conference. Seven different university's women's or gender studies programs are represented on these panels, including the University of Sydney.