By Jennifer Rauch
CSW Vice Chair/Program Chair
The Commission on the Status of Women will be working at the mid-winter meeting next month to assemble a program of diverse, stimulating panel sessions for AEJMC's 2009 national conference in Boston. More than a dozen CSW members have submitted proposals on an impressive array of topics. As usual, the program will include sessions focused on teaching, on research, and on professional freedom and responsibility.
Some panel themes currently under consideration are: the challenge of isolating gender in media research, creative techniques for teaching gender in journalism classes, the place of gender in global media studies, forging interdisciplinary partnerships in the academy, the status of female anchors in TV news, coverage of women in the presidential campaign, bringing feminism into the journalism curriculum, organizations that empower women journalists, and how to make classrooms and internships more inclusive.
In December, CSW officers will meet in Louisville, Ky., with representatives of other AEJMC divisions and interests groups to plan the program and discuss co-sponsorship opportunities. Since time and attention are scarce resources during the conference, joint sessions make the best sense. Thus, panel ideas with cross-disciplinary appeal generally have the best chance of getting scheduled.
Program planning is a somewhat daunting process to those (like myself) who haven't participated in it before. Timeslots for sessions are allocated through an event known as the "chip auction." CSW has programming rights for around a dozen panel sessions next year, which we aim to take full advantage of. Keep an eye on the next issue of Women's Words to get details about CSW's program for the August 2009 conference.
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