National Conferences - Indian Association of Women's Studies

National Conferences

The list of conferences that have been organized by IAWS is provided below:

I. 1981 Mumbai: First National Conference

II. 1984 Thiruvananthapuram: Gender Justice

III. 1986 Chandigarh: Women’s Struggles and Movements

IV. 1988 Vishakapatnam: Rural Women: Poverty, Survival, Struggle and Change

V. 1991 Kolkata: Religion, Culture and Politics

VI. 1993 Mysore: The New Economic Policy and Women

VII. 1995 Jaipur: Looking Forward, Looking Back: In Search of Feminist Visions, Alternatives, Paradigms and Practices

VIII. 1998 Pune: Survival and Sovereignty: Challenges to Women’s Studies

IX. 2000 Hyderabad: Women’s Perspectives on Public Policy

X. 2002 Bhubaneswar: Sustaining Democracy: Challenges in the New Millennium

XI. 2005 Dona Paula, Goa: Sovereignty, Citizenship and Gender

XII. 2008 Lucknow: Feminism, Education and the Transformation of Knowledges

The National Conferences of IAWS usually include a South Asian panel and there is an increasing interest in other Asian countries as well. In 1985, IAWS collaborated with the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and the International Sociological Association in holding an Asian Regional Conference on ‘Women and the Household’. Participants included scholars and activists from many Asian countries, as well as Asian studies specialists from Africa, Europe, Latin America and USA.