Gender Conference

'Critical Women:  Women as Agents of Change through Higher Education'

In conjunction with the University of Kelaniya, the ACU is organising its first ever Gender Conference, which will take place at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 6 - 8 March 2012  -  just before the end of the year in which the theme of the Commonwealth is Women as Agents of Change.  

The overall conference theme will be 'Critical Women:  Women as Agents of Change through Higher Education'.   This will allow us to explore a number of key equity, educational and development issues under the umbrella of the following sub-themes:

• that women are critical to the leadership and management of higher education, as well as every other area of activity;
• that it is critical for economic development that women are educated to a high level;
• how important it is that women are given the space, opportunity and encouragement to make full use of their critical faculties in research;

and to celebrate those inspirational women who have made a critically important contribution to higher education itself or to society in general.

Further details, and a call for papers, will be available on the conference-specific website as soon as that has been developed.  

In the meantime, should you wish to express your interest in participating in the conference, please contact Dorothy Garland at d.garland@acu.ac.uk.  Please be assured that both men and women will be welcome to register for this conference.