Keene State College Hosts NESA Conference on Race, Class, and Gender

KEENE, N.H., 11/01/06 - On Sat., Nov. 4, the New England Sociological Association (NESA) will visit Keene State College for the one-day conference “Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender.” NESA is a regional sociological society devoted to the enhancement of sociological research, teaching, and practice in New England. The program will feature papers, panels, posters, and discussions organized around a keynote address by Margaret K. Nelson, Hepburn professor of sociology at Middlebury College.

Nelson’s address, “Working Hard to Make Ends Meet: The Dynamics of Class, Gender, and Marital Status,” will draw on two separate studies to compare the survival strategies of married-couple families and single-mother families in a rural area. She will highlight the ways in which class, gender, and marital status intersect to determine both the characteristics of these survival strategies and the degree to which they enable families to make ends meet.

The program will feature scholars from all over New England, including the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, Franklin Pierce College, The School for International Training, and the University of Connecticut.

Registration ($40 for the day) will be from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., and the conference will conclude with a tour of the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at 4:15 p.m. For more information, call Margaret Walsh at 603-358-2905. More information about the NESA is available at: http://web.bryant.edu/~nesa/.