Discover the special events planned during the conference, offering unique opportunities for networking, collaboration, and engaging with industry leaders and fellow attendees.
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Rejection is an inevitable part of any professional or academic journey—whether it’s a declined journal submission, job application, or funding proposal. Navigating rejections means developing the emotional resilience to handle setbacks, the critical thinking to learn from feedback, and the motivation to keep moving forward. This process transforms rejection from a discouragement into an opportunity for growth, refinement, and eventual success.
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Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park, USA.
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Decolonizing the Pot: Gender, Race, and Power in Food Writing” is a critical exploration of how food narratives and practices are deeply intertwined with issues of gender, race, and power. This topic delves into the ways in which colonial histories have shaped food cultures, often marginalizing or misrepresenting the culinary traditions of people of color. It challenges dominant food narratives by highlighting the contributions and experiences of marginalized communities, particularly focusing on how food writing can either perpetuate or resist these power dynamics.
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Professor Wendy Martin is a scholar of American Literature and American Studies. During her distinguished career she has taught at Queens College, C.U.N.Y; Stanford University; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; UCLA and the Claremont Graduate University where she served as the Chair of the Department of English for 24 years (1987-2010) (2018-19). She is also the Founding Director of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program (2005-2013), and she has served as the Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee (1998-2001) and the Director of the Tufts Poetry Awards (2010-2015).
Professor Martin is an internationally known scholar of American Literature with a focus on American Women Writers. She has written numerous scholarly articles and written and edited many scholarly books and short story and essay collections. One of her best known books is An American Triptych: The Lives and Work of Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich.
Some of her other books include All Things Dickinson [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson’s World; Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age; The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson; We Are the Stories We Tell: The Best Short Stories by North American Women Writers Since 1945.
Professor Martin is the Founding Editor of Women’s Studies; An Interdisciplinary Journal (1972) which she continues to edit. The Journal is celebrating its 54th year of publication this year, and it publishes eight issues a year and is internationally distributed.
An “Elephant in the Room” generally refers to an issue that many people know is clearly present and important, but that nevertheless does not get openly addressed, usually because it is so difficult and/or unpleasant to discuss. With respect to gender, specific aspects of the following issues may sometimes often become the “elephant in the room.”
and so on (i.e., anything else conference-related, broadly defined.)
This Open Networking Space is designed to collectively envision where women should be by 2035, identify shared priorities across contexts, and co-create research collaborations, partnerships, and policy actions that can turn today’s ideas into future impact.
Our goal is not to solve everything today, but to clearly imagine the future we want to see and identify what must begin now to make that future possible.
There will be 3 main spaces will work through three interconnected spaces; all framed around the question:
What must change between now and 2035 for women to truly thrive?
The insights captured through the rapporteur reports from all tables will be consolidated into a post-conference Visioning 2035 Rapporteur Report, which will be published on the FOW website.
This report will not only serve as a record of collective thinking at FOW 2026, but will also directly inform the conceptual development, themes, and strategic direction of FOW 2027 and FOW 2028, ensuring continuity, learning, and long-term impact across editions of the conference.
The Visioning 2035 Open Networking Space is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals—particularly SDG 5 on Gender Equality—and responds to the UN’s post-2025 focus on accelerating delivery, accountability, and sustainability of global commitments for women. The outcomes will also contribute to broader global women’s agendas, including the Beijing Platform for Action and Women, Peace and Security frameworks.
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