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Come join Gobal Women's Rights Forum during the week of March 8th - International Women's Day - March 11, 2010. Please mark your calendars and consider including some of these wonderful events in your syllabi!
The Global Women’s Rights Forum is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, The Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, Gender and Sexualities Studies, The President's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, Univeristy Ministry, School of Nursing, Gender, Sexuality, Women's Student Resource Center, African American Studies, Communication Studies, Environmental Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, Politics, Sociology, Theology and Religious Studies, and the Global Fund for Women.
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| Monday, March 8th |
6:00-8:00 PM
Berman Hall, Fromm: African and African American Feminisms
Moderator:
Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, Assistant Professor,Politics, USF
Speakers:
Frances Beale, Peace and freedom Activist, Journalist, and Social Justice Feminist, Oakland
Patricia McFadden, Feminist Scholar/Activist, Zimbabwe
Lateefah Simon, Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco
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| Tuesday, March 9th |
6:00-8:00 PM
Berman Hall, Fromm: First First World: Indigenous Women and the Environment
Moderator:
Dorothy Kidd, Associate Professor, Media Studies, USF
Speakers:
Candis Callison, Journalist and Media Scholar, University of British Columbia Morning Star Gali, Community Outreach Liaison for the International Indian Treaty Council, Oakland
Sherri Norris, Executive Director, CAlifornia Indian Environmental Alliance, Oakland
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| Wednesday, March 10th |
6:00-8:00 PM
Berman Hall, Fromm: Bringing Home the right to Health: Critical Interventions in Women's Health Care
Moderator:
Sarah Burgess, Assistant Professor,Communications Studies, USF
Speakers:
Lori Freedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Bixby Center for Global Repoductive Health at UCSF Lupe Rodriguez, Interim Executive Director, ACCESS, Oakland
Eve Zaritsky, MD, Oakland Kaiser OB/GYN, Medical Director Women's Community Clinic, San Francisco
Respondent:
Nancy Smee, Assistant Professor, Nursing, USF
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| Thursday, March 11th |
1:30-3:30 PM
UC 222 : Gendered Violence and Militarization: National Security Versus Women's Rights to Security
Moderator:
Annick Wibben, Chair, International Studies, Politics, USF
Speakers:
Kathleen Staudt, Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso
Muadi Mukenge, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, the Global Fund for Women
Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor, Fielding Graduate University |
To RSVP or for further information, please call the McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at 415.422.5662 or visit www.usfca.edu/gwrf
All Events are Free and Open to the Public |
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