Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, & Resistance Conference Jan 16-18
Geneve Gil (geneve@mail.utexas.edu)
Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:00:39 -0600 (CST)
>The UCR Center for Women in Coalition
>announces a conference on:
>
>FRONTLINE FEMINISMS
>Women, War & Resistance
>
>January 16-18, 1997
>Highlander Hall
>University of California, Riverside
>
>
>The Center for Women in Coalition at the University of California,
>Riverside has organized a conference, "Frontline Feminisms: Women, War,
>and Resistance," to take place on the UCR campus January 16-18, 1997.
>Participants will discuss the forging of new feminisms in the context of
>militarized situations around the world. The conference will link feminist
>activists and grass-root organizers engaged in innovative feminist praxes
>with a gathering of scholars and policy-makers engaged in theorizing
>conflict and promoting cooperation.
>
>This conference is international in scope, and will include women from the
>Balkans, Ireland, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, and the
>Americas. It will embrace a range of discourses and topics, combining
>scholarly work with position papers, background briefings, testimonial
>accounts, workshops, videos, and creative pieces. This purposely
>heterogeneous range of "languages" will appeal to the many communities,
>within and beyond the academy, concerned with issues involving women and
>militarization.
>
>Panels:
>Indigenous Women at the Fore in Mexico and Guatemala
>Indigenous Women Resisting Nuclear Genocide
>Filipino Women's Movement in Diaspora
>Militarism in East Asia: The U.S. Military and the Sex Industry
>Women and Political Violence in South Asia
>Thai Women, Prostitution and State Development
>Tibetan Women and Non-Violent Resistance
>Iranian Women in Resistance
>Reframing the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict: Women in Black
>Women, Civil War, and Human Rights in African Contexts
>Militarized Mediterranean
>Coalition Across Borders in the Balkans
>Rape as Genocide in Bosnia
>Women under Apartheid in Kosova
>Feminist Resistance to Violence Against Women in Serbia
>Women Resisting Violence in Northern Ireland
>Women in U.S. Prisons
>Women and Union Organizing in the U.S.
>Women, Sexuality, and the U.S. Military
>The Militarization of the U.S./Mexico Border
>
>Round Tables:
>Military Occupations
>Legal Battles
>Democratization and Nation Building
>Fundamentalism
>Hidden Links Between Military and Domestic Violence
>Refugees and Immigration
>Militarization and Union Organizing
>Capitalism, Development, Militarism, and the Gendered New World Order
>Police and Prisons
>Women Bearing Arms
>Nuclear Armaments
>Technology as Obstacle/Opportunity for Feminism
>Women's Movements in Coalition
>
>Workshops:
>Practicing Women's Rights as Human Rights
>Using the Internet for Organization and Communication
>Conflict Resolution
>Healing Through Art
>
>Films:
>Calling the Ghosts: A Story About Rape, War and Women, Mandy Jacobsen
>My Life as a Poster, Shashwati Talukdar
>Camp Arirang, Diana S. Lee and Grace Yoonkyung Lee
>Aiesha and Other Stories from Palestine, Christine Ahmed
>a river is made drop by drop, Sedika Mojadidi
>When Women Unite: The Story of an Uprisin
>
>Participants include:
>
>Mary Burroughs, artist, activist, Northern Ireland
>Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone National Council
>Laurie Beth Green, News and Letters, Chicago
>Lynn Halpin, Si Paz, Chiapas, Mexico
>Fatima A. Ibrahim, President of Sudanese Women Union, Former President of
>Women's International Democratic
>Federation (WIDF), The Sudan
>Mandy Jacobson, filmmaker, "Calling the Ghosts: A Story About Rape, War,
>and Women" South Africa
>Vesna Kesic, journalist, human rights activist, founder, Center for Women
>War Victims, Plenary Speaker NGO Forum on
>Women, Zagreb, Croatia
>Gwyn Kirk, Women of Greenham Common, U.K.
>Sissy Korizi, Young Women and Democracy, Greece
>Ruth Linn, author of "Conscience at War" Israel
>Jay Mendoza, Local 11 Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, Los Angeles
>Jadranka Milicevic, Women in Black, Bosnia
>Zorica Mrsevic, Lawyer, Women's Law Center, Serbia
>Bhaswati Mukherjee, United Nations, Geneva
>Wanjiru Muigai, Lawyer, Washington D.C. and Kenya
>Kemy Oyarzun, Director, Curso De Especializacion en genero y Cultura en
>America Latina, Santiago, Chile
>Marina Patricia, Director Fray Bartolome Human Rights Center, Chiapas, Mexico
>Vasanthi Raman, Senior Fellow, Center for Women's Development Center, New
>Delhi, India
>Cathy Salser, A Window Between Worlds, Los Angeles
>Soona Samsami, Foreign Affairs Committee, National Council of Resistance of
>Iran, Washington D.C.
>Tatiana Sekulevic, Young Women in Democracy, Macedonia
>Gila Svirsky, Founder Women in Black, Advisory Council Israel Women's
>Network, former chair of board of directors B'Tselem--human rights
>organization in the occupied territories.
>Judy Tanzawa, Union and Community Activist, Los Angeles
>Rachel Wareham, Center for Women War Victims and Motrat Qiriazi, Croatia
>and Kosova
>Georgianna Williams, L.A.4+ Defense Committee, Los Angeles
>Representatives of Comigua (Guatemala), Gabriela, Vietnamese Women's Union,
>Marshal Island Survivors for a Nuclear Free Pacific
>
> and
>
>Christine Ahmed, Pennsylvania State University
>Beverly Allen, author of Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in
>Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, Syracuse University
>Peter Bell, SUNY Purchase
>Roberto Calderon, UC Riverside
>Carol Cohn, Bowdoin College
>Benita Berger Gould, UC Berkeley
>Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawaii
>Sondra Hale, UCLA
>Alexandra Halkias, UC San Diego
>D. Emily Hicks, San Diego State University
>Donna Hughes, Bradford University (U.K.) and University of Rhode Island
>Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
>Julie Mertus, Harvard Law School
>Sedika Mojadidi, University of Florida
>Seungsook Moon, Vassar College
>Margo Okazawa-Rey, San Francisco School of Social Work
>Andrea Peto, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
>Nancy Rhodes, Syracuse University
>Sara Rudick, New York University
>Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State Univerity
>Ramesh Sepehrrad, George Mason University
>Julia Shayne, U.C. Santa Barbara
>Shashwati Talukdar, Temple University
>Devra Weber, U.C. Riverside
>Michele Weber, Pomona College
>
>and others.....
>
>Registration Information:
>
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>
>Address:________________________________________________________________
>
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>
>
>Registration: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; cost: $ 50
>for parking, breakfast, and lunch for 3 days. Please make checks payable
>to the UC Regents.
>Attendance only: no charge
>
>Upon request, the Conference will provide free transportation to and from
>the Ontario International Airport to your motel or the campus. If you wish
>such transportation, please provide the following information by December
>20, 1996:
>
>Arrival: Airline: _____________________ Flight#_________ Time:__________
>
>Departure: Airline____________________Flight#_________ Time:__________
>
>Please print and complete this form and send it with your check to:
>
>Center for Ideas and Society,
>University of California, Riverside,
>Riverside, CA 92521-0439
>
>For further registration information: ideassoc@ucrac1.ucr.edu
>or check out the Center for Women in Coalition Website at
>www.chass.ucr.edu/csbsr/women/frontfem.html
>
>For information, enter "info" on the subject line. To register, using this
>form, enter "regform" on the subject line.
>
>If you would like to help others who need funding to participate in
>Frontline Feminisms, please send a tax-deductible donation, made out to the
>UC Riverside Foundation, to the Center for Ideas and Society.
>
>
>Marilyn Davis
>Center for Ideas & Society
>UC Riverside
>Riverside, CA 92521
>909-787-3987x1554
>
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