Barnard College Hosts Its 30 th Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, April 9
New York, NY-- The Barnard Center for Research on Women will host the 30 th annual Scholar & Feminist Conference on Saturday, April 9, 2005, bringing together feminist scholars, advocates, and writers, who will discuss the current political climate and its effects on women's rights. This year's confirmed panelists include poet Meena Alexander, author Dorothy Allison, transgender activist Leslie Feinberg, University of Illinois professor Barbara Ransby, and Faye Wattleton from the Center for the Advancement of Women.
The conference will examine a range of issues, including gender, race and class in America, international human rights, sexual politics, economics, cultural production, mainstream lobbying, and activism, and feminist literature. It will provide a space for conversation between leaders of second wave and third wave feminist movements and trace the evolution of feminism's most pressing issues and productive strategies. The participants will examine the past 30 years of the movement and show how it has grown and expanded, according to Janet Jakobsen, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
"Feminism is very much alive today with generations of feminists who are working on a variety of issues from equal pay, and right-to-work to such international issues as poverty, women's urban development, human rights and security issues," said Jakobsen. "Media often does not identify these issues as feminist issues, because they are still looking for a feminist movement that does not exist - associating it with what it was in the 70's. To see what the feminist movement is like now, this conference would be the place to do it."
The conference will revisit the themes from past conferences, including The Future of Difference (1979), Class, Race, and Sex (1980), Women in Resistance (1984), Women in Culture and Politics (1985), and Women as Change Makers: Building and Using Political Power (1992).
For the past three decades, The Scholar and The Feminist has taken an in-depth look at issues that include gender and sexuality, race, economics, politics and culture. The forum features panelists whose work not only encourages us to think, but also challenges us to act. Past speakers have included such visionaries as Anna Deavere Smith, Winona LaDuke, Barbara Ehrenreich, Honor Moore, Elaine Pagels, Faye Ginsburg, Anna Quindlen, and Maria Hinojosa. Sometimes controversial, always ambitious, the conference provides a forum for cutting-edge feminist theories and a space to discuss how we may put those theories into action.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information or to request a registration brochure, please call 212.854.2067 or visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw.
Contact: Petra Tuomi, Public Affairs , 212-854-7907, ptuomi@barnard.edu
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