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March 3 through 5, 2009Mills College and the Global Fund for Women are sponsoring the Transnational Feminist Studies Project to stimulate public interest and debates in feminist theory and practice related to militarism, peace, and security, politics and democratization, sexual politics and reproductive rights, and women’s movements internationally. Feminist activists, scholars and members of the Bay Area community will be invited to participate in public outreach programs, community discussion forums, and skill-building exchanges that will bring together activists from key women’s movements around the world.
The Transnational Feminist Studies Project will be launched during March 3 through March 5th, with a focus on militarism and gender. International scholars, activists and film makers from Africa, Asia and the U.S. will address the challenges posed by the dominance of militarism in the world today through a series of roundtable discussions, panels, film screenings, and working meetings during which the visiting scholars and activists will dialogue on setting feminist agendas for scholarship and activism. The week will culminate in a public film screening of the award-winning film about the Liberian women’s struggle for peace, *Pray the Devil Back to Hell, f*ollowed by a panel discussion with the film’s producer and key activists from Africa’s conflict zones.
Convener: Dr. Amina Mama, Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership, Mills College
Co-Hosts:*
• Dr. Janet L. Holmgren, President, Mills College
• Ms. Kavita N. Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women *
Honorary Committee:
• Ms. Charlotte Bunch
• Professor Angela Davis
• Congresswoman Barbara Lee
• Ms. Laurene Powell-Jobs
PUBLIC EVENTS PROGRAM:
*Tuesday, March 3, 2009 * * Venue: Lisser Hall*6:30-7.00 p.m.
*Fashioning Resistance: A Cultural Show *
Performance art piece, presented by Mills students
Mills students display their ingenuity and creativity in a fashion extravaganza that highlights the pervasiveness of militarism in popular styles and cultures.
7:00-9:00 p.m.*Roundtable Discussion and Public Conversation*
“Challenging Militarism: Transnational Feminist Activism and Scholarship”
‘Global Development and Human Security’
*Funmi Olonisakin,* Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Group at Kings College, London, author of the book Global Development and Human Security accomplished international scholar and policy activist
‘Researching and Documenting the Lives of Women during Armed Conflict’
*Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng,* Executive Director of ISIS-WICCE, the Kampala-based international feminist network will discuss the use activist-research strategies to document and heal women in the war zones of Northern Uganda and Liberia
‘US Bases and Women’s Resistance’
*You Kyoung Ko*, Anti-militarist activist, Executive Director, Seoul-based National Campaign against Crime by US Troops, discusses the situation in Korea and the faces of US presence in East Asia
‘The Global Import of US Militarism’
Catherine Lutz, Professor, Brown University and author of Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, shares thoughts on the local and international dynamics of US militarism and the implications for democratization
Moderated by Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor, Fielding Graduate University and one of the founding members of the International Network of Women Against Militarism
Thursday, March 5, 2009 Venue: Concert Hall
Oakland Film Screening *Pray the Devil Back to Hell*, an award-winning documentary about the Liberian Women’s Peace Movement
6:00 p.m. Welcome
President Janet Holmgren, Mills College
Ms. Kavita N. Ramdas, Global Fund for Women
Representative from Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s Office
6:30 p.m.—Film Screening: “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
8:00 p.m.-8:45 p.m.—Panel Discussion with filmmaker and activists from the Africa region moderated by Dr. Amina Mama:
Abigail Disney, Producer
Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff, Human Rights Commissioner, Sierra Leone
Rose Mensah-Kutin, Regional Director ABANTU ROWA, Ghana
For more information, see
http://www.mills.edu/academics/undergraduate/eths/transnational.php. If you are interested in attending the closed working meeting (not listed here) please contact Margo Okazawa-Rey at mor@sfsu.edu.
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