Evening Speakers
Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light...
Speaker: Billie Jean Young
Day: Sun
Time: 6:30p.m.
Place: Old Main Chapel
- Billie Jean Young vividly recaptures the spirit of the Sixties and the
Civil Rights Movement in drama and song with her riveting one-woman
show on the life of Mississippi-born freedom fighter, Fannie Lou
Hammer. Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light..., a one-woman drama, has captivated
hundreds of audiences in the U.S. and abroad, including a performance at the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing.
There will be a reception following the performance in the H.G. Woodruff Cottage for Women's Studies.
Human Rights Education and Social Injustice in the U.S.
Speaker: Loretta Ross
Day: Mon
Time: 7:30p.m.
Place: UMC Forum Room
- Loretta Ross is the founder and Executive Director of the Atlanta-based
Center for Human Rights Education, a training and resource center for
grassroots activists that uses human rights criteria to address social
injustices in the United States. She is an expert on human rights,
women's issues, diversity, hate groups and bias crimes. She is a
political commentator for Pacifica News Service and has appeared on
numerous television news and talk shows. Ross was one of the first
African American women to direct a rape crisis center in the 1970's and is
presently writing a book on reproductive rights entitled Black Abortion.
The Struggle for Economic and Agrarian Reform in Honduras
Speaker: Elvia Alvarado
Day: Tue
Time: 7:30pm
Place: UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom
- Elvia Alvarado has spent three decades organizing for human rights and
land reform in Honduras. She has been harassed, jailed and tortured at
the hands of the Honduran military for her work on behalf of the nation's
peasants. She has worked with women's health groups to combat
malnutrition, led land recovery actions and traveled by foot over the
back roads of Honduras. She is currently head of International Relations
for the Union of Rural Workers. She is an eloquent speaker on the nature
of poverty and conflict in Central America and the role of women in the
struggle for justice.
Redefining Security for Women: Analyses, Strategies, Actions
Speaker: Margo Okazawa Rey and Gwyn Kirk
Day: Wed
Time: 7:30pm
Place: UMC Forum Room
- Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey are the Jane Watson Irwin co-chairs in the
Women's Studies Department at Hamilton College 1999-2000, co-founders of
the East Asia-U.S. Women's Network Against Militarism, and co-editors of
Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Margo Okazawa-Rey is also a
professor of social work at San Francisco State University.
- They will present a framework to help people analyze situations, strategies and actions in an
integrative way by focussing on three components: the interlocking matrix of oppressions (race,
class, gender, nation); levels of analysis from micro to global; and the paradigm of genuine security
for women based on four main dimensions -- physical environment, basic needs, human dignity, and
protection from avoidable harm. This framework is a useful tool that allows us to pull together
disparate issues, to think strategically, and to plan and evaluate actions in interconnected ways.
The impacts of U.S. government policies on women in the U.S. and abroad will be discussed as
examples.
Hawaiian Sovereignty: What's at Stake
Speaker: Haunani-Kay Trask
Day: Thu
Time: 7:30pm
Place: UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom
- Haunani-Kay Trask is an indigenous Hawaiian nationalist, political
organizer, poet, and professor of Hawaiian Studies. Trask is a member of
Ka Lahui Hawai'i, the largest sovereignty organization in Hawai'i. She is
a riveting speaker on Hawaiian sovereignty and speaks on how non-native
Hawaiians can contribute to their movement. She is the author of From a
Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereigny in Hawai'i and is
co-producer of the award-winning documentary, Act of War: Overthrow of
the Hawaiian Nation.
- There will be a reception following the talk in the Glenn Miller Lounge.
Women, Human Rights and Environmentalism in Nigeria
Speaker: Diana Wiwa
Day: Fri
Time: 7:30pm
Place: UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom
- Diana Wiwa was forced to flee Nigeria just days after the military regime
executed her brother-in-law Ken Sar-Wiwa, a leading environmentalist and
writer. Wiwa herself has been involved in the struggle for human rights
and environmental sustainability, beginning as a student leader at the
University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Later she was elected Organizing
Secratary of the National Youth Council of Ogoni People, the youth arm of
MOSOP, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. She is
currently the international representative of the Federation of Ogoni
Women Association (FOWA) and the Coordinator of MOSOP Canada. Her efforts
expose Nigeria's military dictatorship and their collusion with Shell Oil,
the object of an international boycott, and she has carried this message
throughout Europe, North America and Asia.
Events and Workshops
Here are the details about all of the events and workstips in the program that
have been finalized.
Disability Activists Promote Independent Living Options
Day: Mon
Time: 10:00am
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Panel Discussion
Moderated By: Julie Redenbaugh-Aird, Center for People with Disabilities, Boulder
- Disability Activists Promote Independent Living Options
This workshop will give the history and the reason for the disability rights movement. A panel of
women with disabilities will share their experiences living with a disability and their perspectives of
helping systems such as institutional care and rehabilitative services.
Panelists Melanie Wood, Feliciana Huff, and Diana Kurylak
Men of Color: Endeavors in Feminism
Day: Mon
Time: 12:00pm
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Panel Discussion
- This panel will be an open conversation workshop. Possible topics may include machismo,
patriarchy, stereotypes, gender relations, and male feminism of color. Panelists Andrew R. Aragon, Ara Cruz, Faiz M. Faseeh-Alla'Deen, and Robb Hernandez
Decoding Corporate Media
Day: Mon
Time: 2:00pm
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 90 minutes
Style: Presentation
Presented By: Eric Galatas and Manse Jacobi, Free Speech TV, Boulder
- Media literacy, in an age of rapid corporate media consolidation, is a required course for any
student of intellectual self-defense. Free Speech TV, one of a growing
number of media groups operating independent of corporate power, offers examples and insight into
critical viewing, focussing on domestic and foreign use of military force.
Military Prostitution and U.S. Foreign Policy
Day: Mon
Time: 4:00pm
Place: Hellems 252
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Lecture
Presented By: Katharine H.S. Moon, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
- Screening and discussion of The Women Outside, a documentary film on U.S.-Korea military
prostitution. In addition, brief background lecture on the historical and contemporary development of
U.S.-Asia military prostitution, including international trafficking of women, migration, and activism.
Violence Everyday: Women of Color Explore Violence in Our Lives
Day: Tue
Time: 10:00am
Place: UMC Conf. Rm 158 A & B
Duration: 90 minutes
Style: Presentation
Presented By: Rajani Adhikary
- As women of color, we face violence that is directed at us as individuals, our communities, and our
families. This unique session will focus on the words and images that women of color on this
campus express concerning the violence in our lives.
Criminalizing Pregnant Immigrant Women Through Welfare Reform
Day: Tue
Time: 12:00pm
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Workshop
Presented By: Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Women's Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Since 1994, a series of policies have created a growing climate of fear within immigrant
communities. In this workshop, we will discuss the impact of welfare and immigration reforms on
working-class pregnant immigrant women.
The Way Home Experiential Journey
Day: Tue
Time: 2:00pm
Place: University Club, Lower Dining Room
Duration: 4 hours
Style: Workshop
Preseneted By: Shakti Butler, World Trust, Oakland, California.
- This is an interactive workshop that consists of video, dialogue, and critical self-inquiry. This
learning process has been constructed to look at issues related to race, gender, and class. It
utilizes the popular video, The Way Home, to initiate the ensuing dialogue and other activities. The
objective of the workshop is to provide opportunities for transformative learning, healing, and action.
(Viewing the film in the first portion of this session is critical to participating in the workshop
portion/second half of the session.)
Refreshments will be provided.
Refuge or Battleground: How Power, Privilege and Prejudice Shape the University Classroom
Day: Wed
Time: 10:00am
Place: UMC Conf. Brm 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Panel Discussion and Workshop
Presented By: Boulder Faculty Assembly Committee on Women
- This panel discussion will address how faculty can foster a safe environment for exploring the
inevitable conflicts that arise from differing perspectives of prejudice and privilege in the CU
classroom. It will be followed by a workshop facilitated by Beverly Tuel, Director of the GLBT
Resource Center; and Eldridge Greer, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services: A
Multicultural Center.
Panelists Elisa Facio, Department of Ethnic Studies; Maria Franquiz, School of Education;
Melisa Maes-Johnson, Student Academic Services Center
International Women's Day Rally
Day: Wed
Time: 12:00pm
Place: UMC Dalton Trumbo Fountain
Duration: 50 minutes
Style: Rally
- Join us by the fountain to celebrate International Women's Day! Today, people world-wide celebrate
the women's accomplishments and discuss the challenges that remain. Representatives from
campus and community organizations will speak about the importance of thinking globally, acting
locally.
In case of inclement weather, this event will be held in UMC Forum Room.
International Women's Day Celebration
Day: Wed
Time: 1:00pm
Place: UMC Forum Room
Duration: 1 hour
Style: Performance
- The IWD celebration continues in the Forum Room with a dance performance by
Joda and Friends of African Dance South of the Sahara. You won't be able to stay in your seat!
Building Transnational Feminist Resistance
Day: Wed
Time: 2:00pm
Place: UMC Conf. Room 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Workshop
Presented By: Anna Sampaio, Hermanas en La Lucha, Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at
Denver
- This workshop examines the struggle among indigenous women and mestizas to build collaborative
transnational forms of resistance against patriarchy, state repression, and globalization, with a
particular focus on Hermanas en La Lucha (of Denver, CO) and the struggle of women in Chiapas,
Mexico.
A Call to Feminist Activism: The Poor Health of Women of Color
Day: Wed
Time: 4:00pm
Place: Hellems 252
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Lecture
Presented By: Annette Dula, Tuskegee University, National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare
- We will explore the history, politics, and ethics of the appalling gap in health status between U.S.
people of color and whites. We will examine past and current policies (such as the Tuskegee
Study, research abuses, incarceration of pregnant cocaine-users) as contributors to the poor health
of women of color.
Rethinking Corporations, Reclaiming Democracy
Day: Thu
Time: 10-:ooam
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Workshop
Presented By: Jean Gore, Anne Marie Pois, and Jennifer Rockne, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Boulder Chapter
- This workshop gives a history of the emergence of corporate power and the consequences of that
power. The impact on women and people of color will be discussed. We will explore strategies for
dismantling corporate rule.
Women and Girls in U.S. Prisons
Day: Thu
Time: 12:00pm
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Workshop
Presented By: Joanne Belknap, Women's Studies and Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
- The focus of this workshop is a result of the author's work conducting research on incarcerated girls
and women, their histories before prison, and their experiences in prison.
Women and Girls in U.S. Prisons
Landmines: America's Role in International Militarism
Day: Thu
Time: 2:00pm
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 90 minutes
Style: Panel Discussion
Panelists: Rochelle Clark, Asher-Hannah Publications, founder of Rocky Mountain African Festival, and
delegate to the National Summit on Africa; Virginia McConnell, United Nations Association, Boulder Chapter;
Nike Onediji, Nigerian environmental activist
- This workshop will address the problem of landmines throughout the world. The panel will provide a
statistical breakdown on landmines in Africa, Asia, Central America, and Eastern Europe. A video
presentation of the United Nations Adopt-A-Landmine will be shown, followed by a panel discussion
of the manufacturing of these weapons of terror in the United States.
Radioactive Reservations
Day: Thu
Time: 4:00pm
Place: Hellems 252
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Video, discussion
Presented By: Mary Churchill, Women's Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
- In this session, we will view the video Radioactive Reservations and discuss the impact on
American Indians of mining uranium, generating nuclear power, and storing radioactive waste on
Indian land.
Act of War: Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation
Day: Thu
Time: 6:00pm
Place: UMC Forum Room
Duration: 45 minutes
Style: Film
- This film chronicles the history and condition of Native Hawaiians from their
creation to the present, focusing on the overthrow of the Hawaiian
government in 1893. Commentators Haunani-Kay Trask and other Hawaiian
Studies faculty give a Native Hawaiian perspective to events which led to
Hawai'i's annexation to the United States.
The Mechanics of Bias: Hate Crimes, Criminal Justice, and the Matthew Shepard Case
Day: Fri
Time: 10:00am
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Workshop
Presented By: Kevin Bourque, Anti-Violence Program Associate, Equality Colorado; Co-Chair, the GLBT Domestic
Violence Prevention Task Force; Carter Klenk, Anti-Violence Program Associate, Equality Colorado
- This workshop will be an informed discussion surrounding the dynamics and components of
influence surrounding hate violence, hate crimes (including legislation and the death penalty), and
bias-motivated incidents. Self-identity, identity politics, and the current criminal justice system will
be taken into consideration, as will the mechanics and undercurrents of societal and institutional
bias.
Networking Forum on Campus Women's Issues
Day: Fri
Time: 12:00pm
Place: UMC Aspen Rooms
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Forum and Award Presentation
Presented By: Women's Resource Center
- Students, staff, and faculty across campus who are interested in women's issues are invited to
meet and network. Let's further collegiality and address the status of women on campus. Co-
sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and the Chancellor's Committee on Women, this
event will include the presentation of the Dorothy Martin Endowment Awards to a faculty member
and two doctorial students. The award recognizes activism on behalf of women and academic
excellence.
Light lunch will be provided.
Confirmation requested to deborah.fink@colorado.edu or 303-492-8302
Gender, Labor and Violence in Indonesia
Day: Fri
Time: 2:00pm
Place: UMC Conf. Rm. 158 A & B
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Lecture, slides, poetry
Presented By: Rachel M. Silvey, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder
- This session examines the local cultural repercussions of widespread factory unemployment among
young women in Indonesia since mid-1997, and the specific forms of gendered violence that have
coincided with the economic crisis. The session addresses these issues through a lecture format
augmented by slides, discussion, and poetry.
Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans in the Time(s) of Race
Day: Fri
Time: 4:00pm
Place: Hellems 252
Duration: 2 hours
Style: Lecture
Presented By: Lisa Brock, Associate Professor of African History and Diaspora Studies, Department of Liberal
Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- This session will focus on the historical and contemporary connections and interactions between
African-Americans and Cubans, as well as the common experiences of these two communities.
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