<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Elaine Salo is an excellent speaker</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">who has done significant research and activism around women's issues in South Africa. Consider coming out to hear her next Saturday at the library... (She's also the WEB Dubois speaker this Tuesday on campus at 4pm.)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Incidentally, she is Ken Salo's sister.</span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>Lessons in Leadership from Feminist African Women</span> / <span style="font-weight: bold;">A Talk by Elaine Salo</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Saturday, </span><span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0%
0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-weight: bold;" id="lw_1265014412_1" class="yshortcuts">February 27</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> from 1:00 - 2:00 pm</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Urbana Free Library, Lewis </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="lw_1265014412_2" class="yshortcuts"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1266872936_0">Auditorium</span></span><br></div><br>Elaine
Salo, feminist scholar and activist, believes that we in the West can
learn from and be inspired by the lives of African women. She
challenges the stereotypes that show African women either as hopeless
victims of poverty and violence, or as superwomen who are
unrealistically strong and self-reliant. The real story is more
complicated and more compelling, and offers real hope to people who
want a more just and non-violent society.<br><br>Elaine Salo is the Director of the Institute for Women's and <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);" id="lw_1265014412_3" class="yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1266872936_1">Gender Studies</span></span> at the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);" id="lw_1265014412_4" class="yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1266872936_2">University of Pretoria</span></span> in <span id="lw_1265014412_5" class="yshortcuts"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1266872936_3">South Africa</span></span>,
and she is a George A. Miller Visiting Professor at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has played an active role in working
for economic justice and women's rights in South Africa, and has done
wide-ranging research on such topics as youth, gender, sexuality,
gangs, and <span id="lw_1265014412_6" class="yshortcuts"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1266872936_4">popular culture</span></span> and globalization. <br><br>Co-sponsored by the Center for <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" id="lw_1265014412_7" class="yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1266872936_5">African Studies</span></span> at the <span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" id="lw_1265014412_8" class="yshortcuts"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border;
-moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1266872936_6">University of Illinois</span></span><br></td></tr></table><br>
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