[Peace-discuss] Happy International Women's Day

[Lisa Chason]

Wishing us all a happy day




Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:49:11 -0600
To: Recipient List Suppressed:;
From: Kathy Martin <kcmartin at uiuc.edu>
Subject: [WGGP] March 8 International Women's Day Events and Films

Contents:
1. International Women's Day, March 8, Campus Events
2. Films celebrating women's life around the world, March 9-10



  March 8, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Campus Events
A. Organized by Illinois Student Council on Family Relations
and
Amnesty International Student Chapter at UIUC
"Women's Activism in the Context of Globalization"
Manisha Desai,
 Associate Professor, Sociology,
Acting Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program,
and Assoc. Director, South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UIUC
and
 "Feminist Praxis
and Grassroots Movements for Shelter:
Perspectives from the Global South"
Faranak Miraftab,
Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning and Gender and Women's
Studies, UIUC
6:00 p.m. 
180 Bevier Hall
905 S. Goodwin, Urbana
Refreshments and conversation following talks.

co-sponsored by University YMCA, Gender and Women's Studies Program,
National Organization for Women at UIUC, Women and Gender in Global
Perspectives Program, Department of Anthropology, Feminist Majority, Men
Against Sexual Violence, Student Peace Action, Progressive Resource
Action Cooperative, Muslim Students Association


B. Organized by South Asian Collective

Photo-exhibit by P. Sainath:
"Visible Work, Invisible Women:
Women and Work in Rural India"
Date: 8th March, 2005
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Venue: Grand Gallery, Grainger Library

and
Talk by P. Sainath
"When Farmers Die:
The Agrarian Crisis, Farmer Suicides and The Media"
Date:  March 8, 2005
        Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue:  Commons Room, Grainger Library
co-sponsored by
Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
and others.

About P. Sainath
        P. Sainath is Asia's leading development journalist, and has
written extensively
about issues such as poverty and the effects of industrialization on
India. His work on the livelihoods of India's rural poor has changed the
nature of the development debate in South Asia. Nobel Laureate Amartya
Sen describes him as "one of the worlds greatest experts on famine and
hunger". He is the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, one of India's
premier English language newspapers, and has won numerous awards.
        P. Sainath has won numerous awards for his reportage, including
the European
Commissions Natali Prize in 1994, Peoples Union of Civil Liberties
Journalism for Human Rights Award in 1994, B.D. Goenka Award for
excellence in journalism for 1998-99, Amnesty International's first-ever
Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2000, the United Nations
Food and Agricutural Organization's Boerma Journalism Prize in 2001 (the
most important award in development journalism) and many more.
        P. Sainath has spent several years in the poorest districts in
India, reporting on the daily struggles of the citizenry. He has covered
everything from agriculture subsidies to starvation deaths. Describing
Sainath's work, University of California journalism lecturer Conn
Hallinan says, "He does the kind of reporting American journalists only
think about doing. I don't know anybody who is better at it." Sainath's
work in India's poorest districts (and more recently, in the
tsunami-hit areas in South India) gives him a perspective that most of
us lack. His talk will appeal to a diverse audience of budding
engineers, environmentalists, journalists, sociologists and activists.


C.   Sponsored by Institute for Communications Research

A Lecture by
Jacqueline Bobo

"Subversive Spaces and Resistant Black Women"

March 8,
7:00 p.m.
160 English Building

Working collectively as an interpretive community of cultural producers,
critics/scholars, and cultural consumers, Black women function as social
agents fully capable of erasing repressive  historical images..
Provocative examples surface in those moments and spaces of subversion
that burst forth when Black female audience members spontaneously and
collectively participate in art that has not been orchestrated  by
mainstream culture.  Agency, self-determination, recognition of systemic
forces of oppression, and transformation of self and culture are goals
and possibilities in the confluence of Black women as cultural
activists.
Co-sponsored by Asian American Studies, Center for Advanced Study,
Center of Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Cinema Studies, English,
Gender & women's Studies, IPRH, Latina/o Studies, Media Studies, Native
American Studies, Speech Communication, Unit for Interpretive Criticism,
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program.



D. FILMS
Celebrating Women's Life Around the World
sponsored by Amnesty International Student Chapter


 On March 9th and 10th, Wednesday and Thursday nights of this week, we
are showing 3 documentaries and a feature film. The information is below
and the flyer is attached. Please send
this announcement to members of your organization and/or students in
your department.

-Celebrating women's life around the world-
MARCH 9TH, WEDNESDAY
7:00 pm - India: Women's Rights (India, 28 min.)
7:30 pm - Becoming a woman in Okrika (Nigeria, 27 min.)
8:00 pm - Prostitution: A Matter Of Violence Against Women (USA, 50
min.)

MARCH 10TH, THURSDAY
7:00 pm - The Circle (2000 Iran, 90 min, Persian with English subtitles)

Place: University YMCA, (1001 S. Wright St.)
Room K3/K4 (downstairs)

Sponsored by: University YMCA and Amnesty International Student
Chapter.[] 



-- 
Kathy Martin
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room 320 International Studies Building, MC-480
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
Phone:  217-333-1994
Fax: 217-333-6270
Email:  kcmartin at uiuc.edu
Webpage: http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp/




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