[Peace] One more event of interest: Saturday at the Urbana Free Library

[carol inskeep]

Elaine Salo is an excellent speaker 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.)  Incidentally, she is Ken Salo's sister.

Lessons in Leadership from Feminist African Women / A Talk by Elaine Salo
Saturday, February  27 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium

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.

Elaine Salo is the Director of the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Pretoria in South Africa,
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  popular culture and globalization.  

Co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois



      
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