Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner

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Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner

March 1-2, 2013
Free and Open to the Public

Featuring: The keynote Address by Women’s Historian Alice Kessler Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University and Author of Difficult Women The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman

Round table discussion about the life and work of Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner moderated by Blanch Weisen Cooke, author of The Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt Volumes 1 and 2.

We still face unending war, economic injustice, potential environmental catastrophe, militarism, institutionalized racism, hunger, homophobia and sexism among other issues. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach, we will explore issues of global peace and justice from a variety of perspectives. We seek to understand the ways in which activists have organized around these issues now and in the past and ask the following questions: What are the issues activists have faced in the past and how might we learn from previous movements? How do current issues intersect and interact and how can activists combine forces to confront these problems and work for social change? With the spirit of Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner as our legacy, can we find the energy and focus to move forward together?

Panel Discussions Include:

Uses of Space: Women’s Global and Local Resistance

Women’s Educational Activism

Transnational Peace Activism

Women’s Efforts for Peace in the U.S. and Great Britain

Women’s LGBT Activism

Women Power for Peace: Linkages in Domestic and International Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist Activism During the Vietnam Era

Register for free at: http://www.slc.edu/graduate/programs/womens-history/conference/registration.html

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