[Bilimsel Haber] Global Feminisms: The Role of Women in Building States and Societies

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Global Feminisms: The Role of Women in Building States and Societies

Washington University in St. Louis will be hosting an international 
conference
entitled "Global Feminisms: The Role of Women in Building States and 
Societies,"
March 31st, 2006 thru April 1st, 2006. The conference will consist of three
panels and a roundtable.

The Feminism and Governance panel will explore women's and feminists' 
strategies
for expanding women's citizenship into the political, social and economic
realms.

The Conflict, Gender, Violence, and Memory in Social and State 
Reconstruction
panel will focus on how to conceptualize violence against women and 
examine how
the frameworks of Truth Commissions address the needs of and offenses 
against
women.

The Feminism, Citizenship and Diversity panel will examine issues of 
ethnic and
religious diversity. The roundtable discussion will center on Women and 
Gender
Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Conference panelists include 
scholars from
Croatia, India, Kenya, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, South 
Africa,
Trinidad and Tobago, and the U.S.

Donna Kepley
Washington University
1 Brookings, Box 1078
St. Louis, Missouri 63130
USA

314-935-5102
fax: 314-935-7462
Email: dkepley@wustl.edu

Visit the website at http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/~women/wgsconference.htm