Friday and Saturday, September 19-20, 2008

Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall and Columbia Low Library, Faculty Room

In celebration of IRWaG's 21st Anniversary!

The conference will explore:

The changing meanings of feminism, and its goals (intellectual, social and political) in a global context: to examine whether these meanings can any longer be contained within the rubric of common social agendas.
Emerging social movements within the United States and beyond, including those that foster the collective interests of women across national, class, religious, and racial borders; the common interests of women and men; and those that call for greater individual autonomy.
Questions about how women within the post-industrial west can effectively relate to, and remain engaged with, issues that arise from diverse locations and affect differently situated women in different ways.

Participants will include:

Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
Dorothy Allison, Writer
Radhika Balakrishnan, Marymount Manhattan College
Katie Cannon, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va
Lara Deeb, University of California, Irvine
Katherine Franke, Columbia University School of Law
Inderpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine
Farah Griffin, Columbia University
Judith Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California
Janet Halley, Harvard Law School
Yvonne Hirdman, Stockholm University
Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Temma Kaplan, Rutgers University
Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
Madhu Kishwar, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Dorothy Ko, Barnard College
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University
Uma Narayan, Vassar College
Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana University
Luisa Passerini, University of Turin
Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University
Juana María Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley
Sara Ruddick, The New School
Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College
Teresa Valdes, Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo de la Mujer and Stanford University
Ai Xiaoming, Zhongshan University
Wang Zheng, University of Michigan

To register or for more information, please visit: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/events/main/fempoliticsnow/

Co-sponsored with the Columbia University School of Law Gender and Sexuality Law Program, Office of the President, Office of the Provost and the Barnard Center for Research on Women