Upcoming Events
2009–10 WILL Speaker Series
Gender and Globalization
Human Trafficking in the Twenty-First Century: One Woman's Story of Slavery, Gender and the Politics of Globalization
Beatrice Fernando
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Beatrice Fernando was forcibly trafficked from Sri Lanka to Lebanon. Today she leads the Nivasa Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps trafficking victims. This talk will address her personal experience of trafficking while also analyzing ways to eradicate trafficking as a global system of coercion.
Hard Truths on Poverty and Human Rights
Irene Zubaida Khan
Friday, October 23, 2009
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Center for the Arts, 12:00 p.m.
What does living in dignity mean to us? What responsibility do we have to advocate for the rule of law, the right to peaceful protest, and the need for a global, holistic, economic, social and cultural solution to poverty and human rights abuses? Irene Khan, leader of Amnesty International, will discuss the state of our world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, from the streets of Iran to the oil fields of the Niger Delta.
This event is sponsored by the Jepson Leadership Forum
Border-Crossing in the New South: Immigration in Virginia
Jennifer Bickham Mendez
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall, 7:00 p.m.
In recent decades, many communities in the U.S. have become sites of social and cultural struggle. Latin American migrants, "native" residents, government actors and others construct, enforce, and resist parameters of social membership that divide those who "belong here" and those deemed "undeserving outsiders." This talk will analyze borders of social membership, and how Latino/a immigrants experience social belonging and exclusion in communities undergoing demographic and cultural transitions.
Feminisms in Global Perspective
Myra Ferree
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Keller Hall Reception Room, Keller Hall, 1:30 p.m.
When U.S. scholars discuss women in the rest of the world, they often presume to know what is best. Indeed, there is a dangerously misleading tendency to link gender fairness to modernity or progress. This talk explores feminism in terms of global alliances, where solidarity implies mutual respect for our many differences.
Related event sponsored by the Office of the Chaplaincy's One Book, One Campus initiative:
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
Michael Kimmel
Date to be announced
Alice Haynes Room, Tyler Haynes Common, 7:00 p.m.
