CFP: The Other Side of Prosperity, Bronxville NY (Mar 3-4, 2000)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

"FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF PROSPERITY: WOMEN SPEAK OUT"

Friday, March 3 - Saturday, March 4, 2000
Second Annual Women's History Month Conference
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Women's History

As we face the new millennium, news media have proclaimed the glories of global capitalism and the advent of unprecedented prosperity for the United States. But for most people, this "boom" means a bust--assaults on social welfare systems from public schools to health care, the resurgence of blame-the-victim explanations for poverty, racism in the name of color-blind policies, the erosion of democracy, systematic violations of economic human rights. This interdisciplinary conference will focus on women's activism against these trends.

We welcome proposals for papers, panels, and workshops on grassroots struggles today and in the past, in both urban and rural communities in the U.S. and other countries. Students and activists are especially invited to participate.

Proposals may address but are not limited to women's organizing around issues such as:

Public Schools
Welfare/Workfare PolicyPrison Industrial Complex
Institutional Racism
Globalization
Immigrant Rights
Justice on the Job
Media Politics
Police Aggression
Health Care
Housing
Violence Against Women

Please send a one-page abstract and a one-page c.v., including e-mail address, to:

Mary Reynolds
Women's History Graduate Program
Sarah Lawrence College
One Mead Way
Bronxville, NY 10708
Phone: 914-395-2405
FAX: 914-395-2283
E-mail: mreynold@mail.slc.edu

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 31, 1999

Advisory Board:
Briana Barocas, Cornell University Institute for Women and Work
Wei Chen, Cornell University Institute for Women and Work
Venus Green, City College, New York
Francine Moccio, Cornell University Institute for Women and Work
Priscilla Murolo, Sarah Lawrence College
Muriel Tillinghast, Head Start Sponsoring Board, Council of the City of New York

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