Women's History Month Conference
Tenth Annual Women’s History Month Conference
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Friday–Saturday March 7-8, 2008
Note: Online registration has ended, however you may still register at the door in Heimbold lobby beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7.
Black Power, Black Feminism: Black Women’s Activism and Development of Womanist / Feminist Consciousness in the Era Black Power.
Keynote Speaker: Chana Kai Lee, author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Traditionally scholarship on the Black Power era has characterized this time of renewed cultural and political nationalism and activism as an almost exclusively male domain.
This has begun to change. Not only have scholars uncovered a long tradition of black women’s activism before and during the Black Power era, but they have begun reevaluating the entire era as a result. Part and parcel with this period of activism has been the development of a Black feminist consciousness. If scholars have seen the seeds of this consciousness far earlier, the sixties and seventies were notable for organizing that recognized inextricable and complicated ties between categories of race, class, and gender.
This conference seeks to sustain and enhance new scholarship that redefines the era, bringing the work and effort of women to the center.
Panel Topics include:
- Women’s local and national grassroots organizing
- Women in the Black Arts Movement
- Women and Nationalism
- Women’s participation in Black Power organizations
- Revolutionary Black Feminism
- Coalition building amongst women of color
- Legacies of Black feminist organizing: third wave and hip hop feminism
Registration is free and open to the public.
Note: Online registration has ended, however you may still register at the door in Heimbold lobby beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7.
For more information, contact:
Tara James
tjames@mail.slc.edu
914-395-2405
Brooklyn College is co-sponsoring the women’s history conference this year with Sarah Lawrence College. On March 5 and 6th, Brooklyn College will hold a pre-conference symposium on Women in the Black Freedom Movement. Learn more»