The 20th Annual Women's Studies

                                Conference

 

          "Women and Labor: At Home, At

            work, around the globe"

 

           To be held on the campus of Southern

                   connecticut state university

 

               Friday, April 20, 2012 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm

            Saturday, April 21, 2012 8:00 am - 8:00 pm

 

 

                              Keynote Speakers:

               Delores Huerta (Saturday, April 21)

               Lilly Ledbetter (Friday, April 20)

 

Dolores Huerta founded the Agricultural Workers Association, launched the National Farm Workers Association with César Chávez, and was instrumental in the enactment of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975. Today, Huerta continues to work tirelessly serving as voluntary president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, developing leaders, and advocating for the working poor, women and children.

For more information about Ms. Huerta's accomplishments, please visit her foundation's website.

 

Lilly Ledbetter became a women's equality activist after the Supreme Court ruled against her in the case of Ledbetter vs. Good Year Tire and Rubber Company. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act helps ensure that workers who are discriminated on the basis of gender have a fair chance to sue their employers.

For more information on this matter, please watch this interview.

 

                                      

                      Tentative COnference Schedule

 

                             Hotel Reservations

                                  

                                    Campus Map*

*All conference events will take place in Engleman Hall (Building 10) and the Michael J. Adanti Student Center (Building 14).

 

Past Conferences

• 2010: "Women and Girls of Color: History, Heritage, Heterogeneity"
• 2008: "Girls' Culture & Girls' Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood"
• 2007:  "Global and Local Women's Studies: Going on 40" 
• 2006: "Women's Health: Colonized, Resisted, Reclaimed"
• 2005: "Asian and Pacific Women: Indigenous and Diasporic"
• 2004: "Women, Power and Politics"
• 2003: "Women, War and Peace"
• 2002: "Ecofeminist Ethics & Activism: Re-Envisioning the Future"
• 2001: "All Women of Red Nations Weaving Connections"
• 2000: "Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora"
• 1999: "Global Justice/Women's Rights"
• 1998: "Fulfilling Possibilities: Women & Girls with Disabilities"
• 1997: "Latina Visions for Transforming the Americas"
• 1996: "Change the Politics: Women Make the Difference"
• 1995: "The Fate of Feminism: Is there a Next Generation?"
• 1994: "Women's Voices/ Women's Power: Theory, Action, Transformation"
• 1993: "Women Building Community: Crossing the Boundaries of Race, Religion, Class, Gender..."
• 1992: "Celebrating Our Diversity: Women Revisioning the Future"
• 1991: "Women's Studies in the 1990s: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?"