[Antiracism] Global Women's History Project Conference: Women From Iraq and Iran vist Westfield State College April 14-17

[Margot Hennessy]

Dear Friends and Colleagues: 

We are hosting an International Conference on APRIL 14-16, 2005, which
brings together women activists working for peace and women's rights in Iran
and Iraq; we thought you all should know about it!    The efforts to
dismantle racism are also taking place on  a global scale and this
conference and The Global Women's History Project are part of that effort in
the Pioneer Valley. . This conference is unique for a number of reasons.  We
combine academics, and activists together to discuss the issues that are
really of concern to women in Tehran and Baghdad.  We are a small State
College in Massachusetts and we have put together a top notch group of
internationally known women who will visit our campus and present to the
public and our student body on issues that directly affect all of us. Our
keynote speakers, Yanar Mohammed, head of the Organization of Iraqi Women's
Freedom (OWFI) and Shahla Sherkat, publisher and editor or Zanan Magazine in
Teheran have been widely interviewed and quoted in the U.S press including
most recently Newsweek(March7,2005)  as well as Democracy Now and NPR. Yanar
Mohammed will visit us from Baghdad, thus she will be in a unique position
to discuss what is happening there for women as well as the present
situation "on the ground" over the past two years. There will be an
additional eight delegates, four from Iraq and four from Iran, to discuss
various issues that effect women in both countries.  We are hosting a Press
conference on the first evening of the conference at 6:15 on the Westfield
State campus and would welcome any reporters or writers who might want to
attend the press conference or the events of the conference themselves. We
are also willing to arrange for press to talk with the delegates for
interviews at various times throughout the conference. I have linked our
website for more information.  Thank you for your attention and the work you
are all doing throughout the valley. 

 

http://www.wsc.ma.edu/gwhp/

 

 

C. Margot Hennessy Ph. D.

Coordinator, Multicultural and Ethnic Studies

Bates 25

Westfield State College

Westfield MA 01086

413-572- 5759

mhennessy at wsc.ma.edu

 

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