Int'l Women's Day Forum at USF

GLOBAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS FORUM
THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
3rd Annual Series of Presentations and Films

The Global Women’s Rights Forum is a program emphasizing the importance of Women’s
Movements globally and locally. This event is unique for its focus on global women
and their daily struggles for equality, respect and security.


MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2004, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
6-8:30pm, McLaren 252

African Women and AIDS Activism

Nunu Kidane, Coordinator of the Priority Africa Network in the Bay Area
Presentation: “African Women and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS”

Followed By: Opening Reception for the Global Women’s Rights Forum and a Celebration
of International Women’s Day

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2004
7-9pm, Lone Mountain 148, Pacific Rim Room

Black Women Challenge Criminal Injustice

Julia Sudbury, Associate Professor and Chair, Ethnic Studies Department, Mills College
Presentation: “A World Without Prisons Is Possible: Black Feminist Reflections on
Globalizatio
n and Criminalization”*

Lateefah Simon, Executive Director, Center for Young Women’s Development, and 2003
MacArthur Fellow
Presentation: “Young Black Women’s Struggles in the Criminal Justice System –
What’s Next?”

*Also part of the Sociology Colloquium

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2004
6-8:30pm, McLaren 252

Sexuality within Immigrant Communities in the U.S.

Oliva Espin, Professor Emerita, Women’s Studies, San Diego State University
Presentation: “Sex, Gender, and Language in Women’s Experience of Migration”

Madeleine Lim, Independent Filmmaker
Film Screening and Discussion: “Sambal Belacan in San Francisco”

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2004
7-9pm, University Center 222, Faculty Lounge

The Tragedy of Women along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Film Screening: Lourdes Portillo, “Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman”

Discussion: Carlos Castresana, Prosecutor in the Special Anti-Corruption Office,
Spain, United Nations Observer in Ciudad Juarez, and Visiting Scholar at USF

All eve
nts are free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact: Professor Kathy Nasstrom,
nasstromk [at] usfca.edu, (415) 422-6074; Anne Hieber, Program Assistant,
hieber [at] usfca.edu, (415) 422-2910; or Brynne Craig, V.P. USF Democrats,
blcraig [at] usfca.edu.

Co-Sponsors of the Global Women’s Rights Forum: College of Arts and Sciences,
Women’s Studies Program, President’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women
(PACSW), Department of Sociology, and USF Democrats.


Dept. of Media Studies,
University of San Francisco.
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, California 94117-1080.
415-422-5061
kiddd [at] usfca.edu