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AGENDA
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Friday, March 17, 2000 |
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5:30- 6 PM |
Registration Check-In, Michigan League Ballroom |
Please arrive during this time to check in, receive packet, and be seated in the Ballroom before dinner. |
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6:15 PM |
Welcome |
Lisa Tedesco, Vice President and Secretary of the University of Michigan |
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6:30 PM |
Dinner is served |
Dinner is free of charge. |
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7:30 PM |
Introduction |
Shingairai Chitanda, Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center and Faculty Advisor for International Women's Day 2000 conference |
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7: 45 PM |
Keynote, "The truth of Brahma" |
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8:30 PM |
Testimonial |
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Poetry |
Bernadette Kabango, Rwandese Poet |
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Saturday, March 18, 2000 |
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8 AM-9AM |
Check in (Bagels and coffee available) |
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9 AM-11:30 AM |
Speakers and discussion |
Prof. Perween Hasan -"Acid burnings in Bangladesh" |
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Professor Aysan Sev'er (honor killings in Turkey) |
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Dr. Bonnie Oh -"Japanese Imperial System and Korean Comfort Women of WWII " |
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Dr. Guilia Leon (Violence against women in Peruvian health facilities) |
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12 PM-1:30 PM |
Lunch |
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2 PM- 4:30 PM |
Speakers and discussion |
Naina Kapur -"Engendering Judges" |
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Natalya Timoshkina (Trafficking of Russian women) |
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Dr. Louise Cainkar "assumptions behind public benefits in the US regarding women's role in the society and the effect on immigrant women" |
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8 PM |
Charity Event:"Empower: A celebration of Women" |
Michigan Union U-Club, Tickets $8, MUTO |
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Includes poetry, accapella, singing and dancing performances. Funds raised go to DUHODZANYE, a Rwandan women's organization for Hutu widows of Tutsi men, whose husbands and children were killed in the genocide. |
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Sunday, March 19, 2000 |
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8 AM-9AM |
Check in (Bagels and coffee available) |
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9 AM-11:30 AM |
Speakers and Discussion |
Professor Lori Cohen - "Working with Battered Immigrant Women: Social and Legal Considerations." |
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Pioneers for Peace (violence against women and disabilities) |
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Shingairai Chitanda- "When rape becomes a weapon of war" |
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1324 East Hall- CHANGE OF LOCATION |
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12 PM- 1 PM |
Closing and "Networking Lunch" |
Salvadorian Lunch provided free of charge |