YOUR STRUGGLE IS MY STRUGGLE:
THE OTHER IN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS


The Women's Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Announces the conference:

YOUR STRUGGLE IS MY STRUGGLE: THE OTHER IN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS

Friday evening, December 1, 1995 and Saturday, December 2, 1995

Keynote Speakers:

MINNIE BRUCE PRATT
Poet and Activist
co-author (with Elly Bulkin and Barbara Smith) of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism; also author of Crime Against Nature (1989), Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991, and S/He (1995)

PATRICIA HILL COLLINS
Sociologist and author of Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment


Our aim is to foster discussion about the dialectic between self and Other, with a particular focus on overcoming the obstacles and the challenges to mutual understanding, empathy and solidarity. Various social categories, such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, religion, and both contemporary and historical approaches would be appropriate areas to explore. How might we share each Other's struggle? What do the disciplines tell us? What does community activism show us?

WE INVITE PROPOSALS for papers, workshops, panels, roundtable discussions, and other forms of expression to be presented on Saturday, December 2. Sessions will be 1 hour and 15 minutes long; individual paper presentations will be limited to 15 minutes. Faculty, students, community members, and alumni are encouraged to submit proposals.

Please submit five copies of a one-page abstract, accompanied by the proposal form below, no later than OCTOBER 9, 1995. Registration materials will follow. As this is a self-supporting conference, all participants must register. (A limited number of scholarships for students is available.)


Women's Studies Conference
Questions may be directed to:
200 Foust Building, UNCG
Dr. Katherine Mille, Director
Greensboro, NC 27412-5001
tel: (910) 334-5673
e-mail: kwmille@hal.uncg.edu
fax: (910) 334-4260

(cut here and attach the bottom to copies of abstract)
Name_____________________________________Phone: (h)__________(w)_______
Affiliation (School/Dept/Organiz)_________________________________________
Address________________________________________________________________
Type of presentation (i.e. paper, panel, etc.)_________________________________
Co-Presenters?__________________________________________________________
Title:___________________________________________________________________

kwmille@hal.uncg.edu