Sarah Lawrence 18th Annual Women's History Conference: "On The Move!: Working Women and the Struggle for Social Justice"

Friday and Saturday March 4-5, 2016

Friday: 4:00pm-8:00pm

Saturday: 9:00am

Free and open to the public, registration required.

Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Featuring: Premilla Nadasen

Member of the history faculty at Barnard College and author of Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States and Domestic Workers Unite!: Household Workers’ Organizations

  https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/womens-history/conference.html

Sarah Lawrence College celebrates Women’s History Month 2016 with its 18th Annual Women’s History Conference “On The Move: Working Women and the Struggle for Social Justice.” This conference is free and open to the public. Speakers will analyze and celebrate the tradition of working women taking leadership roles and fighting for social justice and the vanguard roles they have played in movements over the last century for child protection, social welfare, and women's rights in and beyond the workplace. The conference will examine the roles women can play in the future of the labor movement.

  Register for free here: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/womens-history/conference.html

Friday March 4, 2016

6:00pm

Heimbold Auditorium

 Keynote Address - Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College

  7:30pm

Slonim House Living room

Reception

Saturday March 5, 2016

  9:00am - 11:00am

Roundtable Discussion: “On The Move With Queer Labor: LGBT Organizing at Unionized Workplaces”

Chair: Miriam Frank, author of Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America

Dona Cartwright, retired co-President, Pride at Work, AFL-CIO

Anne Balay, author of Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

Dolly Martinez, Pride at Work activist and campaign manager for Retail Action Project

11:15am - 12:45pm

Breakout Session 1: “Working-Class Feminism”

Chair: Lara Vapnek Jackie Collens, Sarah Lawrence College, Leonora O’Reilly and the Woman Suffrage Movement

  Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Hunter College, CUNY, The Radical Feminism of Grace Carlson and her Socialist Workers Party Sisters

Cynthia Tobar, Bronx Community College, CUNY, E mpathy and Feminist Activism: Leadership and Social Change at Welfare Rights Initiative

Roundtables:

1. Community Organizing

2. Labor Issues

12:45pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:45pm - 3:30pm

Breakout Session 2:

“Nationbuilders”

Ceighley Cribb, Sarah Lawrence College, Nazik al-‘Abid's Nur al-Fayha: a Kurdish Woman’s Contributions to Arab Nationalism, 1920

Patience Collier, Central Washington University, Fish Heads and Fishing Strikes: Cultural and Economic Agency of Northwest Native Women in the Salmon Industry

Anita Botello Santoyo, Sarah Lawrence College, Rosie the Riveter Exposed: Native American Women in Northern California’s Defense Industries During World War II

Thomas Martin, Penn State University, Arab Women in Palestine and British Mandate “Labor Struggles”

Jillian Jacklin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, A Family Affair: Women, Children, and the Daily Work of Dairy Farmer Radicalism

Mercedes Townsend, Sarah Lawrence College, 'Venus to the Hoop,’ but Not to the Bank: Gender Inequity in Professional Basketball

Tara Martin Lopez, Peninsula College, Retail Feminism: Working Class Women’s Fight for Equal Pay at Wal-Mart and ASDA V.

Kalya Shankar and Rohini Sahni, The New School, Waste Pickers and the ‘Right to Waste’ in an Indian City

  “Rethinking Motherwork”

Chair: Priscilla Murolo, Sarah Lawrence College

  Hank Broege, Sarah Lawrence College, Scottsboro Mothers

Gayle Ann Livecchia, Independent Researcher, Hidden Lives of Women in Colonial New York

  Amanda Westbrook Brennan, Graduate Cener, CUNY, The Promotion of Breastfeeding by the Maternity Center Association of Manhattan

Camilla Martinez, Sarah Lawrence College, Butterflies with New Wings Building a Future

3:45pm - 5:45pm

  Plenary

“Life and Labor: Black Women’s Narratives of Resistance in The Twentieth Century”

Chair: Deirdre Cooper Owens, Queens College

 Kellie Carter Jackson, Hunter College, A Portrait of Ethel Phillips: Understanding the Myth of the Good Boss in the World of Domestic Servants

  Mary Phillips, Lehman College, Spiritual Maturity: The Feminist Theory of Ericka Huggins

Robyn Spencer, Lehman College, What’s Left to Say about Angela Davis? Notes on the Black Radical Tradition

  Zinga A. Fraser, Brooklyn College, Race, Gender, and Rebellion: Shirley Chisholm’s Political Resistance

  *All panels take place in the Heimbold building unless otherwise noted.*