GLOBAL FEMINISMS COLLABORATIVE
hosts
Public Lecture
on
environment and gender justice -
linked paths to social justice
srilatha batliwala
research fellow
hauser center, harvard university
april 23rd
4:00 – 6:00 pm
buttrick 101
reception to follow
Co-sponsors
Center for Ethics
Center for the Study of Religion and Culture
The Commons
Climate Change Research Network
Vanderbilt Regulatory Program
Women’s and Gender Studies
Center for Medicine, Health and Society
Center for Bio-Medical Ethics and Society
The 'Global Feminisms Collaborative' is holding a workshop entitled 'Social and Environmental Justice: Perspectives for and from Global Feminisms'. The workshop will be held on April 24th and April 25th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The workshop will begin with a lecture from Srilatha Batliwala which is open to the public on April 23rd from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at 101, Buttrick Hall. The title of the talk is 'Environment and Social
Justice: Linked Paths to Gender Justice'. A reception will follow.
From our participation with academics and activists in venues including three World Social Forums, one Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), and other smaller conferences, we see a need for thinking more about why and how collaboration between academics and activists can strengthen both social justice work and research. Over and over again activists and academics regret the lack of opportunities available for sustained intensive dialogue from which action, not just
insights emerge.
The purpose of holding the workshop is to create an opportunity for these local and global feminist activists to have an intensive and sustained conversation on the important issues confronting feminists working on the environment today. The agenda has been organized around key questions and participants have been invited to share their own expectations and wishes for the meeting. How do we bring feminist expertise and knowledge into contemporary environmental activism? How do we educate donors about what this would mean? What research agenda could academics pursue that would support this work? In the interests of having this sustained dialogue we have decided to make the workshop R.S.V.P only (Please R.S.V.P: sonalini.k.sapra@vanderbilt.edu).
The participants for this workshop are Srilatha Batliwala from the Hauser Center for non-profit organizations at Harvard University (with decades of experience in gender, development and sustainability), Joni Seager (feminist geographer) from Hunter College, Lorena Aguilar from the World Conservation Union (also with decades of experience in gender, development and sustainability), Mary Judith Ress from Conspirando (an eco-feminist movement organization), Shana Griffin from the New Orleans Women's Health and Justice Initiative (founded in New Orleans after the
public hospital closed leaving women in her community without affordable health care) and Loretta Ross from SisterSong (a network of Women of Color health initiatives that is launching its reproductive and environmental justice movement initiative this summer).
