Events & Calendars "Feminist Movements in a Reactionary Era" Symposium

Given recent events, we will mark International Women's Day 2017 with a series of events that explore the implications of recent global political shifts for national and transnational feminist movements and consider strategies of resistance in moving forward.

"Feminist Movements in a Reactionary Era: A Teach-In, Talk-Around and Walk-Out Honoring the International Women's Strike"

Panelists will include Sonia Alvarez (UMass Amherst), Elora Chowdhury (UMass Boston), Islah Jad (Birzeit University, Palestine), Benita Roth (Binghamton University), Svati Shah (UMass Amherst) and Millie Thayer (UMass Amherst). The moderator will be Kristin Bumiller (Amherst College).

The symposium is sponsored by the Amherst College Department of Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies; Amherst College Lamont Fund; Five College Lecture Fund; Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC); Hampshire College Feminist Studies Program; Mount Holyoke College Gender Studies Department; Smith College Program for the Study of Women and Gender; UMass Religious Studies Certificate Program; UMass Amherst Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program; and Five College Women’s Studies Research Center.

The symposium is free and open to the public.

And don't miss these related events happening on March 7 at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center (FCWSRC), 83 College Street, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley:

Faculty workshop: "Authoritarianism, Religion and the State," 4 to 6 p.m.

Faculty workshop: "Neoliberalism and Feminism," 7 to 9 p.m.

Dinner provided from 6 to 7 p.m.