Top Africanists Discuss African Women in a Global Society With a CHA Conference Grant, Lioba Moshi, Director of the African Studies Program, Freda Scott Giles, of the Department of Drama, and Rose Chepyator-Thomson, of the School of Health and Human Performance, will bring to campus a number of African women scholars to discuss their research on African women. The conference, on African Women in a Global Society, will be held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on March 20-23. The presentations will focus on the ways in which patriarchy has impacted African women across historical, geo-political, economic, social, and cultural backgrounds. In the spring of 1999 Susan Quinlan and Anna Klobucka of the Department of Romance Languages received a CHA Conference Grant to support a colloquium titled Five Hundred Years of Brazil. Dr. Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira, currently President of the National Council on Women s Rights in Brazil, will deliver the keynote address on Friday evening.
Registration is free but required for attendance at the sessions.