Schedule of Events

8:00 – 9:00                  Registration

9:00 – 10:15                Welcome and Keynote Address (Great Hall)

Barbara Frey, Director, Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota

Cheryl Thomas, Director, Women’s Human Rights Program, The Advocates for Human Rights

Keynote Address by Robin Morgan: “Global Feminisms – The Politics of the 21^st Century”

10:30 – 11:45              Panels and Workshops – Session I (3^rd floor)

11:45 – 12:30              Lunch ($5 box lunches available for purchase)

12:30 – 1:45                Plenary Panel: Women and Indigenous Communities: The Struggle for Human Rights (Great Hall)

Panelists: State Senator Mee Moua, Teresa Ortiz and Laura Waterman Wittstock  Moderator: Barbara Frey

2:00 – 3:15                  Panels and Workshops – Session II (3^rd floor)

3:30 – 4:00                  Closing Remarks and Performance by Maria Isa

Emcee, singer and songwriter Maria Isa is recognized for her dedication towards celebrating her cultural diversity through music and her political activism.  Influenced by the traditional Afro-Boricua ritmos of Bomba and Plena, along with Soul and Funk of Motown and Fania’s fusion of Salsa and Bugaloo, Isa plants an organic blend of call and response with lyrical "Spanglish" rhymes through the various drumbeats and snares of Hip-Hop, Reggae, Dancehall and Reggaeton.

*Application will be made for one CLE credit.

Throughout the day:

Display and information tables from over 65 co-sponsoring organizations

Arts and crafts vendors

Luella Greene’s “Voices and Images of Women” exhibit (3^rd floor)

Schedule of Film Screenings

All films will be shown in Room 323 with brief discussion following.

10:30               Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night  With fascinating observations on how call centers affect the Indian culture and economy, this film raises important questions about the complicated consequences of globalization.

11:15               Reel to Real: Balancing Acts  Explores the international movement for women’s rights and examines how women from very different cultures, often faced with extremes of inequality, are taking on the status quo.

11:50               The Right to Choose  Reports on the dissonant voices arguing for change in local Ethiopian cultures – and the calls for reproductive health care and primary education for women.

2:00                 Women Organize!  Portrays women organizers across the U.S. who are involved in the global struggles for racial, social and economic justice.