UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Box 957222
Public Affairs 1500
(formerly Public Policy)
Los Angeles, CA
90095-7222
310-825-0590 (T)
310-825-0456 (F)
csw@women.ucla.edu
DIRECTOR
Kathleen McHugh
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Transnational Feminism in History, 1920-1975
A Conference of International Scholars Examining the Prehistory of Today's Vibrant Global Feminist Activism, from World War I to the Decade of Women, in Asia, South and North America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe
May 26 & 27, 2006
9 am to 5 pm
UCLA Law School
For information, please contact Ellen Dubois, Professor of History, UCLA |
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| Friday, May 26 |
Saturday, May 27 |
| 9 am |
WELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS |
9:30 to 11:45 am |
SESSION 1
Forgotten Transnationalism:
The Pan Pacific Women’s Association |
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Western Outreach and Women's Networks In Asia: Japanese Women and Pan-Pacific Women's Conferences During The Interwar Years
Rumi Yasutake, Konan University |
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American Women, International Feminism, and Empire: The Case of Viola Smith In Shanghai
Alexandra Epstein, UC San Diego |
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From Nation of Islam to Goodwill Tourist: African American Women at The Pan-Pacific Women's Association, 1937 and 1955
Fiona Paisley, Griffiths University, Australia |
| 1 to 2:45 pm |
SESSION 2
Rethinking European Globalism Between the Wars |
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Social Feminism Between the Wars as an International Phenomenon
Berteke Waaldijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
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Understanding the Role of Peasant Women in International Suffrage Spectacle
Mineke Bosch, Maastricht University, The Netherlands |
| 3 to 4:45 pm |
SESSION 3
Revisioning Global Feminism from East to West |
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The Historic Roots of Islamic Feminism
Margot Badran, Georgetown University |
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Anti-Colonialism and the Occult Transnational in Margaret Cousins's Irish and Indian World
Catherine Candy, University of New Orleans
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| 9:30 to 12 noon |
SESSION 4
Global Feminism to the South |
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Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Luisa Moreno
Vicki Ruiz, UC Irvine |
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League of Hispanic and Hispanic American Women of The 1922 Pan American Women’s Congress
Gabriela Cano, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico |
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Transnational Feminism and International Law: Pan American Conferences and The League of Nations, 1928-1938
Diane Hill, UC Berkeley |
| 1 to 2:45 pm |
SESSION 5
African and African American Women in International Feminist Networks |
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Representing Gender, Nation, 'Race': African Women in International Networks with Special Consideration of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria
Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Columbia College of Chicago |
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African American Women’s Global Feminist Journeys
Lisa Materson, UC Davis |
| 3 to 4:45 pm |
SESSION 6
The Founding of the United Nations and the Struggle for a Women’s Rights Venue |
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Women's Rights at the United Nations:
The Early Years
Felice Gaer, Blaustein Institute |
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The Strange Case of Minerva Bernardino: Pan American and United Nations Women's Rights Activist
Robin Derby and Ellen Dubois, UCLA |
| 4:45 To 5:15 pm |
CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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