NWSOFA SWW Coalition Partner Event – Oakton Women’s and Gender Studies Program 2017 Conference– “In Challenging Times: Women, Activism and Leadership”

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program Steering Committee of Oakton Community College, located in Des Plaines, Illinois in the near-northwest suburbs of Chicago, will be hosting its March 24, 2017 conference.  This one-day conference will present scholarly and creative work by feminist activists, writers, scientists, visual and performing artists and scholars that examines the challenges confronting feminism and the Women’s and Gender Studies discipline in the current political and cultural climate. 
 
The conference keynote will be noted activist, writer and scholar Barbara Ransby.  Ransby is distinguished professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she directs the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative.  She also serves as current president of the National Women’s Studies Association.

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