Build Feminist Futures Symposium 2025 (APPROVED INT 100)

Friday, March 14, 2025
8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

This two-day Symposium will feature Keynote Speaker Jocelyn Olcott, "The World Will Not Be the Same" on Thursday, March 13 at 4pm with dinner to follow.

Friday speakers include:

Dr. Jallicia Jolly “Black Feminist Futures: Care, Community and Transnational Reproductive Justice” (9:00am, KC 2266)

Carmen Diana Deere “1975 and the Emergence of WID and GAD” (9:00am, KC 2270)

Heather Switzer “Girls in Development: Discovering Girls, Producing Girl Effects” (10:00am, KC 2270)

Durba Mitra “Third World Feminism and the Paradoxes of the UN Year and Decade for Women” (11:00am, KC 2270)

Panel Discussion “The UN Decade for Women and its Justice Cascade” (11:00am, KC 2266)

Lunch Friday with Speakers - 12:00 p.m.

Anna Gollub “Becoming UN Women” (12:00pm, Mary Idema Pew Library Multipurpose Room)

Kavita Ramdas "Feminism Remains Foreign: Ideals versus Practice for Gender Justice" (1:15pm, Mary Idema Pew Library Multipurpose Room)

For detailed information on speakers and times and to RSVP for dinner/lunch, please visit gvsu.edu/wgs/symposium

Location Information

Kickhof Center

Download parking map for the Allendale Campus

Contact Information

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

616-331-8229

www.gvsu.edu/wgs

Hosting Department, Organization, or Business

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

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This event was added to the calendar by Ginele Johnson (johnsgin@gvsu.edu) on Monday, February 24, 2025 and was last updated on Monday, March 10, 2025 at 4:15 p.m.

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