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MEDIA CONTACT: Kristine M. McGrath
561/297-1168 or kmcgrath@fau.edu
FAU Women’s Studies Center Hosts Symposium
On Multi-Cultural Feminist Issues
Boca Raton, FL (March 19, 2003) – Florida Atlantic University’s Women’s Studies Center will host its 5th Annual Women’s Studies Graduate Symposium on Friday, March 21 on the Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. Panelists will discuss a range of topics, including violence against women and families, women and technology, women and aging, women and power and women and economics. This year’s symposium is themed “Feminism, Health and the Environment”.
The symposium will showcase the diversity and vitality of feminist scholarship at Florida Atlantic University. Graduate students will have the opportunity to present their scholarly work on global and multi-cultural feminist issues. In addition, students and faculty will engage in debate.
The FAU Women’s Studies Center will host a number of distinguished speakers at this year’s symposium. The keynote speaker is Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She will address the issues of women, men, livelihoods and the politics of AIDS in Africa.
Several FAU graduate students will also present their research findings during the symposium, including Christa Hodapp, Shireen Lalla, Amber Paaso and Trinh Thompson.The full day symposium will run from 8:15 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. at the
Dorothy F. Schmidt Performing Arts Center, Room 101. For more information on the event, call the Women’s Studies Center at 561/297-3865.
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