The Challenge of Women's Movements in the Americas Today

Professor Jennifer Chacon will moderate a panel discussion on politics and culture during a one-day symposium on November 3, 2006. During the event, sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas (HIA), panelists and speakers will share with the UC Davis and regional community information about the challenges facing women in the Americas, as well as highlight the rich human resources involved in women's issues from Davis and the surrounding region. Event sponsors hope to stimulate interchange within and across traditional disciplinary barriers and catalyze the formulation of actions plans.

The symposium begins on Friday, November 3, 2006 at 9:00 a.m. in the Social Science & Humanities Building on campus and concludes after a 7:30 p.m. showing of the film, Botin de Guerra - Spoils of War, in 1322 Storer Hall.

HIA is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students at UC Davis that focuses on transnational processes in the American hemisphere. The project brings together people and promotes research to challenge the boundaries of disciplinary specialization and culture area studies. HIA explores the connections throughout the social, cultural, and economic landscape of the Western Hemisphere from an array of perspectives across multiple academic units, to redirect and redefine the study of Latin America from a broadly hemispheric viewpoint.

For more information on the event, contact HIA.