An all-day conference about gender, race and militarization will take place in the EMU today.
A panel discussion, “Contesting Militarization: Global Perspectives,” begins at 10 a.m. in the Fir Room and features Lakshmi Chaudhry, Lamia Karim and Gwyn Kirk. Chaudhry is a magazine contributor and co-editor of “Start Making Sense: Turning the Lesson of Election 2004 into Winning Progressive Politics.” Karim is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University. Kirk is co-author of “Greenham Women Everywhere: Dreams, Ideas and Actions from the Women’s Peace Movement.”
A series of roundtable discussions begins at 12:30 p.m. “Military Recruitment and Counter-Recruitment” takes places the Oak Room, “Militarization in the Classroom” is in the Walnut Room, “Echoes from Latin America” is in the Maple Room and “Moral Vacuums: The Soldier-Citizen and the State” takes place in the Fir Room.
At 2 p.m. a panel discussion titled “Homefronts and Homefires” takes place in the Fir Room and features Brown University professor Catherine Lutz, author Karen Houppert and University assistant professor of philosophy Bonnie Mann.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., was scheduled to deliver the keynote address but canceled Thursday because of congressional obligations.
The conference is sponsored by the University’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.
-Meghann M. Cuniff