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...Degrees in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Harvard BGLTSA; Women’s Studies in Religion at the Divinity School; Cornerstone; and the Women’s Center. The four panelists took turns speaking about their roots and current involvement in feminism. According to 65-year-old speaker and author Feldt, it is not enough to know what is wrong—feminists need to actively battle injustice. “Whatever you do, whatever choice you make, now is the time for women to be involved,” Feldt said. Feminism is about...
...ongoing 2008 Educational/Political Colloquium Series, “Afro-Asian Encounters”—co-hosted by the Asian American Association (AAA) and the Black Students Association (BSA)—explored the relationship between African and Asian Americans in the United States. Presiding as keynote speaker, Tang, who offered a dual perspective as a scholar of both Afro-Am Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago and Asian-American Studies at Harvard, said that Asian and African Americans have a common thread of struggle in American history. Tang said that the civil rights movement of the 1960s...
Nancy Pelosi The first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives and a member of Congress since...
...Baghdad,” which was directed by a team of filmmakers led by Sinan Antoon, a professor at The Gallatin School of New York University who received his doctorate is Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard in 2006. Antoon will also be the festival’s keynote speaker, introducing each film before screenings.“About Baghdad” was filmed in Baghdad in 2003, immediately after the initial wave of major combat operations had ended. The film collects many personal accounts of life in Iraq, highlighting the effects of past and present intervention by the United...
...fact, diplomatically speaking, things don't look so prosperous beneath the surface. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi killed Bush's Colombia Free Trade deal on Capitol Hill Monday, she added to a growing list of dead and dying diplomatic initiatives the Administration had hoped would revivify his presidency in its fading months. Talks on Israeli-Palestinian peace, North Korean nuclear weapons and missile defense cooperation with Russia are all foundering, threatening chances for a White House signing ceremony that could soften a legacy dominated by the hard facts of the war in Iraq...