Writing for Social Change

Why We Write: The Politics and History of Writing for Social Change
Conference
March 28-29, 2003
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

As a result of the overwhelming success of last year's interdisciplinary
conference on the History of Activism, History as Activism
at Columbia University, the graduate students in the history department are
currently organizing an interdisciplinary conference on
the historical, theoretical, and political dimensions of writing. The
objective of the conference is to provide a forum for writers,
activists, novelists, screenwriters, poets, journalists, graduate students,
and faculty--from all fields and across all time periods and geographic
locations--to discuss "why they write."

Opening Keynote Address by Dorothy Allison
author of Bastard Out of Carolina, Trash, and Cavedweller
on Friday, March 28th at 9:30 A.M.

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON:
€ Contemporary Feminist Print Culture
€ Public Intellectuals and Protest
€ HIV/AIDS Crisis
€ Publishing Radical History
€ Gender and Sexuality
€ Documenting Prisons
€ War and Resistance
€ Film and Drama
€ Slavery and Print Culture

Sponsored by the Columbia University Department of History:
columbiahistory@hotmail.com

Co-sponsored by La Maison Française, Department of English, Barnard
College Women¹s Studies Department, the Center for Ethnic and Race Studies,
the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Graduate Student Advisory
Council and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies.

Maison Française
Buell Hall, East Gallery
March 28­29, 2003

Enter campus at Broadway and West 116th Street

FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.columbia.edu/cu/history

Josh Stearns
Project Assistant, ISAS
Campus Compact
Brown University - Box 1975
Providence, RI 02912
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Phone: (401) 867-3929  Fax: (401) 867-3925
Email: jstearns@compact.org
www.compact.org - www.actionforchange.org