International Women’s Day Conference | Resisting the Policing of Women’s Bodies: Affirming Individual and Collective Rights in 21st-Century America

This day-long conference hosted at Brooklyn College in celebration of International Women’s Day features remarks by Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace.

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From Brooklyn College:

Speakers will include 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace and Liberian peace activist, social worker, and women’s rights advocate; Michele Bratcher Goodwin, professor of constitutional law and global health policy, and co-faculty director, O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law School; Carine Jocelyn, CEO of Diaspora Community Services, and founder, Haitian Women’s Collective; and Aleah Ranjitsingh, University of the West Indies.

The CUNY Haitian Studies Institute presents this event in collaboration with the Office the President; the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Caribbean Studies Program; the Women’s Center; the departments of Africana Studies, Sociology, and Modern Languages and Literatures; The Haitian American Lawyers Association; and the Institute for Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace, CUNY School of Law.

The event will be held at Brooklyn College in the Library and the Woody Tanger Auditorium.