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Visiting Scholars Spring 2009
The Stone Center will host human rights activists Grace Chang and Margo Okazawa-Rey for a two-day residency
March 19, 2009 07:00 PM
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March 20, 2009 05:00 PM
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The Stone Center will host human rights activists Grace Chang and Margo Okazawa-Rey for a two day residency on March 19 and 20. On March 19, Chang and Okazawa-Rey will lead a roundtable discussion on trafficking, migration, labor, and the proliferation of militarism. The residency will also include class visits. Chang and Okazawa-Rey will be available for conversations across campus.
For more information, please contact the Stone Center at 962-9001 or email Ursula Littlejohn at ulittlej@email.unc.edu.
Grace Chang
Chang, associate professor in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, is a writer and activist in struggles for immigrant, labor and welfare rights of migrant women and women of color in the United States. She is the author of
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy (South End Press, 2000). Her most recent book, Trafficking by Any Other Name: Transnational Feminist, Immigrant and Sex Worker Rights Responses, will be published in 2010 by New Press.Margo Okazawa-Rey
Margo Okazawa-Rey is a professor in the School of Human and Organization Development at the Fielding Graduate University and Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University.
Okazawa-Rey is also the co-editor of Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, 4th Ed (McGraw-Hill, 2007). She is a co-founder of the East Asia-U.S.-Puerto Rico Women’s Network Against Militarism (now International Women’s Network Against Militarism), and is active in PeaceWomen Across the Globe. Her current work examines the connections between militarism, economic globalization, religious fundamentalisms and impacts on women.
For more information, please contact:
Ursula Littlejohn
ulittlej@email.unc.edu
962-0395