Friday, April 26, 2013 l 9 a.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall
USF Social Justice Activism Conference, “Transforming Conflicts and Societies”
This two-day conference offers students a number of workshops and presentations focusing on multiple ways to become more engaged social justice activists working to transform local and international conflicts. The conference is open to all USF under/graduate students as well as student alumni from USF-affiliated programs run in partnership with Abraham’s Vision and the Center for Transformative Education.
In the first half of this workshop, “Bodies, Prison, Intersectionality, and Transformation,” we will be joined by USF Performing Arts Faculty Amie Espen-Dowling, Ivan Corado-Vega, and Reggie Daniels. These three individuals are all involved in the Well Contested Sites project, which uses a metaphorical, movement-based film to explore the effect of incarceration on individuals and suggests that the imagination can thrive even while the body is behind bars. In the second part of the workshop Corado-Vega and Daniels will join long-time, world renowned social justice activist Clarence B. Jones on a panel moderated by USF Vice-Provost Mary Wardell-Ghirarduzzi. Their discussion will focus on the intersection of social justice activism in terms of the seemingly distinct tracks of the Environment, Gender and Sexual Identities, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, and International Conflict.
This Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Media Studies, Politics, Theology and Religious Studies, International Studies (BAIS), Master’s in International Studies program (MAIS), and Programs in Middle East Studies, and Peace and Justice Studies.
