QUEENS COLLEGE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENTS
THE VIRGINIA FRESE PALMER CONFERENCE
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH 2006
WOMEN AND THE IRAQ WAR
Mon. March 20, 2006
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
4th Floor, Student Union, Queens College
9:00 a.m. - 12 noon: Panel on Women and the Iraq War
Aseel Sawalha: Professor of Anthropology, Pace University
Houzan Mahmoud: London Representative of OWFI (Organization
for Women's Freedom in Iraq)
Yifat Susskind: Associate Director of MADRE, International
Women's Human Rights Organization
Janis Karpinski: First Woman General to Lead U.S. Troops in a Combat Zone and Commanding General at Abu Ghraib Prison
Amy Goodman: Host and executive producer of Democracy Now!
TV and Radio News Program
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.: Performance of "Girl Blog from Iraq: Baghdad Burning," a play based on the blog of Riverbend, a woman writing from Iraq. Adapted by Kimberly Gefgen and Loren Noveck.
1:30-3:00: Lunch
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, History, Political Science, Sociology, and English; the PSC Women's Committee, CUNY; the Women's Center; and the Political Science Club