Sarah Lawrence College to host annual Women’s History Conference

Sarah Lawrence College will host its 20th annual Women”™s History Conference from March 2-3. This year”™s conference is titled “Democracy on the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the Global Challenge to Democratic Freedoms.”

“During Women”™s History Month, it is not enough to reflect on the history of the women”™s movement,”™”™ said Mary Dillard, director of the college”™s graduate program in women”™s history, the oldest program of its kind in the nation. “We need to examine the current political, cultural, and social changes that jeopardize the progress of women around the globe.”

The keynote speaker will be LuzHilda Campos, a DACA recipient and director of United We Dream”™s Defense Team.

The conference will also feature breakout sessions on citizenship, social movements and suffrage; a two-hour creative writing workshop that combines writing and improvisation and movement exercises; a performance and discussion of “In Their Footsteps,” a one-act play based on the oral histories of women who served in the Vietnam War; and a roundtable discussion with activists from the Yonkers Sanctuary Movement.

For more information, visit the event’s website.