By Barbara LeSavoy, PhD
Director, Women and Gender Studies

College and University Partners:

Call for Dialogues

The 4th Biennial
Seneca Falls Dialogues:
October 17–19, 2014

EcoFeminism: Cultivating Place and Identity
Keynote Speaker: Tanya Fields
Founder of BLK Project and Eco-Warrior, and recipient of Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning (WILL)

We invite students, activists, and teachers to participate in a weekend of dialogue on the following themes:

• Gender and the Environment
• Activism
• Food and Nourishment
• Politics of Space
• Sustainability
• Identities and Bodies

Proposals should include session title, 2–3 sentence summary of session focus/relevance to one or more of the conference themes, and 250–500 word description of the session’s focus and organization. Dialogue participants will be invited to submit essay versions of their dialogues for inclusion in the inaugural online Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal.

Proposal deadline: March 28, 2014. Send proposals and inquiries to sbai@rochester.edu.

The Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues is a collaborative effort to reinvigorate Seneca Falls as a site of feminist activism and intellectual exchange.

The SFD is sponsored by women and gender studies affiliates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Monroe Community College, The College at Brockport, St. John Fisher College, University of Buffalo, SUNY Geneseo, University of Rochester, Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women, and The Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning.

Visit http://www.senecafallsdialogues.com for information about the 2008, 10 and 12 Seneca Falls Dialogues.
Information forthcoming on Seneca Falls Dialogues 2014