Dreams from Adversity: Championing a New Future for Women & Girls

pre-conference talk: Human Trafficking: What's the Real Story? 6:00 p.m., Thursday, April 14, Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center. CBS Travel Editor Peter Greenberg and anti-trafficking expert Michele Clark Executive Director Artworks for Freedom, discuss how the media tells the story of human trafficking and why it matters.

4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being: Fri. April 15th – Sat. April 16th UW-Madison, various locations:

Well-Being & Empowerment: Wisconsin & the World - Annual Wisconsin Women's and Gender Studies Conference

Fri. April 15th 9:45 am UW-Madison, Pyle Center (702 Langdon St.)  Plenary Session: Connecting Nuestra Historia: Stories of Strength and Struggle Across the Generations – with panelists: Maria Cotera, associate professor, Departments of Women’s Studies and American Culture at the University of Michigan; Andrea "Tess" Arenas, Emeritus Faculty Affiliate, Chican@ Latin@ Studies, UW-Madison; Linda Garcia Merchant, filmmaker, Doctoral Student, U.S. Latina/o and Chicana/o Literatures, Film and Digital Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Introduced by Lori DiPrete Brown, Director, 4W Initiative, UW-Madison

Fri. April 15th 1:00 pm UW-Madison, Lowell Hall Dining Rm. (610 Langdon St.) Announcing the new UNESCO Chair at UW-Madison on Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace! Janet Hyde, Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women will introduce the Co-Directors of the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace, Dr. Araceli Alonso, 4W Director for Gender, Clinical Practice and the Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dr. Teresa Langle de Paz, co-director of Women's Knowledge International, an initiative at the Institute DEMOS-PAZ, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.

Fri. April 15th 4:15 pm UW-Madison, Health Sciences Center, Rm. 1306 (750 Highland Dr.)   Keynote: Dreams from Adversity: Championing a New Future for Women and Girls – with Tererai Trent, introduced by Dean Soyeon Shim, Dean of the School of Human Ecology, and Lori DiPrete Brown, Director, 4W Initiative, UW-Madison

Sat. April 16th 8:30 am UW-Madison, Pyle Center (702 Langdon St.)  Plenary session: Social Transformations to End Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex (STREETS) – with panelists: Jean M. Geran, Araceli Alonso, Co-Directors, UW-STREETS Initiative; Amy Bintliff, UW-STREETS Project Assistant; Chris Stark, Artist and Survivor Leader

Sat. April 16th 11:15 am UW-Madison, Pyle Center (702 Langdon St.)  Keynote: Women, Well-being, Wisconsin, the World with Donna Shalala, introduced by Chancellor Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison

Plus numerous workshops, film screenings, art installations, and other events.  Both keynotes are open to the public, other events require advance conference registration.

For the full schedule and registration information, visit:

http://womenstudies.wisc.edu/WSC/annualconf/details.html