Women's Worlds conference - UGANDA 2002 

For the last Women's World conference in Tromso, Norway, I coordinated a group (Jeff Hearn, Michael Kaufman, Jorgen Lorentzen, and a few others) to organize a series of panels for men who support women's equality. These were well attended and included profeminist men from all over the world. This year, I have again been invited to coordinate the setting up of four panels that will focus on different areas of men's support for women's equality in different parts of the world. These four are:

Michael Kimmel         MichaelSKimmel@compuserve.com  

Call for papers-posters-exhibitions for Women's Worlds, 2002
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After the enormous success of the Tromso conference last summer (1999), I
thought list members might want to begin to think about the next Women's
Worlds conference to be held in Kampala, Uganda in 2002. 

Many years ago, Jeff Hearn and I organized a set of sessions for the WW
conference held in Dublin in 1987.  For the 1999 conference I worked with
Jeff, Jorgen Lorentzen in Norway, Michael Kaufman in Canada, and a few
other men to plan a track called "Gendering Men" for the Tromso conference.
 A significant number of profeminist men from around the world went to the
conference, and it was a fantastic netowrking opportunity for many people.

I've been asked by the conference organizers to again take the
responsibility for organizing a series of sessions for profeminist men at
the conference.  I've begun to think about the themes I would like to
organize sessions around, representing the places where I think profeminist
men around the world are currently engaged in activism that might bring
some of us to the conference.  I'll probably get to do four sessions, and
I've been thinking about organizing them around themes that woudl generate
the most interest, especially from men who will attend from the economic
south. 

I imagine the four areas will be something like; (1) men's violence against
women; (2) men's support for women's basic political and legal rights; (3)
fatherhood and men's support for feminist initiatives inthe family; (4)
health, health care delivery, and HIV. 

I send you below some information about the WW conference and the passing
of the mantle from Tromso to Kampala. 

It would be great to set our sights on the possibility of some of us
actually meeting in Uganda in 2002.  I recall that in 1987, I went to
Dublin having never met many of the men whom I knew would be there,
including Jeff Hearn, with whom I had corresponded in that antique medium
of letters.  It was a marvelously energizing moment when we encountered
each other and it really energized my work to know that there were men in
other countries who were working on similar issues. 

If you are interested in participating, please let me know.  As you can
imagine, all male participants are expected to pay their own way, so that
scholarships can be offered to women from the economic South. 

Michael Kimmel

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The conference program

>The First Announcement has been out since August (available on the
>Kvinnforsk/WW99 website - see address below), and the first deadline for
>proposals and submission of abstracts is Dec. 30 this year. The chosen
>motto of WW2002 is "Gendered Worlds: Gains and Challenges". The following
>sub-themes have been proposed:

>Gendered Identities/Constructions of Gender
>Gender and patriarchy: An African perspective
>Gender and leisure/sports
>Feminist leadership
>Linking theory and practice
>Gendering the economy
>FemGendered Poverty
>Gendering Health/ HIV/AIDS
>Women in Science and Technology
>Engendering Politics and Governance
>Feminist and Grassroots Activism World-wide
>Gendering the Workplace/Women and Work
>The Girl Child
>Women and environment/agriculture
>Women, Culture and Creativity
>Gender and the Law/violence against women
>Women and disabilities
>Portrayal of women in language and literature
>Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
>Women and refugees/migrants
>African Voices, African Visions

>However, according to the organizers "more suggestions are still solicited
>to ensure that the most pertinent gender issues of the new millenium are
>addressed."  So please don't hesitate to contact the conference organizers
>about any other ideas or proposals that you might have.


How to get more information
In order to get the whole 1st announcement, including registration forms,
please visit the Kvinnforsk/Women's Worlds 99 website
  www.skk.uit.no/WW99/WW02FAnn.html 

Or write directly to the following address:
The Co-ordinator
Women's Worlds 2002
Department of Women and Gender Studies
Makerere University
P.O Box 7062
Kampala
Uganda

Tel: 256-41-531484
Fax: 256-41-543539
E-mail:  gendermu@swiftuganda.com/ 
Web address:  http://www.wgs.or.ug       (NB! not yet operational)
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