Pulitzer Prize Winner Sheryl WuDunn to Deliver Keynote Address for Law School's Third Annual Conference on Feminist Legal Theory, March 5
February 1, 2010
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Sheryl WuDunn will keynote the third annual feminist legal theory conference at the University of Baltimore School of Law on Friday, March 5. The conference, which will take place in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center, 1415 Maryland Ave., will bring together law students, legal academics, practitioners and activists to explore the effects of applied feminism on marginalized communities. WuDunn's remarks, scheduled to be delivered at 12:30 p.m., will anchor the day's discussion. The conference and WuDunn's presentation are free, although space is limited and registration is required. Attendance and registration details are listed below.
WuDunn and husband Nicholas D. Kristof were the first married couple ever to win a Pulitzer when they received the award for international reporting in 1990. The couple won for their work for The New York Times on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in China and its subsequent suppression by military force. WuDunn was also the first Asian-American woman to win a Pulitzer.
WuDunn and Kristof collaborated on the best-selling Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Half the Sky showcases stories of women around the world are successfully fighting poverty and extremism against tremendous odds, both in their own lives and on a larger scale in their communities. The book is now in its 17th hardcover edition since its initial publication last September.
According to Margaret Johnson, this year's conference chair and a co-director of the School of Law's Center on Applied Feminism, scholars, practitioners and activists from across the United States and Canada will present papers discussing such important and varied topics as prisoner reentry, the Obama presidency, the HIV epidemic, women in post-conflict societies, trafficked women, reproductive rights and masculinity studies. WuDunn will speak about how women worldwide make the most of economic and other opportunities to change their lives and those of others in their communities for the better, despite the struggle for equality.
In addition to her work as a journalist and author, WuDunn has served as an executive in the newspaper and finance industries. She graduated from Cornell University and holds graduate degrees from Harvard Business School and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
A workshop on "Neofeminism" will be held the evening of Thursday, March 4. Presenters will include Aya Gruber, professor at the University of Iowa College of Law; Cyra Choudhury, assistant professor at Florida International University College of Law; and Laura T. Kessler, professor at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law, who is visiting at UB Law this spring. The workshop is open to all conference attendees, but separate pre-registration is required.
A full schedule for the conference is available here.
Registration for the 2010 Feminist Legal Theory Conference is available online here. Separate registrations are available for the full-day conference, the pre-conference workshop and the lunchtime keynote event. There is no charge to attend the conference or its associated events.
For more information, contact the Office of External Relations at 410.837.5648 or send an e-mail to lawevents@ubalt.edu.
The University of Baltimore is a member of the University System of Maryland and comprises the School of Law, the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts and the Merrick School of Business.