Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning

First Lady Obama Invited

The Women of the White House...

Uncrowned Queens - and Kings!

2008 participants’ stories live on...

2010 Registration Information

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You won’t want to miss the 2010 Seneca Falls Dialogues.  The theme “Crossing Feminist Borders” was chosen by the University Alliance, AAUW, and organizers of the Dialogues to commemorate the 162nd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls - the document that challenged an unjust social order, and changed the world.

Keynote speaker is Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College, and President of the National Women's Studies Association.  Powerful presentations by College Partner panels and their ensuing dialogues are sure to inspire.  Panel topics

include: Manifestos, Declarations and Statements: New Feminist Theorists; Women in Academe; Feminist Identities: Thinking Across Person, Place, and Medium; Branching Out: Some Critical Perspectives on the Nineteenth-Century Women's Rights Movement; Transnational Feminist Literature; Revisioning First Wave Diversity; Women and Mass Media: Understanding Present-day Constructions of Femininity in Popular Culture; Women Making Change; and Stereotypes, Images and Misconceptions of Muslim Women.

AREA ACCOMMODATIONS

DIRECTIONS

OCTOBER 8, 9, 10  PRELIMINARY ITINERARY

SENECA FALLS TOURISM INFORMATION

NATIONAL WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME

WOMEN’S RIGHTS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

Follow these links for Registration Information.  Register early to ensure your participation. Hotel accommodations are available at nearby facilities, but must be booked independently.  Many area hotels have offered discounted rates for the event - simply mention your registration for the Seneca Falls Dialogues.  Event registration is available online and requires a credit card, or you can mail in your registration.   

President Barack Obama, still campaigning in October of 2008, responded to our inquiry of all candidates:  What would you do to promote CEDAW, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the advancement of women?”

Read President Obama’s letter, pledging his support for the advancement of women...

“If not us,  ...who?

If not now,  ...when?”

How Dialogues Begin: World Cafe

The World Cafe is a powerful form...