Hooks
Swingshift College students at IU Northwest
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To build on their successes of building learning communities and promoting social activism and collective notions of citizenship, Swingshift College is hosting a three-day conference in late March: “Building Learning Communities Engaged in Social Change: A Conversation for Activists & Educators.”
Ruth Needleman said organizers were very pleased to get feminist/activist writer and consultant bell hooks, a former professor of English at City College in New York, as the keynote speaker.
In addition to the keynote presentation, the conference will feature Canadian educators with expertise in popular education and anti-racist education in a global world. Additional labor educators and activists from around the Midwest, Brazil and South Africa will be attending and facilitating roundtable discussions. Pre-conference activity opportunities also exist, including taking a mini-tour of one of Inland Steel’s rolling mills. Registration deadline is March 18.
Cost for the conference, which starts at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 26, and runs until 5 p.m. Sunday, March 28, is $75 per person .There is a $25 per person fee for the pre-conference activities and steel mill tour, which take place March 26 from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
For more information and online registration form:
http://www.iun.edu/~swingnw/conference.shtml
Also see:
http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/021601/text/bell.html
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