screening and discussion of "Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai".

[Sumaya A,]

Hi everyone!

I had serious orders to circulate this! An event from the WGSI undergrad student union (WGSSU). Marieme Lo is speaking so it will probably be great! 

-Sumaya

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Zenee Maceda <zenee....@utoronto.ca>
Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Subject: SUMAYAAAAA
To: Sumaya A <sumaya...@utoronto.ca>

I EXPECT YOU TO BE AT THIS EVENT WITH ALL YOUR T.A. FRIENDS lolol

no but seriously

PLS CIRCULATE!!!

Join the Women and Gender Studies Student Union (WGSSU) for a  screening and discussion of "Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari  Maathai".

When: Monday, November 21 @ 7PM

Where: New College, Wilson Hall #1016 (40 Willcocks St.)

Free food! Accessible! All are welcome!

TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI

http://takingrootfilm.com/about.htm

"Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize  Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew  into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect  human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this  charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration"

Trailer: http://takingrootfilm.com/trailer.htm

Guest Speaker: Marieme S. Lo Ph.D.

http://www.wgsi.utoronto.ca/person/marieme-lo

Marieme Lo’s research spans:

-The political economy of gender and development, development, the  human and political ecology of environmental change and disaster in  Africa;

-Social learning, poverty, intersectional vulnerabilities and  livelihood systems;

-Informal economies (spatial and translocal re-configurations),  material culture, female entrepreneurship, and trade;

-Intersectionality in migration; conjugality, globalization,  transnationalism, diasporic spaces and  social networks, and social  ethics;

-African Studies

These inquiries are located in critical, feminist, epistemic, and  discursive frameworks and debates, the quest for alternative  epistemologies and paradigms, and the commitment to social change.

FB Event link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220037431397884&context=create