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Join Us On April 14 For BBC Newshour Extra — Examining The Future Of Feminism

Join us Thursday, April 14, at 7:00 p.m. in the Nims Theatre on the University of New Orleans campus for a special live event — as BBC World Service Newshour host Owen Bennett-Jones and a panel of guests discuss what feminism means in the 21st century.

Newshour Extra is open to the public free of charge, but advance registration is encouraged. Please sign up here. The Nims Theatre is located in the UNO Performing Arts Center, near the center of campus (#28 on this campus map). Free parking is available at nearby lots on campus.

What is the future of Feminism in America? What is the direction of feminism today, when some would say things have never been better for American women? Consider: more women graduate from college than men, the gender pay gap is the narrowest it’s ever been, and the next president of the United States could well be a woman. So, is feminism really a political movement with clear goals, or has it become more a marketing label? How do feminists defend the charge that their cause is dominated by the voices of well-off liberal white women?

Confirmed panelists include:
 

  • Dr Trimiko Melancon, Associate Professor of English, and Co-Director of Women’s Studies Program, Loyola University
  • Dr Kim Vaz-Deville, Professor of Education and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Xavier University; author of Baby Dolls: Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition
  • Suzanne Terrell, former Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Dept of Commerce; fomer Louisiana Commissioner of Elections; attorney with the firm Hangartner, Rydberg, and Terrell
  • Molly Ruben Long, comedian and co-creator of 77 Cents: An Unapologetically Feminist Comedy Show

The discussion will be recorded for worldwide broadcast on Newshour Extra, the World Service weekly program that offers in-depth analysis and reportage on a story or trend of importance to the BBC’s audiences around the world. BBC Newshour airs live from London weekdays from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. on 89.9 WWNO.

Credit BBC
Owen Bennett-Jones.

Owen Bennett-Jones presents Newshour on BBC World Service. He was a BBC correspondent in Romania immediately after the country's 1989 revolution and has also been based in Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut.

Owen's coverage of the events in Pakistan has included interviews with Benazir Bhutto, Asif Zardari, A Q Khan, Nawaz Sharif and President Musharraf. Over a 15 year period he has traveled to some of the remotest and most inaccessible parts of the country and has reported on the country's corruption, the Taliban, the MQM, Benazir Bhutto's return and on the aftermath of her assassination. For his excellence as interviewer and reporter, Owen won the Sony Radio Gold Award in the News Journalist of the Year category in 2008. He was Commonwealth Journalist of the Year in 2009.

In 2012, Owen was a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in the U.S. In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the University of Southern California. He is the author of two books. In 2003 he wrote Pakistan: Eye of the Storm — a modern history of the country which went into a third edition in 2010. In 2013, he wrote the political thriller Target Britain. Owen was educated at the London School of Economics and Oxford University.

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