“Trafficking Sex” symposium offered at Smith

Smith College is offering a two-day symposium called Trafficking Sex: Politics, Policy, Personhood beginning Thursday, April 18. The event, which opens with a keynote by Gloria Steinem and Ruchira Gupta, will cover the complex and controversial issues of human sex trafficking.

A full schedule is as follows:

Thursday, April 18, 2013
7 p.m. Welcome/Keynote, John M. Green Hall: A conversation with Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist and Ruchira Gupta, sex trafficking abolitionist, journalist, and activist.

Friday, April 19, 2013
11 a.m. Panel 1, Ford Hall 240: “Technology, Trafficking, and the Law” featuring Christina Bain, Director, Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; Sergeant Detective Donna M. Gavin, Boston Police Human Trafficking Unit, Massachusetts Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking; and Jennifer Musto, Faculty Fellow, Rice Humanities Research Center’s inaugural Rice Seminar, “Human Trafficking Past and Present: Crossing Borders, Crossing Disciplines“. Moderated by Alice Hearst, Government.

12:30 Break

1:45 p.m. Panel 2, Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall: “Sex Trafficking in the United States” featuring Vednita Carter, Founder and Executive Director, Breaking Free; Crystal DeBoise, Director of Social Services, Sex Workers Project, Urban Justice Center; and Kelli Dorsey, Executive Director, Different Avenues. Moderated by Carrie Baker, Study of Women and Gender.

3 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. Panel 3, Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall: “Global Trafficking and Human Rights” featuring Christie Edwards, Program Manager, Human Rights & Middle East and North Africa, Vital Voices Global Partnership; Julietta Hua, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Department, San Francisco State University; and Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University. Moderated by Greg White, Global Studies Center, Government.

5 p.m., Closing Remarks, Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall