Go On! Trafficking in Sex & Labor

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest) IntLawGrrls will be well represented at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review symposium to be held November 13 and 14 at the Philadelphia-based law school.
"Trafficking in Sex and Labor: Domestic and International Responses" is the title of the conference, which features a keynote address by Catharine MacKinnon, Michigan Law Professor and Special Gender Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, about whom we've posted. Here're the panels:
Labor Trafficking:

IntLawGrrl Dina Francesca Haynes, New England School of Law; James Gray Pope, Rutgers-Newark; Dr. Joel Quirk, University of Hull, England; Ms. founder Gloria Steinem; and Martina Vandenberg, Jenner & Block. Penn's Tobias Barrington Wolff will moderate.

Trafficking and Immigration Policy:

Jennifer Chacón, University of California, Irvine; Jennifer "J.J." Rosenbaum, Southern Poverty Law Center; and Jayashri Srikantiah, Stanford. Penn's Sarah Paoletti will moderate.

International Responses to Trafficking:

IntLawGrrls Diane Marie Amann (yours truly), University of California, Davis, and Janie Chuang, American University, as well as Norma Ramos, Coalition Against Trafficking of Women. Penn's William Burke-White will moderate.

Sex Trafficking:

Dr. Denise Brennan, Georgetown; Michelle Madden Dempsey, Villanova; Dr. Melissa Farley, of the San Francisco nonprofit Prostitution Research and Education; Illinois attorney Kaethe Morris Hoffer; Ann Jordan, American University; and author/activist Christine Stark. Pamela Shifman, UNICEF, will moderate.

Details and registration here. (photo credit)

On November 1

On this day in ...
... 2009 (today), is marked the 1st of 30 "days and nights of literary abandon"; that is, the 1st day of Novel Writing Month (aka, er, NaNoWriMo). More than a hundred thousand people have taken part, in various languages, in previous years. The idea of this self-avowed "fun, seat-of-your-pants" exercise is to write 50,000 words -- less for younger writers -- between today and midnight November 30:

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.

Sound like fun? Registration and details here for adults; here for youths.
Write On!

(Prior November 1 posts are here and here.)