WHICH WAY FOR WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT?
DEBATING CONCEPTS, STRATEGIES, AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Conference Program.
Thursday, October 15
- 5:30-6:30 pm
Registration
- 6:30-7:00 pm
Welcoming Remarks
- 7:00-8:00 pm
Keynote Address, A History of Women and
Development,
Irene Tinker, Department of City and
Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
- 8:00-10:00 pm Reception
Friday, October 16
- 9:00-9:30 am
Registration/Coffee/Bagels - 9:30-9:45 am
Opening Remarks
- 9:45-11:45 am
Panel #1: Re-Inventing Aid: International Agencies
and the "Woman Question" in Development
MODERATOR: Linda Basch, Executive Director, National Council for Research on Women.
PRESENTERS:
Carmen Medeiros, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology,
The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.
Caroline Moser, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Achola Pala Okeyo, Senior Advisor, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), New York.
Brigette Young, Department of Political Science, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany.
DISCUSSANT: Jane Parpart, Department of History and International Development Studies, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch
- 1:15-3:15 pm
Panel #2: Locating Women/Locating Work: Emerging Capitalisms and the Gendered/Racial
Division of Labor
MODERATOR: Hester Eisenstein, Ph.D.Program in
Sociology, The Graduate School and University
Center and Department of Sociology, Queens
College, City University of New York; Director,
Women's Studies Program, Queens College.
PRESENTERS:
Lourdes Beneria, Department of Labor Economics, Cornell University.
Jennifer Leigh Disney, Ph.D. Program in
Political Science and Women's Studies Certificate Program,
The Graduate
School and University Center of the City University of New York
Irene Gendzier, Department of Political Science,
Boston University.
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, United
Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), New York.
DISCUSSANT: Cynthia Enloe, Department of
Government and International Relations, Clark University, Massachusetts.
- 3:30-5:30 pm
Panel #3: Techno-Science Questions in Development:
Intersections of Gender, Science , Media and the
Environment
MODERATOR: Ella Shohat, Film Studies
Certificate Program,
The Graduate School and
University Center of the City University of New
York.
PRESENTERS:
Kimberly Flynn, New York University School of the Arts.
Joan Mencher, Ph.D Program in Anthropology,
The
Graduate School and University Center and Department of
Anthropology, Lehman College, City University of New York.
Meera Nanda, Department of Science and
Technology Studies, Renssealer Polytechnic Institute of
New York
Vandana Shiva, Director, Research Foundation for
Science, Technology and Natural Resource
Policy, India.
DISCUSSANT: Patricia Clough, Ph.D.
Program in Sociology, The Graduate School and
University Center and Department of Sociology,
Queens College, City University of New York.
- 5:45-7:15 pm
Dinner Break
- 7:30-8:30 pm
A Dialogue with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
Saturday, October 17
- 9:00-9:30 am
Registration/Coffee/Bagels
- 9:30-9:45 am
Opening Remarks
- 9:45-11:45 am
Panel #4: More Worldly Feminisms: Feminist Theory
and the Politics of Location
MODERATOR: Barbara Bowen, Ph.D. Program in
English, The Graduate School and University Center and Department of
English, Queens College, City University of New York.
PRESENTERS:
Nahla Abdo, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottowa.
Marianne Marchand, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Amsterdam.
Noel Sturgeon, Department of Women's
Studies, University of Washington, Pullman.
Dessima Williams, Department of Sociology,
Brandeis University.
DISCUSSANT: Marnia Lazreg, The Graduate School and University Center and Hunter College, The City University of New York.
- 12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch
- 1:15-3:15 pm
Panel #5: Stories From the Field: Theorizing
Action/Acting on Theory
MODERATOR: Mitu Hirshman, Ph.D Program in
Sociology,
The Graduate School and University Center of the City
University of New York.
PRESENTERS:
Hamideh Sedghi, Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, Collumbia University.
Patience Elabor-Idemudia, Department of
Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Shirin Rai, Department of Politics &
International Studies, The University of Warwick, England.
Sinith Sittirak, Women and Environment Research
Network, Thailand.
DISCUSSANT: Peggy Antrobus, Center for
Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Barbados.
- 3:30-5:30 pm
Panel #6: Can the Subaltern Desire?
MODERATOR: Yvonne Lasalle, Department of
Anthropology, Knox College, Illinois.
PRESENTERS:
Tani Barlow, Department of Women's
Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
Kriemild Saunders, Ph.D. Program in
Sociology, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University
of New York.
Rogaia Mustafa Abu Sharaf, Pembroke Center, Brown
University.
Ara Wilson, Department of Anthropology, Ohio State
University.
DISCUSSANT: TBA
- 5:45-6:00 pm
Closing Remarks
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