Past Events

SPRING 2007 SEMINAR SERIES
and co-sponsored events

January 29, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Christina Jalasi, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, UIUC: "The Gender Dynamics of Charcoal Production in Relationship with Deforestation of the Miombo Woodlands: A Case of Zambia," Room 101, International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street.

January 31, Wednesday, 7:30 pm, CAS Initiative on Immigration and ILIR: Eliseo Medina, Vice President, Service Employees International Union, Washington, DC: “The New Immigrant Work Force: Unions, Community and the American Dream,” Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor, 919 West Illinois Street.

February 5, Monday: CAS Initiative on Mega-Disasters: “Solidarities Across Borders: Gender, Race, and Class in Post-Disaster Reconstruction,” Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor, 919 West Illinois Street: Morning Session: 9:30-12: “Tsunami and Hurricanes Andrew and Mitch Reconstruction”: Fatima Burnad (Society for Rural Education and Development, India), Juanita Mainster (Centro Campesino – Farmworker Center, Inc., US), Yamilet Mejia (Women’s Network Against Violence, Nicaragua); Afternoon Session: 1:30 –3:00 pm: “Katrina Reconstruction”: Margaret Prescod (Crossroad’s Women’s Center, US), Curtis Mohammad (Community Labor United and the People’s Hurricane Fund, US), Brenda Robineaux (Principal Chief of the Houma Nation, US), Beverly Wright (Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Xavier University of Louisiana, US); Roundtable Discussion: 3:00 – 4:00 pm.

February 6, Tuesday, 4 p.m., CAS Initiative on Immigration: Jim Barrett, Professor, History, UIUC, “Global, Local, and Personal: Understanding the History of Immigration to the United States in the Twentieth Century,” Comments by Augusto Espiritu, Associate Professor, History, UIUC, Levis Faculty Center, 919 WestIllinois Street.

February 12, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP and CDMS Immigration Brown Bag Series: Sylvia Puente, University of Notre Dame: "Perspectives on Illinois Immigrant Integration Policies," Studio Room 1009, Doris Kelley Christopher Hall, 904 W. Nevada Street.

February 19, Monday, 12 noon, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Seminar and WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Gale Summerfield, Director, WGGP, and Associate Professor, Human and Community Development, UIUC: "Social Entrepreneurship, Gender, and Globalization," Room 101 International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street.

February 26, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Huixia Liu, Freeman Fellow, Northwest University, Xi'an China, “Healthcare Reforms in China,” Room 101, International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street.

March 5, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP and CDMS Immigration Brown Bag Series: Jorge Chapa, Director, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, UIUC:
" Our Dysfunctional Immigration System at a Breaking Point," Room 210, Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street.

April 2, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP and CDMS Immigration Brown Bag Series: Geoffrey Hewings, Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Economics, UIUC: "Economic Advances of Immigration," Room 210, Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street.

April 11, Wednesday, 1:30 pm, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Rose Korang-Okrah, School of Social Work, UIUC, "Risk and Resilience: Perspectives of Ghanaian Widows on Loss of Property Rights," Studio Room 1009, Doris Kelley Christopher Hall, 904 W. Nevada Street.

April 17, Tuesday, 12 noon, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Russell Horwitz, Post Doc2006-07 Goodman Fellow, School of Medicine, UIUC, “Examining CommunityAttitudes towards Consensual and Non-Consensual Sex in Haiti,”Room 403, Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street.

April 23, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Paola León Arizmendi, 2005-06 Goodman Fellow, School of Social Work and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UIUC, Understanding Violence Against Women Within Cultural Context: The Community of Chari in Southern Peru, Room 101 International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street.

WGGP and AEL Lecture:

Wu Qing. Professor, Politician and Activist Beijing, China

"A Global Perspective on Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship"

Professor Wu Qing's dedication to social activism has won her world acclaim and in 2001 the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, considered the "Asian Nobel Prize." She is the first woman to receive this honor and has also been selected to join the Schwab Foundation network of exemplary social entrepreneurs. Join Professor Wu Qing in discussing how socially responsible entrepreneurship can dramatically impact societies and economies around the world.

April 19, Thursday 4:00 pm Room 2 Education Building

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Nancy Hopkins Professor of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Women in Science at MIT: A Generation of Change (1971-2007)"

The talk will describe how, in 1995, tenured women faculty in the School of Science at MIT worked together and with the Dean of Science to analyze the status of women faculty relative to that of male colleagues; how a report of their findings found its way to the front page of the NYTimes; and how, with the support of the President of MIT, the institution established administrative structures and made changes in processes and procedures to ensure equity forwomen faculty and to better support the careers of women faculty.

April 26, Thursday 12:00 NoonBeckman Auditorium

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost

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The Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

"Qualititative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence"
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 2-5, 2007

sponsored by the Institute of Communications Research, WGGP and others.

For further information, please see: http://www.QI2007.org

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FALL 2006

A Brown Bag Presentation on
The Mid-Term Elections:
Global and Local Implications
Thursday, November 9, 2006
12-1 Doris Kelley Christopher Hall Studio, Room 1009

Panelists:

Jorge Chapa, Director, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
Arlene Torres, Director, Latina/Latino Studies Program
Brian Gaines, Political Science and the Institute of Government & Public Affairs
Noreen Sugrue, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program

The four panelists will present a short analysis and lead discussion among themselves and attendees about the global and local implications of the 2006 mid-term elections.

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Breaking Down the Wall of War:
Iraqi Women’s Radio
Panel Discussion
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Moderator - Valerie Hoffman - Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Panel Members:
Bushra Jamil, Radio Almahaba (Iraq)
Marilyn Booth - Director, South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Gale Summerfield - Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives

Radio Almahaba in Iraq is a female-run radio station that struggles to give voice to Middle Eastern women affected by the Iraqi War. The panel hopes to bring a deeper understanding of the dynamics and impact of basic radio communication in Iraq and surrounding countries. These issues not only affect women whose lives have been changed by the war, but also have far reaching effects on their children, friends, family, the workplace and neighboring communities. A discussion with the audience will follow.

Free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Lynn Holley at the College of Communications at 244-0709 or online at http://www.comm.uiuc.edu.

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Nancy J. Hafkin

Why the World Isn’t Flat Enough:
Bringing more women contributors and beneficiaries into the information society

Introduction by Linda Katehi, Provost

Wednesday, October 18, 2006,

3:00 p.m.,
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Auditorium
1205 W. Clark, Urbana
(The NCSA Building is a new building located on
the west corner of Clark and Goodwin.)

Cosponsored by Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, the Office of the Provost, Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership, Center for African Studies, and Human and Community Development.

The lecture will address the following:

Why do women need information and communication technologies (ICTs)?
What are the possibilities for women- especially poor women in developing countries- in an information society?
Possibilities in entrepreneurship and SMEs.
Situation of women in science and technology education globally.

Dr. Nancy J. Hafkin has been working to promote the development of information and communications in Africa over the course of thirty years. She spearheaded the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) from 1987 until 1997. She then served as Team Leader for Promoting Information Technology for Development, of ECA from 1997 until 2000, where she was Coordinator of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), the African governments' mandate to use ICTs to accelerate socio-economic development in Africa. Hafkin helped to establish the Partnership for Information and Communication Technologies in Africa (PICTA), a coordinating body of donor and executing agency partners in support of the AISI. She initiated a number of early efforts at electronic connectivity and organized major conferences on IT in Africa. In 2000 the Association for Progressive established an annual Nancy Hafkin Communications Prize competition. She has written widely on information technology, gender and international development. Nancy Hafkin is the principal of Knowledge Working, a consultancy on information technology and international development. She has a Ph.D. in history (Africa) from Boston University. In 2006, Nancy Hafkin and Sophia Huyer (eds) published From Cinderella or Cyberella? Empowering Women in the Information Age.

 

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“The Impact of Information Technology on Women Globally”
Dr. Gale Summerfield
Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program at UUIC

Tuesday, October 10, at 7pm
Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory Auditorium,

601 S. Goodwin Ave

Dr. Summerfield, an economist, is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has written extensively on gender aspects of socio-economic transformation policies including employment and intrahousehold bargaining changes in China and housing and land rights in East and Southeast Asia. Her current research focuses on gender and human security (health, property rights, and income); gender differences and social networks among immigrants in rural communities; and risks and rights in the processes of globalization.

Sponsored by
The American Association of University Women
Champaign-Urbana Branch

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Electing Health Care
Live Program WILL-TV
September 29, 2006
8:00 p.m.

A new project that WGGP is co-sponsoring with WILL-TV, IGPA, and the School of Social Work in conjunction with additional UIUC units.

Focus of program will be the Mid-Term Elections and Medicaid.
After August 15, 2006, please check program website at
http://www.electinghealthcare.org
Policy analysis paper will be available on the program's website
on September 5, 2006.
Check back for more details.

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Roksana Bahramitash
Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal
Globalization, Women and the Reform Movement in Iran
Thursday, August 24, 2006, noon, 215 Illini Union

Dr. Bahramitash began her career teaching sociology in Tehran. Currently she is conducting research on globalization, Islamization and women's economic role in Egypt, Turkey and Iran. Recent publications include: Liberation from Liberalization: Gender and Globalization in Southeast Asia (2005 Zed Books), "Islamic Fundamentalism and Women's Employment in Iran" in International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 16(4), 2002: 551-568, and "Globalization, Islamization and Women's Employment in Indonesia" in Mary Ann Tetreault and Robert Devon (eds.), Gods, Guns, and Globalization: Religious Radicalism and International Political Economy (2004 Lynne Reinner Publishers).

Sponsored by Women and Gender in Global Perspectives (WGGP) and the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (PSAMES).

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Una O. Osili, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,

"Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from International Migrants in the U.S."

Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 3:15-4:45,

343L Wohlers Hall Conference Room,

sponsored by Economics, WGGP, and others.

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SPRING 2006

Calling Capital to Account:

Corporate Gender Responsibility in the Global Era

by
Professor Ruth Pearson,

Director of the Centre of Development Studies (POLIS), University of Leeds, UK
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 4 pm

407 Levis Faculty Center

919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

Many Transnational Corporations currently pursue a policy of "Corporate Social Responsibility," both to enhance their reputations and to respond to criticisms about their lack of responsibility for working conditions, remuneration, and environmental safety. Partly this move was prompted by consumer activism and concerns for ethical production and fair trade, which have been growing since the Nestle boycott of the 1970s. But it has also been stimulated by the changing nature of the global assembly line with more complicated subcontracting supply chains replacing the simple FDI-export model of previous eras. Mobilization against exploitative "brands" - Levy Strauss, Nike, the Gap in the modern context has led to corporations negotiating Voluntary Codes of Conduct. Increasingly they are being urged to take responsibility not just for the workforce in large factories or estates, but also for those working further down the chain in small workshops, small holder farms and in home based work.

The lecture will argue that corporate responsibility can - and should be extended further, and specifically in two dimensions. The first is in terms of responsibility for the health and safety of the population from which particular corporate workforces are constructed. As is well known the vast majority of workers in export manufacturing are young women. The concentration in a particular location of large numbers of young women traveling to and from export factories is one of the constituents of the local gender regime from which a "cheap, nimble-fingered" workforce is constructed. In situations such as the killings of young women in Cuidad Juarez, Professor Pearson will argue that corporations should take responsibility for the safety of young women in their travel to work, exploring initiatives such as safe transportation, community security systems and public education campaigns. On a more general level she will present a proposal for taxing trade in manufactured exports to reflect the proposition of women workers involved in their processing - what she has dubbed a "Maria Tax" which would be earmarked to support social expenditure - child care, reproductive health, education and training services which would enable women to work in export sectors without jeopardizing their reproductive possibilities or their futures

RUTH PEARSON has been a prominent scholar of women's changing role in the global economy for over twenty years. Her published work includes the path-breaking analysis of Nimble Fingers in export processing employment, as well as studies of export sectors in Latin America and Britain. She is an expert on gender and economic policy both in the international and the national spheres. A current project examines women's cross-border employment in the Greater Mekong Sub-region in Southeast Asia. Ruth Pearson is director of the Centre of Development Studies at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK.
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Sponsored by WGGP [Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program], the Office of the Chancellor, the Center for Advanced Studies, and the Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership; Cosponsored by the Transnational Seminar; Sociology; ACES Global Connect; Anthropology, Asian Law, Politics and Society Program; Center for African Studies; Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Business Administration; Economics; Geography; Center for Global Studies; CIBER; Center for Latin American and Carribbean Studies; Gender and Women's Studies; Global Crossroads Living and Learning Program; Global Studies Program; Human and Community Development; ILIR; IPRH; International Programs and Studies; the Mortenson Library; Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Urban and Regional Planning, and others.

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The Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
"Ethics, Politics and Human Subject Research in the New Millennium"
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 3-6, 2006.

The theme of the Second International Congress, "Ethics, Politics and Human Subject Research" builds on and extends the theme of the First International Congress which focused on "Qualitative Inquiry in a Time of Global Uncertainty." The 2006 Congress will explore experiences with and criticisms of Institutional Review Boards. It will question the over-reliance of audit cultures on evidence-based, neo-experimental models of inquiry. The 2006 Congress will investigate new ways of decolonizing traditional methodologies. It will take up performative, feminist, indigenous, democratic and participatory forms of critical inquiry. The 2006 Congress will examine how these new forms of inquiry can advance the goals of social justice and progressive politics in this new century.

Session Themes will include, but not be confined to these topics: alternative IRB models, interpretive inquiry and IRBs, disciplines and their ethical codes, active interviews, auto- and performance ethnography, arts-based inquiry, coloring and engendering epistemology, colonial and post-colonial epistemologies, critical performance narratives, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, cultural studies and critical pedagogy, democratic methodologies, discourse, ethnodrama, story, poetry, epistemology, oral history, queer, feminist and gender studies, focus groups, funding qualitative research, globablization, health care, grounded theory and social justice, human rights, indigenous studies, models of evidence, mixed-methodologies, participatory action research, policy studies, portraiture, post-human subjects, qualitative evaluation inquiry, qualitative health research, technology, mobility, memory, representation, working with multicultural populations.
.For more information about the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, please see http://www.c4qi.org/

Norman K. Denzin, Congress Chair

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EVENTS HELD SPRING 2006

Gale Summerfield, WGGP Director, introducing Guest Speaker, Joanne Lin, at Human Security Forum

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WGGP and IGPA HUMAN SECURITY FORUM

Seeking Asylum: Refugee Women, Family, Violence, and Law
April 5, Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.

Lucy Ellis Lounge, Room 1080 Foreign Language Building,

707 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana

by
Joanne Lin , Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Momentum Immigrant WomenProgram, Washington, DC
Karen Musalo Director, Center for Gender anad Refugee Studies, Hastings College of Law, University of California, and
Amy Gajda, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Law, UIUC, moderator

This forum examines the unique legal and asylum issues facing immigrant women in the U.S. Many of these women are escaping horrors, only to find that the legal and social protections they assumed to be present in the U.S. are notavailable to them.

Amy Gajda, Moderator, with Guest Speakers, Joanne Lin and Karen Musalo at the Human Security Forum

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GENDER ISSUES IN CHINA SINCE WTO ACCESSION

WORKSHOP, MARCH 30-APRIL 1, 2006

RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON

Cosponsored by Feminist Economics and WGGP

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RURAL HEALTH SYMPOSIUM

March 3, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Carle Foundation Hospital Education Center, Urbana, IL
Paul McNamara and Noreen Sugrue have recently completed a UIUC initiative on rural health policy. We had a number of distinguished faculty from UIUC and UIC participating in a graduateseminar. As a result of that project, it was decided to hold a one-day symposium on health policy issues, spotlighting the rural dimension. The focus of the symposium is disparities and inequities. We are delighted to announce that Carle Foundation Hospital has agreed to sponsor the symposium.The symposium is designed to have a small group of interested scholars,practitioners, and graduate students meet to hear research and policypresentations, and, of course, engage in discussion. The symposium is free but by invitation only; we are holding the number of participants to forty and we are requiring that people RSVP and register for the event. The symposium will be held on March 3, 2006 at the Carle Foundation Hospital Education Center. Parking is available in the structure next to the building. Registration and continental breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m., with sessions beginning at 9:00 a.m. Lunch will be provided and at the end of the afternoon, there will be a wine and cheese reception.We ask that the registration form and RSVP be sent to kcmartin@uiuc no later than February 20, 2006.If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Paul (333-3769; mcnamar1@uiuc.edu) or Noreen (4-5812; nsugrue@uiuc.edu). We look forward to having you join us.

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CAS Initiative on Megacatastrophies:

Science, Policy & Human Behavior
The Pakistani Earthquake: A Wake-Up Call for Mid-America?

Participants include:

Susan Kieffer (Geology), moderator
Irfan Ahmad (Center for Nanoscale and Science and Technology)
Robert Bauer (Illinois State Geological Survey)
Max Edelson (History)
Amy Gajda (Jouranlism and Law)
Jerome Hajjar (Mid-America Earthquake Center)
Rob Olshansky (Urban and Regional Planning)

February 15, 2006
Friday, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana -- for more information, see: http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/presentations.html

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Gender Issues in China Since WTO Accession

Gale Summerfield, Director of WGGP/Assoc. Prof. HCDNoon Monday, Feb. 13, 101 ISB

Sponsors: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and WGGP

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International Health Conference on

Implications of Global Issues on Women and Children

February 12-16, 2006

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cosponsored by McMaster University, Canada,

State University of Bangladesh, and WGGP

For more information, see:http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/slru/ic2006/main.html

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CAS Forum on Critical Issues:
Immigration
January 27, 2006
Friday, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana

Immigration is one of the most contentious issues in America today. We are a nation of immigrants but we also are a nation divided over immigrants and immigration policies. Concerns about jobs, culture, a way of life and economic stability all frame or cloud public and private discussions of how we should best accommodate, or not, the growing numbers of immigrants living and working in our communities.

Immigration policy has once again moved to the front of the domestic agenda, and there are a number of 'reform' bills under consideration. Immigration brings new labor and new ideas but also brings new challenges to existing political, religious, cultural and economic institutions. What is the best option for our country? What immigration policies make the most sense?

We invite you to participate in a public forum on this timely topic. We have convened experts from our campus to address the political, social, and economic issues surrounding the immigration debate.

Noreen Sugrue (Women and Gender in Global Perspectives), moderator
Ilana Akresh (Sociology)
Augusto Espiritu (History)
Alejandro Lugo (Anthropology)
Dorothee Schneider (Sociology)

Fall 2005

Why Justice Is Good For Our Health

Norman Daniels, Harvard University

Monday, October 17th 4 p.m.

Institute of Government and Public Affairs
Conference Room. 1007 W. Nevada

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Human Security Policy Forum

an initiative of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program in cooperation with
the Institute of Government and Public Affairs

THE FORGOTTEN BENEFICIARIES OF SOCIAL SECURITY:

WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

7 - 9 p.m.

Levis Faculty Center, room 407 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana

Presenters:

Sunhwa Lee is Study director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington D.C. She conducts research on a variety of older women's economic issues including Social Security preservation and privatization proposals, access to pensions, employment and poverty issues. She currently directs IWPR's Social Security project that provides research and information on the importance of Social Security for women and their families.
Joni Lavery is the Income Security Research Associate at the National Academy of Social Insurance, where she made a major contribution to the recently completed Study Panel report, Uncharted Waters: Paying Benefits from Individual Accounts in Federal Retirement Policy. Prior to joining NASI, Ms. Lavery was a Presidential Mmanagement Fellow, based in the Social Security Administration's Office of Retirement Policy, where she was a social science research analyst and examined implementation issues in Social Security reform.

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WGGP Noon Seminar

The Aging Population and Social Security:
Women as the Problem and the Solution
November 8, 2005
12-1:00 pm
Fleming Room (204-206)
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
504 East Armory, Champaign

Marianne Ferber
Professor Emerita
Department of Economics
University of Illinois
&
Patricia Simpson
Associate Professor
Industrial Relations
Loyola University

In spite of all the attention population aging and the resulting increases in Social Security (SS) payments have been receiving, no consensus has emerged on whether the system will soon be in crisis or how best to deal with the crisis if there is one. There are, in fact, almost as many divergent views as “experts.” One crucial aspect of the complex picture that has, however, all too often been neglected is the extent to which women are a large part both of the problem and of possible solutions. In the hope of shedding light rather than heat on these issues, we discuss the impact of the present SS system on the well-being of women and the effect of the changing role of women on the SS system, as well as some proposals for changes in the SS system as well as their impact on the well-being of women.

Marianne A. Ferber is Professor of Economics and Women’s Studies, Emerita, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was born in Czechoslovakia, obtained her BA at McMaster University in Canada and her PhD at the University of Chicago. She is co-author of The Economics of Women, Men, and Work (5th ed. 2006); editor of Women in the Labor Market, 1998; Beyond Economic Man, 1993 and Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man, 2003; Academic Couples, 1997; and Nonstandard Work, 2000. She has also published in numerous economics, sociology, education and women’s studies journals.

Patricia Simpson is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Relations at the Institute of Human Resources andIndustrial Relations, Loyola University, Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois. She worked for over twenty years in labor education and has been a lifelong union activist, several times elected to Executive Board positions. She has also worked as an Assistant Director of Research for the Pennsylvania State Education Association. She has published scholarly articles in Social Science Research, Industrial Relations Research Review, Feminist Economics, and Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Journal of Applied Psychology.

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FALL 2004

China's Rural-Urban Migrants:
Equal Opportunities?
Wu Qing
George A. Miller Visiting Professor, UIUC, Professor emerita,
Beijing Foreign Studies University, and People's Deputy to the
Beijing Municipal People's Congress
Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
Approximately 100 million people have migrated from rural areas to the cities of China since the transition reforms began in the late 1970s. Laws restricting internal migration still exist and limit the ability of the migrant children to get education. Wu Qing is presently fighting for the rights of rural-urban migration migrants to education in the city: supporting a bill that passed that gives the children the right to enter public schools without paying extra fees; helping improve schools that the migrants have set up; and registering migrants for services.
WGGP's Fall Reception
following Wu Qing's talk
at Levis Faculty Center, 5:30 p.m.

Women and Power in Asia
Irene Tinker
Professor emerita, University of California at Berkeley
and
Wu Qing
George A. Miller Visiting Professor, UIUC, Professor emerita,
Beijing Foreign Studies University, and People's Deputy to the
Beijing Municipal People's Congress,
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004, 12:00-1:30, Lucy Ellis Lounge

WGGP Symposium:
Gender and Transnational Care Work
October 22, 2004, 314 Illini Union
Childcare, elder care and other forms of caring work are increasingly being done as paid work involving transnational flows of people. Nannies leave the Philippines or Mexico to work in Hong Kong, Europe and the United States. Japanese citizens may travel to Thailand for elder care. The workers, often women, comprise part of a chain of caring labor that often requires them to find others to watch their own children or aging parents at lower wages. This symposium brings specialists from different fields to explore gender issues of transnational care.

Keynote MillerComm Address:
Android Dreams
and Transnational Care Work
Nancy Folbre
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, October 22, 2004, 4:00 pm
314 Illini Union
Nancy Folbre addresses the changing "care sector" of the economy, including the declining supply of unpaid labor and the difficulty of increasing labor productivity in jobs that require emotional and personal contact. Efforts are underway to develop robots that can help meet the personal care needs of the elderly. She explains why these efforts are unlikely to succeed and discusses alternatives, such as transnational migration of women from developing countries. These solutions, however, pose problems of their own.

Program
Gender and Transnational Care Work
Friday, October 22, 2004
314 Illini Union
8:30 a.m. Film: Chain of Love (2001) by Marije Meerman focuses on the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how this export affects the women involved, their families in the Philippines, and families in the West.
9:30 a.m. Panel I
Welcoming Remarks, Gale Summerfield, Director, WGGP, and Manisha Desai, Program Coordinator, WGGP
US Immigrant Careworkers and Immigration Policies: Historical and Policy Perspectives, Dorothee Schneider, UIUC
Neoliberalism, Globalization and the International Division of Care, and the World-System Approach, Joya Misra and Sabine Merz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Still Realizing the Patriarchal Bargain: The Strategic Negotiations of Hindu Immigrant Widows Living with Daughters and Daughters-in-Law in Southern California, Lata Murti, University of Southern California
Discussant: Susan Koshy, UIUC
1:00 p.m. Panel II
The Balance of Care: Trends in the Wages and Employment of Immigrant Nurses in the U.S. between 1990 and 2000, Mary Arends-Kuenning and Paul McNamara, UIUC
Transnational Women Health Care Workers: Agents or Victims, Uma Devi, University of Bergen, Norway
The Symbolic Power of Homo Faber: The Body and Masculinity in Care Work, Lise Isaksen, University of Bergen, Norway
Globalization, the Increase in Transnational Care Work, and Its Flip Side: How Can We Make Sense of It? Jean Pyle, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Discussant: Winifred Poster, UIUC
4:00 Keynote MillerComm Address: Android Dreams and Transnational Care Work,
Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
5:30-6:30 Reception following Keynote Address

All events held in Room 314, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana

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Family, Gender, and Law
in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia
October 7-9, 2004

Sponsored by
The Program in South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and

Women and Gender in Global Perspectives

Keynote Lecture:
" Family, Gender and State in the Middle East and South Asia"

Suad Joseph,

Anthropology, University of California, Davis

Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004, 7:30 pm
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana

Program:
Friday, Oct 8, 2004
All Friday sessions are in: Room 405, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana
9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon: Morning Session - Family Law in Colonial States & Non-States
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.:
" Women and Personal Status Law in Modern Iraqi Politics"
Juan Cole, History, University of Michigan
&
" Family, Gender and Law in Jordan and Palestine"
Lynn Welchman, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.: Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon:
" Sharia Court Regulations in Late 19th c. Egypt: The Effect on Marital Relations"
Ken Cuno, History, UIUC
Comments & Discussion (Discussant: Marilyn Booth, Comparative Literature, UIUC)
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.: Afternoon Session - Social Change and Family Behavior
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.:
" The Limits of 'Middle East and North Africa' as a Category: Understanding Emerging Marital Relationships Among Egyptians and Emiratis"
Frances Hasso, Gender & Women’s Studies and Sociology, Oberlin College
&
" Families on the move: The Changing Structure of Afghan Refugee Families"
Homa Hoodfar, Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.: coffee break
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.:
" The Uniform Civil Code, State, and the Women’s Movements in India: A Story of Betrayals"
Manisha Desai, Sociology, UIUC
Comments & Discussion (Discussant: Winnifred Poster, Sociology, UIUC)
Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004
All Saturday sessions are in: Room 405, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon: Morning Session - Family Law in Multi-Religious States
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.:
" Family Laws and Economic Rights of Married Women in India"
Flavia Agnes, Advocate in the Family Court and High Court at Mumbai
&
" Institutions and Women’s Rights: Religion, Family and the State in Turkey"
Zehra Arat, Political Science and Women’s Studies, Purchase College, SUNY
10:00 - 10:30 a.m: Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon:
" The Montheisms, Patriarchy and the Constitutional Right to Human Dignity in Israel"
Frances Raday, Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Comments & Discussion (Discussant: Tom Ginsburg, Law, UIUC)
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.: Afternoon Session – International Norms v. Local Values in Reform
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.:
" Straddling CEDAW and the MMA: Conflicting Visions of Women’s Rights in Contemporary Pakistan"
Anita Weiss, International Studies, University of Oregon
&
" In the Aftermath of May 2003: Women’s Rights and the ‘Benefits’ of the ‘War on Terror’"
Zakia Salime, Sociology, UIUC
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.: Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.:
" Paradoxes of Constitutional Reform: Imagining Gender Equity for Bangladeshi Women"
Shelley Feldman, Development Sociology, Cornell University
Comments & Discussion (Discussant: Gale Summerfield, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, UIUC)

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Joint Area Centers Annual Conference
November 4-6, 2004
Troubled Waters in a Globalizing World:Community, Property and Conflict
Over a Vital Resource

Keynote MillerComm Address:
Water and its Publics:
Social Action Across Spaces and Scales
Amita Baviskar
Department of Sociology, Delhi University
Prof. Baviskar's lecture will stress that hydropolitics is at once global and local and spills over the social categories crafted to contain and manage water. She will ask what the prospects are for public action that promotes social justice and ecological sustainability as water extraction accelerates around the world, often at the cost of poor users. She will illustrate her ideas through Indian examples.

Other Campus Events:

Keya Ganguly
Associate Professor
Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
University of Minnesota
The Popular and the Avant-Garde:
Satyajit Ray's Experiments in Cinema
Thursday, September 9, 2004, 4:00 p.m., English Building

Dr. Julio Cammarota
The Social Justice Education Project:
Student-led Ethnography and Praxis
Thursday, September 16, 2004, 4:00 p.m., 192 Lincoln Hall

Sidney Mintz, Research Professor of Anthropology
Johns Hopkins University

Sweetness and Power
September 29 - October 11, 2004

Dr. Nwando Achebe
Assistant Professor of History
William and Mary College
Friday, October 15, 1004

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PREVIOUS NOON SEMINAR SERIES

SPRING 2005

February 8
Manisha Desai, Associate Professor, Sociology, and Associate Director, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UIUC
“ Mumbai: A Global City Study Abroad Experience?”
(Please note: Change of location to Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building.)

February 14
Manisha Desai, Associate Professor, Sociology, and Acting Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC
" The Feminist Dialogue at the World Social Forum"

February 28
Ana Fava, PhD Candidate, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, UIUC
“ Gender Roles and Earnings in Brazil: Were There Any Changes Between 1981 and 2001?”

March 28
Rebecca Ginsburg, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, UIUC
“ Beyond the Smiles: Apartheid-Era Portraits of Black South African Nannies and Their White Charges"

April 4
Patricia Steinhoff, Sociology, University of Hawaii
“ Gender, Ideology, and Political Violence:
The Case of Fusako Shigenobu and the Japanese Red Army”
(Please note: Change of location to ACDIS Conference Room, 356 Armory Building.)

April 11
Jules R. Elkins, Visiting Lecturer, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, UIUC
"Parental Disability and Child Welfare in Indonesia"

April 18
Junjie Chen, Goodman Fellow, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UIUC
" Population Control Policy and Constructions of Women's Subjectivity in Rural China"
(Please note: Change of location to Room 314, International Studies Building.)

April 25
Joy Williams-Black, WGGP Grant Recipient, PhD Candidate, History, UIUC
" ‘Doing’ Gender in Africa: the Value of Experiential Knowledge in Dissertation Fieldwork”

 

SPRING 2004

February 2
Adhiambo Odoul, Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Center for African Studies, UIUC
Reflections on processes and prospects of African gender politics:Lessons from the life of Mama Pheobe Muga Asiyo of Kenya

February 16
Kumi Silva
Doctoral Candidate, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
Pastoralized Identities, Global Nationalisms:
Emerging Issues in Trans/National Social Movements

March 1
Lydia Buki
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, UIUC
Why Do Latina Women Die Faster from Breast Cancer?
An Examination of Lives in Context

March 29
Zohra Belghiti
Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, UIUC
Moroccan Women's Velvet Revolution:
Report on An International Congress in Morocco

April 12
Radhika Parameswaran

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Indiana University
Globalization, Indian Beauty Queens and Public Culture:
The Disappearing Shadows of Poverty and Class Inequality

April 26
Marianne Ferber
Professor Emerita, Economics, UIUC
“Opting Out”

SPRING 2003

Jan. 27, "Women's Movements in the Middle East: The Politics of the Veil", Zakia Salime, Goodman Fellow, Sociology, UIUC

Feb. 10, "Womb as Battlefield: Nationalism and Population in Rural China", Junjie Chen, Goodman Fellow, Anthropology, UIUC

Feb. 24, "A Comparison of Development Approaches Over Time
and the Consequences on Gender Considerations", Earl Kellogg,
Associate Provost for International Affairs, UIUC

Mar. 3, "Financial Resources and Women Micro-Entrepreneurs in Peru", Angelina Cotler, Graduate Student, Anthropology, UIUC

Mar. 17, "Family-Friendly Company Practices in Africa and Asia"
John Lawler, Professor, Labor and Industrial Relations, UIUC

Mar. 31, "A Women's Movement in a Rural Community in Senegal:
The Tostan Adult Education Program Leads the Way", Maimouna Barro, Graduate Student, Curriculum & Instruction, UIUC

Apr. 21, "South Asian Political Figures and Questions of Gender"
Rajmohan Gandhi, Director, Global Crossroads,& Visiting Professor, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UIUC

 

FALL 2002

WGGP 2002 FALL EVENTS, BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM 2002 AND CO-SPONSORED PRESENTATIONS*

September 5, Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC., Food Security and Poverty Eradication as a National Security Goal for the United States, the first in ACES Global Connect's series of public lectures on Global Food Security.
For more information consult http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/global.

September 9, Walden Bello
Professor of Sociology, University of the Philippines, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Globalization from Below: The World Social Forum, the first in the Center for Advanced Study's series of public lectures: Initiative on Globalization.
For more information consult http://www.cas.uiuc.edu.

September 19, Syeda Saiyidain Hameed
Founding member, India's Muslim Women's Forum and Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia, Women and Islam in South Asia,
Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor, 919 W. Illinois
Co-sponsored by South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Global Crossroads, IPRH and WGGP.

October 3, William Masters
Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University,
Institutions and Technology for Food Security: Peril and Progress,
Monstanto Multi-Media Executive Studio, ACES Library, Information and Alumni Center, the second lecture in ACES Global Connect's series on Global Food Security.

October 3-5, Rethinking Terrorism
Annual Area Center Director's Conference, 149 National Soybean Research Center, 1101 W Peabody, Urbana.

October 3, Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Bruce Hoffman
Director, Washington office of RAND Corporation,
Rethinking Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism since 9/11.
180 Bevier Hall, 905 W Goodwin, Urbana.
October 4, Friday, 2:25 p.m.: Carol Cohn
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College,Gender and Technologies of Terror,
149 National Soybean Research Center, 1101 W. Peabody., Urbana

October 17-19, Gender and Transnational Networks
WGGP Biennial Symposium, 314 Illini Union, 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana.
October 17, Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Department of History and Director of Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University, Scenes from the Pacific Rim: Gender, Globalization and the Asian Diaspora,Room 314, Illini Union.

October 25, Margaret Heldering
Director, America's Health Together, Mental Health: New Places, New Needs in a Time of Global Terrorism, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois, the second in CAS's Initiative on Globalization series.

November 7, Werner Kiene Representative of the United Nations World Food Programme to the Bretton Woods Institutions, Title to be announced,
Monstanto Multi-Media Executive Studio, ACES Library, Information and Alumni Center, third lecture in ACES Global Connect's series.

November 8, Stephen Humphreys
Islamic and Middle Eastern History, University of California at Santa Barbara and past president, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Roots of Large Scale Violence in the Name of Islam, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois, the third lecture in CAS's Initiative on Globalization series.

SPRING 2002

February 11, *Film: "Hózhó of Native Women."

February 25, Seminar: "Engaging with Difference via Mixed-Method Social Inquiry," Jennifer Greene, Professor, Educational Psychology, UIUC.

March 11, *Film: "Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies & Global Economics"

March 26, *Panel: Globalization & Women's Employment: Preventing Sweatshop Conditions "Gender and Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture,"Stephanie Barrientos, Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Univ. of Sussex, UK and "Codes of Conduct in Multinational Agribusiness: Three Case Studies,"
Kathleen Cloud, Director, Gender and Agribusiness Project, UIUC

April 8, *Film: "Under One Sky: Arab Women in North America Talk About the Hijab"

April 22, Panel: Three 2000-01 Cloud Grant Recipients Present Their Research on Muslim Women Maimouna Barro, Curriculum and Instruction, UIUC. Aida Orgocka, Human and Community Development, UIUC Zakia Salime, Sociology, UIUC

*The films being shown in this WGGP series are also part of the Documenting Development International Film Series, co-sponsored by the International Area Studies Centers.

** Part six of a seven-part seminar series entitled "What's Behind the Label? Collegiate Licensing, the Apparel Industry and 'Sweatshop Issues," sponsored by The Licensing Advisory Committee of the Office of the Chancellor. This panel is also co-sponsored by the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, the Center for International Business Education and Research, and the European Union Center.

 

FALL 2001

October 1, Zorica-Nedovic-Budic, Associate Professor,Urban and Regional Planning,"Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools for Visualizing and Analyzing the Urban Environment"

October 15,
Flora Kessy,Goodman Fellow,Agricultural and Consumer Economics, "The Demand and Supply Factors Determining Contraceptive Use in Tanzania"

October 29,Rosa Muraguri, Graduate Student, Human Resource Education "Turning Theory into Practice: Challenges in Implementing Government Policies on Gender"

November 12,Pradeep Dhillon, Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, "Can Moral Judgements Be Made across Cultures"

	Spring 2001 January 17, Elaine Salo, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies and Africa Gender Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa "Race Laws, Gendered Tactics: Making Mothers in a Cape Flats Township During the Apartheid Era" February 7, Yayori Matsui, Director, Asia-Japan Women's Resource Center and Chairperson, Violence Against Women in War Network, Tokyo "The Japanese Feminist Movement and Asian Women in the Age of Globalization" (This speaker is sponsored by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies.) February 20, Josephat Myriam Ikuku, UI Graduate Student, Center for African Studies, "Women in Democratic Republic of Congo: Law and Actual Practice" March 27, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, "Using Qualitative Methods in Research on Global Gender Issues" (Held in conjunction with Prof. Blumberg’s George A.Miller Visiting Professorship) April 3, Christobel Asiedu, UI Graduate Student, Department of Sociology "A Critical Look at the International Women's Human Rights Movement: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation" April 23, Hemalata Dandekar, Professor, Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ‘Can I Have a House with a Door?’ Rural Indian Women Ask of Development" (This speaker is co-sponsored by UI Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.) Fall 2000 September 12, Wilma Iggeres, Professor Emerita in Modern Languages, Conisius College,Buffalo, NY, "Multicultural Prague: Two Centuries of Czech, German, and Jewish Women Writers" October 10, John Lawler, Professor, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations:"Sun Valley Thailand: Family-Friendly Policies in an American Multinational" November 7, Guity Nashat, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Theories on the Role of Women in the Middle East" Spring 2000 Feb.15: "A cooperative path to home ownership "LA union housing cooperative in Mexico," by Lora Schmid-Dolan, graduate student in Social Work with a GRID concentration, UI. March 6: "Where will she go? What will she do? Muslim women encounter the family law in an Indian city," by Sylvia Vatuk, Professor of Anthropology, UI (Co-sponsored by the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies). March 28: "The gender roles in international development, graduate concentration (GRID), and student research," interactive discussion of opportunities and problems for graduate student work in the WGGP/GAD field. April 11: "Globalization and gender inequality," by Caren Grown, MacArthur Foundation.