Imagined Peace, Gender Relations and Post-Conflict Transformation: Anti-Colonial and Post-Cold War Conflicts
Jane Parpart, Research Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, UMass Boston
Wednesday, February 4th, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Campus Center, Room 2545, UMass Boston
Women on the Front Line: The Political Economy of Ebola in Postwar West Africa
Kade Finnoff, Assistant Professor of Economics, UMass Boston
Wednesday, February 25th, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Chancellor's Conference Room, UMass Boston
The Political Economy of Displacement: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan and the USA Post-2003
Isis Nusair, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and International Studies, Denison University
Monday, March 2nd, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Campus Center, Room 2545, UMass Boston
Occupations, Border-Crossings, and Gender: Human Rights in Palestine, Kashmir and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Isis Nusair, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and International Studies, Denison University; Deepti Misri, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; Luis F. Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UMass Boston
Tuesday, March 3rd, 12:00pm-2:00pm, Campus Center Ballroom A, UMass Boston
Soap, Jeans, and Feminist Futures: “Corporate Social Responsibility” and Women’s Empowerment
Elisabeth Prügl, Consortium Senior Fellow 2014-2015, Professor of IR, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva
Monday, April 6th, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Campus Center, Room 2545, UMass Boston
Hope to see you there!
Joy Onyesoh, President of WILPF Nigeria and Consortium speaker in November 2013, has released a statement from WILPF Nigeria about the abduction of girls from the school in Chibok, Borno State, on the 14th of April by Boko Haram.
Read the statement here.
The Consortium is pleased to be leading the pre-conference workshop of the International Feminist Journal of Politics third annual conference, “Gender and Crisis in Global Politics.” Speakers at our workshop on “Gendered Political Economies of Peacebuilding,” will include Lina M. Céspedes-Baez, Carol Cohn, Emily Cole, Andrea Collins, Heidi Hudson, Dyan Mazurana, Ann Tickner and Jacqui True.
Please join us on Thursday, April 24th, for an hour of networking after Sam Cook's talk, "Women, Peace and Security" Policy's Skewed Focus on Sexual Violence: The Failure of a "Successful" Feminist Intervention? Sam is a lawyer and women's rights activist from South Africa, and this talk promises to be fascinating, so we hope you will be able to join us at 4pm for her talk, and stay for networking with her and others from 6 - 7pm. Both events will take place in the UMass Boston Campus Center, room 3545. (Even if arriving in time for the talk is impossible for you, we hope you'll feel free to come at 6pm.)
We are excited to be able to help form a network of scholars devoted to exploring gender and security issues, and we hope you will become a part of it!
Moderated by Carol Cohn, director of the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, this panel will provide an opportunity for those participating in human rights education to share experiences, ideas, inspiration and resources for bringing this essential field of study to new generations of students.
Consortium director Carol Cohn will deliver the keynote address at this conference, with a talk entitled Why is it so Hard to Get Women to the Peace Table? And Why is That Not Even the Right Question? The talk will be followed by a panel discussion with former UNU-GEST Fellows and Gender Experts: Susan Asio from Uganda, and Fatima Wahaidy from Gaza, Palestine.
The conference is hosted by EDDA – Center of Excellence at the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Embassy in Iceland, the United Nations University Gender Studies and Training Programme at the University of Iceland, the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland, and the National Committee of UN Women in Iceland.
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