Congratulation to our student travel award winners: Stephanie Chaban, Peace Medie, and Shannon Drysdale Walsh!
The award winners will be presenting with other student participants at break-out panels on Friday, March 19.
Read biographies of all the participants here.
1:30-3:00: Student Panels:
Sex, Bodies & Borders: Room 112
• Stephanie Chaban (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces): Why Palestinian Women and Girls Do Not Feel Secure: Findings from an Assessment
• Hae Yeon Choo (UW–Madison): The Subject of Migrant Women: The State, the NPOs, and the Gendered Production of Incorporation Regimes in South Korea
• Edith Kinney (University of California–Berkeley): Securitizing Sex, Bodies, and Borders: Feminist Governance, Strategic Framing, and the Politics of Rights in Thailand’s War Against Human Trafficking
Discussants: Katharine Moon and Carol Mueller
Gender & Post-Conflict Violence: Room 205
• Elizabeth Holzer (UW–Madison): When the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is Mother
• Laura Heideman (UW–Madison): Building Civil Society, Building Peace: NGOs and Human Security in the Post-War Moment
• Peace Medie (University of Pittsburgh): Combating Post-Conflict Violence against Women: An Analysis of the Liberian and Sierra Leonean Governments’ Efforts to Address the Problem
• Dörte Rompel (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany): The Interplay of Gender Based Violence and Human Insecurity in Post-war Liberia
Discussants: Narda Henríquez and Valerie Sperling
Law and Justice: Room 220
• Chaitanya Lakkimsetti (UW–Madison): Sexing Security: Globalization, Biopolitics, and Law in Postcolonial India
• Taylor Price (UW–Madison): Examining the Role of Traditional Leaders in Namibia’s Anti-Gender-Based Violence Movement
• Shannon Drysdale Walsh (University of Notre Dame): Uneasy Alliances: Women’s Organizations, Police, and Women’s Security in Developing Regimes
Discussants: Karen Engle and Lisa Brush
