Location:
The Pyle Center Auditorium (Room 121)
702 Langdon St. Madison, WI
[conference map]
Thursday, March 18:
4pm, AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center
Yakin Ertürk, former UN special rapporteur on violence against women
J. Jobe Soffa and Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Distinguished International Visitor Fund
Friday, March 19:
8:00-8:45am: Registration table open
9:00-9:15: Opening remarks, Pyle Center Auditorium
9:15-10:45: Auditorium
Panel 1: Economic Support, Interpersonal Violence & Women’s Wellbeing
• Keera Allendorf (University of Michigan): Family Relationships and Women’s Well-Being in India
• Rae Blumberg (University of Virginia): Dangerous Money: Gender, Globalization and Well-being in Ecuador, Laos and Ukraine – and Can Health/Survival be Socio-economic Rights?
• Lisa Brush (University of Pittsburgh): Housing and Hunger as Security Issues for Battered Women
Discussant: Gay Seidman (UW-Madison)
10:45-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-12:15: Auditorium
Panel 2: Macro-Violence, Livelihood & Land
• Elizabeth Stites (Tufts University): Livelihoods and Masculinity under Contestation: Linkages to Violence in Karamoja, Uganda
• Mangala Subramaniam (Purdue University): State, Security and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Local and Transnational Discourse
Discussant: Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel (UW-Madison)
12:15-1:30: Organized Lunch, Pyle Center Main Dining Room
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: Carol Mueller and V. Spike Peterson
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
3:00-3:15: Snack break
3:15-5:00: Auditorium
Panel 3: Gendered Violence in War Zones
• Narda Henríquez (Catholic University, Peru): Violence and Rape: Gender and Ethnicity in the Conflict and Post-Conflict in Peru
• Valerie Sperling (Clark University): Private Military Contractors, Peacekeepers, and the Sexual Exploitation of Women in Conflict Zones
• Aili Mari Tripp (UW-Madison): Legislating Gender Based Violence in Post-Conflict Africa
Discussant: Samer Alatout (UW–Madison)
5:00-7:00:
Reception in the Pyle Center Alumni Lounge for all attendees and participants.
Saturday, March 20
9:00-10:30: Auditorium
Panel 4: The Economics of Law & Justice
• Carol Mueller (Arizona State University): A Confluence of Insecurities: Trade, Drugs, Guns and Border Femicide
• V. Spike Peterson (University of Arizona): Global Economies and/as Human Insecurities
• Ellie Schemenauer (UW-Whitewater): Human Security and International Illicit Drug Trafficking: Women Drug Couriers in the Americas
Discussant: Myra Marx Ferree (UW–Madison)
10:30-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-12:30: Auditorium
Panel 5: War, Violence & International Accountability
• Karen Engle (University of Texas School of Law): Queering Human Security
• Natalie Hudson (University of Dayton): Resolution 1325 and Security Sector Reform: Legal and Institutional Challenges for UN and EU Peace Operations
• Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin (University of Minnesota Law School): Gender, Accountability and the Post-Conflict Terrain
• Annick Wibben (University of San Francisco): The Illusion of Human Security
Discussant: Helen Kinsella (UW–Madison)
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