2004-2005 Toward Equality: The Global Empowerment of Women
Orientation and Goal Setting Meeting
April 14-19, 2004
Emory Conference Center
Atlanta, Georgia
Wednesday, April 14 NCS Scholars arrive during day
6:45-7:45pm
Welcome Reception for NCS Scholars (Garden Courtyard)
Scholars identify and interview another scholar for introduction
to the group at the beginning of panel discussions
8:00pm
Buffet Dinner (Dining Room)
Thursday, April 15
7:30am-8:30am
Buffet Breakfast (Dining Room)
9:00am
Welcome and Opening Remarks (Oak Amphitheatre)
Patti McGill Peterson
Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
(CIES)
NCS Program Objectives and Program Agenda
Carolyn Elliott, NCS Distinguished Scholar Leader
Review of Agenda
Micaela S. Iovine, Senior Program Officer, CIES
9:30am
Plenary Sessions begin: Four presentations in each panel
session followed by discussion. Each scholar will be introduced
by another (2 min) and then have 13 minutes to describe their
project and comment on the questions posed for the panel. The
final half hour will be open for general discussion. (Two sessions
will have a speaker followed by the 4 presentations and discussion,
so the time is extended by 30 minutes.)
All Plenary Sessions will take place in the Oak Amphitheatre
Panel I: Women's Voices
Cynthia Enloe has observed, "The study of hegemony requires
us to understand how consent is manufactured among those who do
not benefit from it. To understand patriarchy, we need to investigate
how women persuade themselves that patriarchy is the
best they can hope for." Does listening to women's voices
increase our understanding? Do we hear them differently in feminist
politics, literature, testimony, oral history?
Panelists: Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Kelly Askin, Omar Sougou,
Kawango Agot
11:00am
Break
11:30am
Panel II: Representations of Women
How are women represented in the legal system: as victims, addicts,
survivors, agents? How do these representations of women affect
the outcomes for the women involved?
Panelists: Lynne Haney, Nicola Gavey, Vesna Kesic
1:00pm
Buffet Lunch (Dining Room)
2:30pm
Panel III: Families and Households
How might states and markets be induced to provide more support
for the "care economy" of the household? Is the space
for women's agency increased by globalization?
Panelists: Hella Hoppe, Fanny Cheung, Wendy Chavkin,
Gioconda Herrera
4:00 pm
Break
4:30 pm
Panel IV: Citizenship
How is citizenship engendered with assumptions about differences,
rights, social location, economic access, etc.? How has globalization
impacted on these assumptions?
Panelists: Agnieszka Graff, Olga Pyshchulina, Rabab Abdulhadi,
Rhoda Reddock
6:30pm
Dinner Buffet (Dining Room)
8:00pm
Discussion of Transnational Feminism (Oak Amphitheatre)
(Nussbaum and Mohanty articles circulated in advance).
Leader: Jane Jaquette
Friday, April 16
7:30am-8:15am
Breakfast Buffet (Dining Room)
8:30am
Panel V: Insiders and Outsiders Making Change
Speaker: Jane Jaquette, Occidental College
Why has the rising proportion of women in high level positions
not led to improvement in the lives of poor women? What might
this say about the challenges of working "within and against"
the system?
Panelists: Pregs Govender, Bolanle Adetoun, Kamala Liyanage
10:15am
Break
10:45am
Panel VI: Law and Social Change
How can rights and capabilities be translated from a normative/legal
framework to on-the-ground legal outcomes? Have grassroots activists
unwisely neglected legal mechanisms for change due to pessimism
that the law will not be implemented, that it may be captured,
or that too few women have access to the law?
Panelists: Shanti Parikh, Julissa Mantilla Falcon, Isabella
Bakker,
Titia Loenen
12:15pm
Buffet Lunch (Dining Room)
1:00 pm Bus departure for Spelman College
1:30 - 4:00pm
Afternoon Symposium at Spelman College
Hosted by Comparative Women's' Studies Program
Science Center, Room 232
4:15pm
Bus to Emory University
5:00pm-7:00 pm
Reception cohosted by Fulbright Alumni Association and Emory
University
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
7:15pm
Bus to Emory Conference Center Hotel
7:00pm-8:30pm
Buffet Dinner (Dining Room)
Saturday, April 17
7:30am-8:15am
Buffet Breakfast (Dining Room)
8:30am
Panel VII: Empowerment (Oak Amphitheatre)
Speaker: Ros Petchesky, Hunter College
In her study of Bangladesh, Naila Kabeer asks, "How can
our conceptualization of empowerment be grounded in an understanding
of the relationships of dependence, interdependence and autonomy
that characterize gender relations in different cultures?"
Has empowerment been oversold as a way of improving women's lives?
Panelists: Lakshmi Lingam, Esther Chow, Christina Ewig, Meena
Acharya
10:30am
Break
11:00am
Panel VIII: Religion, Culture and the State
At a recent feminist seminar at the 2004 World Social Forum,
Sonia Correa of Brazil concluded that women's liberation depends
on secularization of politics. Might this be her answer to the
question posed by political theorist Susan Okin: "Is multiculturalism
bad for women?" What do you think?
Panelists: Rachel Silvey, Mona Ali, Margot Badran, Monica
Maher
12:30pm
Buffet Lunch
1:30pm
Formation and Work in Subgroups (Oak Amphitheatre)
Plenary discussion and identification of focus groups emerging
from plenary discussions.
Two sets of groups will be identified: research exchange groups and collaborative project groups.
2:30pm
Research exchange groups meet
Breakout Rooms: Oak Amphitheatre, Poplar, Magnolia,
Dogwood, Study 3. Study 4, Study 5
4:00 pm
Break
4:30pm
Report back to plenary (Oak Amphitheatre)
5:00pm
Collaborative project groups meet
Breakout Rooms: Oak Amphitheatre, Poplar, Magnolia, Dogwood,
Study 3. Study 4, Study 5
6:30pm -8:30pm
Buffet Dinner (Dining Room)
Sunday, April 18
7:30am-8:30am
Buffet Breakfast (Dining Room)
9:00am
Report back to plenary. Finalize 4-5 subgroups (Oak Amphitheatre)
10:00 am
Break
10:30am
Subgroups meet to formulate goals for program year
Breakout Rooms: Oak Amphitheatre, Dogwood, Magnolia,
Poplar, Study 5
12:30pm
Lunch Buffet
(Dining Room)
1:30pm
Return to subgroups
Breakout Rooms: Oak Amphitheatre, Dogwood, Magnolia,
Poplar, Study 5
3:00pm
Break
3:30pm
Plenary for subgroup progress reports (Oak Amphitheatre)
4:30pm
Scholars meet with CIES staff concerning grant administration
(Meeting locations TBA)
5:30pm
Training in use of WEBCT (Oak Amphitheatre)
7:00pm
Cocktails (Oak Break Area)
7:45pm
Closing Dinner (Basswood)
Speaker: Linda Basch, President
National Council for Research on Women
Monday, April 19
7:30am-8:30am
Buffet Breakfast (Dining Room)
9:00am
Plenary for discussion of Mid-term Meeting in India, electronic
exchange and development of collaborative activities between meetings.
(Oak Amphitheatre)
Additional group meetings if necessary
10:30am
Break
11:00am
Return to plenary (Oak Amphitheatre)
12:00pm
Hotel check-out
12:30pm
Buffet Lunch (Dining Room)
Departure |
