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2004 FULBRIGHT NEW CENTURY SCHOLARS PROGRAM

"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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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