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The University of Texas at Austin

Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Conference on Gender, Globalization, and Governance

Proposed Agenda

April 12-13, 2007
University of Texas-Austin

Thursday, April 12
Eidman Courtroom, University of Texas Law School

(Map to the Law School)

2:00-3:00 p.m. Sign-In/Registration
3:00 p.m. Welcome/Opening Remarks
Victoria Rodriguez - Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Texas
3:30-5:00 p.m. Panel Session #1 - Governing Violence
  • Alicia Williams, student chair - LBJ School of Public Affairs
  • Karen Engle, discussant - W.H. Francis, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law
  • Ruth Miller - Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  • Vasuki Nesiah - Senior Associate, International Center for Transitional Justice
  • Patricia Viseur-Sellers - Special Legal Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
5:30-7:00 p.m. Keynote Discussion - Women's Human Rights Activism: Where Did We Start, Where Should We Go?
  • Frances "Sissy" Tarlton Farenthold - Former Texas State Representative and Co-Founder of the National Women's Political Caucus
  • Arvonne S. Fraser - Senior Fellow Emerita, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; and former U.S. Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
  • Irene Tinker - Professor Emerita, Department of City and Regional Planning and Department of Women's Studies, University of California - Berkeley; and Co-Founder of the International Center for Research on Women
  • Brenda Cossman, facilitator - Professor of Law, University of Toronto
7:30 p.m. Dinner (By Invitation Only)

Friday, April 13
Old Regent's Conference Room (Room 212), University of Texas Main Building

(Map to the Main Building)

8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
9:00-10:45 a.m. Panel #2 - Governing Movement: Challenges of the Feminization of Migration
  • Karen Juckett, student chair - LBJ School of Public Affairs, Latin American Studies
  • Natalia Deeb-Sossa - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California-Davis
  • Jennifer Mendez - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of William and Mary
  • Nicola Piper - Consultant, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
  • Colin Rajah - Program Director for International Migrant Rights and Global Justice, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
  • Angela Steusse, student discussant - University of Texas, Department of Anthropology
  • Cristina Tzintzún - Project Director, Workers Defense Project
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Panel #3 - Governing Labor: Women in the Informal Labor Market
  • Philomila Tsoukala, Chair - Visiting Assistant Professor, Emerging Scholars Program, University of Texas School of Law
  • Prabha Kotiswaran - Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Kristin Sampson - Senior Research Assistant, Engendering Economic and Social Justice Project, Center of Concern
  • Hila Shamir - S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
  • Molly Spieczny, student discussant - University of Texas School of Law
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel #4 - Governing Health: the Gendered Nature of the HIV/AIDS Crisis
  • Nicole Angotti, student chair - University of Texas, Sociology Department
  • Judith Auerbach - Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy, San Francisco AIDS Foundation
  • Francis Dodoo - Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State University
  • Neville Hoad, discussant - Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Texas
  • Rachel Holmes - Founder/Secretary, Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign, UK
3:15-5:00 p.m. Panel #5 - Gendering Governance: Where Do We Go From Here?
  • Lindsey Ford, student chair - University of Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Asian Studies
  • Hilary Charlesworth - Professor of Law, Australian National University
  • Brenda Cossman - Professor of Law, University of Toronto
  • Kathleen Staudt - Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso
  • Rita Stephan - Ph.D. Candidate and Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology
  • Mariama Williams - Research Associate, International Gender and Trade Network, and Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era