SAWYER SEMINAR
Framing Globalization and Citizenship:
Perspectives on Gender and Change
Spring 2012
All sessions are held in 3401 Sterling Hall
Co-Conveners: Myra Marx Ferree, Aili Tripp, Christina Ewig
Sponsored by the Center for Research on Gender and Women, with the support of the European Union Center of Excellence and the generous funding of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
What’s New about Globalization? Putting Gender Politics in Historical Context
Friday, January 27, 2012 (8:30am – 5:00pm)
Mounira Charrad, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin
Leila Rupp, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara
Joan Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Bonnie Smith, Board of Governors Professor of History, University of Rochester
From Women's Suffrage to Women's Self-determination? Social Movements and the World Polity
Friday, February 24, 2012 (8:30am – 5:00pm)
Kathy Davis, Senior Researcher, Institute of History and Culture, Utrecht University
Elisabeth Friedman, Associate Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco
Dongxiao Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
Francisco Ramirez, Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Stanford University
Gender Relations and the End of the Cold War: Feminism and Socialism after the End of History
Friday, March 30, 2012 (8:30am – 5:00pm)
Silke Heumann, Lecturer in Women, Gender and Development, International Institute of Social Studies
Andrea Kriszan, Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University
Johanna Regulska, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Jocelyn Viterna, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Reframing Gender Politics Internationally: Where do we go from here?
Friday, April 20, 2012 (8:30am – 5:00pm)
Uma Narayan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Philosophy, Vassar College
V. Spike Peterson, Professor of Political Science, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona
Teresa Valdes, Senior Researcher, Center for the Study and Development of Women (CEDEM), Santiago, Chile
Mieke Verloo, Professor in Comparative Politics and Inequality Issues, Radboud University Nijmegen
