Özlem Altan, Koç University, Turkey
Drucilla Barker, University of South Carolina
Emily Bent, Pace University
Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Rebecca Dingo, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Lamia Karim, University of Oregon
Melissa Fisher, New York University
Kathryn Moeller, University of Wisconsin
Ruby Tapia, University of Michigan
The “business case” for investing in women and girls because it is good for the bottom line has by now permeated the development agenda. While this has brought increased attention to gender issues in the global South, it has also coopted a number of feminist goals. This daylong symposium will draw upon political economy, history of science, feminist rhetoric, politics of global governance, anthropology and other perspectives.
Schedule:
9:00 a.m. Coffee and breakfast
9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks by Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan-Dearborn: Engendering Development Beyond “Smart Economics”
9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Panel 1: Beyond the Financialization of Gender
Lamia Karim, University of Oregon: In Quest for Equality: Female Wage Labor and Entrepreneurship
Melissa Fisher, New York University: Beyond White Corporate Feminism
Özlem Altan, Koç University, Turkey: Provincializing the Business Case: Contradictions from the Field
Moderator: Drucilla Barker, University of South Carolina
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Panel 2: Beyond Neoliberal Girl Power
Rebecca Dingo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: The Value of Girls
Kathryn Moeller, University of Wisconsin: Corporate Financing for Feminist Futures?
Emily Bent, Pace University: Relational Girlhoods, Oppositional Divides: Girls’ Activism at the United Nations
Moderator: Ruby Tapia, University of Michigan
Cosponsored by: Department of Anthropology, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and the Department of English