[WCUSP] Fwd: Conference on Gender and Security: Bridging the Gulf Between Theory and Practice, December 1st

[Odile Hugonot Haber]

Susan Wright is a WILPF member.

WILPF Ann Arbor will organize on going meeting
after this conference as follow up to present a bigger
conference in March relating more to the Middle East
this is a beginning!

Odile Hugonot Haber

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Wright, Susan <spwright at umich.edu>
Date: Nov 14, 2006 10:56 PM
Subject: Conference on Gender and Security: Bridging the Gulf Between
Theory and Practice, December 1st
To: odilehh at gmail.com, "Haber, Robert" <megiddo at umich.edu>




Odile and Alan, here is the conference announcement, both below and in
an attachment. Odile, could you forward to anyone on the WILPF list
who would be especially interested? Meanwhile, I will also check that
IRWG is getting out a mailing to your list.--Susan

Gender and Security:
Bridging the Gulf
Between Theory and Practice





Friday, December 1, 2006

9:00 AM–4:30 PM

2239 Lane Hall

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Campus

Carol Cohn, Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights

Jennifer Klot, Social Science Research Council

Laura Sjoberg, Political Science, Duke University

Anne Sisson Runyan, Women's Studies, University of Cincinnati

Sandra Whitworth, Political Science and Women's Studies, York University



Moderated by:

Susan Wright, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Suzanne Bergeron, Women's Studies, U-M–Dearborn



Experts explore the present tensions between feminist theories of
security and actual practices on the part of states and international
organizations, particularly in the light of recent UN efforts to
redress women's unequal positions and roles in areas such as armed
conflict, arms control, and peacebuilding.

9:00 AM: Welcome, Carol Boyd, Director of IRWG, and Susan Wright

9:30 AM: Sandra Whitworth: Gender in the Theory and Practice of
International Politics: Current Issues



10:15 AM:  Jennifer Klot: Gender in Peacebuilding

11:15 AM: Sandra Whitworth, response and discussion

1:15 PM: Carol Cohn: The Gendered Practice of Nuclear Proliferation Politics



2:00 PM: Laura Sjoberg: Gender and the Political Practice of Just War
Stories, response and discussion



3:15 PM: Anne Sisson Runyan: Summary of the issues and discussion.



This event is free and open to the public.

Support for this event provided by the Office of the Vice President
for Research, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute,
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Social Work, Women's
Studies Program, Women's Studies Program (U-M Dearborn).



Institute for Research on Women and Gender

204 S. State Street, 1136 Lane Hall

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290

http://www.umich.edu/~irwg; phone: 734-764-9537



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Terri D. Torkko

Event Coordinator

U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender

204 South State Street, 1136 Lane Hall

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290



734-764-9537

fax: 734-764-9533
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