May
12-13, Monday-Tuesday, Workshop on Sustainable
Biofuels and Human Security: Critical Issues of Gender,
Environment,
and Food Workshop, (Program Details), Heritage
Room, ACES Library, Information and Alumni Center, 1101 S.
Goodwin Ave., Urbana, sponsored by EBI (Energy Biosciences
Institute) at UIUC and UCB; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives
Program; Center for Advanced Bioenergy Ressearch; Arms Control,
Disarmament, and International Security; College of Agricultural,
Consumer and Environmental Sciences; European Union Center;
Human and Community Development; and International Programs
and Studies.
*****
PAST
SRING 2008 EVENTS
January
31, Thursday, 11:00 a.m.: WUN Video Seminar on Contemporary
China: Theme: Media & Security: The Internet and Mobile
Phones in Rural China, Dr. Rachel Murphy,
St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, Please
Note Change of Location to Room 103, 508 S. Sixth St., Champaign,
sponsored by World University Network, WGGP, and CEAPS. [For
full schedule, see http://www.wun.ac.uk/chinacenter/documents/poster_USletter.pdf ]
February
14, Thursday, 4:00 p.m.: Biofuels and the World
Food Situation, Joachim
von Braun, Director General of the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - a member of the Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Washington,
DC, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana,
sponsored by ACES Global Connect, WGGP and others.
February
15, Friday, 5:00 p.m.: DEADLINE for Submitting
Applications for WGGP Award Opportunities for New
and Continuing Graduate Students. For details about $13,000
Goodman Fellowship and other grants, see: lhttp://www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp/grantfund.shtml
March
6, Thursday, 4:00 p.m., CAS
Initiative: Nations of Immigrants, Donna
Gabbacia, Director, Immigration History Research Center,
University of Minnesota, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum,
600 South Gregory St., Urbana, sponsored by Center for Advanced
Study, WGGP, Dept. of History and others.
April
9, Wednesday, 12 noon: International Migration
of Health Care Workers, Noreen Sugrue,
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC, 326
Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, sponsored by Migration
Studies Group.
April
10, Thursday, 12 Noon: Designing Disability
Rights: Understanding the Role that Disability Organizations
Play in Transforming a Rights-Based Approach to
Disability in South Asia, Jennifer
Baldwin, 2007-08 Goodman Fellow, Anthropology, UIUC,
Room 215, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, sponsored
by WGGP. Lunch will be provided with RSVP to
kcmartin@uiuc.edu or call 217-333-1994 by Friday, April 4.
Space is limited so register early.
April
10, Thursday, 4:30 p.m.: "Author's Corner," on
Evelyne Accad's writing, with participation by the author,
at University of IL Bookstore, 809 S. Wright St., Champaign.
Three University of IL alums will present and discuss recent
works in English on Dr. Evelyne Accad: Dr.
Cheryl Toman (Case Western U.), who edited a volume on Accad's
work entitled, On Evelyne Accad: Essays in Literature, Feminism,
and Cultural Studies (Summa, 2007, Scholar's Choice Award);
Dr. Deirdre Bucher-Heistad (U. of Northern Iowa), who edited
another volume of writing about Accad entitled, Explorations:
L'Ecriture d'Evelyne Accad, (L'Harmattan, 2006) and Dr. Cynthia
Hahn (Prof. of French, Lake Forest College), translator of
two of Accad's novels, Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal
in Tunisia, and most recently Poppy of the Massacre (Coquelicot
du massacre, bilingual format, including preface by Hahn
(L'Harmattan, 2006). Also participating will be Dr. Zohreh
Sullivan of the English Department, whose essay is included
in Toman's volume above. Dr. Evelyne Accad will also speak
about her fiction and criticism. These recent works will
be available for purchase after discussion of their content.
A second session will follow on Francophone topics by current
graduate students in French: Arnaud Perret, Nicola Dach,
and Dan Maroun. All discussion will end by 6:45 p.m. For
more information about Prof. Accad, see http://www.french.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/accad.html
April
10, Thursday, all-day conference: Race, Diversity
and Campus Climate: Keynote Speaker, Dr. Arturo
Madrid on "Globalism and its Discontents:
Old Thoughts for a New Century," at the Illini
Union, 1401 W. Green St.,, Urbana, sponsored by Center for
Democracy in a Multiracial Society, WGGP and others; For
details, see http://cdms.ds.uiuc.edu/pages/Conferences/Index.htm
April
14, Monday, 12 Noon: Energy Conservation in Buildings:
A Community-Wide Alternative Approach, William
Rose, Research Associate, Architecture, UIUC, Room
101 International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street,
Champaign, sponsored by WGGP.
April
30, Wednesday, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.: WGGP
Spring Reception, honoring GRID graduates and
WGGP Award Recipients, Room 101 International Studies Building,
910 S. 5th St., Champaign.
May
7, Wednesday, 12 Noon: Provost's Spring Lecture
on Gender Equity: "The Advancement of Women Scholars: The New Female Muslim Thinkers," Souad Halila, 314A Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana.
*****
PAST
FALL 2007 EVENTS
Sept.
5: 4:00
p.m., A
CAS/MillerCommm Event: Abdullahi
Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law,
Emory University, Islam and the Secular State:
Negotiating the Future of the Religious Law of Islam, Third
Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, sponsored
by Program for the Study of Religion, Program in South Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies, WGGP, and others.
Sept.
10: 4:00
p.m., CAS Initiative on Science and Technology in the Pacific
Century (STIP):
Philip Yeo, Chairman of the Standards, Productivity
and Innovations Board (SPRING Singapore), Special Advisor to the
Prime Minister for Economic Development, Building a Knowledge-Based
Economy Pyramid, Room 612/614, Institute for Genomic Biology,
1206 W. Gregory, Urbana.
Sept.
13, Thursday,
8:15 a.m - 4:30 p.m., and Sept. 14, Friday.
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Conference
on Global Perspectives on Women's
Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Medications
and Services in Sub-Saharan Africa, 101
International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street, Champaign,
sponsored by WGGP, Center for African Studies, Department of
Geography, and others.
Sept.
18, 3
pm - 5 pm, CAS Initiative on Science and Technology in the
Pacific Century (STIP):
Richard Herman, Chancellor, Charles Zukoski,
Vice Chancellor for Research, Thomas Ulen, Swanlund
Chair and Professor, College of Law, Moderator, The University
of Illinois' Place in Asia's Changing Scientific Landscape , Auditorium,
Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana.Sept.
21, 12;00 Noon, Yana Hashamova, The Ohio
State University, Trafficking in the Balkans: Screening
Imaginary and Real Trauma, Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1st Floor,
Foreign Languages Building, sponsored by Comparative Literature,
WGGP, and others.
Sept.
21-22, International Conference, Building
the Balkans Anew: From Metaphor to Market, Keynote
Address by Robert Hayden, Professor of Anthropology,
Law and Public and International Affairs, Director, Center
for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh,
and Closing Address by Louis Sell, Executive
Director, American University in Kosovo Foundation. sponsored
by Russian and EastEuropean Center, WGGP, and others. [For
program details, see: http://www/reec.uiuc.edu/events/annual.html ]
Sept.
24-26, International Forum on the Diabetes
Epidemic: Cultural, Educational and Medical Perspectives on
Building Synergies for Mexican and US Populations, sponsored
by College of Medicine, College of ACES, Department of Human
and Community Development, and WGGP. [For registration and
program details, see http://www.ifde.uiuc.edu/ ]
Oct.
4, 11:00
a.m., WUN Teleconference on Contemporary China, Theme:
Environment and Sustainability; Stevan Harrell,
Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of Chinese,
University of Washington, Seattle, Resources, Development
and Environment: a Tangle of Contradictions?, G58 Foreign
Languages Bldg., 707 S. Mathews, Urbana. [For full schedule,
seehttp://www.wun.ac.uk/chinacenter/documents/poster_USletter.pdf ]Oct.
5,
10:00 a.m., Douglas Massey interview on WILL-AM
Radio-Focus 580. He will be on campus for a MillerComm presentation
on "Understanding America's Immigration Crisis" on
Thursday, Oct. 11. (Please see Oct. 11 listing.)
Oct.
8,
5:00 - 6:00 p.m., Reception
in honor of Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwean
playwirght, film maker, and novelist, jointly hosted by WGGP
and GWS, Gender and Women's Studies House, 911 S. Sixth St.,
Champaign. (Please see following two listings.)
Oct.
8,
7:00 p.m., Showing of Dangarembga's Film, Everyone's Child,
Studio Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500
S. Goodwin, Urbana, sponsored by Department of Theatre, Center
for African Studies, WGGP, and others.
Oct.
8,
12:00 noon, Migration Studies Reading Group meeting in preparation
for Doug Massey's Oct. 11 visit as a MillerComm speaker. Massey
is one of the most prominent sociologists working on U.S. immigration
today. We will read selected articles and discuss his work.
Ilana Akresh, (Dept. of Sociology), will be the facilitator.
Location: Latina/o StudiesConference Room. Please contact Dorothee
Schneider (schndr@uiuc.edu) if you are interested. A reading
package will be available to all attendees in advance. (Please
see Oct. 11 listing below.)
Oct.
9,
4:00 p.m., Public Lecture by Tsitsi
Dangarembga, Zimbabwean playwright, film maker, and
novelist, An African Woman's Voice in Drama, Film, and
Fiction, Studio Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing
Arts, 500 S. Goodwin, Urbana, sponsored by Department of Theatre,
WGGP, and others.
Oct.
11, 4:00 p.m., A CAS/MillerComm Event: Douglas
Massey, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, Understanding
America's Immigration Crisis, Knight Auditorium,
The Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, sponsored
by the Center for Advanced Study, WGGP and others.
By the
late 20th century, every developed country had become an
immigrant-receiving society, drawing migrants primarily from
the developing world. Professor Massey's book, Return
to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration
from Western Mexico (1987) focuses on the social mechanisms
promoting and sustaining emigration from Mexico to the United
States. Worlds in Motion: Understanding International
Migration at the End of the Millennium (1998) develops
a theoretical synthesis to account for immigration. Beyond
Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Age of Economic
Integration (2002) uses the same theoretical framework
to analyze the history of Mexico-U.S. migration, offers a
critique of past U.S. policies, and suggests avenues for
future reform.
African Americans are uniquely segregated in American cities, and since
the publication of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of
the Underclass (1993), Dr. Massey has been working on the consequences
of segregation for African Americans and Latinos of African ancestry. Segregation
figured prominently in explanations for black underachievement in the Source
of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges
and Universities (2003), and it interacts with shifts in the U.S.
income distribution to yield a rising concentration of poverty that, in
turn, intensifies social disorder and violence that undermines the health
of African Americans, reduces their life expectancy, and impairs their
cognitive development.
Oct.
15, 12:00 Noon, Provost's
Annual Lecture on Gender Equity: Virginia
Valian, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology,
Hunter College, Why So Slow? The Advancement
of Women, Auditorium, Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews
Ave., Urbana, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, WGGP,
and others.
Oct.
19, 12:00 Noon, Gale Summerfield, WGGP
Director and Associate Professor, Human and Community Development, Immigration
and Human Security, Latzer Hall, University YMCA,
1001 S. Wright St., Champaign, sponsored by University YMCA
Fall Friday Forum and others.
Oct.
25, 11:00
a.m., WUN Teleconference on Contemporary China, Theme:
Governance & Society: Gale
Summerfield, Director, Women and Gender in Global
Perpsectives Program, Associate Professor, Human and Community
Development, UIUC: Gender and Changing Opportunities in
China, G58 Foreign Languages Bldg., 707 S. Mathews, Urbana.
[For full schedule, see http://www.wun.ac.uk/chinacenter/documents/poster_USletter.pdf ]
Nov.
1, 12:00
Noon to 1:00 p.m., WUN Teleconference on Contemporary
China, Theme: Governance & Society: Tom
Ginsburg, Professor, Political Science and Law, UIUC: Chinese
Administrative Law in Comparative Perspective, G58 Foreign
Languages Bldg., 707 S. Mathews, Urbana. [For full schedule,
see http://www.wun.ac.uk/chinacenter/documents/poster_USletter.pdf ]
Nov.
2-3, India Sixty: The Critical Questions, Keynote
Address: Ambassador Ronen Sen, Indian
Ambassador to the US, 210 Illini Union, 1401 W. Green, Urbana.[For
additional information, please see http://www.psames.uiuc.edu/India60/ ]
Nov.
6, 7:00 p.m., Salata Baladi, Film
by Egyptian Director Nadia Kamel on identity, religion,
and nationalism in contemporary Egypt; 223 Gregory Hall, 810
S. Wright St., Urbana, sponsored by Center for South Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Human and Community
Development, WGGP and others.
Nov.
8, 11:00
a.m., WUN Teleconference on Contemporary China, Theme:
Governance & Society: Ed Friedman, Professor,
University of Wisconsin-Madison: China's Economic Rise
and the Prospects of Democratization, G58 Foreign Languages
Bldg., 707 S. Mathews, Urbana. [For full schedule, see http://www.wun.ac.uk/chinacenter/documents/poster_USletter.pdf ]
Nov.
9-10, Fifth Annual Asian Film Festival: Southeast Asian
Popular Cinema, Boardman Theater, 126 W. Church
St., Champaign, sponsored by the Center for East Asian and
Pacific Studies, WGGP, and others. [ For the list of films
and descriptions, see http://www/aems.uiuc.edu/events/filmfestival/filmfest_2007.html ]
Nov.
15, 11:00
a.m., WUN Teleconference on Contemporary China, Theme:
Media & Security: Yingjin Zhang, Professor,
University of California, San Diego: Remapping Beijing:
Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema, G58 Foreign Languages
Bldg., 707 S. Mathews, Urbana. [For full schedule, see http://www.wun.ac.uk/chinacenter/documents/poster_USletter.pdf ]
Dec.
6, 11:00
a.m., WUN Teleconference on Contemporary China, Theme:
Governance & Society: Jieyu Liu, White
Rose East Asia Centre, University of Leeds: Gender at Work
in China's Urban Work Units, G58 Foreign Languages Bldg.,
707 S. Mathews, Urbana. [For full schedule, see http://www.wun.ac.uk/chinacenter/documents/poster_USletter.pdf ]
*****
PAST
EVENTS
SPRING
2007
January
29, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP Noon Seminar
Series: Christina Jalasi, Natural Resources
and Environmental Sciences, UIUC: "The Gender
Dynamics of Charcoal Production in Relationship with Deforestation
of the Miombo Woodlands: A Case of Zambia," Room
101, International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street.
January
31, Wednesday, 7:30 pm, CAS Initiative on Immigration and
ILIR: Eliseo Medina, Vice President, Service
Employees International Union, Washington, DC: “The
New Immigrant Work Force: Unions, Community and the American
Dream,” Levis
Faculty Center, Third Floor, 919 West Illinois Street.
February
5, Monday: CAS Initiative on Mega-Disasters: “Solidarities
Across Borders: Gender, Race, and Class in Post-Disaster Reconstruction,” Levis
Faculty Center, Third Floor, 919 West Illinois Street: Morning
Session: 9:30-12: “Tsunami and Hurricanes Andrew
and Mitch Reconstruction”: Fatima Burnad (Society
for Rural Education and Development, India), Juanita Mainster (Centro
Campesino – Farmworker Center, Inc., US), Yamilet
Mejia (Women’s Network Against Violence, Nicaragua);
Afternoon Session: 1:30 –3:00 pm: “Katrina
Reconstruction”: Margaret Prescod (Crossroad’s
Women’s Center, US), Curtis Mohammad (Community
Labor United and the People’s Hurricane Fund, US), Brenda
Robineaux (Principal Chief of the Houma Nation, US), Beverly
Wright (Deep South Center for Environmental Justice,
Xavier University of Louisiana, US); Roundtable Discussion:
3:00 – 4:00
pm.
February
6, Tuesday, 4 p.m., CAS Initiative on Immigration: Jim
Barrett, Professor, History, UIUC, “Global,
Local, and Personal: Understanding theHistory of Immigration
to the United States in the Twentieth Century,” Comments
by Augusto Espiritu, Associate Professor, History,
UIUC, LevisFaculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street.
February
12, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP and CDMS
Immigration Brown Bag Series: Sylvia Puente, University
of Notre Dame: "Perspectives on Illinois Immigrant
Integration Policies," Studio Room 1009,
Doris Kelley ChristopherHall, 904 W. Nevada Street.
February
19, Monday, 12 noon, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Seminar and WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Gale Summerfield,
Director of WGGP and Associate Professor, Human and Community
Development, UIUC: "Social Entrepreneurship,
Gender, and Globalization," Room 101, International
Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street.
February
26, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Huixia
Liu, Freeman Fellow, Northwest University, Xi'an China, “Healthcare
Reforms inChina,” Room 101, International
Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street.
March
5, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP and CDMS Immigration Brown Bag Series: Jorge
Chapa, Director, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial
Society, UIUC: " Our Dysfunctional Immigration
System at a Breaking Point," Room 210, Illini
Union, 1401 West Green Street.
April
2, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP and CDMS Immigration Brown Bag Series: Geoffrey
Hewings, Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Economics,
UIUC: "Economic Advances of Immigration," Room
210, Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street.
April 11,
Wednesday, 1:30 pm, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Rose
Korang-Okrah, School of Social Work, UIUC, "Risk
and Resilience: Perspectives of Ghanaian Widows on Loss of
Property Rights," Studio
Room 1009, Doris Kelley Christopher Hall, 904 W. Nevada Street.
April
17, Tuesday, 12 noon, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Russell
Horwitz, Post Doc 2006-07 Goodman Fellow, School of Medicine,
UIUC, “Examining Community Attitudes towards
Consensual and Non-Consensual Sex in Haiti,” Room
403, Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street.
April
23, Monday, 12 noon, WGGP Noon Seminar Series: Paola
León, 2005-06 Goodman Fellow, School of Social
Work and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UIUC, Understanding
Violence Against Women Within Cultural Context: The Community
of Chari in Southern Peru,
Room 101 International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street.
*************************
SPRING
2006 Seminars, Forums, and Co-sponsorships
January 27, Friday, 4 pm, CAS Forum on Critical
Issues: Immigration,
Panel Moderator: Noreen Sugrue (Assistant Professor,
WGGP), Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois Street,
sponsored by Center for Advanced Study
February 13, Monday, 12 noon, Gender Issues in China
Since WTO Accession, by Gale Summerfield (Director of WGGP
and Associate Professor, Human and Community Development), 101
International
Studies Bldg., 910 S. 5th St., sponsored by East Asian and Pacific
Studies and WGGP
February 15,
Wednesday, 4:00-5:30 pm, CAS initiative on Megacatastrophies:
Science, Policy and Human Behavior: The Pakistan Earthquake:
A Wake-up Call for Mid-America?, Third
Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., sponsored
by Center for
Advanced Study
February 17,
Friday, 3 pm, Transnational Seminar: Shock and Awe:
Women, Garment, Sex, and Domestic Workers: Economical Survival
Strategies in Bangladesh, by Kathryn
Ward (Professor
of Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale),
Room 336 Lincoln
Hall, 702 South Wright Street, sponsored by Sociology Dept.,
WGGP, and others
February 23-25,
Thursday-Saturday, Joint Area Centers Symposium on Criminal Trafficking
and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global
and Regional Migration, MillerComm Keynote on February 23, 7:30
pm,
Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: A Global Problem by
Susan Forbes Martin (Executive Director, Institute for the
Study of International
Migration, Georgetown University) at Levis Faculty Center,
919 W. Illinois Street
February 27,
Monday, 12 Noon WGGP Seminar: Women’s
Share in Cotton Production in Southwest Burkina Faso, by
Batamaka Some (PhD Candidate, Anthropology), 101 International Studies
Bldg., 910 S. 5th Street
February 27,
Monday, 4 pm, MillerComm W.E.B. DuBois Lecture: 21st-Century Color
Lines and Other Lines: The Challenge of Pan-Africanism
by Bill Fletcher (President, TransAfrica Forum, Washington
DC), Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, sponsored
by African
American Studies and Research Program and Center for African
Studies
March 3, Friday,
9 am - 4:30 pm, Rural Health Symposium, Carle
Auditorium, Carle Education Center, Urbana sponsored by WGGP
CANCELLED: March
8, Wednesday, International Women’s Day
Film Festival: Born into
Brothels [India]
at 1:00 pm; Sunset Story [US] at 4:00 pm; King
of Masks [China] at 7:00 pm.
Hosted by C-U
film critic, Connie Hosier, all films will
be shown in Room 407, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green,
sponsored by WGGP,
Center for Advanced
Study, Gender and Women’s Studies, and International
Center for Qualitative Inquiry
March 14, Tuesday,
7:30 pm, MillerComm: The Yalta Conference and Ronin
Office Ladies: Two Plays by the Seinendan
Japanese Theatre
Troupe , directed by Oriza
Hirata (Tokyo, Japan),
performed in Lincoln Hall, 702 South Wright Street, sponsored
by East Asian
and Pacific Studies and East Asian Languages and
Cultures
March 28, Tuesday,
12 noon, Traditional Discourses on Islamic Law in Palestine, by Lynn
Welchman (Director,
Centre
of Islamic
and Middle Eastern Law, University of London),
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Bldg., sponsored
by South
Asian & Middle
Eastern Studies and WGGP
April 3, Monday,
12 Noon WGGP Seminar: Women and Islamic Activism in Egypt, by Sahar
Tawfiq (Egyptian
writer,
educator, and activist,
Cairo), 101 International Studies Bldg, 910 S.
5th St., sponsored by South Asian & Middle
Eastern Studies and WGGP
April 5, Wednesday,
7 pm, WGGP and IGPA Human Security Forum, by Joanne
Lin (Senior
Staff Attorney, Legal
Momentum Immigrant
Women Program, Washington, DC), Karen Musalo (Director, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Hastings College
of Law, University
of California), and Amy Gajda (Assistant Professor,
Journalism and Law, UIUC), Location TBA
April 20, Thursday,
4 pm, Calling Capital to Account: Corporate Gender Responsibility
in the Global Era, by Ruth
Pearson (Director,
Centre of Development Studies, University
of Leeds, UK), Room 407, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois
Street, sponsored by WGGP and others
May 3, Wednesday,
4 - 6 pm, WGGP Spring Reception, Room 101 International
Studies Bldg., 910 S. 5th Street
May 3-6, Wednesday-Saturday,
The Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry:
Ethics, Politics and
Human Subject Research
in the New Millennium. Sessions
to be held at the Illini Union, 1401
W. Green Street. For information on program
and sponsors, go to http://www.qi2006.org
*****
FALL 2005
Why
Justice Is Good For Our Health
Norman Daniels, Harvard University
Monday, October
17th 4 p.m.
Institute
of Government and Public Affairs
Conference Room. 1007 W. Nevada
*****
Noon
Seminar
The
Aging Population and Social Security:
Women as the Problem and the Solution
November 8, 2005
12-1:00 pm
Fleming Room (204-206)
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
504 East Armory, Champaign
Marianne Ferber
Professor Emerita
Department of Economics
University of Illinois
&
Patricia
Simpson
Associate Professor
Industrial Relations
Loyola University
In spite of all
the attention population aging and the resulting
increases in Social
Security (SS)
payments have been receiving, no
consensus has
emerged on whether the system will
soon be in crisis or how
best to deal with the crisis if there
is one. There are, in
fact, almost as many divergent views
as “experts.” One
crucial aspect of the complex picture
that has, however, all too often been neglected
is the
extent to which
women are a large part both of the
problem and of possible solutions. In the
hope of shedding
light
rather than
heat on these
issues, we discuss the impact of
the present SS system on the well-being of
women
and the
effect of the
changing role of women on the SS
system, as well as some proposals
for changes in the SS system as well
as their impact on the well-being of women.
*****
Human
Security Policy Forum
an initiative of Women and Gender
in Global Perspectives in cooperation with the Institute of
Government and Public Affairs
THE FORGOTTEN BENEFICIARIES OF
SOCIAL SECURITY: WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
7 - 9 p.m.
Levis Faculty Center, room 407
919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana
