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The award winners will be presenting with other student participants at break-out panels on Friday, March 19.

Read biographies of all the participants here.

1:30-3:00: Student Panels:

Sex, Bodies & Borders: Room 112
• Stephanie Chaban (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces): Why Palestinian Women and Girls Do Not Feel Secure: Findings from an Assessment
• Hae Yeon Choo (UW–Madison): The Subject of Migrant Women: The State, the NPOs, and the Gendered Production of Incorporation Regimes in South Korea
• Edith Kinney (University of California–Berkeley): Securitizing Sex, Bodies, and Borders: Feminist Governance, Strategic Framing, and the Politics of Rights in Thailand’s War Against Human Trafficking
Discussants: Katharine Moon and Carol Mueller

Gender & Post-Conflict Violence: Room 205
• Elizabeth Holzer (UW–Madison): When the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is Mother
• Laura Heideman (UW–Madison): Building Civil Society, Building Peace: NGOs and Human Security in the Post-War Moment
• Peace Medie (University of Pittsburgh): Combating Post-Conflict Violence against Women: An Analysis of the Liberian and Sierra Leonean Governments’ Efforts to Address the Problem
• Dörte Rompel (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany): The Interplay of Gender Based Violence and Human Insecurity in Post-war Liberia
Discussants: Narda Henríquez and Valerie Sperling

Law and Justice: Room 220
• Chaitanya Lakkimsetti (UW–Madison): Sexing Security: Globalization, Biopolitics, and Law in Postcolonial India
• Taylor Price (UW–Madison): Examining the Role of Traditional Leaders in Namibia’s Anti-Gender-Based Violence Movement
• Shannon Drysdale Walsh (University of Notre Dame): Uneasy Alliances: Women’s Organizations, Police, and Women’s Security in Developing Regimes
Discussants: Karen Engle and Lisa Brush

Please register by March 10, 2010.

Gender & Human Security Workshop [pdf]

New Perspectives on Gender and Human Security Workshop
at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Friday, March 19^th 9am-5pm [Reception 5pm-7pm]
Saturday, March 20^th 9am-12:30pm

The Pyle Center Auditorium
702 Langdon St. Madison, WI

This workshop features cutting edge work that engages with or adopts a gendered approach to the study of human security, i.e., threats to people’s livelihood, well-being and bodily integrity resulting, for example, from conflict of all kinds, environmental degradation, the spread of infectious diseases, massive population movements, economic decline, food insecurity, and physical violence.

Although conventional notions of security have tended to focus on protecting states from external attack, the concept of human security looks at a broader range of insecurities that individuals and communities face in the context of violence, whether interpersonal, intergroup or international. Perspectives on gender through the lens of human security — rather than or in addition to rights-based or empowerment-centered frames — may raise new questions or offer different strategic choices.

Participants include: Keera Allendorf (University of Michigan), Rae Blumberg (University of Virginia), Lisa D. Brush (University of Pittsburg), Isabel Casimiro (Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique), Karen Engle (University of Texas School of Law), Christina Ewig (UW-Madison), Myra Marx Ferree (UW-Madison), Narda Henríquez (Catholic University, Peru), Natalie F. Hudson (University of Dayton), Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel (UW-Madison), Katharine H.S. Moon (Wellesley College), Carol Mueller (Arizona State University), Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin (University of Minnesota Law School), V. Spike Peterson (University of Arizona), Gay Seidman (UW-Madison), Valerie Sperling (Clark University), Elizabeth Stites (Tufts University), Mangala Subramaniam (Purdue University), Aili Mari Tripp (UW-Madison), and Annick T.R. Wibben (University of San Francisco).

Registration is free, but is required for attendance. http://genderhumansecurity.eventbrite.com/

More information: email Wendy Christensen at wchriste@ssc.wisc.edu

Faculty co-leaders are Professors Christina Ewig (Gender & Women’s Studies and Political Science), Myra Marx Ferree (Sociology), and Aili Mari Tripp (Director, Center for Research on Gender & Women, Political Science, and Gender & Women’s Studies).

Sponsored by the International Gender Policy Research Circle, a multi-national project called Transatlantic Applied Research on Gender Equity Training (TARGET), and the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Co-sponsored by the African Studies Program, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (CREECA), the Center for East Asian Studies, the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE), and the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS).

The Gender and International Policy Research Circle is a research circle on the UW-Madison campus, supported by Global Studies and the International Institute. Please see our website for more information: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/TARGET

Keera Allendorf is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.  She received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Fulbright Fellow in India.  Dr. Allendorf has also worked at the International Center for Research on Women and the Social Development Unit in South Asia at the World Bank.  Her research focuses on the intersections of demography, gender, and family in South Asia.  Much of her work has explored the determinants and consequences of women’s agency.  Currently, she is focusing on family relations, household structure, and family formation, including examining how these structures are changing over time and their links to well-being.
Workshop presentation title: Family Relationships and Women’s Well-Being in India

Rae Lesser Blumberg is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern in 1970 and joined the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia in 1998. She is also Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her academic work revolves around two theories. First is a general theory of gender stratification found in such works as Stratification: Socioeconomic and Sexual Inequality (Wm. C Brown, 1978); “A General Theory of Gender Stratification” (Sociological Theory 1984); and Gender, Family, and Economy: The Triple Overlap (Sage 1991). The second is an evolving theory of gender and economic development as described in such works as “Making the Case for the Gender Variable: Women and the Wealth and Well-being of Nations (U.S.A.I.D. 1989) and EnGENDERing Wealth and Well-being: Empowerment for Global Change, edited by Blumberg, Cathy Rakowski, Irene Tinker and Michael Monteon, (Westview, 1995). Largely in pursuit of her theories, she has worked in over 40 countries on every continent except Antarctica.
Workshop presentation title: Dangerous Money: Gender,  Globalization and Well-being in Ecuador, Laos and Ukraine – and Can Health/Survival be Socio-economic Rights?

Lisa D. Brush is Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she conducts research on poverty, battering, work, welfare, and the state. She teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in sociology, women’s studies, and cultural studies. She practices French horn and Iyengar yoga.
Workshop presentation title: Housing and Hunger as Security Issues for Battered Women

Isabel Casimiro is a feminist scholar and activist, based at the Centre of African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique since 1980. She is co-founder of WLSA (Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust) Regional (1988) and WLSA Mozambique (1990), its first national coordinator from 1990-1995 and founder of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the Centre of African Studies (1990).  She is also a member of various feminist organizations in Mozambique including Fórum Mulher (Woman’s Forum) a network of about 80 organizations on women human’s rights. She is also co-founder of Cruzeiro do Sul – Instituto de Investigação para o Desenvolvimento José Negrão (Southern Cross – José Negrão Research Institute for Develoment, 1998). She was a member of Parliament on behalf of Frelimo Party during 1984-89, after the first multy party elections. She wrote “’Peace on Earth and War at Home,’ Feminism and Women Organizations in Mozambique” (2004); and recently “African Women’s Movements. Changing Political Landscapes,” organized by Aili Mari Tripp, with Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa (2009).
Workshop presentation title: Women’s Rights, Control and Access to Land: National Experiences, Priorities, and Lessons Learned in Mozambique

Karen Engle is Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law at The University of Texas School of Law, and founding director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Gender and Women’s Studies, and is a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. She teaches courses and specialized seminars in public international law, international human rights law and employment discrimination. Professor Engle writes and lectures extensively on international human rights law. Her recent works include “The Force of Shame” (in Rethinking Rape Law, forthcoming 2010)(with Annelies Lottmann), “Judging Sex in War” (Michigan Law Review, 2008), “Calling in the Troops: The Uneasy Relationship Among Human Rights, Women’s Rights and Humanitarian Intervention” (Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2007), and “Feminism and Its (Dis)contents: Criminalizing War-Time Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (American Journal of International Law, 2005).  Her book, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy, is forthcoming by Duke University Press in 2010. Professor Engle received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (2009) and is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.
Workshop presentation title: Human Security: Are Women Part of the Problem or the Solution?

Narda Henríquez is a Peruvian sociologist with a long trajectory in the areas of social change and poverty studies, and gender studies. Dr. Henríquez is a professor at the Catholic University of Peru (PUC), Peru’s leading university and one of the 500 best universities in the world according to European ranking systems (The Higher Education Chronicle of The Times, 2003). Dr. Henríquez was one of the founders of the first women’s studies program (also at her university) and has produced several books on issues of social and political change. She was a major gender consultant to the Commission on Truth and Reconciliation. Dr. Henríquez is the current president of the Peruvian Association of Sociologists.
Workshop presentation title: Violence and Rape: Gender and ethnicity in the conflict and post-conflict in Peru

Natalie Florea Hudson received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton.  She specializes in gender and international relations, the politics of human rights, international security studies, and international law and organization.  Her work has appeared the following academic journals: International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Human Rights, International Journal, Simulation and Gaming, and Global Change, Peace and Security. Her book, Gender, Human Security and the UN: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women (Routledge, 2009) examines the organizational dynamics of women’s activism in the United Nations system and how women have come to embrace and been impacted by the security framework, locally and globally. Dr. Hudson has also done some consulting work related to gender mainstreaming and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 for the European Union and the United Nations.

Workshop presentation title: Resolution 1325 and Security Sector Reform: Legal and Institutional Challenges for UN and EU Peace Operations

Katharine H.S. Moon is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College. Moon received her B.A. from Smith College, magna cum laude, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, Department of Politics. Moon is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations (Columbia University, 1997; Korean edition by Sam-in Publishing Co., 2002) and other publications on the U.S.-Korea alliance and social movements in Korea and Asia (e.g. democratization, women’s movements, migrant workers, human rights).  They are available in edited volumes and academic journals such as Asian Survey and The Journal of Asian Studies and Korean publications such as Changjak gwa Bipyeong,and Dangdae Bipyeong. Currently, Moon is completing a book manuscript Protesting America, Pursuing Democracy:Korean Civil Society in Alliance Politics (forthcoming, GAIA/University of California Press).  Moon received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 to conduct field research in Korea on this subject and was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in 2002-03.

Carol Mueller is Professor of Sociology and currently Interim Director of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. She has written extensively on the women’s movement (eg. See “Women’s Movements” in Blackwell Handbook on Social Movements with Myra Ferree and Women’s Movements of the U.S. and Western Europe with Mary Katzenstein) and social movement theory. For the last few years, her research has focused on the transnational advocacy networks that have sought to address the femicide in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Workshop presentation title: A Confluence of Insecurities: Trade, Drugs, Guns and Border Femicide

Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Professor of Law at the University of Ulster’s Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is co-founder and Associate Director of the Institute. Professor Ní Aoláin received her LL.B. and Ph.D. in law at the Queen’s University Law Faculty in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She also holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School. Professor Ní Aoláin was a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School in 2003-04. Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, human rights law, national security law, and feminist legal theory. She has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, conflict regulation, transitional justice, and sex-based violence in times of war. Her most recent book, Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2006), was awarded the American Society of International Law’s preeminent prize in 2007: the Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship. She was a representative of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at domestic war crimes trials in Bosnia (1996-97). In 2003, she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as Special Expert on promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making.

V. Spike Peterson is a Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, with affiliations in Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies, International Studies and Center for Latin American Studies. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics (2008-2011). Her 2003 book, A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies, introduced an alternative analytics for examining intersections of ethnicity/race, class, gender and national hierarchies in the context of neoliberal globalization. She and Anne Sisson Runyan have recently published Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium. Peterson has held Visiting Research Scholar Fellowships at Australian National University, University of Bristol, University of Göteborg and the London School of Economics. Her current research focuses on global householding, informalization, intersectionality, and global insecurities. She regularly teaches a General Education course (Politics of Difference: Race/Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Sexualities), undergraduate courses in political science and international relations that are cross-listed with Gender and Women’s Studies, and graduate seminars on contemporary social theory and global political economy.
Workshop presentation title: Global Economies and/as Human Insecurities

Ellie Schemenauer is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University in Miami, Florida in 2006. She teaches introductory courses in women’s studies as well as upper-division courses on women and international relations and gender in cross-cultural perspective. Her research has focused on gender, security and illicit drug trafficking in the Americas.
Workshop presentation title: Human Security and International Illicit Drug Trafficking: Women Drug Couriers in the Americas.

Valerie Sperling is Associate Professor of Government and International Relations at Clark University.  She is the author of Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and the editor of Building the Russian State (Westview, 2000). Her research on the Russian women’s movement, as well as on militarism and patriotism in Russia, has been published in Nations & Nationalism, Women & Politics, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and numerous edited volumes.  She is a Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and a founding (and continuing) member of the Editorial Board of Politics & Gender. Sperling received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997.  She is currently working on a study of how youth activism (both Kremlin-sponsored and opposition-oriented) is gendered in Russia. At Clark, she teaches Revolutions and Political Violence, Mass Murder and Genocide under Communism, Transitions to Democracy, Russian Politics, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Globalization and Democracy, and Political Science Fiction.
Workshop presentation title: Private Military Contractors, Peacekeepers, and the Sexual Exploitation of Women in Conflict Zones

Elizabeth Stites is a Senior Researcher in Conflict and Livelihoods at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University.  Her work focuses on the effects of conflict on civilian livelihoods, and ways in which communities, households and individuals adapt or change their livelihood strategies in conflict environments and the repercussions of these changes.  She is particularly interested in the shifts that occur within households and how these changes are experienced by different genders and generations.  At the policy level, Ms. Stites is interested in the effects of international and national policies on community-based livelihood and coping strategies.  Her work on livelihoods began with three years of research on post-apartheid land restitution in South Africa in the1990s, and she has also worked in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan and Bosnia.  Since 2005 she has focused on Uganda, examining civilian livelihoods and protective strategies in the LRA-affected north and the inter-related livelihood and conflict issues in the pastoral northeast.  She is currently co-teaching a graduate class on gender and complex emergencies at Tufts University. Ms. Stites holds a BA from Wesleyan University (CT, USA), a MA from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (MA, USA), and is currently working towards her PhD.  She is based in New York.
Workshop presentation title: Livelihoods and Masculinity under Contestation: Linkages to Violence in Karamoja, Uganda

Mangala Subramaniam is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. Her primary areas are gender, social movements including transnational women’s movements, and research methods.  Her monograph, The Power of Women’s Organizing: Gender, Caste, and Class in India (2006) focuses on the women’s movement in India with specific attention to dalit women’s organizing. She is currently working on a book on social movements (local, national and transnational contexts) forthcoming through Cambridge University Press.  Her ongoing research projects focus on socio-cultural scripting in dissemination of information about HIV/AIDS in India and community resistances to the privatization of water resources in the context of globalization.
Workshop presentation title: State, Security and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Local and Transnational Discourse

Annick T.R. Wibben (University of San Francisco) received her Ph.D. in International Politics from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, UK. She has also holds an M.Soc.Sc. in IR and European Studies from the University of Tampere in Finland and a Vordiplom in Economics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Prof. Wibben continues to be affiliated with the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University where she has been working with the Information Technology, War and Peace Project since 2001. Prof. Wibben teaches International Politics and specializes in security studies, IR theory, and feminist IR.  Before joining the USF faculty, she taught at Brown University, Bryant College, and Wellesley College. In the fall of 2003, she was a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow for Human Security with the National Council for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Prof. Wibben is currently working on her book on Feminist Security Studies. She is also presenting numerous papers in the area of feminist IR and critical security studies, including a paper on “A Continuum Approach to Security Theory” at the 2007 International Studies Association conference. During the summer of 2007 she presented a research seminar “Toward Feminist Security Theory” at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a paper on “The Continuing Impact of Cold War Security Narratives” at a the University of Manchester in the UK. Her Narrating Experience: Raymond Aron and Feminist Scholars Revis(it)ed was published in 1998.

New Perspectives on Gender and Human Security
University of Wisconsin–Madison
March 19-20, 2010

Although conventional notions of security have tended to focus on protecting states from external attack, the concept of human security looks at a broader range of insecurities that individuals and communities face. Perspectives on gender through the lens of human security — rather than or in addition to rights-based or empowerment-centered frames — may raise new questions or offer different strategic choices.

The workshop organizers (Christina Ewig, Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Tripp) invite interested scholars, including graduate students, to attend this two-day interdisciplinary workshop to participate in this collective discussion. In addition, we invite graduate students to present their papers on March 20 in working group sessions led by senior scholars whose own contributions are featured in our panels. From the pool of graduate student participants who submit proposals, we will be able to fund the travel and lodging costs for two non-UW student participants, selected on a competitive basis.

The workshop will feature cutting edge work that engages with or adopts a gendered approach to the study of human security, i.e., threats to people’s livelihood, well-being and bodily integrity resulting, for example, from conflict of all kinds, environmental degradation, the spread of infectious diseases, massive population movements, economic decline, food insecurity, and physical violence. We are particularly interested in the linkages among various types of insecurity related to conflict and violence. The workshop will focus on new approaches to human security that adopt a gender perspective and also connect multiple issues, such as violence and HIV, food security and war expenditures, PTSD and intimate partner violence. In particular, we are interested in papers that look at:

• Connections between various forms of human security as they relate to gender particularly in areas of conflict and violence;
• Creative policies that address gendered problems in more holistic ways;
• Transnational and domestic responses to problems of human security as they relate to women, including social movements, networks, coalitions and other forms of societal mobilization;
• Transnational flows of ideas, cultural influences, norms, and values that shape popular understandings of human security and gender;
• Comparison and contrasts in the problems and solutions to human insecurity and gender in the global North and South.

We are also interested in papers that problematize human security from a feminist perspective:

• How can one best show commonalities in insecurity while at the same time acknowledging power differences between actors based on gender, nationality, race, ethnicity, and other identities?
• How does one think about insecurity in places where state capacity is weak? What can and should feminists demand of the state and what alternative strategies for security can be drawn upon?
• How does theory and/or practice mediate between individual rights and collective security frames for women’s rights?
• What are the limits and benefits of legal redress?
• How do we address problems of insecurity when the solutions have unintended consequences of victimizing another group?
• How do we address problems of insecurity when the solutions create other forms of insecurity?
• Does the human security agenda — with its emphasis on food, health, livelihood and other economic and social concerns — enhance or compete with gender specific issues of violence against women, women’s reproductive rights, and women’s family status and land rights?
• Does a human security approach differ from human rights approaches, especially those that emphasize economic, social and political rights? How does it compare with human capabilities and empowerment approaches?

Proposals should be sent to conference coordinator Wendy Christensen (wchriste@ssc.wisc.edu) and should include:

•  Paper title
•  A 200-300 word abstract/summary of the paper
•  A two-page biography, resume, or curriculum vita of each participant
•  Address, email and telephone numbers

Deadline: February 1, 2010

Sponsored by International Gender Policy Research Circle, Transatlantic Applied Research on Gender Equity Training (TARGET) and the Center for Research on Gender and Women at UW-Madison. Faculty co-leaders include Professor Myra Marx Ferrree (Sociology); Professor Christina Ewig (Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies, UW-Madison) and Professor Aili Mari Tripp (Director, Center for Research on Gender and Women; Political Science, and Gender & Women’s Studies).

The Gender and International Policy Research Circle is research circle on the UW-Madison campus, supported by Global Studies and the International Institute. Please see our website for more information: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/TARGET

For more information contact conference coordinator: Wendy Christensen wchriste@ssc.wisc.edu

The workshop organizers (Christina Ewig, Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Tripp) invite interested scholars, including graduate students, to attend this two-day interdisciplinary workshop to participate in this collective discussion. In addition, we invite graduate students to present their papers on March 20 in working group sessions led by senior scholars whose own contributions are featured in our panels. From the pool of graduate student participants who submit proposals, we will be able to fund the travel and lodging costs for two non-UW student participants, selected on a competitive basis.

The workshop will feature cutting edge work that engages with or adopts a gendered approach to the study of human security, i.e., threats to people’s livelihood, well-being and bodily integrity resulting, for example, from conflict of all kinds, environmental degradation, the spread of infectious diseases, massive population movements, economic decline, food insecurity, and physical violence. We are particularly interested in the linkages among various types of insecurity related to conflict and violence. The workshop will focus on new approaches to human security that adopt a gender perspective and also connect multiple issues, such as violence and HIV, food security and war expenditures, PTSD and intimate partner violence. In particular, we are interested in papers that look at:

• Connections between various forms of human security as they relate to gender particularly in areas of conflict and violence;
• Creative policies that address gendered problems in more holistic ways;
• Transnational and domestic responses to problems of human security as they relate to women, including social movements, networks, coalitions and other forms of societal mobilization;
• Transnational flows of ideas, cultural influences, norms, and values that shape popular understandings of human security and gender;
• Comparison and contrasts in the problems and solutions to human insecurity and gender in the global North and South.

We are also interested in papers that problematize human security from a feminist perspective:

• How can one best show commonalities in insecurity while at the same time acknowledging power differences between actors based on gender, nationality, race, ethnicity, and other identities?
• How does one think about insecurity in places where state capacity is weak? What can and should feminists demand of the state and what alternative strategies for security can be drawn upon?
• How does theory and/or practice mediate between individual rights and collective security frames for women’s rights?
• What are the limits and benefits of legal redress?
• How do we address problems of insecurity when the solutions have unintended consequences of victimizing another group?
• How do we address problems of insecurity when the solutions create other forms of insecurity?
• Does the human security agenda — with its emphasis on food, health, livelihood and other economic and social concerns — enhance or compete with gender specific issues of violence against women, women’s reproductive rights, and women’s family status and land rights?
• Does a human security approach differ from human rights approaches, especially those that emphasize economic, social and political rights? How does it compare with human capabilities and empowerment approaches?

Graduate Student Proposals should be sent to conference coordinator Wendy Christensen (wchriste@ssc.wisc.edu) and should include:

• Paper title
• A 200-300 word abstract/summary of the paper
• A two-page biography, resume, or curriculum vita of each participant
• Address, email and telephone numbers

Deadline: January 15, 2010