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Events WID Discussion Group Spring 2008Save the date:Friday, February 15, 2008 – 1 p.m.Professor Laura ZanottiHuman security and Changes in Peacekeeping approaches in the new millennium. Vulnerability and the inclusion of gender.
Thursday, March 13, 2008 – 4 p.m.Dr. Maria Elisa Christie and Dr. Keith MooreInteractive Seminar: Gender Research from Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs)
Friday, April 25, 2008 – 1 p.m.Professor Wilma DunawayNew Directions in the Feminization of Agriculture in Poor CountriesConference Room AInternational Affairs Building526 Prices Fork Road
For more information, contact: Dr. Maria Elisa Christie OIRED WID Program Director 231-4297
Professor Laura ZanottiFriday, February 15, 2008 1 p.m. Conference Room A International Affairs Building 526 Prices Fork Road Human security and Changes in Peacekeeping approaches in the new millennium: Vulnerability and the inclusion of gender.Dr. Laura Zanotti - Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science Professor Zanotti has received her PhD. from Florida International University. Dr. Zanotti’s research interests include critical political and international relations theory and international organization, security, peacekeeping, and democratization. Zanotti’s research focus reflects her previous nine years work experience with the United Nations (as Deputy to the Head of the UN Liaison Office in Zagreb and as a Political Affairs Advisor in Haiti and Croatia). At Virginia Tech, Dr. Zanotti has taught undergraduate courses in International Relations and National Security. Zanotti is currently working on a new book that explores, through a Foucauldian framework, United Nations peacekeeping in the context of the post-Cold War international security regime. For a full bibliography check http://www.psci.vt.edu/main/faculty/zanotti.html For more information, contact: Dr. Maria Elisa Christie OIRED WID Program Director 231-4297 Dr. Maria Elisa ChristieDr. Keith MooreInteractive Seminar: Gender Research from Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs)
Dr. Maria Elisa Christie, Women in International Development Program Director and Dr. Keith M. Moore, Associate Director, SANREM CRSP, both from the Office of International Research, Education and Development (OIRED), will present gender research from Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs). This event will be an interactive seminar and discussion on the role of women in agriculture and natural resource management in developing countries. Virginia Tech works with other U.S. universities, as well as researchers and farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America supporting sustainable agriculture, integrated pest management, and natural resource management. (See SANREM and IPM CRSPs on the OIRED website -- http://www.oired.vt.edu/). In addition to the slide show
and posters, there will be an opportunity for questions and answers.
Light refreshments will be served. This event in the WID discussion
group series also forms part of the Women’s Month Celebration. (For more
information on Women’s Month, see the Women’s Center website at:
http://www.womenscenter.vt.edu/.)
Professor Wilma DunawayFriday, April 25, 2008 1 p.m. Conference Room A International Affairs Building 526 Prices Fork Road New Directions in the Feminization of Agriculture in Poor CountriesProfessor Dunaway is a well respected and recognized scholar of African-American slavery, Appalachian studies, and world systems analysis. Dunaway received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. Her work focuses on those who have been silenced due to race, class, and gender. Dunaway’s research interests include international political economy, world-systems analysis, racial and ethnic conflict, comparative slavery studies, Native American studies, Appalachian Studies, radical feminist perspectives on women’s work, and qualitative research methodologies. At Virginia Tech, Professor Dunaway teaches Women Environment and Development in a Global Perspective; Global Change, Local Impacts; Comparative Social Movements; and Theories of Development and Globalization. In 2005, she received the College of Architecture and Urban Studies’ College Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Dunaway has received many other awards and distinctions, including the Joseph Campbell Prize in Ethnography. The Joseph Campbell Prize is among the most significant honors for scholars of interdisciplinary ethnographic research. Her latest book is called Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South. (Cambridge University Press March, 2008). For more information on her other books, visit http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/vtpubs/mountain_slavery/index.htm For more information, contact: Dr. Maria Elisa Christie OIRED WID Program Director 231-4297
Dr. Leena Kirjavainen, FAO Representative. Dr. Eija Pehu, Senior Advisor for Agriculture and Rural Development. World Bank Dr. Mary Hill Rojas, Director, Women in International Unit, Chemonics International Inc. Dr. Ginny Seitz, Director, Social and Gender Assessment. Millennium Challenge Corporation
Fall 2006 Speaker Series The WID fall speaker series is held the first Friday of each month in the Graduate Life Center, Room B at 1:00 pm. Sept. 1, Fri. Dr. Maria Elisa Christie, Director of Women in International Development at OIRED, Gendered Spaces of Food Preparation in Central Mexico: Approaching Environmental Studies from the House-lot Garden Oct. 6, Fri. Dr. Ilja Luciak, Professor and Chair of Political Science at Virginia Tech, Unintended Consequences: Gender and Politics in Cuba Nov. 3, Fri. Dr. Sarah Karpanty, Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Science, Planting for the Future: The Role of Women and Children in Natural Resource Conservation in Madagascar Dec. 1, Fri. Dr. Wilma Dunaway, Associate Professor, Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, "'The Shrimp Eat Better Than We Do': Philippine Fishing Households Sacrificed for the Global Food Chain" |
