S Y M P O S I U M S C H E D U L E
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
LEVIS FACULTY CENTER
19-20 APRIL 2012
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
THURSDAY NIGHT KEYNOTE @ MUSIC ROOM (2ND FLOOR)
ILLINI BOOKSTORE EVENT
1:00-2:30 Jai Sen "Worlds in Movement, Worlds of Movement : Engaging Critically with Transnational Social Movement Organizing"
The Author's Corner, on the second floor of the Illini Bookstore
3:30 OPENING REMARKS
4:00 OPENING KEYNOTE
Jai Sen, "Worlds in movement, worlds of movement : Engaging critically with transnational social movement organising"
5:15-6:15 RECEPTION
FRIDAY SYMPOSIUM @ READING ROOM (1ST FLOOR)
9:00 WELCOME
9:30 OPENING REMARKS
Soo Ah Kwon and Mimi Thi Nguyen, “The Nongovernmental Impulse”
9:45-10:45 OPENING KEYNOTE
Gada Mahrouse, "The Racialized Politics of Emotion in the Making of Global Citizens"
11:00-12:30 PANEL: Movements, Corporations, States: Negotiations with Governance
PRESENTERS:
Rich Potter (Institute for Communication Research), “Civil Society and 21st Century Socialism: Community Media in Venezuela”
Margaret Fitzpatrick (Global Studies in Education), “A Discourse Analysis of a UNESCO Public/Private Partnership for Girls’ Education”
Ishva Minefree, Jr. (Business), Strategic Alliances between Nongovernmental Organizations and Multinational Corporations: A Brazilian Case Study of Poverty Alleviation”
Rachel Lauren Storm (Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership), “Institutionalizing Feminism(s): The Wicked Entanglement of the NGO, the State, and the Movement in the Ecuadorian Andes”
MODERATOR:
Soo Ah Kwon
12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:30 PANEL: Interventions and Interruptions: Frames for Violence and “Voice”
PRESENTERS:
Martha Webber (Center for Writing Studies), “Decolonizing the Subject Category of ‘Rural Women’ in South Africa, Resisting the “Voices of Women” National Quilt Project Metanarrative”
Karla Palma (ICR), “Local Knowledge and Foreign Agendas: a Case Study of a Local Community in the Chilean Andes and its Relationship with an Extensive Mining Industry and National NGOs”
Anna Lutomia (EPOL), “(Re) examining Activities of Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization”
MODERATOR:
Mimi Thi Nguyen
3:45-5:00 DISCUSSION PANEL/AUDIENCE FEEDBACK: Lines of Flight: Between Theory and Practice
Sarah Cassinelli (English), Shantel Martinez (ICR), Rachel Storm (EPOL), Soo Ah Kwon (HCD, AAS), Mimi Thi Nguyen (GWS, AAS)
5:15-6:45 CLOSING KEYNOTE
Sonia Alvarez, “Beyond the Civil Society Agenda?: Civic Participation and Practices of Governance, Governability and Governmentality”
6:45-7:45 CLOSING RECEPTION
CO-SPONSORS: Asian American Studies, Anthropology, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership, Gender and Women's Studies, Human and Community Development, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Sociology, The Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
LEVIS FACULTY CENTER
19-20 APRIL 2012
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
THURSDAY NIGHT KEYNOTE @ MUSIC ROOM (2ND FLOOR)
ILLINI BOOKSTORE EVENT
1:00-2:30 Jai Sen "Worlds in Movement, Worlds of Movement : Engaging Critically with Transnational Social Movement Organizing"
The Author's Corner, on the second floor of the Illini Bookstore
3:30 OPENING REMARKS
4:00 OPENING KEYNOTE
Jai Sen, "Worlds in movement, worlds of movement : Engaging critically with transnational social movement organising"
5:15-6:15 RECEPTION
FRIDAY SYMPOSIUM @ READING ROOM (1ST FLOOR)
9:00 WELCOME
9:30 OPENING REMARKS
Soo Ah Kwon and Mimi Thi Nguyen, “The Nongovernmental Impulse”
9:45-10:45 OPENING KEYNOTE
Gada Mahrouse, "The Racialized Politics of Emotion in the Making of Global Citizens"
11:00-12:30 PANEL: Movements, Corporations, States: Negotiations with Governance
PRESENTERS:
Rich Potter (Institute for Communication Research), “Civil Society and 21st Century Socialism: Community Media in Venezuela”
Margaret Fitzpatrick (Global Studies in Education), “A Discourse Analysis of a UNESCO Public/Private Partnership for Girls’ Education”
Ishva Minefree, Jr. (Business), Strategic Alliances between Nongovernmental Organizations and Multinational Corporations: A Brazilian Case Study of Poverty Alleviation”
Rachel Lauren Storm (Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership), “Institutionalizing Feminism(s): The Wicked Entanglement of the NGO, the State, and the Movement in the Ecuadorian Andes”
MODERATOR:
Soo Ah Kwon
12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:30 PANEL: Interventions and Interruptions: Frames for Violence and “Voice”
PRESENTERS:
Martha Webber (Center for Writing Studies), “Decolonizing the Subject Category of ‘Rural Women’ in South Africa, Resisting the “Voices of Women” National Quilt Project Metanarrative”
Karla Palma (ICR), “Local Knowledge and Foreign Agendas: a Case Study of a Local Community in the Chilean Andes and its Relationship with an Extensive Mining Industry and National NGOs”
Anna Lutomia (EPOL), “(Re) examining Activities of Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization”
MODERATOR:
Mimi Thi Nguyen
3:45-5:00 DISCUSSION PANEL/AUDIENCE FEEDBACK: Lines of Flight: Between Theory and Practice
Sarah Cassinelli (English), Shantel Martinez (ICR), Rachel Storm (EPOL), Soo Ah Kwon (HCD, AAS), Mimi Thi Nguyen (GWS, AAS)
5:15-6:45 CLOSING KEYNOTE
Sonia Alvarez, “Beyond the Civil Society Agenda?: Civic Participation and Practices of Governance, Governability and Governmentality”
6:45-7:45 CLOSING RECEPTION
CO-SPONSORS: Asian American Studies, Anthropology, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership, Gender and Women's Studies, Human and Community Development, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Sociology, The Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program