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Thursday 10 May 2012

13:00 Welcome

13:15 – 15:00 Panel I: Security and Gendered Bodies

• Amanda Chisholm, University of Bristol, “Striking the Neoliberal Bargain: Gurkhas in Private Security”
• Katharine Millar, Oxford University, “Political Mourning, Private Grief: An Examination of the Public Representation of the Deaths of Female Soldiers in the United States”
• Rune Saugmann, University of Copenhagen, “Mediatized Visual Discourse, Suffering and Gendered (in)security”

Chair: Bina D'Costa, Graduate Institute, Geneva and Australian National University

Discussants: Marysia Zalewski, University of Aberdeen and Xavier Guillaume, University of Geneva

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:15 Panel II: Governing the Global Economy through Gender

• Nafy Niang, University of Lausanne, “Social Change, the Service Economy, and the International: an “Ambivalence” Perspective”
• Nora Natchkova and Céline Schoeni, University of Geneva, “Are all women the same? ILO politics toward women’s labour during the Trente Glorieuses (1948-1978)”
• Sneha Banerjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, “Making Feminist Sense of the Transnational Commercial Surrogacy ‘Industry’”

Chair: Fenneke Reysoo, Graduate Institute, Geneva

Discussants: Elisabeth Prügl, The Graduate Institute, Geneva and Rahel Kunz, University of Lausanne
 

17:30 – 18:30 Keynote

Marysia Zalewski, “Taking Time to Care about Gender: Turning Towards 'low theory'”

18:30-19:30 Apéro/Reception

Friday, 11 May 2012

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote

L.H.M. Ling, “The Dao of World Politics: Gender as a Method”

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:15 Panel III: Post-Colonial Perspectives on the International

• Mark Laffey, SOAS, University of London, and Jane Hayward, Oxford University, “What about China? The Limits of Postcolonialism in International Relations”
• Xavier Guillaume, University of Geneva and Amélie Barras, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, “The Tao of Non-Play: Resistance, Representation and Veiled Women in Turkey”
• Alisha Perrigoue, The New School, New York, “Subalternizing the Subaltern: Everyday Resistance in Early Medieval Times”

Chair: Ganbaatar Baasankhuu, Graduate Institute, Geneva and National University of Mongolia

Discussants: L.H.M. Ling, The New School, New York and Jean-Christophe Graz, University of Lausanne

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Keynote

Wendy Harcourt, “Gender Matters to Whom? Keeping the Politics in Gender and Development”

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:45 Panel IV: Governing Security

• Berit von der Lippe, Norwegian Business School, and Kirsti Stuvøy University College Lillehammer, Norway, "Legitimation and present absences in international security politics. Hegemonic war rhetoric and gender awareness"
• Elgin Brunner, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich, “Gendered Performative Statecraft: A case study of US military documents and their ideological underpinnings”
• Analee Pepper, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, “Gender Analysis as a Predictor in Conflict Early Warning Systems: Theories from the Ivory Tower”

Chair: Christine Verschuur, Graduate Institute, Geneva

Discussants: Wendy Harcourt, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, Editor of Development, and Jonas Hagmann, ETH Zürich.

Organising Committee

• Elisabeth Prügl (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
• Jean‐Christophe Graz (UNIL)
• Xavier Guillaume (UniGE)
• Jonas Hagmann (ETH Zürich)
• Rahel Kunz (UNIL).