5th Annual Critical Voices in Swiss IR Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Critical Voices in Swiss IR provides a platform for dialogue and creates a network of scholars taking non‐traditional approaches to international relations. For the fifth consecutive year, we are bringing together the small but growing community of scholars in Switzerland and beyond employing critical approaches in their research on international affairs, such as social constructivism, critical theory, feminism, historical materialism, post‐structuralism, and post‐colonial theory. We continue our conversations this year with a focus on feminist and post‐colonial approaches.
PROGRAMME
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, the 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, the 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 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, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, “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, Lillehammer University College, 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, The Hague, and Jonas Hagmann, ETH Zürich
Consult here the print programme version
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Elisabeth Prügl, The Graduate Institute
Jean‐Christophe Graz, UNIL
Xavier Guillaume, UniGE
Jonas Hagmann, ETH Zürich
Rahel Kunz, UNIL
This event is organised by the Programme on Gender and Global Change in collaboration with
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Room Bungener, Site Rothschild, 22, rue Rothschild
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