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Department of Sociology
UW- Madison

 

Fall 2009 Schedule

Femsem meets Thursdays from 12:30 - 2:00 in 2435 Sewell Social Sciences (unless otherwise noted)

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room

9/3/09

Christina Ewig & Myra Marx Ferree

Organizational meeting

8146

9/10/09

Jenna Nobles

"Migration and Mexican Couples: Heterogeneity in Returns and Preferences"

2435

9/17/09

Christina Ewig & Myra Marx Ferree

Grant Writing Workshop
[see workshop resources]

2435

9/24/09

Diane Elson
Sociology, University of Essex

"Gender Dimensions of the Global Financial Crisis"
[The reception for Diane Elson is 7pm, Tuesday 9/22- click here for the rideshare wiki.]

8108

10/1/09

Susana Lastarria

Some Evidence on the Impact of Micro-Credit on Children's Education in Malawi and India

2435

10/8/09

Wendy M. Christensen

When Politics is Private: Self-Silencing Military Mothers (Practice Job Talk)

2435

10/15/09

Kristy Kelly

Whatever happend to 'comrade'?" Learning to Mainstreaming Gender as Vietnam's Development Policy (Practice Job Talk)

2435

10/22/09

Miriam Glucksman
Sociology, University of Essex

"Women on the Line" revisited. Changes and Continuities in Women's Work"

2435

10/29/09

Lynn Prince Cooke
Social Policy & Sociology, University of Kent

"Equality for Some: Gender, Class and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective"

2435

11/5/09

Angela Barian

Practice Job Talk

2435

11/12/09

Shahirah Mahmood & Taylor Price (shared presentation)

"Traditional Leaders, Modern Problems: Examining the Role of Chiefs in Namibia's Gender-Based Violence Campaign" (Price) and "When is international aid effective in promoting gender equality? Case studies of improving women’s local representation and welfare within community driven development projects in Indonesia" (Mahmood)

2435

11/16/09, 12pm

Sally Kenney, Professor, Department of Law and Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs University of Minnesota Director, Center on Women and Public Policy

Public Lecture:
"Making the Case for Women Judges"

2435

11/16/09, 3pm

Workshop:
"Teaching and Writing Case Studies on Women and Social Change: the Case of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition"

2435

11/19/09

Liz Holzer and Shane Sharp

Interviewing Techniques

2435

12/3/09

Ingrid Robeyns, Practical Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

"Social Justice and the Family"

TBA

12/10/09

Angie Stuart

 

2435

 

 

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Last update: November 9, 2009

Contact Wendy Christensen wchriste@ssc.wisc.edu with questions about this website.