When: October 23-24, 2014

Where: University of Oregon and the Eugene Public Library

Keynote speaker: Diana Abu-Jaber

WGS is co-sponsoring this event.

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Since the field of women and development (WID) emerged in the 1970s, feminist scholars, practitioners and activists have dramatically changed the face of international development – influencing not only the ways development is studied, but also the very ways it is defined. This conference will explore how globalization has had differential effects on men and women in the areas of economic opportunity, environmental justice, technology and media, and migration and how development strategies can advance the goals of equity and justice. 

WGS faculty will be presenting:

• Yvonne Braun: Seeing through Water: Local Narratives of Gender, Environmental Change, and Development in Lesotho
• Lynn Fujiwara: Gender, Migration and Care Work: Paid and Unpaid
• Kristin Yarris: Between Love and Money: Grandmothers, Remittances, and the Moral Economies of Care in Nicaraguan Transnational Families

For more information: Globalization, Gender and Development