Violence and Vulnerability Conference Agenda

November 13-14, 2009

School of Law

Room 575G

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13

4:00 - 6:15 pm - Panel I: Violence and Vulnerability

Susan J. Brison : Dartmouth College

Gender-Based Violence as a Politically Significant Event

 Pamela Scully: Emory University

Theorizing Gender-based Violence and Concepts of Female Vulnerability

 Julie Goldschied: City University of New School, New York City

Ending Violence Against Women: The Utility and Limits of the Gender Framework

Carol J. Petersen: University of Hawaii

Dangers in the System that Purports to Protect Sex Workers and Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

6:30 pm DINNER - presentation by Kate Nace Day and Alice Foley Winn: Combating Sex Trafficking - A Human Rights Film Festival and Academic Conference

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14

9:00 - 11:00 am - Panel II: Framing Violence

Deborah M. Weissman: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Shifting Paradigms for State Intervention: Gender-Based Violence in Cuba

 Ann Russo: DePaul University

Theorizing the recent shifts in the US mainstream feminist antiviolence movement

 Katie E. Oliviero: University of California, Los Angeles

Conserving Vulnerability: Affecting Victiminzation in Contemporary Reactionary Movements

 Maneesha Deckha: University of Victoria

The "Subhuman" as a Cultural Agent of Violence

11:15 - 1:15 pm- Panel III: Violence and Culture

L. Amede Obiora:

Beneath the Veil: Rape, Domesticity, and Agency in Kenya

 Mary Ann Case: University of Chicago

"You're Telling Me It's Wrong to do to the Prisoners What the Army Does to Its Own Soldiers?" Gender Performance Requirements of the U.S. Military in the War on Islamic Terrorism

 Jane Eggers: University of Utah

Reflections on the Uses and Abuses of Culture in Domestic Violence Discourses

 Lisa Muftic: Georgia State University

Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Conflict Bosnia: Incidence and Attitudes among Muslim Women

1:15 - 2:30 pm LUNCH - presentation by Frances L. Ansley, Karla Alistair and McKandus Newbern

2:45 - 4:45 pm - Panel IV: Violence and the State

Madelaine Adelman: Arizona State University

Battering States: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel

 Ayelet Blecher-Prigate: Sharei Mishpat Law College

What's Rape Got To Do With It?

Ruramisai Charumbira: University of Texas, Austin

Rape, the Long Haunting Shadow of Liberation Wars in Africa: A Critical Reflection

Rebecca Hart: Center for Reproductive Rights

Perpetuating Violence: Sexual Violence Against Native American Women and the Denial of Reproductive Healthcare Services

Co-sponsored by The Institute for Developing Nations, the Vulnerability Studies Program of the Race and Difference Initiative, and the Feminist and Legal Theory Project