Friday, April 15th, 2016  8:30am-4pm

ACES Library and Alumni Center
1101 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Opening Remarks

Time: 9:00am-9:15am
Location: Heritage Room

Dr. Colleen Murphy
Focal Point Faculty Organizer, Director of Women and Gender in Global Perspectives
College of Law and Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Chodzko-Zajko
Dean of Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Panel 1: Gender Dimensions of Global Health

Location: Heritage Room
Time: 9:15am-10:35am
Moderator: Dr. Karen Tabb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Speaker:
“Empowerment of Women for Promoting Health and Quality of life.”
Dr. Snehendu B. Kar, Professor Emeritus of Public Health and of Asian American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles

Doctoral Students:
“Establishing a Women’s Health Agenda in the post-2015 World: Where are Women’s Voices?”
Rachel Smith, College of Medicine and Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Female-led Migration and Transnational Motherhood”
Maria Piñeros, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Break Time: 10:35am-10:45am

Panel 2: Gender and Violence

Location: Heritage Room
Time: 10:45am-12:00pm
Moderator: Dr. Colleen Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Guest Practitioner:
“Representing Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence”
Rebekah E. Niblock, J.D., Immigration Attorney, The Immigration Project

Doctoral Students:
“Community Responses to Violence against Women: Grassroots Efforts for Empowering Women and Capacity Building in India”
Suvarna Menon, Department of Clinical and Community Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Riding the Pink Tide: Feminist Strategies of Resistance in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador”
Rachel Lauren Storm, Department of Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lunch Break & Poster Session

Location: Heritage Room
Time: 12:00pm-12:50pm

Panel 3: Economics & Ecology in Gender and Development

Location: Monsanto Room
Time:1:00pm-2:20pm
Moderator: Dr. Juan Andrade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Speaker:
“Subsidizing Drip Irrigation: the (re)feminization of agrarian labor in India”
Dr. Trevor Birkenholtz, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Doctoral Student/Visiting Scholar:
“Climate Change and Impacts on Nutrition, Food Security, and Gender: Evaluating Development Policy in Honduras”
Elizabeth Sloffer, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Integrating women’s traditional knowledge into the fabric of socio-economic development in Morocco”
Bernadette Montanari, Visiting Scholar, Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy (SDEP), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Break Time: 2:20pm-2:30pm

Panel 4: Logics of Women and Work

Location: Monsanto Room
Time: 2:30pm-3:50pm
Moderator: Dr. Chi-Fang Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Speaker:
“Three Models for Compensating Family Caregivers”
Dr. Richard L. Kaplan, College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Doctoral Students:
“Does labor formalization impose externalities on informally employed women?: Considering unpaid care”
Lenore Matthew, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Breaking Through Barriers: Marketplace Engagement as a Self-Empowering Mechanism among Female Subsistence Entrepreneurs”
Srinivas Venugopal, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Closing Remarks

Location: Monsanto Room
Time: 3:50pm-4pm
Dr. Chi-Fang Wu
Focal Point Faculty Organizer, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign