2012
WGD Discussion Series Spring 2012
Urban Homegardens in the Rainforest: Women and the Circulation of Plants in an Amazon City
Dr. Antoinette WinklerPrins, Program Director, Geography and Spatial Science Division, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA; and Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Michigan State University
Friday, January 27, 2012 in Room 136 of McBryde Hall*, 225 Stanger Street, 12:20 pm to 1:10 pm
*Please note that this is not the usual WGD Discussion Series venue.
Niger: Community Development and Gender Relations in the Islamic Sahel
Sarah Lyon-Hill, Masters Student, MURP-MIP at Virginia Tech
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Office of International Research, Education, and Development Conference Room A, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Gender, Environment and Development: Toward a World in which Many Worlds are Possible
Dr. Dianne Rocheleau, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Geography, International Development, Community and Environment, Women’s Studies, and Environmental Sciences; Director, Global Environmental Studies Major, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the Office of International Research, Education and Development Conference Room A, 12:00 to 1 pm
Roundtable Discussion with Avila Kilmurray
You are invited to a roundtable discussion with Avila Kilmurray. Kilmurrary is Director of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland (previously the Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust), a position she has held since 1994. The Foundation is an independent charitable grant-making organization whose mission is 'to drive social change.'
She has been working in Northern Ireland since 1975, through community work in Derry, a Community Education Project in Magee, a range of anti-poverty initiatives, and through establishing the Women's Aid organization. She has previously worked with the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action and as coordinator of the Rural Action Project (N.I.). In 1990, she was appointed the first Women's Officer for the Transport & General Workers' Union (Ireland), and has also served on the Northern Ireland Committee and on the Executive Councils of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
Ms. Kilmurray is currently a Board member of the Community Development Foundation (U.K). She was also active in the Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement, was a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, and was a member of the Coalition's negotiating team for the Belfast Agreement. She has written extensively on community development, Women's issues, and Civil Society.
Tuesday, April 17th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
WGD Discussion Series Fall 2012
Gendered Knowledge of Conservation Agriculture Practices in the Philippines
Mary Harman Parks, Graduate Student, Geography
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED)
526 Prices Fork Road
Conference Room A, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Design Thinking for Social Impact
Akshay Sharma, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Design
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED)
526 Prices Fork Road
Conference Room A, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Participatory Action Research and Soils Management: gendered experiences of co-learning with small-holder farmers in Malawi
Sieg Snapp, Professor, Soils and Cropping Systems Ecologist, Michigan State University
Professor Snapp's visit is sponsored by SANREM Innovation Lab and the Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED)
526 Prices Fork Road
Conference Room A, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Transnational Feminism in the Global North and South
Ann Oberhauser, Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED)
526 Prices Fork Road
Conference Room A, 12:00 to 1:00 pm