Women & Development

This group has been working on international development issues relating to women for well over a decade.

Call For Papers
Meeting to be held at Vanburgh College University of York, Heslington, York on Saturday 17th May 2008, at 10.30 a.m. The meeting is open to all members, and graduates, activists and academics are most welcome.

Anyone wishing to stay after the meeting is welcome to do so - at their own expense. Please inform Haleh in good time, to enable her to reserve a table, or a room, to have dinner and informal discussions at a local restaurant. People needing accommodation or child care facilities, or local residents able to offer accommodation, please contact Haleh Afshar at Department of Politics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD telephone 01904 433554, fax 01904 433563, email haa1@york.ac.uk. as soon as possible.

New Group on Gender and Development Practice - meeting on 5th February - click here for more details

Past meetings

W &D Study group will hold its 25th annual meeting at the Unviersity of York on Saturday May 26th. 2007 The theme of this year’s meeting is “Gender, Religion, and Representation in the Development context”. The meeting is open to all members, post graduate students, practitioners, activists and academics

As in previous years there will be 10- 12 short presentations, in order to make time for discussions. Anyone wishing to present a paper is invited to send a one paragraph abstract to the convenors listed below. Both paper givers and other participants find this meeting to be a really positive space for gender and development discussion – an opportunity to network but also to join engaged theoretical and political debates, and for the paper givers a possibility of developing their work for publication – since the inception of this series there have been 8 edited books and four special issues of journals including the immanent Special section in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Development Studies on “Islam and Female Identity in the Middle East”” (Vol 43, February 2007).

The meeting to be held in the University of York, Heslington, York on Saturday 6th May 2006, at 10.15 a.m. The meeting is open to all members, and graduates, activists and academics are most welcome. Further details will be available nearer the date

Convenors: Haleh Afshar at Department of Politics, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD telephone 01904 433554, fax 01904 433563, email haa1@york.ac.uk.

Ruth Pearson Centre for Development Studies, University of Leeds, Tel 0113-343-4871; r.pearson@leeds.ac.uk

Dr Elaheh Rostami-Povey, Department of Development Studies, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London: Tel: 44 (0)20 7898 4503 ep2@soas.ac.uk

Women and Development Panel for the IDSA Conference September 2007

Stephanie Barrientos (ISD, Sussex) and Ruth Pearson (CDS, Leeds) would like to organise a panel at the conference on Women’ work in the global economy. If any members are interested in participating in this please get in touch with Stephanie: s.barrientos@ids.ac.uk and/or Ruth: r.pearson@leeds.ac.uk

Previous Meetings

Meeting held at Vanburgh College University of York, Heslington, York on Saturday 6th May 2006, at 10.15 a.m. The meeting is open to all members, and graduates, activists and academics are most welcome.

Programme

ZINTHIYA GANEHSPANCHAN : POVERTY, VIOLENCE AND HIV/AIDS

ANSA MASAUD : WOMEN REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT IN PAKISTAN: AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER AND LEGISLATIVE BEHAVIOUR IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

HALEH AFSHAR : WOMEN AND POLITICS IN IRAN

PARVANE MOKARIAN: HOW IS SOCIAL LIFE IN IRAN?

SHAHLA TIZRO: "IRANIAN WOMEN'S PERCEPTIONS, FEELINGS AND ACTIONS IN RELATION TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE"

LILY FARHADPOURBASTANI : WOMEN AND JOURNALISM IN IRAN

SUZANNE CLISBY : GENDER MAINSTREAMING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN BOLIVIA.

SIAN LAZAR : 'MARKET WOMEN'S TRADE UNIONS IN BOLIVIA: GENDER AND POLITICAL AGENCY'

RUTH PEARSON : GENDER MAINTSTREAMING

LAURA WATKINS TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCED

PADDY BECK : UN REFORM AND HOW THIS MAY AFFECT GENDER ISSUES ESPECIALLY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD.

Anyone wishing to stay after the meeting are welcome to do so. Please inform Haleh in good time, to enable her to reserve a table, or a room, to have dinner and informal discussions at a local restaurant. People needing accommodation or child care facilities, or local residents able to offer accommodation, please contact Haleh Afshar at Department of Politics, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD telephone 01904 433554, fax 01904 433563, email haa1@york.ac.uk. as soon as possible.

4th June 2005

DSA WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT STUDY GROUP

CALL FOR PAPERS

Meeting to be held in the Terrace Room, Derwent College, University of York, Heslington, York on Saturday 4th June 2005, at 10.15 a.m. The meeting is open to all members, and graduates, activists and academics are most welcome.

Provisional List of Speakers:

Cathie Lloyd (Title to be announced)

Fouzia Rhissassi Mental Health and Ageing

Mahboubeh Sadeghi: Iranian Women's Problem: Contradiction of Conventionality and Reality

Elsa Dawson : Title to be announced

Laura McDonald : Islam, Feminism and Modernity: Converts to the UK

Ganeshpanchan Zinthiya : Domestic and Gender Based Violence among Internally Displaced/Refugee Community

We meet twice a year: at the DSA annual conference in the autumn, and in York in the spring.

One-day conferences in York give us a chance to focus on a different topic each year, and the papers are often collected and published in a volume.

Convenor

Haleh Afshar (Email: HAA1@york.ac.uk Tel: 01904 433 542)

Page last updated: 16 February, 2007