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FRIDAY, March 9 
401 Warren Hall 
8:30 am  Breakfast
9:00 am  Registration
9:30 am  Welcome 
Lourdes Beneria
Professor, City and Regional and Planning
Director, Gender and Global Change Program
Cornell University 

Porus Olpadwala
Dean, Art, Architecture and Planning
Cornell University

9:35 am  Panel I:  Whither Globalization/s? 
  Constitutionalizing Inequality?
Reflections on the Juridical Aspects of Global Political Economy 
Stephen Gill 
York University 
  Women's Rights, Labour Standards, and Globalisation:
Contradictions and Opportunities
Naila Kabeer 
Institute of Development Studies 
  Tax Distortion in the Global Economy
Howard Wachtel 
American University 
  Facilitator
Kaushik Basu
Professor
Cornell University
10:50 am  Coffee/Tea 
11:05 am  Panel II:  Global In/securities 
  Gender Inequalities, Poverty, and Globalisation 
Nilüfer Çagatay 
University of Utah 
  Vulnerability and Financial Crises: 
Was the Asian Financial Crisis Predictable? 
Iwan Azis 
Cornell University 
  Global Insecurity:  Restructuring Social Income 
Guy Standing 
International Labour Organisation 
  Facilitator
Shelley Feldman
Professor
Cornell University 
12:30 pm  Keynote Address 
  Sustainable Development and Globalisation:
Dilemmas and Contradictions
Solon Barraclough
UNRISD
  Facilitator
Dr. David Lelyveld
Executive Director, The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Cornell University
1:30 pm  Lunch
2:30 pm Panel III:  Modelling and Power Relations in International Trade 
  Gendered Strategies:  Parallel Trade, Economic Restructuring, 
and New Elites in (1990s) Senegal 
Huda Nura Mustafa
Cornell University 
  Modelling the Effects of Trade on Women, at Work and Home
Marzia Fontana 
Institute of Development Studies
  "Free Trade" and Development
Savitri Bisnath 
Cornell University 
  Facilitator
Philip McMichael
Professor
Cornell University
3:45 pm  Coffee/Tea
4:00 pm  Panel IV:  The Politics of International Trade
Labor, Intellectual Property and Food Security 
  Social Movements and the WTO 
Marc Williams 
Oxford University 
  Global Tensions:  the Debate over Biotechnology and Food Security
Philip McMichael 
Cornell University 
  WTO/TRIPS:  Areas of Concern
Suman Sahai 
the Gene Campaign 
  Facilitator
Maria Cook
Professor
Cornell University
5:30 pm  Reception
Kathryn Abrams
Professor, Law School
Director, Women's Studies Program
Cornell University
   
SATURDAY, March 10 
9:00 am  Breakfast 
9:30 am  Panel V:  Multilateral Institutions and Global Governance 
  The UN-MNC Global Compact: 
Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? 
Diane Elson
University of Essex 
  North-South Tensions at the WTO:  Why and What Next?
Martin Khor 
Third World Network 
  International Public Goods and Global Governance
Ravi Kanbur 
Cornell University 
  Facilitator
Susan Christopherson
Professor
Cornell University
10:55 am  Panel VI:  New Visions on Gender and Development 
  Women's Capabilities and Social Justice
Martha Nussbaum 
University of Chicago 
  Male Relations of Patriarchy and Paradoxes of Development in India
Barbara Harriss-White 
Oxford University 
  A Feminist Perspective on the "New" International Financial Architecture
Isabella Bakker 
York University 
  Facilitator
Norman Uphoff
Professor
Cornell University
12:30 pm   LunchTribute to Ester Boserup
  Boserup's Multi-faceted Insights on Global Socio-economic Changes
Irene Tinker
  Facilitator
Lourdes Beneria
Professor
Cornell University
2:00 pm  Panel VII:  Global Cities 
  Globalisation and the Geography of Centrality 
Saskia Sassen 
University of Chicago 
  Urban Tensions:  Globalization, Industrial Restructuring, 
and the Post-metropolitan Transition 
Edward Soja 
University of California, Los Angeles 
  Urban Transport and Structural Tensions in Developing Countries
Eduardo Vasconcellos 
Brazilian Public Transportation Association 
  Facilitator
William Goldsmith
Professor
Cornell University
3:15 pm  Coffee/Tea
3:30 pm  Concluding Session 
  Ron Herring
Professor, Government
Director, The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Cornell University
4:00 pm Closing Remarks
  Lourdes Beneria
Professor, City and Regional Planning
Director, Gender and Global Change Program
Cornell University