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