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Barbados Summer Institute on Curriculum Transformation
Women, Work, and Power

9:00-10:30 Curriculum Transformation Strategies: Where We Have Been, Where We Need to Go 

Curricular Transformations at Historically Black Colleges: Addressing Diversity and Inequities for Women. Florence Bonner, Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University and Shari Miles, Director, African American Women's Institute, Howard University 

11:00-1:00 The Challenge of Teaching about Gender When Feminism is a Four Letter Word. Tracy Robinson, Lecturer in Law, University of the West Indies, Barbados.
9:00-10:30 Pedagogical Challenges to Teaching Contentious Issues
11:00-1:00 Global Sisterhood: Promises and Problems
All Day Tour of the Island
9:00-10:30 Globalization: Connecting the Global and the Local
11:00-1:00 Nations, Nationalism and Women
9:00-10:30 Women and Economic Development
11:00-1:00 Structural Adjustment: Consequences for Caribbean Women. Cecelia Bobb, Deputy Coordinator, CPDC, and Lecturer, Center for Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Barbados.
TBA Global Perspectives on Reproductive Rights, Family and the Environment
TBA Intersection of Gender, Race and Environment: Colonial and Post-Colonial Policies, Esther Wangari, Women's Studies Department, Towson University. .
All Day Tour of Women's Organizations and Lunch with Women's Organization Leaders.
TBA The Rise and Fall of Feminist Politics in the Caribbean (1975-1995). Peggy Antrobus, founding director of WAND and founding member of DAWN.
TBA Theorizing Women's Collective Forms of Action: Comparative and Critical Perspectives from Africa and Latin America. Monica Udvardy, Anthropology, University of Kentucky.
TBA Finding Their Voice: Identifying Signifiers of Women's Agency and Empowerment in the Work of Haitian Artists, Anita Kirchen, Women's Studies, Florida Atlantic University

 

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