Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 1 and 2, 2010
The Peace and Justice Studies Association, in conjunction with Canadian
Mennonite University's Menno Simons College and the University of Winnipeg
Global College, is truly delighted to invite you to join Cynthia Enloe,
Marilou McPhedran, Carolyn Nordstrom, Sherene Razack, Betty Reardon, and
Sandra Whitworth (and many more) as we explore the theme Building Bridges,
Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace.
Cynthia Enloe has distinguished herself as one of the world's leading
commentators on issues of gender as it relates to identity and security. Her
career has included Fulbrights in Malaysia and Guyana, and guest
professorships in Japan, Britain, and Canada, as well as lectureships in
Sweden, Norway, Germany, Korea, Turkey, and at universities around the U.S.
At Clark University, Professor Enloe has been selected Outstanding Teacher
three times and named University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in
Teaching and Scholarship. In 2009, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by
the University of London's School of Oriental and Asian Studies. Her newest
book is Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War.
Marilou McPhedran is an international human rights lawyer. She has
co-founded several internationally recognized non-profit systemic change
organizations including LEAF the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund,
which has conducted constitutional equality test cases and interventions for
25 years. She has co-investigated and co-authored a number of research
projects on systemic reform and human rights, including the ten country
pilot study to assess impact of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all
forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Carolyn Nordstrom has crossed many borders theoretically and physically in
her investigations that span gender, militarism, and issues of security in a
global context. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1997, she is an
anthropologist at home in lecture hall and war zone alike. She studies
wars, the illegal drug trade, gender relationships, and war profiteering.
Her research has made her an eyewitness and scholar of worldwide urban and
rural battlefields as well as of the shadowy worlds of diamond, drug, and
arms smuggling. In addition to her teaching and lecturing, she has written
dozens of articles, and several books including A Different Kind of War
Story and Shadows of War.
Sherene Razack, a professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto,
has been identified as one of Canada's leading cultural critics. Her work
on race and identity issues, gendered exclusions, and militarism is
provocative and enlightening. Her recent books include Dark Threats & White
Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism, and
Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics.
Betty Reardon, one of the early seminal contributors to our field of study,
and Founding Director Emeritus of the International Institute on Peace
Education, has been producing cutting-edge analysis in areas of peace
education, gendered violence, and militarism for years. She is the recipient
of the 2008 PJSA Outstanding Contribution to Peace Studies Award, and most
recently the 2009 Sean McBride Peace Prize awarded by the International
Peace Bureau, one of the oldest of the many nongovernmental peace
organizations. Her many publications include Sexism and the War System.
Sandra Whitworth, a professor of Political Studies and Women's Studies at
York University is an internationally recognized analyst of gender in the
global political system. Her co-authored 2002 United Nations
Secretary-General Study, Women, Peace and Security, won one of the American
Library Association's 'Notable Government Documents Awards' in that year.
Her most recent book is entitled Men, Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A
Gendered Analysis.
While we wanted to share some of the names of keynote speakers to increase
your anticipation about coming to Winnipeg, we are far from done indeed,
there's a lot more to come! We are in the process of confirming other
speakers (yes, there will be a few men, too!) and have been working in
collaboration with a remarkable number of exciting individuals and
organizations to create a memorable experience for you at the 2010 PJSA
conference.
Full biographies of these remarkable scholars and activists will also be
posted on the PJSA website. You will find them here:
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/schedule.php#plenaries
To make this conference a true success, however, we need you to commit to
make the trip to Winnipeg to share your projects, research, workshops, and
other activities. For many of you, we need you to cross a border to start
the process of building bridges. Registration is now open! You will find
the Call for Proposals, a Preliminary Conference Schedule, and the
Registration page at our website:
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/
We remind you to look ahead to your travel needs. Helpful travel and visa
tips are found on the PJSA website as well. If we can be of assistance to
you in your planning please contact us directly at <pjsainfo (at)
uwinnipeg.ca>.
