Program

Breakfast

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave

Opening Remarks

Inderpal Grewal, Yale University

Health, AIDS, and Activism

Crystal Biruk, Oberlin College, “Becoming MSM or WSW: The Value of Vulnerability in NGO worlds in Malawi”

Sabrina Karim, Emory University, “The Effect of Ebola on Maternal Health in Liberia”

Sanyu Mojola, University of Colorado, “Re-inscribing Patriarchy? Reflections on Gender and Sexuality in the time of AIDS”

Discussant: Inderpal Grewal, Yale University

Lunch Break

Gender and Policy

Amanda Clayton, Vanderbilt University, “In Whose Interest?” Gender Gaps in Elite and Mass Policy”

Kara Ellerby, University of Delaware, “The Problem With Gender Equality:  Contextualizing African ‘Success’ in a Global Context”

Martha Johnson, Mills College, “Economic Rights and Women’s Access to Executive Power in Africa”

Discussant: Stephanie Newell, Yale University

Coffee Break

Sexual Violence and Sexual Minorities

Lyn Ossome, Makerere Institute of Social Research, “States of Violence: Democratic Transitions and the Politics of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Africa”

Basile Ndjio, Princeton University, “Nation and its Undesirable Subjects: Homosexuality, Citizenship and the Gay-Other in Cameroon”

Graeme Reid, Yale University; Human Rights Watch, “The Political Use of Homophobia”

Discussant: Ali Miller, Yale University

Reception at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St

Breakfast

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave

War and Refugees

Amal Fadlalla, University of Michigan, “Saviors, survivors, and Role Models: Gender and Transnational Humanitarianism”

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Babcock University, “Rethinking Durable Solutions for Refugee Women in Africa”

Discussant: Louisa Lombard, Yale University

Coffee Break

The Politics of Representation

Josephine Ahikire, Makarere University, “Debating Incentives and Politics of Gender Equity Policies in the South: The Case of ‘Domestic’ Legislation in Uganda”

 Jessica Gottlieb, Texas A&M University, “Do men and women  

 have different Policy Preferences in Africa? Determinants and  

 Implications of Gender Gaps in Policy Prioritization”

Amanda Robinson, The Ohio State University, “The Effects of Matrilineality and Matrilocality on Gender Differences in Political Behavior: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa”

Discussant: Kathryn Lofton, Yale University

Closing Remarks