WIDE Annual Conference 2008

WIDE Annual Conference 2008 ´Feminist Visions for a Just Europe´, 09-11 October, The Hague, the Netherlands

Please find below in the overview of the programme, links to available presentations.
Click here for biographies from the speakers and facilitators (will be soon available).

And read more interviews, quotes, and listen to radio programmes at:

http://feministvisionsforeurope.blogspot.com/

Sharhrzad videoreports on WIDE Annual Conference on Youtube with interviews with Wendy Harcourt, former WIDE chair, Lin McDevitt-Pugh, Joanna Semeniuk and others.

DAY ONE (09 October, Thursday)RETHINKING FEMINISMS IN EUROPE TODAY IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHANGE

0830:  Participant Registration
0930: Interactive Introductions, CO-FACILITATORS: Benedicte Allaert and Wendy Harcourt

1130: ­Opening Panel: Situating Feminisms in Europe Today - FACILITATOR & INTRODUCTION: Zairah Khan, SPEAKERS: Wendy Harcourt, Thanh-Dam Truong, and Joanna Semeniuk

1415: ­Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session a: Europe, Europeans & European global players of today in the context of globalisation - FACILITATOR: Amandine Bach
Parallel Session b: Intersectionalities, Intersecting lives and realities -  FACILITATOR: Benedicte Allaert, SPEAKER: Patricia Munoz
Parallel Session c: Opening up concepts of citizenship in Europe and the world - FACILITATOR: Godelieve van Heteren
Parallel Session d: Scoping global feminisms in the West, South and East FACILITATOR: Jivka Marinova

1630: Facilitators´ Reflections on the Day: Where to go from here? -FACILITATOR: Zohra Khan, SPEAKERS: All facilitators in Parallel Sessions
1800: Herstory III: A Feminist Walk through the Hague (Optional)

DAY TWO (10 October, Friday)
EUROPEAN GLOBAL PLAYERS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE WORLD EXAMINED THROUGH THE LENS OF WOMEN´S RIGHTS AND GENDER JUSTICE

0900: Participant registration (for latecomers only)
0930: ­Plenary debate and discussion: The impacts of EU expansion and foreign policy on women in Europe and the world - FACILITATOR: Anja Franck, SPEAKERS:Chantal Gillárd, Kinga Lohmann, Gigi Francisco and Sonja Lokar

1130: ­Panel debate and discussion: The Global Tug of War for Market and Means - FACILITATOR: Elisabeth Moder
Feminization of labour - SPEAKER: Ruth Pearson
European players in the global system, aid effectiveness and FFDs - SPEAKER: Dot Keet
Compounded insecurities and vulnerabilities of migrants in Europe, SPEAKER: Brid Brennan

1400: Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session a: New trends in migration in the context of Eastern Europe - FACILITATOR: Ewa Charkiewicz SPEAKER: Elena Tyuryukanova
Parallel Session b: ´Illegal migration and trafficking´: Strengthening women´s sexual and reproductive health and rights - FACILITATOR: Saskia Bakker, SPEAKERS: Grace Osakue and Aniek Wubben
Parallel Session c: Militarism, Peace and Security: 1325 ­ Challenges and Opportunities in National Action Plans - FACILITATOR: Ted L.E. Strop-von Meijenfeldt, SPEAKERS: Isabelle Geuskens and Seconde Nyanzobe
Parallel Session d: EU trade agreements on agriculture and the food crisis - FACILITATOR: Franziska Mueller SPEAKER: Naty Bernardino

1600: Facilitators´ Reflections on the Day & Report Back Session FACILITATOR: Gigi Francisco, SPEAKERS: All facilitators in Plenary & Parallel Sessions
1900: Conference party and networking event at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

DAY THREE (11 October, Saturday)
BUILDING A FEMINIST FUTURE: ALLIANCES FOR A JUST EUROPE ­ STRATEGY SESSIONS

0930: Plenary Talk & Discussion: Alternatives & Consolidating Feminist Visions with other Movements - FACILITATOR: Sonja Lokar, SPEAKER: Nicola Bullard, DISCUSSANTS: Rasa Erentaite and Ewa Charkiewicz

1130: ­Strategy Sessions

Strategy Session 1: Women organizing for changes in working conditions: A case study by KARAT Poland, FACILITATOR: Gisela Dutting, SPEAKER: Aleksandra Solik
Strategy Session 2: Organizing migrant domestic workers in Europe, FACILITATOR: Filomenita Hogsholm, SPEAKERS: Fe Jusay and Anna Zobnina
Strategy Session 3: Trade union and NGO responses to rights violations in European supply chains, FACILITATOR: Pauline Overeem, SPEAKER: Marieke Koning
Strategy Session 4: Why should we care about care? Organized by Swiss Gender Platform, Switzerland

1400: Strategy Sessions

Strategy Session 5: Economic Justice Fund Organized by Mama Cash, Netherlands
Strategy Session 6: Feminist Responses to Climate Change Co-organized by KULU, Denmark and Focus on the Global South, Thailand
Strategy Session 7: The African Women´s Leadership Institute Organized by Akina Mama wa Afrika (Kampala and London offices)
Strategy Session 8: Feminist Forum for Europe Organized by the Editorial Team of the European Feminist Forum Publication

1600: Facilitators´ Reflection of the Day, FACILITATOR: Wendy Harcourt, SPEAKERS: All Facilitators

1700: WISE WOMEN Panel and Presentation on Reflections on the Conference FACILITATOR: Wendy Harcourt, SPEAKERS: Zohra Khan, Gigi Francisco and Evgenia Ivanova

1800: Vote of Thanks, WIDE Secretariat and WO=MEN