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April 24, 2009: Mershon Center for International Security, Ohio State University
Women in Politics: Global Perspectives is a 1-day workshop featuring three panels of speakers with planned discussion and extended opportunity for informal communication. Three panels will be convened: (1) Women and Democracy, National Security, and Conflict, (2) Women’s Global Organizing, and (3) Women in Politics - Gaining Access, Changing Institutions. The goal of the panels is to demonstrate multiple approaches to the same topics, spark conversations about fruitful ways to explain women’s representation in regions and countries where traditional explanations are less helpful, and provide the backdrop for facilitated discussions of practical concerns in researching women in politics globally.
List of Participants
- Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin Political Science
- Elisabeth Jay Friedman, University of San Francisco Politics
- Georgina Waylen, University of Sheffield Politics
- Hannah Britton, University of Kansas Political Science
- Jocelyn Viterna, Harvard University Sociology
- Laurel Weldon, Purdue Political Science
- Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, University of Missouri Political Science
- Melanie Hughes, University of Pittsburgh Sociology
- Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State Political Science
- Mona Lena Krook, Washington University Politics and Women’s Studies
- Pamela Paxton, Ohio State University Sociology
- Sarah Childs, University of Bristol Politics