Thursday, April 3, 2003

8417 Social Science Building
Sewell Conference Room

3:30-5:00

Sign-in and paperwork session for presenters and discussants.

4:00-6:00

Reception

Friday, April 4, 2003

 Morning sessions held in 8417 Social Science Building,
Sewell Conference Room
Lunch, afternoon sessions and dinner held in Grainger Hall

8:30-9:00

Welcome and Breakfast

9:00-10:15

Session 1: Feminist Politics: Why the EU Matters

The Challenges of Doing Feminism Transnationally: the UN and the EU
Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Political and Social Citizenship: An Examination of the Case of Poland
Jacqueline Heinen, University Paris VII

Why the EU matters for gender equality
Sylvia Walby, University of Leeds

Discussant: Sonya Michel, University of Maryland, College Park

Break

10:30-12:00

Session 2: Borders, Migration and “Trafficking”

Leaving Home for Sex
Laura Agustin, Pavis Centre for Cultural Studies, Open University, UK

Open Borders - Open Bodies: Nordic-Baltic perspectives on trafficking in women.
Solveig Bergman, Department of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

'Trafficking' in women in the EU: what's the problem?
Joyce Outshoorn, Women's Studies,Department of Political Science/Joke Smit Centre for Research in Women's Studies, Leiden University

Discussant: Carol Mueller, Arizona State University

12:00-1:15

Lunch
(5120-Capital Conference Room, Grainger Hall)

1:15-2:45

Session 3: Gender Mainstreaming and Social Change
(Morgridge Auditorium, Grainger Hall)

State Feminisms or Gender Mainstreaming? Results from the RNGS Project
Dorothy M. Stetson, Florida Atlantic University

The Logic of the Dual Agenda: Why Femocrats Need to be Radical when Engaging in Gender Mainstreaming
Mieke Verloo, University of Nijmegen

"Between innovation and betrayal?" Gender Mainstreaming from the perspective of women's policy and the women's movement
Marianne Weg, Hesse Department of Social Welfare, Germany

Discussant:  Crister Garrett, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Break

3:00-4:30

Session 4: Responding to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
(Morgridge Auditorium, Grainger Hall)

From “Private” Domain to Supranational Arena: The Emergence of Domestic Violence as an EU Policy Issue
Marcus Carson, Stockholm University

Is there a distinctive European approach to domestic and sexual violence?
Carol Hagemann-White, Universität Osnabrück

Old Europe or New? Transnational research on conflict, gender, and violence
Renate Klein, Assistant Professor of Family Studies,University of Maine

Male violence against women - From private matter to public concern?
Aspects on achievements and difficulties of the (women's) movement against
violence in Europe
Rosa Logar, Domestic Violence Intervention Program Vienna / European
Network WAVE (Women against Violence Europe)

Discussant: Lisa D. Brush, University of Pittsburgh

Break

4:45-6:15

Session 5: Negotiating Work, Families and Sexualities
(Morgridge Auditorium, Grainger Hall)

Criminalising prostitutes in the French Domestic Security Act (2003). Has the self-styled epitome of abolitionism lost the plot?
Gill Allwood, Nottingham Trent University

Strange Bedfellows: Pronatalism and Gender Equality Policies in the EU
Jessica Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Falling Between the Cracks: Redressing Sex Orientation Discrimination in 'Integrating Europe'
Amy Elman, Kalamazoo College

Feminist Actors and the Diffusion of Policies in the European Union
Kathrina Zippel, Northeastern University

Discussant: Patricia Yancey Martin, Florida State University

7:00

Dinner (5120-Capital Conference Room, Grainger Hall)

Saturday, April 5, 2003

All events held in 8417 Social Science Building
Sewell Conference Room

9:00-9:30

Breakfast

9:30-11:00

Session 6: Feminists Using lobbying, legislation, and policy coordination

The European Union Effect? trans-national networks and their Domestic Partners
Barbara Hobson, Stockholm University

The struggle not to fall between stools: race, gender and migration in EU gender lobbying politics
Fiona Williams, University of Leeds

New Bedfellows? Sex finds Gender in Brussels
Alison Woodward, Free University of Brussels (VUB)

Discussant: Jonathan Zeitlin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Break

11:00-12:45

Session 7: Feminists Using Law and Courts

Borrowing the Women's Movement 'For Reasons of Public Security
Liz Holzer, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Gender on the Agenda: Campaigns for Women Judges
Sally Kenney, University of Minnesota

Gender, Employment, and the Courts: Review of Cases before the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice
Angelika von Wahl, San Francisco State University

Discussant: Catherine Albiston, University of Wisconsin Law School

12:45-1:45

Lunch

1:45-3:45

Session 8: Feminists Using Movements, Protest and Political Mobilization

Studying Women's Movements in Comparative Perspective: Lessons From France
Amy Mazur, Washington State University

The Concept of Gender Democracy: Impact, Limitations and Perspectives within the European Context
Claudia Neusüss, Berlin

Going Online, Staying Connected: Networks of Transnational Feminist Websites
Tatiana Pudrovska, University of Maryland

The European Union, Gender Mainstreaming and EU-Enlargement: Multi-level Political Opportunity structure, Networks, and Political Processes
Silke Roth, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Break

4:00-5:30

Session 9: General Dissussion

Discussants as Panel

7:00

Working Dinner: Conference Volume Plans
17 Sauk Creek Circle, Madison