“Trading in Gender Equality: An Opportunity for Whom” – Wednesday, Jan 16, at 14-16

Dear All,

Welcome to an open special session of the doctoral seminar in World Politics, on feminist international political economy, Erin Hannah and Silke Trommer will be speaking on “Trading in Gender Equality: An Opportunity for Whom”.

Dr. Hannah is Chair of the Department of Political Science at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Trommer teaches at University of Manchester, and as many of you surely remember, she was both a doctoral student and lecturer in World Politics at Helsinki.

Either during the talk or in the more informal session that we will probably have after it, Silke Trommer will also be willing to share her thoughts on career perspectives after a Helsinki doctoral degree. Her dissertation, I am happy to remind you, won various international and national awards, including the ISA’s award for the best dissertation in International Political Economy.

 

The session will take place on Wednesday, Jan 16, at 14-16 hours, in the room P673 at Porthania.

 

More details below, and here is a link to a FB event of the session: https://www.facebook.com/events/778776002470512/

 

Feel free to share the invitation. More information below.

 

 

Welcome,

 

Teivo

 

 

 

Trading in Gender Equality: An Opportunity for Whom?

Erin Hannah (King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario)

Silke Trommer (University of Manchester)

Wednesday January 16, 2-4 PM.

Porthania (Yliopistokatu 3), Lecture Hall P673 (6th floor).

This session centres on research the speakers are currently conducting (with Adrienne Roberts at the University of Manchester) on the recent move toward bringing the goals of ‘gender equality’ and ‘women’s empowerment’ into trade policy in the UK and globally.

They explore some of the reasons why the idea of gendering global trade has become so pervasive at the contemporary conjuncture – a time when many of the civil society organizations that emerged in wake of the 1999 WTO protests with an interest in pushing for a feminist trade agenda have disappeared. Using examples such as the WTOs ‘Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment’, the gender chapters that have been added to several bilateral trade agreements, and recent global initiatives such as ‘SheTrades’, they ask who stands to gain from attempts to make trade more equitable for women.

They use the lens of feminist international political economy to critically interrogate the openings as well as the foreclosures that come with this most recent effort at mainstreaming gender concerns within global economic relationships.

The session is open to all, and forms part of the open sessions series of the Doctoral Seminar in World Politics. For more information, contact Teivo Teivainen (050-3505120).