Girls, Travel, and Global Issues: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives Workshop - CANCELLED
The workshop, ‘Girls, travel and global issues: multi--disciplinary perspectives’, due to be held on Wednesday 14th of March, has been cancelled due to industrial action. Key administration and organisation for the event is not possible this week whilst industrial action is ongoing. Moreover, many speakers and respondents are also on strike which means they are not able to prepare their papers this week as they had originally planned to do. Many thanks for your support for this event
Girls and girlhood are fast emerging as critical subjects of inquiry. This workshop explores the implications of girls’ activities and experiences upon broader social, global and transnational processes. It provides an opportunity for scholars across the social sciences, literature and history to compare methodologies and concepts for exploring girlhood mobility, including travel, migration, translocality, and networking, across diverse global contexts.
Organised by the Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity (CGIS) and The Centre for Global History. Generously supported by TORCH.
This event is free, but please register in advance here. Spaces are limited.
Queries to Kathryn Gleadle : kathryn.gleadle@history.ox.ac.uk
Picture Credit: © Young Lives/Antonio Fiorente
The workshop, ‘Girls, travel and global issues: multi--disciplinary perspectives’, due to be held on Wednesday 14th of March, has been cancelled due to industrial action. Key administration and organisation for the event is not possible this week whilst industrial action is ongoing. Moreover, many speakers and respondents are also on strike which means they are not able to prepare their papers this week as they had originally planned to do. Many thanks for your support for this event
10:15-10:30 - Welcome and opening remarks
Kathryn Gleadle (History, Oxford)
10:30-11:40 - Session 1: The global and the local in girlhood mobilities
Chair: Christina de Bellaigue (History, Oxford)
Pia Jolliffe (The Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford), ‘Girls' migration for education among the Karen people in Thailand’
Gina Crivello (International Development, Oxford), ‘Girls, migration and wellbeing: a longitudinal study of resilience in four countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam)’
11:40-12:50 - Session 2: Immobilities, forced migration and refugees
Chair: Erica Charters (Director, Centre for Global History, Oxford)
Ina Zharkevich (Anthropology Oxford, Leverhulme ECF), ‘“Herder of the house”: marriage, gender, and the dynamic of (im)mobility in Nepal'
Chloe Lewis (Oxford Refugee Studies Centre), ‘Discordant subjects: Re-thinking the female survivor of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’
12:50-1:30 - Lunch
13:30-14:40 - Session 3: Girlhood and the city
Chair: Sian Pooley (History, Oxford)
Sneha Krishnan (Geography, Oxford, JRF), ‘The transnational life of hostels: mobility, encounter and girlhood in Southern India’
Sacha Hepburn (History, IHR), ‘Maids on the move: girls, domestic service and mobility in Zambia'
14:40-15.50 - Session 4: Networks, elites and girlhood sources
Chair: Marilyn Booth (Oriental Studies, Oxford)
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein (English, Bristol), ‘Race, protest and poetics: Muriel Rukeyser’s early journalism’
Rosie Walters (Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Bristol), ‘Connecting the dots?: linking global north and south in a study with members of the UN Foundation's “Girl Up”'
16:30-17:00 - Session 5: Roundtable discussion
Su Lin Lewis (History, Bristol); Sumita Mukherjee (History, Bristol), and Zuzanna Olszewska (Anthropology, Oxford).
