‘Social and Environmental Justice: Perspectives from and for Global Feminisms’ Global Feminisms Collaborative April 24 and 25th, Curb Center – Buttrick 123 Agenda Thursday, April 24th 9:00 – 9:30 light breakfast 9:30 – 12:00 pm (Facilitator: Katy Attanasi) • • • Introductions Feminist Environmentalism and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Activist Initiatives for Environmental Justice (paper presentation by Sonalini) Questions of “the” movements project (Brooke and Lyndi) 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch 1:00 – 4:00 pm (Facilitator: Lyndi Hewitt) • Examine the linkages that the women’s environmental movement is making with other progressive actors and movements o Example from GFC: Equity Offset Project (Mike Vandenbergh, Law School, and Brooke) o Guests’ examples (e.g Conspirando – building a network based on ecofeminist spirituality) • Look at some of the institutional obstacles that exist in feminist environmental organizations making the linkages they need to (Joni Seager’s question) 6:00 pm Dinner at Brooke’s house Friday, April 25th* Please note that we will be proceeding directly to the Bluebird Café after the workshop 9:00 – 9:30 light breakfast 9:30 – 12:00 pm (Facilitator: Sonalini Sapra) • • • • • How we disseminate the information that feminist environmentalists have more broadly (Lorena Aguilar’s question) How we educate donors and other professionals in the development sector about gender and climate change/other environmental issues? (Lorena Aguilar’s question) How we build linkages with donors in a way that strengthens women’s environmental movements? (Mary Judith Ress’s question) How we show the utility of feminist analysis to issues related to the environment given the hegemony of the sciences in issues related to the environment? (Joni Seager’s question) What kind of interaction between grassroots women working on environmental issues and donors would enhance women’s movements? 12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00-5:00 pm Research ideas, institutional ideas and next steps (Facilitator: Brooke Ackerly) • • • How and on what terms to activists want to inform research: as question askers, informants, audience… In what way can the research done by actors in the academy provide some input to ‘gender and environment’ discussions (e.g feminist analysis of climate change) – (Lorena Aguilar and Joni Seager’s questions) What role can actors in the academy play in strengthening the work done by women’s environmental activists? (Mary Judith Ress’s question) 6:00 pm Dinner and musical performance at Bluebird Cafe Participants – Srilatha Batliwala from the Hauser Center for non-profit organizations at Harvard University (with decades of experience in gender, development and sustainability), Joni Seager (feminist geographer) from Hunter College, Lorena Aguilar from the World Conservation Union (also with decades of experience in gender, development and sustainability), Mary Judith Ress from Con-spirando (an eco-feminist movement organization), Shana Griffin from the New Orleans Women's Health and Justice Initiative (founded in New Orleans after the public hospital closed leaving women in her community without affordable health care) and Loretta Ross from SisterSong (a network of Women of Color health initiatives that is launching its reproductive and environmental justice movement initiative this summer) Co-sponsors Center for Ethics Center for the Study of Religion and Culture The Commons Dean’s Fund, School of Nursing Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Program Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center Center for Latin American Studies Department of Political Science Climate Change Research Network Vanderbilt Regulatory Program Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Medicine, Health and Society Carpenter Program Center for Bio-Medical Ethics and Society ... Change Research Network Vanderbilt Regulatory Program Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Medicine, Health and Society Carpenter Program Center for Bio-Medical Ethics and Society ... Griffin from the New Orleans Women's Health and Justice Initiative (founded in New Orleans after the public hospital closed leaving women in her community without affordable health care) and Loretta... Loretta Ross from SisterSong (a network of Women of Color health initiatives that is launching its reproductive and environmental justice movement initiative this summer) Co-sponsors Center for Ethics