Conference Schedule
THURSDAY, 3/12
4:30-4:45 p.m.
Opening Remarks
Tamar Mayer, Director, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Middlebury College
4:45-5:45 p.m.
Session 1: Is It All about Posturing?
Student Chair: Frank Wyer ’15
Michael Woolcock, World Bank and Harvard University
Now For the Hard Part: From the MDGs to building capability for implementation
6:00-6:30 p.m.
Dinner in the Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Session 2: Risky Environments: Threats and Challenges
Moderator: Heidi Grasswick, Philosophy
Student Chair: Stephanie Ovitt&Բ;’15.5
Charalampos Konstantinidis, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston
(with Mwangi wa Githinji and Andrew Barenberg)
Small Farms and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for Poverty and Hunger Reduction in Kenya
Sridhar Vedachalam, New York State Water Resources Institute, Cornell University
Can Definitions Doom Statistics? Experiences from the water and sanitation target
Pablo Bose, Department of Geography, University of Vermont
Bangladesh, Climate Change, and the MDGs
FRIDAY, 3/13
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Session 3: Narrow Visions and Global Health
Moderator: Pam Berenbaum, Global Health Programs
Student Chair: Catherine Stanton&Բ;’15.5
Paula Davis-Olwell, Independent Researcher
Women and Children First? How missing the target (MDG 4-5) may lead to improvements in maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa
Jeremy Shiffman, Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University
Agenda-setting in Global Health: Beyond 2015
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Session 4: Engendering Education for All?
Moderator: Claudia Cooper, Education Studies
Student Chair: ԲԾ첹&Բ;DZܲԻ&Բ;’15
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Teachers College, Columbia University
Converging on the Girl: An investigation into the social production of girls’ education as a hegemonic ideology
Leena Her, Inclusive Education Department, Kennesaw State University
Reframing Deficit Narratives of Gender Disparities in Education in Lao PDR
Eric Wilson Fofack, Middlebury-C.V. Starr School in Cameroon, Yaoundé
Education for All in 2015: In between progress, obstacles, and hope in central Africa
Maureen Porter, Social and Comparative Analysis of Education, University of Pittsburgh
Progress or Posturing? Examining the discourse and praxis of the MDGs
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Session 5: Engendering Equality and Exclusion
Moderator: Merrill S. A. Baker-Medard, Environmental Studies
Student Chair: &Բ;&Բ;’15
Kara Ellerby, Department of Political Science and International Relations, and Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Delaware
MDG 3 Gender Equality: The limits of adding women
Maysoon Wael Yousef Alatoom, Center for Women’s Studies, University of Jordan
A Paradox in the Making: Women’s education and labor market participation in Jordan
SATURDAY, 3/14
9:30-11:15 a.m.
Session 6: Private Actors and Public Goods
Moderator: Adam Dean, Political Science
Student Chair: &Բ;Ծ&Բ;’15
Fernando Ferrari Filho, Department of Economics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and Researcher, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil Changes the Tune: Social policies and the new developmentalism
Nitish Monebhurrun, University Center of Brasília, Brazil
From the MDGs to SDGs: Paving the way towards a new procrastination. A lawyer’s perspective
Yoonbin Ha, School of International Service, American University
(with Daniel Esser)
Strengthening Accountabilities in the Sustainable Development Goals: Shifting the focus to donors
Charlie MacCormack, Executive in Residence, Middlebury College
(with Sarah Stroup)
Who Participates? The evolution of a “global partnership for development”
11:15 a.m.
Roundtable Summary
Sarah Stroup, Department of Political Science, Middlebury College
Student Chair: Irene Estefania ҴDzԳá&Բ;15