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The Seminar will be conducted in English

The seminar is titled 

Background

Gender equality has been at the top of the international agenda since the 1970s. Spurred by a strong international women’s movement, in 1975 the United Nations (UN) launched its UN Decade for Women, organizing the first of several UN Conferences on Women in Mexico the same year.

A few years later, in 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted, further contributing to the institutionalization of gender equality in international law.

Since then, the field has gradually expanded, witnessed, among other things, in the increasing number of international conferences, policies, legal instruments and NGOs dealing with gender equality. Most recently, gender equality has been established as a central sustainable development goal. 

However, despite their proliferation in international discourses, institutions and laws, the norms of gender equality remain strongly contested, and women’s rights continue to be the subject of international and national debates.

This conference seeks to bring together emerging work on the creation, contestation and translation of international norms and work on gender equality in development cooperation. 

More specifically, the conference addresses two particular topics:

1. The diffusion and translation of gender norms
2. Donor organisations and gender equality

30 papers will be presented during parallel sessions.

Moreover, the programme includes keynote presentations and a final panel discussion of gender equality, norms and development: Which way forward?

Speakers

Sally Engle Merry, Department of Anthropology, New York University

Barbara Czarniawska, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg

Andrea Cornwall, Head of School, University of Sussex

Edith Asamani, Advocacy Officer, Curious Minds, Ghana

Katja Iversen, CEO, Women Deliver

Sarah E. Hendriks, Director, Gender Equality, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Caroline Sweetman, Editor of Gender and Development, Oxfam

Programme

A draft programme is attached this event at http://www.diis.dk/node/6478

It will be updated regularly.

A limited number of seats will be available for the conference, and you will be presented with a choice of whether you want to attend the entire conference or just the key note presentations.

For the entire conference there will be 30 available seats.

You may also sign up for one or several of the key note presentations and the final panel discussion, which each have 60 available seats.

The individual sessions will be during these time frames:

Presentation by Professor Sally Engle Merry, Wednesday 18 May 9.30-10.45

Presentation by Professor Barbara Czarniawska, Thursday 19 May 9.00-10.15

Presentation by Professor Andrea Cornwall, Thursday 19 May 13.30-14.45

Panel discussion of gender equality, norms and development: Which way forward? Friday 20 May 13.30-15.30