Upcoming Events
The 2009 Summit on International Women’s Issues is part of a larger, campus wide, week of programming for International Women’s Day 2009. Here is a tentative list of events that will be going on:
February 24: Project Kashmir at Cornell Cinema
February 28: Trip to Women’s Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls(open to the Cornell community)
March 2: Tentative Kick-off Keynote Speaker
March 3: The Sari Soldiers at Cornell Cinema
March 5: Kris Holloway (author) speaks(Sponsored by Cornell Health International)
March 7: 2009 Summit on International Women’s Issues(Hosted by Global Development Club)
The Vagina Monologues
(Presented by Cornell Women’s Resource Center)
March 8: Recognition Reception for Outstanding Work for the Advancement of Women(Co-sponsored with ISSO) with Keynote Speaker Rosemary Stasek, Founder/Chair of …a little help, International NGO
March 9: Women in the International Sphere Panel (Tentative: Andrea Parrot, N'Dri Assie-Lumumba, Shelley Feldman, Kathy March)
March 10: Pray the Devil Back to Hell at Cornell Cinema
March 11: Women in the Domestic Sphere Panel (Tentative: Margaret Washington, Mary Katzenstein, Sara Warner, Ileen DeVault, and Francine Blau)
Ongoing: International Films about Women (Co-sponsored with Cornell Cinema)
The Clothesline Project, “Bearing Witness to Violence Against Women”
Women’s Self Defense Courses
Special thanks to our Sponsors
American Medical Women's Association
The Cornell University Student Assembly Finance Commission
The Cornell Global Development Club
Partnership for Honduan Health
MANSI
Cornell Health International
The Alice Cook House on West Campus and Dr. Ross Brann, House Dean College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
International Programs Division
Development Sociology
Student Affairs office of the Weill Qatar Medical Center
Welcome
Welcome to the website for the 1st Annual Summit on Women’s Issues in Global Health and Development which will take place at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The date for the summit is March 7, 2009. It will be a small scale conference of about 200 medical, law, graduate and undergraduate students as well as professors, health professionals, civic leaders and women’s rights advocates from across the globe. Given the growing interest in the field of women’s issues in global health and development, we thought it was high time to host a conference where women’s issues would be the sole focus. The mission of this Women’s Summit is to promote the engagement of future leaders in this area. Participants will learn more about the continuity and change, latest progresses, challenges and career opportunities. Students will also have the opportunity to network with people in the field as well as other young people with the same interests.
Our goal for this summit is the exploration of the impact that women’s actions have made and will continue to make in global health and development. At the same time, however, we think it is critical not to marginalize all women as simply an economic tool for development without exploring their individual social, political, and religious situations. This summit will go beyond the general rhetoric of “empowering women” as a tool or method. Instead, we will probe the issues of gender equality and effective strategies for achieving that end. In summary, this conference hopes explore the history of this movement in order to create a dialogue confronting the necessary changes for the future roles women will play as leaders and catalysts of change.
More information about International Women’s Day can be found here.
Disclaimer: This Summit is being planned and will be offered by Cornell Global Development Club which is an independent student organization located at Cornell University, and is neither a unit nor agent of Cornell University for any purpose. As such it is not authorized to make contractual commitments, or express policies or opinions on behalf of Cornell University. Therefore the views or opinions expressed on this webpage do not necessarily represent those of Cornell University, speakers, featured artists, presenters or participants.