Fall 2019 Speaker Series
& Consortium Seminar
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
12:30–1:45 PM: Lecture plus Q & A
1:45–2:30 PM: Consortium Seminar
Women of Color
and the Global Security Challenges
of the 21st Century
Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins
Founder and Executive Director of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) and Ambassador at the U.S. Department of State from 2009-17
Challenges today are global in nature and are best addressed through global responses with diverse voices engaged. However, those most vulnerable, people and particularly women of color, are not adequately represented at the policy tables where decisions are being made. This discussion will examine some of those challenges, particularly infectious disease, and the impact of those challenges on the most vulnerable communities.
Location: Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3550C, UMass Boston
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Monday, November 4, 2019
4:00-5:15 PM: Lecture plus Q & A
5:15-6:00 PM: Consortium Seminar
Gendered Local Voices in
Counterterrorism Policies
Anwar Mhajne
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Stonehill College
Currently, the discourse and actions around terrorism prevention and response are strongly infused with socially-constructed images of masculinity and femininity. Women are often ignored and instrumentalized in terrorism prevention and response approaches. Such approaches have a real and direct impact on women’s rights, with consequences for the right to participation, and freedom of association, among others. This talk will address the need for context-specific security measures through ongoing engagement with local women’s groups to ensure a more effective response that improves lives and access to rights for all.
Location: Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Conference Room 3540, UMass Boston
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
4:00-5:15 PM: Lecture plus Q & A
5:15-6:00 PM: Consortium Seminar
Why We Need a Feminist Roadmap
for Sustainable Peace and a Sustainable Planet
Carol Cohn
Director, Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
Western peacebuilding models repeatedly fail to bring sustainable peace. And our dominant economic models, with their overwhelmingly extractive stance toward both people and the planet, have left us careening toward climate catastrophe. Major paradigm shifts are urgently needed; this talk will argue that feminist analysis can and must be a key to making those shifts.
Location: Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Conference Room 3540, UMass Boston
