Challenging ourselves to go beyond good intentions in global
development
Monday May 23, 2011
5-6:30PM
CMU120
Critical Development Forum (CDF)
criticaldevelopmentforum@gmail.com
Do you want to make a difference? Are you going abroad this
summer? Are you interested or engaged in global development and
social justice work – either here or abroad? Do you want a
chance to meet and hear from others like you?
Join the Critical Development Forum (CDF) for a unique
interdisciplinary panel and community debate on our role in
global development. A few of the issues we will address:
* How can we – as students, staff, and faculty – connect our
academic work, service learning, study abroad, and activism to
the global development issues that matter? What are we doing
right? What could we do better?
* Why are there so many organizations on campus with good
intentions, and so little collaboration? How do we connect to
one another and work together towards our common goals?
* How do we deal with our conflicting motivations for engaging
internationally – from resume-padding to moral responsibility?
* Has “development” become depoliticized? What can we do to
reconnect social justice and development?
* What should students with good intentions do to help? What
should they know before going abroad?
Learn from an interdisciplinary panel of scholars,
practitioners, activists, and students while contributing your
own voice! Panelists will courageously reflect on their
experiences and invite the audience to participate in a lively
discussion. All are welcome and no previous experience is
necessary!
Panelists include:
* Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH (Global Health, Population Health
Forum)
* Susan Bolton, PhD (Forest Resources, Civil & Environmental
Engineering, Global Health, Engineers Without Borders)
* Rachel Chapman, PhD (Anthropology)
* Dave Citrin (Anthropology, Global Health, SeaSol)
* Christopher Dodd, MD (School of Medicine, Primary Health Care
Americas)
* Matt Sparke, PhD (Geography, Global Health)
* Eva Tagoe-Darko, PhD (African Studies; Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science
* & Technology in Kumasi, Ghana)
…and students with experiences studying, researching, and
volunteering abroad as well as leading the global justice
movement here.
A reception with light refreshments and roundtable discussions
with panelists will follow the official program.
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Nikki Comeau
MPA Candidate 2012
Evans School of Public Affairs
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Program Assistant
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies
University of Washington
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Aimee Khuu
<aimee.khuu@gmail.com>
wrote:
Well, team- we pulled that off quite well!
We had over 60 people attend the
conference, great workshops and keynotes. Evaluations have
been very positive.
Certainly exceeded my own expectations!
Thanks for all the hard work everyone has
put in. It certainly would not have happened without the
help of all of you- from the initial brainstorming and
encouragement to pursue the conference to gathering of
speakers to the journals and packets to sitting at the
registration desk and making sure things went smoothly on
the day of the event. It was a lot of work but it definitely
paid off!!
We have a couple things to tie up now
that the conference is over.
1. Thank you cards for speakers
2. Compile evaluation results
3. Other...??
Would anyone be willing to help with
these items?
It is a pleasure to work with all of you,
Aimee
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Many Thanks,
Aimee Khuu
Program Director
Esperanza International