On July 4 and 5, 2024, Maria Framke, working on the research project “Hidden Histories: Women in Rural Development Programs in India, c. 1920-1966” and affiliated with our group, organized the workshop “Voluntariness, Women and Development in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Societies.”
The event in Erfurt focused, among other things, on perspectives on agency of Asian and African women in the context of development in the Global South. The workshop was complemented by a keynote lecture by Adwoa Opong, historian specializing in Ghanaian history at Chapman University in the US, entitled “All that is meant by Citizenship. Women, Social Work, and Development in Ghana, 1945-1970s.”
Click here for the conference report at HSozKult, written by Gifty Nyame Tabiri, team member of our subproject “Voluntariness, Decolonization, and Gender. Women’s movement and citizenship in (post)colonial Ghana.”
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Maria Framke (Erfurt) / Rosalind Parr (Glasgow): Welcome and Introduction
Panel I: Women’s Development Work
Agnieszka Sobocinska (London): Comment
Jana Tschurenev (Berlin): Foundation Layers: Women Volunteers, the Welfare State, and Early Childhood Care and Education in India, 1945 to 1975
Rosalind Parr (Glasgow): Transnational Family Planning Networks and Development in India, Pakistan and Ceylon, 1950s–1960s
Claudia Prinz (Berlin): Women in Health Education: Mothers, Teachers, Consumers?
Keynote Lecture:
Adwoa Opong (Orange): All that is meant by Citizenship: Women, Social Work, and Development in Ghana, 1945–1970s.
Friday, July 5, 2024
Panel II: Development Knowledge
Carolyn Taratko (Potsdam): Comment
Kirsten Kamphuis (Münster): Discourses of Development and Women’s Roles in Indonesian Women’s Magazines, 1920s–1960s
Iris Schröder (Erfurt): Gender, Voluntariness and Social Scientists’ Expertise in Postcolonial Ghana
Panel III: Development, Rights and Politics
Rosalind Parr (Glasgow): Comment
Maha Ali (Leiden): Framing Development as a Right: Asian Women at the United Nations
Su Lin Lewis (Bristol): The Politics of Development at Afro-Asian Women’s Conferences
Agnieszka Sobocinska (London): Illuminating the Implementation Gap: Gender, Resistance and International Development between Global North and Global South
Panel IV: Rural and Urban Spaces
Jana Tschurenev (Berlin): Comment
Maria Framke (Erfurt): Progress for Women through Volunteering? Development, Transnational Cooperation and Gender in Rural South Asia
Claire Nicolas (Geneva): Urban Migration, Social Development, and the Ghana Young Women’s Christian Association (1951–1961)
