Innovation in the Service of Human Dignity
A Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana USA
November 7 – 8, 2008
Conference Schedule
Friday, November 7
1:00pm – 3:00pm: Conference registration, international opportunities mini-fare, and student poster presentations
Hesburgh Center Great Hall
3:00pm – 4:00pm: Introductory Plenary Session
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
José B. Alvarez IV, Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, SIT Study Abroad
William Collins, Director of Asia/Pacific Studies, SIT Study Abroad
Mary Lou Forward, Director of African Studies, SIT Study Abroad
Damiana Miranda, Academic Director of Public Health and Community Welfare Program in Brazil, SIT Study Abroad
Brenda Pereyra, Academic Director of Social Movements and Human Rights Program in Argentina, SIT Study Abroad
4:00pm – 5:30pm: Opening Panel
Development in the Service of Human Dignity
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Discussant: Mary Lou Forward, Director of African Studies, SIT Study Abroad
Jessica Brock, University of Notre Dame Law School
“Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals”
Patrick Kibbe, University of Notre Dame
“Development and Democracy in Rural Madagascar”
Eric Hirsch, Columbia University
“Pueblo Indio: Progress, Modernity and Cultural Performance in an Andean Village”
Lindsay Buchanan, Washington University in St. Louis
“Mute Mushahar? The Question of Voice and Agency in Development”
6:00pm – 8:30pm: Dinner and keynote lecture by Peter McPherson, President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; Chairman, Dow Jones & Company
Monogram Room in the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center
Saturday, November 8
8:30am – 9:00am: Late registration and light breakfast
Hesburgh Center Great Hall
9:00am – 10:00am: Lessons From the Front Lines of Development
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
“Hope Among the Dead”, a documentary film from Bolivia by Dana Meyer, Denison University, Jacquelyn S. Powell, Gettysburg University and Rene Roming, Rice University
Beth Tuckey, Associate Director of Program Development and Bahati Ntama Jacques, Policy Analyst, Africa Faith and Justice Network
Michael Smedley, former Regional Director of Operations in Africa, HOPE International
10:00am – 10:30am: Coffee Break
10:30am – 12:00pm: Panel Presentation Session #1
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Post-Conflict Communities
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Discussant: Brenda Pereyra, Academic Director of Social Movements and Human Rights Program in Argentina, SIT Study Abroad
Megan Graham and Raquel Font-Soloway, Gettysburg College and Oberlin College
“Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Post-Conflict Communities: A Case Study of Kyangwali Refugee Settlement”
Vianna Alcantara, Denison University
“From the Ituri Region Refugee Camps: The Continuation of Violence Against Women”
Jaqueline Francoeur, Beloit College
“Remittance With the Southern Sudanese Community in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Turkana District, Kenya”
Zoe Brennan-Krohn, Brown University
“Surviving the War, Surviving the Peace: Supporting Survivors of War-Rape and Domestic Violence in Medica Zenica”
Alicia Quiros, University of Notre Dame
“Nicaragua: Methods of Resistance in a Society Trapped in Violence”
Ford in the Field: Lessons from Nnindye, Uganda
C-103 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: David Nnyanzi, Director of the Nnindye Project, University of Notre Dame and Uganda Martyrs University
Michelle Byrne, University of Notre Dame
“Nnindye's Struggle for Safe Water: Causes, Consequences, and Proposed Solutions”
Ivan Nyombi, Uganda Martyrs University
“An Assessment of the Effects of Water Collection on the Lives of Children in Nnindye Parish”
Sean Hoskins, University of Notre Dame
“Determinants of Agricultural Profitability in Rural Uganda”
Teddy Etoru, Uganda Martyrs University
“An Examination of the Effects of Farming Techniques on Agricultural Output in Nnindye”
Economics that Hurt, Economics that Help
C-102 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: Amitava Dutt, Professor of Economics and Policy Studies, University of Notre Dame
Noel Villaroman, University of Notre Dame Law School Alumnus
“Foreign Debt Repayments and their Impact on Human Development in Developing Countries: ‘A Fate Worse than Debt’”
Joella Bitter, University of Notre Dame
“Is the Informal Economy a Problem of Exclusion?: An Ethnographic Study of Latin America”
Chelsea Berdahl, Pacific Lutheran University
“The Crisis of Cotton: Subjugation Through Subsidies and Domination by Distortion of West African Cotton Cultures”
Allison Lynn Bridges, New York University
“Human Development Through Islamic Microfinanace”
The Environment: Restore, Conserve, Utilize
C-104/105 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: Mary Lou Forward, Director of African Studies, SIT Study Abroad
Jane Lee, University of Notre Dame
“Sustainable Development in Costa Rica: The Possibilities of Ecotourism in Relation to Encyclicals Populorum Progressio and Sollicitudo Rei Socialis”
Liz Wilmers, Butler University
“Complexities and Challenges of Parks and People: A Community in Mbazwana and the Isimangaliso Wetlands Park”
Rachel Salloway, Bates College
“Climate and Development: An Exploration of Disaster Management in Northern and Eastern Uganda”
12:00pm – 1:15pm: Lunch
1:15pm – 2:45pm: Panel Presentation Session #2
Civil Extremes: Oppression and Neglect
Hesburgh Auditorium
Discussant: Brenda Pereyra, Academic Director of Social Movements and Human Rights Program in Argentina, SIT Study Abroad
Alaina Varvaloucas, Yale University
“Policing the Police: Democracy and Effective Methods of Accountability in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Alyssa Huff, Northwestern University
“Translating Testimonies into Action: The Joe Slovo Anti-Eviction Movement”
Janet Checkley, University of Pittsburgh
“Are You Ready for CHOGM? The Preparations for CHOGM and the Effect on the Urban Poor in Kampala”
Sean Mallin, University of Notre Dame
“Perspectives on Rebuilding a ‘New’ New Orleans”
Stopping Subjugation: Women in Development
C-103 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: Eileen Botting, Director of Gender Studies, University of Notre Dame
Heather Day, Connecticut College
“’…But You Mustn’t Insult her Parents’: Marital Violence in Mali”
Rachel Pryzby, Smith College
“Helping Women Help Themselves: Sex Work, Health and Development in Mahajanga Mali”
Molly Baker, Cornell University
“Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Amongst Students at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon”
Patrick Tighe, University of Notre Dame
“Matrilineal and Christian Traditions: Moral Resources Against Ghanaian Female Subjugation”
Patricia Hughes, University of Notre Dame
“Overriding Autonomy: A Comparative Study of Involuntary Sterilization in Peru and the US”
The Role of Religion in Human Development
C-102 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC, Director of the Ford Program, University of Notre Dame
Harry Clafin, McGill University
“The Religious Spirit in Social Change: The Theology of the Escola Fé e Política”
Susan Bigelow, University of Notre Dame
“Catholic Inculturation and Human Dignity in Uganda: Successes, Shortcomings and Potential”
Michael Clemente, University of Notre Dame
“Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxis: The Development Effects of Peru’s Divided Church”
Amanda Lewis, University of Notre Dame
“Perceptions and Realities: Discerning the Relationship Between Mayan Women and the Roman Catholic Church”
Health Challenges in Developing Settings
C-104/105 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: Damiana Miranda, Academic Director of Public Health and Community Welfare Program in Brazil, SIT Study Abroad
Matthew Cummings, Siena College
“Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response in Uganda: Community-Based Disease Surveillance and Response as an Essential Tool for Improving Health in the Developing World”
Margaret Culhane, University of Notre Dame
“Culture and ‘ Progress’: Problems with HIV Sensitization in Rural Lesotho and Rural Gambia”
Emma Smith, Yale University
“HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care in a Long-Term Conflict Setting: Observations from the AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in the Teso Region
Kerilyn Daniel, University of Virginia
“Understanding Mental Health from a Candomblé Perspective”
2:45pm – 3:00pm: Transition Break
3:00pm – 4:30pm: Panel Presentation Session #3
Public Health Investigations: Policy vs. Practice
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Discussant: Dr. Charles Olweny, Vice Chancellor, Uganda Martyrs University
Katie Day, University of Notre Dame
“Governance and Human Development in Uganda Through the Lens of the Implementation of the Health Sector Strategic Plan II (2005-2010)
Eliana Dotan, Brandeis University
“Family Planning and Poverty Reduction: An Inquiry into the Efficacy of Family Planning as a Tool of Economic Development in Uganda”
Courtney Hofman, University of Notre Dame
“Lymphatic Filariasis Non-Compliance in Egypt”
Kirsten Hansen-Day, Oberlin College
“Interculturality and Accessibility: A New Public Health Model in Torotoro, Potosi, Bolivia”
Culture in Context
C-103 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: Jose B. Alvarez IV, Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, SIT Study Abroad
Heather Houser, Rhodes College
“Permission to Change: The Role of Culture and Cultural Tourism in Development”
Amber Murrey-Ndewa, University of Idaho
“Contemporary Painting as Social Commentary: Cultural Re-Appropriation in Cameroon”
Alexandra Boggs, Columbia University
“Spirit Mediums of the Menabe Region, Madagascar”
Alexandrea Gayda, University of Southern California
“In Between Borders of Space and Time: Salvadoran Emigration, Transnationalism and the Social Impacts on those Left Behind”
Anusha Mehar, College of Mount Saint Vincent
“Mapuches Urbanos: Complex Identities in Relation to their Forced Migration”
Issues of Governance
C-102 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: Brenda Pereyra, Academic Director of Social Movements and Human Rights Program in Argentina, SIT Study Abroad
Liz Coyne, Valparaiso University
”Filling in the Blanks of History: Legitimizing democracy in independent Namibia”
Hannah Pallmeyer, Macalestar College
“’Water is our Right, Protecting it is our Responsibility’: Constructing and Sustaining a Social Movement Against Water Privitization in Nicaragua”
Ryan Merz, University of Iowa
“Institutionalization of the Recovered Factory Repertoire: Worker Strategies at Talleras Union”
Ida Rose Nininger, Butler University
“Genocide in International Criminal Law”
The State of Education
C-104/105 Hesburgh Center
Discussant: William Collins, Director of Asia/Pacific Studies Program, SIT Study Abroad
Barbara Vi Ho, University of Notre Dame
“Pursed Lips, Apprehensive Minds: Politics and Education as Transformative Tools for Inspiring the Youth of Bosnia Herzegovina”
Ellen Tracey, Northwestern University
“Evaluating the Centralized Educational System of Uganda Through the Lens of Community-run Primary Schools”
Angela Rumsey, Illinois Wesleyan University
“Life on the Street: Participant Observation of Street Children in Masaka, Uganda”
4:30pm – 4:40pm: Transition Break
4:40pm – 5:00pm: Conference Closing
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
