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During the year 2005-2006, the Institute (IGGD) in conjunction with the Scientific Research Committee on Gender, Globalization and Democratization (ISSC-GGD) was successful in getting a grant for $20,000 from the International Social Science Council for 2005-2007 to develop research on the themes of gender and migration, sex trafficking and human security, women and leadership, globalization and changing family structure, and curriculum development and distribution. In addition to our normal co-sponsoring of various speakers on campus, the IGGD organized an international conference, Ponencia II Encuentro Transnacional Mujeres, at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica on January 13 and 14, 2006. Members of the IGGD attended this conference and presented papers along with 10 scholars from five Central American countries. Themes explored in this conference included political participation by women in electoral politics, sex trafficking and violence against women in Central America, post-colonial feminism in Central America, as well as gender and migration.
A second conference organized by the IGGD and the ISSC-GGD took place as a joint meeting with the International Studies Association in San Diego, California in March 2006. The theme of papers at this joint conference concerned globalization and the changing structure of the family. Scholars from Canada, Mexico, and the United States presented papers at this conference.
A third conference organized by the IGGD took place in conjunction with the Western Political Science Association meetings with a panel on globalization and forms of women's leadership in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 2006.
Finally, IGGD has been working closely with colleagues at Rutgers University to write a grant proposal which has been submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation to build an electronic network connecting Centers and Institutes like the IGGD together worldwide. The purpose of this network will be to create an electronic repository for scientific research papers, conference proceedings, syllabi, and workshop materials on gender, globalization and democratization. Specific themes will include those mentioned above. The Rutgers University Library has agreed to be a repository and electronic home for this project. The IGGD at CSUN will be one of three Institutes or Centers involved in the United States. To date, we have not heard whether this grant proposal has been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.