Gender, Globalization, and Democratization

Meetings

Since its inception in 1998, the ISSC-GGD has made use of a variety of national and international meetings to organize panels to advance our research projects. A list of these meetings appears in our Annual Reports on this website. For the period 2005-2006, four major ISSC-GGD meetings are planned. All relate to our particular research focus on Gender and Migration and Sexual Trafficking and Human Security for the years 2003-2006.

1. A Conference on Gender and Migration in Central and North America to be held in 2005 in Costa Rica. Exact date is not yet known.
2. The ISSC-GGD has been granted the status of "Cooperating Organization" with the International Studies Association and will be holding panels at the ISA meetings in March 2005 in Hawai'i on Gender and Migration and on Empire and Democracy.
3. The ISSC-GGD will be conducting a joint meeting with the the 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women to be held in Seoul, Korea, June 19 - June 24, 2005. The congress will be co-hosted by: the Korean Association of Women's Studies, Ewha Womans University in affiliation with Worldwide Organization of Women's Studies (www.fss.uu.nl/wows). The congress will be also co-sponsored by Korea's Ministry of Gender Equality (www.moge.go.kr) Dr. Bang Soon Yoon will be organizing and chairing a panel on Global Sex-Trafficking and NGO Activism: Current Issues and Policy Development."
4. In July 2006, the ISSC-GGD will culminate its series of international conferences on Gender and Migration and Sexual Trafficking and Human Security with a join meeting between the ISSC-GGD and the International Political Science Association in Fukuoka, Japan.