Schedule of Events

Tuesday, November 17

08:30-01:30   Registration

09:00-10:00  Breakfast

10:00-10:30   Welcome

10:30-12:15    Session 1

NGOs and Social Movements: Ethnography at the Intersections of Engagement

Flipping the Classroom: Toward a Reengineering of post-Aid Delivery Impact Evaluations

12:15-01:30   Mentoring/Networking Lunch

Optional Student Mentoring

01:30-03:15  Session 2

Desirable Futures: Temporalities, Trajectories, and Hope in the NGO Sector

Investing in Collaboration: Reviewing the Posner Center’s International Collaboration Fund

Encountering Philanthropists in the NGO Landscape: A Workshop for Ethnographer-Practitioners

03:30-05:15  Session 3

Meeting Ethnography across NGO-graphies

Redefining Success and Failure

Internal NGO-graphies: Navigating “Citizenships” In and Through Transnational NGOs

05:15-05:45   Reception

05:45-07:30  Plenary

Vincanne Adams, University of California, San Francisco

Julie Hemment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Heather Hindman, University of Texas at Austin

Saida Hodžić, Cornell University

 

Wednesday, November 18

07:00-10:00   Registration

07:00-08:00  Breakfast

08:00-09:45  Session 4

Children as Objects of Humanitarian Intervention: NGO Commodification of Disadvantaged Childhoods (Part 1)

What Is This “Local Knowledge” That Development Organizations Fetishize? (Part 1)

Development’s Transitions

The Corporatization of NGOs

09:45-10:00  Coffee Break

10:00-11:45   Session 5

Children as Objects of Humanitarian Intervention: NGO Commodification of Disadvantaged Childhoods (Part 2)

What Is This “Local Knowledge” That Development Organizations Fetishize? (Part 2)

Civil Society and the Law

NGOing: NGOs as a Verb

12:00-01:30  Working Group Lunch

01:30-03:30  Discussion

Break-out sessions:

Teaching NGOs in the classroom

Examining the intersections between NGO studies and practice

Indexing: NGO studies bibliography highlighting important categories & themes

+ 6 sessions open for conference attendees to develop and organize