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
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