CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, NEW YORK
March 28-30 2002

THURSDAY, MARCH 28

4:30 am-6:30 pm
AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER
310 TRIPHAMMER ROAD
General introduction to the theme followed by a reception

Professor Aklilu Habte
Former President of the University of Addis Ababa, and former Minister of Culture, Sports, and Youth Affairs, Ethiopia
"Gender, Capacity Development, and Higher Education in Africa: Reflections on the Past and the Future"

Introduction by Professor Locksley Edmondson, (Cornell University)
 

FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 401 WARREN HALL

8:15 -8:45am
Breakfast

8:45-9:00am
Opening Session

Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, (Cornell University, Wells College, and CEPARRED-Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
Professor Ravi Kanbur, (PIDI/Cornell University)
Professor Paul N'DA, (Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research/Université de Cocody Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
Professor N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, (Cornell University and CEPARRED-Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
Professor Henry Richardson, (Cornell University)

9:00-10:30am
Session A
Old and New Development Paradigms, Higher Education, and the Basis of Gender Inequality: General Issues and Approaches

Chair: Professor Anne Adams, (Cornell University)

Presenter: Professor Teboho Moja, (New York University)
"Subtle Politics of Exclusion in Higher Education: the Absence of Gender Issues in the Globalization Debates"
Discussant: Professor Winnie Taylor, (Cornell University)

Presenter: Professor Ravi Kanbur, (Cornell University),
"New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): An Initial Commentary"
Discussant: Professor Josephine Allen, (Cornell University)

Presenter: Professor Adebayo Olukoshi (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa-CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal),
"Political Economy of Structural Adjustment in Africa and Its Implications in Higher Education with a particular Reference to Gender Inequalities"
Discussant: Professor Lourdes Beneria, (Cornell University)

Paper prepared by Professor Rémi Clignet, (University of Maryland and Institut de Recherche Démographique, Paris) "Mismeasuring gender disparities in university enrollments"
Presenter/Discussant: Professor Leslie Miller-Bernal, (Wells College)

10:30-10: 45am
Break

10:45am-12:15pm
Session B
Theoretical and Policy Issues on Human and Women Rights in Higher Education

Chair:  Ambassador/Professor Yolande Tano, (UNESCO, Paris, France)

Presenter:  Dr. Anne Sidonie Zoa, (La Maison Africaine, Montréal, Canada),
"Les Jeunes Filles Face à L'Enseignement Supérieur: Précarité  économique et représentation sociale en Afrique subsaharienne"
Discussant: Professor Nancy Kwang Johnson, (Colgate University)

Presenter:  Dr. Emma Akoua Atchrimi, (Centre canadien d'étude et de coopéraiton internationale/Projet droits et citoyenneté des femmes en Afrique francophone-CECI/dcf, Bamako, Mali),
"Education Universitaire et Droits des Femmes en Afrique Francophone"
Discussant: Professor Lydie Haenlin, (Wells College)

Presenter: Professor Cyril Daddieh (Providence College),
"Attitudes of Ghanaian Students Regarding Issues Confronting African Higher Education with a Particular Attention to Gender"
Discussant: Professor Susan Piliero, (Cornell University)

Paper prepared by Professor Philip Higgs, (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa)
"Theoretical and Policy Implications of Inequalities in South Africa"
Presenter/Discussant, Professor Margaret Washington, (Cornell University)

12:15-1:15pm
Lunch

1:15-2:45pm
Session C
Gender and Women Issues in Labor and Higher Education in Specific Case Studies

Chair: Vice Provost Robert Harris, (Cornell University)

Presenter:  Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi (Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India),
"Women's employment and well-being in East and South-east Asia: Lessons for Africa"
Discussant: Professor Asma Barlas, (Ithaca College)

Presenter: Professor Denise Houphouët-Boigny, (Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research/Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
"Femme et Education Scientifique: le Cas de l'Enseignement Supérieur en Côte d'Ivoire"
Discussant: Professor Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, (Cornell University)

Presenter: Professor Penina Mlama, (Forum for African Women Educationalists-FAWE, Nairobi, Kenya)
"The Significance of Higher Education in Education Reform in Africa – the FAWE Experience"
Discussant: Professor Micere Mugo, (Syracuse University)

Presenter: Ms. Mary Materu-Behitsa, (Association of African Universities-AAU Accra, Ghana),
"Experiences and prospects for gender parity in African universities: A perspective from the AAU"
Discussant: Ms. Christine Lubwa Oryema-Lalobo, (Gates Foundation, Kampala, Uganda and Association of African Women for Research and Development-AAWORD, Dakar, Senegal)

2:45-3:00pm
Break

3:00-4:30pm
Session D
Women and Epistemological and Phenomenological Questions of Change:
What Science and Which Knowledge?

Chair: Dr. Jean Claude Brou, (Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest-BCEAO, Dakar, Senegal)

Presenter: Professor Josephine Beoku-Betts, (Florida Atlantic University),
"Learning Science, Doing Science: African Women Scientists and the Production of Knowledge"
Discussant:  Professor Peyi Soyinka Airewele, (Ithaca College)

Ms. Ruth Bamela Engo, (African Action on AIDS),
"Civic Competence and the Effectiveness of Academic Activities in Challenging Poverty in Africa"
Discussant: Professor James Turner, (Cornell University)

Presenter: Professor Changu Mannathoko, (UNICEF, Nairobi, Kenya),
"Breaking the Second Wall of Silence: Addressing Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Education"
Discussant: Professor Ayele Bekerie, (Cornell University)

Presenter: Dr. Achola Pala Okeyo (UNDP),
"Reflections on Women and the Production of Knowledge"
Discussant: Professor Aklilu Habte

4:30:5:15pm
Session E
Major Issues and Looking Forward

Chair: Professor David Lewis, (Cornell University)

-Professor Muxe G. Nkondo, (University of Venda of Science and Technology, South Africa)
-Dr. Lucila Bandeira Beato,  (DEPIS/DPEIBGE Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
-Ms. Marieme Lo, Graduate Student, (Cornell University)
-Mr. Gatua Wa Mbugwa, Graduate Student, (Cornell University)

5:15-5:30pm
Closing Remarks
Professor T. Lumumba-Kasongo
 

Co-sponsors
Center for the Study of Inequality, Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development, Africana Studies and Research Center, Department of Education, Program on Gender and Global Change, Cornell International Program of Food, Agriculture, and Development, Cornell Institute of Public Affairs, Institute for African Development,
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Institute of European Studies,
Office of the Dean of the College of Architecture, Art & Planning, South East Asian Program,
International Students and Scholars Office, Office of the Dean of Wells College.

CEPARRED and PID
The PanAfrican Studies and Research Center in International Relations and Education for Development/
Centre Panafricain d'Etudes et de Recherches en Relations Internationales et en Éducation pour le Développement,
(Headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)

Poverty, Inequality, and Development initiative (PID)
(Cornell University)
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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