Call for Participants in AAA Panel on Women's Rights, Gender and
Development:

A panel titled "The Multiple Meanings of Rights:
Local Reconfigurations of Women's Human Rights, Gender and Development"
is seeking scholars to participate in this exciting panel for the AAA meetings in November 2005 to be held in Washington D.C.
Thus far, the papers in the panel deal with how development institutions and
individuals working in them conceptualize transnational ideas such as women's rights, human rights and feminism within their own national, historical, and cultural contexts.

Thus far, the panel consists of four advanced level graduate students from Michigan State University and Sally Engle Merry of Wellesley College. We are seeking other panelists who can contribute to the theoretical issues reflected in
the panel abstract (see attachment for the abstract in full). We encourage and will
consider all geographic areas of research.

If you are interested in participating, please send an email of interest along with a short abstract of your proposed paper (no longer than 250 words) no later than March 28th, 2005 to the email address below.

Best regards,
natalie j bourdon
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
Michigan State University
Email: nataliejbourdon@hotmail.com