Sönke Kunkel, John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin
Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011
9:30 Coffee
10:00 Words of Welcome
10:15 Panel 1: A New Role for International Organizations?
Jens Steffek/Leonie Holthaus (both Technical University of Darmstadt): Planning, Development and the Functional Design of International Organizations
Daniel Speich (ETH Zurich/University of Luzern): Macroeconomic Expertise and International Organizations: Generalizing Knowledge in the Relations between Europe and Africa, 1940s to 1960s
Chair: Jost Duelffer (University of Cologne)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Panel 2: Changing Structures of Governance
Helge Pharo (University of Oslo): International Aid Providers: Institutional Cooperation and Competition between Nation-states, NGOs, and International Organizations after 1945
Vincent Lagendijk (University of Leiden): From Dam-Age to Damage? The International Governance of Dams and their Environmental Impact since the 1960s
Chair: Welf Werner (Jacobs University Bremen)
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Panel 3: The New Politics of Productivity
Anna-Katharina Wöbse (University of Geneva): Underdeveloped or Overexploited? Setting the UN Global Environmental Agenda, 1945-1950
Ruth Jachertz (Humboldt University Berlin): A Global Food Policy? The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and Attempts at Global Governance
Antoine Acker (European University Institute, Florence): Volkswagen’s Farming Project in Brazil: From Negotiated to Contested Development
Chair: Rainer Tetzlaff (Jacobs University Bremen)
Friday, Sept. 30, 2011
9:00 Panel 4: Providing Health and Calories
Corinne Pernet (University of St. Gallen): INCAP (Instituto de Nutrición de Centroamerica y Panamá) as a Place of Transfer
Claudia Prinz (Humboldt University Berlin): The Global “Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Programme” and the Production, Organization and Politics of Health Knowledge
Thomas Zimmer (University of Freiburg): Fighting Malaria in the Name of World Health and Development: The World Health Organization in India
Chair: Corinna Unger (Jacobs University Bremen)
11:15 Coffee
11:30 Panel 5: Development and the Global Economy
Francine McKenzie (University of Western Ontario): The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and Development in the Third World
Matthias Schmelzer (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)): Growth and Its Limits: The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Chair: Sönke Kunkel (Jacobs University Bremen)
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Panel 6: Humanitarianism, Gender, and Development
Heike Wieters (Humboldt University Berlin): CARE: A Study in the Economization of Humanitarianism
Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University): Women Rights Activists and International Organizations
Eileen Boris (University of California, Santa Barbara): “Mothers, Household Managers, and . . . Productive Workers in the Economy”: The International Labor Organization and “Women in Developing Countries”
Chair: Daniel Maul (University of Giessen)
16:30 Coffee
17:00 Panel 7: Final Discussion: International Organizations and the Rise of Global Governance. Mapping the Field
Bob Reinalda (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Klaus Schlichte (University of Bremen)
Marc Frey (Jacobs University Bremen)
Chair: Corinna Unger (Jacobs University Bremen)