Conference Schedule
THURSDAY, 3/13
Opening Remarks
Tamar Mayer, Director, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Middlebury College
Session 1: Dignity and Dollars: The Case of the U.S.
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Moderator: Charlotte Tate, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Student Chair: Emily Bensen ‘14
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On the Political Economy of Youth Unemployment
Robert Prasch, Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
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The Rise of the J-1 Summer Work Travel Program and Its Links to Youth Unemployment
Cate Bowman, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder
Session 2: Unemployment, Violence and Terror
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
6:15-8:00 p.m.
Dinner will be served over this presentation.
Moderator: Robert Prasch, Economics
Student Chair: Molly Stuart ‘14.5
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Youth Labor Prison Terror: An Economist’s Meditation on Human Disposability
Marcellus Andrews
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Unemployment and Violence
Juana Gamero de Coca, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Middlebury College
FRIDAY, 3/14
Session 3: Pounding the Pavement: Voices of Recent Alumni
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Lunch will be served over this presentation.
Moderator: Amy Gibans McGlashan, Center for Careers & Internships
Student Chair: Caroline Goodwin ‘14
Ava Kerr ‘12 - History with Religion minor
Barrett Smith ‘13 - Classics with Physics minor
Ashley Guzman ‘13 - Women & Gender’s Studies and French
Hanna Mahon ’13.5 - Independent Major, Peace and Justice Studies
Session 4: No Exit? Migration and Borders
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
2:30-4:15 p.m.
Moderator: Nadia Horning, Political Science
Student Chair: Levi Westerveld ‘15.5
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Youth Unemployment in a Mayan Indian Town in Guatemala
David Stoll, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College
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Fighting Unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Illegal Emigration as Youth Response?
Ange Bergson Lendja Ngnemzué, Department of Anthropology, C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in Africa: Cameroon
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The Inactives: How Can Public Policy Encourage the Engagement of the Youth in the Labor Marker?
Natalia Herbst, Office of the Vice-Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Session 5: ¡No Mas! Strategies and Alternatives
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Moderator: Will Pyle, Economics
Student Chair: Gabrielle Lee ‘14.5
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Bailing Out Capital or Diffusing a Time Bomb?: The Question of Youth Wage Subsidy in South Africa
Crispen Chinguno, Department of Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Youth and Work Policy in Spain: The Andalusian Case
Ciro Milione, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
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Eliminating Youth Unemployment: A Proposal
Pavlina Tcherneva, Department of Economics, Bard College, New York
SATURDAY, 3/15
Session 6: Sticky Floors: Gender and Unemployment
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
8:45-10:45 a.m.
Moderator: Sujata Moorti, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Student Chair: Adam Lang ‘14
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Gendering the Recession in Ireland: Unemployment, Migration and the Post-Celtic Tiger Era
Diane Negra, Film Studies, University College, Dublin, Ireland
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Precariousness in Japan: After the ‘Lost Decade’
Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University
Session 7: Overworked and Underpaid
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
11:00-12:30 p.m.
Moderator: Jamie McCallum, Sociology and Anthropology
Student Chair: Claudia Esteva ‘15
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“I Need Money, That’s the Only Reason I Do It”: Youth “Volunteers,” Unemployment and International Action in Pakistan’s health Sector
Svea Closser, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Middlebury College
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The Chosen, the Choosers and the Others: How Unpaid Internships Lengthen the School-to-Work Transition and Reproduce Inequality
Alexandre Frenette, Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
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Ambivalent Attachments: Youth and Economic Insecurity in India
Stephen Young, Departments of Geography and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session 8: False Promises: Is There a Way Out?
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
12:45 p.m.
Concluding remarks will be held over lunch.
Moderator: Kacy McKinney, Geography
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Concluding Remarks - Discussion and Summary
Jackie Voluz ‘14 and Jia Lun Lee ‘15, International and Global Studies Seminar 404
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Robert A. Jones 59 House
148 Hillcrest Road
Middlebury, VT
05753