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

• On the Political Economy of Youth Unemployment

Robert Prasch, Professor of Economics, Middlebury College

• 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

• Youth Labor Prison Terror: An Economist’s Meditation on Human Disposability

Marcellus Andrews

• 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 

• Youth Unemployment in a Mayan Indian Town in Guatemala

David Stoll, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College

• 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

• 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

• 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 

• Youth and Work Policy in Spain: The Andalusian Case

Ciro Milione, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

• 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

• Gendering the Recession in Ireland: Unemployment, Migration and the Post-Celtic Tiger Era

Diane Negra, Film Studies, University College, Dublin, Ireland

• 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

• “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

• 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

• 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

• Concluding Remarks - Discussion and Summary

Jackie Voluz ‘14 and Jia Lun Lee ‘15, International and Global Studies Seminar 404