Mapping Global Development Futures:
 Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Justice, Migration, and the Climate Crisis

From September 22-23, 2024, the United Nations will convene the Summit of the Future to reflect on the UN Secretary-General's Our Common Agenda report and realize the vision for a prosperous, equitable and just future. The Summit promises to "turbocharge" the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the face of growing political violence, a withering of international human rights protections, deep global financial insecurity, and a climate crisis.

The session will bring together experts in international law, global finance, migration, and gender and peace-building to explore the promise and limits of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals from critical, intersectional, and feminist perspectives.

Confirmed participants include Kate Bedford (Birmingham Law School), Rob Aitken (Political Science, UofA), Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika (Women's and Gender Studies, UofA), Adriana Rincón Villegas (Institute for Intersectionality Studies, UofA), and Siobhan Byrne (Institute for Intersectionality Studies and Political Science, UofA).

Moderating the panel is Lise Gotell (Women’s and Gender Studies, UofA).

When: Tuesday January 23, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Where: The Political Science Co-Lab (T 12-15), H. M. Tory Building