Elizabeth (Betsy) Hartmann
OFFICE ADDRESS:
Director, Population and Development Program
Professor, Development Studies
CLPP
Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
Phone: (413) 559-6046
Fax: (413) 559-5826
EDUCATION:
B.A., Yale University, 1974.
Magna cum laude with Distinction in Division IV Self-Designed Interdisciplinary Major in South Asian Studies.
Yale-Carnegie Five Year B.A. Program fellowship to work in Gujarat, India, 1971-72.
Howland International Fellowship for post-graduation field work in Bangladesh.
PhD, Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, March 2003.
Dissertation title: Strategic Scarcity: The Origins and Impact of Environmental Conflict Ideas.
POSITIONS HELD
Director, Population and Development Program, Hampshire College (from 1988).
Professor, Development Studies, School of Social Science, Hampshire College (from 2006).
Responsibilities include teaching; research; writing; curricular development; editing program publications; public speaking and advocacy in the fields of international women’s health, reproductive rights, development, environment and security; and working with the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program on joint projects and programs such as the annual conference on reproductive rights and the Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps summer internship program. Courses taught: Rethinking the Population Problem; Reproductive Rights: National and International Perspectives; Interrogating Fear: Bioterror, the Environment and the Construction of Threats; Framing Climate Change; Rethinking Security in an Age of Climate Change.
Independent writing and advocacy work in the fields of development, reproductive rights, and human rights. (1981-87).
Project manager, Economic Development Bureau, Training Course in Petroleum Economics for Third World Officials, New Haven, CT (1979-80).
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, Yale University (1978-79).
Designed and co-taught undergraduate seminar for two semesters on "The Political Economy of Hunger."
LANGUAGES:
Intermediate Spanish
Past proficiency in French and (spoken) Bengali
RECENT AWARDS AND GRANTS
Visiting Scholar, Center for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, January 2010.
Hampshire College Travel Grant, 2009
Hampshire College Culture, Brain and Development Course Development Grant, 2010.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
(2008) Deadly Election, a political thriller. White River, VT: White River Press.
(2005) Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties, eds. Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam and Charles Zerner, Rowman and Littlefield.
(2002) The Truth about Fire, a novel about the Far Right. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers.
(1995) Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (updated and revised edition). Boston: South End Publishers.
(1987) Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control and Contraceptive Choice. New York: Harper and Row Publishers.
(1983) A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village (with James Boyce). London: Zed Press; Delhi: Oxford University Press; and San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy.
Books in progress:
Baby Blue (novel)
Narrative non-fiction book on the causes and effects of apocalyptic thinking in American environmentalism
Mongraphs and reports:
(2005) Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental Assessment and Early Warning: Conceptual Challenges and Opportunities, A Report by Joni Seager and Betsy Hartmann, United Nations Environment Program, Division of Early Warning and Assessment.
(l989) The Poverty of Population Control: Family Planning and Health Policy in Bangladesh (with Hilary Standing). London: Bangladesh International Action Group.
(1985) Food, Saris, and Sterilization: Population Control in Bangladesh (with Hilary Standing). London: Bangladesh International Action Group.
(1979) Needless Hunger: Voices from a Bangladesh Village (with James Boyce). San Francisco: Institute for Food
and Development Policy. German edition, l989.
(1978) "Bangladesh: Aid to the Needy? (with James Boyce). International Policy Report, Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, Vol. 4, No. 1, May.
Chapters in books:
(2011) "The Population Bomb is Back with a Global Warming Twist" (with Elizabeth Barajas-Roman), in Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff and Nan Wigersma, eds., The Women, Gender and Development Reader, Second Edition, London: Zed Books.
(2010) "The Ghosts of Malthus: Narratives and Mobilizations of Scarcity in the US Political Context," in Lyla Mehta, ed., The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation, London: Earthscan, 2010.
(2010) "Rethinking the Role of Population in Human Security," in Richard Matthew et al, eds., Global Environmental Change and Human Security, Cambridge: MIT Press.
(2010) "Eugenics of the Everyday," in Sandhya Srinivasan, ed., Making Babies: New Reproductive Technologies and Women’s Lives in India, New Delhi, India: Zubaan Books.
(2010) "Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means: National Security, "Environmental Conflict, and the Making of the Cairo Consensus", in Mohan Rao and Sarah Sexton, eds., Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender and Health in Neo-liberal Times, New Delhi, India: SAGE Publications.
(2009) "From Climate Refugees to Climate Conflict: Who is Taking the Heat for Global Warming?" in Mohamed Salih, ed., Climate Change and Sustainable Development: New Challenges for Poverty Reduction, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers.
(2006) Preface to Lara M. Knudsen, Reproductive Rights in a Global Context. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
(2005) "Population Growth is Unfairly Blamed for Ecological Problems, "Population: Opposing Viewpoints, Farmington Hills, MI: Green Haven Press/Thomson Gale Publishers. Adaptation of "Conserving Racism: The Greening of Hate at Home and Abroad," Znet, December, 10, 2003.
(2005) "Pernicious Peasants and Angry Young Men: The Strategic Demography of Threats," by Betsy Hartmann and Anne Hendrixson, in Hartmann, Subramaniam and Zerner, eds., Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties.
(2002) "The Changing Faces of Population Control," in Anannya Bhattacharjee and Jael Silliman, eds., Policing the National Body: Sex, Race and Criminalization. Boston: South End Press.
(2001) "Will the Circle Be Unbroken: A Critique of the Project on Environment, Population and Security," in Nancy Peluso and Michael Watts, eds., Violent Environments. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
(2001) "Population Control," in The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women’s Studies.
(1999) "Population, Environment and Security: A New Trinity," in Jael Silliman and Ynestra King, eds., Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development. Boston: South End Press.
(1997) "Women, Population and the Environment: Whose Consensus? Whose Empowerment?" in Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff and Nan Wigersma, eds., The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
(1993) "The Impact of Population Control Policies on Health Policy in Bangladesh," in Meredeth Turshen and Briavel Holcomb, eds., Women’s Lives and Public Policy: The International Experience. Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
(1992) "Contraceptive Choice: A Multitude of Meanings," in Helen Holmes, ed., Issues in Reproductive Technology I: An Anthology. New York: Garland Press
(1981) "Needless Hunger: Poverty and Power in Rural Bangladesh" (with James Boyce), in R. Galli, ed., The Political Economy of Rural Development: Peasants, International Capital and the State. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 175-210.
Forthcoming:
(2011) "Lines in the Shifting Sand: The Strategic Politics of Climate Change, Human Security and National Defense," in GECHS, eds., The Changing Environment for Human Security: New Agendas for Research, Policy and Action.
(2011/12) "The Gene Express: Speeding Toward What Future?" in Sama, eds., Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building, New Delhi: Sage.
(2011) "Population Injustices: Challenging the Population/Climate Connection," Global Health Watch, third edition, London: Zed Books.
(2011/12) "Climate Chains: Neo-Malthusian Links between Population, Conflict and Migration," in Chris Methman, Delf Rothe and Benjamin Stephan, eds., De-Constructing the Greenhouse: Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance, Routledge.
Academic Papers:
"Lines in the Shifting Sand: The Strategic Politics of Climate Change, Human Security and National Defense," paper delivered at the panel on Rethinking Security in a Changing Climate, GECHS Synthesis Conference, University of Oslo, Norway, June 22-24, 2009.
"Climate Conflict and Climate Refugees: Who?s Taking the Heat for Global Warming?", paper delivered at panel on Climate Change, Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting , Montreal, Canada, October 11, 2007. Served as panel chair.
"Eugenics of the Everyday: Some Preliminary Reflections," background paper for the consultation on ‘New" Reproductive and Genetic Technologies and Women’s Lives, SAMA-Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi, India, June 16-17, 2006.
(2004) "Pulling the Population Thread: Neo-Malthusian Ideas, Actors and Interests in the Construction of Environmental Conflict," paper prepared for panel on Critical Views of Environmental Security and Conflict, International Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, March 17, 2004.
"Ghosts of Malthus: Fear, Loathing and Scarcity," discussion paper for the joint U.K. Economic and Social Research Council and Institute for Development Studies workshop on Scarcity and the Politics of Allocation, University of Sussex, June 6-7, 2005.
"Women, Population and the Environment: Whose Consensus? Whose Empowerment?" paper presented at the Global Political Ecology Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, Feb. 24-27, l994.
"Old Maps and New Terrain: The Politics of Women, Population and the Environment," paper presented to the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, San Jos’, Costa Rica, March 1993.
Articles:
"Rethinking Climate Refugees and Climate Conflict: Rhetoric, Reality and the Politics of Policy Discourse," Journal of International Development, 22, 233-246, 2010.
"The Greening of Hate: An Environmentalist?s Essay," in Southern Poverty Law Center, Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism and the Hypocrisy of Hate, Montgomery, ALA: SPLC, 2010.
"The Population Debate," Greenpeace Business, Issue 6, Summer 2009.
"Don't Beat the Climate War Drums," op-ed published in Climate Chronicle, the climate justice newspaper at the Copenhagen climate conference, Issue 2, December 9, 2009.
"The "New" Population Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go," On the Issues: The Progressive Woman's Magazine, Fall 2009.
"The Population Bomb is Back with a Global Warming Twist" (with Elizabeth Barajas-Roman), Women in Action, No. 2, 2009.
"Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means: National Security, „Environmental Conflict? and the Making of the Cairo Consensus," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 13:2 (2006), pp. 195-227.
"Pro-whose-life? Ten reasons why militarism is bad for your health," co-authored with Ryn Gluckman and Azi Shariatmadar, The Women’s Review of Books, Vol. XXI, No. 12, September 2004.
"Degradation Narratives: Over-Simplifying the Link Between Population, Poverty and the Environment," IHDP Update, Newsletter of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change, No. 4, 2002, pp. 6-8.
"The Return of Relevance," Political Environments, Spring 2002.
"Population, Development and Human Security," AVISO, Information Bulletin on Global Environmental Change and Human Security, 2000.
"Two Steps Backward for the Sierra Club," The Progressive, January 2000.
"Dressing Up Malthus," Sojourner, Vol. 25, No. 3, November 1999.
"Population, Environment and Security: A New Trinity," Environment and Urbanization, vol. 10, no. 2, October 1998.
"Numbers Games and Final Solutions," Politics and the Life Sciences, vol. 16, no. 2, September 1997.
"A Risky Business?: Quinacrine, used to sterilize women worldwide, has yet to be proved safe," (with Nalini Visvanathan), Boston Sunday Globe, August 3, 1997.
"Cairo Consensus Sparks New Hopes, Old Worries," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer 1997. Excerpted in The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, 1998 edition.
"Population Control I: Birth of an Ideology," and "Population Control II: The Population Establishment Today" (chapters from Reproductive Rights and Wrongs), International Journal of Health Services, vol. 27, no. 3, 1997.
"The Double Challenge: Reproductive Rights at the Fourth World Women’s Conference," Whole Earth Review, Fall Issue, 1995.
"Women of the World," In These Times, October 2, l995.
"Dangerous Intersections," Political Environments, No. 2, Summer 1995.
"Questioning the Population Consensus," Earth Island Journal, Spring 1995.
"The Cairo 'Consensus': Women’s Empowerment or Business as Usual?" Geo Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, February 1995.
"Population Fictions: The Malthusians are Back in Town," Dollars and Sense, Boston, Sept./Oct. 1994. Reprinted in Theodore Goldfarb, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Environmental Issues (Sixth Edition), Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1995.
"Consensus and Contradiction on the Road to Cairo," Terra Femina, IDAC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1994.
"To Vanquish the Hydra," Political Environments, No. 1, Spring 1994.
"Old Maps and New Terrain," Development, no. 1, 1994.
"A New Snake in Paradise: Garbage" (with James K. Boyce), Conservation Law Foundation Newsletter, Boston, Fall 1993.
"Mythes et philosophie des politiques de control de la population," Inter-Mondes (AQOCI-Montreal), 8:4, 1993.
"Population Control in the New World Order," Development in Practice, 2:3, 1992.
"Population Control as Foreign Policy," CovertAction Bulletin, no. 39, 1991.
"The Ecology Movement: Targeting Women for Population Control," Ms., May/June 1991.
"Bankers, Babies and Bangladesh," The Progressive, September 1990.
"Turning Back the Tide," New Internationalist, no. 161, July 1986.
"Corruption and Coercion" (with Jane Hughes), Inside Asia, Sept.-Oct. 1985.
"Sterile Debate" (with Jane Hughes), Economist Development Report, July 1985.
"And the Poor Get Sterilized" (with Jane Hughes), The Nation, June 30, 1984.
"Campagne de sterilization au Bangladesh" (with Jane Hughes), Le Monde Diplomatique, June 1984.
"Barren Policy," The Guardian (London), April 27, 1984.
"We Do It Ourselves," The Guardian (London), December 17, 1982.
"Bangladeshi Aid: The New Ruling Class," South, March 1982.
"Manushi: A New Voice for Indian Women," Encore American and Worldwide News, November 1981.
"McNamara?s Legacy: Basic Needs without Basic Reforms," South, August 1981.
"Who Works, Who Eats" (with James Boyce), Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 13:4, 1981.
"Hunger in a Fertile Land" (with James Boyce), Ceres, March-April 1981.
"Checking out the Bank" (with James Boyce), New Internationalist, February 1981.
"Lord of the Fields" (with James Boyce), New Internationalist, November 1980.
"The Hill Tracts" (with James Boyce), The Nation, December 15, 1979.
"Bangladesh Market: Pyramid of Power" (with James Boyce), Food Monitor, March-April 1979.
"Dependance et Legitimite au Bangladesh" (with James Boyce), Le Monde Diplomatique, September 1978.
"Behind Bamboo Walls," Country Women, August 1978.
"Developing Bangladesh: A Tubewell for the Village Landlord" (with James Boyce), Food Monitor, May-June 1978.
"U.S. Aid for the Rich: View from a Bangladesh Village" (with James Boyce), The Nation, March 4, 1978.
"Roshana" (with James Boyce), New Internationalist, March 1977.
Book reviews:
Review of Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly, Journal of Contemporary History, 44(3), 2009.
Review of The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves by Kathy Davis, Women’s Review of Books, 25:4 (July/August 2008): 10-12.
Book review of Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights by Rosalind Petchesky, Perspectives on Politics 3(2) June 2005: 425-426.
"Pastoral Symphony," review of Ariel Salleh's Ecofeminism as Politics, Women’s Review of Books, 16:1, October 1998.
Review of Asoka Bandarage's Population and Global Crisis, Development in Practice, November 1997.
"The Greening of Prejudice," review of Robert Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century, Technology Review, Nov./Dec. 1996.
Review of Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds., Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Sociology, 25:5, 1996.
Review of Eva Mysliwiec, Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea, Journal of Development Studies, 25:4, 1989.
Review of Jenneke Arens and Jos van Beurden, Jhagrapur, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 2:2, 1979.
Newspaper op-eds:
"A Bigger, and greener, America," (with Amy Oliver), Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 18, 2006.
"America?s Climate of Fear and Loathing," Boston Globe, April 19, 2002.
Syndicated op-ed on World Population Day for Progressive Media Service, July 2001.
"Wrong Signals on Overpopulation," Boston Sunday Globe, October 10, 1999.
"What Success Story?" New York Times, September 29, l994.
"Ar Banwt mun eller manniska," Dagens Nyheter (Swedish daily), Stockholm, Sept. 3, 1994.
"Needs of Women are Missing from Global Politics of Population Policy," Boston Sunday Globe, July 12, 1987.
"Foreign Aid for the Rich" (with James Boyce), Christian Science Monitor, September 20, 1978.
On-line commentary (on http://BetsyHartmann.com):
"Why Anti-Nuclear Belongs in All of Our Movements," Common Dreams, April 12, 2011.
"Anything Goes: The Dangers of Linking Climate Change to National Security," Common Dreams, August 27, 2009.
"Stop the Tired Overpopulation Hysteria," AlterNet, March 14, 2009.
"Wright or Wrong: What's Going On?" Common Dreams, May 6, 2008.
"The Election That Might Not Happen" Common Dreams, March 6, 2008.
"War Talk and Climate Change" truthout/Perspective, November 26, 2007.
Four Invited Contributions to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online Roundtable on Population and Climate Change, Winter 2007-2008.
"Nine Theses on Moving the Peace Movement Forward," Foreign Policy in Focus, www.fpif.org, April 7, 2003.
For Z-net:
"Beyond the Shopping Cart: Messaging Consumption," April 11, 2008 "Abortion and the Politics of Prevention," November 7, 2006. (Reprinted in Collective Voices, newspaper of SisterSong, 2:7, 2007.)
"Everyday Eugenics," September 22, 2006. (Znet Science)
"Gender, Militarism, and Climate Change," April 10, 2006.
"Too Heavy a Price to Pay: India?s Two-Child Norm Hurts Women, Girls and the Poor," January 6, 2006.
"The Testosterone Threat: Where Sociobiology Meets National Security," November 21, 2005.
"Narcissus and the Mind/Body Problem," December 2004.
"Girlie Men and the Great Democratic Disconnect," October 2004.
"Bread, Roses – and Time," August 2004. (Reproduced in the Utne Reader online, and translated into German and published in arranca! and Wochenzeitung WOZ.)
"Conserving Racism: The Greening of Hate at Home and Abroad," December 10, 2003.
"End of History: The Sequel," April 20, 2003.
"Normalizing Nightmares," March 13, 2003.
"White Supremacy and the Anti-Immigrant Movement," December 23, 2002.
"Population Policy: Will Coercion Come Back in Vogue?" May 1, 2000.
"A Visit to Los Alamos," March 5, 2000.
"Cracking Open CRACK," October 22, 1999.
"Cross-Dressing Malthus," September 20, 1999.
For DifferenTakes Issue Paper Series (Hampshire College):
"The Return of Population Control: Incentives, Targets and the Backlash against Cairo" DifferenTakes, no. 70, Spring 2011.
"10 Reasons Why Population Control is not the Solution to Global Warming," no. 57, Winter 2009.
"Old Roots, New Shoots: Eugenics of the Everyday," no. 47, Spring 2007.
"The Testosterone Threat: Sociobiology, National Security and Population Control," no. 41, Fall 2006.
"Ten Reasons to Rethink Overpopulation" (with Amy Oliver), no. 40, Fall 2006.
"Conserving Racism: The Greening of Hate at Home and Abroad," no. 27, Winter 2004.
Radio commentary:
"Where Have All the Young Men Gone?" WFCR News, November 8, 2002.
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
Magazines and Journals:
"Talking about Population," roundtable discussion, Conscience, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 22-30.
Wendy Harcourt, "Refuting Security Demographics: In Dialogue with Betsy Hartmann," Development 48(4) (2005).
"The Greening of Hate," interview with Betsy Hartmann by Fred Pearce, New Scientist, February 22, 2003, pp. 44-47.
Film, Video and Television:
Featured commentator in the Temps Noir documentary by Mathilde Damoisel on forced sterilization in Peru, "A Woman's Womb," released 2010.
Newsclick India video interview with Betsy Hartmann on population and climate change, January 20, 2010 http://www.newsclick.in/international/betsy-hartmann-climate-change-politics-and-overpopulation-propoganda/
Advised and appeared in the BBC Horizon documentary, "The Human Laboratory," November 1995.
Appeared in CNN documentary on international population policy, 1992.
Radio:
(forthcoming) Interview for BBC World Service series on population.
"What's Wrong with Making the Connection between Population Growth and the Environment?" Interview on KPFK Pacifica radio in Los Angeles on World Population Day, July 11, 2011, http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=22048
"Overpopulation: The Cause of Environmental Degradation?" Interview on KPFA?s Against the Grain, November 3, 2010, http://againstthegrain.org/node/364
Interview with Betsy on climate and security on KPFA Saturday Morning Talkies, August 29, 2009 http://www.archive.org/details/BetsyHartmannOnKpfasSaturday
"Population Control," New Hampshire Public Radio, Word of Mouth, February 25, 2009.
Interview with Gloria Minott, Pacifica Radio WPFW FM, Washington, D.C., on Deadly Election, August 22, 2008.
Interview with Detroit radio talk show host, Peter Werbe, on Deadly Election, March 16, 2008.
Interview on Humboldt State University NPR-affiliate, February 28, 2008.
Interview on "Getting at the Root Cause: Gender, the Power Relations that Fuel Climate Change, Militarism and Refugees," Healing the Earth, CFRU, Guelph, Ontario, December 19, 2007.
Interview on syndicated show, "Enduring Choice," National Radio Project, August 17, 2005.
Interview on Peruvian Sterilizations, BBC Women’s Hour, June 19, 1998.
Interview by WBAI, New York, on new edition of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, Spring 1995.
Speech at the EDGE Conference, January 1995, broadcast on Pacifica Radio.
Interview for National Public Radio series on population, aired September 1994.
Interview for "The Population Riddle" series, Canadian Public Radio, aired September 5-8, 1994.
Live panel discussion on the Cairo population conference, WBUR, Boston, September 1994.
Interview for BBC World Service feature on land reform, March 1985.
Online:
Interview with Tim Einenkel, "Great Read: Hartmann" (on Deadly Election), Air America, October 29, 2008, http://airamerica.com/blog/2008/oct/29/great-read-hartmann
"Hartmann Interviewed on Deadly Election," Znet, March 16, 2008, http://zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16887
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS
"Stoking Population Fears Threatens Progress on Reproductive Health and the Environment," panel on Population Growth: Problem or Hype? University College London and Leverhulme Trust Population Footprints Symposium, London, May 25, 2011.
"Climate Justice/Reproductive Justice: Moving Beyond Population" and Women’s History Month lecture, "Bridging Divides: Reflections on Women’s Health Activism," Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, March 14-15.
"The Population/Climate Change Connection: Contraception, Migration and the National Security State," SAGA lecture, University of Arizona School of Geography and Development, Tuscon, AZ, March 11, 2011.
Presentation on population and climate change, panel on At the Intersection of Environmental and Reproductive Justice, Law Students for Reproductive Justice Regional Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, February 25, 2011.
"Malthus Resurgent: Climate, Migration and Population Control," invited lecture, International Development graduate seminar series, St. Mary?s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, February 11, 2011.
"Beyond Apocalypse: Centering Justice in Climate Education and Activism," (with Katie McKay Bryson), New England Faculty Colloquium on Climate Change, Policy and Energy Solutions, University of Massachusetts, February 9, 2011.
"The Gene Express: Speeding Toward What Future?" opening address delivered at Sama Resource Group for Women and Health?s International Consultation on Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building, New Delhi, India, January 22-24, 2010.
Lectures as part of Visiting Scholar position at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, January 2010: "Unpackaging Cairo: The Strange Marriage of Women, Environment and Security" (January 14) and "Population and Climate Change: Instrumentalizing Family Planning, Militarizing Development Aid" (January 18).
"Climate Change, Displacement and Security: The Risk of Militarizing Humanitarian Aid," XI Humanitarian Congress on Taking the Pulse of Humanitarian Action – Reflections on Advocacy, Security, and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany, October 30-31, 2009.
"Reproductive Health and Climate Change: The Resurgence of the Overpopulation Problem," seminar co-sponsored by ENRECA Health and Roskilde University, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18, 2009.
"Rethinking the Population Problem: The Terror of False Assumptions," lecture, Environment and Community Lecture Series, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, February 28, 2008.
Presentation on the politics of climate change, Ford Foundation Discussion on Climate Change, New York, October 1, 2007.
"Why We Should Rethink Population," presentation, Committee on Women, Population and the Environment panel on population issues, U.S. Social Forum, Atlanta, GA, June 28, 2007.
"Population Control or Reproductive Justice," talk to reproductive rights advocates, CHILTAK, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, April 9, 2007.
"Babies, Burdens and Threats: The Current Landscape of Population Control," lecture, Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), San Crist'bal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, March 26, 2007.
"Strategic Demography and the Naturalizing of National Security," panel presentation, Interrogating Fear: Bioterror, the Environment and the Construction of Threats, 20th Annual Conference, Society for Literature, Science and Art, Dactyl Foundation, New York, NY, November 11, 2006.
"Population Politics: Old Maps, New Terrain," lecture sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Middlebury College, October 24, 2006.
"Rethinking the Population Problem," lecture and dialogue, Bioneers by the Bay Youth Initiative, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, October 20, 2006.
"Abortion and the Politics of Prevention," panel on Hyde and Seek: Towards a New Abortion Politics, Hampshire College, October 19, 2006.
Participation and presentations in International Learning Circle on Migration and Citizenship, sponsored by Inter Pares, CAMMAC, Quebec, Canada, September 26-29, 2006.
"Population Politics at the International Women and Health Meeting," seminar presentation, International Development, Community and Environment Program, Clark University, October 27, 2005.
"Who Counts?" symposium presentation, Who Counts in the Americas? Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership, Saint Mary?s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, September 27, 2005.
"Strategic Scarcity: The Deployment of Population Fears," introductory speech to the plenary on The Politics and Resurgence of Population Policies, 10th International Women and Health Meeting, New Delhi, India, September 23, 2005; also two panel presentations, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" and "Population, Environment and Security."
"Are Poor Women Destroying Planet Earth? An Assessment of the Environmental Security Debate and its Links to the „War on Terror?, lecture sponsored by the Oberlin College Environmental Studies Program and Luce Foundation, Oberlin, Ohio, September 30, 2004.
"Gender and Vulnerability to Environmental Change," presentation to UNEP/DEWA staff, Nairobi, Kenya, January 21, 2004.
"Another Look at Choice: Body Politics at Home and Abroad," lecture, Women’s Studies Program, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA., November 13, 2003.
"Population, Security and Coercive Conservation," presentation to the panel on The New Faces of Population Control: Coercive Conservation, Security and Environmental Racism, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights National Conference, Atlanta, GA., November 15, 2003.
"Political Multi-Tasking," presentation to the Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS) Public Forum on „The War with Iraq,? Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, March 24, 2003.
"Strategic Scarcity: The Politics of Population, Environment and Security," seminar presentation, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, February 12, 2003.
"Homer-Dixon?s Model: Truths and their Consequences," lecture to 2003 Watson International Scholars of the Environment, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, January 29, 2003.
"Is Fiction Stranger than Truth, or Truth Stranger than Fiction?," panel presentation, National Writers Union Conference WriteAngles 2002, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, December 7, 2003.
"The Strategic Uses of Reproductive Health," presentation to Defining Women’s Health: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, May 4, 2002.
"The Politics of Population Policy," Center for Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, November 16, 2001.
"Ghosts of Malthus: Population, Environment and Reproductive Wrongs," Sarah Lawrence College, November 2, 2001.
"The End of History Theme Park," PAWSS Summer Institute, Amherst College, June 2001.
"Environmental Conflict: Wrong Turns on the Causal Pathway," Symposium on Environment and Security, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London, March 15, 2001.
"Exploring the Links Between Global Environmental Change and Human Security and Population," AVISO Policy Briefing Series, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., January 30, 2001.
"Tropical Tropes and Barren Slopes: Population, Environment and Security," Feminist Studies Colloquium and the Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability, University of Minnesota, Nov. 17, 2000.
"The Changing Faces of Neo-Malthusianism: Implications for Feminist Resistance," seminar talk delivered at the McGill Center for Research and Teaching on Women, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 9, 1999.
"The New (Old) Faces of Neo-Malthusianism and the Critical Role of Anthropology," Working Group on Anthropology and Population Speaker Series, Brown University, Providence, RI, Oct. 8, 1999.
Presentation on sterilization, Panel on Sterilization of Women and Reproductive Rights, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, June 1, 1999.
"The Politics of Population," speech delivered at the World Affairs Seminar: Population in the 21st Century: How Can We Avoid the Potential Crises? Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, February 25, 1999.
"Cairo Plus Five: Pros and Cons," opening presentation to the conference on Reproductive Health and Rights in Context: Five Years After the Cairo Conference on Population and Development, co-organized by the Society for International Development, the Institute for Social Studies, and HIVOS, the Hague, Netherlands, February 5, 1999.
"Cairo Plus Five and Malthus Plus Two Hundred: Population Politics at the Millennium," Allegheny College, November 2, 1998.
"Current Faces of Neo-Malthusianism," presentation to panel on Challenges Facing the International Women’s Movement, International Association of Feminist Economists Conference, University of Amsterdam, June 6, 1998.
Invited lectures on "Population Politics Post-Cairo," at Sir David Owen Population Center, Cardiff University, Wales, May 21, 1998; Oxford University Third World First Conference, Oxford, May 2, 1998; Economic Development Seminar, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, March 5, 1998; Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, February 24, 1998; and World Population Foundation, Hilversum, Netherlands, January 30, 1998.
Invited lectures on "Population, Environment and Security" at the Research Seminar in Regional Security, Nuffield College, Oxford University, May 15, 1998; Institute for Development Studies, Sussex University, March 4, 1998; Development Studies Institute Research Seminar, London School of Economics, February 9, 1998; Hazards, Globalization and Sustainability Conference, Middlesex University, UK, October 11, 1997.
"South Asian Women’s Movements and Population Policies," presentation to International Conference on South Asia and South Asian Communities, University of London, October 19, 1997.
"Vertical Reform Or Lateral Solidarity?," plenary address, panel on National and International Policies, 8th Women and Health International Meeting, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, March 17, 1997.
"The Politics of Population Control and Reproductive Rights," UBINIG Discussion Series -- Ideas for Social Action, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 8, 1997.
"Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control," Simmons College, November 25, 1996.
"Reviving the Political Imagination," plenary address to the conference on Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Immigration and the Environment, Union Theological Seminary, New York, October 25, 1996.
"The Greening of Hate," presentation to the roundtable on Marxism and the Ecological Crisis, conference on Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 6, 1996; Political Ecology Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA., May 1996; and the National Strategy Session on Immigration and the Environment, Sausalito, CA., March 1996.
Lectures in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 6-9, 1995: "Feminist Action for Health, Sexuality and Reproductive Rights," Hearing on the Beijing Women’s Conference, Parliament of Rio, November 6; Opening Address to the symposium, "A Pot Pourri of Health: Seven Experiences," sponsored by REDEH and the Feminist Network on Health and Reproductive Rights -- Rio Region, November 7; and "Population and the Environment: Dangerous Intersections," hosted by IBASE, co-sponsored by FASE and IBASE, November 9.
"Beijing Decoded: Women’s Rights and the UN Women’s Conference," lecture at Clark University, International Relations Program, Worcester, MA., October 20, 1995.
"The New Population Consensus," panel presentation on 'The Double Challenge,' NGO Forum on Women, Huairou, China, August 31, l995. Also presentation on population control and health, OXFAM-America panel on women’s health, August 30, l995.
"Population Control and Reproductive Rights: National and International Perspectives," Teacher Training, MIDEON Summer Institute on Population, Gender and Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI., May 14-19, l995.
"Population Control and Women’s Rights," Reuter Forum, Columbia University School of Journalism, New York, April 19, 1995.
"Dangerous Intersections: The Population Consensus and the Politics of National Security and Racial 'Purity', plenary address, EDGE Conference on "California Today Facing the Challenge of the 21st Century: Environmental Justice, Population and the New Majority of Color," Los Angeles, January 14, 1995.
Organized and chaired panel on "Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Consensus," at Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological Economics, Third Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, San Jose, Costa Rica, October 24-28, 1994.
"Evaluating the Cairo Process," Population and Reproductive Rights: Strategizing for the UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, sponsored by KULU -- Women and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 27, l994.
"An Analysis of the Politics of Population with Special Emphasis on the Draft Final Document to the ICPD," Conference on Multilateral Population Assistance, Oslo, Norway, May 25, l994.
"The Implications of the New Population Consensus", panel presentation by the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment, Fourth United Nations Prep Com for the ICPD, New York, April 1994.
"Women and Population Stabilization," Debate with Virginia Abernethy of Carrying Capacity Network, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon, March 10-13, l994.
Delivery of Thomas S. Hall Lecture on "Women, Population and the Environment,", Biology Department, Washington University in St. Louis, March 7, l994, and speaking in workshop on "Population and Poverty: Two perspectives" with Thomas Merrick, senior World Bank population advisor, in Mary T. Hall Seminar on Population and Development, United Nations Association, St. Louis, March 6, 1994.
"The Politics of Women, Population and the Environment," lecture delivered at the International Conference on Reinforcing Reproductive Rights, Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights, Madras, India, May 5, 1993.
"Blaming the Environmental Crisis on Population Growth: A Dangerous Trend," speech and debate with Paul Ehrlich, Seventh Annual Stanford Health Policy Forum, Stanford University, February 20, 1993.
"Population Control in the New World Order," plenary address delivered at the Brazilian Women’s Coalition Day on Population Policies, Women’s Health and the Environment, UNCED 92 Global Forum, Rio de Janeiro, June 6, 1992.
"Population Control as an Ideology," speech delivered at Global Population Policies and Women’s Reproductive Autonomy Seminar, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Helsinki, Finland, June 4, 1992.
"Toward a New Paradigm," Background paper and presentation to the Elmwood Institute?s conference on Toward a Sustainable World Population, Marin, California, September 14-15, 1991.
"The Population Establishment: Beyond the Myths," presentation to the Interpares and Women’s Health Interaction Workshop on Women Creating Reproductive Freedom: Challenges and Dilemmas, Ottawa, Canada, June 8, 1991.
"A Feminist Critique of Population Control," invited lecture, Vassar College Women’s Studies Program, Poughkeepsie, NY, February 21, 1991.
"Contraception and Family Planning in the Third World," Jing Lyman Series on International Perspectives on Maternal and Child Health, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, November 14, 1990.
"Population Policies and Programs: A Feminist Assessment," plenary address, Sixth International Women and Health Meeting, Manila, Philippines, November 5, 1990.
"The Impact of Foreign Assistance at the Village Level", presentation to the Annual Conference of the Bangladesh International Action Group, Paris, April 1983.
"The Impact of Foreign Aid," presentation to the Forum sponsored by the Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh, Dhaka, January 1982.
"The Politics of Foreign Aid in Bangladesh," presentation to the International Conference on the Transfer of Technology, Gonoshastra Kendra, Savar, Bangladesh, January 1982.
"Bangladesh: Hunger in a Fertile Land". Slide show and lecture presented at Critical Studies Forum, University of North Carolina, April 1980. Also presented at Morningside College, March 1979; Yale University, November 1978; Colgate University, November 1978; San Francisco State College, October 1978; The Population Council, New York, December 1976.
"Impact of Development Assistance in Bangladesh", presentation to Workshop on Foreign Aid, Conference on Self-Reliant Development sponsored by OXFAM-America, Putney, Vermont, August 1978.
"Bangladesh: Aid to the Needy?". Symposium with Congressional staffers and U.S. Agency for International Development representatives, Center for International Policy, Washington, D.C., June 1978.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Projects, Editorial Work and Consultancies:
(2004- present) Project Director and member of the editorial board, Population in Perspective: A Curriculum Resource, produced by the Population and Development Program, currently in process of update and revision, second edition.
(Ongoing) Co-editor and writer for the DifferenTakes issue paper series produced by the Population and Development Program, Hampshire College. Bound compilations include Reviving Reproductive Safety (Fall 2005) and Babies, Burdens and Threats: The Changing Faces of Population Control (Winter 2007).
(2002-present) Archival co-editor, Visual Imagery Project, Stop the Blame: Population Imagery from 1933 to the Present, Flash computer presentation by Binta Jeffers, Committee on Women, Population and the Environment with the Population and Development Program, 2008.
(2005-6) Project director and co-editor, Rethinking the Link: A Critical Review of Population-Environment Programs, report by James Oldham, a joint publication of the Population and Development Program and the Political Economy Research Institute, UMass, February 2006.
(2004) Principal Investigator/Consultant (with Joni Seager), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Department of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA), Nairobi, Kenya, "Assessment of the Current State of Gender Mainstreaming in the Operations, Mission and Work of DEWA," December 2003-March 2004.
(2003) Co-editor, Militarized Zones: Gender, Race, Immigration and the Environment, Special Issue of Political Environments (No. 10), a joint publication of the American Friends Service Committee, Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE), and the Hampshire College Population and Development Program, November.
(1994-2002) Co-editor, Political Environments, journal/newsletter of the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment.
Advisory Committees and Boards
Present:
Co-convener, Five College Reproductive Politics Group
Global Migrations Committee, School of Social Science, Hampshire College
Previous:
Founding Member, Co-coordinator and Steering Committee member, Committee on Women, Population and the Environment, 1991-2005.
Scientific Steering Committee, Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project of the International Human Dimensions Program, 1999-2005.
Steering Committee, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, 2004-2006.
Steering Committee, Five College Peace and World Security Studies Program.
International Advisory Committee, Women’s Global Network on Reproductive Rights, 1997-2004.
International Advisory Committee, 10th International Women and Health Conference (New Delhi, India), 2005.
Secretary, Board of Trustees, Verite, Verification in Trade and Export, 1999-2002.
Referee for:
National Science Foundation; Collaboration for Environmental Evidence; Sexual Research and Social Policy; Arrows for Change; Journal of Women, Politics and Policy; Gender, Place and Culture; Development and Change; Journal of Global Environmental Politics; Population and Development Review; International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Development Studies; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Our Bodies, Ourselves; United Nations Environment Program, American Philosophical Society, Vanderbilt University Press, Rutgers University Press, Scarecrow Press, Palgrave Macmillan Press; Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project.
