Talk on Girlhood by CRC Dr. Alexander on May 7 at 2pm in HH 117

[Kristina Llewellyn]

You are all welcome to attend a talk on Girlhood and Racial Hierarchies by award-winning author Dr. Kristine Alexander, Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies from the University of Lethbridge.


The talk is on Tuesday, May 7th at 2pm in HH 117. Coffee and snacks will be served.



The event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, HeForShe, and Renison University College.



Details about the talk are available at https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/lecture-pre-history-girl-effect-girlhood-racial-hierarchies, on the attached poster, and below. Please share this invitation far and wide!




The Pre-History of the 'Girl Effect': Girlhood, Racial Hierarchies, and International Relations in the 1920s and 1930s



"Invest in a girl and she will do the rest." This slogan is at the heart of the Nike Foundation's "Girl Effect" campaign, which insists that girls across the global south have the potential -- and the responsibility -- to lift their families and communities out of poverty. With this twenty-first-century context in mind, I will use the global Girl Guide movement (which was established in Britain in 1909 and had attracted over a million members in 40 national and colonial contexts by the 1930s) to better understand the longer history of how class-specific and racialized ideas about girls and girlhood have been used to further particular visions of imperial-international relations and "development."



Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies, Associate Professor of History, and Director of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies (I-CYS) at the University of Lethbridge. Her research uses interpretive techniques from across the humanities and social sciences to better understand how young people interacted with global processes and events across the twentieth century. Her book Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s (UBC Press 2017) was awarded the Wilson Prize and the Canadian History of Education Association Founders' Prize for Best English-Language Book. Her current projects include edited volumes about young people and war and a global history of youth from the 1920s to the present, as well as monograph (co-authored with Dr. Kristina Llewellyn) about the Model UN movement in Canada.







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Dr. Kristina R. Llewellyn (preferred pronoun she/her)

I acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territory of ‎ the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River.

President, Renison Association of Academic Staff (RAAS)

Associate Professor, Department of Social Development Studies
Renison University College, University of Waterloo

Associate/Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology and Legal Studies / Games Institute / Department of History

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