History Speaker Series: "The Pre-History of the 'Girl Effect'"

[Ian Milligan]

Dear all –

A reminder about this event, “The Pre-History of the ‘Girl Effect’” that’s happening this Tuesday, May 7th at 2pm in HH 117. Come for the talk, stay for the coffee and snacks.

All are welcome. Details below or are available on our departmental page<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/lecture-pre-history-girl-effect-girlhood-racial-hierarchies>.

All the best,

Ian

Ian Milligan
Associate Professor
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
519-888-4567, ext. 32775
http://ianmilligan.ca

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Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 3:38 PM
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Subject: History Speaker Series: "The Pre-History of the 'Girl Effect'"

Dear colleagues –

I’m happy to invite you all to our next History Speaker Series, which is being given by Dr. Kristine Alexander (University of Lethbridge) 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.

Talk details are available on our webpage, or are below for your convenience. Please share.

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.

All the best,

Ian

Ian Milligan
Associate Professor
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
519-888-4567, ext. 32775
http://ianmilligan.ca
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