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Dear list members, I'd like to draw attention to three public lectures organized by the Economic Geography Research Group of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, which might be of interest to some of you: *Diane Perrons, Kim England* and *Ulrike Knobloch* will discuss issues of *globalization, work and gender*: Best wishes, Karin Schwiter ------ 08 December 2010 *Kim England*, University of Washington, Seattle *Body Work, Care Theory and the Home* University of Zurich, Campus Irchel, Lecture Hall Y-15-G-19, 5 - 7 p.m. Abstract Recent restructuring of health and social care services means the home is increasingly a key site of long-term health care delivery. Drawing on qualitative data from Canada and an analytic framework informed by the relational ontology of feminist care theory, I employ the concept of the body work to analyse the work relations and materialities of home in the delivery of home care. The daily practice of home care involves a complex negotiation among the family caregivers, paid care workers and care recipients around intimate body work (such as bathing, toileting, and catheter management). The embodied and gendered practices of body work and the interdependencies between clients, paid care workers and family caregivers are made more complex by the site of care -- a 'private' home (rather than, for instance, an institutional setting). ------ 15 December 2010 *Diane Perrons*, London School of Economics: *Globalisation, Gender and Social Justice: After the Crisis* University of Zurich, Campus Irchel, Lecture Hall Y-15-G-85, 5 - 7 p.m. Abstract With globalisation, while the world has become more affluent, it has also become more unequal and the number and frequency of economic crises has increased. The recent economic crisis was sparked primarily by mis-management of capital markets through speculation and excessive risk taking by very highly paid men (predominantly) in the financial centres of the western world, but the underlying causes are deeply rooted in the neo-liberal model of global development itself. The paper explores the processes leading to and explanations for rising earnings inequality and enduring gender inequality, theoretically, and with reference to selected illustrations. As the processes generating current inequalities are so profound and embedded, the paper argues that it is necessary to move beyond marginal adjustments to the current neo-liberal orthodoxy and look towards alterative models of development in order to secure economic and social sustainability as well as gender and social justice. ------ 13. Oktober 2010 *Ulrike Knobloch*, Universitäten St. Gallen und Fribourg *Ökonomie im 21. Jahrhundert: Theorie der Erwerbs- und Versorgungswirtschaft * University of Zurich, Campus Irchel, Lecture Hall Y-15-G-19, 5 - 7 p.m. Abstract Holzschnittartig lassen sich drei Phasen des Verständnisses von Ökonomie unterscheiden: Bei Aristoteles war Ökonomie auf die Hauswirtschaft und die vielfältigen Tätigkeiten innerhalb des Hauses bezogen, während der reine Gelderwerb nicht zur Ökonomie gehörte. Mit Adam Smith verkehrte sich das Ökonomieverständnis dann in das genaue Gegenteil: Die Haus- und Versorgungswirtschaft wird ausgeblendet, die Markt- und Geldwirtschaft wird zum Ökonomischen schlechthin. In der dritten Phase, in der wir uns heute befinden, stehen wir vor der Aufgabe, beide Ökonomiebegriffe zusammenzuführen und Ökonomie als Theorie der Erwerbs- und Versorgungswirtschaft zu begreifen. Bezahlte Erwerbswirtschaft und unbezahlte Versorgungswirtschaft sind zwei Seiten einer Medaille, die erst zusammen das Ganze der Ökonomie ausmachen. The lectures are organized by Prof. Dr. Christian Berndt, Dr. Elisabeth Bühler, Heidi Kaspar and Catherine Robin of the Economic Geography Research Group, University of Zurich, Switzerland -- Dr. des. Karin Schwiter Senior Research and Teaching Associate Department of Geography University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland Tel. +41 44 635 52 14 [log in to unmask] http://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/economic-geography/about-us/staff/schwiter-karin