“Education, Development, and Social Justice: the Legacy of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program” was a symposium which took place at Columbia’s Faculty House on September 8, 2016. Six international visiting scholars presented research conducted during the summer of 2016 in the Ford IFP Archive at Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Joan Dassin, IFP's executive director, gave the keynote address.
Presentations, in the order in which they were given, are as follows:
- Wim de Jong (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands), “Between Global and Local: The International Fellowships Program Archives and the
Training of Social Justice Leaders (2001-2013)”
- Budi Waluyo (Lehigh University), “Measuring National Community Development Returns from International Scholarship Programs”
- Rajendran Thangavelu Govender (Kwazulu-Natal Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa) “From Dark to Enlightened Continent—An Analytical Study of the Research of the Ford Foundation IFP Africa Alumni from 2001 to 2013”
- Oluwafunmilayo Para-Mallam (National Institute for Policy & Strategic Studies, Nigeria), “Tackling Gender-Based Violence in Select African Countries”
- Nagah Sayed-Ahmed (independent social science researcher and activist) “Promoting Social Justice in Egypt: the Impact of the Ford IFP”
- Tran Nu Mai Thy (Endicott College), “IFP Vision through the Lens of Vietnamese Alumni: An Analysis of Theses”
