Schedule

Friday
1:00 registration opens, coffee etc Main 520

 

1:30-2:45 Main 213 
‘mad love’: problematizing gender and sexuality

Queering Sexology Studies - Emily Eddie, UPEI

Abnormality, Sexuality, and the Institute of Psychology Throughout History - Emily Sewuster, UPEI

Gender Verification in Professional Sport – Alec Sharpe, UPEI

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3:00-4:15 Main 213
‘dis-ing power’: challenging and exposing assumptions

Ambivalent Sexism and Canadians' Opinions on Abortion - Elyse Cottrell, UPEI

“Rural African Nova Scotian Perceptions of the Police,” Jessica Bundy, Acadia

Punk, Power, and Patriarchy - Katherine Ross, Acadia

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4:30-5:30ish Main 213

keynote speaker: Dr. Alana Cattapan,

"Hands Clean: On Purity and Power in Biomedical Research." 

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6:00-7:00ish- Main Faculty Lounge

Mic Drop Event

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Saturday

9:00am Main 520

coffee, etc. 

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9:30-10:45 Main 213 
 ‘death and taxes’: destabilizing some ‘sure things’

"There is no easy death; every death is an "unjustifiable violation" - Kathleen Harper, UPEI/Kings College

The Effects of Capitalism on the Individual - Nicholas Jung, Dalhousie

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11:00-12:35 Main 213
‘choose your own adventure’: experience and narrating the self in context

Constructed Abnormal: How being trans and disabled helped me to better understand and challenge social constructions of normalcy,” - Jay Gallant, UPEI

Struggles of the Young Academic: Learning to strike a balance between academic knowledge and hard reality,” -Nick Scott, UPEI

Voluntourism - Jillian MacIntyre - Mount Allison

The Repression of the Human-Nature Relationship - Alicia Morden-Ward - UPEI

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12:40-1:40 Main 520

lunch (Provided)

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1:45-3:20 Main 213
“laughing and screaming”: representation and identification

Comedy in the Politically Correct Era - Dana Doucette - UPEI

“The Rabbit, The Witch, and The War on Women: Femininity and Power in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” Stephanie Cairns, UPEI

“Dysfunctional Mothers and Horror Film,” - Shannon Power, Mount Allison

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3:30-4:45 Main 213
’flipping the ivory tower’: challenging university culture(s)

Increasing the Representation of Women on Faculty Hiring Boards… - Hannah Dawson - UPEI

MSVU Post Secrets - Mariam Al-Nasrallah, Dilini Fernando. Casey Perrin, Caitlyn Chatterton, Alex Butler – MSVU

#KnowledgeisPower - Grace Wedlake - UPEI

 

 

6:00pm

group dinner at Joe's Mediterranean (pay your own)

 Menu: http://peijoes.wixsite.com/joes/menu

*vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options available*