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*