Networks for Change and Well-being
International Gender and Girlhood Exchange
Monday, December 16, 2013 9:00-4:30
Room 200 Coach House, 3715 Peel Street
Welcome and Introductions
9:00-9:15
Forum for Gender Studies: University of Mid-Sweden*
9:15-10:45
Katja Gillander Gådin, Katarina Giritli Nygren, Sara Nyhles
Break
New findings on issues and challenge facing girls and young women in Canada
11:00 -12:00
Chair: Sandra Weber
Girls’ Action Foundation: Saman Ahsan, Juniper Glass
Update: Status of Women Canada
12:00-12:15
Kyna Boyce
Catered Lunch (Room 221)
12:15- 1:00
Exhibition
Photovoix “AVISE” avec les femmes rurales et les jeunes filles
Myriam Gervais and Lysanne Rivard
Research-in-progress
1:00-2:30
Chair: Marnina Gonick
Positive girls
Tatiana Fraser
Participatory monitoring research in education: An interdisciplinary dialogue with girls with disabilities in Viet Nam
Thuy Nguyen & Claudia Mitchell
Girls and social media: Emergent research questions
Caroline Caron
17th to 19th century girls’ domestic activities as DIY culture
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Break
Research Roundtable
Conversations: What are we learning about gender and girls’ lives and what’s methodology got to do with it?
2:45-3:45
Chair and moderator: Ann Smith
Barbara Hunting, Katie MacEntee, Lukas Labacher, M-J Kim, Cora Conway, Lysanne Rivard, Fatima Khan, Haidee Lefebvre, Casey Burkholder
Collective Biography in Girlhood Research*
3:45-4:15
Chair: Mary Cullinan
Marnina Gonick
Brief Wrap-up
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Book Launch: Memory
Productive Remembering and Social Agency (Teresa Strong-Wilson; Claudia Mitchell, Susann Allnutt & Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan)
With contributors from Memory and Pedagogy (Claudia Mitchell, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan & Susann Allnuttand Collective Biography (GHS 6:1) (guest editors Marnina Gonick and Susanne Gannon)
5:00-7:00
Wine and Cheese
*The first presentation from the team of researchers from the University of Mid-Sweden and the last presentation from Marnina Gonick of Mount Saint Vincent University reflect the two latest issues of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal: GHS (6:1) “Making method in Girlhood Studies: Collective Biography” and GHS (6:2) Nordic “Girls’ Studies: Current Themes and Theoretical Approaches”.
Sponsored by Participatory Cultures Lab, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal