Intersectionality Research, Policy & Practice:
Influences, Interrogations and Innovations
Conference Schedule
April 24th – 26th, 2014
Vancouver, Canada
Schedule at a Glance
Thurs. April 24th
Sat. April 26th
Pre-conference workshops:
1. Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework (9-2pm) – featuring
Julia Jordan-Zachary (Providence College)
2.
Indigeneity and Intersectionality (2-5pm) – featuring Manulani Meyer
(University of Hawaii) and Leanne Simpson (Writer, scholar, storyteller
and activist of Michi Saagiig Nishnabeg ancestry and a member of
Alderville First Nation)
8:45 – 9:00am (Segal Centre 1400-1430)
Elder Welcome
Conference Welcome
Opening Evening:
OPEN AND FREE TO PUBLIC
(6-9pm, Chapel Arts Community Centre, Vancouver)
Featuring Keynote Patricia Hill Collins (Distinguished University Professor,
Sociology, University of Maryland): “Toward Social Justice: Sharpening
Intersectionality's Critical Edge” & Intersectionality Art Exhibit (curated by
Alana Boltwood, Toronto-based intersectionality artist)
Fri. April 25th
8:30 - 9:15am (Segal Centre 1400-1430)
Elder Welcome & SFU All-Nation Drummer Performance
Conference Welcome (SFU President Petter)
Conference Coordinator Address (Dr. Olena Hankivsky)
Introduction to ‘Principles of Engagement’ for Conference (Dr. Lynn
Weber)
9:15 - 10:45am (Segal Centre 1400-1430)
OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL:
"INTERSECTIONALITY: WHERE WE HAVE BEEN, WHERE WE ARE NOW "
Participants:
Rita Dhamoon (Department of Political Science, University of Victoria)
Ange-Marie Hancock (Political Science and Gender Studies, University of
Southern California)
Jessica Danforth (Executive Director, Native Youth Sexual Health Network)
Moderator:
Ruth Zambrana (Women’s Studies, University of Maryland)
10:45 - 11:00am – BREAK
11:00 – 1:00pm – BREAKOUT PAPER SESSION 1 (details on page 1)
1:00 – 2:45pm – MENTOR/MENTEE LUNCH
2:45 – 4:30pm – BREAKOUT PAPER SESSION 2 (details on page 2)
9:00 - 10:45am (Segal Centre 1400-1430)
MORNING KEYNOTE PANEL:
"INSTITUTIONALIZING INTERSECTIONALITY"
Participants:
Meike Verloo (Faculty of Social Sciences, Radoud University Nijmegan)
Lynn Weber (Psychology, University of South Carolina)
Manulani Meyer (University of Hawaii)
Beth Jackson (Government of Canada)
Moderator: Olena Hankivsky (School of Public Policy, SFU)
10:45 - 11:00am – BREAK
11:00 – 12:45pm – BREAKOUT PAPER SESSION 3 (details on page 4)
12:45 – 1:30pm – NETWORKING LUNCH
1:30 – 3:30pm – WORKSHOPS/COLLOQUIA/ROUNDTABLES (details on page 5)
3:30 – 3:45pm – BREAK
3:45 – 5:30pm (Segal Centre 1400-1430)
CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL:
"INTERSECTIONALITY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE: CHALLENGES AND
POSSIBILITIES"
Participants:
Elizabeth Cole (Women’s Studies, University of Michigan)
Ruth Zambrana (Women’s Studies, University of Maryland)
Lisa Bowleg (George Washington University)
Moderator: Julia Jordan Zachary (Providence College)
Note: In-person registration for conference will be available: Thursday April
24th (6-8pm, Chapel Arts) and Friday April 25th (8-9am, SFU Harbour Centre).
Online registration available at:
http://www.sfu.ca/iirp/conference/registration.html.
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7:00 – 8:30pm (Segal Centre 1400-1430)
EVENING KEYNOTE PANEL:
“COALITIONS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, RESISTANCE”
Participants:
Celeste Montoya (Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado at
Boulder)
Bethany Stevens (Sexologist & Disability Consultant, Atlanta)
Leanne Betasamosak Simpson (Writer, scholar, storyteller and activist of Michi
Saagiig Nishnabeg ancestry and a member of Alderville First Nation)
Moderator: Lynn Weber (Psychology, University of South Carolina)
8:30 – 9:15pm
EVENING PERFORMANCE: Splinter Theatre Group (‘Dance for Social Change’)
Cover: Axes of Power by Alana Boltwood
Presentation Schedule & Details
Friday April 25th
11:00am – 1:00pm — Breakout paper session 1
Flesh Biology and the Body
Room 1315
Discussant: Bethany Stevens
bethany.stevens@gmail.com
Community, Activism and
Social Change
Room 1415
Discussant: Celeste Montoya
celeste.montoyakirk@colorado.edu
Education
Room 1600
Discussant: Jennifer Marchbank
jmarchba@sfu.ca
Ways of Knowing:
Indigenous Epistemologies
and Methodology
Lesley Tarasoff
“Feminist Disability Studies and
Intersectionality in Conversation:
The Example of Physically Disabled
Women during the Perinatal Period”
Cynthia Bateman
“Gestation Crates as Political
Apparatus: Notes Towards an
Affirmative Intersectional Study of
Bodies at Risk”
Marta Infante
“Educational Inclusion: The Body
as an Intersection of Multiple
Oppressive Contexts”
Huai Bao
“When Theatre and Biology
Intersect: Cases of Cross-Gender
Performers’ Gender Identity Disorder
in Childhood”
Doris Rajan
“An Intersectional Community
Development Approach to
Addressing Violence & Health”
May Farrales
“Unpacking Filipino Canadian Sexual
Subjectivities in Transnationalism
and Settler Colonialism”
Willeen Keough & Cecily Nicholson
“The Social Housing Coalition of BC:
Re-Appropriating Intersectionality
for Social Action”
Krista Lauren Craven
“Boundary Politics: An Intersectional
Approach to Understanding the
Political Activism of Undocumented
Immigrant Youth”
Manjeet Birk
“We are All the Same: Dynamics
within the ‘Colourblind’ Peer Review
Group”
Connie Guberman
“From Harm to hope: Intersections of
Gendered Expectations on Student’s
Experience of Violence”
Rachelle Brunn
“Race, Class, Gender and
Achievement at Selective Colleges
and Universities”
Jillian Deri
“Jealousy through the Lens of
Intersectional Emotions”
Jade Boyd
“Considering Creativity as a
Tool in Intersectional Research
Methodology”
Karen Robson
“Using Intersectionality to
Understand Post-Secondary
Pathways of Marginalized Groups”
Cameron Mckenzie
“Navigating Post Secondary School
with a Learning Disability: The
Pursuit for Accommodations”
Natalie Clark and Dory Nason
“Indigenous Intersectionality, Red
Intersectionality, Red Feminism and
Beyond”
Room 1425
Discussant: Manulani Meyer
manulani@hawaii.edu
Intersectional
Investigations across the
Life Course
Room 1520
Discussant: Wendy Hulko
Whulko@tru.ca
Dilek Kayaalp
“A Critical Analysis of Research on
Immigrant Youth: “Value-Free”
Science Versus the Realities of
Immigrant Youth”
Nathalie Lozano-Neira, with youth
Diego Cardona
“Building Bridges: Intersectional
Research Approaches with
Newcomer Youth”
Fritz Pino
“Looking through Intersectionality:
Experiences of Racialized Elderly
LGBTs in Canada”
Kate Butler
“Negotiating Citizenship:
Intersectionality as Perspective in
Research with Marginalized Youth”
Stella Palikarova
“The Hours Before “Goodbye””
Dilek Kayaalp
“Schooling of Immigrant Youth in
Canada: A Sociological Analysis”
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FRIDAY APRIL 25
11:00AM - 1:00PM – BREAKOUT PAPER SESSION 1
Research Challenges And
Opportunities
Room 3000
Discussant: Ruth Zambrana
Sheryl Kirkham & Sonya Sharma
“Lost Meaning? Examining
the Salience and Challenges
of Incorporating Religion into
Intersectional Analyses”
c/o Wendy Hall: hallw@umd.edu
Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson
“Developing a Measure of Gendered
Racism and Generic Stress for Black
Girls”
Population Health Research
Beth Jackson
“Monitoring Health Inequities
through Quantitative
Intersectionality Analysis”
of Inequities
Room 1400
Discussant: Lisa Bowleg
lbowleg@email.gwu.edu
Gretta Bauer
“Challenges to Incorporating
Intersectionality Theory in
Population Health Research:
Quantitative Language vs.
Quantitative Methods”
Deborah Stienstra
“Using Intersectionality to Make
Children and Youth with Disabilities
Visible”
Lee Maclean
“Two Kinds of Intersectional Effects”
Natalia Rocha-Lawton
“Power Relations and Dominant
Identities: Beyond Intersectional
Analysis”
Hasu Ghosh
“Identifying the Promises of
an Intersectional Approach for
Advancing Indigenous Population
Health Research”
Setareh Rouhani, Olena Hankivsky,
& Anna Vorobyova
“An Intersectional Examination
of Health Inequities in Post-Soviet
Ukraine’s Healthcare System”
Annette Browne
“What does Intersectionality
Suggest about Population-Level
Measurement of Discrimination?”
Olivier Ferlatte & Terry Trussler
“Wrestling with the Gorgon:
Intersectionality in Survey Research
on Gay Men’s Health”
2:45pm – 4:30pm — Breakout paper session 2
Art/Performance
Room 3000
Discussant: Jade Boyd
jadeb@sfu.ca
Decolonizing Methods
Room 1600
Health
Room 1315
Discussant: Olena Hankivsky
oah@sfu.ca
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Carlo Sayo
“Place-Making in the Shadows: The
Visual Culture of Filipino Settlement
in Vancouver”
Gul Caliskan
“Intersecting Narratives of Crossing
the Line: Artistic Expressions of Gezi
Park 2013”
Catherine Flynn
“Street-Involved Young Women
against Structural Violence: An
Intersectional Analysis of an ArtBased Action-Research”
Venge Dixon & Seema Shah
“The Art in Her Illness: A Creative
Example of Intersectionality”
Beenash Jafri, Jen Preston
& Fenn Stewart
“Questioning Intersectionality in
Settler Colonial Contexts”
Jeannine Girard-Pearlman
“Redefining the Determinants of
Health in Medical Curricula using
Intersectional Lenses”
Omolola Taiwo
“US Health Care Reform: An
Intersectional Approach to
Evaluating the ACA and its Impact
on Marginalized Populations”
Jenny Douglas
“Cigarette Smoking and AfricanCaribbean Young Women in the
UK: Intersections of ‘Race’, Ethnicity,
Gender, Class and Tobacco”
Janine Farrell
“A Critical Framework for
Understanding Trans* Health and
Wellness”
Patrick Grzanka & Jenny Dyck Brian
““Analytic Dispositions” and the
Shared Affinities of Intersectionality
and Science & Technology Studies”
FRIDAY APRIL 25
2:45PM - 4:30PM – BREAKOUT PAPER SESSION 2
Public Policy And
Organizational Studies (1)
Room 1425
Discussant: Mieke Verloo
m.verloo@fm.ru.nl
Social Justice And Advocacy
Room 1415
Discussant: Ange-Marie Hancock
ahancock@usc.edu
Violence/Trauma
Room 1520
Discussant: Katherine Rossiter
rossiter@sfu.ca
Methods
Room 1400
Discussant: Elizabeth Cole
ecole@umich.edu
Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson
“Intersectionality in Public Policy and
Organizational Studies: Pedagogy,
Curriculum Development and
Collaborations”
Nikki Tishler, Carmen Hicks
& Nicole Rodriguez
“Using Intersectionality in
Municipalities: Discourse,
Frameworks and Application”
Mary-Antoinette Smith
“Intersectionality and the Creation
of Beloved Community Deep
Dialogues”
Wendy Aujla
“Conceptualizing Honour Killings in
Canada”
Michelle Deming
“The Sexual Victimization of
Women: The Intersections of Race,
Class, Gender, And Sexuality”
Jemma Tosh
“Childhood Sexual Abuse,
Transgenderism, and Intersexuality:
A Critical Intersectional Analysis of
Psychiatric Theory and Treatment”
Sana Shahram
“Charting Intersectional
Relationships in the Context of
Life Experiences with Substances
(C.I.R.C.L.E.S)”
Gender and Sport
Room 3051
Discussant: Colleen Reid
reidc@douglascollege.ca
Zahra Rad
“Muslim Women in Sports Arenas”
Lisa Bavington
“Sex Testing in Women’s Sport: An
Intersectional Analysis”
Leah Levac & Ann Denis
“Women, Intersectionality, and
Changing Public Services in Canada”
Irene Ryan
“Views from the Top and
Below: An Exploration of What
Intersectionality Offers CrossSectoral Research”
Rebecca Lambert
“An intersectional liaison? Using
Intersectionality to design missionbased programming in social justice
organizations and exploring the
organization as a liaison between
academic theory and activist praxis”
Sobia Shaikh
“Institutional Ethnography and
Intersectionality: Ontological
Disjuncture or Disruption?”
Critical Examinations of
Francesca Scala
& Stephanie Paterson
“‘Doing’ Intersectional Analysis:
Representation and Displacement
through Gender-Based Analysis in
Canada”
Aoife Emily Hart
“Marriage Equality is not a
Transgender Issue: Queer Divisions in
the Human Rights Commission as an
LGB(T) Organisation”
Presenter: Marianne Chbat
(Marianne Chbat, Dominique Damant,
Valérie Roy, Holly Johnson)
“An Intersectional Feminist Program
for Women Who use Violence”
Karen Stote
“Looking Back, Looking Forward:
Settler Feminism, Indigenous
Women, and Reproductive Justice
for All”
Sirma Bilge
“Confronting the Undoing of
Intersectionality within Disciplinary
Academic Feminism”
Presenter: Marianne Chbat
(Dominique Damant, Marianne Chbat,
Catherine Flynn)
“Woman, First Nation Woman,
Racialized Woman, Mother, Victim
of Violence, Poor, Immigrant, Not
Speaking French or English. Is one
Oppression Worse than the Others?
How do they Intersect?”
Susan Meyers
“Scared in Mexico: The WriterResearcher in the Transnational
Migration Context”
Nancy López
“Contextualizing Lived Race-Gender
and the Racialized-Gendered Social
Determinants of Health”
Ann Travers
“Binary or Busted! Transgender and
Gender Variant Children and Youth
in Sport and Recreation”
Jillian Weber
“A ‘Triple Play’: An Intersectional
Approach to Black Female Athletes”
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Saturday April 26th
11:00am – 12:45pm — Breakout paper session 3
HIV/AIDS
Room 1315
Discussant: Daniel Grace
daniel.grace@lshtm.ac.uk
Soraya Blot
“Heterogeneity in Familiarity with,
Willingness to Attend and Access to
the Local AIDS Service Organization
among African, Caribbean and Black
Residents of Middlesex-London,
Ontario, Canada”
Gilbert Emond
“Youth High Risk to HIV through Sex
and Drugs Exploration”
Alex Otieno
“Global Forces, Local Action, and
the Inclusion of Human Rights into
Kenya’s Response to HIV/AIDS”
Nathan Lachowsky
“Unpacking Ethnicity: Effects of
Different Classification Approaches
in HIV Research in Aotearoa New
Zealand”
LAW
Room 1425
Martin Cannon
“Men, Masculinity, and the Indian
Act in Canada”
Discussant: Margaret Jackson
margarej@sfu.ca
LABOUR /EMPLOYMENT
Room 3000
Discussant: Lynn Weber
weberl@mailbox.sc.edu
Bridget Hiedemann, Shandra
Benito & Thomas Glassman
“Intersections of Gender and
Disability in the Labor Market:
Decomposing the “Hearing Earnings
Gaps” for Men and Women in the
United States”
Habiba Zaman,
in collaboration with the
Philippine Women Centre of BC
“Academic Research and Racialized
Community Activism: Exploring
Intersectional Theory and Practices”
MEDIA/ADVERTISEMENT/
FILM
Room 1520
Discussant: Vivian May
Room 2270
Discussant: Marina Morrow
mmorrow@sfu.ca
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Sarah Rudrum
“Intersectional Power Dimensions
and Coercive Care: A Compulsory
Approach to Couples’ HIV Testing
During Antenatal Care in Rural
Northern Uganda”
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
"Intersectionality and the
Reframing of the Criminalized
Subject: Specialized Courts and
the Unintended Consequence of
Holistic Knowledge and Quasi-Legal
Regulation"
Vrinda Narain
“Veiled Threats: The Place of
the Niqab in the Courtroom:
An Intersectional Approach to
Understanding the Supreme Court’s
Decision in R v NS”
Maureen Kihika
“Good Work!: Experiences and
Identity Construction Processes
of Black Female Care-Givers in
Vancouver’s Labor Market”
Sue Ressia
“Uncovering Complexity in the
Job Search Experiences of Skilled
Immigrants in Australia: An
Intersectional Approach”
Beverly Baines
“What Does Canadian Law Know
About Intersectionality?”
Ethel Tungohan
“Evaluating ‘What’s Next’ when
Thinking about Intersectionality:
Can Intersectionality Bridge the Gap
between Research and Activism?”
Leigha Smith
“Framing Experience:
Intersectionality and Advocacy
for Immigrant Women in British
Columbia, 1968”
Erica Jorgensen
“Jezebel.Com, Reproductive
Healthcare Access, and the War on
Women: Exploring an Intersectional
Force in the Months Preceding the
November 2012 U.S. Elections”
Jessica Posega
“An Image is Worth a Thousand
Words of Oppression: An
Anthropological, Intersectional
Analysis of a Photograph of
a Ghanaian Maternal Health
Advertisement”
Linda Gregory
“Enhancing Nursing‘s
Workforce: Mentoring
Diverse Graduate Students
toward Professional Development,
Academic Success, and Psychological
and Emotional Well-Being”
Carla Hilario
“If you’re not like everyone
else you get picked on”: Using
intersectionality to interrogate
bullying as a social practice”
Gemma Hunting, Daniel Grace,
& Olena Hankivsky
“Promoting Social Inclusion for
People Experiencing Substance
Use and Mental Distress in BC:
An Alternative IntersectionalityInformed Model”
vmmay@syr.edu
MENTAL HEALTH
Joseph Rujumba
“The dilemma of HIV disclosure to
sexual partners by pregnant women
tested for HIV during antenatal care
in rural Uganda: Implications for
Intersectionality”
Dawn Edge
“African Caribbean Women, Mental
Health and Resilience”
SATURDAY APRIL 26
11:00AM - 12:45PM – BREAKOUT PAPER SESSION 3
INNOVATIONS IN
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
Robin Parry & Lydia Chung
“Removing Service Access Barriers for
Queer and Trans* Communities”
Alison Gerlach
“Intersectional Innovations:
Pathways to Health Equity for
Aboriginal Children”
Hasu Ghosh, Cecilia Benoit
& Ivy Bourgeault
“Identifying and Defining the
Culturally-Appropriate Health
Services for Urban Aboriginal
Women Dealing with Co-Occuring
Addiction, Depression and Diabetes”
Michele Schmidt
“Intersectionality and Agency: A
South African Perspective”
Alycia Fridkin
“Achieving meaningful involvement:
An intersectional analysis of
Indigenous people’s involvement in
health policy and decision-making”
Taushif Kara
“Righting Wrongs: Post-Colonialism
and Sexual Rights in the Developing
World”
Room 1600
Discussant: Rita Dhamoon
dhamoonr@uvic.ca
PUBLIC POLICY
AND ORGANIZATIONAL
STUDIES (2)
Room 1400
Discussant: Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson
ljeffers@brandeis.edu
Workshops/Colloquia/Roundtables (1:30pm – 3:30pm, 8 sessions)
WORKSHOPS
Decolonizing Praxis: Supporting Aboriginal Women after Sexual Assault
Dalya Israel & Jennifer Shortt (WAVAW)
Room 2245
Madness Unbound: The Implosion of Sanism and the Expansion
of Intersectional Activism
Richard Ingram, Laura Delano, Michael Hejazi & Marina Morrow
Room 3000
COLLOQUIA
Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students
Benita Bunjun, Mai Okugawa, Ahrthyh Arumugam, Bindy Kang & Fung Lee
Room 1400 (followed by roundtable discussion)
Intersectionality and Arts Initiatives with Female Juvenile Offenders
Olga Ivashkevich, Anna Smith, Ebru Cayir,
Courtnie Wolfgang, DeAnne Hilfinger Messias & Lynn Weber
Room 2270
ROUNDTABLES
Intersectionality and the Media
Mary Shearman, Sho Ogawa & Novia Shih-Shan Chan
Room 1425
All/None of the Above: Intersectional Approaches to
(and Retreats from) Researching and Teaching Sexuality
Tiffany Myrdahl, Jen Marchbank, Elise Chenier,
Leigha Smith & Nadine Boulay
Room 1520
From theory to praxis: Innovations and resistances
around intersectionality in Quebec feminist movement
Geneviève Pagé, Marie-Ève Campbell & Rosa Pires
Room 1315
“CRITIQUES” ROUNDTABLE
Room 1600
Instrumentalization: A Site of Intersectionality’s Subjection?
Vivian May
When Intersectionality Fails
Amanda Watson & Corinne Mason
The Limits of Intersectionality:
A Critical Analysis of Mapuche Women’s Progress in 21st Century Chile
Serena Cosgrove
Unsettling Discourses of Intersectionality: Moving Forward
Gabrielle Egan
POSTER/EXHIBIT
Negotiating Settlement and Self through Poetic and Artistic Self Inquiry
Carlo Sayo
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THE INTERNATIONAL INTERSECTIONALITY CONFERENCE IS HOSTED BY
THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERSECTIONALITY RESEARCH & POLICY, SFU
Support For The Conference Provided By:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council
VP Academic & VP Finance, SFU
Office of the Dean of Grad Studies, SFU
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, SFU
Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities, & Mental Health, SFU
School of Public Policy, SFU
Department of Geography, SFU
Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
First Nations Studies, SFU
Faculty of Education, SFU
Department of Sociology, SFU
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