Gender Justice Initiative Fall 2017 Colloquium

The 2017 Colloquium

October 13, 2017 1:15PM- 5:00PM

The 2017 G+JI Colloquium was held on October 13, 2017 with cross-campus panels on Intersectional Gender Justice, the Racialized and Gendered Body, and Change Agents and the Possibility of Remaking the Future.

Agenda

Introductions and Welcome

1:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Denise Brennan, Georgetown College

Kristi Graves, Medical Center

Nan Hunter, Law Center

Lisa Krim, Georgetown University

Naomi Mezey, Law Center

Kathryn Sandberg, Medical Center

Panel 1: Intersectional Gender Justice

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Moderator: Kristi Graves, Associate Professor of Oncology, School of Medicine

Intersectionality in Law and Scholarship
Nan Hunter, Professor, Law Center

Speaking for, Speaking with, and Shutting up: on The Pragmatics of Truth Telling
Mark Lance, Professor, Philosophy Department and Justice & Peace Program, Georgetown College

Faux Heads of Households & the Gendered and Racialized Politics of Housing Reform
Rosemary Ndubuizu, Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, Georgetown College

Effect of Maternal Stress during Pregnancy on Children’s Health and Cancer Risk
Joanna B. Kitlinska, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, School of Medicine

Panel 2: The Racialized and Gendered Body

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Moderator: Denise Brennan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Georgetown College

Venus at Work: The Contracted Body and Cultural Representations of Saartjie Baartman
Samantha Pinto, Associate Professor, Departments of English and African American Studies, Georgetown College

White Slavery, Spiritualism, and the Crisis of Will in the Age of Contract
Sherally Munshi, Associate Professor, Law Center

Research in Pregnancy: The Ethics of Risk / Benefit Tradeoffs between Woman, Fetus, and Future Child
Marisha Wickremsinhe, Research Associate, Kennedy Institute of Ethics

Working to Eliminate Disparities in Breast Cancer
Filipa Lynce, Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine

Panel 3: Change Agents and the Possibility of Remaking the Future

4:00 p.m. – 5:00pm
Moderator: Naomi Mezey, Professor, Law Center

Pay Gap for Women Physicians in Neurology
Nassim Zecavati, Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Living in the As-if: Johannesburg’s Chosen FEW Black Lesbian Soccer Team
April Sizemore-Barber, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Georgetown College

Combatting Gender Based Violence at Home: Do Laws have a Role?
Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security