Research Colloquium 2017

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Denise Brennan, Georgetown College
Kristi Graves, Georgetown University Medical Center
Nan Hunter, Georgetown University Law Center
Lisa Krim, Georgetown University
Naomi Mezey, Georgetown University Law Center
Kathryn Sandberg, Georgetown University Medical Center

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Moderated by Kristi Graves, Associate Professor of Oncology, Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Intersectionality in Law and Scholarship

• Nan Hunter, Professor, Georgetown University 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, Georgetown University School of Medicine

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
Moderated by 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, Georgetown University 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, Georgetown University School of Medicine

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Moderated by Naomi Mezey, Professor, Georgetown University 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