Gender+ Justice Initiative
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Research Colloquium 2024

The Gender+ Justice Initiative presents its sixth Research Colloquium!

Friday, October 4, 2024 | 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM – Reception after 4:30 PM | Hybrid Event | Location: Riggs Library, 3rd Floor, Healy Hall, Georgetown University Main Campus

Watch the recorded videos below.

Panel 1: Health Equity: Reproductive Justice, Anti-Racism, and Public Policy

Time stamps for each presentation available in the video description.

Panel 2: Intersectional Approaches to Environmental and Social Justice

Time stamps for each presentation available in the video description.

This year, we are pleased to introduce thematic areas to foster in-depth conversations on timely and pressing issues. Under the theme of ‘Equitable Futures,’ the detailed program and topic areas for the 2024 G+JI colloquium panels are listed below:

Equitable Futures

Program

12 PM – 12:15 PM (15 min)

Introduction by G+JI Team

12:15 PM – 2:15 PM (2 hours)

Moderated by Kristi Graves (she/her), Professor of Oncology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and G+JI Faculty Co-Director

Katarina E. AuBuchon (she/her), Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center | Reviewing the Current Research in Cancer-Related Pain Inequities: The Necessity of Applying Intersectionality to Advance Cancer Pain Research

Arianne Malekzadeh (she/her), Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Social Psychology, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, George Washington University | “Am I Truly Invisible?”: D.C. Black Women’s Experiences of and Coping with Intersectional Invisibility in Uterine Fibroid Treatment

Naomi Mezey (she/her), Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center | Bodies on the Line: Violence, Contempt, and Legal Interpretation in Dobbs

Jill C. Morrison (she/her), Visiting Professor of Law, Director, Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Program; Director, Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship, Georgetown University Law Center | Beyond Buck v. Bell: the Intersection of Reproductive Justice and Intellectual Disabilities

Lady Nwadike (she/her), Facilitator Supervisor, Institute for Public Health Innovation, Former G+JI Fellow | A Seat At the Table: Increasing Minority Women’s Participation in Clinical Trials

Karen Trister Grace (she/her), Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, George Mason University | A Health Equity-Based Conceptual Framework of Pregnancy Pathways

2:15 PM – 2:35 PM (20 min)

Join us for a 20-minute coffee break to recharge and connect.

2:35 PM -2:45 PM (10 min)

Lisa Singh (she/her), Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences and Director of the Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy

Join us as Lisa Singh shares insights on the Georgetown University Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, celebrating Women’s History Month by amplifying women’s contributions to history through collaborative editing.

2:45 PM – 4:30 PM (1 hour and 45 min)

Moderated by Denise Brennan (she/her), Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences, and G+JI Faculty Co-Director

Jennifer Boum Make (she/her), Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies, Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences | Transoceanic Cancerous Breasts: Shaping Caring as Praxis of Resistance through the Visibility of Vulnerability

Melinda González (she/her), Assistant Professor, Culture and Politics, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University | Poetics of Resistance: Women Surviving Colonialism and Hurricane María

Sel J. Hwahng (they/them), Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Health, and Sexuality, Dept. of Women’s & Gender Studies, Towson University | Dietary Attitudes and Behaviors among Low-income Trans Women of Color: Preliminary Findings

Yuki Kato (she/her), Associate Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences | Challenging the Binaries Through Prefigurative Urbanism, reflections from Gardens of Hope

Allegra McLeod (she/her), Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center | Abolition and Environmental Justice

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (1 hour)

Join us for a reception where speakers and attendees can mingle, network, and engage with one another over refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.