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Research Colloquium 2018

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Friday, November 9, 2018 | 1:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Riggs Library, Healy Hall, Georgetown University Main Campus

The Gender+ Justice Initiative presents its third Research Colloquium!

The 2018 G+JI Colloquium held on November 9, 2018 included cross-campus panels on #MeToo and Women in the Workplace; Intersectionality: Gender+’; and Access to Health & Justice.

Watch videos of recorded panel sessions at the bottom of this page.

Program

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Dionne Coker-Appiah, Medical Center 

Deborah Epstein, Law Center

Krisit Graves, Medical Center

Nan Hunter, Law Center

Naomi Mezey, Law Center

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Moderated by Deborah Epstein, Professor and Co-Director, Domestic Violence Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center.

#MeToo – Converting Conversation in Change

  • Lisa Singh, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University
  • Jamillah Williams, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Naomi Mezey, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

The #MeToo Movement’s Hidden Roots

  • Lane Windham, Associate Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown College

Gender Degradation: How Legal Structures Perpetuate Occupational Segregation and Gender Disparities

  • Kristen Tiscione, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Moderated by Nan Hunter, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center.

Intertextuality, Intersectionality, and Rachel Jeantel’s Voice in the State of Florida v. George Zimmerman

  • Grace Sullivan Buker, Adjunct Lecturer, Linguistics Department, Georgetown College

Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood

  • Rebecca Epstein, Executive Director, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality

Engendering a Clinical Atmosphere of Safety and Acceptance for LGBTQ+ Patients at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry

  • Emily Aron, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine
  • Matt Salmon, Child Psychiatry Chief Fellow, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

Activism on Issues of Female Circumcision in Sub Saharan Africa

  • Rogaia Abusharaf, Professor of Anthropology, Qatar Campus

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Moderated by Dionne Coker-Apiah, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Intimate Partner Violence: Enabling Access to Justice in Conflict-Affected States

  • Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security
  • Matthew Moore, Hillary Rodham Clinton Law Fellow, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security

Barriers to Health Care Access and Utilization Among Low Income High-Risk Transgender in the United States: A Systematic Review of the Literature

  • Jennifer Bouey, Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies

Telemedicine and Teen Access to Contraception

  • Sonia Francone, Class of 2022, School of Medicine
  • Julie Graves, Associate Professor, Vice Chair for Education, Department of Family Medicine
  • Jessica Knox, Propel Medical PC

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Moderated by Kristi Graves, Associate Professor of Oncology, Georgetown University School of Medicine

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM

Panel 1: #MeToo and Women in the Workplace

Panel 2: Intersectionality: Gender+

Panel 3: Access to Health and Justice

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A seated audience listening to a woman speaking at a podium in a large library.
A seated audience listening to a woman speaking at a podium in a large library.