MISSING AND MARGINALIZED: ON ENDING THE ERASURE OF WOMEN’S LIVES AND EXPERIENCES

MISSING AND MARGINALIZED: ON ENDING THE ERASURE OF WOMEN’S LIVES AND EXPERIENCES WOMEN ARE MISSING. From the missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada, to the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria, to the women who are missing from the Chinese population due to the One Child policy, the vulnerability and expendability of women is an international scandal. Less tragic but just as ubiquitous is the absence of women internationally from political leadership and from full participation in economic life. Within academe too, women are starkly underrepresented in the STEM disciplines and in senior academic administration. Put simply, wherever you look, and at almost every level of analysis, in circumstances that range from quotidian to horrifying, women are missing out on the opportunity to flourish, and to support the flourishing of their communities. The University of Waterloo in partnership with The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) presents Missing and Marginalized: On Ending the Erasure of Women’s Lives and Experiences. In collaboration with the ACU, this international, interdisciplinary conference focuses on the role that the Post Secondary Education (PSE) sector can play in endingthe erasure of women’s lives and experiences. The conference brings together scholars from all disciplines and Commonwealth nations, as well as administrators, industry leaders, and policy-makers. The conference is organized around three pillars: Global and Aboriginal justice issues; leadership; and industry and the STEM disciplines. Internationally renowned keynote speakers: » Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director, UN Women » Michèle Boutin, Executive Director, Canada Research Excellence Chairs » Barbara Birungi, Founder/Director, Women in Technology, Uganda  The conference will include submitted papers organized into concurrent sessions, discussion panels and workshops, and a poster session.

WHEN

June 14-17, 2016

WHERE

Federation Hall | University of Waterloo | Canada

For more information: http://creativeservices.uwaterloo.ca/evites/C008846/C008846-online.html