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MISSING AND
MARGINALIZED: ON ENDING THE ERASURE OF WOMEN’S LIVES AND EXPERIENCES
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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.
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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.
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The conference is
organized around three pillars: Global and Aboriginal justice issues;
leadership; and industry and the STEM disciplines.
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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
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The conference will
include submitted papers organized into concurrent sessions, discussion
panels and workshops, and a poster session.
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WHERE
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Federation Hall | University of Waterloo | Canada
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http://creativeservices.uwaterloo.ca/evites/C008846/C008846-online.html
CALL FOR PAPERS:
We invite submissions for 25 minute talks, 40 minute workshops, 40
minute panels, and poster presentations on the topic of missing and
marginalized, broadly construed. Submissions that focus on one or more
of our three pillars are especially encouraged. Please upload a 500 word
abstract of your proposed presentation in .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf
format by no later than 12 p.m. (EST) on December 1, 2015. Please
prepare your submission for anonymous review by removing any identifying
information both from the content of the document from the document
meta-properties.
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The organizers are
eager to assemble a conference that benefits from a demographically
diverse programme. If you are a woman or a member of an underrepresented
group and wish to identify yourself as such, please note this
information on your submission.
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Authors can expect to receive a decision by March 30, 2016.
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Please visit the conference website for additional details on the conference, the bursary program, and the program committee.
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