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Draft Programme
Note: this programme is subject to change

Tuesday, 1 May 2007

18:30-21:30: REGISTRATION

Wednesday, 2 May 2007

7:30-8:30: REGISTRATION

8:30-10:30: Welcome from U of A President Indira Samarasekera

PLENARY ADDRESS 1: Lillian Dyck, Senator, "Claiming our Rightful           Place in the Academy"
          Catharine Farrow, Chief Geologist, FNX Mining, "Something
          Old - Something New: Exploring for Mines in the Knowledge
          Economy"

          Chair: Susan McDaniel (University of Windsor)

10:30-11:00: BREAK

11:00-12:30: CONCURRENT SESSIONS A-C

Session A: The Realms of Social Theory, Legislation, and Politics
Chair: TBA

• Ann Mari May (Middlebury College) "Gender, Biology, and the Incontrovertible Logic of Choice"
• Charlotte Wolters (McMaster University) "Legislating Canadian Women: The Traumatizing Role of the Law in Shaping Female Behaviour"
• Angela Boskovitch (Frankfurt/Main, Germany) "Women in Leadership Positions in Foreign Policy, Elective Office, and Political Organization"

Session B: Creating New Structures Within the Academy (I)
Chair: TBA

• Maria Gill and Donna Bear Glover (Centre for Education and Work, Winnipeg) and Sandra DeLaronde (Aboriginal Courtwork Program, Manitoba Justice) "Creating a Professional Development Learning Network in Northern, First Nations Communities"
• Jane-Frances Lobnibe (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Deconstructing the Myth of the Independent Learner in Higher Education: The Case of African Graduate Student Mothers"
• Barbara Hunting (Bishop's University) "Research Fields Surveyed by Gatekeepers"

Session C: Creating New Structures Within the Academy (II)
Chair: TBA

• Katherine McNaughton-Osler (Le Centre de documentation sur l'éducation des adultes et la condition féminine) et Sylvie Jochems (UQAM) "Recherche-action sur les pratiques informationnelles de groupes de femmes du Québec"
• Stephanie Garrett, Claudia Eames, Fiona Nelson (University of Calgary) "Rooms of Our Own on Campus: The Survival and Growth of Campus Women's Centres"
• Cheryl Gosselin (Bishop's University) "Helping Women Build Their Futures: The Attempts of a Women's Centre to Transform its Members into Global Citizens"

12:30-13:30: LUNCH (provided)

13:30-14:30: PLENARY ADDRESS 2: Catharine Whiteside, Dean of             Medicine, University of Toronto, "Women in                              Medicine - Room to Grow"

                             Chair: Sandra Irving (Irving Oil Limited, Chair,
                             RSC President's Advisory Council)

14:30-15:00: BREAK

15:00-17:00: CONCURRENT SESSIONS D-G

Session D: The Interface of Home and Work (I)
Chair: TBA

• Susan McDaniel (University of Windsor) "Wikinomic Women at Work"
• Laura Johnson and Jean Andrey (University of Waterloo) and Shawna Cochrane (Stantec Architects, Edmonton). "At Work at Home: Spatial and Social Impacts of Home-based Telework"

Session E: The Interface of Home and Work (II)

• Lillian Blume (University of Toronto) "Balancing Work and Family: Negotiating Equality at Home: A Workshop"

Session F: Women's Spaces in the Visual and Performative Arts (I)
Chair: TBA

• Sinem Yilanci (Istanbul, Turkey) "Women's Theatre Form in Turkey"
• Reine Prat (ministère de la culture, Paris) "Égalité hommes/femmes dans le spectacle vivant"
• Penelope Tobin, Director (Barrier Breakers, London, UK) "Breaking Down Barriers to Access Potential"
• Nora Stovel (University of Alberta) "The Woman and the Sylph in Romantic Ballets"

Session G: Women's Spaces in the Visual and Performative Arts (II)
Chair: TBA

• Sheri Benning (University of Alberta) "Watching Woman: The Marysburg Project"
• Margaret Rodgers (Durham College, Oshawa, ON) "Women in Clarington/Women in Oshawa/Women in . . ."
• Pam Tracz (St. Francis Xavier University) "Women, Learning, and Craft: Room to Learn, Room to Create"
• Anitza Geneve, "Author Unknown"

19:00-21:00: Women Painters and Printmakers
Curated Exhibit, Print Study Centre, Fine Arts Building
Reception in Fine Arts Building Gallery

Thursday, 3 May 2007

7:30-8:30: REGISTRATION

8:30-10:30: PLENARY ADDRESS 3: Valerie Davidson, NSERC Chair,              University of Guelph, "Outside of our rooms -                           networking across the academy"
                          Anne Wheeler, filmmaker, "Putting our Stories in
                           Motion: the Challenges of a Female Protagonist"

                          Co-Chairs: John Grace & Sherrill Grace
                          (University of British Columbia)

10:30-11:00: BREAK

11:00-12:30: CONCURRENT SESSIONS H-I

Session H: The Culture in Academic Science and Engineering Departments: Perspectives From Within and Suggestions For Change with Five NSERC Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering, Sponsored by NSERC
Chair: Suzanne Fortier (President, NSERC)

Topics:

• Anne Condon (UBC) and Nadia Ghazzali (Université Laval), "Recruiting and Retaining Women Faculty in Science and Engineering"
• Shannon Ellis, Farzana Karim-Tessem, Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan) and Valerie Davidson (University of Guelph), "What Makes a University Department Friendly for Female Undergraduate and Graduate Students?"
• Cecilia Moloney (Memorial University of Newfoundland), "Thinking Yourself into a Scientist or Engineer"

Session L: The Workplace and Global Citizenship (III)
Chair: TBA

• Muhammed Usman Ghani (Pakistan) "Pakistani Women Building Futures"
• Sarah Wall (University of Alberta) "Knowledge Use in Nursing Practice: A Critique of the Evidence-based Practice Movement"
• Leila Ismail Hassanin (Executive Director, Arab Development, Cairo, Egypt) "Egyptian Women and ICTs: A Formula for Empowerment"

12:30-13:30: LUNCH (provided)

13:30-14:30: PLENARY ADDRESS 4: Kathleen Sendall, Vice-                               President, Petro Canada, "Building Rooms of
                               Our Own in Corporate Canada"

                             Chair: Yvan Guindon (Institut de Recherche
                            Clinique, Université de Montréal)

14:30-15:00: BREAK

15:00-17:00: CONCURRENT SESSIONS J-N

Session J: The Workplace and Global Citizenship (I)
Chair: TBA

• Asmita MJ (Hyderabad, India) "Challenging the Gaps and Privileges of First-World Views"
• Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo (Makerere University, Uganda) "Mobile Telephony: A Vehicle for Rural Women's Social Economic Empowerment in Uganda"
• Gisele Mankamte Yitamben (Douala, Cameroon) "Internet: outils d'autonomisation des femmes entrepreneurs du secteur textile?"

Session K: The Workplace and Global Citizenship (II)
Chair: TBA

• Francesca Carena (S&T, Turin, Italy) "Web for Empowerment and E-learning Alphabetization in Rural Areas"
• Becky Ansah (Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria) "Empowering Local Women Through Participatory Action to Reduce Poverty"

Session L: The Advancement of Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology
Chair: Hiromi Matsui (Simon Fraser University)

• Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour (University of Alberta), Karen Muggeridge (Conoco Phillips' Arctic Engineering), Dr. Eleni Stroulia (University of Alberta) and Valerie Overend (SIAST), "Systemic Issues Behind Shortages of Critical Skills"
• Wanda Wetterberg (Women Building Futures, Edmonton) "Women and Careers in the Trades - Why Not?"

Session M: The World of Words and Publishing (I)
Chair: TBA

• Christl Verduyn (Mount Allison University) "Rooms of Their Own: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists"
• Eva-Marie Kroller (UBC) "Canadian Women in US Publishing: Jean and Dorothy McIlwraith"
• Amanda Allen (University of Alberta) "Female Insurrection: Ursula Nordstrom and the Female Junior Novel Community"

Session N: The World of Words and Publishing (II)
Chair: TBA

• Marie-Hélène Charron-Cabana (Université de Montréal) "La chambre: folie, intériorité et espace de pensée dans la littérature féminine"
• Lindsay Parker (University of Alberta) "Writing Women in the Early Royal Society of London"
• Kirsten Uszkalo & Stan Ruecker (University of Alberta) "Playing with Witchcraft: Digitizing, Structuring and Visualizing Early Modern English Witchcraft Texts"

19:00-21:00: Madrigal Singers Concert
Convocation Hall, Arts Building
Director Leonard Ratzlaff, Chair, Department of Music, conducts a program of mainly women composers
Reception in Arts lobby

Friday, 4 May 2007

7:30-8:30: REGISTRATION

8:30-10:30: PLENARY ADDRESS 5: Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor,                           University of California, San Diego, "Styles of
                  Executive Management in Corporations and Universities"
                          Claudette Tardif, Senator, "Room for Everyone:
                           Equality, Tolerance & Creativity in the Knowledge
                           Economy"

                        Co-Chairs: Howard Alper (Distinguished University
                        Professor, Université d'Ottawa) &
                        Mona Nemer (Vice-President Research, Université
                         d'Ottawa)

10:30-11:00: BREAK

11:00-12:30: Panel of Observers/Rapporteurs/Analysts
Recommendations and Ways Forward

12:30-13:30: LUNCH (provided)

13:00: Opening of Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global Conference

19:00-21:30 Production of Wendy Lill's The Fighting Days
Second Playing Space, Fine Arts Building, Directed by Kim McCaw, Department of Drama
Followed by "Women in Public Life": a conversation with Former Deputy Prime Minister, the Honourable Anne McLellan filmmaker Anne Wheeler and Sherrill Grace, moderated by Janice MacKinnon.
Reception in Timms Centre lobby.

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