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Research Collaborative Symposium

The Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies
Women and Gender Research Collaborative Symposium


The Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies’ Women and Gender Research Collaborative at Texas State University-San Marcos invite you to hold the date for the upcoming symposium Global Odyssey: Gender, Social Justice, and Leadership. The Collaborative joins with the Common Experience team to illuminate the 2012-2013 Common Experience theme, "A Global Odyssey: Exploring Our Connections to the Changing World."

Friday, March 29, 2013

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Place: Texas State's LBJ Student Center - Multipurpose Room

 


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Global Odyssey: Gender, Social Justice and Leadership Schedule

 

Opening Remarks Scholarship Recognition

 

Multipurpose

Sandra Mayo, Ph.D., Director, Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies, Texas State University

 

Room 3.15.1

 

9 – 9:15 a.m.

 

 

 

 

Session 1

 

 

Multipurpose

Global Leadership to End Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence

 

Room 3.15.1

Deborah D. Tucker, M.P.A., Executive Director of the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

 

9:20 – 10 a.m.

 

 

 

Chair: Patricia Shields, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Texas State University

Session 2

 

 

Multipurpose

Human Rights Leadership: Global Gender Equity and Social Justice

 

Room 3.15.1

Catherine Hawkins, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Texas State University

 

10:10 – 11 a.m.

 

 

Queer Theory as a Framework for Connecting Gender, Social Justice, Human Rights and Global Inclusion

 

 

Amy Russell, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Texas State University

 

 

 

Catherine Hawkins, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Texas State University

 

 

 

 

 

Chair: Holly Lewis, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Texas State University

Session 3

 

 

Room 3.14.1

Women are from Earth, and Males are Too

 

10:10 – 11 a.m.

Rolando Díaz-Loving, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Head of the Psychosocial Research Unit, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

 

 

 

 

Female Officers’ Perceptions on the Decision to Arrest in Domestic Violence Cases

 

 

Dittita Tititampruk and Lindsay Deveau, Ph.D. Students, Department of Criminal Justice, Texas State University

 

 

 

 

 

Chair: Roque Mendez, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Texas State University

Session 4

 

 

Room 3.14.1

Women Professional Athletes’ Injuries: A Community-Level Analysis of Care

 

11:10 a.m. – Noon

Joseph A. Kotarba, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Texas State University

 

 

 

 

 

Gender Differences in Housework among Children

 

 

Jocelyn Wikle, Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin

 

 

 

 

 

Chair: Emily Balanoff-Jones, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Texas State University

Session 5

 

 

Room 3.9.1

Food Security, Climate Change and Globalization: A Postcolonial Feminist Social Work Perspective

 

11:10 a.m. – Noon

Anne Deepak, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Texas State University

 

 

 

 

 

The Social Justice of Women’s Leadership: Moral and Ethical Perspectives in a Changing World

 

 

Remi Alapo, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Interfaith Development, Unification Theological Seminary

 

 

 

 

 

Chair: Elizabeth Bishop, Ph.D., Department of History, Texas State University

Closing Remarks, Awards and Lunch

 

Multipurpose

Sandra Mayo, Ph.D., Director, Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies, Texas State University

 

Room 3.15.1

 

12:10 – 1:30 p.m.

 

 

 

Photos from the 2012 Symposium - Occupy Free Speech: Getting Women’s Voices Heard occurred on Friday, March 30, 2012