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

| Global Odyssey: Gender, Social Justice and Leadership Schedule
Opening Remarks Scholarship Recognition | ||
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| Multipurpose | Sandra Mayo, Ph.D., Director, Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies, Texas State University |
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| Room 3.15.1 | |
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| 9 – 9:15 a.m. |
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| Session 1 |
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| Multipurpose | Global Leadership to End Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence |
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| Room 3.15.1 | Deborah D. Tucker, M.P.A., Executive Director of the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence |
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| 9:20 – 10 a.m. |
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| Chair: Patricia Shields, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Texas State University |
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| Multipurpose | Human Rights Leadership: Global Gender Equity and Social Justice |
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| Room 3.15.1 | Catherine Hawkins, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Texas State University |
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| 10:10 – 11 a.m. |
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| Queer Theory as a Framework for Connecting Gender, Social Justice, Human Rights and Global Inclusion | |
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| Amy Russell, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Texas State University
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| Catherine Hawkins, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Texas State University |
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| Chair: Holly Lewis, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Texas State University |
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| Room 3.14.1 | Women are from Earth, and Males are Too |
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| 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 |
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| Female Officers’ Perceptions on the Decision to Arrest in Domestic Violence Cases |
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| Dittita Tititampruk and Lindsay Deveau, Ph.D. Students, Department of Criminal Justice, Texas State University |
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| Chair: Roque Mendez, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Texas State University |
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| Room 3.14.1 | Women Professional Athletes’ Injuries: A Community-Level Analysis of Care |
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| 11:10 a.m. – Noon | Joseph A. Kotarba, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Texas State University |
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| Gender Differences in Housework among Children |
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| Jocelyn Wikle, Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin |
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| Chair: Emily Balanoff-Jones, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Texas State University |
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| Room 3.9.1 | Food Security, Climate Change and Globalization: A Postcolonial Feminist Social Work Perspective |
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| 11:10 a.m. – Noon | Anne Deepak, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Texas State University |
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| The Social Justice of Women’s Leadership: Moral and Ethical Perspectives in a Changing World |
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| Remi Alapo, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Interfaith Development, Unification Theological Seminary |
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| Chair: Elizabeth Bishop, Ph.D., Department of History, Texas State University |
| Closing Remarks, Awards and Lunch | ||
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| Multipurpose | Sandra Mayo, Ph.D., Director, Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies, Texas State University |
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| 12:10 – 1:30 p.m. |
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