Presented by the Faculty of Public Affairs, the 2013 Research Award Symposium will be hosted by Fiona Robinson, recipient of the 2012 FPA Research Excellence Award. The symposium will be made up of a keynote address by Fiona Robinson, followed by three panel discussions:
- Globalizing and Governing Women’s Bodies, 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Christine Straehle, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, “The Ethics of Global Surrogacy: A Vulnerability and Global Justice Perspective”
Vida Panitch, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University, “Global Commercial Surrogacy: Exploitation to Empowerment”
Patti Tamara Lenard, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, “Boobytrapping women: On the ethics of coercive breastfeeding”
Phyllis Rippeyoung, Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa , “Mandated Breastfeeding: Women’s Bodies as a Solution to Global Poverty”
- Women’s Health, Women’s Rights: Domestic, Supranational and Global Governance, 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Mira Johri, International Health Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, and Department of Health Administration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, “Women’s health literacy and immunization coverage in India”
Melissa Haussman, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, “Advocating for Reproductive Rights at the Supranational Level: the Center for Reproductive Rights and Recent Landmark Cases at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights”
Lisa Mills, School of Public Administration, Carleton University, “Global Health, the MDGs and Maternal Health in Mexico”
- Neo-liberal Globalization and Long-term Care: Gendered Implications, 2:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Hugh Armstrong, School of Social Work and Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, “Neoliberalism and Official Health Statistics: A Research Agenda with Gender in Mind”
Susan Braedley, School of Social Work, Carleton University, “Healthy Women, Health for All?”
When: Friday, March 1, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Where: Residence Commons, Room: 2nd Floor Boardroom, Carleton University
Cost: Free
Registration: http://events.carleton.ca/2013-annual-research-award-symposium-womens-health-global-health-ethics-power-and-politics/
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