IGSF Workshop:
"Feminist Visual Methodologies for Social Action"
McGill University – September 25, 2009
Please note that participation in this workshop is by invitation only, but the documentary film screening in the afternoon is open to the public.
Venue: Ballroom, 2nd floor of Thomson House, 3650 McTavish Street
9:30 am – 10:00 am: Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Marguerite Deslauriers – Director, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism Studies (IGSF), McGill
- Claudia Mitchell – Faculty of Education, McGill
- Myriam Gervais – IGSF, McGill
10:00 am – 12:45 pm: Guest Speaker and Facilitator for the Participatory Session
- Professor Brinton Lykes – Associate Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice (Boston College)
Activist scholarship, visual resources, and feminisms as resources for documenting and contesting gross violations of women's and girls' rights
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch Break
- Photographic Exhibition: How We See This Place: An Intergenerational Dialogue about Conservation around Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone (Jennifer Thomson, McGill University)
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Panel: Visual Participatory Research
Chair: Eliane Ubalijoro, Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID)
Discussant: Susann Allnutt, McGill University
- Sarah Flicker – York University – Linking HIV and Colonization: Aboriginal youth are taking action using the arts!
- Ran Tao – McGill University – "I will not have sex with him unless he uses a condom": Using photovoice to explore young Chinese women's sexuality and promote their sense of agency and autonomy
- Hourig Attarian – CURA project on genocide survivors, Concordia University – Family album as Story: Framing narratives of memory and identity
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Documentary Screening: Where the Water Meets the Sky (Public Event)
- David Eberts – Filmmaker and Director, Camfed
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Closing Remarks & Wine and Cheese Reception
