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1. Welcome! Welcome from the Symposium Co-Chairs! ! On behalf of the organizing committee, we are pleased to welcome you to the 2014 Gender and Sexual Diversity Symposium at the University of Calgary. The symposium would not have been possible without the efforts of numerous individuals and organizations, including the Institute for Gender Research, the Women’s Studies Program, the Women’s Resource Centre, and the Women’s Studies and Feminist Club. Of course, the key to the symposium’s success is the involvement of the participants, both presenters and attendees. ! ! We are thrilled with the response to the symposium, reviving a greatly needed forum for advancing knowledge in gender and sexual diversity not seen since 2006. The symposium will involve over 100 participants, with more than 15 campus and community organizations participating in Friday’s Diversity Discourse Night, and numerous presenters organized into 15 sessions on Saturday.! ! The impetus for the symposium came from graduate and senior undergraduate students who felt that their classroom experiences were not pushing their research in gender and sexual diversity as far as it could go, and it became clear that we needed a space to explore the complexity of gender and sexual diversity research in a challenging and supportive environment. The Institute for Gender Research provided this opportunity to improve the student experience by listening to the concerns of students and supporting their desire to create space for academic, collaborative, and community-engaged learning and research.! ! The organizing committee began from the position that leadership and mentorship should be built into our process. Beyond providing a scholarly forum where complex and multifaceted discussions could occur, the symposium also provided opportunities for mentorship prior to the symposium to prepare undergraduate researchers for their first steps towards becoming serious scholars. Students were also central to organizing the symposium and were mentored by faculty and community advisors. In this way, our aim was to create a space for pushing the boundaries of gender and sexual diversity knowledge and practice among emerging researchers, activists, artists, and community members. ! ! Thank you for being willing to share your knowledge, experiences, and ideas about gender and sexual diversity at this symposium. We look forward to two days full of rich, vibrant discussion, with input from a wide variety of perspectives and voices.! ! ! Melanie Carroll and Jennifer Hall! ! ! Co-Chairs, Gender and Sexual Diversity Symposium! ! www.ucalgary.ca/gendersex2014! https://www.facebook.com/groups/ucalgarygendersex/! #gendersex2014 4
Welcome from the Institute for Gender Research and the Women’s Studies Program! As both the Director of the Institute for Gender Research and the Coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program (Faculty of Arts), I am absolutely delighted that we can present the Gender and Sexual Diversity Symposium. ! Our purpose is to bring together emerging researchers, activists, artists, and community members to advance knowledge of gender and sexual diversity. We claim gender and sexual diversity as central to building a rigorous scholarly environment committed to cultural understanding and positively influencing human dynamics in a changing world. ! The unique organization of the symposium was designed specifically to allow us to share research, best practices, and cutting-edge methods of scholarly and community engagement. We see the university as a creative communications hub, a place where we can synthesize where gender and sexual issues intersect with other issues of diversity and equity, and identify strategic areas of research strength and possibilities for enhanced collaboration.! Both the Institute for Gender Research and the Women’s Studies Program hold as a key value the role of inquiry-based research in the university. Nonetheless, we argue that research interests and community priorities can and should work closely together to generate cultural understanding, initiate creative responses to longstanding social and economic concerns, and produce smarter, safer, and more sustainable societies. ! The Gender and Sexual Diversity Symposium marks a new era in gender and sexual diversity scholarship at the University of Calgary. Our hope is that the symposium will help to catalyze our abundant research strengths, pedagogical commitments, activist passions, creative endeavours, and community engagements, in order to set a course for future-forward scholarship. We couldn’t do this without the enthusiastic support from all our presenters and audience participants. For that we are extremely grateful. ! I hope that you gain new insights and refreshed perspectives on what the university can do to expand the public conversation about gender and sexual diversity. Let the conversation begin!! ! Dr. Rebecca Sullivan! ! Director, Institute for Gender Research! Coordinator, Women’s Studies Program! ! ! ! www.ucalgary.ca/gendersex2014! https://www.facebook.com/groups/ucalgarygendersex/! #gendersex2014 5
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