{"id":50245,"date":"2018-04-02T15:21:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50245"},"modified":"2018-07-16T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T19:35:35","slug":"event-to-continue-conversation-on-sexual-gender-and-racial-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/event-to-continue-conversation-on-sexual-gender-and-racial-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Event to continue conversation on sexual, gender and racial violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A panel discussion being held at Brock this week will aim to tackle difficult topics related to sexual violence on university campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Omissions and Erasures: Sexual Violence, Gender Violence, Racial Violence on Campus event Thursday, April 5 will go beyond discussing policies and procedures to focus on areas often considered missed in popular reporting about sexual violence on campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The panel will include Carrie Bourassa, Chair of Indigenous and Northern Health, and Scientific Director of the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples\u2019 Health at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Sudbury; Hijin Park, Associate Professor in Brock\u2019s Department of Sociology; Zanab Jafry, Co-ordinator of the Student Justice Centre, former student ombudsperson and fourth-year Medical Sciences student; and Judy Haiven, a recently retired professor from the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary\u2019s University in Halifax.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event will begin with Bourassa, a M\u00e9tis scholar, who will critique the exclusion of Indigenous students from most sexual assault policies across Canada, followed by Park presenting on English as a second language students and the continuum of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jafry will provide a student perspective on the challenges of systemic and interpersonal racism as they intersect with gender violence, and Haiven will share her recent research on rape culture in business schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event is the first presented by the Faculty Sexual Violence Working Group, a subcommittee of Brock\u2019s Sexual Violence Prevention Committee that includes members from five of the University\u2019s Faculties. The group\u2019s core objective is to engage faculty in a wide range of disciplines in order to raise awareness about sexual harassment and assault at universities and to unpack the ways these experiences are entangled with racial and gender violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The panel will be held Thursday, April 5 from noon to 2 p.m. in Plaza 600F.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The free event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend. A light lunch will be served.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel discussion being held at Brock this week will aim to tackle difficult topics related to sexual violence on university campuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":34884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,40,7,55,37,6833,41,1,4,38],"tags":[6467,6468,4719],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50246,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50245\/revisions\/50246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}