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Ontario Universities Taking Action Against Sexual Violence Conference - Queen's University
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Kingston, Ontario
August 10, 2016
http://outaconference.wix.com/outa
Ontario Universities Taking Action Against Sexual Violence Conference

Queen's University, August 10-11, 2016

We are pleased to invite you to the Ontario Universities Taking Action Against Sexual Violence (OUTA) Conference at Queen's University, August 10 to 11, 2016.

The conference program is designed to showcase best practices and facilitate the exchange of ideas among university administrators, practitioners, researchers, students, politicians and policymakers from across the province. Keynote speeches, panels and workshops will be organized around three key themes: Institutional Models of Sexual Violence Prevention; Effective Prevention Models and Programs in University Contexts; and Imagining Connections and Building Relationships to End Sexual Violence.

Confirmed speakers include:

Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Status of Women
Farrah Khan, Ryerson University
Charlene Senn, University of Windsor
Pam Cross, Legal Director, Luke’s Place
Julie Lalonde, Draw the Line
Carol Bilson, Anti-Violence Project, University of Victoria

The conference will provide opportunities for visioning and planning within and among universities, so we hope you will consider bringing a contingent of administrators, student affairs staff-practitioners, researchers, and students from your institution. Please extend this invitation to all colleagues and students dedicated to preventing sexual violence on campus.

Registration will open in April 2016.

Preliminary conference information is available on the OUTA Conference website: http://outaconference.com/

About the Conference:

Ontario Universities Taking Action Against Sexual Violence will take place at Queen’s University on August 10th and 11th, 2016. Queen's University is situated on the traditional territory of Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. This conference will bring together researchers, university administrators, campus service providers, student advocates, and policymakers to exchange ideas and generate new knowledge about how best to prevent sexual violence in university contexts, from an anti-oppression framework.

This conference responds to intense public and institutional concern about sexual violence, exemplified in the March 2015 Government of Ontario’s It’s Never Okay: An Action Plan to Stop Sexual Violence and Harassment. This report pinpoints university campuses as sites where intervention and change are greatly needed, and points to the high numbers of campus-based assaults and the pervasiveness of rape culture at post-secondary institutions across the province.

We expect over 200 delegates to attend our event, which will comprise of keynote speakers and focused panels that address three central themes:

Effective Institutional Models of Prevention

Effective Prevention Programming

Building Relationships to End Sexual Violence
Organizing Committee

Yasmine Djerbal
Bailey Gerrits
Stacey Kiefer
Samantha King
Roxanne Runyon

Undergraduate Assistant:

Katie King

Sponsors

Conference support generously provided by:

Department of English, Queen’s University

Department of Film Studies, Queen’s University

Department of Gender Studies, Queen’s University

Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University

Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Queen’s University

Department of Physics, Queen’s University

Department of Sociology, Queen’s University

Faculty of Education, Queen’s University

Levana Gender Advocacy Centre

Office of the Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University

School of Nursing, Queen’s University

School of Religion, Queen’ University

Smith School of Business, Queen’s University

Student Initiative Fund, Queen’s University

Vice-Principal (Research), Queen’s University

Women in Computing, Queen’s University

Contact OUTA at OUTA.steeringcommittee@gmail.com

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