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Conferences, Papers and Academic Presentations
Askew, Claire. Forthcoming publication “Women and Meat, We are What We Eat.” The BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health in A Sex and Gender Primer for Health Researchers.
Haskell, R. and B. Burtch (Refereed) (2007) “Confronting Homophobia in High School” Academic Exchange Quarterly 11(4), 187-191.
Garner, Trish. (co-authored with Seth Klein, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Iglika Ivanova, Marc Lee, Bruce Wallace, and Margot Young). A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008.
Patterson, Natasha. “Cannibalizing Gender and Genre: A Feminist Re-Vision of George Romero’s Zombie Films.” Shawn McIntosh and Marc Leverette, eds., Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. 103-118.
Patterson, Natasha. Book Review, Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture, by Annalee Newitz. Scope: An online journal of film & TV studies. Issue 10 (February 2008).
Patterson, Natasha. Book Review, Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in a Box, edited by Lisa Merri Johnson. Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture. Vol. 7, No. 1. (2007).
Pentney, Beth, and Garner, Trish, “Mapping the Surgical Landscape: Resonances and Divergences between Cosmetic and Transsexual Body Modification,” in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 33.1. 2008.
Pentney, Beth. “Feminism, Activism, and Knitting: Are the fibre arts a viable mode for feminist political action?” Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture. <http://www.thirdspace.ca/journal/index>. December 2008.
Pentney, Beth. “’A comic turn, turned serious’: Humour, Body Modification, and the Natural in Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She Devil,” in Gender and Laughter: Comic Affirmation and Subversion in Traditional and Modern Media. Gaby Pailer, Andreas Bohn, Stefan Horlacher and Ulrich Scheck, eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi, In Press.
Pentney, Beth. Book Review, Nobody’s Mother: Life Without Kids. Lynne Van Luven, ed., in Canadian Woman Studies 26.1. (2007): 105-106.
Askew, Claire. “The Gendered Implications of Meat Production and Consumption.” The Women’s Health Conference in Victoria, BC, May 2008.
Bukhari, Syeda Nayab, “Lived Experiences of Pakistani Immigrant Women in Canada” at CWSA/ACEF Conference, “Penser sans Frontiers: Thinking Beyond Borders, Global Ideas: Global Values, Idées mondiales: valeurs mondiales held at UBC, Vancouver, Tuesday June 3, 2008.
Garner, Trish. “Chest Surgeries of a Different Nature.” Presented at TransSomatechnics: Theories and Practices of Transgender Embodiment, Vancouver, May1-3, 2008.
Garner, Trish. “Reclaiming Our Voices: The Case for Advocacy.” Presented on behalf of Raise the Rates Powerful Voices: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in the 21st Century (Oxfam Canada and West Coast LEAF), Vancouver, March 1, 2008.
Garner, Trish. “Distance from the Suffering Body: Exploring the Intersections of Transgender Theory and Disability Studies.” Presented at Regulating Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium, SFU, January 18, 2008.
Garner, Trish. “Barriers to the Labour Market.” Chair at Jobs & Justice Conference: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Vancouver, March 29-31, 2007.
Garner, Trish. “Mapping the Surgical Landscape: Resonances and Divergences between Cosmetic and Transsexual Body Modification.” Co-presented with Beth Pentney at Playing the Angles: Intersections, Margins, and Parallels in Cultural Production, University of Victoria English Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, March 9-11, 2007.
Haskell, R. and B. Burtch “Beyond Black and White: Queer Youth and Gender Binaries in British Columbia High Schools.” Canadian Sociological Association Meetings, University of British Columbia, June 4, 2008.
Haskell, R. “Speaking out: Using focus groups to explore bullying motivated by homophobia in secondary schools.” Canadian Women's Studies Association 2007 Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. May 29, 2007.
Hu, Xinying, “The Social and Economic Security of Care workers in China.” International Association For Feminist Economics 17th Annual Conference: Women's Work and Education in the Global Economy. Torino, Italy. June 19-June 21, 2008.
Kiani, Maryam, “Iranian Women Bloggers; Pushing Back the Borders”, in 26th International conference of IAMCR (International Association of Media and Communication Research) 21-25 July, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kiani, Maryam, “The Mourning Press in the Morning of Reforms; the Impact of two political changes in Iranian Press”, in 26th International conference of IAMCR (International Association of Media and Communication Research) 21-25 July, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kiani, Maryam, and A. Sedaqat. “Pseudonym and Anonymity in Iranian political weblogs”, in Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place. 15-18 October, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Patterson, Natasha. “From Media Convergence to Convergence Culture: Researching television, audiences, and fans in the new media era.” Dis/Junctions: Critical Research & Social Change, Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Symposium. Simon Fraser University, June 2008.
Patterson, Natasha. “Global Formats, Local Audiences, and the Reception of Reality TV: A Comparison of America’s Next Top Model and Canada’s Next Top Model.” Canadian Association of Cultural Studies National Conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, October 2007.
Patterson, Natasha. Guest Speaker: “The Politics and Pleasures of Third Wave Feminism.” Introduction to Women’s Issues in Canada course. Simon Fraser University, September 2007.
Pentney, Beth. “Vaginas on the Market: Stocking the Shelves of the Sexual Imaginary, or, Examining 'Vaginal Rejuvenation’ Cosmetic Surgery through Luce Irigaray’s Theories of the Female Body.” Canadian Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. June 2008.
Pentney, Beth. “Somatechnics and Makeover Reality TV: The Viewer and Participant in Somatechnic Symbiosis.” BodySpaces: Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance and the Visual Arts, International and Interdisciplinary Workshop. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. March 2008.
Pentney, Beth. Women’s Studies Travelling Speaker’s Series, “Women and Makeover Culture” at Yukon College and the Whitehorse Public Library, Whitehorse Yukon, March 4-8 2008.
Shearman, Mary. “Granny and Zoe” NEMLA, Buffalo, April 11, 2008.
Shearman, Mary. “Sex and the Second Life” at TransSomatechnics: Theories and Practices of Transgender Embodiment Conference held May 1, 2008, Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver, BC.
Shearman, Mary. “(En)gendering (Mis)conception” CWSA, Vancouver, June 1, 2008.
Shearman, Mary. “Sex Acts in the Canadian Criminal Code” NWSA, Cinncinnati, June 20, 2008.
Shearman, Mary, Women’s Studies Travelling Speaker Series, “The History of Burlesque in Canada” atUBC-O in Kelowna (March 4, 2008), North Island College in Campbell River (March 7, 2008), and Courtenay (March 8, 2008).
Askew, Claire. On-going volunteer work at St Paul’s Hospital in geriatrics; Board of Directors of Healthy Planet Kitchens beginning January 2008; Director of the 2008 SFU Sustainability Festival’s Eco-fashion Show.
Garner, Trish. Volunteering with Raise the Rates, a province-wide coalition of anti-poverty organisations concerned with welfare, housing, and the minimum wage. In particular, heavily involved with the annual staging of the Poverty Olympics.
Garner, Trish. Member of the Programming Committee for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, August 17-27, 2008.
Garner, Trish. “Queering Family: Transparent and Queer Spawn.” Community Programmer for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, August 25, 2007.
Garner, Trish. Member of the Transgender Health Program (THP) Advisory Group, which advises on policy, programming, and long-range planning for the THP, a program within Vancouver Coastal Health that provides counseling and referral services for the transgender community.
Pentney, Beth. Steering Committee (Board) Member, Vancouver Women’s Health Collective, 2006-2008.
Askew, Claire. Women’s Studies Graduate Fellowship, 2008.
Garner, Trish. Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC, 2006 – present.
Haddon, Jessica. Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC, 2007-present.
Haddon, Jessica. C.D. Nelson Memorial Graduate Scholarship, 2007-2008.
Hu, Xinying. Graduate International Scholarship, SFU, 2007.
Kiani, Maryam. C.D. Nelson Memorial Graduate Scholarship, 2008-2009.
Kiani, Maryam. Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship (PCGS), 2009-2010.
Patterson, Natasha. Margaret Lowe Benston Memorial Graduate Bursary, SFU, 2007.
Pentney, Beth. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC), 2008-2009.
Shearman, Mary. Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship, 2007-2008.
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