Citizenship and Social Justice:
Past Events
Who's In? Who's Out? Social Justice and Citizenship in Canada
March 10 , 2006
9:30 am–5:00 pm
Halpern Centre Lounge , Room 114
Burnaby Campus, Simon Fraser University
This symposium will present two panel discussions and a keynote lecture:
Panel 1: Psychiatry and the Legacy of Exclusion
Moderator: Douglas Todd (Author, Vancouver Sun spirituality and ethics writer, Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities, SFU)
Presenters and Paper Titles:
Gary Nelson (Nelson Vanderkruyk, Barristers and Solicitors), "Sexual sterilization of patients: D.E. v. British Columbia."
Judy Shirley (Director of Community Services, Motivation, Power and Achievement Society), "Mental health - Moving in from the fringes."
Diane Nielsen (Supervising Lawyer, Mental Health Law Program, Community Legal Assistance Society), "A bitter pill: Coercion in attaining treatment for the mentally ill."
Panel II: Advocacy and the Struggle for Inclusion
Moderator: David Mirhady (Department of Humanities, Simon Fraser University).
Presenters and Paper Titles:
Avril Orloff (Convenor, Philia Dialogue on Caring Citizenship), "Putting abilities first: An agenda for caring citizenship."
Katrina Pacey (President, Board of Directors, Pivot Legal Society), "Using legal strategies to advance the interests and improve the lives of marginalized person.s"
Chris McDowell (Feminist activist, Vancouver; Global Women's Memorial Society), "We, their sisters and brothers, remember."
Keynote Lecture
Moderator: Dorothy E. Chunn (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University)
Guest Speaker: Janine Brodie (Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance, University of Alberta), "The new social 'isms': Social policy reform in Canada."
Janine Brodie Biography
Dr. Janine Brodie is a Professor of Political Science. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, and awarded a Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance in 2004. Dr. Brodie served as Department Chair from 1997 to 2003. Before joining the University of Alberta in 1996, she was appointed as Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Social Research at York University, Toronto and as the first Director of the York Centre for Feminist Research. Dr. Brodie also held the John Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies in 1994 at York University and the University of Western Ontario Visiting Chair in Public Policy in 1995. She has served as a consultant on major political and social issues in Canada. Between 1990-1991 she provided the background report on "Women and Electoral Politics" for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. From 1992 to 1995 she was a statistical consultant for the Attorney General of Ontario, and in 2000 served as a consultant on "Community" for the Law Reform Commission of Canada.
For further information regarding Janine Brodie go to : http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/polisci/Brodie.cfm
