NEW! panel/presenter descriptions as of April 29th, 2004

Schedule for Saturday May 1st, 2004 at Halpern Centre SFU Burnaby

Time

Issue

Women

8:30 - 8:50

Registration and Coffee

9:00 - 9:10

Welcome

Dr. Suzanne de Castell (Education) & Cher Hill (Education)

9:10 - 9:30

SFU then and now - what has changed for women? what remains the same?

Dr. Mary Lynn Stewart (Women Studies)

9:30 - 11:00

Financial and Material in/equity

Rapporteur - Dr. Suzanne de Castell (Education) Panel - Barbara Waldern (TSSU), Christa Ovenell (Office of the Vice-President), Cher Hill (Education), Joann Field (CUPE) virtually Dr. Marjorie Cohen (PS/WS)

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:30

Room 126 - Balancing Family and Career

Rapporteur - Dr. Yvonne Tabin (Centre for Distance Education) Panel - Dr. Heesoon Bai (Education), Sheila Davidson (SFU Daycare), Janis Rutherford (CUPE, English) Dr. Malgorzata Dubiel (Faculty Association)

Room 114 - Presumably NOT: Struggling with assumptions about sex, gender, family, singularity ... Rapporteur - Marela Dichupa (Education) Panel - Shawna L. Reibling (Communication), Dr. Bonnie Waterstone (Education), Neena Shahani (APSA)

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch - an assortment of vegetarian and non-vegetarian sandwiches, as well as salad, dessert, and beverages will be provided

1:30 - 2:45

Women in Science and Engineering

Rapporteur - Hiromi Matsui (Applied Science) Panel - Meera Nair Patterson (Communication), Alma Barranco-Mendoza (Computing Science), Dr. Atousa HajShirMohammadi, (Engineering Science) Dr. Leah Bendell-Young (Biological Sciences)

2:45 - 3:00

Coffee Break

3:00 - 4:30

Negotiating the Academic Environment

Rapporteur - Kumari Beck (Education) Panel - Dr. Kathryn Alexander (CWIL), Dr. Dianne Cyr   (Business), Dr. Marilyn MacDonald (WS), Dr. Ellen Balka (Communication), Dr. Stelómethet Ethel Gardner (Education)

4:30 - 5:00

Summary/Closing

Rapporteurs

5:00 - 6:00

Reception