Monday, May 16

Location: River Building. [Carleton Campus Map]

9:00-9:30 River Building 2228
Welcome/General Open Session

9:30-9:45 Coffee Break

9:45-11:00
Session A1 (River Building 2228):
Christina Muehlberger (Canadian Federation of Students): “Accessible education and funding packages”

Session A2 (River Building 1200):
Emilie St-Hilaire (Concordia University): “Inter-disciplinarity, Creation, and Innovation: What if your dissertation doesn’t fit on a shelf?”

11:00-12:30
Session B1 (River Building 2228):
Bridgette Brown (Carleton University): “Parenting and the PhD”

Session B2 (River Building 1200):
Amanda Montague and Rebecca Dolgoy (University of Ottawa): “Collaborative Research Structures”

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00
Session C1 (River Building 2228):
Open Session, Moderated by Alicha Keddy (Carleton University)

Session C2 (River Building 1200):
Jennifer Spence (Carleton University): “Challenging the myth of solo suffering: How universities can create and support communities of PhD students.”

3:00-3:15 Coffee Break

3:15-4:45
Session D1 (River Building 2228):
Jonathan Petrychyn (York and Ryerson Universities): “Reimagining the Graduate Conference”

Session D2 (River Building 1200):
Eliza Bateman (McGill University): “The TRaCE Project: telling the stories of PhD graduates in the Humanities”

4:45-5:30(River Building 2228)
Wrap up and drafting presentation for Tuesday Conference