The Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University invites you to a Conference on Sex Work After Bedford: Legal Reform in Canada
When: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, from 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 27, 2014, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: Social Sciences Building, Room 4007 (4th Floor)
120 University Private, University of Ottawa
Speakers:
Catherine Healy, National Coordinator, New Zealand Prostitutes Collective, New Zealand
Valerie Scott, Legal Coordinator of SPOC (Sex Professionals of Canada), one of the three plaintiffs who brought forward the Bedford case
Robyn Maynard, Outreach Worker at Stella, l’Amie de Maimie (Montreal organization providing support to sex workers)
Frances M. Shaver, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Alan N. Young, Professor, Osgoode Law School, York University, the lawyer who argued the Bedford case before the Supreme Court
Maria Nengeh Mensah, Professor of Social Work, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Emily Symons, POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau Work, Educate and Resist)
Zhaawanongnoodin (Colleen Cardinal), Families of Sisters in Spirit, Ottawa
Megan Rivers-Moore, Professor, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University
Kristen Gilchrist, Families of Sisters in Spirit, Ottawa
Libby Davies, Member of Parliament for Vancouver East, British Columbia (NDP)
Chris Bruckert, Professor of Criminology, University of Ottawa – and Member of POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work, Educate and Resist)
Sheri Kiselbach, Violence Prevention Coordinator, PACE Society, Vancouver
The event will be bilingual, with simultaneous translation.
Free admission – Registration required at hboudre@uOttawa.ca<mailto:hboudre@uOttawa.ca>
INFO : Pamela Walker, Pamela.Walker@Carleton.ca<mailto:Pamela.Walker@Carleton.ca> or Hélène Boudreault, 613-520-6644