{"id":81197,"date":"2022-03-03T09:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=81197"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:20","slug":"carleton-experts-available-to-discuss-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2022\/carleton-experts-available-to-discuss-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available to Discuss International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available to Discuss International Women\u2019s Day\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

March 8 is International Women\u2019s Day and a broad range of Carleton experts are available to discuss a variety of related topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katharine Bausch
\n<\/strong>Instructor, Women’s and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute<\/a> at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> KatharineBausch@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bausch is a feminist historian and interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines the intersections of gender, race, popular culture consumption, sex and class. She examines the ways feminism and feminists have been represented in U.S. popular culture since the 1930s. Bausch is an advocate of feminist activism in educational communities inside and outside of the university and works closely with high schools to introduce feminist learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is available to speak about students learning about gender bias, teaching about women\u2019s achievements and commemoration, as well as pop culture and gender bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clare Beckton<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Executive in Residence, Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work (CRIW) at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: clare.beckton@carleton.ca
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\nBeckton has extensive experience in a broad range of areas, including leading large organizations, strategic planning, governance, leadership to change systems, risk management, gender, diversity, inclusion, Indigenous policy issues and advancement of women\u2019s leadership. She is the author of Own It, Your Success, Your Life, Your Future<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She served as the deputy head of Status of Women Canada, managing the departmental agency and providing advice to ministers. She led the development of public policy for the advancement of women and helped non-profits seek funding to benefit women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manjeet Birk
\n<\/strong>Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute<\/a> at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: ManjeetBirk@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birk is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centres the lived experience of racialized and Indigenous girls and women in Canada. Her research focuses on women\u2019s organizing, social justice and institutional racism. Her interests are grounded in her community activism working with women\u2019s organizations locally, nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Bromwich<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Rebecca.Bromwich@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bromwich is the former program director of the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution. Her current role is manager, Diversity and Inclusion, for the law firm Gowling WLG. Bromwich has been a columnist for Lawyers Weekly<\/em> and has authored and co-authored several books for students and legal system practitioners, including lawyers, paralegals and police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bromwich is available to speak on topics related to International Women\u2019s Day and the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merridee Bujaki<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: merridee.bujaki@carleton.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merridee\u2019s recent work looks at the careers of academic women and women accountants, with a focus on mental health and work. She has written about women on boards, how concepts of merit may disadvantage women, and the depiction of women in corporate annual reports and recruitment websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merridee has also been involved in several women-only management\/leadership training programs and can speak about the benefits such training provides women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda Duxbury<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Professor of Management, Sprott School of Business<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: linda.duxbury@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duxbury is available to discuss Issues relating to work-life balance and how COVID has impacted this balance for women and mothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Haussman
\n<\/strong>Professor, Department of Political Science at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: melissa.haussman@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haussman is currently working on a new book comparing the \u201cleadership tightrope\u201d of current U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi and former British PM, Theresa May. Both have faced polarized legislatures and intra-party discord, making it even harder for them to get important measures passed resulting in criticism of women being \u201cless competent\u201d leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haussman can discuss the anti-choice politics in the U.S. in the run up to November 2022 elections, anti-trans measures and the tack being taken by Republicans to stop schools from having curriculum discretion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Hellemans<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Associate Dean (Recruitment & Retention), Faculty of Science, Instructor and Provost\u2019s Teaching Fellow, Director, Stress, Trauma and Resilience Working Group, at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Kim.Hellemans@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hellemans will be moderating a film screening and panel discussion called #BreakTheBias in Science on March 8, 2022 as part of International Women\u2019s day. Details and registration information can be found here: https:\/\/science.carleton.ca\/cu_event\/iwd2022\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hellemans\u2019 research interest lies in the study of vulnerability to mental illness. She is interested in sex differences in mental illnesses; depression is twice as common among women. She is a co-host of the Minding the Brain podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amina Mire<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Amina.Mire@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mire\u2019s areas of research interest include women and health; racialization and bio-medicalization of women\u2019s bodies and skin; anti-aging; women, science and technology; political thought; sociology of gender; sociology of knowledge; gender and the cinema; as well as anti-racist and anti-colonial research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mire\u2019s current research projects include examining the social, ethical, political and pedagogical implications of anti-aging discourse and practice; investigating the extent to which the female body continues to be a contested site of social investment and regulation; and a project examining changing skin-whitening technologies by tracing their emergence from colonial encounters, in which white skin was accorded social and cultural capital, toward the contemporary global marketing of biotechnology products that promise smooth, brightened and youthful-looking skin to affluent women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawn Moore<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: <\/strong>dawn.moore@carleton.ca <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moore is available to speak to police brutality in responding to gender-based violence, investigation and evidence collection\u2014especially as intimidation tactics, Canada\u2019s vigorous prosecution and no drop polices as well as the impacts of COVID. Moore\u2019s research explores theoretical questions about narrative and artifacts by looking substantively at the role of photographic evidence of victim\u2019s injuries in cases of interpersonal assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work draws on feminism, queer theory, Actor-Network Theory and cultural studies to explore the relationships between victim\u2019s own \u2018stories\u2019 and the ways in which photos of their bodies are used to narrate how their injuries were acquired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bailey Reid<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Senior Advisor, Gender and Sexual Violence Prevention & Support, Equity and Inclusive Communities at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: baileyreid@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reid is available to speak to the impact that COVID-19 has had on sexual violence and sexual violence in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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March 8 is International Women\u2019s Day and a broad range of Carleton experts are available to discuss a variety of related topics. Katharine Bausch Instructor, Women’s and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute at Carleton University Email: KatharineBausch@cunet.carleton.ca Bausch is a feminist historian and interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines the intersections of gender, race, popular culture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":81030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[1659,104,110,1558,124,96,145],"class_list":["post-81197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-criw","tag-science","tag-law","tag-political-science","tag-sociology-and-anthropology","tag-sprott-school-of-business","tag-pauline-jewett-institute-of-womens-and-gender-studies"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81199,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81197\/revisions\/81199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}