Monday, March 21, 2011

They Symposium Schedule is up!


Agenda


8:00-9:00                   Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:15                   Welcome
9:15-9:30                   Mezart Daulet: “Queer Asian Youth: Ethno-Specific Community Engagement and Capacity Building for Youth”
9:30-9:45                   Lexie Maister:Evaluation Strategies for Peer Education Programs”
9:45-10:00                 Nakia Lee-Foon: “What’s going on? Exploring Black parent-youth sexual health communication”
10:00-10:15               Ciann Wilson: “Condoms and Contradictions: How Queer and Trans Youth Labelled with Intellectual Disabilities Navigate Safer Sex Decisions”
10:15-10:30               Lauren Munro & Alex St. John: Telling the TRUTH: A model for understanding social exclusion and HIV vulnerability among newcomer lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth”
10:30-10:45               Health Break
10:45-11:00               J'net AyAy Qwa Yak Sheelth Cavanagh: “Empowering Indigenous Youth with Oral Stories”
11:00-11:15               Jessica Khouri: “Introducing The Empower Project”
11:15-11:30               Stephen Sillett:Capturing the Unspoken: Using Socio-Drama Topography to Explore Peer Influence with African Youth”
11:30-11:45               Carolina Paterson: “Sex on the Street: A Neo-Foucaultian Analysis”
11:45-12:00               Adrian Guta:Biopolitics, Risk, and Resistance: The Production of Young Mens’ Masculinities in Toronto”
12:00-12:30               Guided Poster Tours
12:30-1:15                 Lunch
1:30-2:15                   Youth Involvement in Research Panel : Stanley Ing, Kaiesha Walker: & Jessica Whitbread                            
2:15-2:30                   Health Break
2:30-3:30                   Keynote presentation by Rosalind Petchesky: Biopolitics at the Crossroads of Sexuality and Disaster”
3:30-4:00                   Interactive Games and Booths (twister, jeopardy, condom buttons, sexy headbands)                        
4:30-5:00                   Student Awards and Closing