Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Gender and Women’s Studies
Lakehead University
955 Oliver Road
Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5E1
Canada
Visiting Address
Ryan Building, RB 3022
Lakehead University
Phone: +1 807-343-8010ext. 8625
Time: 12 noon Opening prayer & Smudge
Begin walking: 1:30pm from City Hall, down May Street up to Intercity Mall and then turn right to the Lakehead Labour Centre.
For Families and Friends of Missing & Murdered Anishinabe & Metis Women
Join us on a journey of making your own hand drum and learn the teachings of the drum. Experience a sense of inspiration and accomplishment as you create and connect with your drum.
Registration for drum making is limited to the first 20 women who register. Women with their own hand drum are also welcome to join.
To register Contact Sheila Pelletier-Demerah @ 343-8085 or acss@lakeheadu.ca
Join us on a journey of making your own hand drum and learn the teachings of the drum. Experience a sense of inspiration and accomplishment as you create and connect with your drum.
Registration for drum making is limited to the first 20 women who register. Women with their own hand drum are also welcome to join.
To register Contact Sheila Pelletier-Demerah @ 343-8085 or acss@lakeheadu.ca
Join us on a journey of making your own hand drum and learn the teachings of the drum. Experience a sense of inspiration and accomplishment as you create and connect with your drum.
Registration for drum making is limited to the first 20 women who register. Women with their own hand drum are also welcome to join.
To register Contact Sheila Pelletier-Demerah @ 343-8085 or acss@lakeheadu.ca
Dr. Jane Nicolas, associate professor of Women's Studies, will share her latest work which explores how and why children end up working as freaks on travelling carnivals in 20th century Canada.
'Open' speech seeks to find where the public responded with anti-Islamophic arguments to the disturbing rhetoric used against veiled women in a Supreme Court Decision.
A day to memorialize those that have been lost to transphobic violence. There will be speakers, video presentations, and a candlelight vigil.
1:00 - 1:40pm Michelle Owen, University of Winnipeg
"Chronic Illness and the Candian Knowledge Worker: The Role of the Body and Embodiment in Shaping the Production of Academic Work"
1:45 - 2:25pm Rebecca Casey, McMaster University
"Aging with Long Term Physical Impairments: The Significance of Social Support"
2:30 - 3:10pm Vicki Kristman, Lakehead University
"Supervisors' Perspectives on Work Accommodation for Chronically Ill Employees"
Brainwashing and the Battered Woman: Involuntary Servitude and Intimate Relationships with Dr. Fances Chapman
Working Bodies: Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace.
