Conference Agenda

Women’s Resistance – From Victimization to Criminalization October 1-3, 2001

Government Conference Centre (2 Rideau Street, Ottawa)
Preliminary Agenda — Sept 28

(Note: Agenda is subject to change — final agenda will be provided at registration. All plenary and some workshops (as indicated) will be supported with simultaneous translation)

Monday, October 1st, 2001
Session	Presenters	Title
7:30-9:00am	Registration and Special Needs Table Open Poetry Reading by Elizabeth Pickett at Mamie Labobe’s Art Display Displays Open and Coffee Available
9:00–10:30am Mani Hall	Opening Plenary – Chair: Diana Yaros Tina Beads, Senator Landon Pearson, Dr. Hedy Fry, Dr. Sunera Thobani, Dr. Julia Sudbury, Suzy Rojtman, Kim Pate, Lee Lakeman	Locating this Conference in the Wider World — 2001
10:45am-12:15pm Workshops and Working Groups
202 – 1A1	Lisa Addario	Challenging Access to Civil Legal Aid
511 – 1A2	Rosa Arteaga, Rosario Valdez	Achievements and Limitations after 20 Years of Fighting Violence Against Women in Mexico
Translation – 1A3 Provided 508	Tina Beads, Fay Blaney	Restorative Justice from the Perspective of Aboriginal Women
207 – 1A4	Jennifer Koshan, staff and volunteers of Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary	Alberta (DIS) Advantage: the Protection of Children Involved in Prostitution Act and the Rights of Young Women
208 – 1A5	Donna Maidment	Toward a Woman-Centred Approach to Community-Based Corrections: A Gendered Analysis of Electronic Monitoring in Eastern Canada
Translation – 1A6 Provided 517	Vivian Green, Rai Reece, Rashmee Singh	Tracking Dual Charges: A Pilot Project to Track and Monitor Police-Laid Charges Against Women Abuse Situations in Toronto
519 – 1A7	Velma Demerson, Connie Backhouse	Incarcerating the “Incorrigible”: Race, Class and Gender Bias in Canadian Law
513 – 1A8	Dr. Ailsa Watkinson, Dawn McBride	Jesus Saves: Religiosity in Prison Programs
209 – 1A9	Joan Sangster	Girls in Conflict with the Law Under the Juvenile Delinquents Act: Learning from History
514 – 1A10	Amanda Choudra	Law and Order Kills Kim Rogers’ in Sudbury
304 – 1A11	Marilou McPhedran	A Gender Analysis of Screwing Patients
533 – 1A12	Patricia Monture-Angus	After the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women: Lessons and Challenges
Translation – 1A15 Provided 200	Dr. Sylvie Frigon	Killing as a Survival Strategy: Narratives of Women
405 – 1A13	Elizabeth Sheehy	False Reporting of Women – What’s in it for Them?
305 – 1A16	Jas Dhillon	Blurring the Divide: Linking Community, Government and Academics in Anti-Violence Research and Action
504 – 1A14	Marlene Mirasty, Bonnie Roth, Kathleen Kendall	The Evolution of “Treatment” in Prisons for Women
12:15-12:45pm	Lunch — Performance by Glenna McConnell and Pamela Witcher

Monday, October 1st, 2001
12:45-2:00pm Main Hall	Plenary – Chair: Dawn McBride Madam Justice Louise Arbour, Supreme Court of Canada, Former War Crimes Prosecutor and Commissioner for the Inquiry Into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston	Can Law Deliver for all Women? How can we work to keep vulnerable people, especially women and children, safe, and call people to account, without calling for longer, more punitive punishments? How can the needs of victims be met without eroding fairness and due process protections of accused persons? How do we continue to work towards women’s equality and social justice given the current social, economic and political climate?
2:00-2:15pm	Break — Movement, No Coffee
2:15-3:45pm Workshops and Working Groups
Translation – 1B1 Provided 508	Heather MacKenzie, Julie McKay, Liliane Aflalo	Women Who Have Been in Conflict with the Law Working with Women in Conflict with the Law
Translation – 1B2 Provided 517	Gwen Brodsky	Poverty and Women’s Equality Rights
Translation – 1B3 Provided 200	Dr. Sylvie Frigon	Women’s Bodies in Prison: From Control to Resistance
504 – 1B4	Pauline Funston, Deanne Lemieux	What does the Transition House Look Like When Feminists are Running It?
202 – 1B5	Cherry Kingsley	Sexual Exploitation of Aboriginal Youth
207 – 1B6	Nicole Kennedy	Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Experiences Developing a Feminist Position and Strategy in the Current Context
208 – 1B7	Connie Kristiansen, Katharine Kelly	Recovered Memories of Child Abuse: Revictimization in Prison and the Courts
511 – 1B8	Linda Lalonde	Poverty: From Feminize to Stigmatize to Criminalize
304 – 1B9	Alice Lee	Some Feminist Issues in Funding Our Houses
513 – 1B10	Lisa Needoba	Safe Harvest: A Sexual Assault Prevention Project in Rural Agricultural B.C.
405 – 1B12	Patricia Monture-Angus	Aboriginal Women and the History of Resistance
305 – 1B13	Annabel Webb, Karen Busby	“Protective Confinement” and “Secure Care”: Compassionate Response or New-Criminalization of Girls in Prostitution?
519 – 1B14	Diana Yaros, Danièle Tessier	Is Social Change Possible in A World of Violence Against Women? A Passionate Discussion of Individual and Collective Responsibility and Privilege
533 – 1B15	Dara Culhane	Medicalization and Legalization: The Master’s Tools of Resistance
209 – 1B16	Trish Crawford, Linda Hahn, Bonnie Nash, Bobbie Kidd	All Wrapped Up: Community Linkages for Women Leaving Prison
3:45-4:00pm	Break — Coffee

Monday, October 1st, 2001
4:00-5:30pm Workshops and Working Groups
Translation – 1C1 Provided 508	Nancy Stableforth, Laureen Snider, Kelly Hannah-Moffat	Encroachment and Erosion: Reflecting on an Ideal of Women-Centredness
Translation – 1C2 Provided 517	Catherine Latimer, Kami Pozniak	The Impact of the New Youth Criminal Justice Act on Young Women
209 – 1C3	Anne Marie di Censo	Women, HIV and Prisons
504 – 1C4	Suzanne Jay	Training to Increase Women’s Resistance
202 – 1C5	Lynn Cuddington	Sex Offender Registries — How Effective Are They?
304 – 1C6	Leona Heillig	Assault Prevention: An Empowering Approach
305 – 1C7	Jenny Mathews, Sally Gose	Project Respect — A Youth Driven Initiative Addressing the Root Causes of Sexual Violence
405 – 1C8	Denise McKinlay	Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences within the Court Process — Results of a Sarnia Qualitative Study
Translation – 1C9 Provided 200	Marie Pelchat	Les femmes, la santé et la mondialisation (Women, Health and Globalization)
207 – 1C10	Barb MacQuarrie, Sharon Chapman, Jacquie Carr, Sandy Welsh	Continuing the Way Forward: Harrassment and Violence Against Women in the Workplace
519 – 1C12	Dr. Colleen Dell, Debbie Blunderfield	Self-Injury, Violence and Penal Responses
208 – 1C13	Sitora Wirfel	Capacity Building for Transition of Female Ex-Offenders Back to Society in Uzbekistan
513 – 1C14	Daisy Kler, Amanda Workman	Women’s Centres as Organising Centres: Organising Against Violence Against Women While Resisting Co-option
514 – 1C15	Fay Blaney	Why Aboriginal Women Should Choose Feminism
7:00-10:00pm Main Hall	Plenary Round Table – Chair: Daisy Kler Judy Rebick, Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Gwen Brodsky, Patricia Monture-Angus, Dr. Julia Sudbury, Lee Lakeman, Nathalie Duhamel	Strategies for Social Change: Considering electoral politics, human rights mechanisms, self-government and anti-globalization strategies: How do we continue to work towards women’s equality and social justice given the current social, economic and political climate? How can we use the state as it exists to protect women and other oppressed groups without calling for longer, more punitive punishments? How can we protect an independent women’s movement while allying effectively against patriarchal globalization?

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2001
Session	Presenters	Title
8:00-9:00am	Registration and Special Needs Table Open Displays Open and Coffee Available
9:00-10:30am Main Hall	Plenary/Round Table – Chair: Lee Lakeman Phyllis MacRae, Fay Blaney, Sharon McIvor, Dr. Margaret Shaw, Renate Mohr, Kim Pate	Restorative Justice If Restorative Justice is a Government Program, Who is in Charge and What’s the Plan? Is Restorative Justice a Return to Traditional Values and Practices? Does Restorative Justice have a More Feminist effect than law and order? Can Restorative Justice, as opposed to Retributive Justice, improve our chances for a humane and equal future?
10:30-10:45am	Break
10:45am-12:15pm Workshops and Working Groups
533 – 2A18	Agnes Huang	All Systems Failure: the Illegalization, Criminalization and Dehumanization of the Chinese People Who Arrived in Canada by Ship in 1999
304 – 2A02	Anneke VanVliet, Sheila McDonald	Rape Evidence: Health Care Programs in Two Provinces
305 – 2A03	Dana Ayotte	Vigil and Memorial or Resistance and Revolution? Discussion and debate around how women in engineering and technology resisted the Montreal Massacre and ways that we continue to resist 12 years later.
202 – 2A04	Laurie Anderson, Julie Black	Courts and Community in Alberta: Where are we on Protection and Restraining Orders?
514 – 2A05	Jordon Ann Alderman, Michelle Quick	Peer Support for Youth Leaving Custody
405 – 2A06	Dr. Anu Bose, Lucya Spenser, Romola Trebilcock, Nhung Noang	Restorative Justice and Domestic Violence: A Perspective from Immigrant and Visible Minority Women
207 – 2A07	Christine Boyle, Victoria Gray	Meanings of “Woman” — Resistance Based on Individual and Collective Identity
Translation – 2A08 Provided 200	Denise Côté	Intervention Féministe de groupe auprès des survivantes d’inceste
519 – 2A09	Cynthia Davis	Take Back the Night in the Smaller Cities: Kamloops and Timmins
511 – 2A10	Kathleen Kendall, Dorothy Proctor	Experimentation on Prisoners
208 – 2A11	Patricia Merle	Celebrating Our Stories: Workshops for Women in Prison
513 – 2A12	Naomi Szigeti	R. v. Cuerrier – BC Man Convicted of Assault for Infecting Women with HIV/AIDS
412 – 2A13	Fiona Sampson	Making Women’s Equality Rights Real: An Analysis of Judicial and Legislative Decision-Making Relating to Violence Against Women
415 – 2A14	Elizabeth Sheehy	The Pitfalls and Perils of Mandatory Minimum Sentences, as Exemplified by Two Cases
504 – 2A15	Sherene Razack	When Sexual Violence is Colonial Violence: The Murder of Pamela George
209 – 2A16	Annabel Webb, Joanne Butowski	Criminalizing Victims: Incarcerating Sexually Exploited Girls as a Protectionary Measure and Incarcerating Girls for Poverty-Related Crimes

Translation – 2A01 Provided 508	France Bourgault, Silvia Martinez	Les centres de femmes : un réseau de lutte et d’intervention contre toute forme de violence faite aux femmes
Translation – 2A17 Provided 517	Nicole Robillard, Danièle Tessier, Chantal Robitaille	CASAC LINKS: Learning How the System Prevents Conviction — Pan-Canadian Research
12:15-12:45pm	Lunch
12:45-2:00pm> Main Hall	Plenary Round Table – Chair: Suzanne Jay Nicole Robillard, Josephine Grey, Heather MacKenzie, Kim Pate, Leslie Kelman	The Service/Advocacy Debate: Are we trying to serve every woman and girl who is victimized or are we try to organize those women to prevent vicitmization and criminalization of women? What do we say, after we say, “It’s not her fault”? How do we discuss women’s responsibility and capacity to keep themselves from being raped and keep themselves out of jail? How can we resist the funding pressure to do only service work? How do we discuss the systemic set up that makes women vulnerable to violence against us or risky criminalized behavior? To do without what you need materially, sexually and socially is not freedom. How do we discuss the life-affirming acts of liberty like breaking the law to survive, without being irresponsible.
2:00-2:15pm	Break — Movement, no Coffee
2:15-3:45pm Workshops and Working Groups
305 – 2B01	Mary Barr	Perpetual Motion: A General Overview of Criminal Justice Policies Before, During and After Incarceration
208 – 2B02	Susan Boyd	Women and Drugs: Repression and Resistance
405 – 2B03	Chantal Roy	HIFIS: a user-friendly tool to collect information on homeless individuals and families
Translation – 2B04 Provided 508	Andrée Côté	The Politics of Provocation as a Defence in Criminal Law
304 – 2B05	Dara Culhane	Women’s Poverty and Health in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
Translation – 2B06 Provided 200	Lynn Hartery, Charmaine Davidge	Mental Health Consumers and the Dilemma This Group of Women Poses for Shelters
202 – 2B07	Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich	Beyond Victims and Villains: Some Thoughts on Youth and Violence in Canada
207 – 2B08	Kelly Hannah-Moffatt, Margaret Shaw	What are the Risks? Gender, Diversity and the Classification and Assessment of Women in Prison
412 – 2B09	Phyllis Iverson	Prisoners’ Justice Day: A Canadian Story
519 – 2B11	Josephine Grey	Feminization of Poverty: A Human Rights Perspective
504 – 2B12	Dr. Julia Sudbury	The Global Prison Industrial Complex: Women, Racism and Resistance
415 – 2B13	Colleen Purdon, Marilyn Struthers	The Balancing Act: Power and Truth Telling in the Development of a Community Justice Program Response to Domestic Violence in Ontario
Translation – 2B10 Provided 517	Dr. Yasmin Jiwani, Yuezhi Zhao, Kate Rafter	Mediated Sexism: Violence Against Women in the Media
511 – 2B16	Dianne Martin	Welfare Fraud: The Criminalization of Female Poverty
209 – 2B14	Samantha Smyth, Nicole MacKay	Current Legal Issues in Exotic Dance
533 – 2B15	Kathleen Kendall, Dr. Shoshana Pollack	Pathologizing and Psychiatrizing Women Through Dialectical Behaviour and Other Therapies
3:45-4:00pm	Break — Coffee
4:00-5:30pm Workshops and Working Groups
513 – 2C01	Gina Hill	Amnesty International Report — Not Part of My Sentence
Translation – 2C17 Provided 517	Stella Vargas	Feminist Intervention in a Women’s Shelter for Immigrant and Refugee Women
Translation – 2C1 Provided 200	Diane Heffernan	Older Lesbians: Rebels Reduced to Silence
209 – 2C02	Elizabeth Comack, Salena Brickey	The Women’s Violence Research Project in Winnipeg
208 – 2C03	Rakhi Ruparelia	E-race-ing Bill C-79: Assessing the Federal Government’s Attempt at “Victims’ Rights”
504 – 2C04	Karlene Faith	32 Years After Manson: Leslie’s Story
412 – 2C05	Kerri Froc	Practical Aspects of Legal Interventions from LEAF’s Experience
405 – 2C06	Fatima Jaffer	Custody and Access from the Perspective of a Vancouver Coalition
202 – 2C07	Lynne Moss Sharman	Psychiatric Survivors: Who’s Shrinking Violet?
519 – 2C08	Faith Nolan	Healing Through Music
305 – 2C09	Kerry Neuman, Tracy Collins, Charlene Senn, et al.	Windsor Women’s Voices on Pornography: Past, Present and Future
207 – 2C10	Debra Parkes	Women, Prisons and the Political Process: Resisting Prisoner Disenfranchisement
Translation – 2C11 Provided 508	Nicole Robillard, Chantal Robitaille	Where have all the Collectives Gone? Feminist Organizing and the Collective Process
415 – 2C14	Greta Hofmann Nemiroff	Why are Men Violent? Explaining Male Violence Against Women
511 – 2C16	Beverly Bain	The Impact for Women of Working with Government to Effect Change with Respect to Police Handling of Sexual Assault of Women
514 – 2C17	Nikola Marin	Lock ’em up: call the cops
304 – 2C12	Romola Trebilcock, Anushka Nursoo	Sexual Exploitation of Marginalized Children in Korea and Elsewhere: A Canadian Perspective
7:00-10:00pm Main Hall	Plenary Round Table – Chair: Kim Pate Beverly Bain, Anne Derrick, Julie McKay, Dr. Sherene Razack, Bonnie Morton, Tamara Gorin, Dianne Martin	Policing in Canada: Either they won’t come, or they won’t leave us alone. Men Continue to Criminally Attack Women: What is the Police Role in the Lack of Convictions? Women’s Training of the Police Has Not Worked, Now What? How can women effectively complain about police behaviour, policies and procedures? Who is in charge of the police? Civil control without political interference The law is applied disproportionately – What is the police role in racializing crime and punishment? People with Mental and Cognitive Disabilities are abandoned to the Streets: What can we expect the Police to Do? The War on Poverty is Really a War on the Poor: What Can We Expect the Police to Do?

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2001
Session	Presenters	Title
8:00-9:00am	Displays Open — Coffee available
9:00-10:30am Main Hall	Plenary Round Table – Chair: Sheila McIntyre Eileen Morrow, Lee Lakeman, Dr. Julia Sudbury	Can we/will we form a pan-Canadian coalition against a “law and order” agenda? What law and order must we demand? What law and order is regressive? – death penalty? Longer sentences? Family group counselling? Conditional sentences? New prisons? More secure prisons? Classification systems? Electronic monitoring? Restorative justice? Parole hearings? Victims’ rights? The Charter? Should we support more police powers and bigger police budgets?
10:30-10:45am	Break
10:45am-12:15pm Workshops and Working Groups
Translation – 3A02 Provided 508	Jo Sutton	Exclusion Creates Inequality: Federal Government Internet-Related Policies and the Implications for Women’s Groups
Translation – 3A01 Provided 200	Fiona Sampson	Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Women With Disabilities: The Political and Legal Challenges
412 – 3A16	Eileen Morrow	Custody, Access and Reforming the new Divorce Act
209 – 3A04	Gunilla Ekberg	Working Against Prostitution as Male Violence: The Swedish Model
Translation – 3A05 Provided 517	Enjema Nanjob, Paulette Ewusi	Prostitution and Poverty for Rural Women in Cameroon
405 – 3A06	Virginia Fisher	What are the Hot Peach Pages and what can you do about them?
415 – 3A08	Lisa Neve, Patricia Monture-Angus	Labelled the Most Dangerous Woman in Canada: Lessons for Activitism
207 – 3A09	Mel Nimmo	Female Victimization and Resistance: Understanding Violence
305 – 3A10	Edith Regier, Pat Aylesworth	Crossing Communities Art Project: Art as Reparative Justice
504 – 3A11	Louisa Russell, Nelly Nippard, Bonnie Mooney	How Can Anti-Violence Workers Hold Police Accountable?
511 – 3A12	Sheila McIntyre	Where Are We Now: Reckoning with Resistance to Feminist Efforts to Reform Sexual Assault Laws
519 – 3A13	Tamara Gorin	Preventing AIDS Through Anti-Violence Feminism
513 – 3A14	Mridula Morgan	TBA
12:15-12:45pm	Lunch

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2001
12:45-2:00pm Main Hall	Plenary Round Table – Chair: Dr. Margaret Shaw Kim Pate, Karlene Faith, Patricia Monture-Angus, Phyllis Iverson, Nicole Farmer	Can we make common cause and/or act in coalition to end women’s imprisonment? Is it true that women are not the one’s doing the violence? What would happen if we let all the women out of jail? What percentage of women are in jail for violent crime? Do we think it is ever necessary to jail women for property crime? What do we do with the women who have committed violence against their children or other women? Some women hold positions of power. Are we saying we would never jail them for wrong-doing, such as war crimes, exploitation, collusion, et cetera?
2:00-2:15pm	Break — movement, no Coffee
2:15-3:45pm Workshops and Working Groups
504 – 3B02	Karlene Faith	Resisting Penality as a Feminist Imperative
304 – 3B03	Sue Lott	Perspectives on the Tort of Defamation: The Police Use of Libel
Translation – 3B01 Provided 517	Anne Saris	Universal Guidelines for the Protection of Child Victims and Child Witnesses of Crime
208 – 3B07	Alison Dewar	On Being a Feminist Lawyer: Negotiating the Dilemmas of Being Both an Apologist and an Agent for Social Change
Translation – 3B08 Proided 200	Marie-Marthe Cousineau	Victimization and Criminalization of Young Girls Affiliated with Gangs and Young Girls Living on the Streets: The Stories They Tell
209 – 3B09	Leticia Sato Vatanagul	One Perspective on Rehabilitating the Incarcerated Filipino Women: Mothers and Child Prostitutes, The Parolees, Pardonees: Understanding Their Needs, the Causative and Therapeutic Factors and Their Involvement in Crime and Drug Addiction
511 – 3B10	Ellisa Loucks	NWAC Speaks About Aboriginal Women and Federal Corrections: Section 81 and 84 Agreements with Aboriginal Communities
412 – 3B11	Annabel Webb, Joanne Butowski	The Secure Care Act: A Punitive Response to the Oppression of Girls
Translation – 3B12 Provided 508	Diana Yaros, Danièle Tessier	What’s Up in Quebec: The Organizational Structures of Community Groups in Quebec and the Political Lobby it Represents
305 – 3B13	Diana Majury	Under Duress: A Critical Examination of the Legal Defence of Duress
405 – 3B14	Jo-Ann Connolly	The Role and Function of the Office of the Correctional Investigator
415 – 3B15	Beverley Sochatsky	Women’s Journeys in Self-Discovery: An Integrated Literacy and Life Skills Program for Women in Conflict with the Law
202 – 3B16	Dvora Neumark	How Creative Arts Affect the Process of Healing and Transfer into Political Acts
3:45-4:30pm	Closing Ceremony – Georgie Sabourin, Chantal Robitaille