A Critical and Timely Conversation on Gender-Based Violence
The First Annual Conference on Gender-Based Violence will bring together faculty, staff, and students, Tucson community leaders and activists, and health and legal advocates to engage in critical and timely conversation on the complex issues surrounding the epidemic of gender-based violence and marginalized populations. Workshops, keynotes, performances, and panel discussions will focus on how to build survivor-driven, intersectional activism and programs aimed at providing the best possible care to survivors while radically uprooting the social and cultural attitudes that recreate cycles of violence, including sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, & hate crimes.
This conference marks the soft launch of the newly developed UA Consortium on Gender-Based Violence. As a hub of innovative research, education, outreach, and service inside the University of Arizona, in the surrounding community, and well beyond, the Consortium will be the first of its kind on any U.S. campus with the goal of leveraging campus strengths and expertise for social and institutional change.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, November 3, 2017
6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: South Ballroom, Student Union
6:30pm- Performance by the Tucson Girls' Chorus
6:50pm- Welcome Address by Melissa Vito
7:15pm- Keynote by Brooke Axtell
8:00pm- Reception & Art Exhibit
Saturday, November 4, 2017
9:30am-3:30pm
9:30am-10:45 am- Plenary Panel: Institutional Responses to Gender-Based Violence
Location: Student Union, Sonora Room
This discussion will consider how various institutions—including law enforcement,
government, military, and educational institutions—respond to systemic gender-violence, including
sexual assault against migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the phenomenon of missing and
murdered Indigenous women, campus sexual assault, and sexual harassment and assault amongst
Veterans and members of the military.
Breakout Sessions
11:00am- 12:15pm
Panel Discussion, Cycles of Violence and Harm
Location: Sonora Room
This discussion will focus on self-accountability, complicity, and the various forms
of harm that make up rape culture and misogynistic social fabric more generally, as well as efforts to
radically transform these systems through prevention work and men’s programming.
Workshop, Intersectional Social Activism for Young Women and Girls
Location: Student Union Gallery
12:30-1:30pm- Working Lunch
Location: Sonora Room
Building Collaborative Efforts on Campus to Eradicate Gender-Based Violence
Breakout Sessions
1:45-2:45
Panel Discussion, The Politics of Disclosure and Intersectionality
Location: Student Union, Kachina Room
This panel addresses the ways in which disclosing gender violence—to law enforcement,
health care professionals, employers, family, or community members—can lead to further traumatization,
particularly for folks who experience discrimination related to race, gender identity, profession, disability, and/
or sexuality. It will explore how we might address interlocking oppressions in the development of health and
legal policy and practices to ensure that voicing violence becomes healing rather than harmful.
Panel and Performance, Testimonials on Survivor-Driven Care and Activism
Location: Sonora Room
This presentation will explore care practices and health and social services that are
trauma-informed and survivor-driven. Presenters will focus on how to make survivor-centered care central to
gender-based violence activism and engagement. These topics will be considered through a discussion as well
as through a performance provided by the YWCA Promotoras, who will share their experiences as survivors
who have become peer mentors to other survivors.
Workshop, Rape Culture and Patriarchy for Young Men and Boys
Location: Union Gallery
2:50-3:30pm
Presentation by Dr. Elise Lopez
Re-Examining Advocacy and Survivor Services: New Approaches and Practical Tools
Location: Sonora Room
Closing Remarks by Dr. Monica Casper
6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: South Ballroom, Student Union
6:30pm- Performance by the Tucson Girls' Chorus
6:50pm- Welcome Address by Melissa Vito
7:15pm- Keynote by Brooke Axtell
8:00pm- Reception & Art Exhibit
Saturday, November 4, 2017
9:30am-3:30pm
9:30am-10:45 am- Plenary Panel: Institutional Responses to Gender-Based Violence
Location: Student Union, Sonora Room
This discussion will consider how various institutions—including law enforcement,
government, military, and educational institutions—respond to systemic gender-violence, including
sexual assault against migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the phenomenon of missing and
murdered Indigenous women, campus sexual assault, and sexual harassment and assault amongst
Veterans and members of the military.
Breakout Sessions
11:00am- 12:15pm
Panel Discussion, Cycles of Violence and Harm
Location: Sonora Room
This discussion will focus on self-accountability, complicity, and the various forms
of harm that make up rape culture and misogynistic social fabric more generally, as well as efforts to
radically transform these systems through prevention work and men’s programming.
Workshop, Intersectional Social Activism for Young Women and Girls
Location: Student Union Gallery
12:30-1:30pm- Working Lunch
Location: Sonora Room
Building Collaborative Efforts on Campus to Eradicate Gender-Based Violence
Breakout Sessions
1:45-2:45
Panel Discussion, The Politics of Disclosure and Intersectionality
Location: Student Union, Kachina Room
This panel addresses the ways in which disclosing gender violence—to law enforcement,
health care professionals, employers, family, or community members—can lead to further traumatization,
particularly for folks who experience discrimination related to race, gender identity, profession, disability, and/
or sexuality. It will explore how we might address interlocking oppressions in the development of health and
legal policy and practices to ensure that voicing violence becomes healing rather than harmful.
Panel and Performance, Testimonials on Survivor-Driven Care and Activism
Location: Sonora Room
This presentation will explore care practices and health and social services that are
trauma-informed and survivor-driven. Presenters will focus on how to make survivor-centered care central to
gender-based violence activism and engagement. These topics will be considered through a discussion as well
as through a performance provided by the YWCA Promotoras, who will share their experiences as survivors
who have become peer mentors to other survivors.
Workshop, Rape Culture and Patriarchy for Young Men and Boys
Location: Union Gallery
2:50-3:30pm
Presentation by Dr. Elise Lopez
Re-Examining Advocacy and Survivor Services: New Approaches and Practical Tools
Location: Sonora Room
Closing Remarks by Dr. Monica Casper